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This is just very good news. It's also not just about the solar and resulting energy bill and emissions savings. It is also an enabling move for more energy storage, more heat pumps, more dynamic energy management. There are huge potential benefits all round. www.businessgreen.com/news/4413004...

submitted 23 days ago • 2 comments

NEW Solar panels to be mandated on vast majority of new homes in England Currently about 40% of new builds have solar; new rules should push that to about 99% Story 👇 www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...

submitted 23 days ago • 27 comments

The Trump administration this week summarily dismissed more than 400 scientists and other experts who had begun to write the latest National Climate Asst. As I say here, climate change puts us all at risk, and we all need this vital information. Without it, the future will be much more dangerous.

submitted 23 days ago • 18 comments

'But renewables will never be able to replace fossil fuels' Spain shows that they can. Wind 46%, solar PV 27%, hydro 23%, solar thermal 2%, other renewables 2%. www.pv-magazine.com/2025/04/22/s...

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

Interesting looking new platform (if I can call it that?) to access social media from a variety of other platforms, including Bluesky, Mastodon, and Threads. Should help to democratise access to information and give far greater control over what you see. Definitely the direction we need to head in.

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

Henry Paulson, former US Treasury Secretary (under Bush), making the case for accelerating uptake of clean energy to power growth in AI. '...sticking with gas would be to sacrifice speed of development and bet against the rapid decline of solar and battery storage costs' www.ft.com/content/1374...

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

Some good news at last www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

NEW: Why are hydrogen cars outsold by Ferraris (& EVs)? Why have H2 projections massively outstripped reality? Find out + see the latest hydrogen "ladder" by @iain-staffell.bsky.social based on new review with @mliebreich.bsky.social @dankammen.bsky.social www.carbonbrief.org/guest-post-w...

submitted 31 days ago • 6 comments

Astronomers have found thousands of planets outside the solar system. All of them are, to my knowledge, garbage. Happy Earth Day to the only good one 🌍

submitted 31 days ago • 32 comments

The battery giants really are battling it out.. Now CATL pushes past BYD with 520km on just five minutes of charging time. Incredible progress🤯 www.ft.com/content/b4c8...

submitted 32 days ago • 1 comment

Feels like another important milestone reached for @bsky.app. For comparison, twitter had an estimated 40 million users in 2010: www.businessofapps.com/data/twitter...

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

If the link between decentralisation and democracy is not immediately obvious then have a read of Mike's article, and then follow this by reading a recent article by another person with some knowledge of the internet, the very founder of it, Tim Berners-Lee. www.ft.com/content/79d2...

submitted 36 days ago • 3 comments

Please watch this over the weekend and help spread the word. It's the story of a solar power project helping to save several hundred babies' lives each year in Sierra Leone. More than ever we need good news stories about clean energy, and people looking after each other. youtu.be/yMxJzLNc214?...

submitted 42 days ago • 1 comment

Did you know how much of the power generation capacity added each year world-wide was in renewables? 2022 it was 80 % 2023 it was 86 % 2024 it was 92,5 % Not because the whole world suddenly turned „woke“, but because it’s the cheapest!

submitted 38 days ago • 19 comments

In 2017, @mliebreich.bsky.social started Project Bo, an initiative that brought solar power & batteries to a NICU in Sierra Leone, preventing life threatening power cuts. Now we need your help to further improve care & conditions. For more on how you can help, visit projectbo.org

submitted 37 days ago • 1 comment

This is a screenshot from the remote monitoring of the #ProjectBo PV system at the Government Hospital neonatal unit in Bo, Sierra Leone. See that blue line? That's the batteries. Overnight 14-15th April, a long power cut. Only the minigrid kept the oxygen, heat & lights on! youtu.be/yMxJzLNc214?...

submitted 37 days ago • 1 comment

If you're in doubt as to the importance of international aid, then watch this excellent episode of Cleaning Up telling the story of how solar and batteries are helping to ensure the power remains on to help save the lives of vulnerable babies in Sierra Leone. www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMxJ...

submitted 38 days ago • 1 comment

The data are in: Battery-electric cars require only 40% the repairs as internal-combustion-engine (ICE) cars BEVs: 4.2 breakdowns/year per 1,000 vehicles ICEs: 10.4 breakdowns/year per 1,000 vehicles www.carscoops.com/2025/04/new-...

submitted 40 days ago • 5 comments

While generally I think China is in a stronger position on this trade war, the rare earths stuff is completely paper-tiger nonsense that will just shift more of the rare earths supply chain from China: 🧵 www.nytimes.com/2025/04/13/b...

submitted 40 days ago • 11 comments

The Good Friday Agreement was signed 27 years ago today. It was an act of delicate diplomacy, which delivered peace and security to a part of our country where those qualities had long been absent. Those achievements should never be taken for granted.

submitted 43 days ago • 46 comments

What China's push to replace exports to the U.S. with domestic demand looks like: Jingdong, China's biggest online retailer, pledges to buy 200 bn yuan ($27 bn) of goods from export firms over the next year. That's not pennies even for the huge firm, with 160 bn yuan turnover.

submitted 42 days ago • 1 comment

What the dollar normally does in a crisis vs what it's doing now, via RBC

submitted 42 days ago • 3 comments

Spain is ignoring calls to reconsider its nuclear decommissioning plans, betting renewables and battery storage will make up for the upcoming energy shortfall. It migh be able to pull it off Free link to my latest on @bloomberg Green www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

submitted 42 days ago • 3 comments

Economic uncertainty update: The thing about veering wildly between policy positions, favouring and then discarding a new maverick advisor each week, and using contradictory justifications at every turn, is that even if one particular pivot is in the direction of sanity, chaos is the constant.

submitted 43 days ago • 38 comments

Strong message here from Ursula von der Leyen: The EU is prepared to deploy its most powerful trade measures and may impose levies on US digital companies if talks with Trump fail to end his tariff war against Europe. Interview by Roula Khalaf, Henry Foy & Andy Bounds

submitted 43 days ago • 1 comment

JPMORGAN: To argue that today’s 145% China tariff clarification “is somehow less of a shock as a result is very misguided .. The sudden stop of roughly $450bn in US imports and the resulting disruption to US supply chains would be a significant blow .. We maintain our call for a US recession ..”

submitted 43 days ago • 18 comments

Good morning. The United States now has the highest tariff rates in the world.

submitted 44 days ago • 24 comments

As you watch the trade war escalate between the world's two largest economies, keep these two charts in mind, from @davidfickling.bsky.social '[Chinese] companies and consumers will feel the pain from tariffs much less than Americans' www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

submitted 46 days ago • 0 comments

Happy Liberation Day to all who celebrate the release of money from your retirement accounts into thin air.

submitted 50 days ago • 352 comments

Trade deficit. I have bought food from say, Chilis. They have never bought food from me. There is a trade deficit with Chilis. I’m still doing fine. The trade deficit argument SOUNDS compelling, but it’s a straw man with no relevancy

submitted 48 days ago • 990 comments

An amazing view above the Minnesota State Capitol in St Paul right now. This must be bigger than anyone imagined. 👏 These are some of the largest protests the US has seen in years. #HandsOff #FiftyFiftyOne (🎥 Sara Schmitt)

submitted 48 days ago • 48 comments

The silence speaks volumes. #fucktrump

submitted 49 days ago • 29 comments

New York! 😳 Fifth Avenue is filled. Trump will hate this 🎉 #HandsOff #FiftyFiftyOne #HandsOff2025

submitted 48 days ago • 137 comments

This is remarkably close to what we had six days ago. The average tariff rate of most European nations was about 1%.

submitted 48 days ago • 47 comments

Are Trump‘s efforts to shrink the global economy a secret ploy to reduce global CO2 emissions? 🙄

submitted 49 days ago • 23 comments

NEW 🧵 A quick thread of charts showing how Trump’s economic agenda is going so far: 1) US consumers are reacting very very negatively. These are the worst ratings for any US government’s economic policy since records began.

submitted 49 days ago • 93 comments

We need to talk more about US tariffs and what they mean to poorer countries and the people whose livelihoods depend on exports to richer countries, and less about uninhabited islands in the sub-Antarctic and penguins. This explainer highlights Bangladesh as one example. There are others.

submitted 50 days ago • 0 comments

Breaking now: Ministry of Economics reporting the tariffs have not caused significant changes to our trading volumes

submitted 50 days ago • 105 comments

"The US accounts for 13% of global goods imports. Even if the US cut off all goods imports, 70 of its trading partners would fully make up their lost sales to the US within one year, and 115 would do so within five years." www.ft.com/content/1efd...

submitted 50 days ago • 3 comments

We've been talking an awful lot about how the Trump tariffs will hit the big players: the UK, China, Canada, France, Germany etc But it's time to talk about the ones who DON'T have loud voices. Because some of the poorest countries in the world are going to be crippled by what happened last night

submitted 50 days ago • 42 comments