apparently the Mexican government has backed a new super cheap EV van, 100 percent made in Mexico, that looks sick as hell www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

This is an outrageous story. A farmer donated 87 acres to a small Texas city on the condition it be used as a public park. Years later, the farmer has passed away, the city sold the land to a developer, and now it will be the site of a 135,000 square foot data center www.404media.co/a-farmer-don...

"ChatGPT and other generative AI programs are not magic software that creates plots, story arcs, and character designs out of thin air. Behind the screen is a dark reality and with every prompt there’s a price." sojo.net/magazine/nov...

Covering the heating demands of five thousand people under those conditions with a cylinder 15m in diameter and 13 meters tall is pretty damn good honestly, and it should pretty easily scale.

Sasha Kon, a 37-year-old traveler "walking to Brazil" with a 661-pound homemade cart in tow, was reportedly killed by a Ukrainian drone strike in Russia's Bryansk region on May 13. Locals had been photographing and encouraging him the day before. tass.ru/proisshestvi...

Tory shadow business sec Andrew Griffith gave the keynote speech at Make UK's National Manufacturing Conference recently He was taken to task by an industry figure over attacks on net zero: "I wonder if you realise how absurd it [seems]...to dig out more oil & gas...We clearly have cheap solutions"

Excellent. No one should be above scrutiny and accountability. We need trust in politics & politicians

BREAKING: Nigel Farage is facing a formal investigation by the parliamentary standards watchdog over a £5m gift from the crypto billionaire Christopher Harborne, which he did not declare.

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

Starmer's present diffulties are a perfect storm of whingeing. The RW want him out because he might reverse Brexit and de-fang the billionaires. The Corbynistas want to get their own back – no matter how much it helps the RW. Deform is just glad he's taking the heat off their £5m man.

Two votes - For 🗳️⬆️❤️ and Against 🗳️⬇️🚽 Could this work? The most controversial candidates who have no desire to represent all the constituents will get more ⬇️🚽 votes?

The biofuels proposition is basically this: use farmland, water, fertiliser, machinery & energy to grow crops, harvest them, transport them, process them into liquid fuel, then burn them in an inefficient engine. #climatecrisis #biofuels #solarenergy #auspol www.lyrebirddreaming.com/post/why-bio...

Had convos w/ multiple people in the past 4 days who DID NOT KNOW that 1. AI doesn't "think" or know anything; it's a probability machine 2. It was created using massive amounts of work stolen from actual people including me 3. The environmental costs are astronomical Spread the word, every time!

North Korean official who had forgotten to stand up for his own soldiers (10 seconds in) is going to be in so much trouble!

The conclusion "Reform won the seat from Lab therefore biggest vote swing is Lab to Reform" does not follow from this pattern. There are multiple vote flows here: Lab to Grn, Lab to abstain, Lab to Ref, Con to Ref, abstain to Ref...Lab to Ref is only one part of this, not typically the largest

"Nearly 150 years later, members of the Sioux and Northern Cheyenne have joined forces once again to defend themselves against a new threat to their communal life: fossil fuels." sojo.net/magazine/jun...

An 81-year-old woman who died last year is now being listed as a Reform UK voter, a YouTube channel, Political Custard, has revealed. The retired nurse from Derby, who passed away in October, is among a number of deceased people whose details appear to have been used by Reform UK.

This article claims "there are systems of nearly 7 MWh in 20-foot containers" (meaning shipping containers) and like holy shit y'all This means if you built a warehouse which can hold 1000 shipping containers, you've built 7 hours of a nuke reactor's output! www.pv-magazine.com/2026/05/04/b...

Thank you @momscleanairforce.org - what a debacle! www.momscleanairforce.org/brownsville-...

France passed a law in 2022 requiring car parks to install #solar. * Applies if ≥80 spaces * Must cover at least 50% of area * Exemptions (grid constraints, heritage sites) We did it with disabled spaces why not solar? There are obstacles but none are strong enough to justify not doing it at all!

Recall: MAGA isn’t about making USA great, it’s about making everywhere else a bit more shit. It’s a relative thing.

It’s about greed.

"Diesel generators on the site are reportedly expanding from 40 today to 100 at completion." There are so many reasons why this kind of thing should be illegal. That's one of them. Also, it is stupid that we are still burning stuff to generate electricity! www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

NEW: As congressional Republicans accuse climate scholars and lawyers of colluding to influence the judiciary, a symposium hosted by a center funded by the fossil fuel industry educates judges about free-market views of climate science. by @abrahm.bsky.social

We cannot allow all these data centers running on oil and natural gas to be built, y’all. We simply cannot. The Earth is too precious. To accelerate CO2 production for a technology this stupid is so profoundly reckless

more than 2/3 right now grid.iamkate.com

We’ve had this conversation before. The government is not blocking repowering old wind Repowering projects were included in AR7

@cwacgreen.bsky.social Revealed: UK oil refinery owner moved Russian loans to offshore subsidiary where sanctions did not apply www.theguardian.com/business/202...

'Every solar panel, every wind turbine, every heat pump, every EV on the road makes the UK more secure. This link between clean energy and national security throws off the idea that green policy is weak, fluffy, lefty, wokery, when it is basic national defence.' www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

£1bn saved in March from wind and solar. Now the world’s largest wind farm has begun connecting to the UK. So why exactly is net zero meant to be a problem? eastangliabylines.co.uk/energy/world...

Wind and solar alone are currently providing nearly two thirds of electricity generation in Great Britain. Source: www.mygridgb.co.uk

From “The Simpsons” house genius John Swartzwelder, interviewed in The New Yorker by Mike Sacks

It just never ends. The Trump administration has officially scheduled an auction for drilling rights in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Companies can bid for the right to drill in ANWR starting June 5.

UK folks what is going on with all this? The whole spectacle of blaming renewables for the crippling impacts of fossil gas is.......some pretty stunningly wild gymnastics. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Generative AI and the associated data centre buildout is whatever the opposite of electrification is www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

These people call themselves patriots. Almost invariably, they turn out to be stooges of foreign powers. goodlawproject.org/orbans-pay-c...

"To grasp the exponential nature of renewable energy rollout, consider that a total of 1GW of solar was deployed globally in 2004. Last year, the same amount was added every 12 hours". From today's @irishexaminer.bsky.social

The French government has announced the measures of its plan to accelerate electrification: - a ban on gas boilers in new houses from the end of 2026 - increased support for replacing old heating with heat pumps - 100 regions will pilot comprehensive heat transition plans to phase out gas by 2030

A French coder estimates that using Claude Code will account for 1 tonne of CO2 over a year - 10% of the average French individual carbon footprint. We have never encountered emissions-intensive software like this, ever before (with the sole exception of Bitcoin) www.linkedin.com/posts/gwitte...

This article marshals evidence and expert opinion to show something that educators already know: AI makes people think they can do things that they can't in fact do. AI is billionaires trying to profit off a society-wide Dunning Kruger effect.

Might log off for the day

Clean energy is the least expensive and quickest power source to bring online, and it costs 30-60% less than new gas plants to produce the same amount of electricity.

Another triumph for deregulation! By saving a few million in monitoring and enforcement, our governments have landed us with a vast illegal waste dumping problem, new organised crime networks and a clean-up bill that could run to tens of billions. My column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Study finds pheasant link to Lyme disease germ in ticks share.google/M6kQAcKWmCis...

University of Oxford : maximising oil and gas extraction here would only save UK households up to £82 (€95) per year. A UK fully powered by renewable energy, would save households up to £441 (€510) a year on energy bills. www.euronews.com/2026/03/27/e...

As others have pointed out it's worth being cautious with results like this. It doesn't yet seem to be peer-reviewed replicated. BUT - the results in the paper are pretty damn striking and at the very least warrant plenty of caution when siting data centres arxiv.org/abs/2603.20897

Never a bad day to learn and appreciate new irony. Like that Hormuz is derived from Ahura Mazda, the Persian creator god of order. aje.news/486gny

It's really difficult to properly express how nuts this is. Meta's 2.2 gigawatt data centre fossil fuel plant was already world-leading bad. Now they're adding 5.2 EXTRA gigawatts on top. So SEVEN NEW FOSSIL FUEL PLANTS for one data centre. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

This will make a much bigger difference than drilling for the last bit of methane gas in the North Sea news.sky.com/story/ed-mil...