France has ended up in a strange position after using some €250bn of tax-payer money to build a fleet of nuclear power stations. Wind and solar power is merrily entering the French power market at prices nuclear production can't match, resulting in huge surpluses of power. 1/

Bollards save lives. End of story. #WorldBollardAssociation

Britain has dethroned a prince, forced Mandelson to resign, & lost confidence in Starmer because Rep. Thomas Massie & I forced the release of the Epstein files. What is America doing to hold the Epstein class accountable? We need to haul these powerful men before Congress.

The news about inevitable increase in power demand apoear speculative. The recent issue of #ManagerMagazin features two articles on energy intensive industries, steel manufacturing and AI data centres. Both are key drivers of projected power demand growth but appear financially at high risk.

States that ideologically favour coal, nuclear and gas power, like Missouri, can't compete against solar purely on market terms, so they have to introduce laws that ban solar. Their justification is crazy: "We have to protect our resources for future generations" www.pv-magazine.com/2026/02/06/m...

I used to have 75% of hard drive allocated to Windows and only 25% to Ubuntu #Linux in my #dualBoot installation. Since the Epstein files prove that Bill Gates is a conspiring sex freak, I decided to swap shares and use Microsoft products only if absolutely necessary linuxconfig.org/how-to-insta...

Industrial heat is one of the hardest parts of the energy transition. This sand battery is now delivering fossil-free heat for industry, storing renewable electricity as high-temperature heat and releasing it when needed. Simple idea, big impact.

US nonprofit @brightsaver.bsky.social has published a list of 25 states in which legislators that have announced #PlugInSolar Bills: www.brightsaver.org/publicly-fil... Keep in min in American English "bill" means proposed legislation: Bill ➡️ vote ➡️ law. #Alaska #Arizona #Colorado #Hawaii #Iowa...

Hyvää kansallisen varautumisen päivää. Myös vuokra- ja kerrostaloissa voidaan varautua parin päivän sähkökatkoihin varavirta-akkujen avulla. Suomessa laitteet ovat vielä kalliita mutta Saksassa myös akut lasketaan #Balkonkraftwerk -tuotteiksi joille ALV =0% www.power.fi/koti-ja-piha...

. Renewables up, prices down... Is the energy transition succeeding? Find out more: esdnews.com.au/is-the-energ... #ClimateAction

The utilities want to stop you from using Plug-In solar with fees and red tape. You can help by asking your state rep to pass SB 868. SB 868 would let you use these panels without needing permission from the utility, so long as the panels meet electrical safety standards. #pluginsolar #pluginPV

Every American needs to watch this:

Electric mobility infrastructure is developing much faster in India than Germany, reducing dependency on fossil fuel imports. Case railway network electrification: Germany's 'ambitious' plan: from 62% to 80% in 11 years. India: from 50% to 94% in 5 years. www.vdv.de/elektrifizie...

Very big win here. A federal judge says it's just fine for funds and pension plans to boycott fossil fuels www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/c...

Once again: the Trump administration isn't opposed to clean energy. They're opposed to cheap energy. Because it threatens the livelihood of their mediocre friends who can't compete against cheaper sources. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/c...

I don't say this often but: I'm so proud to be a climate and environment reporter. We cover an issue that is vitally important to humanity and the natural world. 14 of my climate colleagues at the Post were laid off today and I'm devastated. www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/washington...

I grew up with the Washington Post, wrote editorials for the Washington Post and published a column there for more than 15 years. To watch its owners destroy it, seemingly deliberately, in just a year and a half is devastating.

Perhaps it was coincidental timing, but nothing underscores the collapse of the Washington Post like firing most of the Pulitzer prize winning #climate reporters the very same day as their opinion pages publishes a BS screed by climate misinformer Bjorn Lomborg.

In an interview with NPR, Melinda French Gates confirmed that she ended her marriage with Bill Gates because of allegations contained in the Epstein files.

Modern battery units for plugin balcony solar systems include automatic spot price arbitrage functionality: recharge battery when electricity is cheap and feed power to grid when prices are high: https://www.pv-magazine.com/2026/02/03/growatt-launches-5-kwh-ac-coupled-balcony-storage-system/

From @theathleticfc.bsky.social: FIFA is selling parking passes at 2026 World Cup games in Los Angeles for $250 or $300 per matchday and per spot — more than the price of some actual match tickets.

Perhaps Trump is an ecomodernist? www.npr.org/2026/01/28/n...

This explains why Virginia Giuffre was so reluctant to name #Trump #Epstein #EpsteinFiles

US #solarpanel prices are absurd: 🇺🇸 A palette of 36 no-name panels is 5.600 USD or 4.724,16 EUR in the United States. 🇩🇪 You get a similar palette of 36 500 Wp panels in Germany for 2.423,90 USD or 2.044 EUR that’s half the price! 😲🥝🌓

It should not take a court order to get a toddler out of a prison.

One of my favorite tidbits from this development is that not only did grass start growing in the desert for the first time, but that it grew so tall to the point it started covering the solar panels and becoming a massive issue, and the best solution was to just let sheep eat the grass.

I’m ok. I’m a survivor so this small agitator isn’t going to intimidate me from doing my work. I don’t let bullies win. Grateful to my incredible constituents who rallied behind me. Minnesota strong.

"... What is troubling is DHS taking credit for “arrests” which are, in reality, state-to-federal handoffs occurring at prison facilities after individuals complete their state terms of imprisonment, as has been the long-standing practice..." -Minnesota Department of Corrections

Can’t believe I‘m saying this, but Bill Clinton put out a pretty powerful statement about the killings in Minneapolis.

The killing of Alex Pretti is a heartbreaking tragedy. It should also be a wake-up call to every American, regardless of party, that many of our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault.

bsky.app/profile/judi... In Germany, people loved to think this could never happen again. But it never truly stopped. It remained in the dark, in the backdrop, unhealed. And now the thugs feel strong enough to come into the broad daylight again, revealing their broken egos, spreading their violence.

NEW: India is avoiding the fossil fuel detour 🪝 Where China built first on coal and gas, India is taking a shortcut >>> read in 5 graphics🧵

Pidän demokratian kannalta hyvänä, että Suomen trumpilaiset kertovat näkemyksensä avoimesti. Se, että kyseinen henkilö on Suomessa ulkopolitiikkaan vaikuttavana ministerinä, ei sitten välttämättä olekaan niin hyvä asia.

Tesla quietly cuts 1,700 jobs at Gigafactory Berlin despite denying it A new report from the German business newspaper Handelsblatt confirms that the automaker has been quietly downsizing the plant’s workforce significantly, based on figures reported by the workers’ council. /1

Annelise Riles and I will go LIVE on Substack to discuss today's nuclear risks...and what we can do about them. Join us today at 1:30pm ET right here: open.substack.com/live-stream/...

German court: heat pump users not required to pay for switching off gas connection www.cleanenergywire.org/news/german-... #natgas #heatpumps #energytransition

Transportation equity is not a new idea. “Let the street car through — there may be fifty people on the car, and at most you have only four or five.”

Your regular reminder that Republicans in Congress approve of what the President is doing.

🧐

The House Ethics Committee found that Matt Gaetz did all of the horrible things previously claimed—sex trafficking minors, prostitution (including of minors), drugs, drunk driving, obstruction, the works. The Florida Bulldog has secured and published the House report this evening.

Bills in the California Legislature from @scottwiener.bsky.social would make it easier for people to install plug-in solar panels without utility delays, and also super-efficient electric heat pumps: www.canarymedia.com/articles/sol... via @alisontakemura.bsky.social

Trump: "I haven't been able to find any windfarms in China." Reality: China has far more windfarms than any other country on Earth

Energy costs are through the roof. People need opportunities to lower their bills & take control of their energy future. Heat pumps & plug-in solar installations are key strategies. We need way more of both & I introduced two bills to help get us there.

It’s time for European leaders to add some psychologists and psychiatrists with expertise in narcissistic personality disorder to their advisory staffs. High time, actually.

ASK A SCIENTIST: What are the dangers of unlimited US and Russian nuclear arsenals? UCS's Jennifer Knox responds.

Does cheap electricity create more jobs? Not in Finland. In 2025 Finland had the cheapest electricity in Europe: energia.fi/tilastot/sah... and yet also the highest unemployment among EU countries. yle.fi/a/74-20203184

NEW: Coal-fired power generation fell in both China and India in 2025, for the first time since 1973. The drop came after record clean energy additions in both countries, and was the first time that clean energy was a major driver of falling coal power use.

This is huge.. peak power of 21 GW puts Westland Water District on par with the biggest power plant on the planet. (Ironically: a hydro plant!) Irrigation covers only 50% of their acreage, so solar panels on fallow land keeps farmers in business and pays for schools, hospitals, community benefits.

Big Tech turns to solar and storage to bypass grid bottlenecks pv-magazine-usa.com/2026/01/07/b... - drill baby drill? No. Solar PV & battery are the fastest (and least cost) way to power data centers. Nuclear? it's a pipe dream: super expensive & available in 10+ yrs, if nothing goes wrong

There is reason to believe that Denmark soon will decide to implement universal road pricing. Read here why and how: concito.dk/en/concito-b... #dktrp #dkgreen #dkpol