This creates a fundamental constraint: an energy transition in Indonesia can only succeed if it boosts the profits or political power of influential actors or if enoughIndonesian actors can be convinced that renewables are better for economic development and energy security than fossil fuels.

It finds that the actors who are most positive to decarbonization have limited influence on Indonesia's energy policies, whereas for the actors with the greatest influence, other policy objectives are more important.

This new paper looks for the answer in the political economy of the energy transition. The study is based on 27 stakeholder interviews and uses the Actors-Objectives-Context (AOC) framework.

Despite falling costs of renewables and their widespread integration into power markets worldwide, wind and solar PV account for a negligible 0.3% of Indonesia’s power generation - jointly.

Why is Indonesia falling behind the global energy transition? Indonesia, the world's fourth most populous country and sixth largest emitter of greenhouse gases, relies heavily on coal to meet its growing electricity demand and aims to build up further fossil capacities.

The Norwegian police have charged Telenor with suspected breech of sanctions law, suspected complicity in crimes against humanity. Telenor had 18 million customers in Myanmar and gave phone data of 1200 of customers to the military. The Norwegian government is Telenor's majority shareholder.

Telenor siktet for mulig medvirkning til forbrytelse mot menneskeheten

PST og Kripos ransaker i dag hovedkontoret til Telenor på Fornebu. Siktelsen er knyttet til selskapets tidligere virksomhet i Myanmar.

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Exxon: carbon capture's potential is "limitless" and we are leaders in CCS! Also Exxon: suing the EU so as not to be forced to do CCS. This is the least surprising thing ever.

Doug Parr@dougparr.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Exxon is annoyed EU is insisting on some kind of CO2 capture Makes most sense if you think oil company advocacy for CCS is more about pretending to politicians they have an answer for climate change, rather than their actual willingness to do anything about it giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Exxon is annoyed EU is insisting on some kind of CO2 capture Makes most sense if you think oil company advocacy for CCS is more about pretending to politicians they have an answer for climate change, rather than their actual willingness to do anything about it giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

My long-time Germany / nuclear take is simply that they should be free to phase out nuclear whenever they like but coal and gas should've been first, and getting the order wrong has meant a very significant amount of harm from prolonged fossil fuel use ember-energy.org/data/electri...

Beyond lithium: how sodium-ion batteries could change the world. Batteries based on sodium ions are entering mass production. Batteries based on sodium promise to be cheaper, safer and much more environmentally friendly than lithium-ion cells. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Beyond lithium: how sodium-ion batteries could change the world

Batteries based on sodium ions are entering mass production. Some researchers say they could ultimately be a cheaper, safer alternative to lithium in electric cars and other energy applications.

nature.com

🧵1/5 @aljazeera.com interview with me about Ukrainian strikes on Russian energy. The impacts are growing rapidly now:

2025 impact factors are out & GEP had a fantastic year! #2 out of 173 in International Relations 🎉 🎉 🎉 #11 out of 332 in Political Science #48 out of 202 in Environmental Studies

I know this has been pointed out many times by many people but I just want to reiterate: Anthropic is basically using Kurt Vonnegut's drawing of an asshole as the Claude logo

Think of CO₂ removal like a time machine. How far back does planting 100 million trees take us? One mature tree takes up ~25 kg of CO₂/year, so 100 million trees will take up 2.5 MtCO₂. That's a time machine that takes us back ~33 minutes in a year. Nature will not save us from fossil fuel CO₂.

DeLorean Time Travel: Back To The Future

Alt: DeLorean Time Travel: Back To The Future

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Electricity ratepayers feel pain from *bills*, not prices. If my price goes up 10% but my energy use goes down 20% (from insulation or a more efficient air conditioner, say), then *my bill goes down 12%*. Energy efficiency is weirdly absent from discourse on electricity affordability.

Good China Books Review article on the growing genre of migrant workers' literature. About one-third of China's working population, and nearly two-thirds of migrant workers, work in the gig economy. chinabooksreview.com/2026/05/21/w...

China’s Workers’ Literature Revival | China Books Review

Once a socialist genre beloved of Mao, laborers’ or “battler” literature has seen a revival in the era of the gig economy. Two new books in translation illustrate the mass appeal.

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Chinese researchers have created a bamboo-based plastic as strong as petroleum-based plastics, which can fully biodegrade in soil in just 2 months phys.org/news/2025-10...

Bamboo-based plastic can be made to biodegrade quickly, but still holds up in tough conditions

A new method to produce strong, biodegradable plastic from bamboo is reported in Nature Communications this week. The bioplastic resembles oil-based plastics in strength, shapability, and thermal stab...

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Almost 100% of new cars sold in Norway last year were electric. Not just because of oil wealth. Because of carbon taxes, EV incentives, and thirty years of consistent policy. New newsletter: Norway: The World's Most Instructive Energy Paradox janrosenow.substack.com/p/norway-the...

Norway: The World’s Most Instructive Energy Paradox

The electrification playbook the world needs - and its inconvenient footnote

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Germany's electricity mix, 2000 vs 2025: Renewables: 6% → 62% Fossil fuels: 62% → 36% Nuclear: 30% → 0% Nuclear's exit was filled by renewables, not coal or gas. Want more of this content and more detail and links to sources? Subscribe to my new Substack: substack.com/@janrosenow

Of all the made-up intentionally-hollow tactical-false-promise greenwashing technologies out there, space solar I think is the one that just makes me the angriest. Not even sure why, maybe because it should be the most obviously nonsensical but is treated as completely reasonable

Meta pushes into orbit powered electricity as it chases nonstop clean energy

Meta partners with Overview Energy to turn space into a constant power source for data centers and future AI infrastructure

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I've been touting the inevitable win of electric trucks over combustion and hydrogen trucks for over 10 years now. Glad to see it's finally happening. www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/bus...

Cheaper, cleaner electric trucks overhaul China’s logistics

While the country's prowess in electric passenger vehicles has long been known globally, electric trucks have only recently gained traction.

freemalaysiatoday.com

BREAKTHROUGH: SaltX Technology and Holcim have produced Portland-quality clinker - the core ingredient in cement - using a fully electrified process. No fossil fuels. The goal is now a pilot plant targeting Europe's first fully electric cement facility by 2028. www.globalcement.com/news/20714-s...

Let me remind everyone that fierce debate exists over the different classes of ebikes allowed in cities.

natalia barbour, phd@nataliabarbour.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Hey Siri, show me madness.

I was reminded this morning of something IBM noted in 1978: "A computer can never be held accountable. Therefore, a computer must never make a management decision."

Corn ethanol serves no purpose and is purely a handout to farmers. It costs more and emits more than normal petroleum. And it takes up half as much land area as all urban and suburban land in the US. If we replaced the land with solar, we'd get 3x as much power as the US uses.

Some reflections on getting rejected: The secret skill of highly successful people? Getting rejected (a lot!) without letting it erode their sense of self-worth. Nobody puts that on their CV. More in my Substack article: janrosenow.substack.com/p/on-rejection

On rejection

Why rejection is the hidden engine of success

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GORGEOUS

"Under limited CCS growth rates, deployment... could be reduced by a factor of 7 relative to a scenario that does not consider injectivity or growth rate limits... Delayed mitigation combined with slower-than-expected CCS deployment could result in large &prolonged temperature overshoot"

Rate and growth limits for carbon capture and storage

Rate and growth limits for carbon capture and storage, Fuhrman, Jay, Lane, Joe, McJeon, Haewon, Iyer, Gokul C, Edwards, Morgan R, Thomas, Zachary, Edmonds, James A

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It’s the 250th year of American independence, and the Pope and the King of England are reminding Americans of their revolutionary values, principles, and ideals Somewhere, John Adams is confused as fuck

This seems really bad? I mean, if you want the oil to stay in the ground, the cartel that set production quotas to limit output and keep oil prices high was a good thing. It felt like a possible useful player in a managed energy transition.

Truthout@truthout.org · 6mo ago

The move signals a further break in the UAE’s relations with Saudi Arabia, the de facto leader of OPEC, as well as re-alignment between the UAE and the U.S. as it’s cozied up with the Trump administration.