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Mark Sugrue @marksugrue.com · 18h

Its a bit like the anti-vax movement. At its core there's a bunch of grifters trying to flog some books. But around them are people who have fear of the 'unnatural' (as if photovoltaic cells are 'natural' and uranium isn't). Centuries ago people opposed coal as unnatural too. Its just ludditeism.

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Mark Sugrue @marksugrue.com · 19h

Fun fact: in the UK, decommissioning costs are also included in the nuclear electricity price. They amount to about 3%. 17% of the cost goes to constuction. About 73% of the cost is interest on the loans used to build it.

Mark Sugrue @marksugrue.com · 19h

Perhaps. But they never count the leukaemia victims from coal for comparison.

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Mark Sugrue @marksugrue.com · 19h

No. Decommissioning costs are included in, for example, Finland's energy prices. They have cheaper electricity than the UK anyway.

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Mark Sugrue @marksugrue.com · 19h

Exactly nobody was killed in Fukushima though. Except after, when Japan started burning coal again to replace their temporarly shut down nuke plants. 1000s died from the increased air pollution. No one died from nuclear.

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Mark Sugrue @marksugrue.com · 19h

Renewables + nuclear is the way to go. Renewables + fossil is a dead end.

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Mark Sugrue @marksugrue.com · 19h

Wind/Solar is only cheaper if you ignore the cost of having an entire grid-worth of fossil generation permanently on standby to take over. Germany buys from ☢️France when the wind stops. Denmark from ☢️Sweden. California buys gas/coal gen power from other states. Cost of renewables is hidden.

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Mark Sugrue @marksugrue.com · 19h

Renewabled and storage can't replace fossil fuels though - they can only reduce it (which is good, but not a complete solution). Countries like Sweden and Finland that went the 'Wind+Nuclear' route have been far more successful than Germany or claifornia's 'Wind+battery+gas' route.

Mark Sugrue @marksugrue.com · 19h

Would love an Origin Story on this. In the 60's the greens were pro-nuclear - arguing it was cleaner than damming rivers for hydro (which it is). They flipped to be anti-nuclear power when it got confused with nuclear weapons in the 70s. European anti-nuclear was pushed and funded by Moscow too.

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Mark Sugrue @marksugrue.com · 20h

No mystery why Britain fell behind on nuclear. zionlights.substack.com/p/fact-check...

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Mark Sugrue @marksugrue.com · 20h

Undermining global health IS Trump's political agenda

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 20h

US ‘undermining global health’ by threatening to strip funding from aid projects that do not fit its political agenda

Trump administration reported to be planning expansion of ‘global gag rule’ to halt any initiatives promoting diversity, equity and inclusion

www.theguardian.com

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Alex Hanna-ween @alexhanna.bsky.social · 1d

I'm not an economist but seems worrying that the whole US economy is seven companies in a trenchcoat, passing the same $20 up and down

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

NVIDIA and OpenAi:

Concerns that their “increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar AI boom.“

@bloomberg.com $NVDA 👀
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1d

Our movement is living rent free in the heads of Telegraph journalists at the moment.

Join me in being ‘a threat to the right that they never saw coming’.

join.greenparty.org.uk

The greens may be the threat that the right never saw coming.

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Mark Sugrue @marksugrue.com · 1d

If arresting people on ships from international waters is ok now, the EU should use this precedent to detain the crews of Russian shadow fleet oil tankers.

Richard Chambers @newschambers.bsky.social · 1d

More Irish activists have now been taken by the IDF from international waters including author Naoise Dolan, TD Barry Heneghan and psychiatrist Veronica O’Keane.

They are part of the Freedom Flotilla Coalition.

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Richard Chambers @newschambers.bsky.social · 1d

More Irish activists have now been taken by the IDF from international waters including author Naoise Dolan, TD Barry Heneghan and psychiatrist Veronica O’Keane.

They are part of the Freedom Flotilla Coalition.

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The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 1d

Gaza flotilla members ‘kidnapped and tortured’ by Israeli military, says Greta Thunberg

Swedish activist alleges she and others were subject to torture during detention in Israeli prison

www.irishtimes.com

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flipinidaho @flipinidaho.bsky.social · 1d

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

The building is in a 27 million dollar foreclosure filed by Wells Fargo. The next day, Wells Fargo filed an emergency motion for receivership. The fascist regime kindly emptied the building for donor Wells Fargo.