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Garthax @garthax.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

note that cooling issues also affect traditional fossil fuel plants given how stable and effective nuclear is at providing baseload power, I think it's wrong to generalize based on this article, or specific reactor technologies

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Garthax @garthax.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

that's very interesting, but note that large scale solar is not always viable in northern europe, solutions for one place don't always meet the needs of another wind power is great in the UK, but running out of suitable sites, and the grid is not designed for distributed energy generation

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Garthax @garthax.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

renewables have hard limits, and are not necessarily made of recyclable materials, large battery tech is unproven for national energy grids, nuclear is proven, reliable, lower levelized cost of energy compared to fossil fuels. we collectively need to decarbonise faster and nuclear is a good option.

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Garthax @garthax.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

debt that gets written off isn't really "debt", the principal debt is meaningless, it's essentially a graduate tax I think this is really bad as it's important to be able to switch careers in the modern age, discouraging people from doing so hurts worker productivity and therefore the economy

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Garthax @garthax.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

We have plenty of solar and wind available, the problem is intermittency of these sources, nuclear fission is a reliable, non CO2 emitting source that could provide a good baseload, especially in UK. To rely completely on renewables requires energy storage such as gravity batteries or pumped hydro.

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 08/04/2025

Tariffs xkcd.com/3073

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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 20/02/2025

This is Zero. She's the world's first herding dog with a work-from-home gig. 14/10

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Garthax @garthax.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

eventually you would want to use local resources to secure energy independence anyway, why not do the hard challenge of starting a nuclear industry now - and create jobs that need the technical expertise it's not like you would be actually starting from scratch, reactors are a mature technology now

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Garthax @garthax.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

how is it the 4th largest producer of uranium doesn't possess and industry that uses it? Nuclear is extremely cheap compared to fossil fuels over long periods of time: youtu.be/cbeJIwF1pVY?... the best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago, the 2nd best time is right now

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Garthax @garthax.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

I think a third runway is better in the long run, we need better infrastructure to support the transition to net zero the big issue with air travel is the emissions from jet fuel, not runway construction itself

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Garthax @garthax.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

But surely if you actually mine uranium locally nuclear is pretty viable compared to fossil fuels at least. Renewables still have limitations as well, no large energy grid can yet effectively run off any one source alone.

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YouGov @yougov.co.uk · 29/01/2025

The number of Britons saying the UK was right to vote to leave the EU has hit its lowest level since the referendum, ahead of the fifth anniversary of Brexit on Friday Right to vote to leave: 30% (-3 from Nov) Wrong to vote to leave: 55% (=) yougov.co.uk/politics/art...

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Air pollution has dropped significantly in #Paris in the last 15 years. Mayor @annehidalgo.bsky.social’s leadership has traded car space for green space, safe bike space, kid space.. and traded pollution for people. Good trade.

Change in Paris air quality between 2007 and 2023 using visuals

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Garthax @garthax.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

private enterprise must accept risk, like with any investment, subsidising poor management choices only builds a false economy this just proves how foolish the idea of privatising critical infrastructure is, if it requires state funding to function, it probably needs to be owned by the state

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Garthax @garthax.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

playing both sides is a dangerous game, you risk falling between the cracks

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Joseph D. Ortiz @earthsciinfo.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Exactly. There are now 7 forms of renewable energy that are cheaper than or competitive with fossil fuels. And as they get cheaper, fossil fuels get more expensive due to decreasing demand and the need to exploit more expensive sources. 🧪🔌💡☀️💨🔋

Plot showing that fossil fuels are now more expensive than biomass, geothermal, hydropower, solar PV, onshore wind, & offshore wind. Even Concentrating solar power is now competitive with fossil fuels at $0.11/kWh and dropping. Source: IRENA.

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Garthax @garthax.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

the issue is that the reduction in local emissions is offset by the CO2 generated by imports so this isn't the complete picture of the UK's carbon footprint

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Garthax @garthax.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

the longer a reactor is operating the more cost effective it becomes there's a limit to renewable capacity, nuclear can be built anywhere and has a smaller footprint per kWh nuclear is far better than a fossil fueled energy grid most countries rely on

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