Jon Kendall

@jonkendall.bsky.social

Collective capability | Change without a cause | Solutions are not the answer | Sourdough apprentice | When will we have #flyingcars North Cornwall

Pornainen, Finland (pop 5,000) is now heated by a silo of crushed soapstone. I spoke to CNBC about it. 100 MWh, charged when power is cheap, emissions down ~70%. Days to weeks of storage, no critical minerals. www.cnbc.com/2026/07/25/f...

Finland’s radical answer to renewable energy’s biggest headache: The world’s largest sand battery

A small Finnish town has turned to the world's largest commercial sand battery to tackle a major hurdle in the energy transition: intermittency.

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I have a 'History Department in UKHE' joke but it's been reduced from 250 characters to 50 and is now merged with jokes from across ten other largely-unrelated disciplines while still being expected to be Just As Funny.

Under a Binface government, anyone who doesn’t accept human-made climate change as fact will be sent back to school, from Year 1 right the way to A Levels, to see if anything goes in the second time round. #VoteBinface

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Just another day, another 100% WindWaterSolar day 95 of the last 96 days and 161 of 186 (86.6%) all year have seen WWS meet>100% of demand Gas down 62.4%, batt up 337%, solar up 54%, wind up 15% '26 v '23 Demand almost same as in '23 WWS has provided 59% of all in-state CAISO electricity in '26

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