If you want to listen to two experts in energy, don't miss Michael Liebreich and Lord Adair Turner's reflections on the past 20 years of the energy transition. In the early 2000s, no one knew how the world would decarbonise. Today, wind solar and batteries will provide 95% plus.

There's many dumb announcments recently, especilly in the health and energy sectors in USA. Has Covid Lowered the IQ of people? Covid spike protein damages the brain and reduces IQ. SARS-CoV-2 spike protein accumulates and persists in the body for years after infection. People get brain fog.

Are you older? Should you take statins and other similar drugs? Stroke remains a significant cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide, with older adults, particularly those over age 60, at the highest risk of first-time ischemic stroke.

Cleaning Up podcast with , Professor Tristan Smith, a leading expert on shipping decarbonisation from UCL Energy Institute. Fundamental is LNG use is going to drop. The USA WH is repayment of the $90 million in election donation by gas industry. www.cleaningup.live/the-us-just-...

Whatever you think of COVID, of its origins, or whether serious or not, one in eight people have long COVID impacts. Long COVID is described as post-infection symptoms persisting for at least a month. Long COVID has been part of the infection right from the beginning.

If you thought the world built a lot of renewables in the past few years, just wait for the next half of this decade. Solar is expected to double the past 5 years' growth. Incumbent analysts often get projections wrong. www.canarymedia.com/articles/cle...

The Human Cell Atlas (HCA) is will catalogue every cell type within a human being. Daunting project considering the human body is over 37 trillion cells. The task of decoding their roles and charting their locations involves approximately 4,000 researchers working in 190 labs across 102 nations.

While "gamechanger" is a common cliche. Sometimes announcements come along worthy of the word. In April, CATL, the worlds largest battery manufacturer announced * A range of 520 kilometers (km) with a five-minute charge * Can go from 5% to 80% charge in 15 minutes in cold weather.

Mistrust in science has been on the rise for decades. - This growing mistrust is primarily fueled by political polarisation. - It's amplified by partisan media and social media algorithms. - The spread of misinformation contributes to the lack of trust. /1

Mega batteries are unlocking the energy revolution. The electricity system is the largest commodity supply chain in the world that doesn’t feature storage. Every technology benefits from storage. The top 1% of peak hours are 8% of your bill. The top 10% of hours are 40% of your bill.

Not many are talking about what happens as houses change from gas to electricity. Saving big. But what happens to all those existing pipelines? Will the companies try to get consumers to pay? optimisticstorm.com/stranded-gas...

How much land is needed by solar to power the world? Golf courses use more land than solar power. Australia, about 0.016% of land area (About 1 hundredth of one per cent). interactive.carbonbrief.org/factcheck/so... In my book OptimisticStorm.com Part 1 - The End of the Fossil Fuel era.

Who is right for reduction in oil over next 5 years. * Oil for plastics feedstock * Oil for transport. IEA, in their Oil Report www.iea.org/reports/oil-... show little change by 2030.

Despite orders from the White House forcing coal plants to stay open, coal plant retirements in the U.S. are projected to be higher in 2025 than 2024! Coal plants are simply old, dirty, and very expensive.

Cyclists. Write to your politicians. Tax breaks for huge, American-style utes costs Australians over $250m It is 1/10th of money spent on the Federal Government’s Active Transport Fund for the construction and upgrade of cycle paths every year. australiainstitute.org.au/post/big-ute...

Plastic water bottles are killing us. Says the latest meta study - no new research, just compiling 141 previous papers. Microplastics (1 µm to 5 mm) and nanoplastics (less than 1 µm) have raised alarms about their harmful effects on human health. Nanoplastics are especially hazardous.

An American Lung Association report calculates that changing from industrial combustion boilers to industrial-scale heat pumps across USA. * Save over $1.1 trillion in health costs. * Prevent 77,200 air pollution deaths by 2050. * Avoiding 33 million asthma attacks * 13 million lost school days

In a UN speech, President Trump said that "all of these [climate] predictions were wrong". [Fact check by Zeke Hausfather (@hausfath led)] Zeke in 2019 did a research effort to digitize old climate model projections and assess how well they did. Turns out they got future warming pretty spot on!

Elon Musk said in Jul 2025, Tesla will have "personal public transport" aka "robotaxis" providing services to half of the USA population by the end of 2025. How is it going? Will Tesla make it? Ernest Hemingway was asked how he went bankrupt. "2 ways. Gradually, and then suddenly"

Are climate delayers getting more active? Certainly in the USA oil and gas lobby who paid $96 million to Trump's campaign and affiliated political action committees. Climate obstruction in different industries is more coordinated than is generally recognised.

Carrying capacity? How does the Earth support its 8 billion people and the other fauna and flora. Too many people? Population peaks ~9 billion. Decline ~6-7 billion by 2100. We look at plunging birthrates, lower child mortality and increased life expectancy. in optimisticstorm.com

What is carrying capacity? How does the Earth support its 8 billion people and the other fauna and flora. Too many people? The Earth's population is likely to peak at around 9 billion and then decline to about 6-7 billion by 2100. youtu.be/HsA3CVCAGpc

The Department of Energy in the USA is spending $3.1 billion annually to keep unprofitable coal power plants operational, despite incurring massive financial losses, citing grid reliability and energy security concerns. www.utilitydive.com/news/doe-man...

Sea levels are rising around Australia. More frequent extreme events are increasing the risk of inundation and damage to coastal infrastructure and communities in low-lying areas, including in major cities and external territories. Assume the current populations remain as they are today.

EVs will never happen. Currently visiting UK and it's clear. Maybe 1 in 50 cars. With average 12 year life, the total is maybe only 5%. But the haters are evident. These "iced" spots at the local charging car park.

The rush for solar panels is leaving us at the mercy of China. * China dominates the global solar supply chain. Has 80% of every manufacturing stage in the production of solar panels. * Many anti-solar sat building solar farms leaves European and North American hooked” on Chinese supplies.

New study: oil & gas are major killers for the USA. Meanwhile Trump and Energy Secretary Wright are paying back fossil fuel companies for their support. Annual additional... * 91,000 air pollution deaths * 9,100 pre-term birth incidences * 216,000 asthma incidences www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

At the LNP Queensland conference in Aug 2025, the assembled continued to support a nuclear policy for Australia. In my book Optimistic Storm Part 3, Nuclear, Hydrogen CCS and Biofuel Fail we look why these technologies have failed or are not the future.

USA politics under Trump is bizarre. Hurts consumers. Ignores science. Ignores economics. In era 4 of energy disruption, we view things from 3 perspectives. 1. Technology. Does it work. Work within a whole system. 2. Economics. Price, Cost, internal and external costs 3. Politics and belief systems

Who do the Nationals represent in Australia It’s very odd for the Nationals conservative political "party of the bush"’ straining yet again for a fight on climate action.  Turning their backs on the mayors, farmers, business owners and parents around regional Australia who want jobs & investment.

Pakistan's electricity supply has doubled in the past 3 years from imports of solar from China. The 800 million living in energy poverty need this. If you think cell phones took off fast in the developing world, just watch solar! Pakistan has figured it. Other countries will as well.

Fraunhofer has built /tested a solar PC panel with 36% conversion efficiency * lots of little concentrating mirrors. * 2 axis tracking. * low-cost materials. * fewer semiconductor components. * standard high-volume manufacturing processes already in use .

EV cars save nearly the purchase price of fuel over its lifetime. My EV vs my old ICE car. Saving $2200 per year in fuel costs Over $22,000 over warranty period Believe the BS Toyota and other car manufacturers get published in Drive or auto news. Not me! $22,000 into my pocket & local community

Self-published Optimistic Storm - Pt1 End of the Fossil Fuel Era Sept 2024 Released Edition 2 last week. Politics is the major change over 12 months. Part 2, AI for the End of toil, food to feed all, better health and the disruption of agriculture. Use Grammarly. A lot www.optimisticstorm.com

Will Africa install new coal and gas electricity? In 2015, fossil fuel companies said gas and coal would take over Africa's energy supply. By 2024 - revised to a flat line. In Optimistic Storm, Era 4 of electrons, only solar and batteries. Gas and coal are gone. Fossil fuel industry nightmare!

Is Ford auto manufacturing irrelevant? We will see on August 11th 2025 CEO Jim Farley says the announcment of a "new" EV lineup on August 11th 2025 - a "Model T moment" The EU and US showed China how to build cars. China is showing the world how to build electric cars.

Australia has a target of 84% renewable electricity by 2030. That means about 5 to 7GW of new solar and wind every year. Some (Wood McKenzie, LNP, National politicians, fossil fuel lobbyists) say it won't be possible. But Kane Thornton (Clean Energy Councial) says last 6 months have been on target.

Batteries are and easy win for consumers. High prices disproportionately affect wholesale price 33% of average cost of retail electricity bill comes from just 40-60 hours  per year - less than 1% of the year Wholesale price over $1000 per MWh

Global electricity in 2024. Electricity is only about 1/5th worlds energy use (30,000 TWh out of 166,000 TWh) How many years to reverse? Knock gas and coal from 56% to 10%. Install wind and solar. Go from 15% to 50% Read more in my book Optimistic Storm The end of the fossil fuel era

California greening? Will be 100% clean electricity by 2035. 5th largest economy globally. Renewable energy met over 57% of demand in the first 6 months of 2025. Had its 105th day when renewable energy, wind, solar and hydro, supplied more than 100% of electricity for the major part of the day.

China is installing solar like it's going out of fashion. Last 12 months to June - installed 464 GW. More than the total EU solar (338 GW) Double the total US solar capacity (229 GW). From Ember Nicolas Fulgham @ember_energy More in my book Optimistic Storm. x.com/nicolasfulgh...

It took over 3 years to write a 3-part series on innovation. Optimistic Storm. Part 2. Artificial intelligence and the consequences on labour, transport, food, health and agriculture on its way. I was a bit blasé, but it gave me a whole new perspective. /n

For the record, the anomaly of 6.818 standard deviations in a normal distribution would correspond to an event with frequency of about 1-in-216 billion. These are not normal times. Collapse incoming. Care of climatereanalyzer.org

These are about where the countries stand in BEV share for the last 12 months on average May 2025 (some Apr, Jun) Norway, Italy and Portugal include June. RMI states that the increase becomes uniform once you reach approximately 14%. People tell their friends. Australia, NZ, USA - laggards.

Increase and decline in country populations. Great visualisation from Visual Capitalist

The CEO of Ford, Farley said "Beyond that, their cost, their quality of their vehicles is far superior to what I see in the West," "We are in a global competition with China, and it's not just EVs. And if we lose this, we do not have a future Ford," Should have gone to Specsavers. A decade ago.

We are living in the “Plasticene” era. Plastics have permeated every aspect of our lives like an epidemic. * About 1 crayon (10 gm) in our brains. * The brains of people who died with dementia contained 10 times more plastic by weight than healthy samples at about 0.5% plastic by weight.

Cold kills more than heat. No longer true. Lethal humidity is where it gets too hot and too humdi (dew point). USA data shows death from heat stroke are rising. In a country that has air conditioning. What happens in countries without extensive a/c optimisticstorm.com/lethal-humid...

Renewable Energy disrupts geopolitics and trade. The EU buys €1.8 b Russian fossil fuels per month Change since Russian invasion Gas import prior 45%. Now 13%. Oil imports was 27% Now 3%  Coal was 51%, now zero.  Ukraine military aid to Dec 2024 = €118 b Total fossil energies ~ € 70 b

BYD is looking beyond China. Targeting 50% of sales from international markets by 2030. 85% sold in China. Will BYD pivot to autonomous vehicles? They have announced semi-autonomous. www.drive.com.au/news/byd-lau...