Wolfgang Blau

Trump is the past’s last battle.

Analysis: Growth in British renewables cutting electricity prices by… Gas power now only setting the price of electricity around 85% of the time.

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@skynewsrss.bsky.social
I think they mean you…

AI companies have accounted for 80 per cent of the gains in US stocks so far in 2025.

on.ft.com/4pTQ3US “America is now one big bet on AI”

New Report: Household Upgrades Could Offset All New Projected Data Center Energy Demand | Wolfgang Blau On reducing the Strain of Data Centers on Power Grids and Household Bills: Current strategies for managing the soaring electricity demand of data centers primarily focus on two areas: boosting their...

Some thoughts on how else to create the massive grid capacity that is needed for new data centers:
www.linkedin.com/posts/wolfga...

@bsky.app see also this:

@bsky.app please act, and look at this account‘s other posts:

…and then, for a decade or two, they started enjoying unseasonably warm Octobers, with gardens still flowering, and some fruits having second growing seasons. The warmth was almost too pleasant for anyone to realise the magnitude of the danger it represented.

US and investors gambling on unproven nuclear technology, warn experts Small reactors could prove too costly to be viable despite $9bn investment in power for AI boom

on.ft.com/48K3r80 FT: „US and investors gambling on unproven nuclear technology, warn experts“

Increasingly clear: Europe must help Ukraine win the war (also) so that Europe can continue and expand its investments in climate action.
If Ukraine loses, other Russian attacks will follow and divert even more of Europe’s attention, money and resources from climate action. We must help Ukraine.

Spot the North-American anomaly: only region where social media use is still growing.
Great work by the FT’s @jburnmurdoch.ft.com
www.ft.com/content/a072... “Have we passed peak social media?”

But if you have one EV battery catch fire, it seemingly justifies questioning the entire energy transition.

A question for Times columnist Sebastian Payne:

What is this cheaper source of "energy" that you speak of?

The world's energy experts would like to know…

In other news, Kemi Badenoch's party has taken at least £7 million in donations from funders and directors of climate change denial lobby groups bylinetimes.com/2025/03/18/k...

Thank you, Jane.

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Pope Leo hits out at critics of global warming In his first major statement on climate change, the pontiff criticises those who minimise climate change.

The new pope is not backing down on climate.

"God will ask us if we've cultivated and cared for the world that he created for the benefit of all and for future generations, and if we've taken care of our brothers and sisters — what will be our answer, my dear friends?"

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Pope Leo rebukes climate skeptics after Trump calls warming a ‘con job’ The Illinois native’s comments come a week after the U.S. president derided the fight against climate change.

Pope Leo XIV denounced people who deny climate change today, arguing that they are contributing to the destruction of God's creation.

The EU has to make sure not to trade one dependency for another and swap out Russian LNG for America's instead, warned Danish liberal lawmaker Sigrid Friis at our #POLITICOCompetitiveSummit.

📺 Watch the full interview: www.politico.eu/article/comp...

Trump’s approval in the swing states is abysmal open.substack.com/pub/gelliott...

'Don't believe the doomsters' on climate action, says UK's Miliband Britain's energy minister Ed Miliband said talk of a U.S.-led global retreat from climate action was overstated and that the economic arguments supporting net zero were strong enough to see off domestic and international scepticism.

www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

Energy Dept. adds ‘climate change’ and ‘emissions’ to banned words list It is the latest in a series of Trump administration efforts to dispute, silence or downplay climate change.

The Middle Ages aren’t over yet. Energy Dept. adds ‘climate change’ and ‘emissions’ to banned words list
It is the latest in a series of Trump administration efforts to dispute, silence or downplay climate change.

www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

Neptune Energy confirms massive lithium resources in Germany - electrive.com Neptune Energy, a major oil and gas company, has just confirmed resources of 43 million tons of lithum carbonate (LCE) in the Altmark region in Germany. With

There you go, Germany. That is roughly 40% of currently known resources. Start your battery industry.
www.electrive.com/2025/09/25/n...

Still a great book (from 2022) by @assaadrazzouk.bsky.social
Energetic, upbeat, knowledgeable.

Why Ukraine is winning the war Russia has failed to achieve its core aim — the destruction of the Ukrainian nation

“Europeans should reflect on the fact that if Russia attacks Europe tomorrow, and the US chooses to stay out of the fight, Europe’s biggest military asset will be the Ukrainian army”
on.ft.com/4gKIegg

in your profile, you call wind and solar ‘politically correct junk energy’. No point in having a fact-based conversation w. you.

Fossil Fuel Subsidies Subsidies are intended to protect consumers by keeping prices low, but they come at a high cost. Subsidies have sizable fiscal costs (leading to higher taxes/borrowing or lower spending), promote inef...

You may want to take a look this publication. Not exactly a green NGO: www.imf.org/en/Topics/cl...

Low-Cost Clean Energy Now Trumps Politics, Says Architect of Paris Accord As Climate Week delegates turn to COP, Christiana Figueres says the argument over investment in green technologies is being negated by the fall in cost.

Golden quote from @billmckibben.bsky.social in this important piece by the Wall Street Journal: “We are used to thinking of the sun and wind as the Whole Foods of energy, when in fact it’s now the Costco”.
www.wsj.com/articles/che...

On why Trump is wrong on climate, renewable energy, the next economic growth cycle, on powering data centres cost-efficiently, and on geo-economics. Very good by the FT‘s Gillian Tett.
on.ft.com/3KkjVcU

Planetary boundaries sound very abstract & high level, this year, for the first time @eraju.bsky.social & I contributed a chapter how breaching these boundaries has affected people around the world: losing lives, livelihoods, health… & for whom the limits of adaptation have been reached.

Trump’s Far Right Allies in Germany: Is History Repeating Itself? Podcast Episode · The Rest Is Politics · 25/09/2025 · 36m

A must-listen on why the attacks on democratic institutions are at the core of attempts by Maga to destabilise the EU, Europe and especially Germany. @alastaircampbell2.bsky.social @geraldknaus.bsky.social