Jake Javier

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[Jake Javier @joaquinalfonso_]

you. are entitled. to nothing.

[Mark Nelson @energybants]

NEW DEPT. OF ENERGY NUCLEAR REPORT RELEASED

Just out a few minutes ago.

Some of the absolute sharpest minds in nuclear put in months of work on this report and it shows.

Key highlights for me, below...

[Mark Nelson @energybants]

First the basics.

Want to know why Microsoft is prepared to pay $16 billion over twenty years for one of the nation's smallest and oldest reactors to turn back on?

This is why. Expect every major energy-using company in America to have to learn chart this soon.

[Calenta @NBAPaint1]

Jeff Teague in his first season as a Podcaster

[O'blade @ObiladeOA]

Randomly remembered this Missy Elliot Matilda remix while looking at a different edit today and I don’t think any remix has ever lined up this perfectly… well, except for the Pawpaw dancing litmus tests.

[Rob Perez @WorldWideWob]

one of the best moments of the year. first telling everyone “i got you”, then backing away from the line knowing that shit was off. then the finger in the air. feel like i just watched one of those steph spin away threes but for bricks.

[Jake Javier @joaquinalfonso_]

@champagnemaffi suh dude

[Jake Javier @joaquinalfonso_]

menswear guy is my guy

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

When I was young, outlets were places where you could get previous seasons' stock at heavily discounted prices. They were a smart way to shop. Today, that's no longer the case and outlets often rely on questionable marketing practices. 🧵

[The Cultural Tutor @culturaltutor]

You might not have seen it before, but this is the world's 4th tallest building.

It's the Makkah Clock Royal Tower, built ten years ago in Mecca, Saudi Arabia.

And it's not the only megastructure you probably haven't heard of...

[David Lee @dlee4three]

as a hawks fan, seeing Al Horford fully commit to being a lockdown defender and above average rim protector is the most irritating shit ever

[Jake Javier @joaquinalfonso_]

an intersection of my feed content 🤪

[John Bistline @JEBistline]

Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce as figures in the new U.S. National Climate Assessment report, a thread

[Inquirer @inquirerdotnet]

The Philippines has signed the 123 agreement on nuclear energy cooperation with the US, which provides the legal basis for allowing American companies to export nuclear fuel, reactors, equipment, and other specialized nuclear material to the Philippines. | @NCorralesINQ

[Jan Rosenow @janrosenow]

Our current energy system is incredibly wasteful. About 2/3 of primary energy is lost in conversion processes.

The good news is that the potential for energy savings is huge too through improved energy efficiency and electrification.

Below is the example of the US.

[Ray Slay @_RayK47]

I could tell somebody didn’t get busy

[Mark Nelson @energybants]

Bono says he went from protesting nuclear energy to being for it.

Many such cases! A wave of reconsiderations has been coming in the past few years.

Expect a flood as nervous celebs realize most people are already for it.

It's safe to come out now.

[Mark Nelson @energybants]

The greatest man you've never heard of died this week on Wednesday, September 6th.

Marcel Boiteux built the French nuclear fleet as head of national utility EdF, making superb, far-sighted decisions against powerful entrenched interests.

Decisions such as abandoning the poorly-performing French gas reactors for outstanding Westinghouse technology.

And insisting on ruthless standardization that allowed true learning-by-doing, with his teams completing several reactors a year for more than a decade.

His fleet provides 70% of French electricity, and but for the sabotage by his weak, stupid successors inside and outside French government, it should be making half again as much electricity as the 56 reactors do today.

Boiteux's reactor fleet (plus a few more units after his retirement) cost about $150 billion. Compare this to Germany spending about $500 billion on their mess of an "energy transition" which requires them to keep almost all of their coal and gas plants in service.

As a young man Marcel Boiteux refused to accept France's defeat and at age 21 in 1942 as an elite university student he escaped Nazi-occupied France while escorting downed Allied pilots over the Pyrenees mountains to safety in Spain.

Brass. Balls.

This episode revealed the pattern for the rest of his life.

After the war, he studied economics and wrote *the* foundational paper in electricity economics, on how to price electricity service in a way that covered system costs while being fair and sustainable.

He completely understood liberal economics, and knew it did not apply to electricity grids and service. He built cheap power for all, then after his retirement watched as a bunch of pathetic hack economists broke the grid with idiotic "markets" that are failing all over the world.

He rapidly rose in public service after university graduation, and after appointment to the head of Electricité de France, successfully built the most astonishing energy system in the history of the world, proving for all time that a country could truly rely on its own fleet of standardized nuclear reactors producing low-cost emissions-free energy.

Anti-nuclear terrorists exploded a bomb outside the door of his family home in 1977 but he kept building.

It must have been torture for this truly great man to watch twenty years of silly, unserious leaders damage and begin to destroy his beloved EDF and its fleet of reactors, leading France straight into its worst energy crisis since the oil crisis of 1973 that triggered Boiteux's nuclear fleet construction in the first place.

But he didn't come up with the idea of a nuclear fleet powering a total electrification of the economy because an oil crisis hit. He was too prophetic to be a mere reactionary. Rather, he declared the slogan "All nuclear, all electric" months before the OPEC embargo hit in 1973.

Marcel Boiteux died this week at the age of 101.

[The Sopranos Guy™ @uncle_june]

y'all gonna pretend this scene doesn't exist?? lol

[Sam Bowman @s8mb]

I love how the rankings are

- fashion company
- weight loss company
- company making the most important and technically sophisticated industrial machines on the planet, utterly vital to the existence of modern technology
- make-up company
- handbag company

[Jake Javier @joaquinalfonso_]

@champagnemaffi dare

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

Pale Blue Dot is a photo of Earth that was taken by the Voyager 1 space probe in 1990 from a distance of about 6 billion kilometers (3.7 billion miles) as it was leaving our solar system. This is what Carl Sagan said about the photo:

"Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it, everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor, and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every 'superstar,' every 'supreme leader,' every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there — on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.

The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand. It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.”

[mignac @mignac_]

I truly appreciate this report, which in true Pinoy fashion, is both funny and maddening. Hahahangina talaga.

Nice one @ABSCBNNews. 🤝