Richard Wilson
@fishrise.bsky.social
Eclectic writer & filmmaker. One foot in a river & recovering BBC Environment Correspondent (Long Env-Corr) https://open.substack.com/pub/fishrise/p/lyme-disease-bloody-patients?r=1yutam&utm_medium=ios
Renewable energy is now “the Costco of energy”. We’re rolling it out faster than global energy demand is increasing. The Very Good and Very Bad News on Climate www.nytimes.com/2026/07/10/o...
Opinion | The Very Good and Very Bad News on Climate
Advancements in renewable energy are paving the way for a new climate politics. The environmentalist Bill McKibben articulates some of the possibilities in this new era of energy abundance.
nytimes.com
The revolution is approaching its endgame: "By 2030, solar-plus-battery/storage power is likely to cost under $80/MWh for over 75% of people, and under $100/MWh for nine in ten." Ember The benchmark for fossil fuels is $100/MWh.
Prompt antibiotic treatment gives the best chance of recovery from Lyme disease yet in our Lyme Disease Experience Survey, of the 90% who received antibiotics, only 28% of respondents received first antibiotics within 4 weeks. www.lymeresourcecentre.com/experience-s... #LymeDiseaseAwarenessMonth
I just read Blair's essay. It's serious and thought-provoking, and widely/wildly misrepresented here on BlueSky - maybe by people who haven't read it? institute.global/insights/pol...
The Labour Party Is Playing With Fire Over Its Future and the Future of the Country
In this essay, Tony Blair sets out the need for a new agenda for Britain.
institute.global
California is showing the world a top 5 economy can grow AND be green! “For the first time, California discharged just over 12,000 MWs, equivalent to 12 large nuclear plants, of energy from its battery arrays. That’s enough to meet over 40% of the state’s energy demand.”
This is a true story about an event that has stayed with me for nearly all my adult life. open.substack.com/pub/fishrise...
The day I met Josef Mengele
São Paulo, Brazil: 1973, February, give or take a week or 3.
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This is a true story. I still have to pinch myself. open.substack.com/pub/fishrise...
The day I met Josef Mengele
São Paulo, Brazil: 1973, February, give or take a week or 3.
open.substack.com
In Iran war, look out for fast electrification of heating and transport. After Ukraine war, Europe (belatedly) accelerated installing heat pumps in millions of homes #DemandDestructionWatch bsky.app/profile/janr...
Jan Rosenow@janrosenow.bsky.social · 4mo agoFor the first time ever, heat pumps outsold gas boilers in Germany in 2025. 48% of all new heating systems installed last year were heat pumps. Gas fell to just 39%. A decade ago, heat pumps had a 7% market share. The transformation has been remarkable.
Saudi Arabia bridles at Donald Trump’s way of waging war ft.trib.al/XqAbfte
Saudi Arabia bridles at Donald Trump’s way of waging war
Nearly five weeks after US and Israel attacked Iran, Washington’s Gulf ally frets about the damage
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I'm curious if the gas and diesel drivers who were so worried about range anxiety will now want bigger gas tanks because EVs will have greater range? Of course, they may not be able to afford a bigger gas tank these days.
Solid-state EV batteries are rolling out in China, promising nearly 1,000 miles of range
Chinese battery manufacturers already account for well over 50% of the global market, but new battery types, including solid-state, are...
electrek.co
The cost of clinging to a contracting fossil-fuel economy will cost the USA dear. And then there's the small matter of handing the future to the Chinese. And the flight of global capital out of FFs and into renewables. To the winners, the spoils. www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
Costs of EPA’s Endangerment Finding Rollback Could Outweigh Savings
Also: UK Energy Secretary Ed Miliband on his deal with California Governor Gavin Newsom
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The markets now drive the accelerating growth of renewable energy. Cheaper to build, run & consume. Except in the White House where Victorian energy policy is having last, limp hurrah. d375w6nzl58bw0.cloudfront.net/uploads/cf16...
The big insurance companies, inc Swiss Re & Munich Re, have been sounding the climate warning claxon for 30 years. Great data. Too many greens ignored them for too long. Now Trump is wilfully deaf. Politics trumps (sorry) hard data. Again-again.
Bloomberg Opinion@opinion.bloomberg.com · 6mo agoBlindly following Trump on climate policies will drain your wallet — and your lifespan
To cut a long story down to size, here’s the concluding thought: “If anything, the Battery Day was a reminder that in battery manufacturing, physics sets the schedule, not press events.” In a word: ‘Meh!’ open.substack.com/pub/lithiumh...
Tesla's batteries: a five-year reality check
The Battery Day 2020: what worked and what didn’t
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“Trading floors are abuzz with talk of the “debasement trade”, a broad term for bets on the deterioration of American financial exceptionalism. If the debasement traders are right, then the sell-off in the greenback has barely begun.” economist.com/finance-and-...
Just how debased is the dollar?
Not nearly as much as it could be
economist.com
Half solar, plenty of wind and some FF. Curiously, they're building coal generation they don't need: "... even as the country builds new coal power plants, all the new clean energy means they’re being used less." www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
China’s Four-Year Energy Spree Has Eclipsed Entire US Power Grid
China is undertaking an energy-building boom unlike anything the world has ever seen, as Beijing seeks to ensure supply for power-hungry facilities that are key to dominating emerging industries of th...
bloomberg.com
"It’s cheaper to build a new solar farm in India than to simply keep buying the coal for an existing coal-fired power plant." Bill McKibben. India is out performing China at the same stage .. USA's FF policy is an outlier. A domestic hold-out against a global switch to renewables.
NEW | Wind and solar overtake fossil fuels in the EU power sector 🇪🇺⚡️ Our @ember-energy.org European Electricity Review is out today, showing wind and solar reaching 30% of EU power, compared to 29% for fossil fuels. Here's what happened in EU electricity generation in 2025 🧵
Renewables push China's fossil‑fuelled power into first annual drop in 10 years www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
Renewables push China's fossil‑fuelled power into first annual drop in 10 years
China's mostly coal-based thermal power generation fell in 2025 for the first time in 10 years, government data showed on Monday, as growing renewable generation met growth in electricity demand even ...
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For UK readers of my vintage (mostly): '1066 & All That' is the ultimate skuel-boy history of everything. The book ends in 1919 with "America was thus clearly Top Nation, and history came to a ...." DJT’s letter nails the skuel-boy venacular. Is it a new last chapter? www.ft.com/content/ff64...
Donald Trump links Greenland pursuit to failure to win Nobel Prize
US president texts Norwegian leader that he no longer feels obliged ‘to think purely of Peace’ after missing out on award
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Renewables support a high-tech industrial revolution that is sweeping the world. Cheap energy is irresistible. There are a few Luddites out there. No prizes for knowing who said this: “SCAM OF THE CENTURY!” www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/o...
Opinion | Trump is Obsessed With Oil. But Chinese Batteries Will Soon Run the World.
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The rising cost of electricity rates will make the payback time on commercial solar installations 33% shorter. 🧪🔌☀️💡💨💧🔋 pv-magazine-usa.com/2026/01/14/e...
Electricity rate hikes slash commercial solar payback periods by 33%, says Wood Mackenzie
Soaring utility costs and rising power demand are recalibrating the financial outlook for the United States non-residential solar market.
pv-magazine-usa.com
Bad news for Trump. Good news for the USA & cheaper energy for consumers.
Trump suffers major losses in his war on offshore wind
The administration’s arguments that offshore wind farms present a national security risk failed to convince judges in three separate courts.
politico.com
The project is 90% complete. Stopping it is economically nuts. www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
Orsted Offshore Wind Project Revived Amid Legal Battle With Trump
The Trump administration has lost a legal battle in its war on wind. A judge has ruled that wind developer Orsted can restart construction on its Revolution Wind project off the coast of Rhode Island.
bloomberg.com
The world has an oil glut. Indian/Chinese consumption is falling as the world electrifies fast. Oil assets are stranding because renewables are cheaper to build, run and consume. Ask the bankers and investors. It‘s all about money. Trump's Venezuelan venture is the death rattle of a dying era.
Jan Rosenow@janrosenow.bsky.social · 7mo agoChina is now the leading clean energy powerhouse with the West falling behind. The transition is inevitable; the key question is where and how fast it happens. I look forward to discussing this in Davos next week at the World Economic Forum, facilitating a live-streamed session on electrostates.
If Trump wants to makes real money and keep up with China, he needs to throw everything at renewables. If not he’s going to join the growing list of fossil fuel stranding assets.
Bloomberg News@bloomberg.com · 7mo agoA US judge ruled Orsted can resume development of a wind farm project off the coast of Rhode Island while it challenges the government’s latest stop-work order
