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"Avg production costs have fallen steeply, thanks to plummeting material prices & incremental improvements in manufacturing efficiency LFP battery costs are already approaching $50 /kWh Combined w/ price competition, this is now enough to drive profound growth in demand for electric vehicles (EVs)"

submitted 7 days ago • 3 comments

China invested a staggering $940B in clean energy in 2024, nearing the $1.12T global fossil fuel investment. Massive shift highlights China’s dominance in renewables, accelerating the global energy transition. If the trend continues, fossil fuel investments could soon be overshadowed. #CleanEnergy

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

A great dataset from @ember-energy.org EU imports of Chinese solar panels have steadied in quantity. Price continues to crash. data here - ember-energy.org/data/china-s...

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

@juliusgoat.bsky.social

submitted 9 days ago • 723 comments

I’m in Munich and people keep asking me to decode Vance’s speech. OK: In Vance English “free speech” means “Let Musk run your elections” and “democracy” means “let Russia run your elections.” Now move on. 2025 is about what Europeans do, not what Americans say.

submitted 11 days ago • 315 comments

it is beyond clear that for many americans trump is a blank slate who stands for whatever they personally want

submitted 13 days ago • 452 comments

"The EU’s ... supply constraints, especially its high internal barriers and regulatory hurdles, ... are far more damaging for growth than any tariffs the US might impose. The second factor ... is Europe's tolerance of persistently weak demand." Says the man himself, Mr Draghi. on.ft.com/3X1dpLC

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

Every day is a good day to repeat: "Beijing can’t stop the sun from shining on Chinese-made solar panels in Germany — but Moscow really did cut the flow of gas to Europe." #alwaysbecharging

submitted 20 days ago • 2 comments

In a major acknowledgment by the global community, road transport CO2 emissions are now projected to peak by 2025—25 years earlier than predicted—thanks to faster EV adoption & decarbonization policies. Key markets like China, the EU & the U.S. are leading the charge, offsetting "global" emissions.

submitted 23 days ago • 4 comments

Did you know? China exports more solar and EVs to countries in the 'Global South' (aka developing or emerging economies) than to Europe or the USA. One of dozens of fun facts in @nathanielbullard.com's annual deck www.nathanielbullard.com/presentations

submitted 24 days ago • 5 comments

"Trump is acting like a king because he is too weak to govern like a president." Very interesting from Ezra Klein, arguing that forcefully opposing Trump may work: www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/o...

submitted 24 days ago • 6 comments

Several conversations today w people in the key executive departments. And while the particulars are hard to pin down my impression is that the Musk take over stuff is considerably worse than is being presented in the press. By this I don’t necessarily things they done yet but the level of …

submitted 25 days ago • 591 comments

If you wanted no leaks you should have gone into Settings -> Security -> Configure privacy & security -> Privacy options -> Other -> Configure -> Media interface and clicked “Disallow.” The Leak setting is on by default but we understand your privacy is important so we’ve made it easy to opt out

submitted 27 days ago • 876 comments

PROP - PR Over Policy. Don't confuse them. He is flooding the zone. He knows that media will cover everything he does. Getting people upset. Which helps give him more coverage of the upset people. All just talking about him. Dems need to be strategic.

submitted 29 days ago • 4395 comments

I realize now that I have a “trade deficit” with the store across the street. I walked over and bought a jug of milk. The store is abusing me and I’m tired of subsidizing it by buying something at a fair price that I want. I’m going to apply a tariff that will raise the future price of milk for me.

submitted 34 days ago • 70 comments

Tak for nu, Zuckerberg: Vi fortjener bedre sociale medier. Elon Musk har gjort X utålelig, og Mark Zuckerberg er ved at gøre det samme med Facebook og Instagram. Vi bør udvikle alternativer, finansieret via mediestøtte, fonde, foreninger og virksomheder. finans.dk/debat/ECE178...

submitted 36 days ago • 11 comments

As folks are struggling to adjust to our new Regime in the USA, keep in mind that climate progress is global and there are numerous channels where progress continues entirely unaffected by who occupies the White House. Not all of the items on this list, but most of them. Onwards... 🔌💡

submitted 37 days ago • 4 comments

A president’s executive order cannot undo a law or a Supreme Court decision, let alone a provision of the Constitution. Forget that and you do have a dictatorship on day one.

submitted 38 days ago • 176 comments

New: Preliminary petroleum sales data for the full year 2024 have just been published by Norway's statistics office. ▸Diesel down 9.9% ▸Petrol down 5.2% These result from (1) further growth in the EV fleet and (2) the huge drop in Sweden's fuel prices. Let's unpack this. 1/10

submitted 38 days ago • 1 comment

Given the craven boot-licking out of Silicon Valley, you have to ask: what if Europe had been right all along? Sure the economic hit of lacking a SpaceX or Facebook hurts. But not descending into oligarchy is... also worth something?

submitted 38 days ago • 24 comments

As I leave office, I want you to know that this has been the best job of my career. We have shown that America has the best entrepreneurs in the World and they are now committing themselves to commercialize their technology here in America. DOE has never been more relevant to the private sector.

submitted 39 days ago • 29 comments

US climate/clean energy folks: Focus everything on helping unlock next-gen geothermal. - Unique bipartisanship opportunity w/ DJT2 - Enormous potential market (TWh/$trillions) - The US’ only chance at clean tech dominance - Perfect just transition for our hydrocarbon workers #EnergySky

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

Air pollution has dropped significantly in #Paris in the last 15 years. Mayor @annehidalgo.bsky.social’s leadership has traded car space for green space, safe bike space, kid space.. and traded pollution for people. Good trade.

submitted 41 days ago • 175 comments

Big leap ahead for solar PV in Brazil: around 40% growth in installed capacity within a year! Still room for more too: its current total is only twice that of the tiny Netherlands :)

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

I have a new paper in Dialogues on Climate Change exploring climate outcomes under current policies. I find that we are likely headed toward 2.7C by 2100 (with uncertainties from 1.9C to 3.7C), and that high end emissions scenarios have become much less likely. journals.sagepub.com...

submitted 42 days ago • 15 comments

Cannot stop thinking about how Octavia Butler wrote a book in 1993 about climate change. It opens with deadly fires in LA in 2025. In the story, a fascist President has just won office with the campaign slogan "Make America Great Again." She was a modern day Nostradamus. If only we'd listened.

submitted 48 days ago • 430 comments

“Using #protectionism to restrict exchange with stable U.S. allies, however, undermines the notion that the United States is a responsible stakeholder of the order it created. … The result was the enshittification of global economic governance.” danieldrezner.substack.com/p/farewell-t...

submitted 53 days ago • 1 comment

"Trade flows were presumed to create peace, existing almost in a sphere outside politics" Stares in 50 years of international political economy 🤷‍♂️

submitted 53 days ago • 5 comments

#Habeck: Experts reckon that 3.5% of GDP for #defence will be necessary. I share their view. Spiegel: 3.5% for defence? You are a Green politician, ... you'll get in trouble for that. Habeck: I don't think so. That's consensus in my party. www.spiegel.de/politik/robe...

submitted 55 days ago • 6 comments

Merry Christmas, New Yorkers! You now have a fresh new polluter-pays bill.

submitted 62 days ago • 4 comments

Thank you to everyone who argued that electric cars were rubbish and in the process allowed China to own the future of carmaking www.ft.com/content/0ebd...

submitted 62 days ago • 18 comments

This is the AI and energy article I've been waiting for. Excellent background, summary and predictions by the great @mliebreich.bsky.social

submitted 63 days ago • 2 comments

China’s EV boom is slashing oil demand—fuel use fell 1.3% in 2024, with gasoline demand set to drop 35-50% by 2035 (but I say 2030). 40M+ EVs dominate the roads, leaving the West scrambling. Germany suffers an acute case of Norway envy while Japan’s still scratching their nuts! ⚡🌍 #EVs #Disruption

submitted 67 days ago • 5 comments

A new report from RMI looks at clean energy trends in European countries, Chinese provinces and US states. S-curves in action. rmi.org/insight/insi...

submitted 76 days ago • 3 comments

1/In 2024, we have seen unprecedented energy demand as the grid has been swamped with new growth from AI and other sources. Historically, lack of funding has kept geothermal from being a serious solution. Today we take another step forward to close that gap. www.businesswire.com/news/home/20...

submitted 70 days ago • 6 comments

Få ting er mere enerverende end hysteriske kommentatorer og politikere, der i sidste uge gik i rundhyl over høje elpriser. Siden hen er elprisen faldet tilbage, og 2024 er det billigste år de seneste fire år. Det har jeg skrevet en klumme om:

submitted 71 days ago • 7 comments