NEW ANALYSIS: My new article in @natenergy.nature.com argues Europe keeps responding to energy crises by changing supplier.
95% of EU oil and 88% of gas was imported in 2024.
The structural fix: reduce fossil fuel demand through electrification and efficiency.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
With Orban gone the EU has now approved the 90 billion Euro loan to Ukraine and another package of sanctions on Russia. V good news.
“In Vienna, where primary school numbers are not declining, the city provides large numbers of family-sized homes, especially through large-scale subsidised or municipal housing“ (Once again the answer is obvious, and not far away. But requires a different model of housing—it’s not birth rates, yet)
“The falling numbers of children in London is mirrored across cities in Europe and the US. In Paris, primary school enrolment has fallen by a quarter in the past decade.” (Cities are not cities without diversity) giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
It is exciting to see this being tried and found to work. I was part of a panel about a dozen years looking at regeneration of the high street, and a key recommendation was to get the services everyone needs (NHS, council offices etc) back on the high street - www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
Heat batteries delivering up to 1,200C using off peak electricity:
A Scottish whisky distillery just claimed a world first — producing high-temperature steam for distilling using stored green electricity instead of fossil fuels.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Some thoughts on the suggestion by pro-Brexit politicians that the government's proposal for "dynamic alignment" with EU rules would be a constitutional affront or would be an undemocratic subversion of the 2016 referendum.
(It wouldn't.)
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This does seem to be quite a sensible idea, doesn’t it?
Baffling that some people think otherwise.
Removal is important and matched by storage that is secure and increases in value.
Here’s how we’re turning the built environment into the Planet’s Sixth Carbon Sink, we Build With Carbon!
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This article is not particularly coherent and seeks to create a dichotomy within the Government that does not in fact exist. Decisions on Rosebank and Jackdaw are quite separate from the broader electrification thrust.
www.thetimes.com/article/8616...
UK govt needs to start being serious. The EU isn’t stupid. It even has internet and so, you know, can actually see when Labour is saying nice things about greater integration and cooperation and then elsewhere enacting abhorrent policy that directly impacts EU citizens.
The wrong question is dominating the energy crisis debate.
Every interview starts the same: where do we find replacement fossil fuels and what happens to prices?
In this BBC interview I push back.
This is the moment to talk about escaping fossil fuel dependence - not the daily market noise.
the chicago pope is over on twitter being christlike and everyone's biblesplaining him in the replies lol
15 years ago today, Tony Ingraffea, Renee Santoro & I published the first paper to challenge the idea of fracked shale gas as a "bridge fuel," because of potentially high methane emissions. Our conclusions have held up quite well! The paper is available here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
For the first time ever, heat pumps outsold gas boilers in Germany in 2025.
48% of all new heating systems installed last year were heat pumps. Gas fell to just 39%. A decade ago, heat pumps had a 7% market share. The transformation has been remarkable.
12.7 million battery electric vehicles were sold globally in 2025.
In 2010, the number was barely 10,000.
In China, 1 in 2 new cars sold last year was electric.
The transition is happening faster than almost anyone predicted.
All your life you’ll hear old people say things like “I’d forget my ass if it wasn’t nailed on,” but only when you start to have your own oft-forgotten butt will you begin to get it.
Doing a basic calculation using a chatbot instead of a calculator uses between 2.5 million and 62 million times more energy. And using chatbots for calculations is *extremely common* - the companies have marketed these systems as general purpose, everything-apps!
Lebanon is one of the most surprising clean energy stories in the world.
Solar went from <1% of electricity in 2020 to nearly 30% by 2024.
Not because of policy - because the state grid collapsed and people installed rooftop solar out of sheer necessity.
This week, Brexit finally killed our family business. We cleared out our warehouse, handed back the keys, paid the final bills and said goodbye to our last employee.
What was once a thriving firm died a slow, sad death, all thanks to Farage, Johnson and the gullible idiots they conned. 1/18
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Are you finding yourself inundated with claims that geoengineering, carbon capture, and nuclear are the solutions to the climate crisis?
Read these white papers by our resident @penncssm.bsky.social climate solutions expert, Dr. Joe Romm: web.sas.upenn.edu/pcssm/public...
The future will be electric. Storage, charged with renewable electricity will allow the sun to shine at night & the wind to blow on calm days. "Grid batteries reach stunning new peak of 44 pct of evening demand in world’s fourth biggest economy" 🧪🔌💡☀️💨💧🔋 reneweconomy.com.au/grid-batteri...
In 2025, more power was generated worldwide from renewable energy than from coal, and 91% of new renewables are now cheaper than fossil fuels.
Each year nuclear adds only as much net global power capacity as renewables add every two days.
A real world trial shows how a single electric HGV can save operators over £100,000 over its lifetime - and that's before diesel prices went crazy. www.businessgreen.com/news/4527749...
Interesting new study details how integrating carbon removal projects into the EU Emissions Trading Scheme could play a key role in meeting net zero goals. www.businessgreen.com/news/4527779...
While the UK has been uncertain over Erasmus+, Wales has rolled out its own programme – and the new Senedd should retain it | Gareth Wyn Roberts
Was talking to a guy who started scuba diving in the 1970s and still dives regularly. I asked him what were some of the biggest changes he has seen. I expected something about dive computers & other new tech. His reply: There is so much less life now 🙁
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People seems to be surprised that Starmer isn’t going further re the SM etc. I don’t think that is surprising at all at this juncture. More useful I think to focus on the distance he has moved….
Still I'm sure manning the pothole patrol would have been a better use of the PM's time than a Cobra meeting
OOPS! GB News owner Paul Marshall tried to rebut Christian leaders, who criticised his channel's dodgy climate coverage…but in the process he made 25 dodgy claims of his own 🫠
Impressively, he packed the 25 dodgy claims into just 340 words 👏
Receipts: docs.google.com/docu...
