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Bill Gates hasn’t made sense on Climate since he teamed up with Bjorn Lomberg in 2009. This is just a restating of Bjorn’s book from this year about how we have a finite amount of money and we shouldn’t use it for climate. What they get wrong is that climate solutions are now fully profitable.

Hey Siri, wat is 60% meer van niets?

Mia Doornaert doet een oproep aan politici: “Luister meer naar de gewone mens” www.standaard.be/opinies/mia-...

Just one more MoU bro. I promise bro, just one more and we'll have all the SMRs we want. Cmon trust me bro, we just need one more MoU. www.tijd.be/ondernemen/m...

🌍 Klimaatbeleid is industrieel beleid én defensiebeleid. Als het beleidsmakers menens is met die laatste zaken, dan zullen ze ook ambitieus klimaat- en energiebeleid moeten voeren. 📰 Mijn interview met MagMetal, het e-magazine van ABVV-Metaal 👇 www.flipsnack.com/5D595799E8C/...

Updating my LEGO White House

To me the most French thing about the whole Louvre theft is how it happened at a very agreeable 9:30 am instead of the middle of the night. www.euronews.com/culture/2025...

For years, there's been a massive over-emphasis on food miles, and a massive under-emphasis on food type. By far and away the best dietary decision you can make, for environmental, humanitarian and public health purposes, is to cut out animal products.

Christophe Deborsu die in @deafspraak.bsky.social het gebruik van genderneutrale voornaamwoorden vergelijkt met de invoering van de euro is toch het onbedoelde comedy topmomentje van vandaag.

Over sociaal protest, verzet, burgerlijke ongehoorzaamheid en “geweld”. Op @apache.be. apache.be/2025/10/20/d...

Twee zaken kunnen tegelijk waar zijn: - synthetische vezels zijn over het algemeen wel degelijk duurzamer dan natuurlijke (bewijst ook onafhankelijk onderzoek) - slow fashion is duurzamer dan fast fashion Maar fast fashion aanpakken door duurzaamheid in twijfel te trekken is gewoon contraproductief.

My favourite slide of the moment... open.substack.com/pub/mliebrei...

Plug-in batterijen in België zijn vanaf nu - eindelijk - écht plug-in. solarmagazine.nl/nieuws-zonne...

Hannah Arendt zag het goed: ‘Het meeste kwaad wordt aangericht door mensen die niet kiezen.’ Er wordt gezegd dat antifascisme iets is van links. Dat bevreemdt mij. Iedere politicus die een eed heeft afgelegd op de grondwet zou een antifascist moeten zijn.” Dit dus 👇👇 www.parool.nl/nederland/fa...

Met de nadruk op "kunnen". Metal oxide frameworks zijn een wetenschappelijk indrukwekkende ontwikkeling, maar de weg naar praktische toepassing is nog zeer onduidelijk. Herinner je nog buckyballs of koolstofbuisjes (2x Nobelprijs), of perovskiet? www.standaard.be/natuur-en-we...

It may have escaped your attention, but the Belgian energy system has quietly passed an important test. During the weekend of 4-5 October 2025, our consumption was almost entirely covered by renewable energy. And yet the system ticked like a Swiss watch. /

"Slechts 1% van de woningen staat leeg, en in centrumsteden nog veel minder" was toch eigenlijk een betere kop geweest, niet?

“Het is jammer dat politici blijven geloven in een vorm van magisch denken, waarbij ze ervan uitgaan dat je een achterdeur (in software, SE) kunt creëren waar alleen de goeden toegang toe hebben”, aldus Whittaker. www.demorgen.be/nieuws/whats...

The official ENTSO-E report on the Spanish blackout, released today, seems to confirm in detail what was already broadly known: a power surge event led to the shutdown of high-voltage lines and production units, plunging the peninsula into darkness in 30 seconds. 🧵

There's a severe shortage of gas turbines globally. Wait times have gone up from 2 years to 5 years or more. AI companies are willing to pay any price to get their hands on them. Is that a climate blessing or curse? Our global investigation has an answer. 🎁link www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

Two things can be true at the same time: ⚛️ With an LCOE of ~60-66€/MWh, Belgium's lifetime-extended nuclear power plants are among the cheapest sources of low-carbon energy 💸 With a guaranteed minimum price of 85-90€/MWh required for commercial operation, they are also among the most expensive 🧵

How much does nuclear power from Belgium's lifespan-extended nuclear power plants cost? €84.93/MWh, it now appears. With a target IRR of 7%, this is a production cost of around ~€64/MWh, comparable to French production costs as estimated by CRE. www.standaard.be/economie/ove...

What is the production cost of one MWh of French nuclear energy? According to French energy regulator CRE, it is €60.3/MWh. This is the cost of the existing fleet, without new reactors. The current French forward price for electricity is €56-61/MWh. www.cre.fr/actualites/t... /

Did you know that a car with a traditional combustion engine contains around 3+ km of cables and 1,000 connectors (hybrids often contain even more)? An electric car contains about half that amount, and manufacturers are moving towards even lower quantities. www.reuters.com/business/ret...

Dit wordt ofwel het nieuwe Tesla, ofwel het nieuwe Lernout & Hauspie. www.tijd.be/ondernemen/t...

This week, the French Court of Auditors submitted an important report to their Parliament on the financial state and future of EDF, the state-owned company that produces three-quarters of all French electricity and owns all French nuclear power plants. Some takeaways 🧵 www.lepoint.fr/societe/edf-...

Uit de VS National Holocaust Memorial

“Hernieuwbare energie is niet de schuldige van de black-out, maar heeft het beheer van de crisis niet gemakkelijker gemaakt” Interessante deep-dive in de Spaanse blackout en wat we er uit kunnen leren voor België. trends.knack.be/nieuws/macro...

I had to triplecheck this because I didn't believe it... All of the world's discovered reserves of fossil fuels = the same energy as just 5 days of sunlight hitting the Earth🤯 Solar power is basically unlimited🤷‍♂️

Misschien iets om bij Vlaamse actuashows ook eens te bekijken.

Now the amount of flexibility this will contribute to the grid is negligible. But why I'm still a big fan of this is that it “normalises” residential electrical flexibility. “Oh, I'll set the washing machine to 'free'”. Flexibility can be that simple.

This is a direct result of EU's carbon tariffs. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

We are hitting levels of peak Ghent that shouldn't be possible. "Drunk woman driving cargo bike collides against gritter, ends up in the box of her own bike" www.hln.be/gent/de-boch...

in the 23rd century historians are going to need have their Routledge Handbook of 21st-Century Internet Memes, their Cambridge Companion to 4Chan, and their Oxford Guidebook to Computer Gaming Culture handy to make sense of the rise of American fascism and the fall of the United States

News from Finland. A 9-year-old lost an especially good stick he’d had since he was 2. He hung up 20 posters. A few days later it was returned. It had been found by a 2-year-old, who wanted to keep it for herself, but her mother made her return it. She got toys, flowers and candy as a reward.

Me every time a thunderstorm hits. #lightningmaps

Just another Sunday afternoon in my hometown, surrounded by buildings a century older than the USA.

Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg. Shot with a Pixel 9.

Director of European Transport Safety Council: "Europe now risks being flooded with oversized, under-regulated US pick-up trucks and SUVs – heavier, more dangerous to other car drivers, pedestrians and cyclists, and completely out of step with Europe’s vision for safer, more sustainable mobility.”

Update: just received my package, 19 days after ordering and 18 days in transit – including 11 days for export/import clearance despite the IOSS procedure. It's a 5-hour drive between the UK sender and my location in Ghent, Belgium. Thanks, Brexit.

“They claim to read the same books” is such a multilayered burn, I LOVE it

Stel Amerikaanse neo-nazi’s sticht dorp voor alleen witte mensen, denken dat het nu wel kan met Trump als president. archive.ph/2025.08.21-1...

Me: what a beautiful morning on my free Saturday, I should take advantage of it! Also me: perhaps I should migrate my home network to IPv6.

Any foreign company wanting to invest in the USA should think about what this means. Your investment could be annulled because of the whims of the Great Leader. Now it's clean energy, but it could be pharma, cars, electronics, food.

Energy abundance suggereert dat overvloed van duurzame energie vanzelf tot verduurzaming leidt. Maar dit is al zo vaak weerlegd. Zonder actieve vraagstimulering ontstaat geen structureel gebruik. Overvloed zonder consumptie is verspilling. Mijn stuk in De Standaard: www.standaard.be/opinies/over...

This is how doing business with post-Brexit UK looks like. Ordering components from across the Channel to mainland Europe now takes longer than ordering the same components from China. Yet both use the same IOSS procedure. 🤷‍♂️ My package has been stuck at the UK export hub for ten days now.

Phew! 😀

I fear stuff like this is going to make @bhgreeley.bsky.social the joker www.nytimes.com/2025/08/13/b...

Does the day-ahead market actually still use marginal pricing only? This evening, the electricity price will briefly peak at 7x the gas price. This suggests that gas-fired power stations are also factoring in start-up (and possibly fixed) costs into their spot price. Or are batteries going YOLO?