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Sophie in't Veld @sophieintveld.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Pour les libéraux Wallons orphanés cherchants abri politique: il y a une alternative libérale, progressiste, pro-européenne @voltbelgium.org @michelhenrion.bsky.social

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Michael McLean @michaelmclean.me · 04/05/2026

It appears that @emassaut.bsky.social's activism succeeded?!

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Emeric Massaut @emassaut.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

I actually thought they were going to cal them BHNS (Bus a Haut Niveau de Service). That’s what they called it in Liège, and they changed their branding to “Busway” (in French, no joke 🫠)… but at least they don’t pretend to be Trams. On the HNS… I think they are really overpromising and underdel.!

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Emeric Massaut @emassaut.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

You can just put the address of your first Hotel, they want to make sure you have a "landing place" for the first time you arrive. If you are only connecting flights in the USA, you can just write "Onwards Connection" or "In Transit" with the address of the Airport you're transiting.

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Volt Belgium @voltbelgium.org · 30/09/2025

🚫⚡ België heeft net Tihange 1 stilgelegd Een veilige, betrouwbare en koolstofarme energiebron is weg, en wat komt ervoor in de plaats? Meer gas, meer import, meer CO₂. 🤦‍♂️ Dit is geen klimaatleiderschap, dit is achteruitgang. Wij verdienen een toekomst met nucleair + hernieuwbaar. 🌍💜

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Volt Belgium @voltbelgium.org · 30/09/2025

🚫⚡ Belgium just shut down Tihange 1 A safe, reliable, low-carbon power source is gone — and what’s replacing it? More gas, more imports, more CO₂. 🤦‍♂️ This isn’t climate leadership, it’s backwards thinking. We deserve a future with nuclear + renewables, not fossil dependence. 🌍💜 @VoltEuropa.org

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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

ICE vehicles waste a whopping 80% of the energy in their fuel. Electric vehicles are propelled by entirely different mechanisms. Energy enters the vehicle as electricity, which directly powers the drivetrain: EVs need not convert one form of energy to another resulting in much higher efficiency.

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Emeric Massaut @emassaut.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Ottignies... richting Fleurus en Charleroi!

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Volt Belgium @voltbelgium.org · 26/08/2025

🇳🇱🇧🇪 Woon je als Nederlander in België? Dan mag jij ook stemmen bij de NL-verkiezingen, maar alleen als je je registreert! Het kabinet-Schoof viel: nieuwe verkiezingen op 29 okt. 🗳 Nieuwe verkiezingen: 29 okt 📅 Registreer uiterlijk 17 sept via: 👉 www.stemmenvanuithetbuitenland.nl

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Emeric Massaut @emassaut.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Some amazing European Railway announcements: Thibault Constant (the Founder of @simplyrailways.bsky.social - a channel I follow for years now), together with Janek Smalla (the Co-Founder of Flixbus) are launching a new company, with the aim to improve Night Trains accross Europe! Check them out💪🚞🚃

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Emeric Massaut @emassaut.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

By the way, there are two types of interiors with the ICE3neo. You just experienced one of them, which was the least common one out of Brussels.

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Emeric Massaut @emassaut.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

I guess these are the kind of things you could ask a Generative AI help with. I would say that doing a shorter TL;DR than this one page summary wouldn't do good to explain the pros and the cons. if the question is what is MERCOSUR, the TL;DR: it's a trade deal with LatAm countries.

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Emeric Massaut @emassaut.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Is this really a serious proposal... What do you think @jonworth.eu ? How come I see so many news article suddenly popping-up with this (close to crazy) idea, that, in my opinion, look more like a flight map than a rail one. Is there any seriousness behind this? www.euronews.com/travel/2025/...

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Could a metro system link the whole of Europe by 2040?

21st Europe’s Starline network plans to connect 39 destinations in European countries - with lines reaching the UK, Turkey and Ukraine too.

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Leon Simons @leonsimons.com · 27/03/2025

If only more people understood how important this data is. Earth's Energy Imbalance has tripled since Al Gore's 'An inconvenient truth' came out in 2006.

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Michael McLean @michaelmclean.me · 27/03/2025

🇩🇪 Major nuclear companies back restart of German nuclear plants Framatome, Westinghouse, and Urenco each have statements in Welt detailing how they can help 🔌💡 www.welt.de/wirtschaft/p...

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Atomkraftwerke: Deutscher Neustart? „Bereits vor 2030 möglich“ - WELT

Die führenden Kerntechnik-Konzerne stehen für eine schnelle Wiederbelebung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke bereit. Das geht aus einer Stellungnahme hervor, die WELT exklusiv vorliegt. Sechs Meiler könnte...

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 26/03/2025

Can border agents search your phone? Yes. ⬇️

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Emeric Massaut @emassaut.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Thanks for this great article Jon. It gives insights indeed to why we are not likely to see those north/(east) of France anytime soon. Just one thing about the Siemens Desiro option, it looks like the accessible door is in the single decker only part of the train...

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Atomic Astrid @atomicastrid.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

It was great going to the @standupfornuclear.org protest in Belgium, but depressing that there's so many of them for closures of nuclear power plants. Unbelievable that gas is getting this handout in 2025!!

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Michael McLean @michaelmclean.me · 24/02/2025

🇩🇪 BREAKING Incoming German Chancellor Friedrich Merz says on live television "It is necessary to reach a moratorium on dismantling of nuclear plants" This will put Germany on a path to restart their nuclear plants! 🔌💡 www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJCg...

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LIVE:CDU party leader Friedrich Merz reacts the day after Germany's general election|Berlin|Germany

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Emeric Massaut @emassaut.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

By the way, it’s important to note that SNCB/NMBS plans to loose revenue from ticket sales when this system will be introduced (as globally trios will be cheaper) but it hopes to quickly make up the difference by transporting more people through these new attractive tariffs ! {extra/4}

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Emeric Massaut @emassaut.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

With this new cheap discount card (giving 40% off + an extra 30% off in weekends) and the cap on tickets if you have this discount card, you will always benefit from the cheapest fare for your journey at the moment you need to travel! I just hope they keep the Youth Holidays (unlimited)! {4/4}

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Emeric Massaut @emassaut.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Today, with the “x-multi” system, one always has to break their head and make quasi actuarial calculations to know what is the cheapest option for a given journey. Especially when you consider weekend-returns or if you don’t know exactly what your future trips might look like… {3/4}

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Emeric Massaut @emassaut.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Nevertheless, it will also mean that a lot of journeys will become much cheaper than currently. Furthermore travellers will not anymore need to think: “do I use my standard-multi, do I use a weekend ticket or do I just buy a standard ticket?” {2/4}

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Emeric Massaut @emassaut.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

This was announced in Parliament more than a year ago! (Nothing new to me) And it’s a good thing. For a start, youths, pensioners and BIM, the cap on tickets will be as cheap as the current Youth-Multi (5,5€). For adults, the cap will be slightly higher than the std-multi (14€); {1/4}

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Leon Simons @leonsimons.com · 29/01/2025

CO₂ and sulphur dioxide emissions have been decoupled. CO₂ has a very long atmospheric lifetime, accumulates, and causes global warming. While atmospheric sulphur is very short lived (it rains out) and causes regional and global cooling by dimming the sun

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Emeric Massaut @emassaut.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Of course he would say that, when he operates Nuclear reactor in a country that overtaxes nuclear reactors, regardless of their production, and subsidises the construction of gas power plants as well as wind farms!

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Emil Jacobs - Collectifission @collectifission.greennuclear.online.ap.brid.gy · 18/01/2025

A short article, but important wake-up call: we determine now how bad things are going to get. In my view we either ignore nuclear and dream on about a "100% renewable" future that in reality is backed by loads of fossil fuel, or we actually move to zero […] [Original post on greennuclear.online]

A colourful blue, orange, red and purple chart showing a light and dark blue history for temperatures, recent shifts upwards through orange and light red, and two futures: one of light and dark red (1.5 ºC), and one of deep purple (3 ºC and more).

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Emeric Massaut @emassaut.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Yes. Crazy. This is an extract of that document… most of the subsidies given to the nuclear sector is just to allow for premature closure like in Germany or the Fessenheim NPP in France!

Extract of the document shared in the previous post. With an important highlight in this text:

“Subsidies for nuclear energy, after being stable for several years since 2015 (averaging at EUR 4.2 billion), reached almost EUR 5 billion in both 2019 and 2020. However, in 2021 they rose further to EUR 7.2 billion, although even after this increase nuclear subsidies still only represented 4% of total energy subsidies in the EU. This increase was mainly linked to financial instruments to compensate for the early closure and decommissioning of nuclear facilities, principally in Germany and France. Compensation schemes are mainly based on paying for electricity that will not be generated (due to the early closure) or for ‘stranded’ assets. In Germany, compensation of EUR 2.4 billion was paid in November 2021, which substantially impacted the total amount of subsidies for nuclear energy in Europe.”

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Emeric Massaut @emassaut.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

I deleted them all. No hard feelings btw, it just gets to me when there are things spreading which don’t reflect reality. Thanks for your understanding, and I’m happy we both could be reasonable in our argumentation.

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Emeric Massaut @emassaut.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

And fossil fuels. Nuclear is one of those rare ones that go largely unsubsidised in many countries! And yet they are a large employment basin of highly paid qualifying jobs, even for people without a degree!!

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Emeric Massaut @emassaut.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Belgium is building NEW gas power plants (and subsidising those builds through a system called CRM - Capacity Remuneration Mechanism) to enable the phase out of Nuclear Energy!! That’s what Belgian Greens @groenbe.bsky.social via Energy Minister @tinnevds.bsky.social are doing 🤯 #ClimateAction 🤷‍♂️🤷🤷‍♀️

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Emeric Massaut @emassaut.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

In exactly one month from now, Belgium will again execute a #climate #crime! #Doel1 NPP will be permanently and prematurely shut-down, due to a stupid law voted back in 2003! Please come and join us to show your support against this premature closure on 15.02.2025! standupfornuclear.be

Emeric at the last Doel demonstration against the premature shutdown of Doel 3 in 2022!

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Ziyan @ziyanmir.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

The Butterfly Nebula from Hubble.🔭 Image Copyright: Image Credit: NASA, ESA, Hubble; Processing: William Ostling Hubble Space Telescope

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Emeric Massaut @emassaut.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Post yourself in B&W 🖤🤍 I wish a Happy New Year to all my new followers on 🦋

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Emeric Massaut @emassaut.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

If you believe data of last month (the last dunkelflaute), the wind was barely blowing anywhere in Europe. Electricity price was at an all time high since the Ukraine/Russian gas crisis… There is a limit, and wind isn’t always blowing somewhere!

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Emeric Massaut @emassaut.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Could you please add a « save » or « bookmark » button/feature so we can archive important posts ?

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Emeric Massaut @emassaut.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

It was indeed compensated mostly by a stark reduction in consumption, and growing electricity import through interconnections. Biomass also helped contribute and of course wind. The thing is: The growth in wind will have its limits when it reaches ~60% of your consumption!

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Emeric Massaut @emassaut.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

I find this slightly misleading. It will run for a full fuel cycle as planned, with a planned outage for refuelling and CV1 (check after first cycle), which they will use to also replace the cover. So yes outage might be slightly longer, but it was planned all along! bsky.app/profile/emas...

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Emeric Massaut @emassaut.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

It will go offline during the first planned outage (called “CV1” in French) for the first inspection after the first fuel cycle, as it was always planned. And yes they will have extra works to replace the reactor cover, which might only make this outage slightly longer, that’s all!

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Stephen Stapczynski @sstapczynski.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Japan sees nuclear and solar as the cheapest energy sources in 2040 🇯🇵☢️ ⚡ The total system cost for nuclear power is the cheapest option in all but one scenario ☀️ Solar power could be cheapest or most expensive depending on scale of intermittent renewable sources on the grid

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Emeric Massaut @emassaut.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

I suspect it would be somewhere between the jet transport and the bike.

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Emeric Massaut @emassaut.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

In a city, bike is probably also the fastest mode of transport. And you can clearly see with this graph as well that a passenger jet aircraft is also the most efficient machine transport on this graph. I wonder where train transport would exactly fall on this graph...

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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 07/12/2024

Carbon dioxide (CO₂) averaged 424 ppm in October 2024 10 years ago October averaged about 397 ppm Preliminary NOAA data: gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/ 🧪⚒️

Red line graph time series of monthly carbon dioxide abundance from January 1959 through November 2024. There is a seasonal cycle and long-term increasing trend. Current levels of CO2 are at 424 ppm. This is the Keeling Curve graph. A line for CO2 10 years ago is also annotated.

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Emeric Massaut @emassaut.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

For all the skeptics out there… it is possible to bring some of Germany’s NPP’s back online! Let’s show that it’s also possible to do the same in Belgium 🇧🇪 The Nuclear revival is happening! 😊 🦋⚛️🦋

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Emeric Massaut @emassaut.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

In about an hour, I will be live with @parisortizwines.bsky.social, speaking with @generationatomic.bsky.social about Nuclear Energy for a big activism fundraising event. Join us and watch us on the YouTube live Broadcast: www.youtube.com/live/Ugod6In... (starting right now)

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Emeric Massaut @emassaut.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Indeed, in Europe we just use electrical heating for points (switches), even on non electrified lines as the point machines require electricity anyways, so there is (usually) always a source of electricity in the vicinity of switch points. I guess we don’t use gas ones mainly for safety concerns?

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