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Oscar Archer
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Neurodivergent professional @RePlanetAus committee Let's take our world's challenges seriously
Sep 5, 2023 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
Gleefully sharing the chart backed by the IPCC's authority, that apparently shows how meagre nuclear's role is.


Gleeful, and admitting it.

And by how many who've even thought about its assumptions?

🧵 Because "it's an IPCC chart which sez we dont need nuclear" is literally as far as some get.
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Aug 23, 2023 • 16 tweets • 9 min read
A strange thing happened two weeks ago: Australia's energy market operator AEMO issued a statement insisting that current biannual modelling work includes full system costs... and that other analysis shows nuclear costs more than renewable energy etc.
🧵 aemo.com.au/newsroom/media…
Image The other analysis is CSIRO's GenCost, which includes this helpful chart.
Nuclear - specifically small modular reactors - certainly looks the most expensive. 2/14
Apr 18, 2023 • 5 tweets • 4 min read
How's this tracking with regard to shares of new non-fossil electricity?

The ALP's "82% by 2030" comes from Figure 8 of the modeling at alp.org.au/policies/power…. Figure 13 gives the modeled shares. Let's dive in 🧵 1/5 ImageImage 2022's results were summarised at the start of the year

non-Household Solar: 11,366 GWh
Wind: 25,940 GWh
Hydro: 16,644 GWh

Assuming household solar keeps growing & hydro doesn't change, what remains must expand by ~96,500 GWh in 7 years.

2/5
Mar 23, 2023 • 4 tweets • 4 min read
"This is the industry itself."

You are 100% *incorrect*, @SenatorGrogan of @AustralianLabor

"WNISR" is *nothing more* than an anti-nuclear project, as explicitly confirmed by Friends of the Earth
reneweconomy.com.au/nuclear-indust… 🧵1/4 Image David at @WorldNuclear has said it best:

His association publishes the superior, factual Performance Report: world-nuclear.org/our-associatio… ...so @SenatorGrogan of @AustralianLabor if you want to quote "the industry itself", please use this ✔️ 2/4
Feb 6, 2023 • 10 tweets • 6 min read
Part of what keeps me here, specifically on Australian #EnergyTwitter, is what we can learn when we dig into triumphant tweets like these. 🪡 1/ Incredible things *are* possible with solar 🌞

ourworldindata.org/grapher/share-…

We can appreciate that without abruptly adding all renewable sources together... 2/ Image
May 31, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
So?
May 28, 2022 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
Just like it would be nice to move past all the stale old anti-nuclear objections, articles making the case so poorly, lacking any "convincing power", should be consigned to history.
theaustralian.com.au/commentary/sma… #auspol Image (Although, considering how much of its length it devotes to challenges besetting developing countries, this sort of snark isn't the best look) Image
Jan 17, 2022 • 24 tweets • 12 min read
There are no new anti-nuclear arguments. Without the hand-written date & awareness of Australian politics, this @Greens senator's article could almost have been written anytime in the last decade. 1/13 Shall we once again go through them all?
First let's note how "reducing carbon emissions" is immediately forgotten. Rule #1 has always been to avoid connecting nuclear energy & low emissions in the reader's mind. Yet, 2/13
Apr 30, 2021 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
If you read carefully, this number-filled article isn't too different from similar confident predictions we've been seeing for years now.
blog.fluenceenergy.com/solar-storage-… 1/7 To highlight: yes this is the summer duck curve in my home state, but by no means is most or even much of that generation being sponged up by battery storage. 2/7
Dec 28, 2019 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
Do you remember this Guardian headline? theguardian.com/australia-news… Pretty ambitious, right? Pretty obvious? The transition is on track and "inevitable"? 1/6 A lot of folks tweeted this awesome headline. twitter.com/search?q=https… I suggest much fewer searched up the source article & read it carefully. reputex.com/research-insig… 2/6
Aug 31, 2019 • 7 tweets • 4 min read
If you have any interest in#nuclear energy in Australia you've likely heard this capital cost figure cited to prove it'll be too expensive. <thread> 1/7 For example, no one will be surprised to see RenewEconomy leaning heavily on this $16,000/kW number reneweconomy.com.au/nuclear-inquir… 2/7
Apr 3, 2019 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
33 years ago: the prototype of the Integral Fast Reactor demonstrated exactly the kind of intrinsic designed-in safety still demanded by #nuclear energy's loudest critics.
vimeo.com/35261457
inis.iaea.org/collection/NCL…
thesciencecouncil.com/pdfs/Plentiful… 1/4 That's safety. Waste? It was designed from the beginning to run on used fuel. It was designed to be the solution to most activist's No. 1 objection to #nuclearenergy. nature.com/articles/48632… 2/4
Jan 2, 2019 • 12 tweets • 7 min read
On "renewables" (solar & wind), in 2009:
'The main.. challenge is that the wind does not always blow and the sun does not always shine in a given location..'
tinyurl.com/n9eeu4g A challenge even for sunny, breezy Australia. 1/12 And the way the energy discussion has bogged down in Australia is reminiscent of what's described here:
(I recently saw the issue of persistent fossil fuel consumption dismissed with #BecauseRenewables - seriously?) 2/12