It makes sense for waste materials, slurry etc. But that is such a small use case scenario.

The post-AI-bubble regulation should start by making it illegal to do circular deals - money invested cannot be used to pay for services, money invested cannot be used for buying hardware, etc, etc. Hell, I'm game for making it illegal to invest in customers at all.

Solar PV delivers about 20 times more energy per acre than grass/ biodigester combination. Not one acre of grass should be fed into a biodigester.

Just found out Starlink satellites only last about 5 years before they're pulled down to burn up in the atmosphere (leaving toxic metals in the air). Our convenience culture has reached the level where we now have disposable satellites.

And Musk wants to launch a *million* data centre satellites.

xAI promised to cut “whatever was unnecessary” to make delivery of AI as efficient + cost-effective as possible

Apparently, people's drinking water is considered "unnecessary"

In the billionaire mindset, people's survival is secondary to relentless pursuit of profit

Global Electricity Review 2026 | Ember Solar surge halts fossil generation rise as clean power meets all demand growth and renewables overtake coal

As always: a thread on highlights from @ember-energy.org Nerd Easter global power sector data review!

With lots of good news, some noticeable kinda bad news, and a few things I think are missing from the picture. TY to Ember, this is such a valuable piece of work

The world is under attack from the weirdest fucking dweebs.

2. In some large grain producing countries, expensive fertiliser (and fuel to a smaller extent) makes it uneconomic to even plant the crops, so it's not that farmers are getting price increases because their costs are up, but because shortage causes prices to rise.

1. It's a fascinating observation that as fertiliser prices rise, farmers use less, lowering yields, leading to tighter markets, leading to higher prices for fertiliser dependent food commodoties such as grains.

I've just realised something sinister: all of the AI assistants that are answering the phone have been given the voices of young women. Let's have a think about the social and cultural messaging here.

The Energy Shift is Underway Oxford energy expert Jan Rosenow explains why Europe is underestimating electrification, overestimating hydrogen and still arguing about scarcity when alternatives are abundant.

Energy disinformation is the new climate denial.

New interview with @wblau.bsky.social of Brunswick Review on why Europe is underestimating electrification, overestimating hydrogen & arguing about scarcity when alternatives are abundant.

review.brunswickgroup.com/article/europe-energy-transition/

The BBC, like most broadcasters, does not have a dedicated energy editor, which is a glaring omission given that almost everything revolves around energy

Almost everything we argue about is a substitute for the thing we should be arguing about: the immense wealth & power of an oligarchic class, which captures governments, ruins lives and wrecks the living planet.
This class redirects our rage at scapegoats. To resist its lies is to resist its power.

Palantir manifesto described as ‘ramblings of a supervillain’ amid UK contract fears Alarm caused by posts of Alex Carp, tech firm’s CEO, championing US military dominance and of AI weapons

If you’d been wondering what all the fuss over Palantir was about….

We grow Opal and Victoria mostly. The one pictured is Opal.

The parts of the Telegraph headline that are not true

So to recap:

⏺️ The NHS did not claim " it's raining cats and dogs" was culturally insensitive

⏺️ Staff were not told idioms would "offend" anyone

⏺️ Staff have not been "ordered" not to say " it's raining cats and dogs"

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Screenshot of a tweet: God Save Great Britain & @GSGB01 WOW: The NHS has ordered staff not to use the phrase 'It's raining cats & dogs' in fear of upsetting people from other cultures and religion. Britain has gone absolutely

Screenshot of a tweet: @Jenny_1884 The NHS has ordered staff not to use the term "It's raining cats & dogs" as it may offend foreigners. Tough If you don't like it jog on is what I think The NHS needs to get back to concentrating on making people better & not being more concerned about offending

For the love of God, could the "common sense" brigade PLEASE develop some actual COMMON SENSE?!

No, the NHS has not ordered staff not to use the term "it's raining cats and dogs" for fear of either upsetting or offending anyone...

Please engage your brains for a minute🙏
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I absolutely hate when media outlets fall for these marketing stunts.

Email to staff at university of Limerick on cost increases for PC's and laptops.

Thank chatGPT and other stochastic parrot machines.

Well, at least all those insanely expensive GPU chips will last . . . a few years, before they burn out or become obsolete.

❗️Lithuania and Latvia have denied airspace access to Slovak PM Robert Fico for his planned trip to Moscow for May 9 celebrations, forcing him to arrange an alternative route. #Europe

Venice is one of the most wonderful places I've ever been. The fact it may become a lost city of Atlantis is shuddering. That amount of sea-level change is literally built-in.

A peer reviewed study shows a promising link between flu and shingles vaccines and a reduced risk of dementia. A heroin addict who cut off a raccoon’s penis for “further study” says these vaccines cause autism. For busy Americans, it can be hard to know who to trust.

A Super-duper El Niño lurks below the Equatorial Pacific Ocean surface, with a large section of the ocean showing a temperature anomaly of >5°C.

Wait for it:

A Potential Climate Feedback Loop If this happens, the ocean could release more methane into the atmosphere. Because methane is such a powerful greenhouse gas, this sets up a concerning cycle. Warmer oceans lead to more methane emissions, which then contribute to further warming. The study highlights how microscopic processes in the ocean can have far-reaching global impacts. Missing Piece in Climate Models Importantly, this type of feedback is not yet included in most major climate models. As scientists work to improve predictions, accounting for interactions like this could be critical for understanding how quickly and how severely climate change will progress. "Our work will help fill a key gap in climate predictions, which often overlook interactions between the changing environment and natural greenhouse gas sources to the atmosphere," Weber says. RELATED TOPICS Plants & Animals New Species Organic Nature Extreme Survival Earth & Climate Environmental Issues Global Warming Water Earth Science RELATED TERMS Global warming Ocean Automobile emissions control IPCC Report on Climate Change - 2007 Climate change mitigation Climate engineering Sea water Global climate model

New ♻️: warmer oceans 🔜 more methane
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

Looks like our planet’s climate sensitivity is much higher than most climate scientists realised.

Looks like Dr James Hansen was right.

Melting glaciers, sea level rise, more extreme weather, more (and more intense) wildfires, more droughts and floods, and decreases in things vital to human life and prosperity like food and water seem like “irreparable harm” to me but what do I know.

Looking forward to @ucddublin.bsky.social (my alma mater) doing this soon. Can't have too many conservatives in higher education.

It’s so transparently affirmative action for conservatives.

Sparing you a click, LLMs always make everything up, based on statistical correlations not of knowledge but of amount, order and proximity of words in stolen text they ingest for training.

It’s literally what they are designed to do.

It just sometimes happens to be correct.