The Telegraph is running a sensible article today (feels newsworthy in itself!) Written by it's "world economics editor" Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, it includes this gem of a chart. A picture is worth a thousand words
Peter Miller
@petereastern.bsky.social
Technologist responding to climate emergency. Heat pump installer and founder of conga.uk. Computer scientist. 316ppm.
What a weird word of use - ‘failed’. I failed to crash my car last week. I failed to miss my train yesterday. Etc. etc.
BusinessGreen@businessgreen.bsky.social · 3d agoEV100: Over 70 per cent of large corporates failed to purchase diesel or petrol vehicles last year businessgreen.com/ne...
++WOW++ Ambrose Evans-Pritchard in the Telegraph: "Badenoch has chosen an abominable political moment to flirt with climate nihilism…The political Right needs to rediscover its philosophical compass…you have to conclude that the Tories have gone Trumpian on the existential issue of our time"
STOP calling it: • "Save the planet" START calling it: • "Save our homes" • "Save our food" • "Save our children" Because that's what it is. #ClimateCrisis
When the story of why humanity didn't stop climate change is written, it will feature front pages like this. Even as the skies blacken with climate change-induced wildfires, right wing media continue their relentless crusade against measures to tackle it.
MILESTONE | Global solar installations surpassed 3,000 GW in April 2026 ☀️🚨 It took more than two decades for global solar capacity to go from 1 GW to reach the first terawatt (1,000 GW). Then about three years for the second terawatt and less than two years for the third 📈
BBC News: "A Reform UK councillor's bid to scrap his authority's climate emergency declaration has been delayed because the chamber was too hot to debate it." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
West Norfolk council climate debate delayed due to extreme heat
Simon Ring says the fact the meeting was postponed due to the heat was "undeniably ironic".
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All the people who are saying it's too expensive to tackle climate change today are the same people who twenty years ago said that climate change wasn't really happening
The DOE estimates that geothermal power could meet as much as 40% of US demand growth by 2030. Listen in and find out how!
Transition Show@transitionshow.bsky.social · 2mo agoIn Ep. 278, we are joined by Dr. Emily Pope of @c2es.bsky.social to hear about the state of the art in geothermal power generation, and how much of a role it might play in helping to achieve decarbonization goals in the US and beyond. xenetwork.org/ets/episodes...
While Tony Blair is trashing UK govt energy policy, NESTA analysis finds "early signs [it] may be working" 2022: Gas prices went up 100%, electricity 83% (roughly 1:1) 2026: Gas +28%, elec 6% (5:1 = "electricity beginning to decouple from gas") www.nesta.org.uk/blo...
It can’t set much clearer than this - these 2 YouTube videos promoted right next to each other. Charging rate of 1000kW is bonkers - adding 400 miles of range in 6 minutes.
Every now and again, it's worth popping quickly onto the Telegraph's website to remind yourself just how hysterically and ludicrously obsessed they are with Ed Miliband and net-zero. Just from the past few days...
It’s weird how the continued closure of the strait isn’t news in the uk any more even though the impact is predicted to be about to spread massively. Pretty damning how news is focused on the novel rather than the important.
Jan Rosenow@janrosenow.bsky.social · 3mo agoOn 28 February the Strait of Hormuz closed. It is still not fully open. We have a new commentary out this week and model supply and price impacts under three closure scenarios. The results are concerning. Write-up on Bright Spots soon: substack.com/@janrosenow
Dynamic agrivoltaism has adjustable PV panels for protecting crops & generating energy. The panels are managed according to the type of crop and its needs. Sun’Agri has more than forty projects in operation including apples, grape vines, tomatoes, maize. irrigationeurope.eu/en/dynamic-a...
Dynamic agrivoltaism: combining crop production and the generation of energy
The start-up Sun’Agri, a subsidiary of the Sun’Air group, has developed the agrivoltaism technique and conducted experiments on agricultural test sites. The goal is to combine the production of crops…
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Lovely chart showing how the electricity generation by gas (yellow) has been replaced over the last 6 years with battery discharge (blue).
David Roberts@volts.wtf · 3mo agoAnother for instance! Down in Queensland, Australia, fossil gas used to provide all the peak power. Then batteries start nibbling at it. Then chomping on it. And now they've basically eaten it all up. No more gas. Look at this graphic! Glorious. reneweconomy.com.au/big-batterie...
It remains unclear at this stage whether the government will meet its clean power by 2030 target and whether it will deliver promised reductions in bills, but they are giving it a right good go. www.businessgreen.com/news/4529760...
Government green lights 4GW of North Sea offshore wind projects
RWE and Masdar given Development Consent Orders to develop two 1.5GW offshore wind farms capable of collectively powering three million UK homes a year
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So the next time you interview a grid operator complaining about renewables and electric cars, ask him: "What incentive structure do you have in place to reward electric vehicle owners for avoiding grid congestion on the moments and locations grid congestion actually occurs?"
Ban those Heat Pump fridge freezers! Stick with good old traditional ice cellars.
Michael de Podesta (@protons4b.bsky.social) wrote a brilliant explanation of the efficiency and benefits of heat pump tumble dryers last October
Heat Pump Tumble Dryers
Friends, I was born in 1959, and as the video above shows, the way we wash and dry our clothes has changed a lot over my lifetime. And this week I have been thinking about the latest iteration in t…
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Emma Monk@monkemma.bsky.social · 3mo agoSo there are crazy headlines, and then there are "I'm sorry WTAF now?" headlines...😳 Yes, the Telegraph have deduced that Ed Miliband hates mothers because of some new legislation making tumble dryers more efficient and cheaper to run! 🧵 1/24
In a rational world the government would be asking people to respond to the current fossil fuel crisis by car sharing, turning lights off, and generally saving fuel and energy. And yet Ministers can’t even propose better efficiency standards for tumble dryers without the right wing press going mad.
Stunning data viz from @neilkaye.bsky.social Took me a while to decode. Black lines are 30 year averages. Peaks up and down are gb variations over last 12 months from those averages. Clearly visible is the recent sunny dry April and the wet Oct 25 — Feb 26. Oh and the generally warming planet.
Neil Kaye@neilrkaye.bsky.social · 3mo agoHere in the UK, April was warm, very sunny and dry (except in West Scotland). Here is a climate/weather #dataviz summary for the past 12 months #globalwarming #climatechange
Three of Britain’s top five electricity decarbonisation records have been set in past two months…🥳
Just to crib Jan's great chart here a little bit - here are just a few of the headlines that came out when growth somewhat slowed in 2024 Many, many media outlets do not really know how to handle technological change like this
Jan Rosenow@janrosenow.bsky.social · 4mo ago12.7 million battery electric vehicles were sold globally in 2025. In 2010, the number was barely 10,000. In China, 1 in 2 new cars sold last year was electric. The transition is happening faster than almost anyone predicted.
For 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.
One is reminded of the story of King Croesus, who, before attacking Persia, consulted the oracle. The oracle told him that if he proceeded, he would destroy a great nation. What Croesus didn't realize was that the nation would be his own.
Iran War Live Updates: Trump Calls to Wipe Out a ‘Whole Civilization’ as Iranians Reject Threats
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AI LLMs can generate slop, but they can also debunk AI-generated slop! I couldn't verify any of the below, so I asked ChatGPT. Answer: Japan has not built 3,200+ km of solar canopy for the Shinkansen. The image is AI slop. There are no credible engineering, gov't, or company sources for any of this.
Mrs. Betty Bowers@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 4mo agoWhy do we live in such a childish, stupid country? A country that wastes its money on useless billion dollar aircraft carriers, when it could be spending those tax dollars to actually help its citizens like sane countries.
Forgive me if this is getting repetitive, but this is the first time creating sankey diagrams. Here’s latest take showing energy flows in my 100yo house in Suffolk UK with heat pump, 14kW east west PV array, 13kWh battery & EV. Net cost of electricity for month was £44. Mean temp for month was 8°C.
