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🦜 We burn fossil fuels and drain rivers like there’s no tomorrow for AI parrots to parody thought production.

💻 Yes AI is terrifyingly useful, yes it will transform our society in unimaginable ways… but still, wouldn’t you prefer to read something made with care, not written in a tenth of a second by a stack of circuit-boards?

🧊 Ice caps are evanescing from carbon as LLMs spew forth anodyne, forgettable drivel, rehashed from hard-won human endeavour.

The MACHINES are eating our language.

🫀 The rudder of the clean energy transition rotates by the ingenuity and willpower of HUMANS.

🧑‍🔬 We at Repower Initiative partner with actual, breathing people: interdisciplinary scientists, academics, policy makers, financiers, technology developers, and so many others.

We apply our combined brains to solve a timely puzzle:

🧭 How to accelerate from coal to a clean future?

🏭 What existing coal infrastructure can be reused?

🧠 With this in (human, organic, fallible) mind, this week we offer you a long-form piece of journalism!

▶️ THE END OF COAL, THE RISE OF THE ATOM: rEPOWERING POLAND

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It’s a story entirely written by humans, alive, with fingers on the zeitgeist’s pulse, with nary a robot-written phrase to be found anywhere in it!

It took time, thought and collaboration to create, because the future is important, and we need to think about it with our own minds.

THE PREMISE:

◾ In the last years of a once-mighty industry, coaldust-coated miners ask: ‘What next?’

◼️ ‘Poland stands on coal’. It’s been an unchangeable truth for centuries.

⚛️ Poland now must pivot to wield a new power: Atomic.

This is a story of brave, forward-thinkers: Lukasz Bartela, Staffan Qvist, Paweł Gładysz, and the DEsire - Platforma Transformacji Energetyki and Repower Initiative teams, who dare to challenge the status quo.

Bringing new ideas to national policy is bold. Years of research, analysis and sustained political persuasion are now changing Poland's energy strategy.

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For we must clean up our energy production. Our future depends on us.

☕ We invite you to make yourself a hot drink, get some snacks, take some time out of your day and enjoy a real-life action adventure:

▶️ THE END OF COAL, THE RISE OF THE ATOM: rEPOWERING POLAND

(Or you know, feed it to a chatbot of your choice, and ask it to summarise it into 5 key bullet points if you prefer! 😉)

P.S. We are fully aware of the irony of using ChatGPT to make a mock movie poster and Carboniferous era amphibian graphic for this piece of writing...

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