If African and Asian nations copy what Pakistan did in the last 2 years by saving money and moving off LNG and on to solar PV then global demand for LNG will drop by between 20% and 40% in 2026 alone. Pakistan went from 2% solar to 25% solar in under 24 months.

People will really be like "there has to be free parking immediately outside because cars are mobility aids & women need to access them safely!" but also "why can't people just park their bikes [also mobility aids & used by women!] in a dark bike shed in a far corner of a car park half a mile away?"

The American and German auto companies who grasped at the fossil straws were just killed. The signal hasn’t reached their brains yet. Single charge. 621 miles. Game over.

The only theoretical use for hydrogen in rail is long distances through sparsely populated areas where overhead wires are either complex or not viable It’s so painfully obviously NOT an option for passenger branch lines from terminus stations that have wires Use a battery, charge at the terminus

Approaching Helsby. 13 April 2025. #railway #photography

Leaving Brussels on Eurostar train to London after a delay of about 30 minutes due to technical issues.

Iran has ordered people to evacuate energy production facilities in Saudi Arabia, UAE and Qatar as it threatened to launch strikes following an earlier Israeli attack on its own gas infrastructure, Bloomberg reports. Oil prices have spiked.

News story tonight on driverless cars suggested that the point of the technology is to “make better cities.” No it isn’t, and no it won’t. The point of the technology is to sell more cars, and more cars have NEVER made better cities.

In the back of my mind these days - how two decisions, one in 1987 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TGV_Dup... and one in 2010 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British... are *today* having a massive impact on high speed rail in Europe

Also "The European success of OUIGO" That would be 1) SNCB wanted a Thalys alternative from Bruxelles, and SNCF insisted it had to be OUIGO as quid pro quo to sell it 2) Spain, where it's like inOui but branded OUIGO And that's, well, that's it #CrossBorderRail

In the last 42 hours I've had to give three different sets of people the same spiel about how, to understand the success of the TGV, one must study a lot of HSR systems at once, and not just believe what SNCF execs say about the TGV or else one would implement pre-competition AVE pricing.

Can anyone who follows this closer than I do - @lkoro.es maybe? - give me a guesstimate whether Budapest-Beograd via Kelebia is going to finally open for passenger trains in April? #CrossBorderRail

CONFIRMED: SNCF's Alstom built TGV-M Avelia Horizon trains ARE too big for some Italian railway lines All explained here 👇 jonworth.eu/confirmed-sn... Thanks @webguy.bsky.social & @pglux.bsky.social for the help understanding this!

Musing further on this SNCF TGV-Ms in Italy by Sept 2027 thing… IF SNCF gets all the paths it wants (it’s got some so far) AND it can overcome the loading gauge headaches (probable) HOW does it do maintenance, short term? Send TGV-M to Technicentre Lyon for that?

Remember: when Nigel Farage opens his mouth, the fossil fuel industry speaks.

Blame the weird stains you’ve seen on the TTC's red fabric seats. As it orders new buses, the TTC says they will now have plastic seats, instead of fabric ones. Currently, only 100 or so of the city's roughly 2,000 buses have plastic seats. #TTC #Toronto www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Even if AI was 100% sustainable, it would still be bad for the environment. Think of cars: sure, electric vehicles emit less than fossil-fuel vehicles, but the real solution to transport emissions is public transport. Our technologies reflect our values, and AI is not a flattering reflection.

Those knackered 10 TGV PBA sets used on 🇫🇷🇧🇪🇳🇱 may have easy replacement very soon 🤣🤣🤣

I built a tool last night to be able to "search/filter" for compatibility. Interestingly large swatches of the high speed network in Italy are not GB compatible but have GA and GI2. I can't find much about GI2 online and cross compatibility. If you filter for GB in Italy you get this:

Death of an intellectual giant.

I can write this SNCF TGVs too large for Italian tunnels story jonworth.eu/confirmed-sn... thanks to a few things 1) Having been to these places, I have an idea how the lines work 2) Tenacity digging into the issues but *MOSTLY* 3) An amazingly knowledgeable network of people to help - thanks all!

My bike commute to work has gotten so expensive since the war started. Just kidding, it's free.

Creative Commons images of SNCF's forthcoming TGV-M / Avelia Horizon are rather rare still, so I have done my bit The best pics from when I happened to see one on test, now on Flickr, high resolution, and all CC BY-SA 4.0 https://www.flickr.com/photos/jonworth-eu/albums/72177720332496715

In case you missed the news, the Gulf of Mexico is currently at a record daily high sea surface temperature, about 1.80°C above the 1982-2011 baseline. Here are the daily color stripes for the Gulf of Mexico from 1982 to March 13, 2026:

Encore, s’il vous plaît.

The cool and always clever Tom Flood, everyone. Via our collaboration at @urbantruth.bsky.social. #UrbanTruth @tomflood.bsky.social

Go ahead Donnie of high gas prices. Make our day. www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Approaching Worcester Shrub Hill. 15 December 2024. #railway #photography

Everything has changed ... except the claims of the fossil fuel lobbyists who infest politics and the media. www.ise.fraunhofer.de/en/press-med...

The additional cost of ONE fossil fuel price spike on the scale of 2022 = the ENTIRE COST of Net Zero by 2050. We get precisely nothing in return for the first cost, and a whole new, more secure and cheaper energy system from the second one. #NoBrainer www.theccc.org.uk/2026/03/11/c...

Parking infrastructure for us motorists is so nice.

The city’s transition away from the car, tho fantastically chaotic, has become a global role model. Under mayor @annehidalgo.bsky.social, Paris was “the most influential city in the world”, says Canadian urbanist Brent Toderian. Hidalgo, stepping down after 12 yrs, exulted: “The bike beat the car.”

When I started riding this 8th Ave bike lane 13 years ago it was along the curb and pedestrians spilled off the sidewalk into it from penn station to the port authority building during rush hour. Now there is appropriate pedestrian space (on the west side of the street).

Sometimes you have to wait for the band to cross.

Today is #CrossBorderRail Spring 2026 Tour Day 11 - 10 Mar - Drávakeresztúr - Barcs - Zalaszentivan - Ljubljana New borders: Virovitica 🇭🇷 - Barcs 🇭🇺 Borders already crossed: Hodoš 🇸🇮 - Bajansenye 🇭🇺 Live blog: crossborderrail.eu/live-blog-10... Thread bridged to Bluesky bsky.app/profile/jon....

A nice but slow and retro style #CrossBorderRail today Feels as if these services haven’t improved in decades…

I was interviewed by @aljazeera.com on impacts energy crisis. We discussed Europe’s structural vulnerability due to fossil fuel imports, broader economic effects of price volatility & why this moment should sharpen focus on clean energy. youtube.com/watch?v=umHj0vNEsiw&feature=youtu.be

Renewable energy keeps prices down, strengthens resilience to price shocks, helps avoid climate change and saves on fuel import costs... should more countries follow Spain? Via Euronews: Spain’s renewables revolution will keep energy bills low even as gas prices soar www.euronews.com/2026/03/11/s...

Electric trucks are finally ready for prime time. Could high oil prices speed up the shift? theconversation.com/electric-tru...

If you read one thing about Iran & geopolitics & economic fallout & climate, make it this @martinsandbu.ft.com column

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And so we write to brilliant postgraduate students from Sudan, withdrawing the offers and scholarships they won in open competition with the best in the world. A sad day for the University of Oxford.

Any time soon they'll be embracing 15 minute cities

How much more evidence do we need? The ultra-rich and the governments supporting them will destroy everything for the sake of profit, power and pride. Nothing is precious to them - not human life, not the living world - except their own wealth and status. Our survival depends on resisting them.

Come to think of it, I have one of those too! Connected to another magical thingy on my roof that summons power from the sun and feeds it to my house, my stove, and my car. Doesn't have to go through the Strait of Hormuz!

Wait until the vibe investors figure this out.

Big summer for 'portable' solar too.

The problem with disastrously stupid people becoming politicians is that when they get to power you get to feel their idiocy in your bank account every day. British voters keep voting for idiot after idiot. Decade after decade. Will the next election finally bring some sense with a Green Party PM?