This great thread raises some questions worth thinking over: 1. Is all electricity demand equivalent, or should grid policy distinguish between demand that provides essential services (e.g. hospitals) and demand that doesn't (e.g. computers mining crypto in air conditioned warehouses)?

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“World’s first trillionaire” is a caricature of capitalism that even Engels would have struggled to credit

PANIC!! My @smh @theage cartoon

Amazing to see how well deregulation and liberalisation of the retail sector is working out www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

It's Halloween, and to celebrate (?) I made a big scary decision... I love climate research and polar science, but academia broke me. And more importantly, I feel like climate comms is where I can have more impact. ... So I've left academia. Wish me luck 🎃 More here: youtu.be/mw6miP-v1Ds

1/ How is Germany's #Energiewende going, and how should it proceed? In our brand-new piece in Communications Earth & Environment, we show that the expansion of variable renewables has progressed substantially in recent years, but electrification and flexibility have not kept pace. A short 🧵

Incredible crop of quandongs this year

I quite enjoyed a lot of the takedowns of Bill Gates' EA brain snap on climate. It is really deadassed in a number of ways. But no-one mentioned the most important thing. He isn't *just* full of shit. He knows he is full of shit. I can prove it: timinclimate.medium.com/even-bill-ga...

here's a new one: a tribunal was holding a hearing over Microsoft Teams when they noticed ... an AI bot had joined the call

What a cursed combination of words www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr...

Weird how his change of view has come at the same time his company is investing in huge greenhouse gas emitting data centres for AI…

Carbon offsetting does not work. Not because of implementation details but because there are fundamental issues with the very idea of 'offsetting'. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

"Australia is also the first nation to surpass 1 GWh of utility battery capacity per million people, launching it into a league of its own, far ahead of China and the United States, each with less than 400 MWh per 1 million people."

Not news to anyone that's paying attention, but pretty amazing figure of what is going on with residential batteries from CSIRO 🔌💡

“Much of legacy media relies on the ‘debate’ itself. It’s not the substance of the debate or even the tangible damage the debate causes in the real world that matters — it is the debate itself that counts.” www.deepcutnews.com/p/australian...

Yet again, we can't afford to let LLMs become a source of epistemic grounding for society.

I am presenting a summary of my upcoming book, based on my DECRA research, at the Care Lab UNSW next month. Come along if you can, in person or online: www.eventbrite.com.au/e/the-care-l...

New 'state of climate action' report gives you a much better picture than daily headlines about contextless solar panel or EV sales - Most things are going in the right direction - Most things are badly off track to the pace of change required systemschangelab.org/state-climat...

Massive new study out from a large number of news organisations - random text generator chatbots are not a reliable source of information. Includes demonstrations of how it specifically gets climate answers specifically very wrong -->> www.bbc.co.uk/aboutthebbc/...

The Queensland Government's plan to extend coal's lifespan for 10 years or more is a great illustration of how "pragmatic realism" is deadly, and how the climate movement's persistent optimism isn't suitable for the times we're in now New @crikey.com.au piece: www.crikey.com.au/2025/10/20/q...

1. Rising electricity bills are becoming a hotbutton issue, but pundits and politicians often talk about them in ways that are misleading or flat-out wrong. A new paper from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory examines actual data on retail electricity prices. The results may surprise you. 🧵

“likely the largest single-day political demonstration since 1970” www.gelliottmorris.com/p/second-no-...

Incredible www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Our article "Operational Uncertainty and the Missing Money Problem" is now in Energy Economics (authors.elsevier.com/c/1lxeFW3fd1v69). The paper investigates capacity markets and operations, finding that current configurations in the US slightly undercompensate baseload plants relative to peakers.

David Pope in Canberra Times

It's good to just rename things occasionally so we don't forget what they really are

Second edition landing in April 2026 📚 @whitmon.bsky.social www.bloomsbury.com/uk/queer-the...

PyPSA v1.0 is officially here - 10 years and 2 days since the first git commit. This milestone release brings major new features, completely new documentation, and a fresh landing page - congratulations to all the PyPSA team! 🎉 🔗 New Documentation: docs.pypsa.org 🔗 New Landing Page: pypsa.org

Solidarity with @nickriemer.bsky.social, @professorjkeane.bsky.social and @sydney.edu.au for standing up to another Zionist attempt to silence opposition to their genocide.

in 2011, the president of antifa hired me to give fashion consultancy to the organization. i recommended everyone wear navy suits with tan shoes, dress sneakers, and golf polos with slim chinos. if you arrested everyone today wearing these things, you'd destroy antifa

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US. 𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕. 𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

This is just such an incredible figure for the QLD Gov to highlight and basically celebrate in the year of 2025

One curious thing on this site about speaking out against the encroachment of LLMs is that inevitably you get accused of being anti-tech. I don’t hate technology. I’ve used machine learning in my own code before. But I also recognize that oligarchs are so hellbent on pushing this tech for a reason.

look at what covid lockdowns did to Australia's transport emissions

This is utterly … what’s the word? Oh yes … fucked. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

So late to this, but this @bloomberg.com piece on the impact of sudden surges in power demand from new data centres on local electricity prices is really, really good - lots of original analysis. So many still shrug this off as a non-issue. Tell it to these ppl www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

Nothing to worry about here, no sir.

Please enjoy this executive at one of America's biggest gas companies openly admitting that expanding supply leads to increased demand for fossil fuels He is not wrong: frantic expansion of fossil fuel supply worsens climate change. Tax it, cut subsidies, wind it down www.ft.com/content/5ba8...

Thought this was going to be a parody piece, based on the title www.smh.com.au/national/nuc...

This is incredible news, and shows the incredible power of collective action. The fight against the neoliberal university (my own included) goes on, but its nice to hear some good news for a change.

Incredible. Jack Posobiec references the earliest version of antifa -- the anti-fascists in the Weimar Republic who were opposed to the Nazi Party -- as the bad guys.

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

Lot's of RE curtailment in the NEM - just ticked over 6TWh for the last 12 months Not every electron is sacred - but there's plenty of room for improvement! More words and lots of figures in the piece below - 💡🔌 theenergy.co/article/lear...

💡🔌A new article from Ben Potter explores curtailment of renewable generation in the NEM with the help of CEEM's Dylan McConnell and some illuminating charts, as spring rolls on and curtailment reaches new peaks. ☀️ 🔗 Check out the full piece here: theenergy.co/article/lear...

Union of Concerned Scientists report out with some nice recommendations for how to avoid captive residential customers paying for the infrastructure needs of data centers owned by tech giants (which is currently happening):

$16 billion. That's how much the PJM market monitor estimates that electricity ratepayers will pay via increased utility bills to subsidize interconnection of data centers owned by Big Tech. A massive give-away to some of the most profitable companies in the world. www.eenews.net/articles/dat...

"At its peak, Musk had around 35 natural-gas turbines at the site, capable of producing 420 megawatts of power, enough to power the roughly 250,000 homes in the Memphis city limits" 35 (!) full-sized power plants for this one data center run by the world's worst poster. www.wsj.com/tech/elon-mu...

You can have a situation with rising renewable absolute output and percentages of total (and falling emissions intensity!), but also stagnant or even rising greenhouse gas emissions: when *demand* itself is rising fast. This is very clearly the case in Aus, and it should trigger alarm bells

De Brouwer made the exact same argument two years ago after the Robodebt Royal Commission report was delivered. This is how I treated it in Mean Streak: "Grow up."