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Factcheck: Trump’s climate report includes more than 100 false or misleading claims

A collection of the inaccuracies that will be used to undermine climate law in the United States.

Jellyfish force French nuclear plant to shut down A "massive and unpredictable presence of jellyfish" swarmed the site's cooling system, its operator says.

Jellyfish managed to temporarily shut down 3.6 GW of French nuclear power generation. That's a big event in the European power system, but it probably didn't happen all of a sudden, giving some time to prepare for it. www.bbc.com/news/article...
H/t @petergleick.bsky.social

I can't talk for UK but in south europe lotta companies/offices/homes have dramatically decreased demand because of this.
The stats take into account the demand at the grid so they get less and less trustworthy.

This phenomena is HUGE now

2024 data is out!

Decarbonization is led by REs and keeps steady

yep, it's meant to prove the tech, best applications would be at half that speed

Important thread. (Will be ignored by anti-renewables crowd, but they are all over on Xitter anyway)

I can spend a full day watching Carl Sagan articulating, destroying dumb opinions in the most polite yet powerful way

Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.
- Mahatma Gandhi -

Graph showing average kilometers travelled bicycle of different age demographics. 12 - 18 years old is the highest with over 6, followed by 65 - 75 with nearly 3

In Netherlands, after children, the demographic with the highest number of km traveled by bicycle is 65 - 75.

I thought these people wanted to bring manufacturing back to the US?

Am I the only one reading White House tweets in Bane’s voice in my head?

Support for the European Union has reached unprecedented levels, with 74% of citizens across member states believing that EU membership benefits their countries, according to the latest Eurobarometer survey. It is the highest support since 1983.

‘They’re everywhere’: workers warn of rat infestation at Somerset nuclear plant Unions urge energy giant EDF to take action as concerns mount over health of construction staff

Despite all the warnings
"EDF warned last year that the final cost of the [HPC] project could soar by a third, in a blow to its finances. It is also struggling to find new investors"
@Ed_Miliband just splurged a further £2.7bn on the Sizewell C white 🐘!
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Thread: Each week I run a simulation of Australia’s main electricity grid using rescaled generation data to show that it can get very close to 100% renewable electricity with 24GW/120GWh of storage (5 hrs at av demand)
Results:
Last week: 100% RE
Last 188 weeks: 98.7% RE (1/5)

in other words the status is: nosedown

How bloated energy supply projections are usually wrong - a history of energy efficiency tells us why There’s a general belief going around about surging energy demand in developed countries like the USA and the UK.

How bloated energy supply projections are usually wrong - a history of energy efficiency tells us why davidtoke.substack.com/p/how-bloate...

Nuclear bosses quizzed by MPs over Sellafield's £130 billion century-long clean up - Business Crack Nuclear bosses have been quizzed by MPs.

Every three years, Sellafield nuclear site leaks enough hazardous radioactive material to fill an Olympic-sized swimming pool.

businesscrack.co.uk/2025/03/21/n...

France Delays Target for New Nuclear Reactor Startup to 2038 The French government has asked Electricite de France SA to accelerate efforts to finalize its plans to build six new nuclear reactors, while delaying the target date for the start of the first unit b...

France gets a dose of realism

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Thread: Each week I run a simulation of Australia’s main electricity grid using rescaled generation data to show that it can get very close to 100% renewable electricity with 24GW/120GWh of storage (5 hrs at av demand)
Results:
Last week: 100% RE
Last 185 weeks: 98.7% RE (1/5)

what a sh*tshow

'Nervous and rushed': Massive Fukushima plant cleanup exposes workers to high radiation and stress The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant’s radiation levels have significantly dropped since the cataclysmic meltdown 14 years ago Tuesday.

"‘Nervous and rushed': Massive #Fukushima plant cleanup exposes workers to high radiation and stress"

"Experts say the hard work and huge challenges of decommissioning the plant are just beginning. There are estimations that the work could take more than a century."

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apnews.com/article/japa...

6GW in whole Georgia is ridiculous

yes and the Dutch are greatly improve in that regard

Graph of electricity production mix 2015-2024: renewables from 12% to 51%

Milestone: 51% of all electricity produced in the Netherlands last year was from renewables! In 2015, it was only ~12%.
Nuclear's share last year was 3%, leaving 46% for fossil generation (mostly gas).
www.cbs.nl/en-gb/news/2...

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Thread: Each week I run a simulation of Australia’s main electricity grid using rescaled generation data to show that it can get very close to 100% renewable electricity with 24GW/120GWh of storage (5 hrs at av demand)
Results:
Last week: 100% RE
Last 183 weeks: 98.7% RE (1/5)

No

this

why not? we could use some Darwin nowadays