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 .pxiv most Amazon fires started by illegal land clearing, but climate change makes them more severe
 .pxiv [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rio_Grande_do_Sul | Rio Grande do Sul, southern Brazil ]] ''gateway to Uruguay''~+☺+~
 .px . How Does the Land Use of Different Electricity Sources Compare?
   . [[ https://ourworldindata.org/land-use-per-energy-source | Hanna Ritchie ]]
   . Our World in Data, June 16, 2022v former (NOT NOW) eco-misanthrope, "... humans should go extinct ..."
 .pxv others [[ https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/05/18/the-anti-humanism-of-david-attenborough/ | David Attenborough ]]
  .[[ https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/523470-the-human-race-is-just-a-chemical-scum-on-a | Steven Hawking - humans chemical scum ]]
   .misunderstood by Boemeke
   ."scum" == very thin and vulnerable biolayer film
   ... on a vastly larger planet
   ... in a frighteningly dangerous universe
   .implication: we must grow vastly more capable to '''protect''' the Earth
   .some say (including me) "the dinosaurs died because they didn't have a space program"
  .[[ https://blogs.bard.edu/cepblog/?p=11973 | #HumansAreTheVirus ]]
 .pxvi young people pervasive hopelessness
 .pxvi [[ https:


//en.wikipedia.oof rg/wiki/David_Deutsch | David Deutsch ]] 2011 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beginning_of_Infinity | The Beginning of Infinity ]] CedarMill 501 DEUTSCH
 .pxvi [[ https://www.antoinebuteau.com/lessons-from-david-deutsch/ | every problem is solvable, if we have enough information about it ]]
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   . How Does the Land Use of Different Electricity Sources Compare?
   . [[ https://ourworldindata.org/land-use-per-energy-source | Hanna Ritchie ]]
   . Our World in Data, June 16, 2022

 .p043 'Land Use per KWh' wrong source, odd units, [[ https://ourworldindata.org/land-use-per-energy-source | actual data here ]], units are m²-year per MWh, equivalent to m² per annual average watts divided by 114

||<style="text-align: center;"> nuclear || 0.3 m² ||
|| methane gas + CCS || 1.3 m² ||
|| hydropower > 660MW || 14 m² ||
|| Solar PV || 19 m² ||
|| Coal power + CCS || 21 m² ||
|| Small hydropower < 360MW || 33 m² ||
|| Onshore Wind || 99 m² ||

 .Onshore wind not listed in source, this is presumably spacing of the wind turbines. The land underneath is probably not safe for human dwellings, but it can still be used for agriculture, PV, hydro reservoir, or landfill.

 .p049 80% of 400 soon-to-be-shut-down coal plants can be converted to nuclear plants
 .p049 note p220 Ch03n13 . Idaho National Laboratory, 2022
  . [[ https://fuelcycleoptions.inl.gov/SiteAssets/SitePages/Home/C2N2022Report.pdf | Investigating Benefits and Challenges of Converting Retiring Coal Plants into Nuclear Plants ]]of

 .''p053 Nuclear is Natural''
 .p053 Oklo in Gabon . note p221 Ch03n20
  . Laura Gil, "Meet Oklo, the Earth's Two-Billion-Year-Old Only Known Natural Nuclear Reactor", International Atomic Energy Agency, August 10, 2018 https://iaea.org/newscenter/news/meet-oklo-the-earths-two-billion-year-old-only-known-natural-nuclear-reactor

 .''p054 Nuclear Has the Least Impact'' https://tim.blog/2023/03/24/david-deutsch-naval-ravikant-transcript/
 .p055 Levi Strauss: 73 pounds of CO₂ per pair of jeans
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 .p0  .p061 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975_Banqiao_Dam_failure | 1975 Banqiao Dam failure ]] 61 downstream dams failed, thousands killed, 6.8M homes destroyed, ~220K died of famine
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  . Hanna Ritchie, [[ https://ourworldindata.org/what-was-the-death-toll-from-chernobyl-and-fukushima | What Was the Death Toll from Chernobyl and Fukushima? ]] Our World in Data, July 24, 2017

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 .p209 [[ | Nick Touran ]] [[ whatisnuclear.com | ]]		  .p206 [[ https://www.isodope.com/radfuture | organization ]]
 .p209 [[ https://partofthething.com/ | Nick Touran ]] [[ https://whatisnuclear.com | What is Nuclear? ]]
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Rad Future

The Untold Story of Nuclear Electricity and How it will Save the World

Isabelle Boemeke . 2025 . 333.7924 . Beaverton Lib

  • .pxiii INTRODUCTION

  • pxiv most Amazon fires started by illegal land clearing, but climate change makes them more severe

  • pxiv Rio Grande do Sul, southern Brazil gateway to Uruguay☺

  • px . How Does the Land Use of Different Electricity Sources Compare?

    • Hanna Ritchie

    • Our World in Data, June 16, 2022v former (NOT NOW) eco-misanthrope, "... humans should go extinct ..."

  • pxv others David Attenborough

    • Steven Hawking - humans chemical scum

      • misunderstood by Boemeke
      • "scum" == very thin and vulnerable biolayer film
      • .. on a vastly larger planet
      • .. in a frighteningly dangerous universe

      • implication: we must grow vastly more capable to protect the Earth

      • some say (including me) "the dinosaurs died because they didn't have a space program"

    • #HumansAreTheVirus

  • pxvi young people pervasive hopelessness
  • pxvi [[ https:

//en.wikipedia.oof rg/wiki/David_Deutsch | David Deutsch ]] 2011 The Beginning of Infinity CedarMill 501 DEUTSCH

PART 1: A WHOLE NEW ERA

  • p003 ch01 THE DAWN OF THE ATOMIC AGE

  • p005 What Could Have Been

  • p008 What Actually Happened

  • p010 The Impact

  • p011 Infinite Possibility

  • p013 . ''pragmatic'' optimism

PART 2: Alchemy

  • p019 ch2 HUMANS AND ENERGY

  • p019 Energy Is the Currency of the Universe

  • p022 Energy Timeline

  • p029 ch3 FOSSIL FUEL's FINAL BOSS

  • p031 How Nuclear Reactors Work

  • p039 Nuclear is RAD(IANT)

  • p042 note p220 Ch03n08
    • How Does the Land Use of Different Electricity Sources Compare?

    • Hanna Ritchie

    • Our World in Data, June 16, 2022

  • p043 'Land Use per KWh' wrong source, odd units, actual data here, units are m²-year per MWh, equivalent to m² per annual average watts divided by 114

nuclear

0.3 m²

methane gas + CCS

1.3 m²

hydropower > 660MW

14 m²

Solar PV

19 m²

Coal power + CCS

21 m²

Small hydropower < 360MW

33 m²

Onshore Wind

99 m²

PART 3 DIPLOMACY: FIGHTING A WORLD AGAINST NUCLEAR

  • p133 ch7 CHANGING TIDES

  • p133 Nuclear Before Nukes

  • p133
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  • p137 Atomic Fervor

  • p141 Mixed Feelings

  • p141

  • p143 The Antinuclear Movement

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  • p151 Grubby Hands

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  • p158 ch08 THREE DECADES OF BAD ENERGY POLICY

  • p158 A Tale of Two Decarbonizations

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  • p163
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  • p163 The Land of Wine, Great Aesthetics, and Nuclear Electricity

  • p163
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  • p165 Who Killed Nuclear Electricity?

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  • p63 note p222 Ch04n06

  • p171 ch9 VIBE SHIFT

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  • p185 Gender Gap

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  • p188 The Nuclear Renaissance

  • p193 Small Modular Reactors

  • p199 ch10 MANIFESTING A RAD FUTURE

  • p200

  • p203 Nuclear Before Nukes

  • p206 organization

  • p209 Nick Touran What is Nuclear?

  • p213 GLOSSARY

  • p219 NOTES

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