The faster we go, the greater the rewards. Join us on Dec. 9th in Brussels to learn #WattsNextEU assets-eur.mkt.dynamics.com/c60905ce-0d4...

We are making incredible progress on driving the #energytransition although you wouldn't think so from the increasingly polarised debate. My latest thoughts on this topic in this @vocluk.bsky.social vlog 👇 If you want to join the conversation contact: www.vocl.uk/contact/ youtu.be/1jCtRVhjyQo?...

There was a good article in Bloomberg about the "Circular AI Deals" www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

The famous umbrella shop on New Oxford Street

1/n As well as technology (of all sorts) I have always been interested in the linkages between technology and the economy. Much of my PhD on energy efficiency years ago was about the nature and importance of incremental technical change - something still generally under-appreciated and ...

The collapses of First Brands and Tricolor could be the canary in the mine of financial markets “The fear is the private debt market has been too hot and [has been] giving out money at high rates to companies that just can’t pay it back,” says @ucirvine.bsky.social accounting professor Ben Lourie.

Good choice!

Wanna guess when this article was published in Scientific American? (No cheating)

I wish Base Power a lot of luck! They act as your utility (TX so far), install a 24 - 48 kWh home battery for you that keeps you running during a grid outage, and guarantee $0.08/kWh for the next 3 years on your electric bill. Meanwhile they are managing all the batteries to provide grid services.

Part Two is live. Project 2025 isn’t just an American story anymore - it’s being rewritten in Westminster under a new name: The Centre for a Better Britain. www.bearlypolitics.co.uk/p/resolute-1...

'How wind power cuts UK wholesale electricity prices by a quarter' davidtoke.substack.com/p/how-wind-p...

Just watching a National Geographic documentary on Jane Goodall. I always thought she was great but hadn’t realised quite just how great she was. Still lecturing globally until the end.

Autumn appears to have arrived suddenly.

7am this morning, Hampstead

Interesting drive up the M1 this morning- both carriageways had to be stopped due to a swan on the Southbound side. Traffic officers had fun shooing it off the road.

“Our investigation uncovered that an elected MEP was taking payments to peddle narratives beneficial to Russian interests... This case goes to the heart of our democratic values.” — head of the Met’s Counter Terrorism Command, Commander Dominic Murphy

Groundbreaking study shows how solar panels age after 30 years of use: 'It's an important message to the photovoltaic industry'. www.thecooldown.com/green-tech/s...

I visited the Firestone factory several times as a child as my father worked there in the factory. Firestone put on great Xmas parties for all employee’s children that always involved being bussed to a pantomime or ice show in town followed by Father Xmas and presents back at the factory.

Very promising good news in the fight against a horrible disease

Global investment in renewable energy up 10% on 2024 despite Trump rollback www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The universe is big….very big. I knew we’ve discovered a lot but 6,000 exoplanets.

Useful reminder from Peter Kellner on the problems we refuse to acknowledge are getting better, and the politics of hopelessness that this breeds open.substack.com/pub/kellnerp...

Rather neat late 18th century / early 19th century architect’s desk

This year's Ignobel prize winners! arstechnica.com/science/2025...

Walked up the Wallace Monument to get fine view of my Alma Mater University of Stirling, the Castle and the forth valley.

The falls at Dollar Glen

Great chart in @ember-energy.org report on The Electrotechnical Revolution tinyurl.com/y78kprtu

It’ll be fine. AI will be in charge😬

Great choice of metaphor.

Fusion ‘on the grid in eight to fifteen years’, next it will be ‘too cheap to meter’ 😎

Well worth the wait and full of good, and provocative ideas.

Unexpected in the Express.... "Data from Purplebricks reveals the smartest way to future-proof your home is to improve its energy efficiency. Upgrades such as solar, smart meters, EV chargers & heat pumps, can increase average UK home by as much as 14% – £40,000" www.express.co.uk/life-style/p...

Banning flush car door handles - a good idea

I read that “the electric power used to make your tank of gasoline EXCEEDS the electric power needed to charge an eVehicle of equivalent range.” I wondered, could this be true? In fact, it isn't. It is an error made by Elon Musk in 2011. Refining does take a lot of kWh, but it's not electricity.

Heat pumps can cut heating and cooling costs, but they’re usually more expensive to install than fossil fuel systems. Jetson thinks it has a cost-cutting solution — and is now rolling out a heat pump of its own.

"The universe is a pretty big place. If it's just us, seems like an awful waste of space." - Carl Sagan

Occasionally I would complain about some of the staff in in my local Post Office but compared to the new operators UOE they were brilliant. Despite having written a book on outsourcing (energy) it’s definitely not always a good idea.

Spectacular

Of the many writers to predict AI, only Douglas Adams got the tone right

An MIT report revealed nearly 95% of enterprise generative artificial intelligence pilot programs have failed to achieve measurable gains in revenue or productivity.

@andysaunders-1.bsky.social It’s arrived! 😊 Now my problem is finding space for it on the bookshelves next to Apollo Remastered

The thread as a shareable webpage: https://skywriter.blue/pages/did:plc:gkblzvva3k5h2aiu3kdtfa24/post/3lxd765m22k2m.

In a very quiet Bath

Not many farmers would tell you that we need to eat less meat; that wealthy landowners shouldn’t moan about inheritance tax but should “pay the whole fucking lot”; & that Reform UK are “a load of rich rightwing toffs” 😂 But Devon farmer Guy Singh-Watson does: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

At National Gallery to see the Millet exhibition. I wasn’t familiar with him but his pictures of rural workers are excellent. Enormous influence on later artists including Van Gogh who made copies of a number of his works.

The National Gallery

Perfect!

Good letter on the prospects for fusion in @privateeyenews.bsky.social

The latest van on trial for our mobile charging service at ZPN

My whole career I've been an extremely heavy Excel user. My friend/coworker and I used to say to each other: every time you had a spreadsheet coming out wrong, it was never Excel's fault. Sure, it could crash, but the math was always right. BUT NOW, featuring Copilot: Can't count on that any more!