Hendrik Tiesinga @hendrikt.bsky.social · 24/06/2025What lesson will Iran learn? Become a ‘normal’ country or quickly build more nuclear weapons and missiles for stronger deterrence? 420
Reposted by Hendrik TiesingaHendrik Tiesinga @hendrikt.bsky.social · 21/05/2025Electrification 2.0 = the next wave of climate tech. Ships, planes, factories, proteins, buildings, grids—it’s time to plug the whole economy into clean power. I wrote about the startups, systems, and capital we need to scale it fast: www.linkedin.com/pulse/electr... #energysky #climateskylinkedin.comElectrification 2.0: Kickstarting the Next Exponential RevolutionElectrification has been the backbone of the energy transition and most of the carbon emissions reductions so far. Over the past two decades, we scaled solar, wind, batteries, and electric vehicles fa... 051
Reposted by Hendrik TiesingaJeremy Cliffe @jeremycliffe.bsky.social · 18/06/2025Hell of a chart, this, from @financialtimes.com. Spot the JCPOA. on.ft.com/4kSuQYO 9330891366
Reposted by Hendrik TiesingaDr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 19/06/2025In the past year we've had a series of papers with results that've shocked #climate scientists - the globe is heating #FasterThanExpected & we don't fully know why The public discourse is not keeping up. Here's a series of 5 new studies that climate hawks & journos need to have on their radar 🧵 17286213
Hendrik Tiesinga @hendrikt.bsky.social · 21/05/2025Electrification 2.0 = the next wave of climate tech. Ships, planes, factories, proteins, buildings, grids—it’s time to plug the whole economy into clean power. I wrote about the startups, systems, and capital we need to scale it fast: www.linkedin.com/pulse/electr... #energysky #climateskylinkedin.comElectrification 2.0: Kickstarting the Next Exponential RevolutionElectrification has been the backbone of the energy transition and most of the carbon emissions reductions so far. Over the past two decades, we scaled solar, wind, batteries, and electric vehicles fa... 051
Hendrik Tiesinga @hendrikt.bsky.social · 01/05/2025We signed our first ERW offtake agreement for Southeast Asia! Ping me if you want to know more! 020
Hendrik Tiesinga @hendrikt.bsky.social · 01/05/2025Chatgpt is a pretty decent life and career coach 120
Reposted by Hendrik TiesingaMichael Liebreich @mliebreich.bsky.social · 13/04/2025PV for a neonatal unit. This must be one of the most effective aid projects conceivable, in terms of lives saved per $ spent. Any academics out there want to work on quantifying it? Please RT. youtu.be/yMxJzLNc214?...youtu.beHow Solar Is Saving Babies’ Lives in Sierra Leone — Ep204: Project BoYouTube video by Cleaning Up Podcast 15520
Hendrik Tiesinga @hendrikt.bsky.social · 08/04/2025Trade deficits matter: US imports > exports, funded by a financial surplus—mostly stocks & bonds, not new factories. In 2023, greenfield FDI was just 1.5% of it. It’s trading goods for paper assets, not building industry. 010
Hendrik Tiesinga @hendrikt.bsky.social · 08/04/2025It’s China’s and to a lesser extend Japan and Germany’s beggar thy neighbor trade policies that got us Trump and these tarrifs, not the other way around… 010
Hendrik Tiesinga @hendrikt.bsky.social · 05/04/2025Monday Trump will announce one month tariff delays for the countries that offered concessions or to negotiate… 010
Hendrik Tiesinga @hendrikt.bsky.social · 05/04/2025Without tarrifs or a currency peg this is what happens. 1997 Asia crisis was the real turning point with the build up of offshore dollar reserves. The solution is likely monetary and not tarrifs. 020
Hendrik Tiesinga @hendrikt.bsky.social · 05/04/2025If Trumps gamble works 10% tariffs across the board will stay and deals will be made with individual surplus countries to cut their surpluses through various adjustments, and things will stabilize. Off course it can also turn into an all out downward spiral trade war… 110
Hendrik Tiesinga @hendrikt.bsky.social · 03/04/2025Best explainer on the tariffs I’ve seen so far: youtu.be/1ts5wJ6OfzA?...youtu.beWhy Trump's tariff chaos actually makes sense (big picture)YouTube video by Money & Macro 010
Hendrik Tiesinga @hendrikt.bsky.social · 03/04/2025Let’s say Trump’s tariffs work and the US closes its trade deficit. Where will countries get their trade and reserve currency dollars from? That would cause a massive dollar shortage and global recession. 130
Hendrik Tiesinga @hendrikt.bsky.social · 03/04/2025If Trump’s tariffs work and the US closes its trade deficit. Where will countries get their trade and reserve currency dollars from? 020
Reposted by Hendrik TiesingaRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 30/03/2025NYU canceled a planned speech by the former president of Doctors Without Borders because she planned to discuss the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and cuts to US AID. This is what actual campus censorship looks like.ctvnews.ca‘Climate of fear’: Montreal doctor says NYU cancelled her presentationA Montreal doctor says her presentation at NYU was abruptly cancelled and believes the university did so out of fear of being pressured by the Donald Trump administration. 22291193900
Reposted by Hendrik TiesingaThe Onion @theonion.com · 26/03/2025Teen Warned Not To Accept Group Chat Invites From National Security Advisors She Doesn’t Know 3474550610021
Reposted by Hendrik TiesingaT&E @transportenvironment.org · 25/03/2025Europe’s climate action and energy security are two sides of the same coin. While progress has been made to reduce emissions from road transport, growth in aviation traffic threatens to keep Europe reliant on oil imports. Explore our 2025 State of European Transport ➡️ bit.ly/4c0yYSH 2102
Reposted by Hendrik Tiesingaelia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 24/03/2025Oscar-winning Palestinian director attacked by Israeli settlers and arrested www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...theguardian.comOscar-winning Palestinian director attacked by Israeli settlers and arrestedNo Other Land director Hamdan Ballal attacked by armed settlers in West Bank before being handed to Israeli military, witnesses say 10795552
Hendrik Tiesinga @hendrikt.bsky.social · 19/03/2025Same protocol as China, only travel with burner phone and laptop to the US from now on. 110
Reposted by Hendrik TiesingaMichael Pettis @michaelpettis.bsky.social · 19/03/20251/7 Good Martin Wolf article on Stephen Miran's proposal to restructure the global trading system. My only criticism is his conflating of declining manufacturing employment with declining manufacturing. www.ft.com/content/9fa4... via @ftft.comWill anybody buy a ‘Mar-a-Lago accord’?The US president wants both to protect domestic manufacturing and hold the dollar as the reserve currency 2233
Hendrik Tiesinga @hendrikt.bsky.social · 17/03/2025Trump’s brilliant move is that he combines economic populism with tax cuts for the rich. This mix—pro-worker rhetoric and pro-business policies—keeps both the working class and corporate elite on his side. It’s politically powerful, but economically flawed. 🧵👇 110
Reposted by Hendrik TiesingaRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 12/03/2025The oil industry buys off Congress. No action on climate. The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns. Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care. The list goes on and on. Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction. 608180904863
Reposted by Hendrik TiesingaAmy Westervelt @amywestervelt.bsky.social · 12/03/2025This is where the last few years of criminalizing climate protest have been headed: newrepublic.com/post/192660/...newrepublic.comTrump’s FBI Moves to Criminally Charge Major Climate GroupsThe Trump administration is targeting climate organizations that received a Biden-era grant. 20352195
Hendrik Tiesinga @hendrikt.bsky.social · 12/03/2025China introduces a groundbreaking bismuth-based transistor, outperforming Intel with 40% greater speed and 10% lower energy consumption. Engineers hail it as the fastest and most efficient transistor to date. 110
Hendrik Tiesinga @hendrikt.bsky.social · 11/03/2025Breaking News: Putin is calling for a ceasefire in the trade-war between the USA and Canada. Warning them of the risks of further escalation. More details to follow soon. 000
Hendrik Tiesinga @hendrikt.bsky.social · 11/03/2025S&P down 7% in one week. Is Trump 2.0 turning into a Liz Truss 1.0? 000
Reposted by Hendrik TiesingaBloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 10/03/2025NEW: Five of the billionaires who attended Donald Trump's inauguration have lost a combined $210 billion in wealth since then, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Indexbloomberg.comBillionaires at Trump’s Swearing-In Have Since Lost $210 BillionAs Donald Trump took the oath of office on Jan. 20, he was flanked by some of the world’s wealthiest people. The billionaires present that day — including Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg — h... 54443581148
Hendrik Tiesinga @hendrikt.bsky.social · 09/03/20252025 is becoming quite a year. China is beating the US on AI with Deepseek and Manus. The US pivots to Russia and alienates its traditional allies. Germany blows it budget to re-arm Europe and we haven’t even reached the end of Q1! 010
Hendrik Tiesinga @hendrikt.bsky.social · 09/03/2025Tesla down in China due to intense competition. Tesla down in Europe due to Musk’s political demagoguery. Tesla down in USA due to pro fossil anti-electric Trump (supported by Musk). Maybe the Martians will buy the remaining Teslas from now on? #energysky #climatesky 030
Hendrik Tiesinga @hendrikt.bsky.social · 06/03/2025The simple reason for NATO divergence: Europe borders Russia, and the US borders China (through the pacific). A joint approach would make more sense but now each will deal with their own major challenger… 000
Reposted by Hendrik TiesingaCanadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 04/03/2025One reason for the tariffs was to force the annexation of Canada. The McKinley Tariff declined to make an exception for Canadian products. It was hoped this would make Canada more reliant on the US market, and push Canadians to become the 45th state. 🧵3/10 130148
Hendrik Tiesinga @hendrikt.bsky.social · 05/03/2025Tesla’s sales keep falling… #energysky #climatesky electrek.co/2025/03/05/t...electrek.coTesla (TSLA) sales crash continues in Europe, with Germany down 70%Tesla’s (TSLA) sales crash continues in Europe, with more countries reporting February numbers, including Germany, down 70%. Global sales of... 000
Reposted by Hendrik TiesingaGideon Rachman @gideonrachman.bsky.social · 04/03/2025It is a remarkable statement. But Trump himself has said that’s the strategy 49021
Hendrik Tiesinga @hendrikt.bsky.social · 03/03/2025Real assets don’t need government support. Using tax payer money to pump and dump is insane. 000
Hendrik Tiesinga @hendrikt.bsky.social · 02/03/2025Bottom line of the Zelensky White House fiasco is that Trump is terrible at managing complex international relations and negotiations… 000
Hendrik Tiesinga @hendrikt.bsky.social · 01/03/2025Whilst Europe and the US are bickering China is leapfrogging into the future “This billionaire serial entrepreneur accomplished something Tesla, Apple, Ford and GM have been unable to do: create an inexpensive, popular electrical vehicle—and fast” www.wsj.com/business/aut...wsj.comThe Chinese EV Maker Threatening Ford and GMLei Jun set out to build the ‘Apple of China.’ Xiaomi’s car business is now outpacing Tesla and Rivian. 020
Hendrik Tiesinga @hendrikt.bsky.social · 01/03/2025European Treaty Organization (ETO) – A Proposal for European Defense 🧵 110
Hendrik Tiesinga @hendrikt.bsky.social · 27/02/2025MAGAs embrace of the working classes in tax policy… 010
Hendrik Tiesinga @hendrikt.bsky.social · 25/02/2025How will Trump’s embrace of a multipolar world impact climate and the energy transition? #energysky #climatesky www.linkedin.com/posts/hendri...linkedin.comHendrik Tiesinga on LinkedIn: #multipolar #climatechange #energytransition #trumpHow will Trump’s embrace of a multipolar world impact climate and the energy transition? Trump is steering the U.S. away from its postwar role as the… 120
Hendrik Tiesinga @hendrikt.bsky.social · 25/02/2025It’s a shame that a brand that was a shining beacon for a bright post fossil energy future has fallen so deep. Who will fill the gap? BYD? #climatesky #energysky #byd #tesla 030