Nikolaus J. Kurmayer

The Canevari job change is not the story, it's the change in ECF funding priorities and the disappearance of the term !

Its a story not a book !

Denmark's Rockwool says Russia has seized four of its factories Danish building materials company Rockwool said on Tuesday that Russia has taken control of the company's four factories in Russia and the company is no longer in control of its assets in the country.

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Don't let the jubilations fool you -- the new North Sea offshore wind target, while substantial, is much lower than the 2022 pledge by a much smaller group

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There has been a momentuous shift in Brussels few took notice of: energy efficiency first, the mantra that ruled the roost of the EU capital's lobbying circuit, is being quietly dropped (and is on track to be supplanted by a new darling term -- electrification)

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Ich gehe mal davon aus dass in dem Stück der Radtke ETS/Chemieindustrie Brief verarbeitet wurde?

Can you explain what that means in terms for the dumb layman (me)?

So, a social cost of carbon argument?

Fair fair but nonetheless if you're gonna do this in public please do try to answer my current question -- would you have been content if he didnt mention the mercator projection?

Nice crashout! How was he moonlighting in social sciences?

Would I be moonlighting as an economist whenever I point to gdp growth/inflation whatever to draw interest to why bad energy regulation is partially to blame?

Banger paragraph from Rapporteur this morning

Chewing skill issue...

Sounds like regular plantar fasciitis tbh

Vienna slams ‘uncoordinated’ electricity subsidies, while launching its own | Euractiv The Austrian government has asked the EU to step in as it joins a growing list of the bloc's countries looking to shield firms from high prices

€: Everyone knows Germany's "Industriestrompreis". These "broad, uncoordinated national subsidy schemes … risk fragmenting the internal market,” the Austrian letter warns.

However, whilst complaining, Vienna launched its own industry subsidy tariff “modelled after the German scheme”.

Ein "ersteres/zweiteres" wären weniger Worte gewesen... Mag sein, dass es an meinem Leseverständnis liegt aber ich hatte mich immer für recht durchschnittlich gehalten!

Häh -- Accounts die aus Ronzheimer-Sicht links wären, oder diejeningen die so weits rechts sind, dass ihnen Ronzheimer als links erscheint?

2027: How much of Europe should we cede to the Rubio-Lavrov pact

Spains military budget stood at approximately €17.2 billion, or 1.24 percent of the country's GDP in 2024, the lowest among NATO members...

Papier halt schon eig relativ low temp (und somit einfach elektrifizierbar) also dunno -- stahl/eisen halten und papier gehen lassen scheint mir eine interessante wahl... !

Papier sollte doch haltbar sein?

Komischer take...

Venezuela flares over $1.4bn of natural gas annually - enough to meet the entire gas needs of neighbouring Colombia!

Colombia's LNG imports would be wiped out, if only it could get its hands on Venezuelan gas.

Athens ditches EU line in IMO net-zero shipping negotiations

Bsky implementing some weird livestream feature before adding other features gives me bearish vibes -- think algo feed, better content sorting, better search feature

What specifically are you referring to -- you mean google snippets being replaced by AI summaries?

Already in the works. "By the third quarter of 2026, the Commission is expected to publish a proposal to revise the EU ETS Directive..."

Russia attack on power grid brought Poland to brink of blackout, Warsaw says | Euractiv Russia’s ‘digital tanks’ are already in Europe, minister warns

Guess they didn't abandon the new tradition (seeking to cause at least one blackout over christmas) after all !

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Even where alcohol is taxed, Europe applies some of the lowest rates worldwide. The WHO estimates that excise taxes account for just 9.7% of beer prices in the European region — the lowest share of any WHO region, reports @maglken.bsky.social

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Roughly 45% of the world's population is living in cities!

Banger graph from @jkempenergy.bsky.social

Electricity 2026 starts with a depressing figure: €30 billion!

Thats the amount of subsidies Berlin alone is injecting into the power system IN ONE YEAR to stave off necessary structural reforms

€11 bn in France, €3 bn in Poland

Yet, reform to-do list is long

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