Cartoon image of a chef cutting Shawarma with the words“unknown pleasures” underneath

When it comes to the energy transition I'm a glass half full person.

I know: plenty of people would say that's terribly naive. They point to the scale of the challenge. They point to vested interests. They point to hard-to-abate sectors.

And they're not wrong. But here's what they miss.

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this wikipedia editor is orbiting the moon right now!

👍 Good news from new @ember-energy.org research: wind and solar overtook fossil fuels in the EU electricity mix for the first time ever in 2025.
🌪️ and ☀️ made up a record 30% of 🇪🇺 electricity, up from 20% just five years ago.

Read the full electricity review below 👇

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Brother Warnock lays it plain.

"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk

Brazil records biggest annual fall in emissions in 15 years, notably thanks to fight against deforestation The gross emissions of Latin America's biggest country fell by 16.7% year-on-year, according to Brazil's Climate Observatory, a network of environmental NGOs.

Some good news: Brazil's fight against deforestation is paying climate dividends.

Thanks for the post, I promise I’ll update it at some point, it’s criminal to miss Andor S2 😬

Strongly resisting the urge to build that in Lego atm 😬

Coming up soon!

Considering they also offer LiDAR data covering almost the entire territory for free, what is exactly preventing me from building a French competitor to Google Solar? 🙃 (lol)

Screenshot of BD TOPO opened in QGis

My jaw literally dropped when I checked out @ignfrance.bsky.social's BD TOPO (high precision database of French infrastructure, here in vector format). Last time I checked (years ago admittedly), this was something that cost several thousands euros for a single département.

How to Watch the Star Wars Movies & TV in Order | Star Wars Watch Guide YouTube video by Star Wars Lads

Metadata from TMDB, OMDB and IMDB. Story order based on a video from the Star Wars Lads: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Id_b...

Interactive version: erik.nz/sw/
Built with @observablehq.com and #D3

Entries with an IMDb rating above 6.6 are visually highlighted—offering a guide past the less beloved moments in the saga, marked as the "Jar Jar Zone".

In these turbulent times—while the galaxy reels from crisis to crisis—sometimes the only way forward… is sideways, into Star Wars canon. A timeline of every Star Wars show, charted in story-order from the dawn of the Republic to the First Order. #DarthJarJar #StarWars #MayThe4th #Andor #dataviz

NEW | 74% of the global population lives in countries that are net importers of fossil fuels.

12 countries supply 80% of net fossil fuel exports - with rising trade uncertainty, this puts much of the world at risk.

1/8 🧵

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What appears to be a massive flock of birds in red, purple and blue colours in a pale blue sky. Each "bird" represents a bird species, and their colour represents their conservation status from the IUCN Red List. Around one third of species appear to be near threatened, endangered or extinct

This dataviz is absolutely amazing 😍 Global bird species' conservation status displayed as a massive flock!

By Andrea Garrec, longlisted for the 2024 Information Is Beautiful Awards

www.informationisbeautifulawards.com/showcase/731...

#dataviz 📊🌏🧪🐦🦉🦆🦅

In 2004, it took the world a year to add one gigawatt of solar power — now it takes a day.

Three books I've been reading: - Material World, by Ed Conway - Volt Rush, by Henry Sanderson - InEVitable, by Mike Colias

Extremely enjoyable progression so far... Which one should be next?

A lot of lego bricks neatly ordered as a rainbow color palette

First stab at climate stripes dataviz with Lego

A world map made of lego

I'm afraid I'm going down this rabbit hole of building physical data viz with Lego. #midlifeCrisis
Expect stop motion builds of wind turbines, EV vs petrol car (bar chart) races, me piling up yellow bricks to explain solar autoconsumption, and more 😁

Ever wondered what a country’s meat supply looks like? 🍗🐄🐖🐟

Here’s a breakdown of meat preferences in Japan, the US & Germany—visualized as hybrid animals! A fun (and slightly cursed) way to see food stats. 🧵👇

Why it's okay to use ChatGPT, in 4 graphs

Bon courage !

We're a team of two with Robin Hawkes, and I can't be thankful enough for the chance he gave me to embark on this journey ✌

And in terms of the craft... it's like a candy shop for a dataviz person, and a series of firsts (first time working with Lidar data, first time dabbling with Three.js, first animated dendrograms, first Lego/Arduino wind turbine, first marshmallow-spaghetti towers...)

Five months in, and I am just as giddy with excitement as the day I started. I've been exposed to many fascinating topics already, yet I feel that I've barely scratched the surface.

Octopus Energy is making a fully electrified and decarbonised energy future a tangible prospect in the UK, in Europe, and beyond. Massive ambition, relentless optimism. And it shows in everything it touches: supply, production, flexibility; wind, solar, heat pumps, EVs...

me in front of a wall with the Octopus Energy logo

a lego wind turbine

Stoked to announce that I joined Octopus Energy as a Data Visualisation Engineer last December! (yes, better outrageously late than never)

data visualization of atmospheric CO2 levels over the western hemisphere

Data visualization of sea surface temperatures of the Southern Ocean

Data visualization of sulfate aerosols over Antarctica

Data visualization of Canadian wildfires

I’ve decided to dedicate myself full time to earth.nullschool.net. There is much work to do! In particular, I’m going to explore ways for the site to help fight climate change. More on this in the near future.

It’s been an amazing 10 years. Here’s hoping for 10 more. 🎉