Balkonkraftwerke...

Interesting (´Germany is very rapidly improving its EV business´).

I post too much about the US, but...

India has built a lot of solar in the last few years, and it's making a real dent in daytime generation. ▸More batteries are needed to store the excess and time-shift it to nighttime, when loads are still high for air conditioning ▸Already storage discharge is half as much as natural gas at night

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A briefing prepared for NHS England senior leaders in February and seen by Democracy for Sale said that Palantir’s tech is slow, hard to use and substantially worse at some tasks than the software it is supposed to replace. Great work from @lucasamin.bsky.social

🔴 Wes Streeting has said that Palantir is “absolutely critical to the future of the NHS.” But Palantir’s £330m NHS platform is “slow an clunky” and eight to ten times slower at analysing data than the current NHS tool in use Massive scoop on Democracy for Sale: open.substack.com/pub/democrac...

When I visited California in 1983 I read an opinion from a female reader of the Ojai valley daily (not sure of that name) who stated that sending primary school pupils home because of overheated buildings while supermarkets were refrigerated indicated wrong choices by society. 1983.

With 16 m^2 of solar panelscplus a 5 kWh battery it should be possible to charge many African households (electric cooking, washing machine, EV, fridge, computers, light) 365/24

In Africa, installation costs (mainly wages) are lower, too. While in many areas there is more plus more reliable sun than in 'The North'.

Walking in France. In the small village of Velles, inhabitants had, some years ago, to drive 20 km for basic groceries (yes, a food dessert). Now, there is a robosupermarket. Think: a building with multiple vending machines, including fresh/frozen/refrigirated food. Interestingly and fundamental,

Microsoft deelde namen Nederlandse ambtenaren met VS: 'Ontzettend zorgelijk'

Yes. I tweet to much about the US. But the mind boggling extent and brazenness of this grift and no congress or senate to stop it...

Already, the internet only works like I want it to (and as I was used to) if I'm within a 'secluded' part of the net (like the 'all the archives' website in the Netherlands). 'Normal' search yields a lot of noise and messy results.

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Soudan : 19,5 millions de personnes souffrent de faim aiguë, alerte l’ONU

Er moeten meer rode lijn demonstraties komen. Steun de strijd tegen genocide en facisme.

Dat is het ook. Ter vergelijking: ik heb één commissiedebat GGZ per jaar (100.000 wachtplekken), één commissiedebat passend onderwijs (70.000 kinderen die niet naar school kunnen), één debat over dakloze mensen en ongeveer iedere twee weken een asieldebat. Geen overdrijving.

1. (Heel) veel van die stroom is natuurlijk veroorzaakt door VS/Israelisch beleid gericht op het destabileren van Syrie, Irak, Libanon, Lybie, Iran, Palestijnse gebieden en noem maar op. 2. De EU heeft mensen nodig.

Walking in France. The post office and postal savings bank in Cuoy. Both the postal and the monetary system (including investing the savings in gov. bonds) were important elements of nation building with local (literally) faces. They also planted sequoya

An ever widening frontarea and ever more destructive and independently operating drones. What happens in Ukraine won't stay in Ukraine.

Dit noem ik nazi's. Ze worden gesteund door Wilders, Markuszower, Baudet, De Vos, Keijzer en Eerdmans. De SA deed 90 jaar geleden zo tegen joden. nos.nl/artikel/2614...

@aukehoekstra.bsky.social I do not entirely understand. But this will be the backbone of the new decentral production decentral use grid, also connecting regions without wind/sun with far away regions with wind/sun overload? And India leads?

You might have noticed that GaN and SiC transistors are taking the world by storm and are helping to replace heavy transformers with smart inverters. www.powerelectronicsnews.com/sic-and-gan-...

Why is this not covered in US? "the investigative platform Hondurasgate...released 7 audio recordings extracted from WhatsApp,Signal,& Telegram exchanges between some of the most powerful political figures in the Western Hemisphere" bsky.app/profile/bill... reactionary.international/investigatio...

Trump Media, the parent company of Truth Social, just reported its 2026 Q1 results. It lost $405 MILLION on $900,000 in revenue.

In case you missed it... www.drroyspencer.com/wp-content/u...

Duhhh...

The powerful always get what they want, right? Not if our governments finally start protecting people, instead of corporate bullies. A law to shield the people speaking up against injustices is ready. With your help, it can become reality - add your name: action.wemove.eu/sign/2026-04...

Do you want smart local entrepreneurs like Cathy in Arcy-sur-Cure (449 inhabitants) to be able to have a higher income, charge lower prices and force banks to ditch Neanderthal predatory payment methods like very expensive credit cards, Paypal and many bank cards - pay cash or with Wero

In 4 maanden DigiD migreren naar een Nederlandse provider: Tot 6 mei kán Nederland het nog zonder veel extra kosten: www.volkskrant.nl/columns-opin... Beter ten halve gekeerd.. mastodon.social/@Matthijs85/... #Nieuwsuur #digitalesoevereiniteit #digitaleautonomie #privacy

Een Amerikaans bespiedbedrijf infiltreert stilletjes Europa en krijgt toegang tot onze belangrijkste databanken, van ziekenhuizen tot politiesystemen. Het is tijd om de alarmbellen aan te slaan en dit een halt toe te roepen. action.wemove.eu/sign/2026-03...

They smell even better

In the literature about Central Bank Digital Currencies worries about ´Bank disintermediation´ are voiced. Huh...? Normally, that´s called ´competition´ Also, when a system bank lends money to somebody, this is often money-creating. Meaning that the banks get interest twice! Let me explain:

He can't be trusted. So, do not trust him. I stay surprised that the US president has the power to do this

Yesterday, May 1, I tried to buy red cookies. It seems to be quite a niche market... But this did the trick, too.

Another confirmation that the EU-US trade deal at Turnberry was a mistake. As Carney notes: “A lot of countries rushed into [trade] deals with the US -- they weren't really worth the paper they were written on”. reuters.com/business/aut... 1/

This is big. US banks and the dollar are rapidly losing ground. Rapidly. On the background: Central Bank Digital Currencies. The US won't even have 1, Euro area only in 2028. en.antaranews.com/news/414156/...

Auke Hoekstra is the smartest energy nerd around. His predictions for battery costs per kWh are insane.

Half of the AI data centers have been cancelled. A quarter are under review. And just 24% are being built as planned. The AI scam is dying.

Dutch deposit money (money in your bank account) as a % of the total stock of money (M1 and M2 definitions). About this: 1) In 1967, this was not higher than in 1938 2) In 1968, universal interbank cheques were introduced, leading to a fast increase in non-cash payments 3) ...

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Arnold Esch: „Man sollte die Antike nicht ins Museum schaffen. Denn das Monument vollkommen aufgegangen in der Landschaft, [...] das Gebälkstück als Bank für die Teichoskopie der Alten am Tor eines Städtchens, [...] das ist nicht gestorbene, sondern weiterlebende Antike.“ www.faz.net/aktuell/feui...

Oil giant BP announces huge rise in profits in first results since Iran war

"Concretely, about 90% of oil rents were effectively socialized in the 1970s. Today, roughly two-thirds end up in the hands of shareholders." @gabrielzucman.bsky.social gzucman.substack.com/p/where-are-...

Orbán associates rush to move wealth out of Hungary after election defeat