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China's Domination in Solar Panels I Global Energy Security I End of Coal I Clean Energy Superpower
Is China misleading the West — or could it help save humanity from climate catastrophe? Why is it building so many solar panels? I asked these questions to @chrisaylett.bsky.social
👉 youtu.be/nCweYICBmow
28.02.2026 21:41 —
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Not the first person to say this but in a world of cheap drones and short range missiles running your economy on Cote du Cretaceous Plankton juice (fossil fuel) from a live fire zone seems to be a bad idea. #EnergySky
01.03.2026 09:55 —
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“Our transition to EVs is aimed at ensuring our energy sovereignty,” said Ethiopia’s state minister for transport and logistics. “As a net importer of fuel, we are affected by global supply and price fluctuations. In contrast, EVs use electricity, which we produce locally and can price ourselves.”
18.02.2026 18:38 —
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🤮 deeply depressing
16.02.2026 12:38 —
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"Grateful coal lobbyists attending the ceremony honored [Trump] with an award for being the 'Undisputed Champion of Beautiful, Clean Coal'...the lobbyists’ equivalent of a Burger King crown for the commander-in-chief"
*chef's kiss*
12.02.2026 15:30 —
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Bundesbank boss: New reality calls for more EU debt
Joachim Nagel’s shift on eurobonds reflects today’s “different reality,” he told POLITICO.
👀 the possibility of proper investment in the energy system transformation that the EU so desperately needs
Putin and Trump have done a remarkable job of making the politically impossible, possible, in the EU
www.politico.eu/article/bund...
12.02.2026 13:17 —
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Great thread. You can't have a high renewables and a high nuclear power system, unless you over-index on storage. You need to scale nuclear to a portion of always-on demand.
08.02.2026 11:39 —
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Excited to announce the publication of my new book – Chinese Global Environmentalism – later this month!
The environment was once one of China's greatest weaknesses. It is now becoming a pillar of China’s global power.
www.cambridge.org/core/element...
02.02.2026 00:49 —
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The Legislation
Upon winning a general election, a Reform government under Prime Minister Nigel Farage will:
1) Leave the ECHR
2.) Repeal the Human Rights Act and replace it with a British Bill of Rights.
3.) Pass The Illegal Migration (Mass Deportation) Bill:
This Bill will:
Create a legal duty to remove illegal migrants for the Home Secretary
The Bill opens with a blunt obligation for the Home Secretary: "The Secretary of State shall ensure the removal from the United Kingdom of each person who does not have extant leave to remain and is not an Irish citizen or otherwise protected by regulations made under this Act."
The following parts of the legislation are introduced on an emergency basis, with an in-built sunset clause after 5 years:
Disapply the 1951 Refugee Convention, the UN Convention Against Torture, the Council of Europe Anti-Trafficking Convention (ECAT)
Derogation is justified under the Vienna Convention doctrine of state of necessity: Britain faces a national emergency in which uncontrolled illegal migration undermines public order.
These treaties will otherwise be used by activist judges to frustrate deportations, even after the repeals of the HRA and ECHR.
Create Detention Power Without Hardial Singh Constraints
This means illegal migrants can be detained until they are deported. Activist lawyers routinely use Hardial Singh to secure their client's bail, after which the client absconds.
If you came to the UK illegally, you are ineligible for asylum. End of story
All asylum claims will become inadmissible if made by a person within the Act's scope. If you came to the country illegally, you are ineligible for asylum in the UK. This strips the Home Office, the immigration tribunals and the higher courts of jurisdiction to even consider claims. A claim that cannot be considered cannot suspend removal and therefore, cannot delay a flight.
Re-entering after deportation and destroying ID becomes a serious criminal offence
Re-entry after deportation will be…
The Operational Plan
We will create an enforcement unit called UK Deportation Command, including an Illegal Migrant Identification Centre - harnessing cutting edge data fusion
A Reform government will create a cutting edge enforcement data centre to relentlessly identify and detain all illegal migrants in the UK. Using powers granted by the new legislation, it will automatically share data between the Home Office, NHS, HMRC, DVLA, banks and the police. It will power bulk warrants, including mandatory biometric capture during any police encounter. Each power addresses a failure mode observed over the past decade - for example, banks and GP surgeries unaware of a customer's status, or overstayers slipping through because a warrant covered only a single property.
Secure Immigration Removal Centres (SIRC) will be built rapidly to detain up to 24,000
Detention capacity for up to 24,000 will be created within 18 months. The Home Office will build Secure Immigration Removal Centres. This will be modular accommodation built in remote parts of the country. Conditions are basic but not punitive: prefabricated two-person rooms, canteen catering, on-site medical suites. Robust perimeters and internal movement controls prevent escapes.
This enables detention-on-arrest: no more bail. This capacity would allow for up to 24,000 illegal migrants to be deported per month.
Initial Voluntary Return Window
A six-month Assisted Voluntary Return window precedes large-scale raids. Illegal migrants will be offered a financial incentive to self-deport. An app will be launched to facilitate this.
The Deportation Flights
The Home Office will scale up charters to 5 flights per day. To guard against last-minute aircraft unserviceability, the RAF will keep one Voyager aircraft on six-hour 'hot-spare' readiness. If a commercial charter breaks down, detainees can still be flown out that night, preserving operational integrity. The legal reset will mean activist lawyers will no longer be able preven…
The UK version of “Project 2025” by the Reform party includes a British ICE, a concentration camp for 24,000 people, mass surveillance and withdrawing from refugee, anti-torture and anti-trafficking conventions.
It’s on their website. That’s how comfortable fascists are in the UK today.
26.01.2026 13:22 —
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Worth remembering when looking at the horrific scenes in the US right now that both Reform and the Tories have pledged to bring in ICE-style organisations to the UK if they win power
24.01.2026 22:33 —
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Two black t-shirts. One says 'Wind and solar and batteries and Flex'. The other says 'EVs and heat pumps and installers and grids'.
Europe's strategy for energy sovereignty on two t-shirts.
22.01.2026 13:15 —
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As ever, Private Eye sees through the way the usual-suspect media are happy to swallow wholesale and then amplify the BS from Tufton St lobbyists when it comes to net-zero
And, as ever, @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org made all these points the moment the coverage landed
22.01.2026 10:52 —
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Trump: "I haven't been able to find any windfarms in China."
Reality: China has far more windfarms than any other country on Earth
21.01.2026 16:13 —
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This is my 30th year as a journalist.
But I still continue to be shocked daily at the extent to which these same 'news'papers revel in wilful misinformation in order to relentlessly promote the ideology/interests of their senior editors and owners.
An utter disregard and contempt for their readers
19.01.2026 10:52 —
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Updated for 2026
18.01.2026 17:10 —
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oh wow! look forward to seeing it
16.01.2026 17:10 —
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Some petrol stations set to stop selling diesel fuel by 2030
London is expected to be the UK’s first city with no diesel cars
The UK may soon face one of the challenges of the 'mid-transition' predicted by @gruberte.bsky.social and @shastingssimon.bsky.social
Drivers of conventional cars (skewing lower-income) increasingly unable to access fuel
Needs coordination to avoid backlash
www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-...
16.01.2026 16:25 —
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US control of Venezuela’s oil may not be the bonanza that Trump expects
Robust long-term oil demand is needed to justify significant investment, but is called into question by the growing popularity of electric vehicles.
The Venezuelan oil bonanza promised by President Trump has, so far, received a muted public response from the American oil and gas corporations.
Read @chrisaylett.bsky.social's latest analysis for Chatham House⤵️
13.01.2026 13:30 —
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UPDATED – Factcheck: How ‘scary-sounding numbers’ are being used to mislead the UK about net-zero | @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org
Read here: buff.ly/Be7nHfA
13.01.2026 16:44 —
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Villagers unload solar panels from a boat and carry up the beach
Masia woman leads donkey carrying solar to her village
Try bringing coal-fired power to your village by boat or donkey
#coal owned by companies
#solar belongs to the peeps
29.11.2024 09:37 —
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US oil groups warn they will need guarantees to invest in Venezuela
Donald Trump to hold more talks with industry bosses as president flexes power over energy markets
American taxpayers may soon be spending billions and billions of dollars enabling the massive scale theft of oil by some of the richest corporations in human history
Oil which will, when burned, contribute to rendering the planet uninhabitable
Quite the deal
www.ft.com/content/84e0...
08.01.2026 10:31 —
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A screenshot from an email from the US Energy Information Administration: January 5, 2026. Crude oil prices fell in 2025 amid oversupply. Crude oil prices generally declined in 2025 with supplies in the global crude oil market exceeding demand. Crude oil inventory builds in China muted some of the price decline. Events such as Israel’s June 13 strikes on Iran and attacks between Russia and Ukraine targeting oil infrastructure periodically supported prices. See graph and read more...
"Crude oil prices fell in 2025 amid oversupply"
Nice bit of trolling in today's US Energy Information Administration update
Just the sort of news that will encourage the likes of Exxon etc to plough billions into developing Venezuela's decrepit extraction infrastructure
05.01.2026 14:43 —
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