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Chris Meder @evcurvefuturist.com · 12/07/2026

We tend to think of EVs as just transportation. Increasingly, they're distributed energy assets. Every battery on wheels can provide backup power, run equipment or help communities during disasters. As millions more EVs hit the road, that resilience scales automatically. #Bettrification #EVs #V2L

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How EVs, hybrids are powering China's flood victims via V2L tech

With widespread power outages, residents are turning NEVs into makeshift power stations, giving them a lifeline to the outside world.

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Stew @stewdean.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

You can tell that #homeassistant, the free home automation tool, was created by developers rather than designers, as its interface is a mess of bad decisions and obscure labels. Want to edit the items in a group? Good luck working out which hidden menu you need. If I had the time...

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Design Week @designweek.co.uk · 05/07/2026

Museum navigation goes circular! Fieldwork Facility’s stunning low-carbon, modular wayfinding for V&A East Storehouse is a masterclass in sustainable design. Built from recycled materials, it treats the physical space like an open-source operating system! Link: www.designweek.co.uk/fieldwork-fa...

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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Is hydrogen low carbon? It depends, far more than most assume. A new synthesis finds that counting the full lifecycle raises hydrogen’s emissions by ~250%. Best vs worst pathway? Up to 50x difference. Hydrogen’s climate benefits can’t be assumed. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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A critical meta-survey of the lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions of hydrogen energy systems

Hydrogen energy systems are central to decarbonization strategies, yet their full climatic footprint remains contested. Lifecycle assessments reveal s…

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Chris Meder @evcurvefuturist.com · 21/06/2026

Electrification isn't just an energy transition. It's a transfer of power > fuel exporters to technology manufacturers. A pathway to greater energy autonomy, sovereignty & independence. Like World Cup, it doesn't inherently favour the richest nations. Cost curves falling so fast everyone can play.

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alexvonwitzleben.bsky.social @alexvonwitzleben.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Even as #DonaldTrump boosts #coal over #cleanenergy, #solarpower remains the leading source of new power. In May, solar supplied more of the US’s electricity than coal, or 12.8%. Coal supplied 12.2%, its fourth-lowest monthly share ever www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... #Republicans #ActOnClimate

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Solar generates more energy in US than coal for first time

Solar supplied 12.8% of US electricity in May even as Trump boosts coal over clean energy

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Lf.Egalitarian @lfegalitarian.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Dear American Automakers, your GOP investment is paying off exactly as we serfs expected. ByeBye “…US is not a significant part of BYD’s current plans. Isolated from the competition, the US market will likely fall further behind and become less globally relevant.” cleantechnica.com/2026/06/10/b...

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BYD: World's Largest Automaker In 5 Years - CleanTechnica

In the recent shareholder meeting, BYD Chairman Wang Chuanfu indicated that the company would become the largest automaker by volume in 5 years and would exceed 10 million units by the end of the deca...

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

“Air pollution fell substantially as Paris restricted car traffic and made way for parks, people-streets and bike-lanes.” Better for the climate, better for health, better for livability and quality of life. Common sense. Such a no-brainer, it’s remarkable that more cities HAVEN’T done the same.

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Paris said au revoir to cars. Air pollution maps reveal a dramatic change.

Air pollution fell substantially as the city restricted car traffic and made way for parks and bike lanes.

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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Pakistan is now the world's #2 solar panel importer. More than India, more than the entire Gulf. Almost none of it policy-driven. Grid power is costly & unreliable, so households go solar themselves. But does that push grid fees higher for everyone left behind? More soon: janrosenow.substack.com

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Chris Meder @evcurvefuturist.com · 27/02/2026

My global power system projections for the next decade, based on historical data & build trends. • 2027: Solar overtakes fossil capacity • 2030: Solar + Wind = 56% of global electricity • 2030: Storage discharge ≈ fossil capacity • 2035: Solar + Wind = 83% We’re deep in #Bettrification

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Mike Dettinger @mdettinger.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

“Cheap solar is “enabling India to develop without the long fossil-fuel detour taken by the West and China. China built on coal; India is building on sun. And what India is doing could also be mirrored in other emerging economies.” e360.yale.edu/features/ind...

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A First Among Major Nations, India Is Industrializing With Solar

While China's push to modernize sparked a surge in burning coal, India is turning to increasingly cheap solar to meet its booming energy needs. Though it faces big hurdles, including a rickety grid, I...

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Stew @stewdean.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Renewables are not about saving world from eco disasters. It’s just a handy side effect.

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alexvonwitzleben.bsky.social @alexvonwitzleben.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

The UK has avoided the need for gas imports worth £1.7bn since the start of the Iran war, as a result of record electricity generation from wind and solar. 🔎 This is according to a new analysis by Carbon Brief. www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-win... #DonaldTrump #ActOnClimate #ClimateActionNow

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Chris Meder @evcurvefuturist.com · 17/05/2026

China switched on the world’s largest open-sea offshore solar farm in late 2025. 2.3M panels. 2,934 steel platforms. Built offshore to survive force-11 gales & sea ice. Powers ~2.67M people. And yes… they’re farming fish underneath it too. Solar above. Food below. Fossils below both.

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Stew @stewdean.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

AI is not going away. When the bubble bursts, it'll just be some AI companies that get reorganised. The growth of AI will continue at pace. So It's important that good, moral people use and understand AI. And the data centres grow their own power, share their heat and circulate water. #AI

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Abilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

The IPCC says we must cut emissions 43% by 2030. The biggest 20 fossil fuel companies are increasing production 23% by 2030. Math doesn’t lie: their growth = our collective death warrant. Time’s almost up. Their greed is just getting started.

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Chris Meder @evcurvefuturist.com · 12/05/2026

Pakistan may be accidentally building one of the world’s first decentralised #solar economies. The craziest part? Real scale barely shows in official stats. Imported 51.5 GW solar panels by late 2025—nearly = entire grid. Yet registered net-metered rooftop solar just 5.3–6.8 GW. #Bettrification

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 08/05/2026

"The unexpected boom in home batteries and the equally surprising surge in rooftop solar installations means that Australia’s target of 82 per cent renewables by 2030 – long dismissed as a lost cause by some – is now very much within reach."

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"Blows your mind:" Regulator says boom in home batteries and PV puts 82 pct renewables within reach

Regulator says surge in home battery and rooftop PV installations puts the 82 pct renewables target back in reach because it reduces the burden on large scale projects.

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Stew @stewdean.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

I use Apple notes as the main way to think. I would use #Google, BUT they insist on separating Docs and Drive, meaning if you end up in Docs, you have no folder view, so no easy way to organise Docs! I would use #Notion, but I can't find a way to turn off the icons (lists are harder to scan)

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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

In China battery electric trucks and hybrid trucks now outsell diesel trucks for the first time.

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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

NEW PODCAST: Electricity is just 20% of global energy. The other 80% (heating, transport, industry) still runs on fossil fuels. Full electrification could cut total energy demand in half. More in my conversation with @bobbyllew.bsky.social of Everything Electric Show youtube.com/watch?v=-jSqcwxpd14

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Why Electrification Could Cut Global Energy Use in Half!

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Chris Meder @evcurvefuturist.com · 10/04/2026

Denmark didn’t “transition” its grid—it replaced it. ~15% → 92% renewable electricity in 25 years. Wind did the heavy lifting. Solar is scaling. Interconnection balanced. Flexibility solved variability. Wind built it. Solar is scaling. Fossil lost it. This IS system replacement. ⚡#Bettrification

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Stew @stewdean.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

My mind is blown. Look Mum No Computer (Sam Battle), a YouTuber I watch on a regular basis, not so much for his music but other stuff, will be the #Eurovision entry for the UK. He's a great choice, but I hope he gets some help with his songwriting.

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Doug Parr @dougparr.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Chart admirably demonstrating the climate trend It's leading to record wildfires, floods, rising seas, extreme storms & typhoons, harvest failures And whilst the tech is around to curtail the problem, humanity, right now, just isn't doing so www.ft.com/content/e995...

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Sam Burgess @oceanterra.org · 14/01/2026

2025 global climate highlights are out: 🌡️ 2025 was 3rd warmest year on record, 1.47ºC above the preindustrial level 📈 2023-2025 is the first three year period above 1.5ºC (according to ERA5) 🌍 The last 11 years have been the warmest 11 years on record See: climate.copernicus.eu/global-clima... ⚒️🧪🌊

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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 13/01/2026

The utterly shameless & widely covered "report" out today, claiming net zero will "cost" £9tn is based on: * Assuming free fossil-fuel energy, free petrol cars, free gas boilers, free gas power plants etc AND * Including climate damages in the "cost" of net zero I kid you not, it is that stupid

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UX Jobs @uxjobs.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

⚡ The Pace Is Picking Up UX isn’t standing still — not even for a second. Teams are scaling, tools are shifting, and the demand for strong designers is accelerating. --- www.linkedin... --- #ux #design #uxjobs #uxjobsweekly #uxdesign #productdesign

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Climate News @climatenews.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

Please watch this important new video from Youtube channel “Just Have a Think”.

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This is not the video I had planned to make.

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Stew @stewdean.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

I just seen the John Lewis ad. I’m now off to the closest JL store one to get some vinyl LPs. Does anyone know which department they’re in?

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Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...

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Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity

Australia's extensive solar power penetration makes so much energy that the government wants to offer free electricity at peak hours.

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Stew @stewdean.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

UK #EV news. Pure EV car sales equal Petrol car sales in October. Both at 26%. Hybrids dominate the market, and as we've seen in Norway, this is a normal occurrence during a transition. Sales of hybrids will decline as battery electric vehicle sales increase. This is according to #newautomotive.

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Stew @stewdean.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

I have unofficially been a Service Designer for most of my career. I also effectively have a degree in it (Interactive System Design). Next Monday, we will have the title officially for the first time. But what is a Service Designer? I think I know, but there is a lot of confusion out there!

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DESIGN THINKING! Comic @designthinking.lol · 20/10/2025

With the AWS outage, now‘s as good a time as any to post this old strip.

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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 13/10/2025

A record 29% — nearly a third! — of all new cars purchased in California during July, August, and September were zero-emission vehicles. DC may be fine with selling out American innovation to China, but California will keep charging ahead toward cleaner air for our communities.

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Stew @stewdean.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

The NIN soundtrack to the new Tron movie is interesting. In places it sounds rushed, like they were under pressure to get something done. In others it evokes Radiohead/J.Greenwood. The duet (track 12) is a standout but feels like it needed something more.

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Robert Llewellyn @bobbyllew.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

This just out. A proper game changer vehicle. I thought it might get a lot of attention and it has. Bigly. youtu.be/wyu_V-T4p98

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Kia PV5: This CHEAP Modular Van Is A Game Changer!

YouTube video by Everything Electric CARS

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DESIGN THINKING! Comic @designthinking.lol · 03/10/2025

Small Language Model. (Yes, I know these are already a real thing. Don't make me tap the sign.)

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Stew @stewdean.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

From 2019 “Since mid-October, Charlie Kirk’s Culture War college tour has been increasingly haunted by the Groyper and nicker Groyper Q&A trolls. These offline trolls use the Q&A-sessions that are part of the Culture War show format to frame Charlie Kirk as a fake, 'anti-white' conservative.”

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Blake Shaffer 🇨🇦 @blakeshaffer.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

This chart is wild. Near vertical direction on solar capacity globally, led by China. And as Ember notes in a new report today, that trend is accelerating with nearly 400GW new capacity in first 6 months of 2025.

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Stew @stewdean.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

I'm a Humanist who spends time with Unitarians! #Thatshumanism is a great introduction to the humanist approach to life, featuring four animations narrated by Stephen Fry, and new posters all about humanism for schools. Have a look here. humanists.uk/thatshumanism/

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That's humanism!

We've teamed up with our patron Stephen Fry, to explore humanist ideas about some of life’s big questions in four animated shorts.

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Stew @stewdean.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Using Windows after using a Mac for over five years to do Design work is like driving a car where all the controls are moved around, so you keep turning on the windscreen wipers instead of the indicators. Why don't all OSs just unify their common elements/keyboard layout or provide a switch option?

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Stew @stewdean.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

I recently spent three weeks in New Hampshire, the US, which involved a lot of driving. I'm a big fan of Electric Cars (#EVs) and managed to cross off a few cars you don't see in the UK, including F150 lighting, Rivians and Lucids. I drove a Kona. Oh, and a few cybertrucks. Less EV density than UK.

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Stew @stewdean.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

Light field tech is the next big thing for real VR and AR. Currently no available VR glasses allow for the eyes to focus on objects, which means instead of 3D we get a stereoscopic 2.5D illusion. Add in the ability to focus and AR become practical and VR becomes how the eyes natural work! Check this

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I've never seen a display like this!

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Stew @stewdean.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

We are being lied to about Net Zero! A clickbait title to point you to a great video that uncovers some of the techniques that politicians and companies are using to push their agenda! www.youtube.com/watch?v=bX1n...

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You've been lied to about Net Zero

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