Zion Lights
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Award-winning Science Communicator. Nuclear comms consultant. Writing at https://t.co/BiRnynYnMR Energy is life ⚛️
United Kingdom
Joined May 2012
Canada invented one of the best nuclear reactors in the world (but then they stopped building it)
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A few months ago I posted a video explaining the water cycle and I have since learned from the comments that there are a lot of water cycle deniers out there.
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This is doing the rounds on other sites. Apparently each bladeless turbine can generate 100W. And no, it’s not satire
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Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin was the *first person on the planet* to discover the true composition of stars, but no one believed her, and she didn’t get credit for it.
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Inertia, instability, and the Iberian blackout. What happened, why, and what can we do to fix it?.
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It’s 2230 and there’s a seagull outside making an absolute racket.
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How can we improve nuclear communications, and what can we learn from activists about storytelling?.
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Things are moving quickly now in the UK. Yorkshire Energy Park near Saltend has signed an agreement to look at mooring a "power barge" on the water that would use liquefied natural gas (LNG) to produce electricity. The deal would also include building an SMR.
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“There’s a general consensus that at the end of the day, we need to depend on nuclear.”. Japan aims to complete its nuclear restarts within five years.
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“Developers hope the park will attract world leading companies that specialise in nuclear research and development.”. This warms my YIMBY heart
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Nuclear provided nearly 30% of Germany’s electricity in the 1990s, but now it’s been reduced to zero. If that share had been maintained, coal would be almost entirely eliminated today.
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When he began to close with Experience I wondered why he was playing it again - and then the grand organ came in. It was like being drenched in sound. Utterly ethereal experience, and yes, I cried through most of it. Here are two short clips, with and without the organ.
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RT @HumanProgress: While the West waffles on nuclear energy, China is moving full speed ahead. Not content with simply growing its fleet o….
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