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Helpful brief explainer by @mathewlawrence.bsky.social about current network problems, & promising potential of Burnham’s public grid buildout plans. Look forward to learning more details…

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Robin Berjon @robin.berjon.com · 5h

The social internet — for science! I'm super excited to see @aster.id launching. It's an Atmosphere service provider (like @eurosky.social) for researchers, hosted by your friends at the @modalfoundation.eurosky.social. Why does it matter? Thread time! 🧵

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Carbon Brief @carbonbrief.org · 5h

NEW – Analysis: Wind and solar save UK from gas imports worth £5.9bn during Hormuz crisis | @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org and Ho Woo Nam Read here: buff.ly/K6T9wCt

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Aarne Granlund @aarnegranlund.eurosky.social · 10h

This is how a boreal forest should look like. The Finnish government removed boreal forests from the nature restoration plan without consultation. There are still unprotected small areas in southern Finland left from phased clear-cutting management. #RestoreNature 🌲

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Tom Ackers @tomackers.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Maybe I’m wrong or this is obvious, but I feel like it’s important to distinguish between *physical* (over?)capacity of Chinese EV, PV etc exports, and those exports’ competitive (under?)pricing wrt eg European manufactures, which has secured a ready market for them. bsky.app/profile/fber...

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Tom Ackers @tomackers.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

So anyway yeah, good to R&D electric planes & other ecological alternatives to jet fuel. But in the meantime presumably best to not get excited / feed the hype? and don’t fly at all if possible

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Tom Ackers @tomackers.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Back to @janrosenow.bsky.social Electrification of end-use energy consumption is crucial for decarbonisation. Esp important: heat pumps bsky.app/profile/janr...

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Tom Ackers @tomackers.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

“Non-profit industrial complex” sure. But it’s striking when the designation non-profit is so thoroughly turned inside out, and made a sock puppet for “business”

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Tom Ackers @tomackers.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

“Just as a medical school is embedded into a hospital, our design school is embedded downtown...” Very interesting article, and a nice example of adaptive reuse. Preferable to (often environmentally *and* fiscally irresponsible) prestige new builds in the education sector.

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Tom Ackers @tomackers.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

🌲🌲 Circling back to this: Must-read NYT article by @mikegrunwald.bsky.social about some truly dire proposals for changing the international forest carbon-accounting rules. Technical & boring-sounding 🙈 Profoundly important 👇👇

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Tom Ackers @tomackers.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

“Interesting” re Italy’s RepowerEU funds spent (as of end 2025) 👇

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Tom Ackers @tomackers.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Great reporting. What does “not-for-profit organisation” mean in the context of “hundreds of millions in funding”? Perhaps certain directors, staff & contractors do nevertheless “profit” financially? Perhaps clients / GNC “members” also themselves “profit” from this political access they pay for?

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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

What the public subsidy-reliant CCS industry says when it's amongst friends and potential funders/clients at the Carbon Capture APAC Summit in Melbourne

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Robbie Andrew @robbieandrew.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"The capacity of operating and planned sodium-ion gigafactories in China has risen to more than 400 gigawatt hours, compared with just 11 in the rest of the world" 🎁🔗

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Western companies lag China in sodium battery race

Cells using abundantly available materials could help break the grip on metals needed for EVs and energy storage

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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

If you start from the premise that you need to be able to stomp anyone on earth into submission, then someone failing to submit is indeed a defeat. But maybe the problem is the premise?

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“Interesting” re Italy’s RepowerEU funds spent (as of end 2025) 👇

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

2/ New research from our Johns Hopkins's Net Zero Industrial Policy Lab: The US is pulling back from climate & going all-in on AI. China is stepping in to build green factories overseas. The scale is staggering. Explore the cleantech manufacturing FDI database cmfdi.netzeropolicylab.com

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

5/ May surprise ppl. We found the US is the largest destination for cleantech manufacturing FDI globally US leverage of a large consumer market & IRA manufacturing incentives attracted surge of Korean, Japanese, Chinese. Made IN America was Made BY Asia. cmfdi.netzeropolicylab.com/explorer.html

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

4/ Countries are looking to foreign firms to set up plants, hire & train their workers, insert into global supply chains, do joint R&D, indigenise their technologies, upgrade their economy, To support policy, we made & analysed first comprehensive data of cleantech FDI: cmfdi.netzeropolicylab.com

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Bo Vagner Hansen @bovagner.eurosky.social · 25/09/2026

"About 88 percent of materials are thrown away rather than re-used or recycled in the European Union. That creates mountains of refuse that is expensive to dispose of, and wastes valuable resources that could re-enter the economy rather than being incinerated or buried."

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Tom Ackers @tomackers.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

From me: *Remaking Home Heating in the UK* (2025) For a universal home retrofit + home heating/cooling electrification programme in the UK. Relevant for the cold & for heatwaves too... Various explainers + some detailed proposals 👇👇 peopleandnature.wordpress.com/wp-content/u...

Cover of "Remaking Home Heating in the UK" by Tom Ackers, published by People and Nature. The cover is in two-tone pink and yellow, and shows a photo of a building mid-way through the application of external cladding.

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Tom Ackers @tomackers.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

3 studies / pamphlets by me, at People & Nature @peoplenature.bsky.social 📙 Remaking Home Heating in the UK (Aug 2025) 📗 Making Homes and Energy Transition in Nigeria (Nov 2024) 📘 Decarbonising the Built Environment: a Global Overview (Nov 2023) peopleandnature.wordpress.com/decarbonisin...

Covers of 3 studies by Tom Ackers, published on People & Nature

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Tom Ackers @tomackers.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

How NOT to do retrofit & home heating/cooling electrification in the UK👇

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How NOT to do retrofit & home heating/cooling electrification in the UK👇

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IPBES @ipbes.net · 24/09/2026

Up to 700 million people could be forced to migrate by 2050 due to declining land productivity, coupled with climate change which significantly affects global drylands. 🏡 This poses severe risks of forced migration, food insecurity and regional socioeconomic instability. 🌍

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Nicholas Beuret @nicholasbeuret.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The convergence of a ‘Godzilla’ El Niño, the war on Iran and the demand for critical minerals is all creating a massive spike in commodity prices But it’s not an ‘accidental’ convergence; it’s a new kind of commodity super cycle 👉 tinyurl.com/3h7bpy8b 1/6

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Tom Ackers @tomackers.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Retrofit + home heating electrification + solar panel installations *done wrong* in the UK. - The botched ECO4 scheme is "the next Post Office scandal" Another important report by @simonpirani.bsky.social From a @fuelpovertyaction.bsky.social event on Saturday 👇👇

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Erin Lockwood @erinkaylockwood.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

And given that many of these "third party" countries offer no legal status for the people we are trafficking there, it's also in many cases forced statelessness.

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Tom Ackers @tomackers.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I really like this from @doctorow.pluralistic.net LLM outputs as *extrusions* Our own involuntary hallucinations invest AI with ~subjectivity~ as when reading a novel. Except AI outputs have no (singular) author, & correspond to no (one) underlying set of (human) choices.

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Aarne Granlund @aarnegranlund.eurosky.social · 21/09/2026

If you wonder why we keep talking about land use in Finland, see the light green LULUCF figure. It's hard to be carbon-neutral in 2035 according to our target when the 'neutral' part is almost gone. No reductions in transport. Great website @wflamb.bsky.social lambwf.github.io/Tidy-GHG-Inv...

Finnish and EU GHG emissions and LULUCF figures. The Finnish land sink went to near zero due to excessive harvesting of industrial biomass plantations.

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Aarne Granlund @aarnegranlund.eurosky.social · 21/09/2026

The right wingers invoked austerity, caused mass unemployment and now the advice for Finns is to both save money for their pensions and consumer spend as much a possible to grow the economy. yle.fi/a/74-20246740

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A quarter of Finns have less than €770 in the bank, report finds

Last year, the typical Finnish adult had just under 5,000 euros in the bank.

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Tom Ackers @tomackers.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Great project in Birmingham: “you will build foundational joinery skills, work directly with materials to understand the value of alternative construction materials and processes” Public Square microfactory co-build Regenerative building technology with MJM Bespoke + Material Cultures

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Isabella M. Weber @isabellamweber.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Our constitution allows the socialization of means of production for the common good because a key lessons of the Nazi era was: democracy needs an economic defense.

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Tom Ackers @tomackers.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Related - this in Helsinki, a common sight👇 Helsinki generally v good on transit. Merely ok for walking & cycling, v car-centric, strong motonormativity. Ok to block pavement traffic, rarely so for motor traffic. (Full pavement parking for loading/unloading also utterly habitual & normalised.)

A pavement near the city centre in Helsinki, closed with a “no pedestrians” sign, and construction / maintenance work visible blocking the full width of the pavement behind. Alongside, a wide road remains open for two lanes of motor traffic in both directions. No alternative pedestrian route is provided.

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Daniela Gabor @danielagabor.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

We were a bit early in our predictions but unfortunately quite accurate - we're heading for a world of shortages and we can't manage them with neoliberal state institutions.

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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

"The Integrated Assessment Models informing policy-makers assume the large-scale use of negative-emission technologies. If we rely on these and they are not deployed or are unsuccessful at removing CO2 from the atmosphere at the levels assumed, society will be locked into a high-temperature pathway"

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The trouble with negative emissions

Reliance on negative-emission concepts locks in humankind's carbon addiction

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Andy Scollick @andyscollick.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Scientists: The world must nose dive CO2, methane and other greenhouse gas emissions if we are to avoid global societal destruction. Engineers: Yes, we have the technology. We can do that. Politicians: Nah. Let's burn more oil and gas. Keep things popular whilst we fight the next general election.

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Kate Mackenzie @katemac.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Pretty rotten. Even tho Pakistan avoided billions in LNG costs because of all their solar… they still have a lot of LNG dependency, legacy baked in a decade ago. Bangladesh is even worse position

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Carbon Brief @carbonbrief.org · 18/09/2026

📊 Captured New analysis for Carbon Brief shows that India’s power-sector emissions have roughly flatlined. This marks the first time in more than 50 years that there has been no growth in India’s coal power over a two-year period, with clean-energy covering the electricity demand growth instead.

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