Excl: Half of Londoners are considering voting for Zack Polanski's Green Party in the upcoming local elections according to new polling by @ipsosintheuk.bsky.social, shared with the @newstatesman1913.bsky.social
Jesus…
Didn’t see anything in it about capacity market and payments…
Thanks for responding.
You probably know that Amazon and other tech firms are funding bog restoration in other counties - www.rte.ie/news/leinste...
It’s farcical & greenwashing
Other state orgs have a similarly appalling environmental record - eg. Coillte, OPW.
In a nutshell. 😊
Very cool: Rivian sends old batteries to Redwood, who hooks them all up via its special sauce, and now the batteries are helping power a Rivian manufacturing plant!
Closed loop starting to come into sight ...
Absolutely absurd that in the year 2026 there is no solar panel emoji OR wind turbine emoji
When we think about how Ireland has gone backwards in relation to offshore wind power, here’s a story from the @news.rte.ie archives from 1987
www.rte.ie/archives/201...
Amazon gave a grant of €495k towards that. Other tech firms are funding too!
The whole final column is about the various obstacles to it but also points out the critical infra bill context
I’m hoping to follow up with a load of comments from climate groups and people who are horrified / oppose
Amazon 🤷🏻♂️
The consolidation of the dairy + beef industry, profiting a handful of export-led processors, pushed by the Irish state for 50 years.
-> food insecurity, fossil fuel dependency, environmental degradation, massive income inequality and farmer indebtedness.
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...
First part of investigation here: m.independent.ie/business/iri...
The govt machinations and links between some involved are considerable
First part of investigation here: m.independent.ie/business/iri...
The govt machinations and links between some involved are considerable
With respect Padraic, it’s BnM and the govt who are behind this
This is a painstaking investigation revealing it, it isn’t ‘gushing’
Spain is crushing it ⚡🇪🇸
Solar is delivering the equivalent of 27 nuclear plants during the day. Pumped hydro stores ~3 nuclear plants worth. Batteries already stepping in.
This isn’t a generation problem anymore. It’s storage scale.
Energy scarcity → energy timing. #BESS #Solar
Seems like the Strait of Hormuz is only open when the stock market is.
A lot of people will be horrified.
The government machinations to facilitate this have been considerable.
No surprise that the CEO of Palantir, a tech monopoly financed mainly by the state, whose founder distrusts democracy, which builds tools to centralise state surveillance, has a problem with pluralism:
“We must resist the shallow temptation of a vacant and hollow pluralism”
I think some people will be horrified by this idea to be honest 🤷🏻♂️ But Amazon have substantial lobbying power here
There are more elements to the story in terms of government machinations that I’d be happy to talk about on podcasts, radio, etc.
The second and biggest instalment of my Sunday & Irish Independent investigation into plans to build data centres in ‘energy parks’ on bog sites in the midlands and west
First story revealed plans for a gas power station and Amazon DC in Offaly
www.independent.ie/business/iri...
Trump is reported close to a "deal" with himself under which US taxpayers would pay him $10 billion.
I served in multiple communist and authoritarian dictatorships, but I never witnessed corruption on this scale or this blatant.
There is so much market manipulation going on in this administration.
The FBI guy is on a paranoid bender and won’t leave his room.
The War guy quotes bible passages from Pulp Fiction.
The Health guy collects raccoon dicks.
It’s an Idiocracy on steroids.
All of his businesses and property should be nationalized and dissolved and he should be stripped of literally every single asset and dollar. Put him in public housing and let him live off of whatever UBI the next Congress passes.
Am quoted by columnist Jennifer Horgan in her @irishexaminer.bsky.social piece this week.
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/colu...
Trump Brings Back Direct Air Capture Hubs #Climate
And they have taken away any possibility of prices reducing demand while seemingly having done nothing about business models contractors and hauliers are subject to, which requires getting all market members, eg. Supermarkets, agri co-ops, etc. around a table
softbank gas woudl emit 20mtco2-e per year
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Today it's Softbank's 9 gigawatt carbon bomb lie generator, which on its own could increase Ohio's power sector emissions by 30%.
I often see "Well it won't end up being built" as a defence or counter to this sort of stuff.