As fossil fuel power stations fade away their grid connections are cannibalised by renewables. Cheaper energy rises from the ashes. Map from The Economist infographics.economist.com/2025/2025082...

“Trump’s anti-solar crusade may end up calling to mind the Eagles’ best-known hit, “Hotel California”. He can check out any time he likes, but he can never leave.” The Economist. Cheap, reliable and profitable renewable energy is unstoppable. Follow the money.

African Solar roll-out. Hardly needs a caption. And also there's Morocco & the planned power cable connecting the UK grid to the huge wind farms on its Atlantic coast. Shifting geo-politics & $$$s as renewables eat the FF market. Thanks to Hannah Ritchie.

Time for the world to install a gigawatt of solar power capacity 2004: A year 2010: ~ a month 2015: ~ a week Now: A day ourworldindata.org/data-insight... 🧪

Will someone pls tell Donald?

Can’t see this often enough!

"China has already won the battle for the energy of the 21st century" says @jonathan-watts.bsky.social "If history is any guide, the country dominating energy usually dominates economics & politics" "The US is not even in the room" says Li Shuo #climatecrisis www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Drill baby drill? US Big Oil is cutting jobs, slashing costs and scaling back investments.

China Energy Transition Review 2025 'China’s surge in renewables and whole-economy electrification is rapidly reshaping energy choices for the rest of the world, creating the conditions for a decline in global fossil fuel use.' ember-energy.org/latest-insig...

China built more #solar in 6 months than the U.S. has in its entire history.

Community factcheck FTW

Maine - and most places around the world where it’s getting warmer and wetter. Somerset, UK, for example. The list is long (& getting longer).

“Markets speak loud and clear if you listen to what they’re saying. The market in Texas is saying loud and clear that gas is not going to be built any time soon.” Watch what bankers do: they don't like to lose money. For more, see The Sun Has Won, Part 1 www.planetarytech.earth/s/The_Sun_Ha... 🔌💡

The future is arriving! The Economist predicts the next trillion $ company will be in batteries. Any stock tipsters got ideas on which of them will get there first?

“The postwar order rested on three pillars: American hegemony, the fossil-fuel energy system, and an open, multilateral trading order. America has now attacked each pillar at the foundation of its hydrocarbon global order.” — New: @katemac.bsky.social & I www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/bri...

Of course! They’re already hooked up to the grid. Old fossil-fuel plants are becoming green-energy hubs economist.com/science-and-... from The Economist

Strategic threat, strategic response … meet Trump. economist.com/leaders/2025... from The Economist

Cheap energy trumps Trump. Renewables are unstoppable because they’re cheaper & more profitable - and global. Donald Trump, friend of the EV? economist.com/business/202... from The Economist

Stranding Assets. Note the Present Continuous. Grammar with a frisson of excitement :)

The headline says it all: www.thetimes.com/article/76c8...

A near 50% growth in battery energy. As renewables grow market volume and the tech evolves, costs & prices come down. As the fossil fuel market contracts, prices rise right through the supply chain. There is only one winner.

Money. Renewables, esp solar + utility scale batteries, are cheaper to build, run & consume than FFs. As the FF market contracts so its costs increase. Follow the money. It’s going green. Fast.

Love words? Love weirdness? Then you’ll love The Little Book of Second Mentions. Born from the iconic @secondmentions.bsky.social account, this collection celebrates the glorious, witty and inventive ways journalists avoid repeating words. “A very funny book” @mattchorley.bsky.social Out today!

"Solar power is transforming the world — and at record speed" @ember-energy.org ember-energy.org/latest-insig...

"This week the federal Energy Information Administration predicted that US oil output would fall next year, as crude prices drop to just $47.77 a barrel, almost $20 below shale drillers’ break-even price." The US shale industry will never even break even.

Hedge funds are betting against oil stocks and shaking off doubts about solar in a reversal of energy strategy.

It’s better than that. Yes FFs are stranding assets. But, imo, so are nuclear power stations (albeit more slowly). Who needs massively expensive base-load nuke power when the price of utility scale batteries is in freefall?

It would be great if the single driving message for renewables were that they’re cheap to build, cheap to run & deliver the cheap energy economies need to stay competitive. ‘Net Zero’ is toxic to a large part of the population. Bottom line: Renewables are increasingly more profitable than FFs.

Dr. Eric Gordon and Dr. Jill Carnahan discuss fungal overgrowth, mast cell activation, and tick-borne infections in gut health and why addressing the gut is essential in resolving chronic illness. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/g...

Cheap to build + cheap to operate = cheap-as-chips energy. Add utility scale batteries and it’s still cheaper than fossil fuels. We’ve passed the tipping point.

Maybe, when he said Burn Baby Burn, he meant the US economy?

If you think you might, perhaps have a tick bite & rash, take doxycycline. Three weeks of antibiotics carry minimal risk. Failing to treat Lyme before the symptoms show can result in years of misery.

Most of the world knows. Even Texas knows … So who’s going to tell Trump that the future is already running on cheap renewable energy? www.nytimes.com/2025/07/03/o...

Everything you need to know about Trump’s energy policy in a devastating, short opinion piece in the right leaning Telegraph. “Trump drops a big, beautiful bomb on USA Inc“ China gets a free run as the world’s first electricity super power. digitaleditions.telegraph.co.uk/data/2117/re...

The US is falling behind when it comes to clean energy investment. This is about to get worse: With the hugely damaging 'Big Beautiful Bill' the US will shoot itself in the foot driving down investment in the lowest cost energy sources and driving up consumer bills.

Ticks are spreading globally and bringing familiar conditions such as Lyme disease with them, as well as totally new ones. Now research is revealing how to prevent and treat the diseases they carry.

UK government confirms sandeel fishing will remain banned in English waters in the North Sea, after an UK-EU court spat over the post-Brexit trade deal www.gov.uk/government/n... (More background here: www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...)

Hague was a key figure on the team that negotiated the original no-nukes deal with Tehran. The one Trump tore up. www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...

Biggest challenge is diagnosis. Caught early, Lyme responds well to antibiotics. Sadly most Drs are clueless and only arrive at a diagnosis after (often) years of getting it wrong. By which time it’s too late for Doxycycline.

Solar + storage is now $104 per MWh in Las Vegas or similar regions for nearly 100% clean firm power. There is no way new nuclear can compete with this. Even new gas plants will struggle and that is assuming access to cheap gas over the life-cycle of the plant, which is kind of a crazy gamble TBH.

MyLymeData Powers Groundbreaking Study of Neurological Lyme Symptoms. Federal Grant Supports AI-Driven Research to Define, Diagnose, and Treat Neurological Lyme Disease. www.lymedisease.org/members/lyme...

The future is Chinese?

Global energy investment is expected to rise by 2% to $3.3 trillion this year. China is spending almost as much as the United States and the EU combined. Around $2.2 trillion is going to renewables – twice as much as the $1.1 trillion going to oil, natural gas and coal. IEA.

“Environmentalists,” he adds kindly, “their heart is in the right place and I’m very fond of their work. But their communication skills really suck.” He’s right. www.thetimes.com/article/100e...

Sizewell C nuclear reactor v Battery Tech. Sizewell will overrun its £14b budget and 10yr build time. How much sodium-iron utility-scale battery storage will £14b buy 10 years from now? Battery tech is fast getting bigger & cheaper. Nukes just get more expensive.

Good news ! Something to smile about … I am, and I hope you are too 👍 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Conservationists call for Lake District to lose Unesco world heritage status Long overdue. Where’s the apex predator? Why are there are no Golden Eagles in English & Welsh national parks?

This IEA graphic shows how global sales of electric vehicles & improved efficiency of combustion vehicles (eg hybrids) is slashing growth in global oil demand. Use in road transport has peaked & likely to soon post annual declines. Aviation & petro-chemical feedstocks only drivers of growth now.🔌💡🔌🚗

Global renewable energy capacity jumped from 0.8 to 3.9 TW between 2000–2023. China led with a 1,817% increase, adding more than Africa, Europe, and North America combined. The US (+322%) and India (+604%) also saw big gains. Renewables include solar, wind, hydro, bioenergy, geothermal & marine.