Why cheap wind and solar costs the same as fossil fuel electricity - Ecocore Many people who are worried about fossil fuel use have switched to domestic providers who offer expensive yet cheap wind and solar with low to zero CO2

ecocore.org/why-cheap-wi...

National Grid: Live Shows the live status of Great Britain’s electric power transmission network

Solar record in the UK today. It'll be the first of many this year - unless the climate goes really bonkers. grid.iamkate.com

In Jan 2024, Die „Letzte Generation“ staged a climate protest in Leipzig where they sat on toy tractors so they'd be treated the same as these other protestors

The police were not fooled

OK, I'll have to do it myself - mmm, that's better 😆

why didn't someone turn it round so that north is north?

AI & Us - Recap - EcoCounts Here are all the notes, links and resources we discussed at AI and Us in March, and a recap of the most important points from Maxime.

Just spent an hour writing a recap on an event, and found that Eventbrite is only going to send it to 8 people out of the 20 who signed up 🤯 so I'll post it here as well. Actually there are some v. useful links about AI in it. ecocounts.community/ai-us-recap/

Climate Impact of LNG under Carbon Accounts - Ecocore Information about CO2 emissions in 2024 is for the most part as invisible as the gas itself. When Europe decided to import American LNG (Liquified Natural

I might not have cited it academically, but it was definitely useful! ecocore.org/climate-impa... - burning a kilo of CH4 produces 0.8kg of CO2, but burning a kilo of LNG produces 4.1kg 🤯 (and leaks huge amounts of CH4 on the way)

Easter Eggs & Cocoa - EcoCounts Easter brings endless chocolate choices, but our Easter eggs have a bigger story behind them. Cocoa is increasingly under pressure from climate change, and

ecocounts.community/easter-eggs-... Are you feeling wealthy enough to afford a real chocolate Easter Egg? Price have surged by 50%+ and cocoa content has plummeted.

Doesn't the US give all its wars names, like Operation Awesome Fury, or Operation Colossal Ego?

Why cheap wind and solar costs the same as fossil fuel electricity - Ecocore Many people who are worried about fossil fuel use have switched to domestic providers who offer expensive yet cheap wind and solar with low to zero CO2

It would be nice if the politicians would oblige. And I would say the energy pricing mechanism has to completely change. I wrote an article on it a while back and nothing has changed since then, despite an apparently willing govt ecocore.org/why-cheap-wi...

"All they have to do" is actually completely change the UK primary energy market - it would probably take an act of parliament although don't quote me on that. However if you remember, taxes do not pay for public spending, contrary to popular belief, so the govt has much more leeway than it thinks.

And batteries. Or whatever solution can store energy or conserve energy at the time and place. People freak out about Tesla becoming an approved UK energy provider but they know what they're doing.

But this is only for grid power. There are millions like me sadly stuck with gas boilers and gas hobs in tenancies that we have no control over. When the whole lot moves across to leccy, the demand will be that much higher, plus of course people using AI to generate photos and videos.

So why why why why why can't we sort out energy prices? We know exactly what the problem is and why electricity is so expensive, so why don't we change it?

No, it'll be in space. Massive solar arrays gathering gigawatts of energy. Potentially doubling as geo-engineering parasols to lower inbound radiation to a cooking planet. China, Russia, EU and US along with a plethora of tech bros corporates, all totally paranoid of each other. Fireworks guaranteed

"Labour to allow 30m wind turbines at schools and hospitals -
Planning rule scrapped to give ‘tools to lower bills’"

" paved the way for 30m wind turbines to be installed on the grounds of schools, hospitals and farms after scrapping a key planning rule…"

www.telegraph.co.uk/money/net-ze...

Why long-term climate choices are hard to make – a philosopher explains Many philosophers have noticed the similarities between environmental damage and the puzzle of the self-torturer.

I'd love to have a conversation with this philosopher. Is he a doomer? In fact, I'd love to have a conversation with Daniel Kahneman, who famously said that climate change is the perfect storm that the human mind just can't deal with.

theconversation.com/why-long-ter...

I think I need an induction hob. I've been meaning to replace that gas hob for years, hoping the landlord would do it. But why wait for that.

Maybe Trump wished he'd voted now 😆

Now we're talking. I believe that code comes out as Feb 29th on non-leap years.

Week no in year (with only one digit, it actually has to be some kind of compound hexadecimal, like week 45 would be a Greek character)
4 digit hour (e.g. 02PM)
3 digit year (026)

Must be some kind of deliberate attempt to screw up AI spiders by the OP?

Small Wind – The basics - Wind Empowerment Small Wind Turbines - The Basics The wind is a highly unpredictable resource (see Wind resource assessment – the basics) and Small Wind Turbines (SWTs) are remarkably troublesome pieces of equipment. ...

This is amazing for small scale distributed power, although unfortunately they still haven't figured out how to make a wind turbine you can put on your roof. Apparently it shakes the house apart. windempowerment.org/research-and...

I'm not saying he's stupid. There's too many lobbyists, too many votes to be lost, too much politics, too big a city even.

Did you see what he tried with disposable coffee cups? OK, it's not him, it's his people. You think he would? Just can't see it happening.

The German City That Defied McDonald's and Dumped 'To-Go' Waste Tübingen's hard-won crusade is a lesson in how to deflect single-use packaging from landfills — and life itself.

Love Germany. Can't imagine Sadiq Khan getting behind this: reasonstobecheerful.world/tubingen-ger...

And did heads roll? No. The Home Secretary should apologise and offer her resignation. The fact that Starmer is a lawyer as well. Madness. Are they all smoking crack?

Flyer with AI image for EcoCounts event, QR code and EcoCounts logo

We're doing another evening - this one on AI and some facts amidst all the hype and hysteria: St Luke's Church N7 9PJ on Monday 9th 18:00 - sign up on Eventbrite www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1983882951...

Complete information holocaust, driven by social media. You might not realise since you're here on bluesky, but facebook, twitter, instagram? Facts... forget about it

"Those who obtain or inherit predatory wealth and privilege realize the ultimate means of imposing austerity and demolishing the power of democracies is deception and junk economics"

-Michael Hudson

There is also a bit of hole in Trump's theological machinations - we have to get close to losing Armageddon, the Beast has to get close to winning, and then Jesus will come again to save us. Happy to be corrected by any theologians out there.