Jorrit Gosens

www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

Strong reporting on this from @timogard.bsky.social‬

Nah, just another IT outage. I can't login either, to any system at the moment it seems.

YouTube video by Sky News Australia ‘Absolutely historic’: Coalitions loss was due to Dutton's ‘unappealing’ nature

Sky news talking heads in their usual abrasive tone arguing that the election was lost because the libs were far too mildly insane and trumpian.
The one point I agree with: whoever becomes the leader of the libs is who will loose the next election (6:30). Lovely.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5L2...

China and green steel Podcast Episode · Energy Insiders - a RenewEconomy Podcast · 24/04/2025 · 59m

I talked China and green steel on the Energy Insiders podcast with David Leitch. We discussed opportunities for Australia to become an exporter of green iron to China, the technologies involved, and the relevance of ore qualities. Listen here: podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/c...

Big banks predict catastrophic warming, with profit potential Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan and an international banking group have quietly concluded that climate change will likely exceed the Paris Agreement's 2 degree

Top Wall Street institutions are prepping for global warming that blows past the Paris Agreement.

"We now expect a 3°C world," Morgan Stanley analysts wrote, a scenario in which harvest failures are widespread and sea-level rise is measured in feet rather than inches.
www.eenews.net/articles/big...

More evidence that hydrogen plans rollout are stuttering.
Thankfully it's about hydrogen-fired power plants this time though, which are a wasteful use of the resource anyway.

The green hydrogen ambition and implementation gap - Nature Energy Green hydrogen is critical for hard-to-electrify sectors, but faces economic headwinds. Odenweller and Ueckerdt quantify green hydrogen ambition and implementation gaps, showing that meeting expectations will remain challenging and costly.

A new study from @adrianodenweller.bsky.social and @falkoueckerdt.bsky.social quantifies the green hydrogen ambition and implementation gap, finding that meeting expectations will remain challenging and costly. https://bit.ly/40mppIh

a monkey holding a smiley face a butterfly and an @ symbol Alt: a monkey holding a smiley face a butterfly and an @ symbol

I compared 22 identical climate-related posts on Threads vs Bluesky over the last 3 months, and the difference is shocking.

Normalized engagement on Threads dropped nearly 2/3 + my following dropped, while Bluesky engagement held steady + following quadrupled.

What’s driving this?

Read on! 🧵

Great to see even Xinhua agency cover this peak celebration of Australian culture
english.news.cn/20250103/e63...

Dutton’s ‘brave’ nuclear bet relies on coal plants. Their owners are concerned Opposition Leader Peter Dutton’s energy plan is for coal plants to keep running until nuclear is built. But the coal owners need answers.

The opposition's nuclear policy fails on bringing cheaper power, fails on emission reduction (it requires coal plants to operate for far longer) and also fails on reliability as those plants are far too old to operate to or past 2035, as their owners also say.
www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...

If you’re confused about Albo and Plibersek’s approach to coal, hope this helps x

Here's the 3 year forecast form last year and this year
Sources:
iea.blob.core.windows.net/assets/a72a7...
iea.blob.core.windows.net/assets/a1ee7...

News from IEA is that coal consumption may not fall over next 3 years (as predicted last year) but plateau instead.
Big movement in China especially, last year a 205 Mt drop, this year a 66 Mt increase for next 3 years.
Good news is all of this is dependent on reneables growth, see plot

Coalition spelling it out very clearly that their option is a lot more dirtier than the current plan.

The nuclear path leads to higher emissions.

Bid to turn Latrobe Valley's coal into hydrogen hits major roadblock A world-first bid to turn the Latrobe Valley's brown coal into hydrogen hits a massive hurdle, after a major international partner backs out of a trial in the region.

We should stop describing CCS as "commercially unproven" . It's been proved unworkable and commercially non-viable www.abc.net.au/news/...? (via Coalwire)

Bid to turn Latrobe Valley's coal into hydrogen hits major roadblock A world-first bid to turn the Latrobe Valley's brown coal into hydrogen hits a massive hurdle, after a major international partner backs out of a trial in the region.

Good to see a terrible ideas getting axed for once. Even if because of cost concerns rather than the lack of any real emission reductions as ANU reseachers have pointed out: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Also after quite a bit of gov't money had been spent
www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12...

Or hop over to sci-hub.se and get all of this without any need for human intervention

Don't understand how anyone would have been able to gather all that wealth in the first place, if you're this reckless.
Also probably really good timing to cash out on the craze as the meme started to die down I guess.

JinkoSolar Clocks Up 300GW Of Panel Shipments Chinese solar panel manufacturing goliath JinkoSolar says the firm now ships 1GW of its PV modules every 4 days.

Chinese solar panel manufacturing goliath JinkoSolar says the firm now ships 1GW of modules every 4 days.

#solarpanels

www.solarquotes.com.au/blog/jinkoso...

Operators have poured cold water on that idea just a few weeks ago.
RWE has said it's just not happening, EON has said it's entirely unlikely given the required cost
www.spglobal.com/commodityins...

'We saved for this': Young couple crack housing dream Meatworkers Jordan Cullinane, 23, and Remi Krahenbring, 25, knew they didn't want to be paying off someone else's mortgage, so they put their heads down and started saving.

ABC's good news story of the day for younger folks struggling to buy a home: just live in with your parents for a few years and then buy a 4 br house for 450k because that exists in some corners of this country apparently
www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12...

Remember when "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" tried to teach us about tariffs and no one was paying attention

Centre Administrator - Canberra / ACT, ACT, Australia Classification: ANU Officer 6/7 (Administration)Salary package: $91,362-$105,165 per annum (pro rata) plus 17% superannuationTerms: Part time (up to 21 hours per week), Contingent (contingent funded)T...

We're looking for a Centre Administrator for the Centre for Climate and Energy Policy (CCEP) at ANU Crawford School. It's an all round position. Part-time up to 3 days per week. Flexible work arrangements. Job level ANU 6/7. Apply by 12 Dec.
jobs.anu.edu.au/jobs/centre-...

go.bsky.app/TK2pwCz

It's not that long ago that EU and US gov't complained about Chinese demands for IPR transfers in exchange for market access, as well as about preferential treatment of domestic manufacture, saying it wasn't compliant with WTO.
The only thing that's changed is their relative competitivenes I think.

I remember this was laughed away by anyone in industry or academia when this came out. 20 MW turbines were a fantasy: www.upwind.eu/Upwind-Repor...
Mingyang installed a 20 MW turbine, Dongfang produced a 26 MW last month, and Sany is preparing for 35 MW machines: www.rechargenews.com/wind/china-u...

Well if this was what was needed to get past those reviewers then why not?
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...