Good summary on the state of electric aviation. Basically we are looking at replacing short range helicopter travel for the very wealthy. Eg Farnborough to central London for Bezos et al. Current 🔋 tech can’t do much more in the real world. But it’s a start! www.linkedin.com/posts/dirkth...

UK government are snivellingly pathetic in their response. Europeans giving this the condemnation it deserves

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

Number crunching: Telegraph editorial columns in December highlighting ‘the unreliability of social media’ v corrections the Telegraph has had to publish so far this year due to inaccurate reporting From the new Private Eye, out now.

A thought: it Is said that according to the defence industrial strategy, UK is willing to spend twice the price for something if it is made by a UK company. Apart from the sovereignty thing, the idea being it creates UK jobs and the money then recirculates around the UK economy.

I do like seeing how EVs are increasingly used in aviation. Sure, there’s the regular cars to get ground teams from one stand to another. But increasingly I’m seeing the specialist support equipment being electrified. Loading lifts, tugs and in this case: a ground power unit.

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The fact that these things are actually out there, making us actual electricity in absolute vile conditions is a modern miracle www.linkedin.com/posts/martin...

Name that offshore wind farm

I think someone needs to get fired here

H2 go boom boom www.linkedin.com/posts/philip...

Paul nailing it, as usual.

Category 2 ambulance response times for November 2025 *much* better than last year (and a mile away from the nightmares of 2022-3). South West at half last year's times. NB: C2 includes heart attack/stroke symptoms. Target is 17 mins: still not there, but a genuinely good (unreported) news story.

Oiltimer it is! @bobbyllew.bsky.social

It really is when trying to mesh together hydro in the north, wind in the middle, and PV in the south. That contains a load of opportunities but means lumpiness and no one size fits all (like the Aussie loads of PV and loads of BESS approach).

Another step in one of the less known UK infrastructure projects.

In case it wasn't obvious in the way I presented it. This improvement: from consistent multi-hour waits from 2022-2023 to ~27 minutes today, despite the winter pressures and early flu wave ... is borderline *miraculous*.

Just been totting up the heat pump figures for our first year in the new house: Space heating COP: 3.68 Hot water COP: 2.19 Overall SCOP: 3.30 10.6kW Daikin Altherma installed by Octopus. Data is self-reported by the heat pump. Not terrible, not great either.

Any recommendations for a new 12v battery for eNiro? Is there one that copes better with EV life or are they all much of a muchness? @tillathenun.bsky.social @evmusings.bsky.social @evfudbuster.bsky.social

Make Russia broke again

When Blyth wind farm opened in December 2000, it was described as the first ‘truly offshore’ wind farm in the world 🌊 Since then, offshore wind has grown to 17% of British electricity generation – putting wind in the sails of 🇬🇧’s clean energy transition https://loom.ly/3fUtHXM

UK Life expectancy has shaken off the pandemic at last. About time, and a really positive milestone to reach.

Well look at this, it’s only a bloody British electric plane! 😍 www.linkedin.com/posts/vertic...

"What don't you like about them?" "I don't like the way they just sit there, quietly, not causing any pollution or disruption. It's quite sinister"

I hope that's the case, but the fact that almost the entirety of the information environment is a propaganda fishtank continues to feel suboptimal.

NEW | It’s been 25 years since offshore wind first dropped anchor in Britain. The industry has seen some big changes from 2000 to 2025: 2 ➡️ 2,878 turbines 1 ➡️ 47 operational offshore wind farms 0 ➡️ 17% of 🇬🇧 electricity https://ember-energy.org/latest-insights/25-years-of-british-offshore-wind

Five years ago, I became an advisor to Alberta's Eavor Technologies, world leader in closed-loop geothermal technology. Last week their flagship project started delivering power to the German grid. mliebreich.substack.com/p/big-news-c...

In nearly 5 decades from '70-'17 the LF was 67%. But all the AGRs are well beyond their short design lives and so inevitably an increasing uphill struggle chasing issues to keep going. Until the core ends it.

As of today, there are more electric cars than diesel cars in Norway.

Seb Kennedy lays out the facts. "Rising upstream costs combined with falling European gas hub prices will squeeze US LNG profit margins, with European buyers being set up as bag-holders".

This is a structural change, with the amount of LNG coming, why would you pay an expensive or cumbersome storage tariff if you could manage a portfolio of more diversified LNG? So we may start to see the massive EU gas storage network as a (partially) stranded asset. bsky.app/profile/tomh...

This is such a great canter through a self-install of a heat pump. Obviously a lot of work even for someone who knows what they’re doing but very encouraging to see what you can do without having to completely rip your home apart

Data from this system is live on @openenergymon.bsky.social , it's currently averaged a COP of 5.4 for space heating and 4.33 for DHW using a @newarkcylinders.bsky.social Heat Geek Super Cylinder 📈 heatpumpmonitor.org/dashboard?id...

Bloody hell I’m getting sent stuff from Kathryn Porter from all over www.facebook.com/share/v/1X32...

This from Kathryn Porter on inverter based gen: “If thousands of units respond identically to a voltage dip, as most are programmed to do, the system’s real power output will collapse even as voltage recovers. The immediate consequence is a frequency drop…

A lovely tribute to our good friend Quentin Willson by Dan Caesar. www.patreon.com/posts/our-in...

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Today we had two of our sail-equipped ships at sea… and both had over half their propulsion being provided by their sails! These figures aren’t too common as we aim for 10-15% average across a year, but it demonstrates the potential when the conditions are right!

Electric trucks are so cool. www.businessgreen.com/news/4522659...

On the plus side, we should be celebrating the truly amazing success with reducing particle pollution over last twenty years, like 98% reduction!! Think it shows that, for pollution that people are aware of, there is the will to do something!

How it started / where it goes / how it ends up

I’ve had this shared with me from a sceptic colleague. Not many pros in this pros & cons piece. There’s a plausible level of truth in some of it, but the framing could not be more negative. unpopular-truth.com/2025/07/25/p...

Finally some fresh ideas in the talks about ending Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

Polish meme translated into English.

Renault is set to launch its Dutch AC bidirectional charging package in collaboration with We Drive Solar and Hegg Energy in the first half of 2026. This will be the first commercialised V2G bundle in the Netherlands.

The war will end when Russia stops fighting. Therefore, pressure has to be put on Russia, so that they stop believing that they will win. Why is that so hard to understand?

Australia has one of the higher (80%+) uptakes. UK latest cohorts coming in the 70%s (was 90% in earlier years). US lower - 60s%. As people age, we can expect divergence in cervical cancer rates to continue - a chance for elimination in Australia, vs still a significant cause of death for US women.

Utterly surreal that a key part of the pre Budget narrative from the government hasn’t been ‘Russian planes keep buzzing the Essex coast, US support for NATO is looking shaky, and thanks to the Tories our army fits in Old Trafford - that’s why we need to raise taxes’.