On January 12, 2022, the New York Power Authority posted a poll on its Twitter feed. It asked people to vote for the clean energy technology they would like more of in 2022. The poll listed electric vehicles, green hydrogen, solar and geothermal.
Within a couple of hours, more than sixty users had responded to @NYPAenergy with a write-in candidate – nuclear energy. More than 98% of the tweet responses suggested nuclear as the technology they would like to see more of in 2022 – outside of the people who chose one of the four choices offered.
The reaction was impressive. It was apparently overwhelming to the NYPA – the settings were changed to prevent any more responses from people that the NYPA did not follow or respond to. It’s possible that they did not want the write-in candidate to win.
Dr. Chris Keefer, the host of the Decouple Podcast, produced a recording of the way the tweet feed grew and then shared that recording.
Who knows if spontaneous actions from a disparate group of advocates will have any impact on energy policies? It is, however, one more data point indicating that the public conversation about nuclear energy is changing.
Yup, the attitudes, they are a-changin’.
Let’s hope so.
Unfortunately, the German and Austrian Green Parties will likely “lawyer up” the system with every legal trick in the book. That and the anti-green sycophants will probably block any waste proposals, using big media events where they lay their bodies on the road and obstruct traffic. Makes for good TV. Maybe Ms. Thunberg will attend.
I meant anti-nuclear sycophants. woops.
Go gently with our allies please. Greta Thunberg does not speak against nuclear. Her calls have been simply for “Action”, leaving it up to older generation to identify and execute appropriate actions to rescue the climate. The calls lay out a challenge that you and I know can best be met by converting the world’s power needs to nuclear. But it is up to our generation, not the next, to get that conversion underway as soon as possible. Today’s youngsters will be judging our performance along the way.
My previous comments were more for the recent addition of nuclear as a “green” technology in Europe. The established environmental groups there are having a cow.
In regards to this article, I should have said that the NRDC, FOE, Greenpeace, and the Sierra Club will lawyer up. Especially in NY.
Meh. No troll like a nuclear troll.