💪 every wind turbine reduces our reliance on US LNG 💪

I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to

In this panel, the PJM market monitor states plainly that data centers are almost exclusively to blame for high and rising wholesale electricity costs in the Midatlantic. It's not EVs, heat pumps, or industrial electrification. Data centers. Panel discusses how to make Big Tech pay their fair share.

Breathtaking statement from Carney. Basically that Iran's regime is evil and therefore Canada stands with US and Israel's war of aggression. So much for the "middle powers" leading a nonaligned post-American world order. @katemac.bsky.social

This seems unnecessarily contrarian. Sure the cost of capital for renewables rises a bit, but the cost of 1-month gas futures just rose *50%*. Of course people will build more renewables, and more batteries.

Trump has told four different journalists completely contradictory things about his aims. It's going to be over in three days or four weeks... it's about regime change but he also wants to start talks again with the current regime...he's killed all the possible replacement leaders... Total chaos.

This is a frustrating column by Martin Wolf - which is sadly typical of a lot of economics commentary on GB energy. It does identify some of the key causes of high electricity prices - including Britain’s high exposure to gas prices and rising network costs. But there’s a lot it leaves out…

Hell of a chart, this, from @financialtimes.com. Spot the JCPOA. on.ft.com/4kSuQYO

"successful" 😳

🚨NEW PAPER🚨 We all know the 2022 energy price shock fueled the cost of living crisis. It also caused a profit bonanza for the very rich. We show the US reaped the largest profits ($377bn) of any country. 50% went to the richest 1%, only 1% to the bottom 50%. A🧵 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

#Fossilflation European food price edition

I'm getting worried about the narrative about how big a problem high electricity costs are for UK businesses. Whenever I look at the data... there are just hardly any industries spending more than a few per cent of their turnover on electricity.

incredible win for beat reporting that hundreds of Londoners get to stay in their homes of course they still have to pay rent to the heartless billionaire who tried to evict them but that's capitalism baby

when broadcasters repeat Mandelson claim he was “not motivated by financial gain” please also report the $75,000 of financial gain Mandelson received from Epstein in 2004 and 2004 and the £10s of thousands Mandelson’s husband received from Epstein in 2009/10 plus free flights & mansion stays

Discernible among my friends and colleagues who remain heavy X users: affects both their sense of issue salience and the intellectual framework (i.e., usually race and migration) through which to understand them. Many think themselves exempt through critical thinking skills. You are what you eat!

“The effort to quiet Paris complements the wider campaign to make Paris greener, cleaner & less car-dependent, which include vehicle restrictions in the center, crackdowns on polluting vehicles, & an ambitious expansion of bike networks. Those have cut the city’s average noise level by 2 decibels.”

Judges are examining, for the first time in the history of France, whether a multinational oil and gas company can be legally required to reduce its fossil fuel production in line with climate objectives. insideclimatenews.org/news/1902202...

A staggeringly cynical exploitation of the precarity & repacious rent seeking of the Thatcherite housing model in this country. This is what you get once you've flogged off most of your national housing stock to private landlords who then rent you back what you used to own at vastly inflated prices

Among earth humans, e-bikes are winning the mobility wars and it's not even remotely close. Americans are a deep outlier.

This bill will raise your electricity costs and cook the planet to give tax cuts to the richest people ever.” [email protected] bsky.app/profile/kare...

"In January, pollster YouGov released new data suggesting a majority of Britons now believe London is unsafe, but only a third of people surveyed in the capital agreed - and 81% of them said their own local area was safe." 🫠

“This feat is a clear signal that electric mobility in Nigeria is practical, scalable and ready for adoption,” Falaye said. It is simple economics.... "EV charging costs average about $3 for up to 200 kilometers (123 miles), compared with more than $15 in petrol costs for similar distances."

Brits can take criticism of British food; just not from a nation that puts sugar in its bread

"large language models such as ChatGPT were consistently advising women to ask for lower salaries than men in recruitment processes,... AI tools already in use by more than half of England’s councils were downplaying women’s medical conditions, potentially resulting in unequal care"

SoCal air quality officials rejected a proposal to phase out gas-powered appliances after being overwhelmed by more than 20,000 public comments in opposition. Well, turns out many of those comments were powered by AI! Crazy investigation by @hayleysmith.bsky.social: www.latimes.com/environment/...

Claims that #AI can help fix climate dismissed as greenwashing - Most claims refer to machine learning and not the energy-hungry chatbots and image generation tools #climatecrisis www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

enfeebled. oh

Politics London discussing driverless taxis casually referring to “jaywalking pedestrians”. Jaywalking is not a thing in UK law. Transport for London and Government had better not be asleep at the wheel on this.

oh dear Tony Blair is at it again

"The richest man in the world posted about how the white race was under threat, made allusions to race science or promoted anti-immigrant conspiracy content on 26 out of 31 days in January" Watching this sentient bath slime radicalize himself has been terrifying. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

If China's emissions had kept growing at previous levels emissions would like, what, maybe a full GIGATONNE higher....the area of avoided emissions here is like deleting the emissions of entire countries. This is happening at a scale that will very clearly have an effect in lessening disasters

I did not expect to see this in the WSJ: "Reducing reliance on fossil fuels looks like Europe’s best shot at saving its domestic manufacturing and stopping other governments from pushing it around" Agreed!

Angry/Sad about the Endangerment Finding? TLDR: LFG

grim spectacle. I desperately need Gavin to be right that this won't hold up in court, and states will can and will regulate regardless. This administration has already - gleefully - destroyed so much

woohoo!

I'm all for media criticism but sometimes you've got to ask: do you want news outlets to spend their finite resources on avoidable legal battles or reporting the news? defamation laws can and will be weaponised by those with power

nope nope nope

Re-upping this for the Monday crowd... I think my favourite, most revealing detail is that the guy seems to not realise he's in trouble because London Centric's reporting didn't hit anything like his view counts, so therefore it can't really matter.

yikes. I'm not sure what's worse: staying loyal to a sex criminal for a decade+ or befriending him *after* his crimes became undeniable

the FT team are 🔥🔥🔥right now

🤬 the gall of claiming this is about free speech while they're suppressing climate science and their president's links to a convicted paedophile. no thank you

This is a great read, and if you can bear it, it is worth checking out exactly how much of Epstein's shocking litany of criminal sexual abuse - and the equally shocking complicity of the US legal system in covering it up, was in the public domain.

ICE at the polls! Bannon is basically yelling “fire” in a crowded theater here. His objective is to cause chaos (and suppress votes on the left). And it’s already working. This threat works on multiple levels and doesn’t have to be “real” to serve its purpose. Let me explain & offer some advice.

Everyone loves solar power.

So, so depressing.

As of 2025, the US has taken a U-turn on climate progress, and it is only going to get worse.

Africa solar market up 6x after another record breaking year according to our @globalsolarcouncil.bsky.social analysis covered on @bloombergnews.bsky.social by Ruth Olurounbi #AMO2026 #PossibleWithSolar www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

this clearly resonated with American followers. Curious if any other Londoners have been invited to a "travel party" or similar network marketing thing? A few people I've mentioned it to weren't familiar with the concept

“It's not my duty as Mayor to make sure you have a parking spot. For me it's the same as if you bought a cow, or a refrigerator, and then asked me where you're going to put them.” — Mayor of Pontevedra, Spain (re-elected 6 times)

Reminder that "jaywalking" was literally made up by american car manufacturers to shift the blame for accidents from drivers to pedestrians. "Jay" was a slang term meaning "idiot" or "rube".