Magdalena Kuchler
@eoraborealis.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer / Associate Professor at the Department of Earth Sciences, Uppsala University, Sweden. From Warszawa, Poland. https://www.magdalenakuchler.me/
I'd give him the Nobel Peace Prize for reversing Brexit.
Peter Stefanovic@peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 9mo agoBREAKING: As PM Keir Starmer tries to de-escalate the rhetoric around the Greenland crisis, Trump in a post this morning accuses the UK of “great stupidity” over Diego Garcia as he reiterates his demand for Greenland.
New publication on hydrogen imaginaries in the Geographies of Energy Futures theme of @geoopenaccess.bsky.social with @Gavin Bridge and @eoraborealis.bsky.social as part of the Carbonscapes project. #hydrogen #sociotechnicalimaginaries #STS #energytransition #energyfutures #UKenergypolicy 1/🧵
Between energy transition and industrial revival: Exploring hydrogen imaginaries in the United Kingdom and Teesside
Hydrogen is increasingly positioned as a key enabler of global net-zero transitions, hailed for its versatility and low-carbon emissions potential. Yet hydrogen's nascent future is contested, with di...
doi.org
My new paper, published in Geoforum with Alexander Craig-Thompson, examines how the urban subsurface is rendered visible and governed. We argue that power, knowledge, and depth intersect below ground to shape sustainable urban futures. #urban #underground www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Trump's push to revive coal for powering AI data centres faces a tough reality: aging plants, high emissions, and a grid shifting toward renewables. It’s a vision that seeks to give a 19th-century fuel a lifeline in the era of 21st-century tech. www.wired.com/story/donald... #coal #ai
Donald Trump Wants to Save the Coal Industry. He’s Too Late
An executive order intended to give coal a boost ignores the reality not only of where energy markets are going, but where they are today.
wired.com
Welcome to the paleofuture. www.miningweekly.com/article/trum...
Trump order seeks to tap coal power in quest to dominate AI
President Donald Trump is moving to expand the mining and use of coal inside the US, a bid to power the boom in energy-hungry data centers while seeking to revive a declining US fossil fuel industry. ...
miningweekly.com
Swedish battery giant Northvolt is reportedly filing for bankruptcy, according to DN. #Northvolt #Bankruptcy #EVBatteries www.dn.se/ekonomi/dn-e...
DN erfar: Northvolt har beslutat att ansöka om konkurs
DN erfar: Northvolt har beslutat att ansöka om konkurs
dn.se
"Many women here were displaced by the war, losing their homes and former jobs. Tatyana used to be a nanny. Irina was an accountant. Their job at the mine ensures their livelihood." www.euronews.com/my-europe/20... #ukraine #coal #women
Ukrainian women bolster coal mining workforce to aid energy supply
Our international correspondent Valerie Gauriat travelled to south-eastern Ukraine to meet the women who have recently joined the efforts to secure critical energy supply — in the coal mines. #EuropeN...
euronews.com
The hollow magic of "$500 billion worth of rare earth." www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti... #ukraine #trump #conartist
Rare Earths in Ukraine? No, Only Scorched Earth.
President Trump’s fixation on extracting elements from the war-torn nation is an illusion.
bloomberg.com
Europe’s dependence on US tech is a critical weakness. From @marietjeschaake.bsky.social on.ft.com/3X4ryYo
Europe’s dependence on US tech is a critical weakness
In order to protect their sovereignty, the continent’s leaders must invest in a digital ecosystem independent of America
on.ft.com
"The ultimate target for the Trump administration is not the deep state. The target is the laws, regulations, protocols and rules, and the government civil servants who enforce them, which hinder dictatorial control." chrishedges.substack.com/p/the-purge-...
The Purge of the Deep State and the Road to Dictatorship
Donald Trump’s dismantling of the deep state presages the formation of something far worse.
chrishedges.substack.com
I cannot help but get the impression that three top global oil producers are meeting to discuss the equilibrium price of oil.
The Kyiv Independent@kyivindependent.com · 2y ago⚡️ US-Russia talks in Saudi Arabia begin. Though the U.S. and Russia are meeting without Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelensky will also head to Saudi Arabia this week.
"This is the largest data breach and the largest IT security breach in our country’s history” www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
The Government’s Computing Experts Say They Are Terrified
Four IT professionals lay out just how destructive Elon Musk’s incursion into the U.S. government could be.
theatlantic.com
🚨 New paper out in ERSS with @GavinBridge9 and @eoraborealis🚨 We explore the evolving sociotechnical imaginary of energy capture on the UK's Continental Shelf from the start of hydrocarbon extraction in the 1960s until present time. 1/🧵 doi.org/10.1016/j.er...
