Bob Kennard

Renewable energy is the future

MiniJumbuk: 50 years of wool, warmth and community spirit I Australian Rural & Regional News Naracoorte's much-loved woollen bedding manufacturer, MiniJumbuk, is celebrating an extraordinary milestone — 50 years in business.

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NEW RESEARCH! Sustain reveals Big Ag’s widespread failure to disclose emissions.
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According to David Montgomery, on #BBCWATO, his boss, Farage, is taking a “sensible approach to Net Zero”. Really?
Funny, I thought he was condemning future generations to a guaranteed life of hell.
Where are BBC journalists in correcting these outrageous statements, taken as fact?

Where is our orator to counter the hate and division from the right?
Listen from 1hr 46m to the clear and simple response to what western democracy was and should still be, and what we have to lose by following the likes of Farage.

I guess just switch it off. It’s the management who are responsible for policy so they need to be sorted out I think

Farage: epic grifter

The Home Office may be unfit for purpose, but so is #R4Today. The BBC needs to get their news values right. Deporting someone after accidental release is NOT the most important event of today. Stop following Reform’s agenda. Get rid of Robbie Gibb and his friends. Give us back our impartial BBC!

In a first, a data center is using a big battery to get online faster Aligned Data Centers will pay to build a 31-megawatt battery, an early example of how AI developers can move fast if they’re willing to be flexible.

Aligned Data Centers says battery storage will help it get a new facility online years earlier than if it waited for traditional utility upgrades.

Wind power has cut £104bn from UK energy costs since 2010, study finds Reduction comes from energy generated from windfarms and lower cost of gas owing to lower demand

UK wind power benefits and costs 2010-2023 :

Lower energy bills through avoided gas: £14.2bn
Avoided infra & new gas generation: £133.3bn
Subsidies paid to wind power: - £43.2bn

Overall benefit to UK economy **£104bn**

Don't believe the wind power haters

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Just 1% of coastal waters could power a third of the world’s electricity – but can we do it in time? Offshore wind and solar have tremendous potential but still face many challenges – new study.

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Just 1% of coastal waters could power a third of the world’s electricity – but can we do it in time?

Find out more: theconversation.com/just-1-...

#ClimateAction

Germany Launches €117m Climate-Smart Agriculture Initiative, Targets 12,000 Rice Farmers in Nigeria The German Government has inaugurated the Carbon Offsetting Rice Emissions (CORE) Project to support 12,000 smallholder farmers in Benue, Nasarawa, and Kano States with the objective of promoting climate-smart rice cultivation and linking farmers to

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Germany Launches €117m Climate-Smart Agriculture Initiative, Targets 12,000 Rice Farmers in Nigeria

We need to take urgent #ClimateAction right now to avoid the worst of Climate Change!

Find out more: investorsking.com/2025/08/2...

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This is the sort of news we need to hear more of British technology helping to solve the biggest problem {‘ever to face humanity.
#r4today

Wind farm first in the world to trial innovative idea to create manmade reef A global first was achieved at Rampion Offshore Wind Farm with the installation of eco-engineered Reef cubes as undersea protection for turbine…

Offshore #wind farm testing new technology to boost marine life - eco-engineered reef protecting turbine foundations while enhancing underwater habitats.
#renewables #climate
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It is becoming almost blatant now that the BBC will not criticise Reform.
Why, on a programme on R4 about foreign espionage against the UK, was the Welsh Reform Leader who pleaded guilty to taking bribes from Russian Agents, not mentioned?
The government must ensure proper impartiality at the BBC!

Apparently it's National Hug a Sheep Day. Choose wisely

Solar energy is going to power the world much sooner than you think Solar electricity is growing rapidly, but can it really dominate the global energy system? Here is what it will take for us to power the planet on sunshine

"The first 6 months of 2025 saw wind & solar together pass a historic milestone, generating more power than coal for the 1st time & making renewables the world’s leading source of electricity. The driving force..was the growth of solar"
www.newscientist.com/article/2500...

Nguni: the legacy of the land In South Africa’s diverse and often unforgiving landscapes, one cattle breed continues to prove its worth: the Nguni. Known for its adaptability, resilience, and cultural heritage, the breed has stood...

Livestock with genes which are adapted to local conditions are priceless in a changing climate. To keep them as an option, there must be a commercial use for them, and so this South African example is positive news.
www.farmersweekly.co.za/animals/catt...

Have they completely lost their marbles over there??

The UK's carbon emissions are "less than 1%" of the global total.

So they're irrelevant. We don't need to do anything.

Except that 50 countries could claim the same.

Or we could all recognise reality and work to cut 40% of world emisssions.

Climate sceptics don't do sums.

#r4today

In Lesotho, US aid cuts leave people living with HIV in limbo Lesotho, once with the world’s second-highest HIV rate, faces a health crisis as U.S. aid cuts dismantle vital HIV treatment programs, leaving patients without care.

The unkindest cut

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Jane Goodall’s Final Message: ‘Don’t Give Up’ - Inside Climate News Primatologist and global icon Jane Goodall died last week at 91. Her legacy lives on in the next generation of conservationists, scientists say.

"Don't give up." I can't think of more perfect final words from Jane Goodall.

Every 1/10th degree of global warming we prevent is a profound gift to our children and grandchildren, and to the future of humanity.

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Michael Gove admits that post-Brexit trade deals were bad for farmers Michael Gove has admitted for the first time that the Australia and New Zealand trade deals negotiated by the former Tory government did not protect Britain’s farmers.

We were right.

Michael Gove has admitted that the 🇦🇺 & 🇳🇿 trade deals negotiated by the Conservatives did not protect Britain’s farmers

“I felt that we were too anxious as a government to secure those deals in order to show that Brexit was working”
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How mega batteries are unlocking an energy revolution Vast battery units are shoring up grids and extending the use of clean power

New: How mega batteries are unlocking an energy revolution.

A boom in grid-scale storage is solving renewables’ reliability problem and extending the use of clean power.

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Climate investment is only growth opportunity of 21st century, says leading economist Lord Stern says fossil-fuelled growth is futile as the damage it causes ends in economic self-destruction

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Phasing out gas in European social housing - what the UK can learn

NEW ANALYSIS: More than 80% of UK social housing still relies on gas boilers keeping bills exposed to international gas markets and climate targets out of reach.

I’ve explored how other European countries are tackling this at scale, and what the UK can learn.

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A UK presenter shouldn’t crow about an audience’s ignorance of Nathan Gill who took bribes from Kremlin agents & was a close ally of Farage . It shows they have failed to do their job . What next , telling us that Watergate was one of the lowest points in investigative journalism 🥺 ?

Boston Public Housing Upgrades Units With Window Heat Pumps A pilot project aims to cut heating costs and provide air conditioning while reducing emissions.

New: A heat pump that can be installed in minutes is allowing Boston to quickly decarbonize a public housing complex for the elderly and provide air conditioning as climate change-driven heat waves intensify. The window heat pump is made by SF startup Gradient.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Indeed, let’s have much more of this positive news and real experiences with renewables. Our descendants’ lives depend on us grasping this technology now - not sometime when we feel like it.

Stick this in your oil pipe and smoke it Donald Trump.