@YungOnions@sh.itjust.works

YungOnions

@YungOnions@sh.itjust.works

Challenge defeatism.

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YungOnions,

Find out more here www.wcl.org.uk

YungOnions,

Find out more here www.wcl.org.uk

YungOnions,

This would be cool if you could zoom down to street level and kinda drive/fly around.

YungOnions,

Oh no!

Anyway…

YungOnions,

It’s worth bearing in mind that some of this may also be down to the rules of origin of the UK EU TCA, not necessarily a reduction in actual trade. UK and EU branded clothing and footwear made outside Europe can no longer be counted as UK or EU exports. Instead they are now recorded as an export of the country where they were manufactured.

A lot of modern clothing is made in places like India or China and then branded in another. This would have then been classed as a UK export when sent to the EU, but this is no longer the case.

YungOnions,

This looks useful. Is this just for US products? I can’t tell from the pages themselves.

YungOnions,

More people need to be made aware of information like this, so they can understand it’s not all doom and gloom.

YungOnions,

This isn’t a binary choice. We can do both, whilst we wait for governments to sort out nuclear or fusion. I’d prefer we do what we can to reduce our emissions via renewables now, rather than doing nothing whilst waiting for some potential solution in the future.

Also, ewaste from renewables can be recycled

link.springer.com/article/…/s10668-023-02925-7

YungOnions,

OK, so whilst we wait the 7 years for the reactor to be built we should, what? hope that coal and gas stops polluting in the interim? Or should we continue to use the tech that, whilst not perfect, is better than the currently most widely used alternatives?

Nuclear is expensive, slow to deploy and has a inherent risk that renewables do not:

www.nature.com/articles/s41560-020-00696-3

eu.boell.org/…/7-reasons-why-nuclear-energy-not-a…

Plus the ewaste renewables produce can be recycled easily, cheaply and with far less risk than the waste for nuclear. Is the process perfect? No, so lets concentrate on improving the circular economy around recycling panels, turbines etc. Spend the money and effort on improving the tech that is already proven to be cheaper, more effective and ready now.

YungOnions,

Doesn’t really matter. The issue is the emissions the energy used currently makes. If the energy these companies are using to make an AI app for your light bulbs or whatever is emission free then who cares?

YungOnions,

Are also worth checking out.

Elsewhere the following sites are great for more positive content:

www.goodnewsnetwork.orgfixthenews.com/planet/www.positive.newswww.goodgoodgood.co/impact/environment

YungOnions, (edited )

Definitely. That 7 years was just the construction phase. All in the average nuclear plant takes about 14 years to build from planning to switch on.

YungOnions, (edited )

Cool, but that’s not how averages work, is it.

statista.com/…/median-construction-time-for-react…

Also the fastest Nuclear power plant construction in the world is currently held by Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Unit 6 NPP at 5.41 years, construction start to commercial operation:

inis.iaea.org/collection/…/30020307.pdf

That often quoted 3 years doesn’t include inspections, testing etc.

YungOnions, (edited )

Great, but unless you can get Japan to build every Nuclear reactor in the world, that’s a meaningless statistic, isn’t it? The average construction time for a PWR remains 7 years globally:

inis.iaea.org/collection/…/42105221.pdf?r=1&r=1

This doesn’t account for planning etc etc so the actual time from pre project to switch on is closer to 11 years, which is admittedly 3 years less than my original figure:

iaea.org/…/project-management-in-nuclear-power-pl…

Also the fastest Nuclear power plant construction in the world is currently held by Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Unit 6 NPP at 5.41 years, construction start to commercial operation:

inis.iaea.org/collection/…/30020307.pdf

That often quoted 3 years doesn’t include inspections, testing etc.

YungOnions, (edited )

The time to create nuclear plants is far lower than what you quoted

The average construction time is 7 years. I quoted the International Atomic Energy Agency. I think they know what they’re talking about.

and we’re still sitting here fucking debating whether we should start.

That’s fine, I get you’re passionate about nuclear and that’s good, it’s better to be passionate about that than coal or gas. But you’re not going to ‘encourage’ anyone by hurling insults at them, are you?

Also, your data is out of date. The LCOE of Nuclear is getting more expensive, not less. Wind is now the cheapest:

…m.wikipedia.org/…/Levelized_cost_of_electricity

And solar now has the fewest deaths per unit of electricity:

ourworldindata.org/…/death-rates-from-energy-prod…

Look, I get that nuclear probably has its place. But you need to understand that renewables are rapidly becoming the option for carbon emission reduction, and that the evidence supports this. They’re doing this so quickly that by the time we start the process of constructing a NPP now, they will be even better by the time the plant goes into operation. Your point about how we should have started earlier is a valid one but, for a multitude of reasons, that isn’t the world we live in. So why spend time and money trying to change the global attitude towards nuclear when we can spend the same time and money building an arguably better solution that is almost unanimously agreed to be more effective right now?

YungOnions,

Cool idea!

YungOnions, (edited )

Here’s mine:

https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/15a85af9-3a47-4844-91e1-682c43b30d20.jpeg

https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/928ab64e-3184-4dc9-b67b-d08cbab489f6.jpeg

I hope that embedding them is OK, I don’t have them uploaded anywhere else.

Rare dragonfly thrives after successful restoration of peatbogs | Cumbria Wildlife Trust (www.cumbriawildlifetrust.org.uk)

A rare dragonfly looks set to have a very successful breeding season at Drumburgh Moss Nature Reserve. At the start of our survey season, we found that 328 dragonflies had already emerged. That’s half of the total from the whole of last year’s season....

YungOnions,

Love to hear these restoration projects stories.

YungOnions,

The good bits:

  • Trees increased by around 25% at Invereshie and Inshriach NNR between 2017 and 2023 through natural regeneration, aided by deer management undertaken by Cairngorms Connect deer stalkers.
  • Woodland at Beinn Eighe NNR has increased by 41% since it was designated as the UK’s first NNR in 1951, through a combination of tree planting, natural regeneration and sustainable deer management
  • More than 200 hectares of peatland has been restored on the mountainside at Ben Wyvis NNR as part of landscape-scale habitat restoration stretching from summit to sea.
YungOnions,

If you want to donate, you can do so here:

mybrokenbridges.org.uk/donate

No idea why these articles never include the important information.

YungOnions,

For fucks sake…

YungOnions, (edited )

You won’t admit you love me and so, how am I ever to know? You only tell me, “Purghaps, purghaps, purghaps”

YungOnions,

Meat Museum? I’ve got all their albums!

YungOnions,

Well said. Optimism is important.

YungOnions,

FUCK YOU!!

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