The energy transition is moving faster than even we likely predicted. ⚡
Since we launched Energy vs Climate in 2020:
🚗 EVs: 4% ➡️ 22% of new car sales
☀️ Solar: 3% ➡️ ~7% of global energy
The transition isn't theory anymore. It’s happening.
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Join @davidkeith.bsky.social, @shastingssimon.bsky.social, and Ed as they talk nuclear with Jason Donev, professor of Energy Science and Physics at the University of Calgary, and one of the country's clearest thinkers on energy.
Register now:
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@davidkeith.bsky.social’s original pitch for the pod was a bit different than the Ed/Sara/David trio you know today.
Check out this clip from our "Listener Takeover" episode (link) www.energyvsclimate.com/listener-tak...
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Danielle Smith as the third co-host of Energy vs. Climate?
New ep: Listener Rob Tremblay turns the tables on Sara & Ed — origin story, six years of change, and why the show's core tension is more relevant than ever.
www.energyvsclimate.com/listener-tak...
#EnergyTransition #ClimatePolicy
"It's not a philosophical thing for Danielle Smith or Trump. They are mercenaries — they have the intellect to know better."
John Vaillant on denial, the courts, and who's actually leading on climate now. New Energy vs Climate ep.
#ClimateChange #ClimateDenial #FireWeather #EnergyVsClimate
Canada says nuclear is part of the plan.
What would an actual plan require?
@davidkeith.bsky.social, @shastingssimon.bsky.social & Ed chat with physicist Jason Donev - SMRs, costs, waste. Live April 21.
Register: www.energyvsclimate.com/youre-invite...
#nuclear #energypolicy #cleanenergy #Canada
EVs are winning. They're obviously going to win. The US is punching itself in the dick by clinging to ICE vehicles.
In the 1950s, climate science was nonpartisan. Republicans and Democrats both took it seriously. John Vaillant on what happened next — and why he calls it "the greatest betrayal in the history of the human race." New Energy vs Climate ep.
#ClimateChange #ClimateDenial #FireWeather #EnergyVsClimate
12% humidity = Death Valley in July. Put that into the boreal forest after a 2-year drought and you don't get a fire. You get a firestorm.
John Vaillant on the new Energy vs Climate episode.
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#Wildfire #FireWeather #ClimateChange #EnergyVsClimate
Fire breaks, water bombers, fire hydrants — John Vaillant says they all become irrelevant in a firestorm. It's the embers that burn the houses down. New ep of EvC - www.energyvsclimate.com/s7-bonus-fir...
#Wildfire #FireWeather #ClimateChange #EnergyVsClimate
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I did credit @blakeshaffer.bsky.social as the original source of this!
@shastingssimon.bsky.social "If you wanted a recipe for a global recession: impose a bunch of tariffs, then have an oil price shock."
Are high gasoline prices the best EV ad?
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#OilPrices #EVs #EnergyTransition #IranWar #ClimateChange
Geopolitics enters the kitchen differently depending on where you live.
For the west it's food prices. For others, it's cooking fuel. Then there are other ripples: data centres, energy markets. energyvsclimate.com
#IranWar #EnergyPolicy #EnergyCrisis
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Best analogy we've heard for AI & grid pressure 🍋
One lemon stand, one tree → you can afford to waste lemons.
Now there are 5 stands under the same tree. Everyone has to squeeze harder.
MIT's Vijay G. from EvC's latest episode.
#AIEnergy #ClimateChange
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The AI energy conversation is focused on the wrong thing.
Training = ~20% of lifecycle energy use.
Inference = ~80%.
Every query shifts the balance further. MIT's Vijay Gadepally from our latest episode. 🎙️
#AIEnergy #MachineLearning #EnergyVsClimate
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A single AI server node draws 30–50 kilowatts of power.
That's the equivalent of you plus 10–15 neighbours' daily energy use at the same time.
MIT's Vijay Gadepally on the real energy cost behind every prompt you send. 🎙️
#AIEnergy #ClimateChange #EnergyVsClimate
One AI query = electricity for 10-15 homes.
MIT's Vijay Gadepally on why 80% of AI energy now comes from using it (not training), how agentic AI uses 10x more power, and why one vacation planning request consumed 500,000 tokens.
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#AI #ClimateChange #Energy
18.64 million EV chargers in China versus 35,000 across Canada.
Christina Pan walks through exactly how China built that — and why the model looks nothing like what we have here.
Full episode → energyvsclimate.com
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#EVs #EnergyTransition #CleanEnergy #ClimatePolicy
China's energy transition isn't a story about ideology or green identity.
It's institutional — set direction, tolerate failure, scale ruthlessly when something works.
With @shastingssimon.bsky.social and @davidkeith.bsky.social.
Full episode → energyvsclimate.com
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Very interesting convo on aviation and what can, and can't, be done to lower its emissions.
@energyvsclimate.bsky.social
www.energyvsclimate.com
#cdnpoli #globalwarming #climatechange
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Andrew Light recounting a conversation at COP with a senior Chinese nuclear official.
China looked at the global pledge to triple nuclear by 2050 and decided it was too small a target to bother signing onto.
Full episode → energyvsclimate.com
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We're recording an episode on AI & emissions.
Send us your questions:
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#AI #ClimateChange
@jeremywallace.bsky.social argues that China's EV success is less about state control than about brutal startup competition. Capitalism working the way it's supposed to.
Full episode → energyvsclimate.com/new-episode-...
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#EnergyTransition #CleanEnergy #ClimatePolicy
This was a fun episode, each of us talked to different folks (thanks @jeremywallace.bsky.social and Christina (who is not on bsky?) both inside and outside of China and then we got together for a quick chat about what we heard.
(and yes it was a logistical nightmare for @amitinoz.bsky.social)
New episode of Energy vs Climate — and it's a different format.
David, Sara, and Ed each interviewed experts separately. Then debriefed together.
Four guests. A lot of assumptions challenged.
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"If there is all this money coming out—dividends, buybacks—and it continues to be a cash cow, why should public money go into this business?"
@shastingssimon.bsky.social from our Calgary live show: www.energyvsclimate.com/albertas-ene...
#Alberta #ClimatePolicy
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I enjoyed listening to this conversation on my bike commute this morning, and was very happy that @shastingssimon.bsky.social you corrected the take on the IEA 'backtracking' on peak oil... and seeing today's news illustrates that this is an important difference.
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We're recording an episode on AI & emissions.
Send us your questions:
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