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A HUGE, narrative-breaking moment for the UK car market New EVs are now cheaper than petrol cars on average, says Autotrader Last yr CCC said price parity was due by 2028 – and it's already here And EVs are already MUCH cheaper to run than petrol

Odd that the BBC does not think it's newsworthy that Farage misled/lied about this. Not a journalist, but if I found out a politician had misled the public I'd make it known.

Big batteries have begun reshaping the U.S. power grid. Now, the country has made surprising strides in making those energy storage systems itself, rather than depending on imports from China. Good news! No pay wall.

The AI datacenter buildout is huge compared to past projects like the interstate highway system, the Apollo program, and the US railroad boom. But its still modest compared to global clean energy investment or oil and gas investment:

UK slowly repairing some of the damage it did to itself by voting for Brexit.

A petition to British energy retailers to breakdown the beneficiaries of domestic consumers' electricity standing charge payments (circa £200 every year) on their energy bills. Currently, these are mysterious unexplained opaque fixed charges that they must bear - www.jonathantracey.com/openletter

Gas providing <4% (1.37 GW) of GB electricity grid generation just now. I haven't been keeping track, but this might be a new record low? The remaining gas is only there for grid stability reasons, and grid-scale battery storage is gradually eating up this market for gas generators too.

😬UK gas prices just hit highest level since 2022😬 At current prices… * New wind & solar from latest "AR7" auction would cut the bill for UK gas imports by £5.5bn/y * A single (1) home heat pump would cut bill for gas imports by more than £600/y www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-why...

From the gang that couldn't spell strait:

A recent position paper from the Passivhaus Trust, our UK affiliate, highlights the real risks of applying only some of the 8 #PassiveHouse principles of approach, from underperformance to costly remediation. 👇Read the summary and full paper here: https://ow.ly/RrPV50YvPSO

Front cover of this weeks' Private Eye magazine. Also check out their podcast if you haven't already!

About ten spaces left if anyone else would like to head along on the evening of this coming Wed (18th Mar), 6:30 at the Friends' Meeting House, Brighton, UK to learn about three locals' experiences eco-renovating their homes bsky.app/profile/butt... #passivhaus #retrofit

“Iran is a huge country with a huge population. If this goes wrong, we could see tens of millions of refugees on the move.” - Rory Stewart (The Rest is Politics)

I've just written a review of the 100% electric Citroen e-Dispatch. It might be moving in more ways than one. llewellyn.substack.com/p/moving-hom...

Come and see three people talk about how they made their homes more comfortable and healthier to live in whilst dramatically reducing their energy bills in #Brighton on the evening of Wednesday 18th March 2026 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/thinking-a... See you there! #passivhaus #greenbuilding #greensky

Living in some less interesting times would be nice for a while... theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-...

Govt and Drax have now finalised this contract, with a slightly lower price of £110/MWh in 2012 prices (£153/MWh) Key points remain as below www.drax.com/press_releas...

Dinosaurs And Non-Dinosaurs xkcd.com/3204/

Just read about the forthcoming gold Trump sculpture and thought of this piece I created for GQ back in the spring of 2016, before he was even elected, speculating on what a Trump White House might look like. It’s amazing how predictable he is.

Personal and household CO2 emissions data for 2025 shows our 3rd full year without gas use. Overall very small changes from last year. Direct emissions from the house/car etc were down slightly (again). Total household CO2 exc flights = 843kg, inc flights 1388kg, personal share of total = 559kg.

Scientists are supposed to be happy when their predictions are skillful, right? Why do I not feel happy?

Today on Volts: you've probably heard that Australia has cheap rooftop solar power. You've probably also heard some rumors & myths about it. (Is it destabilizing the grid?) I called my favorite Australian energy expert to clear it all up. This is a fun one! www.volts.wtf/p/whats-the-...

🏙️ London is fast becoming a global #PassiveHouse hotspot, with 3,600+ homes built or underway. Social housing is booming, backed by strong policy and major commitments, such as Barratt London's adoption of Passive House from 2025. More in this article by Passivhaus Trust: https://ow.ly/R33a50XHuno

Wood burning for electricity is not a solution to decelerate climate change or biodiversity loss. The huge carbon emissions from Drax were ‘solved’ by carbon capture, which was never going to work, and now they’re abandoning it. My film explores tree burning for fuel: fires-and-fascism.co.uk

not the kind of behavior I expect from the winner of the fifa peace prize

Grading and googling hallucinated citations, as one does nowadays, and now that LLMs have been around for a while, I've discovered new horrors: hallucinated journals are now appearing in Google Scholar with dozens of citations bc so many people are citing these fake things

But what this really reflects is the consistent loading of extra costs onto electricity bills and not gas. It is essential that the government reverses this, and begins removing levies from bills - whether to taxation or rebalancing on to gas.

Wood Mackenzie confirms new natural gas generation is expensive! $126/MWh in 2030! New solar plus batteries are less than half the cost of new gas! New nuclear ($139/MWh) also is getting close to being cheaper than new gas! Gas too is dirty, biggest CO2 electricity polluter. #energysky

Honestly, I did NOT have "punching the air and going HELL YES to Chris Patten" on my bingo card today. But what he says is SO rarely said and needed saying SO badly! "How shall we treat Mr Farage's concerns? Shall we hail Brexit a tremendous success? Something that has cost the country billions?"

This is what Myrnohrad looks like now. As of January 1, 2022, Myrnohrad had a population of over 47 thousand people. Today, the Russians have destroyed this town.

“robots.txt passed away in July 2025… from the consequences of systematic disregard by AI corporations. Cloudflare’s decision to block AI crawlers by default marked the moment when even the last major infrastructure provider abandoned faith in voluntary compliance & moved to technical enforcement”

That the UK - one of the architects of this fund, designed to save the world’s forests - is now refusing to put any money into it is frankly shameful. Starmer’s claim that he still continues to back the fund is meaningless without resources - so much for climate leadership

We always try to get Nine Lessons shows beyond London - it is never profitable but we hope it makes it accessible for others - This year is CARDIFF - but no one seems to want to come - so we will pull it next week if we see that it is going to lose us too much money www.glee.co.uk/performer/ni...

60 yrs ago today (Nov 5, 1965), the 1st US government report to warn about climate change was published. "Restoring the Quality of Our Environment" included warning of C02 build-up and sea-level rise/melting ice-caps. allouryesterdays.info/2025/11/04/6... 1/n

yep bsky.app/profile/holz...

The final episode of BBC Science in Action was broadcast on 30 October. It had been running since 1964. The episode was a departure from their usual excellent weekly science news format and instead hosted a panel on the anti science movement. Well worth a listen! www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w...

Last chance to turn it off. On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default. To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.

Holy shit. Friends, here is a panel on the question "why don't Americans trust the media?' I scrolled ... scrolled ... increasingly amazed ... scrolled ... Nope. No one so much as *mentions* the 6-decade, billionaire-funded campaign by the right to destroy trust in media! Not even in passing!

Could this be the birth of a completely new type of chocolate? www.theguardian.com/wellness/202...

For GB News' ideological backers, it's money well spent.

That is universal, but the basic principle of carbon trading isn't wrong. It makes no sense for rich countries to spend hundreds of euros per tonne of CO2e reduced, while poorer countries lock in to higher-carbon pathways for want of relatively little money.

How the US got left behind in the global #electric #car race #BEV #EV #GHG #CO2 $TSLAQ Full story: www.bbc.com/news/article...

I can’t think of a better way to kick off our next decade of work than a conversation with these guys. This is meaty stuff. Strap on a napkin and dive in!

Malignant normality around us: when my mum switches on her Samsung TV, this is the default screen. Far-right propaganda channel GB News perpetually appears at #1 on the presented list of channels.

I had feared archaeologists would someday have to explain a scattered set of odd platforms off the New England coast www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/c...

New: 404 Media is suing ICE. We have filed a lawsuit demanding ICE release its $2 million contract with Paragon, a company that makes powerful spyware to break into phones and read encrypted messages. This is expensive for a small outlet but this info is important www.404media.co/were-suing-i...

So many people should be in prison but aren’t. WHY? The Tories who exploited the pandemic to fleece us and line their pockets, The profiteers responsible for Grenfell. The Brexit politicians who lied to us about everything. The regulators who’ve allowed our rivers to be filled with shit…

White van man stopped at lights, honks & points 25m away to where I dropped a pen crossing road. I smile & give him a thumbs up. I shouldn’t have to mention this because he was a human performing a human act but in the present climate I feel I should say he was Middle Eastern Londoner Thanks, mate

I’ve been writing detective comics for a long time now, so I know when a close up magician has been pushed into a canal.