This might trigger some cognitive dissonance in folks who love the U.N. and hate nukes.
Via Modern Diplomacy, August 15:
The urgent need to reduce emissions and slow global heating, should involve the roll-out of more nuclear power stations, regional UN energy experts argued in a new briefing on Wednesday.
Only weeks before world leaders gather in Glasgow to hammer out plans to slow climate change, the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) has released a document arguing that nuclear power can help deliver on the Paris Agreement and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
“Nuclear power is an important source of low-carbon electricity and heat that can contribute to attaining carbon neutrality and hence help to mitigate climate change,” UNECE Executive Secretary Olga Algayerova said.
In the new technology brief published on Wednesday, the agency warned that “time is running out to rapidly transform the global energy system,” as fossil fuels still account for over half of electricity generation in the UNECE region, which include the countries of Europe, but also countries in North America, Central Asia and Western Asia.
The report highlights how only hydropower has played a greater role in avoiding carbon emissions over the past 50 years.
Nuclear power is a low-carbon energy source that has avoided about 74Gt of CO2 emissions over this period, nearly two years’ worth of total global energy-related emissions, it noted....
....MUCH MORE
I've seen estimates that each nuclear power plant that the anti-nuke people halted in the 1980's resulted in 100 megatonnes more CO2 released into the atmosphere than would have occurred had the nukes been built but that actually seems to be a low estimate. If I can find my slide rule I'll check the numbers and report back.
Otherwise it's Professor Fekete's* explanation of Roman Numeral multiplication. Let's see:
DL x XIII = V̅I̅I̅CL
Carry the V and 7,150?
final note: the easiest way to do the vinculum overline seen
in V̅I̅I̅ above (indicating thousands so you don't have to use MMMMMMM),
is to use the font generator.
Otherwise it's a ten-step process to overline in Word.
And, much as we love our readers, who has the time? Life is short.
*Last seen in ""A Day in 1920s Berlin" in 4K":I only know of Fekete because the FT's Alphaville editor mentioned him a couple times en passant while discussing commodity curves:
