kravietz 🦇 @kravietz@social.privacytools.io

WWF in their statement on IEA scenarios no longer calls to shut down #nuclear but merely don't build new ones:

> Assume no growth in nuclear energy production

This can be attributed to naive optimism based on fables of Mark Z. Jacobson, but the message got through: shutting down nuclear leads to CO2 increase.

This is actually very optimistic - reluctantly and slowly, but at least WWF is regaining contact with reality.

Who needs enemies if you have Friends of the Earth? 🤦‍♂️

> California approved decommissioning of Diablo Canyon #nuclear power plant

> California applied for an emergency order to boot natural gas generation for grid reliability while potentially exceeding limits on harmful pollutants

About fossil gas a replacement fuel for #nuclear power:

You need 20 giant LNG tankers, to produce the 10 TWh of electricity that one German nuclear plant produces anually.

The nuclear power plant needs only 60 tons of fuel rods, which fits in 3-4 trucks.

Also, the gas will release ~40x more greenhouse gases per each kWh produced.

By publishing this nonsense about Westinghouse contract in Ukraine, Russian state media do irreparable harm to its own #nuclear industry —Rosatom still provides fuel and services to Ukraine.

Ukraine’s state owned nuclear utility Energoatom signed an exclusive a $30 billion dollar agreement with Westinghouse to complete construction of Khmelnitsky.

https://www.stopfake.org/en/atomic-howl-in-the-swamps-russian-media-on-us-ukrainian-nuclear-energy-cooperation/

What has #nuclear energy ever given to us? 😂

German "climate activist" gives a real feel of a messianic cult that #Energiewende has become:

> Niemand schlägt ernsthaft vor Deutschland solle ~alleine~ die Welt retten.
> Nobody seriously suggests Germany should save the world ~ alone ~.

You are *not* "saving the world", Louisa. Germany's CO2 emissions per kWh are as usual 5x higher than those of France, and Germany still plans to shut down 8GW of #nuclear power 🤦‍♂️

The shipping industry is currently source of massive amounts of CO2 and pollution (as it runs on heavy diesel) emissions.

#nuclear propelled container ships such as this Sevmorput 🇷🇺 are the low-carbon and low-emission answer to this challenge.

Greenpeace has been talking about sails and batteries, but even their own ships run on diesel as EV ships are simply infeasible from technical point of view.

Opinion of the Group of Experts referred to in Article 31 of the Euratom Treaty on the Joint Research Centre’s Report Technical assessment of nuclear energy with respect to the ‘do no significant harm’ criteria of Regulation (EU) 2020/852 (‘Taxonomy Regulation’)

https://ec.europa.eu/info/sites/default/files/business_economy_euro/banking_and_finance/documents/210630-nuclear-energy-jrc-review-article-31-report_en.pdf

#nuclear

SCHEER review of the JRC report on Technical assessment of nuclear energy with respect to the ‘do no significant harm’ criteria of Regulation (EU) 2020/852 (‘Taxonomy Regulation’)

https://ec.europa.eu/info/sites/default/files/business_economy_euro/banking_and_finance/documents/210629-nuclear-energy-jrc-review-scheer-report_en.pdf #nuclear

Two expert groups tasked by EU to verify earlier JRC findings on #nuclear power sustainability largely confirmed its findings

https://www.nucnet.org/news/two-new-expert-reports-handed-to-european-commission-on-role-of-nuclear-7-1-2021 #renewableenergy

A 5 km deep United Downs geothermal power plant in Cornwall 🇬🇧 is really a thorium #nuclear fission reactor ☢️ 😀 https://geothermalengineering.co.uk/united-downs/

This is Grohnde #nuclear power plant. In February 2021 it produced 400 TWh low-carbon electricity since it started in 1984, with no accidents or leaks.

The plant occupies 0.4 km2 and is surrounded by farm fields.

https://www.preussenelektra.de/en/about-pel/newsroom/press-releases/grohne-npp-sets-new-record-in-electricity-generation.html

One more fossil gas power plant in Bavaria 🇩🇪 to compensate for lack of power supplies caused by "nuclear exit"

CO2 emissions of nuclear: 12 gCO2eq/kWh
CO2 emissions of fossil gas: 490 gCO2eq/kWh

🤷

https://www.cleanenergywire.org/news/bavaria-gets-new-gas-fired-power-plant-ensure-supply-security

#nuclear #renewableenergy

With this 70 GW nuclear power in China their annual lifecycle CO2 emissions will be around 2 million tons, as compared to 226 million tons if they went for fossil gas or 408 million tons if coal. Comes out, #nuclear reduces their #co2 impact 100-200x times.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-03-05/china-gives-nuclear-power-a-fresh-push-in-the-drive-to-go-green

Energy and Climate: "63 years ago, Shell geologist M. K. Hubbert projected a benign vision of our energy future using a simple diagram. Within a few years, however, the antinuclear "green" lobby was born, and thanks to it we remain barreling toward a complete and utter energy/climate trainwreck."

#climatechange #co2 #nuclear

http://web.archive.org/web/20190622114940if_/http://www.hubbertpeak.com/hubbert/1956/1956.pdf

A few weeks ago I wrote about German #Greenpeace Energy @SC0ID

https://social.privacytools.io/@kravietz/105686612682831533

As it comes out, Greenpeace Energy not only sells fossil gas but also in 2017 attempted to sue European Commission to block UK state aid for Hinkley Point C #nuclear power plant.

Hard to find a more shocking example of hypocrisy than a company that sells energy source of 490 gCO2 eq/kWh trying to block energy source of 12 gCO2 eq/kWh

🤦‍♂️

https://www.clientearth.org/projects/access-to-justice-for-a-greener-europe/updates/case-c-640-16-p-greenpeace-energy-v-commission-judgment-of-10-october-2017-ecli-eu-c-2017-752/

"This is the brief, simple story of two major clean energy projects, and how one exposes the double standards suffered by the other."

https://actinideage.medium.com/why-not-both-7d783a701a5e

#nuclear #renewableenergy

China's first Hualong One (HPR1000) #nuclear reactor was connected to the Chinese grid on January 30th.

Another five HPR1000s are scheduled to enter service by next year, making for 4 total in China and 2 in Pakistan.

As China's first self-developed Gen III reactor design, it is targeted not only at the domestic market, but also at the export.

Construction time was 5 years. (via Maya Posh)

https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/First-Hualong-One-begins-commercial-operation

Carbon intensity of electricity consumption. Hourly readings over the last 25 days, overall median represented by a blue asterisk. (author: Grant Chalmers)

#renewableenergy #nuclear #co2

Gazprom 🇷🇺 is reducing its gas supplies to EU 🇪🇺 in an attempt to bump prices up, but it's also likely that Gazprom is just trying to bully EU into finishing the Nord Stream 2 construction this way.

Which only demonstrates how delusional European Greens 🍀🤝 ⛽ are in their attempts to shut down #nuclear plants and replace them by fossil gas as "transitional fuel".

https://oilprice.com/Energy/Natural-Gas/Why-Gazprom-Cut-Gas-Supply-To-Europe-Amid-Rising-Prices.html