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 .pxvi		  .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''~+☺+~
 .pxv 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 - very thin biolayer film on a vastly larger planet
  .[[ https://blogs.bard.edu/cepblog/?p=11973 | #HumansAreTheVirus ]]
 .pxvi young people pervasive hopelessness
 .pxvi [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/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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||<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 ||
|| SCh0mall hydropower < 360MW || 33 m² ||
|| Onshore Wind || 99 m² ||

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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

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

  • p49 note p220 Ch03n13
  • p53 note p221 Ch03n19
  • p53 note p221 Ch03n20

  • p022 Energy Timeline

  • p029 ch3 FOSSIL FUEL's FINAL BOSS

  • p031 How Nuclear Reactors Work

  • p039 Nuclear is RAD(IANT)

  • p042 note p220 Ch03n08

  • 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

SCh0mall 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 note p220 Ch03n13
  • p053 note p221 Ch03n19

  • p053 Nuclear is Natural

  • p053 note p221 Ch03 20

  • 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

  • p059 ch4 DISPELLING MYTHS

  • p061 What About Chernobyl?

  • p061

  • p068 What About Radiation?

  • p074 What About Uranium Mining?

  • p077 Mining Sucks

  • p081 What About Tritium?

  • p063 note p222 Ch04n06

  • p084 What About Nuclear Waste?

  • p096 ch5 DEGROWTH

  • p097 The Problem with Degrowth

  • p101

  • p102 We Will Need a Lot of Electricity

  • p105
  • p106

  • p108 ch6 CLEAN ENERGY REVOLUTION

  • p108 100 Percent rEnEwAble

  • p0108
  • p0109
  • p0111

  • p112 Clean Energy

  • p0112
  • p0114
  • p0115

  • p117 The Ultimate Energy Diet

  • p0117
  • p0120
  • p0120
  • p0122

PART 3 DIPLOMACY: FIGHTING A WORLD AGAINST NUCLEAR

  • p133 ch7 CHANGING TIDES

  • p133 Nuclear Before Nukes

  • p133
  • p134
  • p135
  • p136

  • p137 Atom.p053 note p221 Ch03n20ic Fervor

  • p141 Mixed Feelings

  • p141

  • p143 The Antinuclear Movement

  • p147
  • p148
  • p148

  • p151 Grubby Hands

  • p151
  • p152
  • p152
  • p154
  • p154

  • p158 .p49 note p220 Ch03n13

  • p53 note p221 Ch03n19

  • p53 note p221 Ch03n20 ch8 THREE DECADES OF BAD ENERGY POLICY

  • p158 A Tale of Two Decarbonizations

  • p159
  • p160
  • p161
  • p161
  • p163

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

  • p163
  • p165

  • p165 Who Killed Nuclear Electricity?

  • p167
  • p167
  • p169

  • p171 ch9 VIBE SHIFT

  • p171
  • p171
  • p173
  • p175
  • p175
  • p176
  • p177
  • p177
  • p178
  • p182
  • p183
  • p183

  • p185 Gender Gap

  • p187

  • 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

  • p42 note p221 Ch03n20
  • p63 note p222 Ch04n06
  • p75 note p223 Ch04n23
  • p92 note p224 Ch04n47
  • p93 note p224 Ch04n48
  • p105 note p225 Ch05n13
  • p109 note p226 Ch06n02
  • p120 note p226 Ch06n11
  • p120 note p226 Ch06n13
  • p135 note p227 Ch07n02
  • p147 note p227 Ch07n03
  • p152 note p227 Ch07n09
  • p154 note p228 Ch07n11
  • p161 note p229 Ch09n04
  • p161 note p229 Ch09n07
  • p165 note p229 Ch09n12

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