The main push for this came from @mliebreich.bsky.social The idea he is a bad faith fossil fuel advocate is absurd. Few people have done more for clean energy. Do I agree with everything he's said, no. But he's right here so lets just move on!

The world’s largest sand battery got through Finland’s harshest winter in years. 2,000 tonnes of sand, heated to 500-600°C by cheap power, feeding district heating in Pornainen. And it worked. Result from one install: oil down 100%, emissions down 70%. Industrial process heat is the real prize.

"Heat pumps just shift gas burning to the power station." Wrong. Even if 100% of electricity came from gas, a heat pump at SCOP 3.8 uses 51% less gas than a boiler. At a terrible SCOP 2.5, still 25% less. David MacKay made this point in 2008. The maths hasn't changed.

UK Energy Performance Certificates never recommend a heat pump. Those who install one often get downgraded. Why? I was on BBC Morning Live to shed light on what is completely counterintuitive as we try to incentivise heat electrification. www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTLE...

The electricity-to-gas price ratio is the biggest barrier to electrifying European homes. Heat pumps deliver ~3 units of heat per unit of electricity. The maths works in Sweden but not everywhere. Much of gap is policy. More analysis in my forthcoming Substack newsletter janrosenow.substack.com

You Loved the Hydrogen Ladder (I know, Version 6.0 is long overdue!), meet the Electrification Staircase. Electrify Everything is dead; long live Electrify Almost Everything. And here's the road map. mliebreich.substack.com/p/the-electr...

Fuel shocks keep exposing the same structural weakness: industry hooked on fossil fuels has nowhere to hide when supply is disrupted. @canarymedia.com covers our High Voltage report showing up to 90% of industrial energy demand could be electrified.. www.canarymedia.com/articles/cle...

The ice loss of the Greenland Ice Sheet is hard to grasp! This is what the 30 million tonnes of ice that Greenland loses every hour looks like, if it were positioned next to the Eiffel tower before melting:

The heat pump grant has been increased to 9k for heating oil and LPG users ( widely used in rural parts of devon) Nothing on bbc spotlight about it? @jamesgdyke.info @coxypm.bsky.social @richardabetts.bsky.social

We don't have a choice. Big industry is working with the state to impose overconsumption and dependence on their products. Explains Julia Steinberger - @jksteinberger.bsky.social Professor of ecological economics at Lausanne University. Full episode: www.planetcritical.com/julia-steinberger/

Julia Steinberger would make an excellent guest on bold politics @zackpolanski.bsky.social www.planetcritical.com/julia-steinb...

What's this?! A podcast with @racheldonald.bsky.social AND @jksteinberger.bsky.social Two people I have learnt so much from & who continue to inspire me & so many folk. Subscribe to Planet Critical, and Julia's column: jksteinberger.medium.com for more. www.planetcritical.com/julia-steinb...

As someone who’s been calling for the price of electricity to be decoupled from the high price of gas since 2022, I’m relieved to hear that the Energy Sec is looking to address this. But this announcement deserves two cheers, not a full-throated three 🧵 www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

NEW PODCAST: Electricity is just 20% of global energy. The other 80% (heating, transport, industry) still runs on fossil fuels. Full electrification could cut total energy demand in half. More in my conversation with @bobbyllew.bsky.social of Everything Electric Show youtube.com/watch?v=-jSqcwxpd14

Climate removed from top level navigation on BBC News.

Pakistan went from <5% to 25%+ solar in 4 years. Remarkable. I was cited in Pakistan's Express Tribune on exactly this — but also on what the Hormuz crisis revealed: electricity resilience ≠ energy security. tribune.com.pk/story/2602438/ending-oil-dependency-cycle

Crazy that this needs to be screened like this. Independent media could & should have put this on their feeds. @aaronjbastani.bsky.social

We grow enough food to feed the world — so why are 733 million people still going hungry? A new study co-authored by Project Drawdown scientists finds that more than half of global crop calories never reach a human plate, diverted instead to livestock feed and biofuels. 🌽 🔗 https://bit.ly/4vch2h4

I've updated my El Niño forecast plume with the latest April data (ECMWF, NMME, CFSv2, Canadian models). Its now looking like it might end up giving 2015/2016 a run for its money in terms of strength, with a peak of ~2.6C in the ENSO3.4 region by end of year: dashboard.theclimate...

If you're going to get off gas, you need to stop heating homes with it- as simple as that. So that means a heat pump at home or district heating connected to one. Polanski needs to work on getting unions on board. I'm no expert on ind. relations so I'll keave that to others @meadwaj.bsky.social

The biggest problem with the food system is that it is no longer a *food* system. More than half the calories we grow on croplands aren't food; they're lost in inefficient feedlots or to biofuels. Project Drawdown scientists highlight this disturbing trend: sentientmedia.org/more-crops-g...

When you burn oil or gas in a car or boiler- most of that energy is wasted. This is why China is electrifying. The answer is to quickly electrify, not own the oil. Also comes across as in very poor taste. 1st time I've seen this guy make bad points.

Lastest BS carbon capture. Chuck a load of wood at the bottom of the arctic ocean. youtu.be/0UMV4sv2TkQ?...

Its doable @garyseconomics.bsky.social

Short-lived species – methane, black carbon, aerosols, and NOx – have an outsized impact over short (~10) year time horizons. After a century, however, almost everything but CO2 is gone. CO2, on the other hand, has a similar climate warming effect over 10 and 100 years.

Gasoline isn't expensive enough, given how many people I see idling their vehicles.

As we stare down these energy price shocks, we need to ask: why is the price of *all* electricity largely set by gas-fired power stations? This rigged system needs to change. Today, I wrote to Ed Miliband MP asking that we break the link between gas and electricity prices.

Might be a good time to ask Tessa on Novara Live @aaronjbastani.bsky.social

@edconway.bsky.social's recent piece in Sky rightly acknowledges that most of the UK’s gas reserves have already been extracted, but he also suggests that "a decent if not overwhelming amount of oil & gas" could still be pumped out, although it's harder & more expensive to extract. A few thoughts:

Unfortunately a lot of Climate science academics don't want to talk about the policy choices- for fear of loosing career progression, status or an MBE. This is why Kevin would make a good guest for @zackpolanski.bsky.social Bold Politics podcast as he's very evidence based on this.

It's that time of year again! I am working hard today (honestly), raising money for #SupportingWoundedVeterans. Please like and repost this: the more likes it gets, the more we raise!!!

"Sunlight travels 93 million miles to reach the earth. None of them through the Strait of Hormuz." Bill McKibben quotesof.me/edit/0e7684c...

Comprehensive video explaining why Dale Vince is wrong. Slight caveat in that this guy is an octopus "influencer" but have always found him to be accurate. @georgemonbiot.bsky.social youtu.be/Jhj3mgsg-_k?...

#TeamTern Katie is loving the GSD… maybe a bit too much 😉 Once you’re on it, you’ll always find a reason to take it out. 🚲 📸 : @bendurham.ca #cargobike #ebike

#GraphicOfTheWeek: Advances in geothermal technology mean it is no longer limited to volcanic regions like Iceland. 43 GW of geothermal capacity is already cost-competitive with coal and gas, and up to 42% of EU coal and gas power could be replaced. ember-energy.org/lat...

Activists are racking up wins against a false climate solution. Across North America and Europe, a movement is taking on the biomass industry and saving some of the world’s last intact forests. @wagingnonviolence.org read more here: wagingnonviolence.org/2026/02/acti...

Is decoupling between economic growth and environmental pressures happening, yes, or no? And if not, could it ever happen? In this paper, I show how to spot fake green growth miracles. timotheeparrique.com/a-response-t...

Amazing new battery from Chinese battery maker CATL. Elliot Richards braved the cold in inner Mongolia to find out more. Brrrrr. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZX0q...

We could reach +2°C of global warming next decade! Learn why tomorrow on Climate Chat. www.youtube.com/live/jcPwmfD...

Most people don’t know this: Heat pumps REDUCE gas consumption even if running 100% on electricity from a gas fired power plant. More here in my piece for @carbonbrief.org👇 interactive.carbonbrief.org/factcheck/he...

The @ScienceMuseum.org.uk is hosting an exhibition on climate breakdown in Latin America while accepting sponsorship from BP and Adani, 2 of the world’s biggest polluters. How can we take their message seriously when they’re funded by the very companies driving the destruction? #ClimateJustice

1/2 If you haven't already, Adam Chapman would make a good guest on cleaning up. He's come up with a "combi" hot water solution to work with heat pumps. Newark cylinders have this on their site as "coming soon" so guessing this year. @mliebreich.bsky.social youtu.be/Zbq4Mq4waNk?...

Interesting write up of the prototype @heat-geek.bsky.social NanoStore - a combined heat exchanger and 60l hot water store. It’s still early days, but when this finally works, it will offer a route for space critical heat pump installations, with the heat pump ~ working like a combi boiler.

This was such a great conversation @mliebreich.bsky.social highlighting the innovations coming from the Global South, and the amazing clean energy strides countries in #Africa and #Asia are making.

Just watching BBC spotlight reporting on disruption due to gas upgrade work in Okehampton area. If you look at the gas transmission company website- it's needed for "gases of the future" Obviously urgent safety work needs doing but do we need to be heavily investing at this point. @jamesgdyke.info

India's solar is making a solid contribution to daily generation, even in the middle of winter. (In fact the insolation minimum is during the monsoon season.)

I don't think people appreciate the extent to which coral reefs are screwed. Even if ocean acidification doesn't get them, increasing ocean temperatures will. How screwed they are is up to us.

It's hard to keep up, but did we already know Bjorn Lomborg was hanging out with Epstein?

World expert on heat pumps or guy who has a gas business. Its not difficult to decide who's right. @novaramedia.com @aaronjbastani.bsky.social

Looking at you @dalevince.com 🧐