Notices by Emil Jacobs - Collectifission (collectifission@greennuclear.online), page 2

"A rapid increase in demand may leave Africa no choice but to make a substantial investment in nuclear energy."

https://issafrica.org/iss-today/africa-s-nuclear-energy-future

So, how old can nuclear power plants get?

PWRs, BWRs and CANDUs are the most commonly found nuclear reactors in the world, in that order. They're also amazingly longlasting. Units built in the 1970s are rated to run for at least 80 years today.

Get this: the reactor vessel of a PWR has no known upper age limit. We simply don't know. Is it a century? 150 years? Longer? We can keep replacing all the other parts, as long as the RPV is sound, it simply doesn't matter how long a reactor operates.

And a CANDU? You refurbish those every 30 years or so. Forever.

Here's a rule of thumb: if anyone tells you that a 40 year old plant is 'old', they have an agenda.

I'm not an artist, but it would be funny to make this script into a comic:

- Pane 1: "Hi there, I'm a fuel rod" "Hi there! I'm a PWR and I'm going to house you for the next five years"
- Pane 2: [after five years, a sad departure] "I'm going into storage for 300 years now, it was good knowing you 😭"
- Pane 3: the PWR just keep humming and humming and humming
- Pane 4: [300 years later] "Hi there, I'm a recycled piece of fuel and I'll be with you for five... wait, are you still around??" "Welcome home"

(Oh right, nuclear waste is not an actually existing problem)

"Spain has been using nuclear energy for forty years. Despite reaping the rewards of clean, abundant and affordable energy, they have mistakenly decided to phase-out nuclear. In this video we examine why this is not a smart course of action, and that Spain must re-examine this decision."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_E-26tNJ2rU

Leftists on Twitter be like: "we need to collectivize Instagram!"

My brother in Marx, this is why we do open source software. Download the Pixelfed app already and be happy.

I'm reminded of a discussion I had like 20 years ago along very similar lines with a leftist:

Me: I think we should help people switch to Linux, starting with ourselves and our org."
Them: "Oh, nonsense, after the revolution we'll just open source Windows".

This mentality between doing something *now* versus preparing for a *future* revolution, as a sort of atheist rapture moment that fixes everything, is something I've always found particularly unhelpful within leftwing circles. It leads to too much inaction and debate on the 'correct' course, while in my view anyway, it is mostly the people not wanting to invest in doing something *now* that are the real obstacles to helping any movement at all.

Sorry, had to get this off my chest for once.

Looks like TikTok is strengthening the censoring:

1. Searching for 'fascism' doesn't give you American creators anymore.
2. Searching for 'Palestine' gives a 'misinformation' warning.

I get reports from Americans getting even less results than I get as a European.

We so need our own federated media, now.

#TikTok

@dansup 2018? Man, you hold grudges 😅

@mastodonmigration Where do you see the $30M goal? I see a gofundme with $4M as a goal, which to be fair is also ridiculous.

Have you noticed how he never says anything bad about actual tyrannical governments?

@sbi Germany was a huge net importer in 2024...

https://www.energy-charts.info/charts/import_export_map/chart.htm?l=en&c=DE&year=2024&interval=year

@sbi 28 TWh is a huge amount of electricity. The biggest Germany imported since ... ever? There's a serious shift going on since 2023. There's no need to belittle that point.

As for the 'cheaper' argument: I find that one truly interesting, because I see there an admittance that, apparently, energy production became uncompetitive in Germany. We were promised "too cheap to meter" renewable energy, but Germany finds itself importing, partly from France, because it's cheaper.

Too funny to not share.

This is the most nail on the head version of this meme I've seen.

France and Germany: Electricity Compared in 2024

This chart by Radiant Energy Group shows all 8784 hours in the year.

Germany averaged 349 grams of CO2 per kWh with wind, coal, solar, gas, and biogas.

France averaged 19 grams with nuclear, hydro, wind, solar, and gas.

France was 18 times cleaner.

Just did some pruning of accounts who haven't been online in over a year and had some very low post cost (0 or close to 0).

I'm open for pro-nuclear people to open an account on greennuclear.online, but if you don't use it, you lose it.

So, guys, I have bad news. I think we might be in the Mirror Universe.

@zleap This is the sort of news article Musk loves to see. The best thing we can do is just ignore him. His whole ego wouldn't be able to cope without continuous validation.

I'm looking into a trip to Barcelona from the Netherlands with my mom. She *really* doesn't like the idea of flying, so the train is the logical choice. But there is a difference:

- Train: 14 hour travel time with a return ticket price for €600 (and this is probably the best price given that it is the Interrail Pass).
- Plane: Maybe 5 hour travel time including driving to the airport and check in with a return ticket price for below €200.

I get why most people travel by plane to be honest.

And if we insist on a price incentive to make trains cheaper, I'm pretty certain liberals will interpret this to mean to quadruple the prices of flying.

Sigh, why can't we have nice things?

Does anyone have a suggestion for a proper pan-European train planning site? The ones I keep finding are total garbage.

I just want a planner that gives me the fastest and cheapest route from place A to place B in Europe.

Thanks!

#Trains #PublicTransport

@Freenet congrats on pushing out one more release before the new year! On towards 1500 in 2025!