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Tom Harvey

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Here to talk climate, energy transition and tech startups. Or, maybe sometimes, things that aren’t my job. 🏠 Valencia, Spain 🇪🇸 👶🏻 Glasgow, Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 … took the scenic route between them

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Tom Harvey @tom.electron-one.com · 07/06/2026
@robinwobbles.bsky.social me, my wife and our 6yr old spent a long time today loving line wobbler and quantum jungle in Madrid. Amazing fun! Don’t suppose you have a github (or sponsored equivalent)? It’s a work of creative genius!
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Bryan Robinson @brob.dev · 08/04/2026
We don't need to speed up production. We need to slow down. We don't need to write code faster. We need to think through what we write. We've spent decades working to ship faster, and that's landed us in a world of hurt. Build better products, not faster.
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
A colleague just alerted me to this. Buckle up: Anthropic's new Claude Mythos has the capacity to hack any platform anywhere to attack and change data. Rather than saying "this is a bad idea," Anthropic gave big cap companies a chance to shore up their platforms FIRST, www.anthropic.com/glasswing
anthropic.com
Project Glasswing: Securing critical software for the AI era
A new initiative to secure the world’s most critical software and give defenders a durable advantage in the coming AI-driven era of cybersecurity.
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Tor "SolarFred" Valenza @torsolarfred.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Data center survey reveals majority believe renewables and BESS are the ideal energy mix, power issues start in 2027 #energysky -- via pv magazine usa:
pv-magazine-usa.com
Data center survey reveals majority believe renewables and BESS are the ideal energy mix, power issues start in 2027
54% of respondents cited “energy availability and redundancy” as the single greatest obstacle to successful data center development between now and 2030.
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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
is that a lot
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Tom Moyer @tommoyerut.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
“China is now making more money from exporting green technology than America makes from exporting fossil fuels. This trend will continue simply because renewables are cheap.” 🔌💡 Gift link: China’s clean-energy revolution will reshape markets and politics
economist.com
China’s clean-energy revolution will reshape markets and politics
The world’s biggest manufacturer now has an interest in the world decarbonising
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Mark Gongloff @markgongloff.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
"Spain’s rapid renewables build-out means its power prices were set by fossil generation just 19% of the time, down from 75% in 2019. As a result, wholesale electricity was almost a third cheaper than the EU average" Imagine having cheaper power Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
bloomberg.com
Spain’s Renewable-Energy Boom Loosens Gas’s Grip on Power Prices
Soaring renewables output in Spain is weakening gas’s grip on electricity prices, setting the country apart from much of Europe where fossil fuels still dictate the cost of power.
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Ooh, Adam Curtis is back. "...life in Britain today has become strange - a hazy dream-like flux in which no one can predict what is coming next. While distrust in politicians keeps growing. And the political class seem to have lost control."
bbc.com
Shifty - A new series by Adam Curtis coming to BBC iPlayer in June 2025
Shifty shows, in a new and imaginative way, how over the past 40 years in Britain extreme money and hyper-individualism came together in an unspoken alliance
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SUPPORTING PALESTINE @apirus.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez announced that his country will submit a draft resolution to the UN General Assembly calling for "urgent action to stop the massacre of civilians in Gaza and ensure the entry of humanitarian aid into the Strip." #gaza #palestine #israel #aid #blockade
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Spain announces urgent UN action to stop massacre in Gaza
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez announced that his country will submit a draft resolution to the UN General Assembly calling for "urgent action to stop the massacre of civilians in Gaza and ensur...
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Joannes Laveyne @jolaveyne.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Much ado about the role of renewable energy (RE) in the Spanish blackout. The investigation into the effective cause is still ongoing, but many pointed to the fact that RE has no ‘inertia’. Is that true? The answer is: yes, but ... 🧵
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Tom Harvey @tom.electron-one.com · 06/05/2025
Turns out individual actions aren’t the real problem; systemic change is needed to solve climate change … again. But make it “AI” Some great⚡️analysis here from @hannahritchie.bsky.social which I’ve massively oversimplified for an intro. 🔌💡 www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com/p/carbon-foo...
sustainabilitybynumbers.com
What's the carbon footprint of using ChatGPT?
Very small compared to most of the other stuff you do.
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☁️ retornam ☁️ @retornam.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
I’m skeptical about the $3 billion valuation of a VSCode fork that relies on an AI API service it doesn’t own.
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Tom Harvey @tom.electron-one.com · 05/05/2025
I was listening to @trientertainment.bsky.social … and then “something unexpected happened” when Marina Hyde revealed a new Adam Curtis film called Shifty due out in June! Podcast went out 6 days ago but I can’t find any more about it. I did learn that there is a DJ called Adam Shifty tho.
Transcript of the show:

“I watched a new cut of Adam Curtis's forthcoming series of films, which I don't think people actually know is forthcoming, but it is. It's coming to iPlayer in early June, I think, and it's called Shifty and it's about the 80s. It's a sort of social history, so it's totally different from what we did before.

It's really interesting. Kind of like how we all shifted in a sort of consciousness, shifted to this completely individualistic thing. He's very good at making you realize how things felt when they were happening and your memories are false.”

From The Rest Is Entertainment: How Liz Hurley Slid Into Billy Ray Cyrus’s DMs, 29 Apr 2025
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-rest-is-entertainment/id1718287198?i=1000705296835&r=113
This material may be protected by copyright.
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Tom Harvey @tom.electron-one.com · 03/05/2025
I thought it was remarkably fast! 👏 Getting the cities (mostly) back online before night fall was a huge win in so many ways. When/if we learn more about the causes it’ll become clear how it came back online. But it’s my understanding that there was black start required.
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Tom Harvey @tom.electron-one.com · 28/04/2025
Rapid (your views may vary) recovery of the Spanish grid. For those on #energysky who are following our news. 10hr after the blackout. At 70% of predicted load. Detail in the alt text. Long way to go to meet tomorrow’s peak. Src: (in Spanish and behind paywall) elpais.com/espana/2025-...
12:35 and the grid demand collapses (blackout) to 10GW

Fails to meet the usual demand peak of 34GW at 21:00

Currently back at 19GW of expected 27GW at 22:35 (70%)
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Tom Harvey @tom.electron-one.com · 28/04/2025
Probably shouldn’t have made snarky comments about the Texas grid this morning… Of all days… When I live in Spain. 🌚 #energysky
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Tom Harvey @tom.electron-one.com · 28/04/2025
I would be remiss not to live post from #spain to #energysky today; here’s the grid mix now (massive blackout across the country) vs yesterday. Courtesy of @electricitymaps.com Looks like the gas and nuclear have *vanished*. But solar is ~half of what is was yesterday. And it’s plenty ☀️ today
Yesterday’s grid mix in spain. Predominantly solar (12GW) with a bit (4GW) of each of hydro, wind and nuclear. Today’s grid mix, with only solar and wind generating any meaningful amount. But still way less than yesterday. Solar is down to 5GW and wind is only 2.75GW. And that’s all the whole country gets today. Blackout time.
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Tom Harvey @tom.electron-one.com · 27/04/2025
If the infra (power grids) aren’t there yet - use what you have. Can’t help but think of this old quote. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_...
Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway. — Andrew s Tanenbaum
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Tor "SolarFred" Valenza @torsolarfred.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
New way to improve accuracy of electricity price forecasts #energysky -- via pv magazine global: www.pv-magazine.com/...
pv-magazine.com
New way to improve accuracy of electricity price forecasts
Researchers at the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) have developed a new filtering technique to improve electricity price forecasts by refining historical price data before applying predictive models.
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Phillip Carter @phillipcarter.dev · 03/03/2025
Well I think I've fully come around to the idea that LLMs are computers. So I wrote about that. I guess this is my most bombastic blog post www.phillipcarter.dev/posts/llms-c...
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LLMs Are Weird Computers
A perspective on AI models as an inverted computing paradigm
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Tom Harvey @tom.electron-one.com · 24/03/2025
I’ve spent the past 4ish weeks wrestling with my own realisation of this. And here it is all written out neatly. Perfectly describing the journey and (so far) conclusions. 👌🏻
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Matt Traverso Ph.D. @matttraversophd.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Electricity prices are up 40% since 2021 but fossil fuels are cheap. The power isn't any cleaner, either. Here's a free link where I dig into the cost spike and show why normal improvements are passed off as sustainability initiatives. medium.com/the-new-clim... 🔌💡 #energyhub
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Jonathan @renewableenergy.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
An Iphone can be optimized to charge when your grid has more renewables and thereby reduce your carbon impact. Below is a very brief video demonstrating how to do that. For the visually impaired, I have written instructions in the comments. #energysky #greensky #energytransition
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Tom Harvey @tom.electron-one.com · 20/12/2024
Anyone on #energysky got this?
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Rehan van der Merwe @rehanvdm.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
"Simplicity requires discipline." - Dr. Werner Vogels. This is now one of my favorite quotes It perfectly captures the mindset needed to tackle complex systems. Here are some other key takeaways: 🧵
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Alex @blangry.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Stands to reason if you imagine technology works like Star Trek. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
stands to reason that there are savings to be made if the Cabinet Office get their teeth stuck into applied AI and better use of consistent software across government
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Tyler Norris @tnorris.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
Seeing consistent interest in this starter pack - who's missing? Just added @jgkoomey.bsky.social! 🔌💡
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Just Kevin @kevinleecaster.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
The fossil fueled power plant closures never seem to draw nearly as much mainstream and social media attention as do the renewable energy shortfalls.
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Juan-Pablo Velez @jpv.switch.box · 15/12/2024
So if this keeps happening, energy tariffs will rise accordingly
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Tom Harvey @tom.electron-one.com · 14/12/2024
German ⚡️power price went above €1000/MWh (avg is 75) last week. Weather meant 16GW less renewable generation than usual. Blasted intermittent sources! There was also 11GW of fossil generation unavailable, due to malfunctions. Tech malfunctions. Definitely not Enron-esque trading malfunctions. 🔌💡
cleanenergywire.org
Short-term power prices spike amid new ‘Dunkelflaute’ in Germany, most customers unaffected
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Tom Harvey @tom.electron-one.com · 11/12/2024
It’s almost as though the likes of BP and Shell have an incentive to give the renewables sector a bad name… 🔌 💡
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Tom Harvey @tom.electron-one.com · 10/12/2024
Why is this still the aesthetic of all residential battery storage and solar inverters? 10yr since the powerwall arrived, can we have something different? 🔌 💡
Apple Magic Mouse - famously awkward to charge
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Chris Meder @evcurvefuturist.com · 07/12/2024
Launching in 2025, world’s largest, zero-emissions, fully electric, aluminum ferry will carry 225 cars & 2,100 passengers between Argentina & Uruguay. Powered by 40 MWh battery (~667 EVs, 287 tons), charges faster than any system today! Half the weight of steel ships, proof electricity powers all!
wartsila.com
How to power this special, zero-emissions catamaran ferry
Incat Tasmania and Wärtsilä are combining their smarts to build the world’s largest zero-emissions, lightweight catamaran ferry for the South American Buquebús.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 06/12/2024
Hello everyone, this is all playing out exactly as we warned: nuclear gets used as a rhetorical empty future promise while big tech companies actively and knowingly increase the climate damage they're enabling today www.theregister.com/2024/12/05/m...
Day after nuclear power vow, Meta announces largest-ever datacenter powered by fossil fuels
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Louisiana facility's three natural gas turbine plants to churn out 2,262 MW
iconBrandon Vigliarolo
Thu 5 Dec 2024 // 22:20 UTC
Richland Parish, an idyllic rural area in northeast Louisiana, USA, is set to host a gigantic new Meta datacenter.

But instead of being powered by one of the on-site nuclear power plants Zuckercorp has previously advocated for, the facility is opting to drive its AI computing workload by burning more fossil fuels. 

The 4 million square foot, $10 billion facility, hailed by Louisiana governor Jeff Landry as "a game changer," is one of the largest private capital investments in the history of the bayou state and will be Meta's largest-ever datacenter, the Facebook parent said.

As the governor's announcement noted, construction on the facility will "continue through 2030" despite groundbreaking planned for this month - in other words, right in line with Meta's plans to ramp up nuclear power for its next generation of AI datacenters as shared in a request for proposals (RFP) yesterday.

Meta has decided to jump the atomic gun with this project by partnering with Entergy instead. The power generation company plans to construct three combined-cycle combustion turbine (CCCT) plants with a total energy generation capacity of 2,262 megawatts. 

CCCT plants burn natural gas, but are configured (and marketed) as less pollutive than traditional natural gas power plants. Along with burning natural gas to spin a gas turbine, combined cycle plants use waste heat to spin a secondary steam turbine, thus creating more watts for their carbon buck. They're still burning natural gas to do so, of course, thus releasing more of the greenhouse gases - an issue Meta has pledged to address (with the purchase of offsets, naturally) by the end of the decade.
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Tom Harvey @tom.electron-one.com · 06/12/2024
There’s a false dichotomy in AI discourse: 1. AI is dumb. Nothing to worry about. 2. AI is becoming hyper intelligent. Panic! When the below perfectly highlights the danger in AI being dumb, and humans are applying it foolishly*. * That’s assuming the kindest interpretation of our applications.
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David McCoy @davidmccoy.com · 05/12/2024
"Old code never dies—you have to kill it" — @gradybooch.bsky.social What a fascinating interview, highly recommended.
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Tom Harvey @tom.electron-one.com · 28/11/2024
Your Code Is A Liability chrismdp.com/your-code-is... A quick and timeless read from @chrismdp.com 🪳Features (not code) are your asset 🙂‍↔️ More code: less responsive to change 🧪 Test the critical, risky bits 🚮 Cut the superfluous (code & features) 🐢 Pair & share. Slow is fast, fast is slow
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Agnes Mack @agnessmack.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
From meganjherbert.bsky.social in SMH
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Nicolò Ribaudo @nicr.dev · 23/11/2024
Developers, do you want to verify yourself here but don't have a personal domain? You can use your GitHub account! 🦋🐱 I temporarily renamed myself to @nicolo-ribaudo.github.io :)
Screenshot of my Bluesky profile, showing @nicolo-ribaudo.github.io as the handle
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Gregor Macdonald @gregor.us · 20/11/2024
Two reasonable ideas that are not working. 1. We'll build so much wind, solar, storage that we'll cut into FF in global power, sending emissions into decline. 2. We'll build so much wind, solar, storage there'll be no need for nuclear. #energysky
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Tom Harvey @tom.electron-one.com · 18/11/2024
Simple thing I like about Bluesky: > When I click a link, it opens in a real web browser.
media.tenor.com
a woman in a suit and a pink shirt is sitting in a chair and smiling .
ALT: a woman in a suit and a pink shirt is sitting in a chair and smiling .
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Andrew Sissons @acjsissons.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Now this place is cooking, maybe worth doing a big old energy thread. Let’s talk about how electricity prices are set, why they’re so high in Britain, and how we could reduce them… 🧵
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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Why I’m optimistic about the energy transition: Humans tend to underestimate the pace of innovation and overestimate the inertia of incumbent technologies. Clean energy technologies have scaled much more rapidly than predicted by modellers
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Tom Harvey @tom.electron-one.com · 17/11/2024
You know you paid a smart meter? What do you think happened next: 1. Hard news from BBC Panorama for 🇬🇧 (or vpn) users www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis... 2. Laughing at the absurdity of it all (how else to deal with it?!) while informing deeply with @volts.wtf for all www.volts.wtf/p/free-the-s... 🔌💡
bbc.co.uk
Panorama - The Truth about Smart Meters
Smart meters are supposed to make paying our energy bills easier and cheaper. But is that the whole story?
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Karin Kirk @karinkirk.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Some good news for a change. China's EVs are helping lower oil demand in China, which is the 2nd largest consumer of oil. The same is happening here in the US. Love to see it. #EnergySky www.reuters.com/business/ene...
reuters.com
World faces oil surplus in 2025 on weak demand, IEA says
Global oil supply will exceed demand in 2025 even if OPEC+ cuts remain in place, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said on Thursday, as rising production from the United States and other outside producers outpaces sluggish demand.
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Tom Harvey @tom.electron-one.com · 13/11/2024
Rivian and VW Group announce a $5.8bn joint venture, making sure that all that cool EV truck tech goes on living and makes its way to VW wheels. www.theverge.com/2024/11/12/2...
theverge.com
VW and Rivian officially kick off $5.8 billion joint venture, announce leadership
Subcompact cars will also be part of the deal.
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Tom Harvey @tom.electron-one.com · 11/11/2024
The current 2TW of global solar generation is equal to the total electricity capacity (all fuel types) of 🇺🇸 + 🇮🇳 + 🇬🇧 With ambitions for 8TW in the next 6yr, they are right to say: “we need to unlock financing and bring down the cost of capital for solar projects, particularly in the Global South”
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Tom Harvey @tom.electron-one.com · 07/11/2024
If only everyone was pushing in the same direction to fight climate change. Like this - but preventative! Today, one week after the floods, people in Valencia are fighting the affects of climate change together.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 08/11/2024
I meant to do this ages ago but finally got around to it - this is a 'getting started on climate bluesky' doc that gathers up basic intro stuff, climate starter packs and climate feeds *Please* reply with everything I've forgotten (which is a lot), I had to smash this out quickly last night!
docs.google.com
How to join climate-bluesky
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Leah Stokes @leahstokes.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
Lots of new people joining Bluesky in the clean energy and climate worlds over the last few days. I know there are starter packs, but also why don't people introduce themselves? Reply here to say hi!
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