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adambell.bsky.social
Director of Policy at Stonehaven. Ex BEIS. Energy geek. All skeets in a personal capacity. @adam_grant_bell on the bird site
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@adambell.bsky.social has done a much better version of my rant about how the UK can be a defence and clean energy superpower at once using facts and everything. unbalancingmechanism.substack.com/p/net-zero-a...

submitted 6 hours ago • 3 comments

I actually expect it is totally a flier, because if there's one lesson you can take from the energy retail market since privatisation it's that Government is very happy to use it as a vehicle for social policy no matter how much it may distort its actual energy objectives.

submitted 16 hours ago • 3 comments

I absolutely love this piece by @adambell.bsky.social unbalancingmechanism.substack.com/p/net-zero-a...

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Scunthorpe is important. We need sovereign steelmaking capacity to insure against the risk of conflict. But that's no reason to blame Net Zero for the slow death of our steel industry, when high gas prices are to blame. I made this case on the Today programme this morning.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

"nobody in Europe is even casually implying they will invade other countries.There is no Brussels quip about turning an unwilling neighbour into “our 28th state” (on the contrary, many of the eu’s neighbours are desperate to join the club)" www.economist.com/europe/2025/... Top Charlemagne column

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

🚨Some major errors & misleading claims from experienced presenter Nick Robinson on BBC Radio 4 Today, when discussing British Steel with Treasury Minister James Murray I hope these are corrected on tomorrow's programme, and Robinson sticks to the facts in future. Here's what he got wrong... 🧵

submitted 2 days ago • 86 comments

This is an excellent summary of why bills are the way they are by @guynewey.bsky.social, which also reveals the extent to which any individual within Government can genuinely have the influence anyone outside the walls of Whitehall believes they have. open.substack.com/pub/guynewey...

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

Agree with Sam here, but what Government is doing appears to be public control but not public ownership, analogous to a licencing regime with a lot more direction.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Simply - reduce energy costs to a competitive level - buy two electric arc furnaces, but don’t lose any jobs - but also keep the blast furnaces until then open profitability - find £700k of opex a day whilst setting out a 25 year plan - define your sovereign capabilities in a changing unstable world

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

Fantastic thread on this disjuncture in history.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

The landslide (FREE TO READ) takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/p/the-landsl...

submitted 6 days ago • 4 comments

Remarkable Leader from the Times, which like Badenoch's speech the other day leaves more questions than answers www.thetimes.com/comment/the-... - How will nuclear reduce electricity prices? Solar's strike price in AR6 was £50.07. Hinkley's last was £128.09. Lots of reasons for nuclear £ not one..

submitted 8 days ago • 3 comments

Fantastic to see a state intervention in the most marketey of energy markets fall on its face.

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

I love reading about ancient civilisations. There's always a bit where trade networks get disrupted and it turns out that getting access to lots of different commodities was what underpinned that civilisation.

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

In other "I never thought the leopards would eat MY face" news, Elon Musk is posting videos of Milton Freedman explaining the benefits of free trade. ~AA

submitted 9 days ago • 11 comments

NET ZERO AT WAR A new post on the Unbalancing Mechanism. What would it take to win a war in a world where the UK's access to fossil fuels is limited? How do the measures we're taking to decarbonise impact this? How should war plans impact policy now? open.substack.com/pub/unbalanc...

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

This is a great piece - really good to see people writing about energy and defence in an integrated way.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

This is a typically great read from @adambell.bsky.social !

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

NET ZERO AT WAR A new post on the Unbalancing Mechanism. What would it take to win a war in a world where the UK's access to fossil fuels is limited? How do the measures we're taking to decarbonise impact this? How should war plans impact policy now? open.substack.com/pub/unbalanc...

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

Israeli statement here is clearly true. IDF did *not* "randomly attack' an ambulance and kill its occupants. The IDF deliberately attacked an ambulance and murdered its occupants. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/w...

submitted 11 days ago • 17 comments

Hello! The US housing market has gotten very expensive, but I still dream of one day owning a home in a walkable neighborhood. In that spirit, I'm offering my consulting services. If you support the Trump tariffs, I can help you find US suppliers. Let me show you some examples. 🧵

submitted 11 days ago • 99 comments

Fancy getting a new efficient, heating system for free? We're looking for homeowners with electric heating and smart meters to join our research project (note we are looking for quite a select target group - so please pass on to anyone you think might fit the bill/benefit).

submitted 13 days ago • 4 comments

"they hate our beef because our beef is beautiful and theirs is weak" our beef:

submitted 13 days ago • 97 comments