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How could you not be impressed by a bird in your yard? This dude can fly anywhere and it came here to hang out with you

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Let me give you what you have all been waiting for, my 38-man British and Irish Lions 🦁 squad: (This is the squad I would pick, not what I predict Andy Farrell picks) (If injured, alternate player in bracket) ☘️ 15 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 11 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 8 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 4 Captain: Maro Itoje 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

Goals right here...

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

🆕 report: The World installed 600 GW of solar in 2024, could be installing 1 TW per year by 2030 🌅 🌍 Our latest GMO report reveals a 33% surge from 2023, after the world crossed the milestone of 2 TW total solar in late 2024. Read the PR👉 www.solarpowereurope.org/press-releas...

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

The world installed a record 597 GW of solar power in 2024 ☀️🌍 🚨 This marks a new record for annual installed solar capacity, a 33% surge from 2023. Read the full report 👉 www.solarpowereurope.org/insights/out... #GlobalSolarOutlook25

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

We have to tell a positive story of South Africa consistently. 🇿🇦

submitted 34 days ago • 1 comment

Now this is a big deal. Alongside the recently released ITP regulations, things are starting to move on transmission infrastructure development in SA. (Slowly but surely, hopefully) m.engineeringnews.co.za/article/edf-...

submitted 56 days ago • 0 comments

NEW | Clean electricity surpasses 40% of global electricity generation Our latest @ember-energy.org Global Electricity Review is out today! ⚡ Solar power is rising rapidly and doubled in the last three years ☀️ A (long) thread on the key trends in 2024... 🧵

submitted 56 days ago • 3 comments

Good morning with good news: Global EV sales skyrocketed 49% in February! Wonderful! Fully electric or BEV sales were up 58%! Plug-in hybrids (PHEV) sales were up 35%. While EV sales skyrocket, ICE vehicle sales were down 8%. EV transition speeds up. #energysky cleantechnica.com/2025/04/03/g...

submitted 60 days ago • 1 comment

We've just published our 🆕 Flexible Buildings, Resilient Grids Paper Our modelling shows that by 2030, smart solar building 🏢solutions could meet more than half of EU daily energy system flexibility 🤸‍♀️ needs Read the report 👇 www.solarpowereurope.org/insights/the...

submitted 69 days ago • 0 comments

California's rise of the battery continues 🔋 ⬆️ Batteries met 27.8% of the evening peak load on Sunday. ⬇️ Gas met 13.3% Batteries are already outcompeting gas at peak times. Change is happening, and it's happening fast. Source is gridstatus.io

submitted 70 days ago • 1 comment

I can remember fishing in this dam while construction was taking place. Can confirm that I didn't catch anything 😅 Cool to fish while looking at a FPV plant though.

submitted 76 days ago • 1 comment

A new South African power projects (above 5MW) tracker published today by UCT's Power Futures Lab - installed capacity + technology mix at a glance. #energysky powerfutureslab.co.za/sa-ipp-data

submitted 76 days ago • 1 comment

A typical photovoltaic module sold in 2024 was mono TOPCon with 22.7% efficiency, at a price below $0.10/W. A typical solar module sold in 2012 was multi AlBSF with efficiency of 15.4% and a price of about $0.87/W.

submitted 77 days ago • 4 comments

Big ships turn slowly....

submitted 78 days ago • 1 comment

These books are available nationwide in major bookstores and ebook platforms. — Finding Common Ground (2020) — A Country of 2 Agricultures (2023) — The Uncomfortable Truth About South Africa’s Agriculture (2025) I am grateful for your support.

submitted 80 days ago • 1 comment

The news has been more than a bit grim of late, so hooray for @carbonbrief.org providing some genuine and really meaningful good news: the UK's carbon emissions in 2024 were the lowest since 1872, because demand for fossil fuels just keeps decreasing. www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-uk-...

submitted 83 days ago • 55 comments

The solar module tiering team wishes it to be known that the BNEF tier 1 criteria have been updated. The main change is that from 2Q 2025, only solar projects over 10MW are relevant to tiering. They are not seeking feedback on this change. assets.bnef.com/public/tieri...

submitted 97 days ago • 0 comments

Shaun Pollock 🤝 Steven Kitshoff. Giving us red heads the street cred we desperately need 😅 Who will take over the role now that Kitsie is retiring?

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We have a new paper out. Link: www.thebrenthurstfoundation.org/publications...

submitted 110 days ago • 1 comment

To help the farming economy of South Africa right now, the focus must remain on improving rural roads, rail, port efficiency, functioning of the municipalities, and various reforms at the Department of Agriculture. The sector has great potential and is hobbled by these issues.

submitted 113 days ago • 1 comment

The more you look the more you'll find...

submitted 119 days ago • 0 comments

My annual decarbonization presentation is here. 200 slides, covering everything from water levels in Lake Gatún to sulfur dioxide emissions to ESG fund flows to Chinese auto exports to artificial intelligence. www.nathanielbullard.com/presentations

submitted 124 days ago • 42 comments

Roughly 6,000 readers answered our poll, with many declaring that Bluesky was nicer, kinder and less antagonistic to science than X https://go.nature.com/42tH8Ai

submitted 130 days ago • 55 comments

In 🇿🇦 we do braai* January. But that's every month really. (*Pronounced Bry) dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/e...

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In what feels like a big deal, I am appearing before the national energy regulator of SA's Electricity Subcommittee on behalf of the South African Solar PV industry ☀️🇿🇦 The national utility has proposed significant tariff structure changes that impact Solar PV generators and customers.

submitted 130 days ago • 2 comments

NEW | In 2024, solar power overtook coal for the first time! ☀️ As the US is doubting its own clean energy credentials, the EU is all in and it shows. Today we @ember-energy.org published our annual European Electricity Review. A thread on the most important developments...

submitted 131 days ago • 2 comments

NEW | Solar generates more EU electricity than coal for the first time in 2024 🇪🇺☀️ Renewables made up nearly HALF of the electricity mix last year, while fossil power fell to a historic low ⚡ ember-energy.org/lat...

submitted 131 days ago • 7 comments

Some #SA20 🏏 content: Being from Pretoria it's difficult to see the Capitals performing so poorly this season. I guess I've been spoilt watching the Titans practically dominate domestic cricket since I can remember. I'll be Supporting SEC for the rest of the season. The nation's second team 🟠

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