Robert Wilson

PhD Student in Mathematical Ecology. Zooplankton. Blogs on energy in spare time, but please no energy chat here. All ecology.

[Robert Wilson @planktonmath]

Going offline for a few days. If you want to bother me, send me an email.

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I'll maybe see if I can find my way to that discussion with MacKay/Lynas in Manchester in September. http://t.co/Sh8olNma3J

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David MacKay and @mark_lynas. Is this the Lennon/McCarthy of sensible energy policy in the UK? http://t.co/Sh8olNma3J

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Well, if the UCS says @flimsin is wrong, she must be right. http://t.co/ZRFxDPesP8 *reverses previously held opinion*

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@yodacomplex I recall one landing near where I lived when I was growing up in the six counties.

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@yodacomplex I thought St. Patrick had driven them out. On the way back then?

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@Protohedgehog #rationalistions

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Gluing your hands together! This is how to protest in the era of the iPad. http://t.co/jdjAQ6Qkj8

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Fracking must be in the news. I'm getting a surge of google referrals to this blog post. http://t.co/PXsMdgnBUE

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@icey_mark very nice. You're making me long for sea air. *thoughts of 3 days in bad return*

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@dbiello the longer the US stays without offshore wind the more optimistic I am about its long term decarbonisation prospects.

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@dbiello offshore wind is bad, bad news. Essentially a sign that NIMBYism is too strong for large scale onshore wind.

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"We must protect this green and pleasant land from fracking, by plastering it with wind turbines" - Friends of the Earth, in essence.

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Self defeating idiocy from FoE. Do they not realise wind farms have bigger landscape impacts than fracking? http://t.co/ZbVW7zSZrJ

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@guynewey as you enjoy people elevating the debate over energy. Points 4 & 5 together are wonderfully contradictory http://t.co/ZbVW7zSZrJ

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@mammuthus not sure what he means by an "honest broker," maybe as banal as that "iron law" of his.

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@mammuthus but yeah, plenty of examples in history of expert advisers not speaking up and harming trust. Not sure of the opposite happening

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@mammuthus I'm actually confused by what she means by neutrality, other than keeping your mouth shut.

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The great Vaclav Smil on CCS. Would @flimsin have him not express a view on policy? I certainly would not. http://t.co/V5Oflp7UON

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@mammuthus "Go left, and you fall 300 feet. Go right, and you are OK." Scientist: here are the facts, and I have no view on what you do.