The 2025 IRENA report on Renewable Energy Costs is now available. The LCOE for variable renewable energy sources continued to drop, while dispatchable renewable energy sources saw slight increases in LCOE. Source: www.irena.org/-/media/File... 🧪💡🔌☀️💨💧🔋

“Instead of sinking billions of pounds into nuclear power, investment should be channelled into renewable energy and other projects that tackle climate change and benefit society” www.thenational.scot/news/2625376...

A fast-moving wildfire broke out Saturday evening near Thessaloniki, Greece's second largest city, and residents of three small suburbs north of the city were told to evacuate, the AP reported

As much of the Eastern U.S. experiences potentially record-breaking daytime temperatures, the nights are also staying unusually warm, leaving the human body no time to recover.

Well it doesn't *not* look like losing the mandate of heaven in an incredibly direct way

Historian here, Professors defeating the Confederacy since 1863! Joshua Chamberlain of @bowdoincollege.bsky.social at the Battle of Gettysburg.

I love how Donald Trump is using the logic of charter school advocates like Bill Gates to finish killing off public education and access to higher learning. I would genuinely love for all the folks who obsessed with "market-oriented outcomes" to apologize and be silent forever.

Values deeply grounded in a sense of decency would not entertain a piece of shit like Rufo. Rejecting dirtbagism isn't about getting everyone to like you or finding common ground and is very often exactly the opposite!

LSBU staff are back on the picket line today. Standing together to say no to fire and rehire, no to redundancies, no to the use of subsidiaries. We are united and we are not backing down. 🪧✊🪧✊🪧

A University of Hawaiʻi report says that building more solar farms with battery storage is the most cost-effective way to power Oʻahu, rather than building new power plants. The electricity company doesn’t agree. Lol.

You can’t reconcile Slaughter and Cook. It’s just the Supreme Court saying “we don’t want to mess up the world economy, but trust us, we’re principled interpreters of the Constitution.” My latest in @liberalcurrents.com www.liberalcurrents.com/slaughtering...

If you look closely at the project house photo you can faintly see the blue Force ghosts of Thomas Edison and Topsy the Elephant.

New paper! Housing increasingly has big devices that run natively on Direct Current (solar panels, EVs, batteries, motors on heat pumps and air conditioners, etc). What if we connected them on DC, rather than today's AC distribution + lossy AC/DC conversions? 🧵 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

"To counteract authoritarianism, we must model a world that looks like the one we want to build collectively. It is to be a place where neighbors know each other and come together in the service of others." www.liberalcurrents.com/rebuilding-c...

Australia (well, three states of it) mandates three free hours of electricity every day from tomorrow, up to 24kWh. This is a pretty good explainer. lenergy.com.au/free-daytime...

TFW a near-majority of the Supreme Court just gave itself the power to change the Constitution by judicial fiat. Any Democrat who does not support impeaching the Birthright 4 and prosecuting the anti-Constitutional Federalist Society who got them here is not a serious person.

‘about 32% of the U.S. early-stage renewable pipeline is now subject to additional federal scrutiny…92 gigawatts of clean energy projects…projects valued at $121 billion…Permitting ​in wetland areas, overseen by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, is the primary constraint on ‌private ⁠lands’

This seems unwise when Anthropic, along with the rest of the AI industry, are hiking up their per-token costs and show no signs of pulling that back. I genuinely hope the state legislature puts a check on Newsom's ambitions soon because this could wind up doing a lot of damage to California.

#Strawbuilding is now on its way not only to stop being a quirky thorn in the side of the construction industry as the tech that is already really climate-friendly, but also to take market share away from construction methods that are harmful to the climate. Be there, the time is now.

The Reconstruction Papers is our answer to the necessities of the moment. The PDF is now free to the public. Read it now: www.liberalcurrents.com/content/file...

Another item in the, "oil markets won't stabilize, stop acting like they will" column. #EconSky #EnergySky

The next round of talks between the US and Iran in Switzerland has been pushed off.-WSJ

RECORD YEAR: 2025 was the biggest year ever for renewables. A record 692 GW was added, mostly solar. More importantly, non-fossil sources generated 43% of the world's electricity and fossil generation fell. More in Bright Spots: open.substack.com/pub/janrosen...

"The rate at which Trump's war on Iran is fulfilling UN and Obama/Biden energy policy goals is just breathtaking. " - Eric Roston of Bloomberg www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/daw...

" I've been thinking about what might happen if they go into Springfield like they did in the Twin Cities, and now seems like the right time to revisit those thoughts." www.liberalcurrents.com/editors-note...

Weekend reading: The UK’s “greenest” PM exits, opportunities to invest in clean energy, California challenges Trump's offshore wind deals, and more energy transition developments you might have missed: www.quittingcarbonmedia.com/what-im-read... via @quittingcarbon.bsky.social 🔌💡

A perfect summation of the shortcomings of our present regulatory systems.

Sage advice for a whole host of fields and situations.

‘More than 11,000 trains have circulated over the solar panels…installation “perfectly stable and safe during their passage”…railway solar plant produced >16,000 kWh of electricity since May 20, 2025…100 meters of solar panels…initial trial phase in Buttes amounts to CHF585,000 ($704,600)’

During May 2026, all latitude bands observed temperatures that were warmer than the 1951-1980 climate baseline. This was especially large in the Antarctic. [Plot shows zonal-mean surface air temperature anomalies, where latitude = y-axis (not scaled by distance). Data from NASA/GISS GISTEMPv4.]

Some amazing quotes in this article about how Ford replaced hundreds of engineers with AI, which broke a bunch of shit causing billions in damage and forcing them to rehire those people. www.the-independent.com/tech/ford-ai...

One more item in the, "oil markets won't stabilize, stop acting like they will" column. #EconSky #EnergySky

I've said it on this site before & will say it again: The only solution to beating MAGA is a coalition of liberals, socialists, genuine Constitutionalists, & even anarchists who are united in ensuring that fascist USA ends ASAP. If centrist Dems can't play ball, they can stay on the bench.

There is something beautiful and refreshing about having a public servant who clearly loves the, "doing good things for people" part of his job and is motivated by doing that as often as possible.

I'm a socialist, not a liberal, but I really appreciate what @liberalcurrents.com is doing against frothing misogyny and gleeful cruelty and hate against LGBTQ, disabled people, too-nice men and anyone else they can put down, by a few assholes who mistakenly consider themselves "leftists"

More of this please! We can't use the politics that got us Donald Trump to fix the conditions that enabled his rise, we need something new that truly addresses the systemic causes of our present polycrisis.

First tech, now a major automaker. Watch this space.

Incredible chart from @propublica.org. If you don’t follow enviro stuff closely, your instinct might be that the hold-your-nose solution (carbon capture from fossil fuels) would be the “pragmatic” one versus covering Earth in solar panels, which seems utopian. In fact it’s the opposite

"The future is bright for solar, and not even the Trump administration’s vendetta against clean energy can change this fact." Read more from @thorbenson.bsky.social ↓

Another consequence of the oil shock is starting to be felt at the wallet level. Stuff like this is why I went apocalyptic in my take back in March. The sheer breadth of harm was more than focusing solely on oil prices could hope to capture.

"Mocking Susan Collins for her tremor isn’t only unnecessarily cruel to Collins. It suggests that anyone with a tremor deserves to be mocked, that any noticeable disabilities are worthy of derision." www.liberalcurrents.com/the-dirtbags...

Nuremberg 2 will not lack for evidence.

I'm just back from Boston and would like to thank the Americans for their welcome and kindness. The Tartan Army got on like a house on fire with them, and were great ambassadors for Scotland as usual, writes one of our readers ✍️ Read here: www.thenational.scot/cultur...

Instead, we get data centres.

Remember when centrist campaign advisers thought Tim Walz calling JD Vance "weird" was over the line?

With the caveat that I am not a popular YouTuber nor am I a conspiracy theorist, I would just like to say that I find it odd that my two least watched videos in the last 4 years - by a wide margin - are on the same topic: fossil fuel subsidies. I mean, 19 views?! www.youtube.com/shorts/X0yuA...

“Dirtbagism essentially authorizes any kind of dishonesty or cruelty if it’s deployed by people on the left. Proper progressive positions are presumed to be a pre-justification for bad behavior.” www.liberalcurrents.com/the-dirtbags...

Range anxiety is not a valid excuse to not own an EV. EVs today have 250-300 miles range & high-end ones have almost double that. Most of the U.S. is now within a 50-mile driving radius of an EV DC fast charger. And much of it is with a 10-mile radius. 🧪💡🔌☀️💨💧🔋 www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Donald Trump is making electric vehicles great again.