This graphic in the Financial Times is interesting for what it shows and doesn’t say

I’m really proud of this article. Despite being excluded officially year after year, Taiwan makes a huge effort to go to COP and keep up with the latest international efforts to save us all from climate change. In short, we show up.

Yes, we do emit a lot too. That’s in part

3 reasons why nuclear is more flexible 🤸‍♀️ than you might think.

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The UK is a world leader in offshore wind, attracting huge investment.
Energy storage too.
We're also building a large nuclear supply.

This is despite floating offshore wind costing even more than the muck overpriced Hinkley Point C.

Glen Peters Esa Vakkilainen Cheaper can mean a number of things.

Rooftop solar is cheaper than anything... once it's paid off.
Wind and solar can be cheaper on the spot market.

The 'cheaper' that counts is the one which includes system costs, like storage intermittency, and seasonal variation.

'Alinta Energy boss: you could start now & have #nuclear in the market by 2035, 2038, but, again, no one is starting now because IT'S BANNED.'

Fixed your headline for you, ABC News.

JC Earnest Bunbury Ned ✋🏻Going Fission Jason Andrade @[email protected] David Osmond John Mann 💉x6 Ilari Lehti 💧Peter Kemp 💉 Перемога України Victory 4 Ukraine Luke Weston Karl Alex Pauls ⚛️ 💧icowrich 🇺🇸🌻 Catriona Thoolen 🐱 Robert Parker Bryan Barnard Darrin Durant FollowTheScience Tim Lloyd Lesley Green James Krellenstein Mark Cojuangco 🇺🇦Proud European from🇪🇺🇦🇹 🌏 brendan chrispydog 🖐🏻Pete (failed solar entrepreneur) Bergs Joel Courtney ☀️🔌💻 [email protected] Stepping on Stepien AustNuclearAssoc (NPPs are Zero Emissions) Green Power Gadfly assimilating back into 🇦🇺 life Xiao Wang Orion Against Racism Discrimination🌸 Christopher Adlam Dan Sideen Al Scott: The Rational View masimov ✍🏻 Alan Peery Ariel Liebman Dale Wen Joris van Dorp🔧⚡🌍 Josh Payne Les Johnson daniel civilengineer 'It will be used ,if it hasn't already to claim additional funds from the UK government , you can bet on that!'

Not true.
The reason UK gov't chose a more costly CfD (£89.50/MWh was so that that all FOAK risk was underwritten by EDF/CGN & Framatome, not the UK Gov't or consumer.

You have to admire Joel's ability to angrily miss any point.

ICYMI: Greenpeace International actually made a whole ad about their fantasy of a passenger jet crashing into Sizewell C

#DearGreenpeace

@[email protected] Jason Andrade JC 💧Peter Kemp 💉 Перемога України Victory 4 Ukraine Luke Weston Ned Karl Alex Pauls ⚛️ 💧icowrich 🇺🇸🌻 Catriona Thoolen 🐱 John Mann 💉x6 Robert Parker Ilari Lehti Bryan Barnard Darrin Durant FollowTheScience Tim Lloyd Earnest Bunbury Lesley Green James Krellenstein Mark Cojuangco 🇺🇦Proud European from🇪🇺🇦🇹 🌏 brendan chrispydog 🖐🏻Pete (failed solar entrepreneur) Bergs Malcolm Rawlingson Joel Courtney ☀️🔌💻 [email protected] Stepping on Stepien AustNuclearAssoc (NPPs are Zero Emissions) ✋🏻Going Fission Green Power Gadfly assimilating back into 🇦🇺 life Xiao Wang Orion Against Racism Discrimination🌸 Christopher Adlam David Osmond Dan Sideen Al Scott: The Rational View masimov ✍🏻 Alan Peery Ariel Liebman Dale Wen Joris van Dorp🔧⚡🌍 Josh Payne Les Johnson daniel civilengineer Okay so assuming (for 'reasons') Australia has no benefit from already having indigenous expertise in nuclear, there's one reactor started after 8-9 years and one each ~year after that.
And you're plotting that against the most optimistic trajectory for coal exit

Is that right?

Ilari Lehti @[email protected] 💧Peter Kemp 💉 Перемога України Victory 4 Ukraine Ned Bryan Barnard Tom Biegler FollowTheScience Earnest Bunbury Robert Parker Lesley Green James Krellenstein Mark Cojuangco Catriona Thoolen 🐱 brendan chrispydog 🖐🏻Pete (failed solar entrepreneur) Bergs Malcolm Rawlingson Luke Weston [email protected] AustNuclearAssoc (NPPs are Zero Emissions) ✋🏻Going Fission Green Power Gadfly assimilating back into 🇦🇺 life Xiao Wang Orion Against Racism Discrimination🌸 💧icowrich 🇺🇸🌻 Christopher Adlam David Osmond Dan Sideen Al Scott: The Rational View masimov ✍🏻 Alan Peery Ariel Liebman Dale Wen Joris van Dorp🔧⚡🌍 Josh Payne Les Johnson daniel civilengineer 'you were just 'manufacturing dissent''

Or as I see it, asking a question you couldn't (or wouldn't?) answer.

As to fomenting dissent in 'happy land', it would be remiss of me not to remind you that I'm the one who agrees with all scientific consensus.
Even the tricky bits.

There's a lighthouse in Iceland that sits on the highest of three rocks six miles off the Icelandic coastline, built in 1939 on top of an extremely steep and dangerous rocky cliff. It's the the Þrídrangar lighthouse

@[email protected] JC ✋🏻Going Fission David Glynne Jones Mark Cojuangco Tom Biegler Darrin Durant Ned Ilari Lehti FollowTheScience Tim Lloyd Earnest Bunbury Robert Parker Lesley Green Bryan Barnard Jason Andrade James Krellenstein Catriona Thoolen 🐱 John Mann 💉x6 🇺🇦Proud European from🇪🇺🇦🇹 🌏 brendan chrispydog 🖐🏻Pete (failed solar entrepreneur) Bergs Malcolm Rawlingson Roo Bar — Threads: @roobar66 Luke Weston Glenne Drover Joel Courtney ☀️🔌💻 [email protected] Stepping on Stepien AustNuclearAssoc (NPPs are Zero Emissions) Green Power Gadfly assimilating back into 🇦🇺 life Xiao Wang Orion Against Racism Discrimination🌸 💧icowrich 🇺🇸🌻 Christopher Adlam David Osmond Dan Sideen Al Scott: The Rational View masimov ✍🏻 Alan Peery Ariel Liebman Dale Wen Joris van Dorp🔧⚡🌍 Josh Payne Les Johnson daniel civilengineer 'Unless a nuclear grid with no gas exists right now then it's impossible to achieve.'

JC Catriona Thoolen 🐱 Darrin Durant Tom Biegler Jason Andrade Tim Lloyd Ned FollowTheScience David Glynne Jones Nick Greenacre John Mann 💉x6 Ilari Lehti 🇺🇦Proud European from🇪🇺🇦🇹 🌏 brendan chrispydog 🖐🏻Pete (failed solar entrepreneur) Bergs Malcolm Rawlingson Roo Bar — Threads: @roobar66 Luke Weston Mark Cojuangco Earnest Bunbury Glenne Drover Joel Courtney ☀️🔌💻 @[email protected] [email protected] Bryan Barnard Lesley Green Stepping on Stepien AustNuclearAssoc (NPPs are Zero Emissions) Green Power Gadfly assimilating back into 🇦🇺 life Xiao Wang Orion Against Racism Discrimination🌸 💧icowrich 🇺🇸🌻 Christopher Adlam David Osmond Dan Sideen Al Scott: The Rational View masimov ✍🏻 Alan Peery Ariel Liebman Dale Wen Joris van Dorp🔧⚡🌍 Josh Payne Les Johnson daniel civilengineer James O'Brien The tragedy of western nuclear is that we allowed the skills to build to be lost. Only recently has commitment been made to address that.

'We have no examples of reactors lasting 60 years, with or without refurbishment. None.'

Now I wonder why that would be?

John Mann 💉x6 JC 💧icowrich 🇺🇸🌻 Jason Andrade Tim Lloyd FollowTheScience Catriona Thoolen 🐱 Nick Greenacre @[email protected] ✋🏻Going Fission Darrin Durant Ilari Lehti 🇺🇦Proud European from🇪🇺🇦🇹 🌏 brendan David Glynne Jones chrispydog 🖐🏻Pete (failed solar entrepreneur) Bergs Ned Malcolm Rawlingson Roo Bar — Threads: @roobar66 Luke Weston Mark Cojuangco Earnest Bunbury Glenne Drover Joel Courtney ☀️🔌💻 [email protected] Bryan Barnard Stepping on Stepien AustNuclearAssoc (NPPs are Zero Emissions) Green Power Gadfly assimilating back into 🇦🇺 life Xiao Wang Orion Against Racism Discrimination🌸 Christopher Adlam David Osmond Dan Sideen Al Scott: The Rational View masimov ✍🏻 Alan Peery Ariel Liebman Dale Wen Joris van Dorp🔧⚡🌍 Josh Payne Les Johnson daniel civilengineer James O'Brien Kevin Johnson International Energy Agency 'We have no examples of reactors lasting 60 years'

None of my parents' children have made it to 60, by your argument that's proof that we never will.

Ilari Lehti FollowTheScience Lesley Green John Mann 💉x6 💧icowrich 🇺🇸🌻 Catriona Thoolen 🐱 @[email protected] ✋🏻Going Fission brendan David Glynne Jones chrispydog 🖐🏻Pete (failed solar entrepreneur) Bergs Ned Malcolm Rawlingson Luke Weston Mark Cojuangco Earnest Bunbury [email protected] Bryan Barnard AustNuclearAssoc (NPPs are Zero Emissions) Green Power Gadfly assimilating back into 🇦🇺 life Xiao Wang Orion Against Racism Discrimination🌸 Christopher Adlam David Osmond Dan Sideen Al Scott: The Rational View masimov ✍🏻 Alan Peery Ariel Liebman Dale Wen Joris van Dorp🔧⚡🌍 Josh Payne Les Johnson daniel civilengineer James O'Brien Kevin Johnson International Energy Agency Yes, and yet the fact remains that an energy mix* by definition, includes RE & NP.
Any attempt/s to discuss a mix are invariably stamped on as exclusively pro-nuclear even though RE & NP is exactly what countries incorporating nuclear are doing.

It is not anti-RE policy.
Is it

@[email protected] Ilari Lehti Sean - Alberta Nuclear FollowTheScience Catriona Thoolen 🐱 ✋🏻Going Fission Darrin Durant brendan David Glynne Jones chrispydog 🖐🏻Pete (failed solar entrepreneur) Bergs Ned Malcolm Rawlingson Luke Weston Mark Cojuangco Earnest Bunbury Joel Courtney ☀️🔌💻 [email protected] Bryan Barnard Lesley Green AustNuclearAssoc (NPPs are Zero Emissions) Green Power Gadfly assimilating back into 🇦🇺 life Xiao Wang Orion Against Racism Discrimination🌸 💧icowrich 🇺🇸🌻 Christopher Adlam David Osmond Dan Sideen Al Scott: The Rational View masimov ✍🏻 Alan Peery Ariel Liebman Dale Wen Joris van Dorp🔧⚡🌍 Josh Payne Les Johnson daniel civilengineer James O'Brien Kevin Johnson International Energy Agency I surmise.
But solar install times definitely don't include manufacturing and wrt to emissions, even a SA summer has so much gas balancing that it only slightly outperforms a UK (mostly gas) winter.
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So it's not groundless conjecture.

Ilari Lehti Sean - Alberta Nuclear John Mann 💉x6 Tim Lloyd FollowTheScience Catriona Thoolen 🐱 Jason Andrade @[email protected] ✋🏻Going Fission Darrin Durant 🇺🇦Proud European from🇪🇺🇦🇹 🌏 brendan David Glynne Jones chrispydog 🖐🏻Pete (failed solar entrepreneur) Bergs Ned Malcolm Rawlingson Roo Bar — Threads: @roobar66 JC Luke Weston Mark Cojuangco Earnest Bunbury Glenne Drover Joel Courtney ☀️🔌💻 [email protected] Bryan Barnard Lesley Green Stepping on Stepien AustNuclearAssoc (NPPs are Zero Emissions) Green Power Gadfly assimilating back into 🇦🇺 life Xiao Wang Orion Against Racism Discrimination🌸 💧icowrich 🇺🇸🌻 Christopher Adlam David Osmond Dan Sideen Al Scott: The Rational View masimov ✍🏻 Alan Peery Ariel Liebman Dale Wen Joris van Dorp🔧⚡🌍 Josh Payne Les Johnson daniel civilengineer James O'Brien Kevin Johnson International Energy Agency 'We may be better off concentrating our efforts to best technologies'

What are best technologies?
Historically its Hydro and Nuclear
By growth it's W and S

Define best:
The fastest?
The ones with lowest system/ESS costs?
Or a mix of the above which offers best return/ low risk

Ilari Lehti Bryan Barnard Lesley Green John Mann 💉x6 Catriona Thoolen 🐱 Ned Tim Lloyd @[email protected] Stepping on Stepien Luke Weston FollowTheScience 🇺🇦Proud European from🇪🇺🇦🇹 🌏 🖐🏻Pete (failed solar entrepreneur) Bergs Mark Cojuangco JC AustNuclearAssoc (NPPs are Zero Emissions) ✋🏻Going Fission Green Power Gadfly Roo Bar — Threads: @roobar66 Earnest Bunbury Glenne Drover assimilating back into 🇦🇺 life David Glynne Jones Tom Biegler Xiao Wang chrispydog Orion Against Racism Discrimination🌸 💧icowrich 🇺🇸🌻 Christopher Adlam David Osmond Dan Sideen Al Scott: The Rational View masimov ✍🏻 Alan Peery Ariel Liebman Dale Wen Joris van Dorp🔧⚡🌍 Josh Payne Les Johnson daniel civilengineer James O'Brien Kevin Johnson @aaron_oakley Digger Deegs 🇦🇺🇳🇦 JvK 🖖🏾yestiseye greg_barton Westinghouse Nuclear Indeed but unless I'm mistaken, the atomausstieg was the first and hopefully only time that a fully functioning low carbon supply has been removed from the supply in the full knowledge that it would delay any coal phase out and require an entirely new substantial gas reserve.