I once gave a talk in which I mentioned some hippy friends who truly believed that life was better in the 18th century, and a member of the audience said he thought I was making it up

When I was a kid people complained that CGI looked unrealistic. Now the same people seem to be complaining that the images look too convincing 🤔

German industry unlikely to fully recover, warns CEO of energy company RWE.

‘Angela Merkel’s decision in 2011 to shut down its nuclear fleet without replacing the fuel with another energy source aside from Russian pipeline imports was a “mistake”.’

ft.com/content/5d98bc…

Holy cow! It’s a miracle!

“Hot water was civilization” - Terry Pratchett

Retired coal plants can aid the energy transition — by going nuclear freethink.com/opinion/nuclea…

Zion Lights

Retired coal plants ➡️ nuclear plants.
We're talking about a construction cost savings of 35%.

I’m glad to see voices like this gaining ground - perspectives of people who actually live in regions that affluent Western NGOs often claim to speak for.

Just because we (in the West) could have massively reduced our reliance on fossil fuels decades ago, that doesn’t mean that…

Translation: “This solution won’t solve the whole problem at once, so why bother with it at all?”- Friends of the Earth organiser

'U.S. Department of Energy analysts examined 349 retired and 273 operating coal power sites across the US... the researchers found 157 recently retired and 237 operating sites to be suitable for housing nuclear reactors. That’s 80% of the coal sites in the US.' freethink.com/opinion/nuclea…

Free film screening & discussion, April 17 at Imperial College London.

I’ll be speaking on the panel after the screening.

For tickets > eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-atom-a-l…

Journalists really need to stop calling them ‘environmental’ groups

In 1993, only 50.9% of India's population had access to electricity.

As of 2021, 97.9% had access.

From Zion Lights: humanprogress.org/indias-good-fo…

Occasional reminder that the United States could have been the world leader in 5G technology instead of China if we had just given *one guy* a green card when he needed one.

The verdict is in — the charge of defamation has not been upheld.

Excellent news, and bravo Myrto TRIPATHI 👏🏽

La justice! 🇫🇷

Unless you’re a hobbit