Despite global challenges for women in STEM, there are local wins to celebrate. Across the EU, women made up 42.5% of STEM graduates in 2021, with even higher representation in countries like Romania and Poland. 🇪🇺 Let's keep empowering #WomenInScience! 👩‍💻 📊 Eurostat

This week on @cleaninguppod.bsky.social I was joined for a 2nd time by @hannahritchie.bsky.social. She's got a new book called Clearing the Air. 50 common questions about climate solutions? 50 little misinformation demons laid to rest! Hannah's is such a valuable voice. youtu.be/voLbbuPEWY4?...

I’ve spent a good chunk of my career relying on American science and engineering to keep me alive. Yesterday, RFK Jr. testified at the U.S. Senate Finance Committee. It was sad to see him try to destroy the life’s work of so many American scientists. He shouldn’t be in this job.

There’s enough known lithium reserves today to make over 2 billion EVs — more than the world’s total passenger cars. The challenge isn’t running out of lithium. It’s mining and refining sustainably.

New work on @sustainableenergy.bsky.social for healthcare in @africa.theconversation.com from our @johnshopkinssais.bsky.social @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social @dukepress.bsky.social and #DRCongo based offgridbox.com and www.rcha-rdc.org Download here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Stanley Whittingham speaking at Helmholtz on batteries today!

Spent batteries in UK EVs will be worth roughly $1 billion per year in 2030 to 2040. Why are battery and auto manufacturers not being made to design them for recycling already?

Yesterday’s huge tech news that the tech media totally ignored: www.linkedin.com/pulse/huge-t...

I have the chance to get a Raman spectrometer for my group since the colleague who was responsible for Raman has left for industry. Is there a good book or ressource to learn some details (also about TERS), since I only have very limited knowledge in that area so far? #ChemSky #MaterialsSky 🔋🧑‍🔬 ⚒️

What if no one bought a new car this year? Very good question. How much better off would we all be, in different ways?

Zero-solution Starmer.. Talk, talk and more talk. Like Johnson.

ULEZ’ impact on pollution in London is extraordinary 👇

Spectacular! Saturn, Mars, Venus, Jupiter and crescent moon just before sunrise. 📸 Ren Theelen

Curious how so many are egging on the cut to foreign aid from 0.5% to 0.3% saying we need to invest in defence But so few are calling to rejoin the EU where we could recover 4-5% in GDP and use some of that to fund defence

The battery factory in Sines is set to receive up to €350 million in public support. China's CALB will publicly unveil its project to invest over €2 billion in this factory on Monday, marking it as one of the largest industrial investments in Portugal since Autoeuropa. expresso.pt/economia/eco...

Please share links/profiles that have natural resource job postings. I have been getting some but have little ability to compile and vet. #NaturalResourceJobs

“Few would have imagined that in post-Brexit Britain, a young person could take a job in Japan for two years but be unable to do the same in France. Yet here we are” sussexbylines.co.uk/world/europe...

If the UK and EU don’t scale up the clean tech industry now, they’ll never compete with China in the next 50 Years. This is why we HAVE to continue - but drop the unrealistic 2030 goal 👇

Seeing the light ... Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania (all former Soviet republics, now in the EU & NATO) just cut all ties with the Russian electricity grid — in an endeavour to block Russia's ability to geopolitically blackmail them via the electricity system. www.reuters.com/world/europe...

Long running poll shows 65% think Brexit was wrong and only 35% think it's right. (268 polls by YouGov, also sometimes asked by other pollsters). www.whatukthinks.org/eu/questions...

Fossil fuels will account for more than three-quarters of fuel used by airlines beyond 2040 — according to the British government’s own projections — undermining Rachel Reeves’ claims that new technologies will turn aviation green www.ft.com/content/78c3...

A typical European car is parked 92% of the time. It spends 1/5th of its driving time looking for parking. Its 5 seats only move 1.5 people. 86% of its fuel never reaches the wheels, and most of the energy that does, moves the car, not the people. Sound efficient? HT @ellenmacarthurfdn.bsky.social

Think about all the things that can fit when we just stop surrendering most of our urban space to cars. Not just other ways of getting around. That’s just the tip of the iceberg. Urban life can fit. Before & after street pedestrianization of Rue Rambuteau in Paris. HT to @emmanuelspv.bsky.social

Proud to have contributed to this paper "The evolution of lithium-ion battery recycling" led by Yan Wang's group at WPI that appears in the first issue of Nature Clean Energy Reviews. www.nature.com/articles/s44... The group brought together a really great range of perspectives.

I'm looking for online sources for purchasing #sustainable products. Things like household products to start. With coming uncertainty I want to invest more in things that will last and reduce my pollution impact. #ZeroWaste #PlasticFree

This is a great illustration of what the new energy order looks like: ➡️large to small ➡️centralised to decentralised ➡️large grids to microgrids ➡️one-directional to bi-directional ➡️passive consumers to active prosumers Of course this is simplified & highly stylised but it shows direction of travel.

Damn. One less reason for the pro-pollution junkies to complain about now 🙂👇

Liz Truss likes to rail against ‘globalists’ and ‘Davos man’ but we’ve spotted her…. on a junket in Davos 😬 Plus: the ‘black hole’ in Reform UK’s financial statements Latest in Democracy for Sale democracyforsale.substack.com/p/the-black-...

Very interesting new paper saying what I've been saying in my talks on green H2 for a while - meeting targets for the bare minimum use cases for H2 is already very challenging and people need to focus on them, more ambitious uses like home heating and most transport are likely impossible. (1/3)

How do battery projects get connected in GB and how is that changing? Joe and Catherine, two super knowledgeable connection heads join me on Transmission to discuss what the future looks like: youtu.be/2MON1cCVkCE?...

I fear there is deep truth here.

Great example of swords into ploughshares : #coal mining into #battery storage #batteries #cleantech #climatetech www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Like smoking a cigarette, driving a giant SUV/pickup endangers anyone nearby. The narrative power of secondhand smoke galvanized the anti-tobacco movement in the 1980s – and it could do the same for car bloat today. My deep dive, in Vox 🧵 www.vox.com/future-perfe...

wonderful thread on the incredible decarbonisation of UK electricity.

⌛5 days to go: 15th Session of the IRENA Assembly will convene global energy leaders in Abu Dhabi to drive political momentum on accelerating the global #energytransition, aligned with the #UAEConsensus, 2030 #SDGs, & the #ParisAgreement. Learn more: bit.ly/3OQY6AP

Predictable but still striking on.ft.com/3DJcc4A

Super useful for EV adoption modelling👇✅

🔥 Today would be an excellent day to join European Movement UK. Please check it out & share. 👇

@goldmansachsgroup.bsky.social did you really say this?👇 “Is curing patients a viable business model”?

Fabulous unintended demonstration of how much space and materials cars waste! 👇

New Bluesky account for All Parliamentary Group on Europe 👇 Not holding my breath for tangible change.. ☹️

Hi there! 👋 RMI was founded as Rocky Mountain Institute in 1982, long before digital media! But now, as then, our mission has been to transform the global energy system to deliver a clean, prosperous, zero-carbon future. For over 40 years, … (1/2)

Electrification is the key lever to decarbonise industry. But why is take-up so low (3-4%) when it comes to process heat? It’s because of the many barriers standing in the way. Here’s how we can break through them. Read our new @regassistproj.bsky.social report👇 www.raponline.org/knowledge-ce...

Confirmation from RMI with up-to-date data of the classic S-shaped adoption curves being followed by renewable energy technologies👇 It would be good to see similar data on cost to update Doyne Farmer's seminal 2022 paper so policymakers can make better decisions.

Nearly 1000 dead on Mayotte from a cyclone - will this even make the UK news? 👇

Huge supportive response to the 9 custom feeds I’ve launched! In the comments, all links are aggregated for these feeds: 1. Energy Transition Hub 2. Solar Energy 3. Electric Vehicles 4. Wind Energy 5. Heat Pumps 6. Microgrids 7. ⁠Jobs: Clean Energy 8. ⁠Nuclear Energy 9. ⁠Agrivoltiacs #energysky

Good news: if you lab test lithium-ion batteries the way they are actually used in real-world vehicles (lots of stop & start), you find out ... they last about 40% longer than previously estimated! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Lots of words in the new 2030 plan BUT: 1) Nuclear FALLS by 2030 😬 2) 94 mentions of "storage" - but little quantification 3) ZERO mentions of recycling - what are UK plans for turbine blades and batteries in the transition..??

Hi sustainability policy peeps! Do you want to come join the Sustainability Accelerator team at Stanford Doerr School to work with me, Michael Mastrandrea, and Charlotte Pera? APPLY!!! careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/managin...