We're going to need a bigger duck

Economics Imperialism will continue until other fields stop reasoning from a price change and learn the basic methods of causal inference. Indeed, it must continue.

Yo I thought DERs were supposed to save money on infra...

Made an edit of that Greenpeace "change" poster to show how it really works, especially in Germany

Conserving water in the West is not about "shorter showers," it's about meat and dairy.

We're All Trying To Find The Guy Who Did This [graph my own]

If you know by heart how many ____ are in a year, then you are... milliseconds = Unix developer minutes = gay hours = electricity wonk weeks = work in payroll days = normal

450 consecutive days of playing the same first word and I finally solved it in one. I have accomplished my goal. I am free. Wordle 732 1/6 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

The planned release of treated Fukushima water is, by any objective scientific metric, utterly harmless. Yet a City of Berkeley Council member recently proposed a resolution attacking the Govt of Japan + Tokyo Electric Power Co. We Breakthrough wrote in reply: thebreakthrough.org/press/release-…

The campaign to #legalizenuclearenergy in California has officially launched. CA citizens sign the petition: resist.bot/petitions/PCVG…

The world's richest 10% primarily consists of middle class people in the richest countries.

1/Today I am thrilled to announce, after years of work, our team Fervo Energy has developed a major advancement in geothermal, proven it at the field scale, and is set to deliver commercial next-gen geothermal decades ahead of schedule. THREAD. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Sierra Club California had an “Atoms not Dams” campaign in the 1960s to build a nuclear plant in San Francisco, with the goal to promote conservation in California. books.google.com/books/about/Po…

It’s cute how the proliferation people think that if we phase out nuclear power, society will magically somehow forget how to build nuclear weapons.

In May 2022, a poll done by Carbon Free California was released. It's findings found that 74% of San Luis Obispo County residents support keeping Diablo Canyon open 58% of Californians support extending the life of the plant carbonfreeca.org/poll-strong-lo…

I can't believe this has to be said but I have no relationship to Shellenberger, I'm not lobbying for him/his specific views in any way (nuclear but especially otherwise), he literally has me blocked because I've previously stated I disagree with him on many things

So I know how everyone loves LCOE, but has anyone thought about applying discount rates to the nuclear waste "problem"? Like at a 12% discount rate, even if nuclear waste were to be a trillion $ problem in 200 years, economics dictates that we should spend no more than $7 on it