Decouple Media

There are technologies that decouple human well-being from its ecological impacts. There are politics that enable these technologies. Hosted by @Dr_Keefer.

[Simon Wakter @simonwakter]

🚨 This is your reminder that if you help a nuclear plant run just one hour extra it equals offsetting all the emissions in your entire life.

Congratulations to the heros of California for saving Diablo Canyon! 🥳💪

[Chris Popoff @CSPopoff]

TFW you see a @DecoupleMedia episode drop feat @choppen5

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https://t.co/tbnLOqQKY2

[Decouple Media @DecoupleMedia]

@wholisticguy @SinineHarakas @JigarShahDC If you take that logic, doesn’t the existence of renewables also make the addition of more renewables on the grid a liability?

Even if nuclear did not exist, the problem of renewables playing havoc with wholesale energy prices is a problem that has to be managed.

[chris keefer @Dr_Keefer]

Thrilled to have been joined by Charles Oppenheimer @choppen5 for a soon to be released @DecoupleMedia episode about his grandfather J. Robert Oppenheimer and his organization the Oppenheimer Project.

Wait for it!

In the meantime watch the movie! It was awesome!

[Michael McLean @cornoisseur]

All those folks clamoring for transmission lines from Quebec could have a pleasant surprise on the other end of those wires.

Maybe we could just build the reactors here in USA instead?

[Decouple Media @DecoupleMedia]

@Tpsmyth01 I don’t think so. If anything their biggest potential is probably the BWRX-300.

[Decouple Media @DecoupleMedia]

A remarkable point from @JigarShahDC: In offshore wind, developers like Orsted specializes in development. They don’t make the turbines, they are not the local utility. They can concentrate on development.

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[Decouple Media @DecoupleMedia]

I wonder if there’s a role for OPG to grow into a nuclear developer in this vein. A capable developer would be reactor-agnostic and not tied to a location. They will go where the best projects are and bring their know-how.

Anyhow, can’t wait to actually hear the episode!

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[Decouple Media @DecoupleMedia]

Interestingly, many offshore wind developers grew from utilities. I’m thinking of RWE, Iberdrola and EDF, all are mega utilities at home but operate as pure play offshore wind developers in markets like Taiwan.

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[Decouple Media @DecoupleMedia]

@FreemyerGreg @JigarShahDC @opg Should have called Bechtel first!

[Decouple Media @DecoupleMedia]

@PauldyMenser 😂That he did

[Decouple Media @DecoupleMedia]

AMERICAN ATLAS: If Oppenheimer was the American Prometheus, you might describe Hyman G. Rickover as the American Atlas.

He carried the US Navy Nuclear Propulsion Program on his shoulders AND ushered in the age of the Peaceful Atom.

Let’s rewind:

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[Decouple Media @DecoupleMedia]

@swimbikecrawl Ahh…thanks for the correction! Wow.

[Decouple Media @DecoupleMedia]

Rickover set the standard of what really SHOULD be possible in atomic development.

We are in another war, not against the Soviets but against the existential threat of global warming. Where is the urgency?

Let’s not forget Rickover and his commitment to excellence.

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[Decouple Media @DecoupleMedia]

It’s frustrating that even if somehow we got another Rickover, it’s hard to tell how effective he would be.

In the intervening decades since Nautilus and Shippingport, regulation has proliferated to an unimaginable degree.