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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Lots of news coverage this morning about £28 billion investment approved to upgrade the UK's energy network. BUT: The majority of the spending – £17.8 billion - announced today is to maintain Britain’s gas networks rather than build new transmission lines.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
Not everyone is unhappy about the Government's descent into anti-refugee politics
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David Toke @davidtoke.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
65% per cent olf Reform voters want more renewable energy renews.biz/102413/poll-... So why do their leaders want to stop renewable developments? It’s because they prefer steam engines. See davidtoke.substack.com/p/farage-and...
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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 19/06/2025
Really good summary of the Spain blackouts report here from @jkempenergy.bsky.social – the clearest I've seen jkempenergy.com/2025/06/19/s...
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Spain’s blackout blamed on poor voltage control
19 June 2025 Spain’s massive blackout was caused by overvoltage on the transmission system and the failure of the country’s generators to compensate by absorbing more reactive power, according to t…
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chrisdunham.bsky.social @chrisdunham.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
We finally have cooling
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
Every day a new atrocity in #Gaza. And still the UK supplies lethal weaponry to the Israeli government. There is a term for this: complicity in genocide.
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Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Israel's capacity for inhumanity knows no bounds. Nor should our determination to stop them. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
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Israeli airstrike kills nine of Gaza doctor’s 10 children, reports say
Dr Alaa al-Najjar was on duty at Nasser hospital in Khan Younis when she received her children’s bodies
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Cllr Emily Kerr 💚 @emilykerr36.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Refreshing from a car journalist: basically “don’t buy this SUV cos it kills kids and the climate, go and buy the estate instead.” www.irishtimes.com/motors/revie...
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You’d be genuinely mad to buy an SUV unless you need it - just look at latest climate and safety figures
The new Kodiaq is efficient, but the Superb estate is a much better option
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chrisdunham.bsky.social @chrisdunham.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
More rabbit than duck
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
The BBC's cowardice and conformism on #Gaza, while particularly extreme in this case, is now standard across most issues. As the organisation faces ever greater threats from the right, it becomes ever more determined to alienate those who might have defended it. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The BBC is utterly beholden to the right. Why else would it fear a podcast about heat pumps? | George Monbiot
The broadcaster behaves like Starmer’s government: suppress the left, cave to your critics, and undermine your own survival, writes Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
China is on track to become the world’s first major “electrostate,” with its electrification rate reaching 30 percent. This puts China ahead of both the EU and the US, where the proportion of electricity in total energy use has remained steady at about 22 percent in recent years.
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
“Brexit means we can make our own agreements with the EU, as we pick and choose!” - UK chooses to make agreement with EU on a handful of issues. “Brexit Betrayed!”
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Dylan Williams @dylanwilliams.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
In a new statement, the leaders of the UK, France and Canada call Israel’s total siege on Gaza and its plan to compel civilians to leave the territory violations of international law. They expressly warn of “concrete actions in response… including targeted sanctions.” www.elysee.fr/en/emmanuel-...
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Joint statement from the leaders of the United Kingdom, France and Canada on the situation in Gaza and the West Bank.
Read the joint statement.
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Jessie L @jessielilley.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
“Unprecedented pre-announced live-streamed genocide”
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Jess Ralston @jessralston.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
@telegraphnews.bsky.social columnist Zoe Strimpel's opening sentence in a column this weekend states: "Ed Miliband is obsessed." [with net zero] The Telegraph has written over 110 articles with "Miliband" in the title so far this year That's one article every 30ish hours Who's obsessed now?
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 15/05/2025
Defending Israel by prohibiting anyone from saying out loud what Israel is doing.
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Gregory Norminton @gregorynorminton.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Reminder that #NetZero - the only game in town to avoid the *collapse of our civilization* - is not some UK only policy. Net Zero national laws are in place in the following countries, and if you include national pledges, cover 76% of emissions and 78% of global GDP. zerotracker.net
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Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Nothing to do with October 7. The escalation of Israel's genocide had been planned since 2017 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Israel laid out its harrowing plan to take Palestinian territories in 2017. Now it is happening | Ofer Cassif
Israeli minister Bezalel Smotrich’s vow that Gaza be ‘entirely destroyed’ should surprise no one – he formulated this chilling idea way before 7 October, says Ofer Cassif, a Hadash member of the Kness...
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Leo Murray @crisortunity.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Turns out the newts didn’t do it
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UK government admits almost no evidence nature protections block development
Whitehall analysis provides no data or research to support the government argument that environmental legislation holds up building
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Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
And there you have it: Israel has confessed, indeed heralded, its intent to complete the Gazan genocide. And the EU? Mrs von der Leyen? Our great and good leaders? They are consenting through a studied silence. 80 yrs after its defeat, Nazism in back. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
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Gaza will be entirely destroyed, Israeli minister says
Bezalel Smotrich says Palestinians will ‘leave in great numbers to third countries’, raising fears of ethnic cleansing
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 06/05/2025
It turns out that having a collection of solar panels lying quietly on the ground just outside your town ... is no big deal and no one really notices.
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What is life like living the shadow of Ashby's solar farms? - BBC News
Residents of Ashby-de-la-Zouch offer mixed views on the fields of solar panels surrounding the town.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 03/05/2025
hundreds of analysts rationalised Tesla's weak numbers for Q1 by saying 'people are just waiting for the new Model Y' So:
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Doug Parr @dougparr.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
1/12 Tony Blair Institute have released a report which is getting a lot of coverage in UK today It says the drive for net zero emissions is flawed and some media outlets have gone to town However it’s a bit odd By odd, I mean there’s a lot of bollocks in it and shouldn't be taken seriously 🧵🧵
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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
“Germany replaced nuclear with coal”? Not quite. Coal went down by >60% over the past decade—even as nuclear hit zero. But: if nuclear had stayed, coal could be gone by now. Source for data: @ember-energy.org
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On a clear day @icanseeforever1.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
This moment when the penny drops that trying to implement bathroom bans is an impossibility for the former Tory Chief Secretary Simon Clarke is delicious.
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Andrew Sissons @acjsissons.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Really nice blog by my colleague @martinakavan.bsky.social on how reforming the levies on electricity bills could save the government a LOT of money on heat pump subsidies... www.nesta.org.uk/blog/fixing-...
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Fixing the levy system could save billions on heat pump subsidies
Rebalancing levies would reduce the need for public subsidies, make heat pumps more attractive to households, and support a fairer, faster transition
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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
⚠️ The gas grid death spiral in action. As more homes electrify, gas demand falls. Prices rise. Disconnect fees go up. Fewer customers = higher costs for those left behind. Frank Energy just quit NZ’s residential gas market — a textbook case. www.rnz.co.nz/news/busines...
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'Death spiral' for gas: Frank Energy turns off switch
A gas retailer will stop supplying customers next year, amid what Consumer NZ says could be the start of the end.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 15/04/2025
"Tipping points" are "thresholds where a small additional change in global warming will cause [major biophysical systems] to irreversibly shift into a new state." *Cascading* tipping points occur when crossing one threshold triggers another, & so on. We should be extremely scared of these. So...
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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
NEW DATA: 46.9% of EU electricity in 2024 came from renewables says @eu-eurostat.extwitter.link 🏆 Top performers: 🇩🇰 Denmark – 88.4% (mostly wind) 🇵🇹 Portugal – 87.5% (wind + hydro) 🇭🇷 Croatia – 73.7% (mostly hydro) ⬇ Lowest shares: 🇱🇺 Luxembourg – 5.1% 🇲🇹 Malta – 15.1% 🇨🇿 Czechia – 15.9%
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Phil Harrison @mrpmharrison.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
No wait, let me guess. Is that because YOU NOW OWN TWO HOMES??
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Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Israel's torture of an entire population, whom it has placed collectively on death row CONTINUES. Let us not forget. Let us not stop shouting it from the rooftops. Let is not look away. www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...
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Israel threatens to intensify Gaza attack, tells Palestinians to flee
Israeli army says it completed ‘Morag Corridor’ takeover, warning Gaza residents of further military seizures.
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Rick @flipchartrick.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
This is an excellent read.
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David Toke @davidtoke.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Renewables provided over 90 per cent of the world's increase in generation capacity in 2024. How is this happening? davidtoke.substack.com/p/renewables...
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Renewables provided over 90 per cent of the world's increase in generation capacity in 2024. How is this happening?
Solar and wind power are dominating new generation capacity around the world.
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Ed Conway @edconway.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
If you're anywhere near Cambridge on Sat 26 April, and fancy hearing more about the importance of the Material World, and its lessons in an era of Trump and tariffs... I'll be talking at the literary festival at 6pm. Come along & say hello! Tickets: www.cambridgeliteraryfestival.com/events/ed-co...
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Ed Conway | Material World: A Substantial Story of Our Past and Future comes to Cambridge Literary Festival - make sure to get your tickets!
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chrisdunham.bsky.social @chrisdunham.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
@edconway.bsky.social Might be of interest to you... chargedevs.com/newswire/ric...
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Ricardo develops electric propulsion motor with no rare earths or copper - Charged EVs
Engineering consulting company Ricardo has designed, developed and tested a prototype electric propulsion module, Alumotor, a synchronous reluctance motor that does not contain critical raw materials ...
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chrisdunham.bsky.social @chrisdunham.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Time for a Mr Heat version? @chiefgeekad.bsky.social youtube.com/shorts/j9NZe...
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
1. Yesterday I wrote a thread about the dire warnings from food professionals on the state of supply chains. Comfortable folk might find it impossible to imagine an end to the current abundance. But we'd better start imagining it fast. THIS thread is about solutions - false ones and sound ones.
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Michael Liebreich @mliebreich.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Just sent my last Tweet. Joined March 2009, sent 62,800 Tweets to up to 70,000 followers. But it's over. Now that Musk's X-AI has bought Xitter, it clearly only exists to create training data for Grok. I'm not interested in his Great Human Replacement Theory, so I'm now active here and on LinkedIn.
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chrisdunham.bsky.social @chrisdunham.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
And we are back to where we were before Sunak didn't really change much - petrol/diesel ban not implemented till 2035. www.current-news.co.uk/zev-mandate-...
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ZEV mandate will allow hybrids to be sold until 2035
The government has announced changes to the Zero Emission Vehicle mandate aimed at balancing the needs of the environment and car industry.
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Lewis Bowick @l-bow.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Never have I seen a duck curve actually look like a duck quite so much as today
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Christoph Koettl @ckoettl.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Video obtained by my colleague Farnaz Fassihi shows how the IDF deliberately attacked, over several minutes, a convoy of ambulances and other emergency vehicles in #Gaza. #Israel wrongly claimed that the vehicles drove without emergency signals and headlights. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/w...
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Video Shows Aid Workers Killed in Gaza Under Gunfire Barrage, With Ambulance Lights On (Gift Article)
The U.N. has said Israel killed the workers. The video appears to contradict Israel’s version of the incident, which described the vehicles as “advancing suspiciously” without headlights or emergency ...
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chrisdunham.bsky.social @chrisdunham.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Duck precipice
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Al Roth @alroth.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
We're deporting someone after he arrived from Venezuela to give his brother a kidney...is that a bug or a feature? www.msnbc.com/top-stories/...
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Organ donor detained by ICE pleads against deportation to save ailing brother
"I hope I can go out and achieve that goal of giving my kidney to my brother," González said from inside an Indiana immigration detention center.
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chrisdunham.bsky.social @chrisdunham.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Quack quack
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David Toke @davidtoke.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Net zero is NOT making UK industrial electricity prices higher than other countries - here's why - see davidtoke.substack.com/p/net-zero-i...
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Net zero is NOT making UK industrial electricity prices higher than other countries - here's why
Anti-net zero campaigners have, for some months now, been using the fact that the UK has higher industrial electricity prices than other Western countries to blame ‘net zero’ policies.
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chrisdunham.bsky.social @chrisdunham.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
This kind of sums the whole thing up really... www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
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Palestinian family goes out for dinner, returns to find Israeli settlers took over home
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David Toke @davidtoke.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Badenoch ignored Tory opinion research when she abandoned net zero. Why? davidtoke.substack.com/p/badenoch-i...
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chrisdunham.bsky.social @chrisdunham.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Quantitive Tightening... www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The Guardian view on Rachel Reeves’s spending cuts: a choice, not an economic necessity | Editorial
Editorial: The spring statement casts austerity as unavoidable, but Labour is clinging to economic myths while ignoring the tools of power
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