kravietz 🦇 @kravietz@social.privacytools.io

@laufi

Nuclear is used because it has large surface energy density, high capacity factor and low carbon footprint.

This means it delivers the largest amount of energy from least amount of fuel and least use of land surface and least CO2.

@blueplanetslittlehelper @felippo

🇵🇱 Udało mi się dodzwonić do NFZ w sprawie testów na Covid-19 dla przyjeżdżających z UK. Pani z pewnym zmieszaniem poinformowała mnie, że może wystawić skierowania tylko dla osób w Warszawie... bo takie dostała polecenie od kierownictwa.

@blueplanetslittlehelper

Sorry, but this is anti-scientific nonsense. A nuclear power plant releases close to zero radiation. A single coal-powered plant releases 100x more radioactive elements in fly ash. Rare earth element mines used to make PV release radioactive elements, just as oil and gas drilling does. And the most intense sources of radiation in our lives is... space and soil, which obviously also contain radioactive elements.

@laufi @felippo

@laufi

Nuclear waste loses toxicity over time and 100 years it's down to just 3%. Also it's stored in such tiny amounts that it can be safely stored without any problem. So it's a completely imaginary problem, that unfortunately results in irrational replacing of low-carbon nuclear power by high-carbon fossil gas in countries like Germany.

@felippo

@cjd

You can be morally right but still get breached if screw up your infrastructure, that's the key take away here.

@lord

Yes, Electricitymap rulez! 👍

@felippo

Climate cares about CO2, not about some political or philosophical choices.

Germany, Poland, Italy and Czechia account for 70% of EU CO2 emissions from the energy sector.

@Senicar @cjd

They already do. I've been working for very large organisations in both public and private sector, and on both sides - so as someone who hires suppliers, and someone who is a supplier. The amount of due dilligence and compliance forms you have to fill in each time is massive. The problem is that even if the supplier is total crap in terms of security but business really wants them, they're just going to "accept risk" and job done.

@cjd Well, they don't deny or cast doubt on the GRU hacks which is typical RT mode of operation. What I see in this article is more of a tone like "stop whining like babies, it's you who screwed up".

Context https://www.theregister.com/2020/12/16/solarwinds_github_password/

Blaming GRU for hacking SolarWinds is like blaming rain for being wet. The actual target of "vigorous response" should be arrogant and incompetent software vendors who win gov tenders by declaring all kinds of security compliance yet cannot deliver on the very basics.

https://thedispatch.com/p/self-delusion-on-the-russia-hack

@kensanata Fantastic, I love such misty forests, which is - surprisingly - not a frequent sight here in the UK :)

Poland’s Synthos Green Energy has announced completion of a deployment feasibility study for the implementation of a fleet of GE Hitachi #nuclear Energy BWRX-300 small modular reactors (SMRs) in Poland.

https://www.neimagazine.com/news/newsfeasibility-study-completed-on-smrs-for-poland-8415956

I very rarely quote Greenpeace but this is important #brexit

https://unearthed.greenpeace.org/2018/10/11/fishing-quota-uk-defra-michael-gove/

The Greens are now all for fossil gas, presenting it as some kind of "transition fuel" to compensate for solar and wind variability. In reality, with *some* increase in variable renewables always comes a *huge* increase in fossil gas. Which, as its name suggests, is a fossil fuel...

@sir @brandon

Cookies are just a technicality, what GDPR regulates is personally identifiable information - be it a cookie, be it a device fingerprint. At the same time GDPR doesn't require explicit consent for essential data like you don't have to consent to your IP being stored in Nginx logs for a brief period of time or Django setting session cookie.