Seems yet again relevant considering tonight's events.

China's coal generation will fall by more than 50% in the next 10 years!

That's what the BNEF 2025 New Energy Outlook means.

The key is NOT how much coal plant capacity that China has.

The key is how much that capacity runs/operates!

As W&S boom, China's coal runs much less!
#energysky.

"This might be the single stupidest thing any of us will ever see. It is stupid in every way: presentationally, intellectually, politically, methodologically, morally and of course economically...It’s as if we’ve attained a new state of human mindlessness, a kind of species milestone."

Congratulations Vlad! Your clear analysis remains a key for me to come to an understanding of these strange new times.

In today’s Vatnik Soup, I’ll introduce how the Elon Musk’s Election Interference Machine™ (EIM) works. Since Musk and his broligarch allies won the presidency for Trump, they’ve now harnessed the machine to interfere in European elections, including the ones in Germany and Romania.

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Opinion | The World’s Richest Men Take On the World’s Poorest Children I’ve seen U.S.A.I.D. operate around the world, and it’s not woke — it’s lifesaving.

The world's richest man is taking food and medicine from the world's poorest children
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/o...

where the world stands on the paris climate agreement, as of today:

Wir Freie Demokraten wollen die Nutzung klimafreundlicher Zukunftstechnologien wie Kernfusion und sicherer Kernkraftwerke ohne Subventionen ermöglichen.

Das steht wirklich so im Wahlprogramm der @FDP. Genausogut könnte da auch stehen: "Wir Freie Demokraten wollen die Nutzung klimafreundlicher Zukunftstechnologien wie Feenstaub und Beamen ohne Subventionen ermöglichen." Atomkraft gibt es NIRGENDS subventionsfrei. Fusion gar nicht.

Prognosen vs. Realität: Batteriespeicher-Zubau in Deutschland. Grafik zeigt installierten Bestand 2024 (1 GW) und verschiedene Prognosen bis 2045, mit deutlicher Diskrepanz zwischen Erwartungen und tatsächlichem Ausbau.

Wieder breitet sich mit Batteriespeichern eine neue Technologie schneller aus als viele denken.

Selbst kluge Analysten liegen verschätzen sich.

Das hat einen einfachen Grund.

THREAD 🧵

Creators begin to sincerely believe what the algorithm rewards.

The core issue is not a “few bad actors”, but an info ecosystem that amplifies human frailty. Our problem is not a few grifters, but an info ecosystem makes grifters of most of us. 2/3

Importe von Strom vs. Öl, Kohle und Ergas

Nochmal kurz zur Erinnerung

Finland seizes a tanker, getting tough on hybrid warfare Russian-linked attacks on undersea infrastructure are rising

Let’s make 2025 the year in which other Europeans and NATO become more like the Finns.

Finland seizes a tanker, getting tough on hybrid warfare
econ.st/4gBufbL

Jetzt ist es ganz klar: Wenn Sie wollen, dass Deutschland von internationalen Oligarchen regiert wird, dann wählen Sie AfD

Flusswasser-Wärmepumpen

Hamburg
Gießen
Köln
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The 'evil twin' is less well known, but equally important, unfortunately.

Modellierung der Umweltwirkung von Tempolimit-Maßnahmen auf Autobahnen und außerorts Im Forschungsprojekt wurde untersucht, welche Auswirkungen unterschiedliche Tempolimits auf Autobahnen und im Außerortsbereich in Deutschland auf die Fahrleistung sowie auf die verursachten

News! 🔥
Ein Tempolimit auf deutschen Straßen würde die Emissionen senken.
Ok, wissen wir.
Aber jetzt gibt es neue Zahlen: Um 2,2 bis 7,6 % - das zeigen Szenarien, die das Umweltbundesamt hat durchrechnen lassen.
www.umweltbundesamt.de/publikatione...

IRENA, the International Renewable Energy Agency has arrived here! bsky.app/profile/iren...

Graph showing methane concentration riding from 1650 ppb in 1984 to 1950 ppb now

Bar graph comparing measured emissions to previous estimates for 4 US and 2 Caspian basins: 4 to 10 times higher

Methane concentration in the atmosphere is rising, contributing to worsening climate change.
Satellite observations by MethaneSAT now show that emissions from US and Caspian oil & gas extraction are much higher than previously estimated.

I've seen a child with tetanus, I've treated near fatal infections after chicken pox, and I've pronounced children dead from COVID whose parents refused to have them vaccinated.

We have lost our minds... and are about to lose so many of our precious children.

Biden admin says it is surging deliveries to Ukraine as Trump criticizes decision to allow US weapons to strike inside Russia | CNN Politics The Biden administration is working to surge deliveries of weapons to Ukraine in its final days in office in a concerted effort to put Kyiv on a strong footing going into 2025, according to a senior a...

1/5 If Trump wanted Russia to negotiate, he would make the war harder for the Kremlin, not create the conditions for Russian victory. I wish reporters would point this out.
www.cnn.com/2024/12/12/p...

YouTube video by Anders Puck Nielsen What is Russia's plan for victory?

I both recommend and endorse this analysis by @anderspuck.bsky.social about how negotiations for the Kremlin may be a means of winning the war.

youtu.be/MhpoNL1gZbw?...

🚨DUNKELFLAUTE CONTEXT🚨

1. This is no **2022 Energy Crisis**:

# of hours German electricity prices over €300
2015 = 0
2016 = 0
2017 = 0
2018 = 0
2019 = 0
2020 = 0
2021 = 236
2022 = 2345
2023 = 3
2024 = 23 (incl to 13-Dec)

The results from BloombergNEF's 2024 lithium-ion battery price survey are out. Lithium-ion battery pack prices dropped 20% from 2023 to a record low of $115 per kilowatt-hour. This is the largest decline observed in our survey since 2017. 🧵⬇️

I think "kid killer" is the term we need here. The people who stop vaccinations kill our kids.

Chinese-owned Tiktok enabled the campaign of a far-right pro-Russia candidate in Romania's presidential elections. Would it enable campaigns of candidates seen as not aligned with Chinese interests in the same way?

A well researched article, indeed.
The Authors estimate that one medium-sized refinery (a size which today serves roughly 10M people) would consume 5.5GW which could be generated renewably from a little over 100km2 solar and 700km2 wind park.

In my experience, three things are often missed in the discussion of ‘synthetic fuels’ or ‘e-fuels’ such as methanol (for shipping), hydrogen (for industrial heat) of CH4 (for heating). 🧵

#EnergySky #GreenSky #Science
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Instead of forcing kids to rely on their parents for every trip, cities can provide safe, connected mobility for all ages. This fosters early freedom and responsibility, shaping more independent, capable kids than those confined to car dependency.

Kann man schon?

Better to farm solar for energy
than to farm crops to use for biofuels

Far better

1 hectare annual yield:

2t soy bean
➡️ 800 litres biodiesel ➡️ 8.29 MWh

70t sugar cane
➡️ 7000 litres ethanol ➡️ 57.5 MWh

600 kW solar
➡️ ➡️ 900 MWh (low estimate)