Megan Darby

only an immigrant could think RP was going to give their child an advantage. genuine aristos affect estuary accents

ah I see - I got confused reading all the equivocating about whether they wanted the tutor to speak other languages

wtaf £180k! Received Pronunciation! "socially appropriate background"! fascinated by the tension between wanting to raise a "bicultural" child but only mentioning English/Britishness, not the other culture

not a good look

omg this. so tired of my phone falling out of too-small pockets

5) artistic rendition of five raccoons in an overcoat, no text

Government style ad in watercolour. Image of a burglar stealing a painting from the wall of a home. Tagline: "It's not theft... if you say you're using it to train your AI algorithm". Body text: "Theft is now legal, so we can boost the economy by eliminating jobs. If that doesn't make any sense, ask a chatbot to explain it to you." HM government logo in the corner.

Did a new one

caveat: living standards have stagnated in the UK for the past 15 years. Nothing to do with net zero but some would make it a scapegoat...

46. Achieving a net-zero energy transition, for most countries, will not look like winning a war or marching while waving flags. It will be the ability to say "no thank you, we do not want what you are selling" to the petrostates, and walking (or cycling, or taking a bus, or driving an EV) away.

39. …It would still really help if rich people would stop pissing carbon into the atmosphere for no reason.

38. Ordinary people have no idea how much progress we’ve made. Tell people at parties that UK carbon emissions in 2023 were at their lowest level since 1879, for example. Most developed economies are now reducing carbon emissions without lowering quality of life.

34. Europeans shouldn't feel guilty about using electricity for airconditioning, it'll all come from the sun anyway by 2030. Solar generation times and seasons match airconditioning demand pretty well, which is good news for really hot countries as well.

29. Electrification of transport is far better than biofuels; solar plants can run an electric car on a small fraction of the land used to grow fuel to run a biofuel car.

24. We oughtta be building more wind. Seriously, solar will get built anyway, but wind needs some help, and wind blows in the dark and in the winter. It doesn’t help that solar pushes down power prices and generates renewable energy credits (where relevant), which hurts wind farm economics.

A screenshot of a chart from a BloombergNEF Tableau tool showing power generation in continental Europe - including Switzerland, Ukraine, Turkey, and Scandinavia - by source, from 2005 to 2024. Solar and wind are a yellow and blue slice along the bottom, growing visibly. Total generation stays fairly steady around 5 million GWh, but coal generation decreases from 1.2 million GWh in 2005 to 0.65 GWh in 2024, and gas (and nuclear) also decrease slightly, with the difference being made up with solar and wind. The link to the tool, if you have a BNEF account, is https://www.bnef.com/generation?region=ala%7Calb%7Cand%7Caut%7Cbel%7Cbgr%7Cbih%7Cblr%7Cche%7Ccyp%7Ccze%7Cdeu%7Cdnk%7Cesp%7Cest%7Cfin%7Cfra%7Cfro%7Cgbr%7Cggy%7Cgib%7Cgrc%7Chrv%7Chun%7Cimn%7Cirl%7Cisl%7Cita%7Cjey%7Clie%7Cltu%7Clux%7Clva%7Cmco%7Cmda%7Cmkd%7Cmlt%7Cmne%7Cnld%7Cnor%7Cpol%7Cprt%7Crou%7Crus%7Csjm%7Csmr%7Csrb%7Csvk%7Csvn%7Cswe%7Ctur%7Cukr%7Cvat%7Cxkx&_=

2. 20 years ago when I got this job, I thought maybe solar would one day be 1% of global electricity supply. In 2024 it was about 7% worldwide, and rising fast. You can see this eating into fossil fuel power generation in, for example, Europe.

LONDONERS if you're not signed up to London Centric what are you doing with your life

do you know of a better measure of long term performance of clean tech?

it's over the lifetime of each fund, which for blockchain is only one year and clean energy 3.5 years. the general tech one dates back to 2010

well this is depressing. my bank now gives the option of investing in specific sectors.

average annual return for crypto: 56.82%

clean energy: -2.6%

How AI can unlock an extra trillion barrels of oil And deliver the volumes needed to meet resilient demand 15 October 2025 3 minute read Share on LinkedInShare on BlueskyShare on XShare by email Simon Flowers Chairman, Chief Analyst and author of The Edge Andrew Latham Senior Vice President, Energy Research Orla Marnell Principal Data Scientist, Upstream Josh Dixon Senior Research Analyst, Upstream Stronger-for-longer oil demand will heap pressure on the upstream industry to deliver new supply. I asked our subsurface experts, Dr Andrew Latham, Orla Marnell and Josh Dixon how artificial intelligence can identify opportunities to meet the challenge. Why do we need to unlock new supply? The slow pace of the energy transition means that oil demand is likely to be far more resilient than some thought just a few years ago. Wood Mackenzie forecasts annual consumption won’t peak until the early to mid-2030s, and cumulative demand will be almost 1,000 billion barrels through 2050. Firm demand throws the spotlight onto where new supply can be sourced. Production from assets already onstream or justified for development will gradually decline under current investment plans from just over 100 million b/d today to 50 million b/d 2050, cumulatively 650 billion barrels. That leaves a huge supply gap of 300 million barrels.

It's tough to explain exactly how nutty this new report from fossil fuel industry consultant Wood Mackenzie is, but I'm going to try in a short thread.

As you can guess: 1 trillion barrels of oil is...............................A LOT

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Aftonbladet

Greta Thunberg: “Israeli soldiers hit, kicked, starved, and tortured me”

• They placed a flag next to me, and anytime the flag touched me, they kicked me
• Whenever I raised my head to look at Ben-Gvir, I was kicked
• She was filmed while stripped naked

Aftonbladet: tinyurl.com/a33vxatc

Hey Grok, What's a Waste of Energy? AI amidst the climate emergency

Data centers are "shaping up to be the mother of all political issues...pretty much everyone pays electric rates, & under Trump they’re starting to skyrocket...he’s simultaneously accelerating demand w/ his support for data center buildout, & constricting supply by shutting down cheap solar & wind."

ONLY migrants though, no one else is to study English because it's a rip off and a waste of time, am I getting this right.

August 2026. Massive heatwaves kill 1000s of Americans, mostly low-income and elderly, because as a society we decided it was more important to be able to create pervy deepfake videos of the girl next door than to power air conditioners.

there's some nonsense out there but also practical tips from people who've been through it. I've learned more about parenting an autistic child from TikTok than the rare face-to-face consultations with professionals

OpenAI’s New Energy Chief Is a Trump Administration Natural Gas Evangelist The ChatGPT creator hired John McCarrick, a gas-loving former Trump energy official, to guide how the company will source huge quantities of power for its colossal supercomputers.

OpenAI *really* isn't hiding its intention to power the AI boom with fossil fuels.

New from me @desmog.com

www.desmog.com/2025/10/13/o...

NYer cartoon

Bloomberg analysis reveals that electricity in areas near data centers has risen, a lot: www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

Energy is up to 267% costlier in areas w/ a data center nearby:

Exhibit #1000 in why "tech neutral permitting reform" is little more than a dodge from the hard work of politics and building solidarity amongst climate advocates to forcefully confront the entrenched power of fossil fuels.

guys we need food to live

I can't understand why it's not routinely offered along with the seasonal flu jab? All that work to get a vaccine out quickly and they've just abandoned it!

Signed, someone suffering right now from what is probably Covid