Phil Ord ⚛️⚡

Phil Ord ⚛️⚡

@fissionphil.bsky.social

Science/biology nerd🔬, actual liberal☮, ecomodernist🌎, urbanist #YIMBY🏙, nuclear power activist☢️, global warming-concerned🌡️, with muscular dystrophy♿.

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I would literally love to be a genetic engineer. A noble profession. Also, pesticides and synthetic fertilizer are based. Organic is a scam. Everyone should visit an industrial crop farm, and personally thank a farmer for hyper-abundant and affordable food.

Nothing beats safe, clean, vibrant, walkable, dense urban living. This spot on Santa Fe street in #Denver is blocks away from a light rail station. Just add more traffic calming measures and this area is perfect. A #YIMBY world is a wealthy and abundant world. Suburbs are hell.

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Anti-nuclear power people drive me nuts, because none of them actually know fucking anything about what nuclear waste is, how safe it is to store, or what the ecological impact of having it nearby would be.

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Whether the topic is: - Climate change - GMOs - Nuclear power - Vaccines - Homeopathy - Astronomy - Evolution - or Covid-19... ...People who disagree most with the scientific consensus know less about the topic, but they think they know more. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Replying to @andrewlissiman.bsky.social

Please inform yourself on nuclear fuel cycles and recycling of spent nuclear fuel. Nuclear "waste" can be obliterated for more clean electricity and disappear from the universe forever. You just sound cringe and uneducated. Anti-nukes tend not to know much about nuclear power.

Nuclear waste is a non-issue invented by anti-nuclear activists to kill a miraculous, planet-saving, poverty-killing technology.

Some more awesome Liberal things: -regulated markets -robust safety nets -rule of law -separation of powers -due process, jury of peers, presumption of innocence -separation of church and state -representative government -private property and individual rights -bodily autonomy

Cont. -right to privacy -progressive taxation -no cruel and unusual punishment -right to self defense -free speech (no GOV censorship) -freedom of association -civil rights -multiculturalism and immigration -free trade (no protectionism) -sovereignty and national defense

Cont. again -collective bargaining, wage negotiation, unions, worker protections -private ownership of capital -freedom and independence of the press -limits on political donations -food, drug and product safety regulations

The best way to #decarbonize the #electric #grid is to make large, carbon-free #NuclearPower facilities and pipe constant electricity far and wide with power lines. Multiple gigawatts at a time. #Wind and #solar are weak. #Nuclear is strong. France did it decades ago. Saying we can’t is a LIE.

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Finally getting around to reading a paper from the New England grid operator, packed with goodies. 1) The marginal contribution of new wind & solar capacity falls off a cliff as you add more 2) Cost of carbon abatement skyrockets 3) Nuclear plants significantly reduce system cost is.gd/p8kilf

The developed and industrial West needs to decarbonize first, and then export clean energy tech to vulnerable and underdeveloped countries at a major discount. Also pushing energy austerity on struggling nations is unethical and immoral.

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Some things I think are good: -nuclear power ⚛️ -Liberalism ☮️ -humanism 🚶‍♀️ -dense urbanism 🏙️ -public transportation 🚈 -GMOs and synthetic fertilizer 🧬🌾 -desalination 🚰 -net-zero synthetic hydrocarbon fuel ⛽ -space exploration 🚀 -Western medicine ⚕️ -global warming mitigation 🌎 -YIMBYism 🏗️

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Nothing specific is really bringing this to mind, but casual reminder that there is no legitimate clean energy plan for the future that does not include nuclear power in it. Especially with all the advances in nuclear technology to make it less wasteful.

This may ruffle some feathers, but really anyone who is not on board with A MASSIVE AMOUNT of #NuclearPower is denying sound and established #science. Furthermore, being anti-nuclear puts all of humanity at risk of civilizational ruin from #GlobalWarming.

And the insistence on only using "cheaper" #wind and #solar to provide the vast majority of the globe's energy is like trying to solve a food shortage with organic food. One nuclear facility can power a large city for a century.

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