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Guido Núñez-Mujica
@osguido.bsky.social
Computational biologist, data scientist, Ecomodernist, leatherman. Telling untold stories. जिंदगी अद्भुत हैं
Supporter of all low carbon electricity sources.
The pro nuclear movement IS about protecting the climate for a lot of people!
In the US until a few years ago it wasn't the case, but, after years of activism, we made it so.
As I told you the other day, we are not the enemy. Find a way, seek solutions, not problems.
December 19, 2024 at 1:42 PM
Ah, I had not seen this.
Thank you very much for your correction. I appreciate it. And I hope that you can understand where we are coming from. Even if we are wrong, we still agree on a lot and it's a big mistake to spend time and resources in the sort of campaigns that GetUp! Did.
December 15, 2024 at 2:42 AM
I helped to save our local nuclear power plant. Every year that it is running, it's 7 million tons of CO2 that's not generated. I think I am a pretty strong climate advocate, pardon the lack of modesty.
December 15, 2024 at 2:39 AM
Very few people in the nuclear advocacy movement are against renewables. We need every single tool we have to replace fossil fuels
December 15, 2024 at 2:36 AM
If you actually bothered to speak to the people who you are too busy slandering you'd realize that they are against fossil fuels. I am sure that there are ways in which you could work together despite the differences. Instead, you are spreading lies and wasting an opportunity.
December 15, 2024 at 2:36 AM
Another lie. I am not part of the nuclear industry.
Also, you deny the existence of a sector within the climate movement that's anti nuclear. Certainly not all climate activists, of course. But here in California, in Germany and also in Australia there are people like that.
December 15, 2024 at 2:15 AM
Again, I am not at the BTI. Shellenberger is not its leader. You are not posting publicly available information. You launched an ill informed personal attack. Insisting on these lies proves your bad faith
December 15, 2024 at 2:11 AM
Your shameful behavior here is another example of the mean girl activism you guys seem to love so much.
Rather than joining others trying to fight coal, you assume that everyone who doesn't think like you is evil and wrong.
December 12, 2024 at 5:59 AM
I am very glad to say in the public record that Michael Shellenberger is an unscientific douchebag, a racist, an asshole and the Original American Chavista.
Not that any of that is relevant to this discussion.
December 12, 2024 at 5:55 AM
And since you can't refute my arguments, here comes the guilt by (nonexistent) association.
If you are going to throw mud at me, at least be competent at it. I have not been at BTI for a year and Shellenberger had been gone for years by the time I started working there.
December 12, 2024 at 5:54 AM
No, that's not what I said. What I said is that some do focus in the wrong metrics, such as percentage of renewables, on detriment of CO2 emissions. Again, Germany.
December 12, 2024 at 5:51 AM
When you stop using coal I'll believe it is not needed. Had you started 20 years ago, you'd have a grid as clean as France's.
December 12, 2024 at 5:49 AM
A lot of "climate activists" in fact spend more time attacking nuclear than coal. German energy policy is an example, and the praise it gets.
December 12, 2024 at 5:49 AM
When they claim that Australia/Germany doesn't need nuclear and spend their time attacking nuclear rather than attacking coal, they are making the choice of defending their current system.
The relevant metric regarding climate is carbon emissions, not whether something is renewable or not.
December 12, 2024 at 4:43 AM
Again, CSIRO is clearly biased.
You guys are smart and resourceful. You could do it. You just don't want to, and worse, you keep burning coal, just like the Germans.
December 12, 2024 at 12:56 AM
And please, don't be patronizing. When your grid routinely has a carbon intensity of, 800+ gr CO2eq/Kwh of course I will fucking worry. It's madness and horror. I care about the climate
December 12, 2024 at 12:55 AM
I don't trust CSIRO, when clearly Bangladesh is building a nuclear plant for way less than they claim is the cost of nuclear. Who am I going to believe? CSIRO or my own lying eyes?
December 12, 2024 at 12:54 AM
I need my lights on more than 70% of the time, you know.
December 12, 2024 at 12:52 AM
France decarbonized its grid in less time than Germany with older technology, with much better results. Japan built a reactor in 3.3, years. It can be done. But if you lack the will, of course it won't be done.
December 12, 2024 at 12:51 AM
We know that grids with lots of hydro can be decarbonized and work reliably. We don't know that only solar and wind can keep the lights on without fossil fuels or hydro. Again, South Australia is importing right now nearly 50% from Victoria. And it has a tiny population.
December 12, 2024 at 12:50 AM
Your shining star, South Australia, is importing right now nearly 50% of its power from Victoria. Decarbonizing the grid and reducing air pollution is not a passion project. It's the right thing to do.
December 12, 2024 at 12:47 AM
Pardon me, but this is absolutely preposterous coming from Australia. Your grid right now, even South Australia is more than twice the emissions of the grid in California, sometimes 3X. And we realized that we still needed nuclear.
You don't get to pollute that much and make this claim.
December 12, 2024 at 12:45 AM
Maybe that's not the way to go. Maybe you can run industrial processes with it. But we need to find solutions rather than finding excuses. We know nuclear works. Coal needs to go.
December 12, 2024 at 12:40 AM
Well, I am fine with energy subsidies as long as we decarbonize. In California we pay $8.5 billion / year for solar.
Also, Bangladesh is building a nuclear plant. If they can afford it, so can you.
December 12, 2024 at 12:38 AM