An important lesson for utility commissioners reacting to breathless utility reports of data center load growth. We've read this book before....

Fact #3: in the middle aughts (2004 - 2006) Georgia Power predicted a robust annual load growth rate of 4.1% that required new nuclear reactors to meet the demand. Not only did they not have 4.1% annual growth, they didn’t have 4.1% growth in 15 years. Plant Vogtle was never needed.

Fact #4: May 1, 2024, 24 hours after Unit 4 went into commercial service (why wait?), Georgia Power raised residential rates a total of 25% to pay for their 45.7% share of the project. The timing couldn't have been worse: right before summer rates hit.

What??!?! $7.5 billion is what Plant Vogtle cost Georgians. And that was a rip off. This is terrible.

"Pacific Gas and Electric Co. recently estimated that California utility customers will pay approximately $7.6 billion to keep the plant running through 2030." What a waste of ratepayers' money. Shame on Governor Gavin Newsom for backtracking on the closure of Diablo Canyon! #CloseDiabloCanyon

There was enough wasted solar and wind on the California ISO grid alone in 2024 thru curtailment (2.3% of all demand; 8.4% of solar; 1.4% of wind) to replace 25% of inflexible Diablo Canyon nuclear Can also use excess W+S to electrify more buildings+vehicles, store heat in firebricks, and make H2

(4/5) In 2024, solar "wasted" in CA was enough "to eliminate the need for 1/4th of the 2,200 MW Diablo Canyon nuclear facility" To solve prob, CA needs to "increase batteries and convert surplus electricity "to low-temp heat stored in water tanks or soil for heat use in buildings."

(1/5) (1/5) "Although California has the second highest electricity prices in the U.S. and high penetrations of renewable electricity, the two facts are only a correlation, not a cause and effect." California's Green Dream Faces a Reality Check www.newsweek.com/californias-... @newsweek.com

So what's the purpose of nuclear? CA had enough solar+batteries in 2025 to produce a constant 4 GW every minute of 90% of days in 2025 plus more power during other hours 4 GW=180% of the constant 2.2 GW DC nuc plant, which also ran 90% of '25 Solar+batteries much cheaper, faster, safer, cleaner

New nuclear is crazy-and useless $47.2 bil for 3.26 GW Hinkley Point C=$14.5/W vs $1/W for solar and wind And HPC will take 22 years from planning to operation (2008-2030), vs 1-3 for PV/wind Similar statistics for Vogtle Vaporware SMRs are worse www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

People who deny climate change not only deny obvious data showing warming today faster than any time since even deglaciation from last ice age & upper-atmosphere cooling due to greenhouse gases trapping heat in & warming the lower atmosphere, preventing the heat from reaching the upper atmosphere,..

69 of 93 days in 2026 with >100% WindWaterSolar on the California ISO grid. Gas still down 59%, solar up 75%, batteries up 328% since '23

Can someone explain why Iran can’t have nuclear weapons, while the fascist regimes in Israel and US and Russia can? The Iran somehow is less scared of total annihilation upon first use, than the others?

I learn so much on social media. I didn't know about Nuclear Man!

Death and destruction brings glory to god?

Whom to believe? 🤡 @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/w...

Quoted in @aljazeera.com: "exploding the stockpile would chemically contaminate the immediate surroundings with toxic uranyl fluoride, creating a lasting environmental hazard," explained Diaz-Maurin.

Nuclear engineer here. I've posted many times on Th-²³³U fuel cycle, reprocessing, recycling, etc. 🧵🧵🧵… I most often cite peer-reviewed journal articles and reports from national labs.

Talk about a Good Friday news dump: the NRC has quietly voted to phase out the crucial, force-on-force security inspections that have helped ensure #nuclear plants remain protected against terrorist attacks since the aftermath of 9/11. Worst NRC ever. www.nrc.gov/docs/ML2609/...

“The notion that individual buyers should be assessing nuclear technology for risk is a ridiculous concept. We are not going to own a nuclear project. Company capital is better deployed on data centers because we make money,” said Adrian Anderson, GM for energy and sustainability at Microsoft.

I love playing straight man to Homer Simpson on TV. www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

The merger means that Trump will have a major financial interest in a company whose fortunes will be influenced by the actions of a government that Trump himself presides over.

Does the U.S. still have an Office of Government Ethics (OGE)? #TrumpMedia&TechnologyGroup #DJT #TAETechnologies "...Donald Trump will simultaneously have a major financial interest in a company whose fortunes will be influenced by the actions of a government that Trump himself presides over." 👎🏼

I feel a duty to warn people about nuclear power. "If you see something, say something." Listen to Mr Global on TikTok talk about the ratepayers' cost for Vogtle 3&4. #ntruth #ntruths #PhaseOutNuclearEnergy

👆 Continued: "Energy Fuels is responsible for two-thirds of all uranium production in the United States and plans to continue increasing its production." "On the Navajo Nation, over 500 abandoned uranium mines have yet to be cleaned up." #BanUraniumMining #EnvironmentalJustice #ConsentBased

IMO, instead of listening to propaganda from paid lobbyists for nuclear energy and paid nuclear industry employees from San Luis Obispo, CA, Utahns would benefit more from listening to Utahns from White Mesa Concerned Community. 🧵:

"...the mine’s expedited environmental review amounts to 'fast-tracking ourselves into creating a wasteland in Utah out of this precious environment,'... In addition, local Indigenous groups, including the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe, continue to express concerns about uranium mining and milling..."

"The Ute Mountain Ute Tribe is Paying the Price of Nuclear Colonialism" #WhiteMesaUraniumMill #EnergyFuels #UraniumMining #RadioactiveWaste #BearsEars #ConsentBased #EnvironmentalJustice #PhaseOutNuclearEnergy #TPNW #NuclearBan☮️

"...14 Scioto Valley Local School District students have been diagnosed with cancer since 2013 and five have died." "...cancer rate 16% higher than the national average." PORTS made fuel for nuclear power plants. Zahn’s Corner Middle School was permanently closed. www.dispatch.com/story/news/2...

The nuclear industry and DOE could earn some credibility and trust by being honest. 😮‍💨🤦🏼‍♀️ Also, who would want to buy Zahn's Corner Middle School, a contaminated, radioactive school, in Piketon, OH? Students got cancer there. Some died. #PhaseOutNuclearEnergy www.piketon.k12.oh.us/article/1671...

At whose expense? The children at Zahn's Corner Middle School who were exposed to PORTS's contamination in Piketon, OH? These employees and their families? We don't need nuclear energy. bsky.app/profile/suzw...

🙏🏼My thread on all things nuclear is very long, but please at least read this post and the next 5 or 6 about Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant and Zahn's Corner Middle School in Piketon, OH. bsky.app/profile/suzw... Enriching uranium is dangerous and polluting. We DON'T NEED nuclear energy!

If the LNG export market DOESN’T create a domestic gas shortage and jack prices, U.S. gas extraction becomes unprofitable. “So while the future for LNG exports doesn't look good, the chance that it works is the best hope for the entire US gas industry.”😑 powering-the-planet.ghost.io/as-solar-dom...

In #ScienceUnderSiege, @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social & I criticize legacy media outlets like @nytimes.com for platforming antiscience and, in particular, engaging in performative neutrality where fringe views are presented as if they deserve consideration. From today: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/u...

They try to sell it as some kind of manifest destiny shit to go to the moon but what it’s ultimately about is building a military base as the ultimate high ground for the coming wars in space over territory and resource extraction. Don’t be duped.

Max is misleading you.

Propaganda has brainwashed some of the public to think fossils are good and wind/solar are bad, but fortunately, reality and physics win, as new wind and solar are dominating in the U.S. and worldwide. www.pewresearch.org/science/2026...

WindWaterSolar still winning despite Trump 88.43% of all new US grid electricity capacity 2025 was WindWaterSolar Wind 5.76 GW (15.8%) Water 0.004 Solar 26.6 (72.7%) FERC projections to 2028: 85.5% WWS Wind 17.6% Water 2.59% Solar 65.3% Gas only 13.9% cms.ferc.gov/media/energy...

This means the US is more entangled in the expensive and unreliable and dirty international fossil-fuel market than any other country on the planet. 🙃

Imagine you spend your whole life working for decades building an illustrious military career and then some Fox News talk show host comes in and fires you. Is the US military about to do something incredibly dangerous and stupid?

Omar Dieguez is on a mission to end pesticide use around schools and communities in the Pajaro Valley. Hear about the campaign on the Real Organic Podcast: youtu.be/luZhV8SwX4Y?...

In 2025, 4.4 GW of nuclear were added worldwide vs 814 GW of solar & wind. 🌞 185 times more solar & wind than nuclear. 1/185th means nuclear energy is not a good solution to phasing out fossil fuels! #ClimateActionNOW #ntruth #ntruths

A question for the international lawyers: does the US energy blockade of Cuba count as a war crime, given the indiscriminate civilian suffering? www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Great addition to a recent blogpost from @nworbmot.bsky.social nworbmot.org/blog/solar-b... Most of humans can go 90% solar in 2030. It's mostly northern Europe that's the edge case that also needs loads of wind. And the last 10% fuel... we'll take care of that before too long.

Back when I freelanced and wrote about the oil and gas industry I would often be asked by editors to please give Exxon a chance to comment on the article. It always seemed pointless to me. I could usually guess their response in advance. Like this one.

Growing food to make fuel might have seemed like a good idea in 1990 but in 2026 it is not. Replacing transportation fuel with electricity is the only sane approach.

The "God Squad" sounds like it belongs in a bad superhero film. But this is real life.

Helping Trees Flee Climate Change thinc.blog/2026/04/03/h...

Since fossil fuel shill and "Breakthrough Institute" co-founder Ted Nordhaus has decided to rear his head again, some useful background: www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?ti... davidguenette.com/new-atlantis...