Forget it. The Caledonian Sleeper is not going to run through the Channel Tunnel An independent Scotland joining the EU and Schengen is more likely than this! A #CrossChannelRail quick rant jonworth.eu/forget-it-th...

Forget it. The Caledonian Sleeper is not going to run through the Channel Tunnel

There's a higher chance that Scotland becomes independent, and joins the EU and Schengen, than the Caledonian Sleeper is extended through the Channel Tunnel under the current political framework. Rea...

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OECD power generation from gas has seen a significant drop in the five months since LNG flows through the Strait of Hormuz were first disrupted. This has not resulted in an increase in coal-fired generation as solar and wind have covered demand growth and the fall in gas.

Five years ago I bought an end-of-life house in a 5-acre plot in W Berkshire, just over an hour from W London. It's a magical spot, with views over the Kennet Valley towards Watership Down. Sadly, we have concluded we can't complete the redevelopment. Is it for you? www.linkedin.com/posts/mliebr...

>>> Off-topic (sort of) <<< Anyone looking for an extraordinary real estate project just outside London? Five years ago, I bought an end-of-life house in a 5-acre plot in West Berk...

>>> Off-topic (sort of) <<< Anyone looking for an extraordinary real estate project just outside London? Five years ago, I bought an end-of-life house in a 5-acre plot in West Berkshire, just over a...

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This is going to be a massive bubble...

Ed Zitron@edzitron.com · 24h ago

Analysts estimate that 70%+ of Microsoft, Google and Amazon's present and future AI revenues are from Anthropic and OpenAI's compute spend and model sales. Outside of two unsustainable AI labs, demand barely exists, and they've massively overbuilt capacity. www.wheresyoured.at/the-ai-deman...

Many good points, including the key issue that supply and demand needs to go hand in hand, while “power sector decisions are concentrated among utilities, developers, regulators and governments, while end-use electrification reaches into millions of homes, vehicles, businesses and production lines.”

David Roberts@volts.wtf · 20h ago

Some reflections on how to electrify well.

Daytime trains anywhere beyond London - Brussels - Amsterdam, and London - Paris are a TOTAL PAIN Please just work on extending that, and making it work, before talking about night trains!

If you show up to Bluesky without following anyone, you'll be treated to a series of posts about art, music, and dogs. If you show up to X without following anyone, you'll be bombarded with right-wing conspiracies and white supremacist slop. It's weird which one is seen as a "political bubble"

One of my good friends is hiring a Design Engineer to help developing software to accelerate the decarbonisation of home heating. A meaningful job in the fantastic city of Copenhagen. plans.app/careers/desi... #dkjobs

Design Engineer | Plans

We're hiring a Design Engineer in Copenhagen to bring depth of craft across our iOS app, web platform, and the reports we generate — and to raise the whole team's bar. Ship production frontend, shape ...

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Won't this blow up the UK's climate change targets? Don't worry - government's don't include aviation in their climate change targets! www.gov.uk/government/p...

The Guardian@theguardian.com · yesterday

Gatwick airport to open second runway after legal challenge fails

New: Australian study finds per-person kilometre values of AU$4.41/EUR 2,7 for walking. Public transport increases physical activity and improves population health. Valuing these health benefits helps make a case for public transport investments and qualify decisions on changes in service quality.

Active Transport Health Model: Valuing the Health Benefits of Active Transport - Applied Health Economics and Health Policy

Background Active transport can increase physical activity at the population level, thereby improving population health. Knowing the health and related economic benefits of infrastructure measures tha...

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Open letter to the PM on Rosebank & Jackdaw oil and gas fields, covered in the Guardian: www.theguardian.com/environment/... Full letter here: climateuncensored.com/letter-to-th...

This is very cool! "Individual vs. collective action" is often framed as a dichotomy, as if we all have a little bucket full of "climate fucks to give" and a fuck given about your gas furnace or business flights is a fuck not given about pressuring politicians to do climate policy. We can do both!

Dana R. Fisher (aka the Apocalyptic Optimist)@fisherdanar.bsky.social · last wk.

Important new study out at Nature Climate Action showing that individual climate actions do not stop people from participating in collective climate action. Instead, they were associated with greater collective engagement and somewhat stronger policy support. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Important new study out at Nature Climate Action showing that individual climate actions do not stop people from participating in collective climate action. Instead, they were associated with greater collective engagement and somewhat stronger policy support. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Personal climate actions do not crowd out collective action and policy support: longitudinal evidence - npj Climate Action

npj Climate Action - Personal climate actions do not crowd out collective action and policy support: longitudinal evidence

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greatest thing to ever happen to economists was Uber and Lyft entering different cities at sufficiently different times. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Opinion: We Must Price and Manage The Curb Before Robo-Taxis and Other AVs Scale Up usa.streetsblog.org/2026/05/07/o... via @usa.streetsblog.org and @gabeklein.bsky.social

Opinion: We Must Price and Manage The Curb Before Robo-Taxis and Other AVs Scale Up — Streetsblog USA

The gap between what's on the street and what cities can actually see, price, or enforce is the defining curb management problem of the next decade. And no one is treating it with any urgency.

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This offering seems to fit neatly into why the German car industry is under stress. Design an EV that costs a ridiculous amount of money, and then complain that not enough people want EVs and therefore we can't rush this whole EV thing and we have to protect the industry from unfair competition.

Gavin Shoebridge@kiwiev.bsky.social · 2d ago

The secret's out: the Germans just surprised the Chinese with this one. 805km on a charge and a feel that sets a new benchmark for EVs. The downside is that this BMW makes everything I've driven since feel agricultural. It's hard to explain, you have to watch the video. youtu.be/k7QMtb9w3ls

A lovely little bit of physics that you might have spotted if you ever play with a slinky. We should all play more, because we should all embrace our curiosity. And finding out how the physical world works is fun!

Only one of them will be considered more acceptable to be in a parking spot. The other one is a bike.

I just replaced the filters in our air purifiers and ordered another set, in what has become a grim annual ritual. Wildfires and smoke are a natural part of life in the Northwest, but the burning of fossil fuels has made these events larger, more frequent and severe.

The Seattle Times@seattletimes.com · 2d ago

Wildfire smoke from a trifecta of catastrophic wildfires will roll in Tuesday and could cause the air quality to be unhealthy and reduce visibility.

From @dummzeuch on Mastodon: www.klimabuendnis-karlsruhe.de/2024/01/10/w...

You want to watch this wonderful video from Joss Fong and her two partners at Howtown about AMOC, with a lot of well-researched background on oceanography and paleoclimate. It also features the nicest guy in paleoceanography, Jerry McManus. 🌊

Why is this one spot not warming?

YouTube video by Howtown

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🚨New paper Like most things in democracies, achieving climate action in the form of sustainable policy needs a significant amount of political mobilization. We investigate when & where this is more likely to happen across places on the climate frontline: the Global South🧵 📌 osf.io/preprints/so...

“Germany and Russia signed a declaration on sustainable energy in 2021. At the beginning of 2022, Germany opened a Hydrogen Diplomacy Office in Moscow to connect officials, researchers and companies and develop bilateral hydrogen cooperation.” Excellent account of Germany’s hydrogen folly.

Michael Barnard, TFIE Strategy@michael-barnard.bsky.social · 5d ago

Germany’s hydrogen strategy looks like gas-system preservation. Grants can buy stations and trucks, but the test is contracted demand, throughput, kg/day, delivered cost and repeat purchases after subsidies end. briefing.tfie.io/p/germany-hy...

Good thread. There’s another thing I’ve been wanting to comment on in relation to wildfires. Climate change contrarians often raise the fact that globally, wildfires don’t burn bigger areas than in the past. But how useful is that observation? 1/

Daniel Swain@weatherwest.bsky.social · last wk.

In recent weeks, there has been a remarkable surge in large, intense, fast-moving, and unfortunately in many cases destructive/deadly wildfires in multiple Northern Hemisphere regions spanning a wide range of climates & ecologies, but they all share one key commonality. [Thread]

Reminded me of this brilliant Letzte Generation come-back (from around 2023): ‘We are allowed to do this. We have a tractor.’ 👌🏻👏🏻

Angry farmers block Dutch highway but don't get fined. Because... they had covered their licence plates 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♀️🤦 The police: that's illegal, but there was little we could do about it "given the situation" 🤡 The difference with the treatment of XR climate activists doing the same on foot is striking.

RTL Nieuws@rtl.nl · 2d ago

Kentekens afgeplakt: geen boete voor boeren die snelweg blokkeerden

Car obesity experience: When planning our summer vacation to Normandy I suggested we rent a Polestar 2: I like its lines and (relatively) low design. But the width/turning radius! (20 cm wider than our 2016 eGolf). -> We have now concluded we don’t want such a big car in the future (owned/rented)

🧵Right-leaning newspapers are trying to blame Europe's raging wildfires on everything EXCEPT fossil fuels 1. The Wall Street Journal Frontpage story: "Greece fights wildfires as Europe crisis spreads" WSJ editorial: "How green policies fuel fires in Europe"

These two roles are open for application until Friday - but the sooner the better as I'm already working through the applications.

Lauri Myllyvirta@laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social · 2w ago

JOB OPPORTUNITY: Come work with me to produce timely, high-impact analysis of the biggest developments in energy, economy and air pollution! We're looking for a data scientist to produce cutting edge analysis and an insights analyst to turn it into high-quality briefings.

The Romanian navy blowing up a huge rock to redirect water to a nuclear power plant to help cool it down during a fossil-fuelled heatwave