🤚🏻Nuclear Australia ⚛️🇦🇺

Engineer with 30+ yrs experience in nuclear energy & technology. Support efficiency & ALL low CO2 generation technologies where they can be feasibly deployed.

[🤚🏻Nuclear Australia ⚛️🇦🇺 @NuclearAus]

Added a hand before my Twitter Handle in response to 👇🏻

[🤚🏻Nuclear Australia ⚛️🇦🇺 @NuclearAus]

@KenCaldeira Completely agree

[🤚🏻Nuclear Australia ⚛️🇦🇺 @NuclearAus]

@JesseJenkins Curious how the 'haves' go prompt socialism. Why not innovate?
• contribute more to defense, fire police, since they have the most to lose
• ditto, national infrastructure & so much more.

Would be 'socialistic' but short of full-on 'socialism'. One might event tag it patriotic

[🤚🏻Nuclear Australia ⚛️🇦🇺 @NuclearAus]

@steven_noble @AtomicAries_ Wait, wait a minute. I refused to join 3 all white male panels in the last year - 2 were diversified & I then agreed. However, the third was by far the most prominent and offending the organizers was NOT a wise career move.

You think I was wrong? (I sure don’t)

[🤚🏻Nuclear Australia ⚛️🇦🇺 @NuclearAus]

Massive respect for them. However... [flips to pg 127 of The Manual]

“… and thus, in support of diversity, single-gender, single ethnicity panels run inconsistent with relevant objectives. Openly challenging these when they occur, is a widely regarded good practice.”

[Deep Isolation @DeepIsolation]

Today at 2:45 in the Metropolitan Ballroom @eamuller will be sitting on this prestigious panel of speakers on pragmatism with regard to innovative nuclear technology at the 2020 #CleanTechForum. @cleantechgroup #nuclearneutral #cleantech #nuclearwaste #nuclear #nuclearpower

[🤚🏻Nuclear Australia ⚛️🇦🇺 @NuclearAus]

@AtomicAries_

[🤚🏻Nuclear Australia ⚛️🇦🇺 @NuclearAus]

@AtomicAries_ You’ve helped make my point... an all female panel is a noteworthy achievement with respect to empowerment of women.

But to suggest it may not quite be a complete win for gender equality or diversity in general...

[🤚🏻Nuclear Australia ⚛️🇦🇺 @NuclearAus]

@RachelSlaybaugh @cleantechgroup I look for:
• empowerment of women
• gender parity
• cultural & ethnic diversity
• generational equity

Difficult to thread that needle, but important to acknowledge success & shortfalls with appropriate humility; which is not always evident, undermining broader objectives

[🤚🏻Nuclear Australia ⚛️🇦🇺 @NuclearAus]

@bencubby It makes more sense than @TedNordhaus recent work for the reason I explain 👉🏻 https://t.co/auC81EYltI

But I see Ted’s point that capitalism is the engine of change. So confusing when clarity needed more than ever!

Would very much enjoy seeing the two engage in civil debate.

[🤚🏻Nuclear Australia ⚛️🇦🇺 @NuclearAus]

@TedNordhaus @WSJ I appreciate what you’re saying. Still rather concerned though — mostly because I cannot recall many climate science forecasts that, over time, were not proven to have significantly under-predicted reality.

That plus the uncertainty you mention - 😬

[🤚🏻Nuclear Australia ⚛️🇦🇺 @NuclearAus]

@Gazoski As the fires rage, and my own government fails so spectacularly to deliver results, great the you, and a growing number of others, are fighting for the broad, timely and efficient transition to sustainability.

I see it.

I appreciate it.

[🤚🏻Nuclear Australia ⚛️🇦🇺 @NuclearAus]

Bravo Andrzej!

[Andrzej Gąsiorowski @Gazoski]

@welt rozmawia z @fota4climate . Ja i @UrszulaKuczysk1

https://t.co/2qZM7STj87
@Nuklearia @Gen_Atomic @FORATOM_nuclear @nuclearpl @iaeaorg @moms4nuclear @NuclearAus @Rethink_Nuclear @jakubwiech @agata_brzezinsk @adam_bohdan @AdamBlazowski

[🤚🏻Nuclear Australia ⚛️🇦🇺 @NuclearAus]

My take is more analog.

How much suffering are we willing to tolerate? And we should take a sec to check ourselves. Climate change mitigation & adaptation are — at the moment — both first-world issues. Far too many people just want to make it to tomorrow.

[Ted Nordhaus @TedNordhaus]

Denier twitter: "I am a reasonable observer and I deny the relationship between greenhouse gases and warming!!!"

Doomer twitter: "Everybody knows that there will be NO economy with 3C of warming."

QED

[🤚🏻Nuclear Australia ⚛️🇦🇺 @NuclearAus]

@6point626 https://t.co/Xzn3SP4T7r

[🤚🏻Nuclear Australia ⚛️🇦🇺 @NuclearAus]

@6point626 @UtilityDive Eventually, threats to large scale decarbonization must be taken seriously

[🤚🏻Nuclear Australia ⚛️🇦🇺 @NuclearAus]

@TedNordhaus @WSJ I appreciate what you’re saying. Still rather concerned though — mostly because I cannot recall many climate science forecasts that, over time, were not proven to have significantly under-predicted reality.

That plus the uncertainty you mention - 😬

[🤚🏻Nuclear Australia ⚛️🇦🇺 @NuclearAus]

@NormanMxyz @tzunami68 @EnergiewendeGER @AgoraEW @EU_Commission @FORATOM_nuclear @W_Nuclear_News RE capacity can be built faster, but sustained *generation* is how we decarbonize. It seems healthy to focus on eliminating the existential threat of our age at the source: coal, oil and gas. Inclusive policies, focused on decarbonization, objectives are a winning strategy.

[🤚🏻Nuclear Australia ⚛️🇦🇺 @NuclearAus]

400t CO2 per MINUTE & ~10x Australia’s total 😳 The result of a rejected sustainable partnership that very easily could have been an[other] example for the world.

#accountability

🇩🇪 @EnergiewendeGER @AgoraEW #Energiewende @EU_Commission

@FORATOM_nuclear @W_Nuclear_News

[🤚🏻Nuclear Australia ⚛️🇦🇺 @NuclearAus]

@tzunami68 @EnergiewendeGER @AgoraEW @EU_Commission @FORATOM_nuclear @W_Nuclear_News What harm has Germany’s nuclear Programme done to the public or environment?

Finland & Sweden provide excellent examples of technically robust, community inclusive waste management programmes.

Germany’s coal waste... now there’s a true killer. Why is it tolerated??

[🤚🏻Nuclear Australia ⚛️🇦🇺 @NuclearAus]

@tzunami68 @EnergiewendeGER @AgoraEW @EU_Commission @FORATOM_nuclear @W_Nuclear_News The results of that 20y experiment are missed decarbonization targets, destroyed forests, 1,000s dead from pollution, high electricity prices & the planned commissioning of a new coal plant in June 👏🏻👏🏻

Tough to be patient with Germany’s malinformed, energy policy zeitgeist

[🤚🏻Nuclear Australia ⚛️🇦🇺 @NuclearAus]

@NormanMxyz @tzunami68 @EnergiewendeGER @AgoraEW @EU_Commission @FORATOM_nuclear @W_Nuclear_News And when comparing capital cost per unit of *capacity* wind & solar are very cheap.

But the cost of decarbonization is another matter. Here again a nuclear-RE partnership is the cheapest path to net zero using available technology. If we can’t afford to wait, it’s likely the way

[🤚🏻Nuclear Australia ⚛️🇦🇺 @NuclearAus]

@NormanMxyz @tzunami68 @EnergiewendeGER @AgoraEW @EU_Commission @FORATOM_nuclear @W_Nuclear_News I agree. The main risk with RE today might be a blackout, which I would welcome compared to ongoing fossil use.

I compare nuclear to fossil. Here, nuclear comes out a bit ahead. With nuclear-RE partnerships, fossil has been eliminated in FR, SW, & ONT/CN