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Andreas @andeu.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Ever wondered why China builds both the dirtiest and cleanest energy generation at record levels at the same time? Energy security is why, excellently explained in detail here: youtu.be/qde4r4_uMU0?...

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Why China Is Building Coal Plants It Doesn’t Want to Run

YouTube video by Prof Gio | Giordano Scarciotti

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Andreas @andeu.bsky.social · 23h

I worded the post misleading (the video covers it well) and agree that this is more on Germany than on China. They decided to sacrifice solar for automotive and even that only bought an additional decade.

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Andreas @andeu.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

"what price" indeed when the Chinese production costs are disconected from econimic reality. youtu.be/QoCoPmtNRJo?...

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How China Won Solar (& Why Germany Lost)

YouTube video by Asianometry

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Andreas @andeu.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Besides land, it would probably also reduce the relative cost of installation (labour and hardware) which might be just as or more relevant.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The biggest warning will be if Chinese airlines stop flights from Irkutsk to Beijing, Reuters reports.

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Andreas @andeu.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

"the Swiss attitude" was rejected by the Swiss 70 / 30. Agree with the rest of your post. www.admin.ch/en/neutralit...

https://www.admin.ch/en/neutrality-initiative

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Andreas @andeu.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Regarding the unfamiliarity of what to expect and how to deal with it, "moved from some colder climate" is pretty important. Climate change often means you have to adapt even without moving (i.e. Northern Europeans installing AC in 100 year old houses)

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Andreas @andeu.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"electric cars are good enough, but electric trucks are way off" is my most recent one. Apparently you even see lots of electric tractors at agricultural fairs now.

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Andreas @andeu.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Experts in their field aside, it's imho pretty common to engage with a topic, form an opinion and then not challenging that for a ling time. That and we are quite bad at correctly interpreting non-linear trends. bsky.app/profile/ande...

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Michael Shurkin @michaelshurkin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The war has started in Ethiopia. This could easily become the worst human catastrophe of the century. I wrote this in February. The situation has become more complex, and more dangerous. shurkin.substack.com/p/the-loomin...

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The Looming Disaster in the Horn of Africa: A Primer

A major war is imminent in East Africa.

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Andreas @andeu.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Admittedly, countries (like my own) further south or towards the center of the Europen energy grid have a much easier time with this than Finland.

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Andreas @andeu.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The graph covers a decade and all of the EU, so day to day or region to region variations aren't shown. Demand somewhat follows daylight and thus solar while short term (hours to days) storage has improved a lot so it seems that wind would really help with seasonal changes and cover for solar.

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Doug Parr @dougparr.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Another fossil-fuel industry, anti-renewables talking point bites the dust as wind turbine blades - in fact the whole wind farm - sends v little to landfill For years anti-wind farm campaigners have said landfill of turbines blades means wind power is unsustainable www.thetimes.com/business/ene...

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ScottishPower fully recycles Hagshaw Hill wind farm in UK first

A pioneering scheme to reuse turbines from one of Britain’s first wind power projects has sent less than 0.1 per cent to landfill

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Doug Parr @dougparr.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

EU feels diesel pain “We run road transport on internal combustion engines, we’re reliant on a commodity we have no control over" say @transportenvironment.org “As long as we are dependent on imported fossil fuels, our energy prices [will] be volatile ” @ec.europa.eu www.ft.com/content/76b5...

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Diesel surge costs European drivers €203mn per day

Motorists are spending 40% more each time they refill their tank, compared with the start of the year

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Jakub Jaraczewski @jakubjaraczewski.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

🇨🇦🇪🇺 Canadians, where there is will, there is a way.

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Rhodium Group @rhg.com · 14/09/2026

Global investment in clean technology manufacturing and industrial facilities fell 14% in Q1 and another 7% in Q2 2026, continuing a downward trend underway since late 2023. Solar manufacturing accounted for a large share of the decline.

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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Now THIS is incredible. 26 decommissioned wind turbines from Scotland's first commercial wind farm were - wait for it - 99.9% recycled? Less than 0.1% of their materials into landfill: www.newcivilengineer.com/latest/uk-fi... Blimey.

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‘UK first’ sees decommissioning of ScottishPower wind farm demonstrate turbine circularity | New Civil Engineer

Hagshaw Hill Wind Farm in South Lanarkshire opened in the mid-‘90s and was decommissioned in 2023 before being repowered and brought back onstream in late

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Andreas @andeu.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Also important to be able to shoot the archer, not only the arrow.

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Andreas @andeu.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Also hangs out with the commie gang apparently

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Andreas @andeu.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Also a single use arbitrary number in cryptography. Stumbled upon it in this capacity recently and was like "that sounds familiar"

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Michael Burchert @michaelburchert.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Building with timber, hemp, straw etc. is a DOUBLE climate WIN. It is not just about storing carbon in the walls. It is about actively DISPLACING highly polluting, fossil-intensive materials like concrete, steel, and petroleum-based insulation. The substitution effect is HUGE.

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Marcel Dirsus @marceldirsus.com · 08/09/2026

🚨 New video out now! We've got a double-premiere. @anderspucknielsen.dk joins the podcast for the first time, and we have a dedicated segment for listener questions at the end. Join us as we discuss Ukraine, Hybrid Warfare and the potential for war between Russia & NATO: youtu.be/-bgbuH50PFk

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Will Putin Attack NATO Next? Anders Puck Nielsen on Ukraine, Hybrid Warfare and Russia's Options

YouTube video by Dr Marcel Dirsus

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Andreas @andeu.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Fully agree with the message but it's interesting how any EU map that doesn't show current or past borders will be divisive in what countries are shown. I wonder when Brexit will be reversed and how many countries join the EU before. Probability aside, Canada would be especially funny

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Andreas @andeu.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Is this what they refer to with "groups of men loitering about, scaring the public" and "people covering their face" being a problem?

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Anders Puck Nielsen @anderspucknielsen.dk · 05/09/2026

Cool new maritime air defense asset.

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Mark Z. Jacobson @mzjacobson.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

This is how fast oil use can disappear China's reduction in oil consumption during first half of 2026 due to replacement of fossil vehicles with EVs exceeded the UK’s entire oil consumption during that period China’s CO2 emis fall Q226 due to plummeting oil use carbonbrief.org/analysis-chi...

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Analysis: China’s CO2 emissions fall in Q2 2026 due to plummeting oil use - Carbon Brief

China’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions fell by 1% in the second quarter of 2026, as oil consumption plummeted amid the strait of Hormuz crisis.

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Andreas @andeu.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

If you still have energy to argue with the "what about China" people, I highly recommend this video. Besides the technical aspects, it also explains rethorics in the second half.

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Andreas @andeu.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Having more blocks than follows is interesting👀 But yes, posting on (or even liking posts) on a divisive topic cam land you on a blocklist that many people then subscribe to. "blocked by n users" and "blocked by n users via lists" are probably counted separately since the latter is higher for me.

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Andreas @andeu.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Presumeably very different from FIN behaviour but when reading Death and the Penguin by Kurkov the tendency to have drinks (spirits ordered in grams) was also very interesting for me. The equivalent for central europe would probably be having beer.

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Mac the squirrel :) @macsquirelera.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I hope Ukraine and the EU can make the whole line from the border to Kyiv dual gauge. You obv can’t convert everything but enabling direct services abroad would be great

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One track gauge, one step closer to Europe 🚆

YouTube video by European Committee of the Regions (CoR)

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ESA Space Transport @transport.esa.int · 27/08/2026

First views of Ariane 6 liftoff, flight VA270 🫰 @esa.int @esaearth.esa.int @eumetsat.int @cnes.fr credits: ESA - S. Corvaja

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Nahel Belgherze @wxnb.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

An incredibly well-timed Landsat 9 pass captured the effects of yesterday’s catastrophic glacier collapse near the Nepal–Tibet border. The event was so massive that it was detected by seismometers around the world.

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H I Sutton @covertshores.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

New article- visual guide to the naval drones (USVs) on display at Kyiv’s Independence Day parade. The second one hasn’t been shown in public before. There were a couple of others, a RHIB based one and a Magura V5 with mast, but they were hiding from the camera www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2...

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World’s First Military Drone Parade: What We Saw On The Water - Naval News

Military parades are normally measured by the number of troops marching, or the quantity of big, expensive bits of kit on display. Ukraine’s Independence Day parade on August 24th changed the rules. I...

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/08/2026

Mark Carney: "This fall we will begin intense discussions with the European Union, the world's second-largest economy, to build a much stronger and deeper economic and security partnership"

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Andreas @andeu.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Blue and yellow shine bright indeed. 🇪🇺🤝🇺🇦

Merging Ukrainian and EU flag with the messages
Support Ukraine | Defend Europe

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Andreas @andeu.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Farmers, famously into caring about weather and yields. Solar was inevitable.

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Mia Sato @miasato.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I think I maybe undersold how gross the “prank” played on this employee was. Imagine you come into work, try to help customers, and later realize they've racked up 500,000+ views on social media by harassing you and your coworkers.

In August, Toru Hinkle was stocking shelves at their job at Target when they noticed two customers and asked if they needed any help. The men requested a price check on an item — but even after Hinkle told them the item was $20, the customers asked for the price again and again.

“After a while, I realized that I’m basically being pranked, and I noticed the glasses,” Hinkle says, referring to the frames with a blinking light. They were the Ray-Ban Meta glasses, and the customers were filming. Hinkle eventually called a store manager over, but the pranksters antagonized her, too — asking the price repeatedly, deliberately misgendering Hinkle as “ma’am” and the female manager as “sir.” At one point, Hinkle attempted to stop the recording by saying “Meta, stop recording” out loud, hoping to trigger a voice control setting. The customers pretended to be confused by the accusation that they were recording Hinkle.

The confrontation made Hinkle queasy. “I felt like this pit in my stomach just started to build up,” Hinkle recalls. “After this whole exchange happened, the rest of the shift, I was just quiet and didn’t even talk to anyone because I was just so shaken up by it.” Another customer called the police, Hinkle says, and the two men were escorted out of the store. Target declined to comment.

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Andreas @andeu.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Presumeably the old ones did not, in fact, grow old.

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Andreas @andeu.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Long thread, well worth the read. Being unable to compete is bad, not realizing it is probably worse.

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Finbarr Bermingham @fbermingham.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

“There’s a squeeze on Europe from various fronts to extract more wealth out of it,” said Davide Oneglia, a London-based macroeconomist at research firm TS Lombard. “Europe is seen as still rich enough to pay for stuff, while not strong enough to defend itself industrially, technologically or

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Helen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Rather unhelpfully, categorisation of "endangered", "threatened" etc, depends on relative population change. For "endangered" it's ~"population size reduction of ≥70% over the last 10 years or 3 generations". So if 2015 & 2025 counts show the same tiny number, it magically becomes "least concern".

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Andreas @andeu.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Any chance the fisherman are i.e. German and mixed up conserve with Konserve?

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Minna Ålander 🌻 @alanderminna.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

This is a really significant development, especially given that it’s the UK that wants to get rid of US components - one of the hitherto closest US allies, with a deeply US-intertwined defence industry. ”We don’t want to depend on how some negotiations are going”, a UK govt official said

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UK unveils prototype missiles for Ukraine with no US components

Low-cost, long-range weapons could be deployed as soon as this year in war against Russia

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Andreas @andeu.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

How many people use that key intentionally?🙃

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Andreas @andeu.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I would love to know what percentage of the AI energy or water use is caused by this "forced" or at least unintended uses. If AI is used in a intentional and productive matter, the energy use is justified. If AI is used for something that's effectively a google search it can be wasteful.

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Andreas @andeu.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I also think a lot of people (inlcuding myself) get their bad impressions on AI from i.e. the google AI search result or Copilot that they didn't even intentionally use. Very different from a state of the art AI used in a valid application.

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Andreas @andeu.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Zustimmung. Grauwasser statt Trinkwasser wird zukünftig immer wichtiger werden und wir sind viel zu verwöhnt was Verfügbarkeit und Preis von Trinkwasser angeht.

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Andreas @andeu.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

. , ٫ Wasn't even aware there are 3 systems. Geographic outliers like Guyana and Vietnam are interesting but presumeable the British are to blame as usual ;-)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_separator#Conventions_worldwide

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