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Dominique De Munck

@dominiquedemunck.bsky.social
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Climate Change; Energy; Politics; Economy; Innovation; Computer Science; Remote Sensing; Road Safety; Sustainable Mobility

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Ken Caldeira @kencaldeira.com · 11/10/2026
Criminals betraying our country, betraying the world. The downfall of the United States as we have known it, aided and abetted by self-serving elites in commerce and politics.
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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
this is the first one of these "the alarm must be raised" pieces that actually makes sense, largely because he says something obvious: no one at the company has any clue about how safety engineering works
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Dr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Want to see what climate “non-solutions” look like? Here’s a list of weak ideas and greenwashing tricks, with the science behind why they’re not such a good idea. “Not Recommended” by Project Drawdown…. drawdown.org/explorer?cla...
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Drawdown Explorer™
We know what we need to do: stop climate change as quickly as possible. Now, with the Drawdown Explorer, we know how to do it.
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James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Easy to be dismissive of government's long term climate plans when global emissions keep rising, but it's important to recognise how remarkable the latest fossil fuel phase out plans from France, the Netherlands, and now Germany are. www.businessgreen.com/news/4536237...
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'Only the starting line': Germany commits to fossil fuel phase-out by 2045
Europe's largest economy targets complete departure from oil, gas, and coal in new fossil fuel transition roadmap
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Lauri Myllyvirta @laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
NEW from us: five years after China pledged to stop overseas coal power projects and support clean energy, dozens of coal power plants have been canceled and the country's overseas clean energy financing has seen impressive growth, but gaps remain in the coal ban.
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Ben McWilliams @bmcwilliams.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
🆕 The European Union’s automotive sector needs a plan, not undue protection Faced with electrification, Chinese competition and stagnating domestic demand, the automotive sector attracts justified political attention. But the conversation is too centered around protecting incumbent industry 1/5
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Thomas einfach Mensch 🍉 @thomaseinfach.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Demokratie
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Our World in Data @ourworldindata.org · 19/09/2026
Beef production has been the largest driver of deforestation this century. Over the last two decades, around 128 million hectares of forest have been cleared to make way for agriculture and forest plantations. That’s an area five times the size of the United Kingdom.
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Dr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Joe Romm was a climate hero. Most of all, he was a scientist and a fantastic bullshit slayer. He called out greenwashing nonsense better than anyone. web.sas.upenn.edu/pcssm/news/r...
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Remembering Dr. Joe Romm
It is with great sadness that the Penn Center for Science, Sustainability and the Media shares news of the passing of PCSSM Senior Research Fellow Dr. Joe Romm. Please find below an obituary prepared ...
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 19/09/2026
If I end my innings with a tenth of Joe's record in fighting for climate action, I'll be totally satisfied. What a bloody legend, and what a wealth of stories from his extremely spirited and clever career to celebrate One small one from me: working w/ him on dodgy carbon offsets.........
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Emily Grubert @gruberte.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Super excited about this new one, with Baxter Kamana-Williams (you should hire him): We investigate what electrifying heat means from a grid design and management perspective, finding that we could see up to ~1.6 TW of coincident, non-deferrable loads that would need winter resourcing
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Climate change and electrification could fundamentally alter grid planning paradigms
Climate change and electrification could fundamentally alter grid planning paradigms, Kamana-Williams, Baxter, Grubert, Emily
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molly taft @mollytaft.com · 25/08/2026
NEW: gas power in development in the US explicitly for data centers have nearly doubled in less than a year, soaring from 97GW at the end of 2025 to more than 189GW mid-2026, according to shocking new figures from @globalenergymon.bsky.social that's up from just 4 GW in 2024:
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Data Centers Are Driving an Alarming Gas Power Expansion in the US
There’s no clearer sign of the data center boom than rampant gas projects that have been proposed or that are already under construction.
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Jonathan Koomey @jgkoomey.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Combustion in any form is bad and we need to stop it. For wildfires there are tactical solutions to minimize them but the structural solution involves ending the use of fossil fuels and other sources of greenhouse gases asap.
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Zeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com · 05/08/2026
Published estimates of AI energy use per prompt (~0.3 watt-hours) appear reassuring small. But they are increasingly disconnected from how we actually use AI. Modern agentic tools use around 600 times more energy per prompt, as I discuss in my latest over at The Climate Brink www.theclimatebrink....
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T&E @transportenvironment.org · 18/08/2026
In seven EU countries, aviation’s climate impact – considering both CO2 and non-CO2 effects – is now higher than cars. The growth in aviation emissions threatens to cancel out gains made elsewhere by EV uptake and jeopardise Europe’s successes. Check out the state of EU aviation ➡️ bit.ly/4bNNbD0
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Electrek @electrek.co · 17/08/2026
Tesla FSD v14 swerved and try to drive me into a ditch for no reason
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Tesla FSD v14 swerved and try to drive me into a ditch for no reason
Tesla’s Full Self-Driving v14.3.6 tried to take a highway exit that my car had already passed, at 110 km/h (68 mph), and it would have taken us straight into the ditch. I was ready to take control, and I did, but it was scary. My girlfriend, sitting in the passenger seat, screamed in fear.
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Green Bean @iamgreenbean.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Want to do something about climate change? Talk about it. Atmospheric scientist Katharine Hayhoe explains why conversation on the topic is so important and how to take this step toward climate action. www.hcn.org/issues/58-8/...
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Want to do something about climate change? Talk about it - High Country News
If everyone talks more with the people in their lives about climate change and climate impacts, all those conversations add up, helping to mobilize support for climate action.
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David De Pue @dpdaaf.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
De brand op de Hoge Venen is een ecologische catastrofe zonder weerga. Wellicht het meest iconische natuurgebied in België staat in lichterlaaie, en eeuwenoude koolstof in het veen komt massaal vrij. Na de watersnoodramp van 2021 wordt de provincie Luik door een nieuwe klimaatramp getroffen.
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Janne M. Korhonen @jmkorhonen.fi · 14/08/2026
Yup. I bet these new #nuclear startups are basically vehicles for grift. I highly doubt techbros promising "100x faster construction" or "10x cheaper energy" while chugging raw milk are going to revolutionise the #energy industry. More likely they poison the well for all serious contenders too.
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Matthias Deutsch @matthiasdeutsch.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
🔥Update: More than 29,000 heat-related deaths in Europe by mid-August (2026-08-14) New: ▪️Belgium now with 2,570 deaths. ▪️Spain with 3,974 deaths. Online map with sources: datawrapper.dwcdn.net/yJcqo/ @terliwetter.bsky.social @sustainable2050.bsky.social @codendahl.bsky.social
More than 29,000 heat-related deaths in Europe by 2026-08-14:  Austria: 395 deaths, Belgium: 2570 deaths, Germany: 12500 deaths, Spain: 3974 deaths, France: 5764 deaths, Italy: 306 deaths, Netherlands: 911 deaths, United Kingdom: 2877 deaths.
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Dr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Holy cow. Batteries are growing even faster than I imagined. heatmap.news/daily/batter...
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The U.S. Battery Industry Is Averaging 70% Annual Growth
This type of clean energy infrastructure is booming across the country.
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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
For as much as we can dislike deterministic “the energy transition is a pipe dream” takes à la Fressoz, we gotta be as skeptical of “the energy transition is inevitable” takes. Another ex: 🇮🇳 is increasing coal mine proposals and overall coal production in 2026 www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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India fuels worldwide jump in planned coal production
Rise in new mine proposals, mainly in states of Odisha and Jharkhand, comes despite plateau in global demand
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Gernot Wagner @gwagner.com · 13/08/2026
Yes, levels of CO₂ matter, a lot. And so does speed:
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 12/08/2026
I'm going to keep saying this until it's rote practice: If you are in official connection with let alone in charge of an archive of data, if is your professional & moral responsibility to secure that archive, as a backup or otherwise, against just such an emergency, so we're not Hoping some kid did.
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Electrek @electrek.co · 10/08/2026
Musk’s Terafab chip plant will run on gas, not Tesla solar
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Musk’s Terafab chip plant will run on gas, not Tesla solar
SpaceX confirmed it will power Terafab, its $16.8 billion chip megafactory in Texas, with its own natural gas power plants and “very large battery arrays.” Tesla solar isn’t in the plan. That’s despite Tesla being a partner on the project, and despite Tesla selling solar panels, Powerwalls, and grid-scale batteries built for exactly this kind of load.
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Leo Hickman @leohickman.carbonbrief.org · 30/07/2026
++BREAKING++ The UK and Spanish governments have issued a joint statement overnight: "[We] agreed that this summer’s wildfires demonstrated that climate change was now a national security emergency facing Europe and threatening our way of life." www.gov.uk/government/n...
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Elon Musk, owner of X, has called the editor of the Economist "a traitor to the West, plain and simple" after her recent interview with him. He now argues that "anyone who opposes remigration is a traitor" Musk has been socialising violence since Aug25: "fight or die, that's what it comes down to"
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Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Meta’s new data center in Louisiana is big. How big? Well, it’s Parisian in scale. Source: buff.ly/KPk219f
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Gernot Wagner @gwagner.com · 25/07/2026
I wrote a thing for OPEC, well for the OPEC Fund's 50th Anniversary book. I have visions of MBS having it on his coffee table, stumbling upon page 165, and learning a thing or two about climate finance: gwagner.com/opec-finance
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The future of climate finance
The trend is clear. So are the challenges. One key task is to de-risk capital investments to lower costs. This is where public climate finance must play…
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🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦 @specialkhersoncat.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
🚨OUR BIGGEST FUNDRAISER EVER IS LIVE🚨 /1. Special Kherson Cat’s 17th joint campaign with @69thSB — “I Want to Believe” — has officially begun. This is our most ambitious fundraiser yet: €89,490 to support several Ukrainian units with needed vehicles, aviation equipment, optics and technology
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Gernot Wagner @gwagner.com · 14/07/2026
New 2026 Lazard LCOE numbers are out. TL;DR: Everything's getting more expansive. (D'oh!) Solar, wind still cheaper than both coal and gas. (Duh!) e.g. average lithium-ion battery costs rose ~20% in 2026, still 20% below 2024
Utility-scale solar and wind cheaper than fossil fuels, while battery storage is closing the gap fast
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Clean Energy Wire | CLEW @cleanenergywire.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Eight facts about air conditioning amid an overheated global debate As successive heatwaves hit Europe, air-conditioning has emerged as a new front in the international “culture war” over climate action
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Eight facts about air conditioning amid an overheated global debate - Carbon Brief
Carbon Brief explains why AC rates in parts of Europe are relatively low and clarifies some of the misleading claims about the technology.
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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Nobody wants EVs” is now a decade-old genre of journalism. Over that decade, EV share of new UK car sales went from 0.3% to 25%. The genre hasn’t aged well.
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Dan Rutherford @rutherdan.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Every wonder what an FAA noise rule would look like if you wrote it in a day using a free ChatGPT account? Look no further than Trump's draft rule to replace the existing US supersonic overland flight ban with a sonic boom standard! (🧵) www.transportation.gov/briefing-roo...
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Dominique De Munck @dominiquedemunck.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Van dit soort oplossingen gaat het moeten komen www.demorgen.be/beter-leven/...
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Maak kennis met ‘de Steve Jobs van de warmtepomp’: ‘Een omgeschoolde slager kan dit plaatsen’
Hoe maak je verwarmen en koelen met een warmtepomp eenvoudiger? Stop alle toestellen in een plug-and-play container. Zo wil Lito de uitrol van warmtepompen versnellen. ‘Een omgeschoolde slager kan onz...
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T&E @transportenvironment.org · 29/06/2026
NEW: Increased tourism from air traffic growth is fueling an unaffordable housing crisis across Europe, hitting Southern Europe and Ireland the hardest. Our report with @neweconomics.bsky.social shows how unchecked tourism growth could cause European rent hikes of up to €250 a year ➡️ bit.ly/3Su4qTQ
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Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Of course policy & systemic solutions are what’s needed most, but some of the most powerful climate actions you can do as an individual are switching to solar/electrifying everything you can, minimizing your food waste, and eating more plants & fewer animal-based foods (especially beef & lamb).
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 29/06/2026
Climate change -> warmer winters -> more ticks spreading across Canada … and research shows the ones that carry Lyme disease tend to be healthier than the ones that don’t! 🤯
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‘You’re going to be naked’: Thorough tick checks the new norm as parasitic pests spread | CBC News
Once upon a time, no one believed Dr. Vett Lloyd when she said there were ticks in New Brunswick. Now, her lab is filled with the dead bodies of the tiny, parasitic arachnids.
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Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
I’m hardcore pro-environment, hardcore pro-low-emissions, but I’m also pro-aircon. Get one if your city heats up like crazy. Yes they look terrible but your European city wasn’t designed to work on a 35+ degree day. As always, the poor are more severely hit.
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Jake Broe @realjakebroe.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Bingo board update!
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Runs with scissors in the dark @tevistickles.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
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Dominique De Munck @dominiquedemunck.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Due to a malfunction, our upstairs floor cooling is only running at 20%. Four affordable last-minute tips to keep your home bearable and sleep well: 1) Extra sun shading for extreme heat events: car accessory shops sell very cheap reflective sunshades in all sizes, with or without suction cups.
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Dr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
I especially love this diagram.
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David Fickling @davidfickling.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
I lived the first 35 years of my life in London. I can count on my fingers the days when I would have needed AC. The climate was cooler then! Even when my parents did a renovation 10 years ago, they didn’t install AC because they had never needed it.
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Kees van der Leun @sustainable2050.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Ukraine bringing Russia to a standstill.
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Ember @ember-energy.org · 24/06/2026
NEW | The EU’s battery fleet is set to QUADRUPLE from 43 GW in 2025 to 178 GW by 2030 🔋 As every country sees growth in battery capacity, the EU can absorb far more wind and solar power and reduce its reliance on gas for grid balancing. The full clean flex story below👇 🧵 1/6
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 24/06/2026
I see AC as pretty much in the same category as EVs. They are both badly required but also "required" can mean many things Minimising demand for them is good, but requires long-term structural change. Ensure those who need them get them in the short-term, to save lives www.wri.org/insights/eur...
A hierarchy of cooling strategies
Prevent excessive hot from enterity Oe
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Manage teat within the
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T&E @transportenvironment.org · 24/06/2026
NEW: Cars are growing 1.2 cm longer every year, a new study from T&E and @cleancitiescampaign.org shows. European cities are set to lose between 8.5% and 14% of their on-street parking by 2040 if this trend continues unchecked. 🧵⤵️
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Lauren Dobson-Hughes @ldobsonhughes.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Musk says not a single person has died due to him axing USAID. Sadly, part of my job involves tracking aid spending. So here’s a thread with just some of the people who lost their lives because of USAID cuts
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Leo Hickman @leohickman.carbonbrief.org · 24/06/2026
Extreme heat is life-threatening in a variety of ways www.itv.com/news/meridia...
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