Marco Visscher
Writer at Freelance
Auteur en spreker over energietransitie en klimaatbeleid | Boek "De energietransitie" | Boek "Ecomodernisme"
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1 month ago |
flipboard.com | Marco Visscher
3 hours agoDOGE Quietly Deletes the 5 Biggest Spending Cuts It Celebrated Last WeekLast week, Elon Musk’s government cost-slashing initiative, dubbed the Department of Government Efficiency, posted an online “wall of receipts,” celebrating how much it had saved by canceling federal contracts.
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2 months ago |
spiked-online.com | Christopher Snowdon |Brendan O'Neill |Marco Visscher |Tim Black
Share Topics Long-reads UK Want to read spiked ad-free? Become a spiked supporter. What a turnaround. At the start of last week, those who believe Lucy Letby is innocent had no truck with boffins and eggheads from the medical establishment. They preferred to do their own research. In their telling, Letby’s former lawyer, Ben Myers KC, was useless. Judges were worse. Doctors only covered their own backs.
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2 months ago |
spiked-online.com | Marco Visscher
Share Topics Long-reads World Want to read spiked ad-free? Become a spiked supporter. Following its spectacular and devastating entrance on to the world stage during the Second World War, nuclear power had been tamed and gloriously resurrected during the 1950s as a radically new way to deliver energy. While reflecting on his lifelong career in the nuclear field, a former Manhattan Project lab worker noted that he and his colleagues were ‘tainted by the bomb’ (1).
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Jan 14, 2025 |
washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com | Marco Visscher
Three nuclear reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi plant melted down and exploded after a tsunami in 2011. Radiation spread hundreds of miles, dosing plant and rescue workers with tens or hundreds of times safe levels. Japanese authorities evacuated 150,000 people, many for years or forever. Experts predicted radiation mortality and cancer epidemics. “Potential Nuclear Disaster” declared the New York Times.A “poison cloud” threatened Tokyo, a British tabloid reported.
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Jan 3, 2025 |
bigthink.com | Marco Visscher
A weekly newsletter featuring the biggest ideas from the smartest people Excerpted from The Power of Nuclear: The Rise, Fall and Return of Our Mightiest Energy Source by Marco Visscher, forthcoming January 7, 2025 from Bloomsbury Publishing. Copyright © 2024 by Marco Visscher. All rights reserved. It’s a summer day in August 2017. Behind the quiet sand dunes near Petten, a village in the Netherlands where the North Sea is kept at bay, the only noise comes from a group of seagulls.
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Het wetenschappelijk bureau van de VVD vroeg me een stuk te schrijven met een ecomodernistische kijk op het klimaatbeleid. Dat stuk staat nu online. (Ik heb overigens nog nooit op de VVD gestemd.) https://t.co/2uBargxcR5
"De kerncentrales sluiten en daarmee een bijna CO2-vrije energiebron opgeven is irrationeel. We hebben méér kernenergie nodig, niet minder." Interview met Steven Pinker in Knack: https://t.co/7zMkyRqmii
Mooi interview in Knack met @ManuelSintubin en JP Van Ypersele. Klein puntje: de een noemt bevolkingstoename de belangrijkste oorzaak van klimaatopwarming, de ander noemt economische groei. Eh, waren fossiele brandstoffen niet de belangrijkste oorzaak? https://t.co/M0u7UIQBz5
