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"It's data centers and it's nothing but data centers. And the people who start trying to muddy the waters with EVs and electrification, that's not true. Absolutely not true. There's no data to support it. It's it's not true. Our data shows that it's data centers"

💪 every wind turbine reduces our reliance on US LNG 💪

and the sharia stuff is racist scaremongering obviously

💪 every wind turbine reduces our reliance on US LNG 💪

I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to

In this panel, the PJM market monitor states plainly that data centers are almost exclusively to blame for high and rising wholesale electricity costs in the Midatlantic. It's not EVs, heat pumps, or industrial electrification. Data centers. Panel discusses how to make Big Tech pay their fair share.

Breathtaking statement from Carney.
Basically that Iran's regime is evil and therefore Canada stands with US and Israel's war of aggression.
So much for the "middle powers" leading a nonaligned post-American world order. @katemac.bsky.social

This seems unnecessarily contrarian. Sure the cost of capital for renewables rises a bit, but the cost of 1-month gas futures just rose *50%*. Of course people will build more renewables, and more batteries.

Trump has told four different journalists completely contradictory things about his aims.

It's going to be over in three days or four weeks... it's about regime change but he also wants to start talks again with the current regime...he's killed all the possible replacement leaders...

Total chaos.

The great British electricity puzzle It turns out that making the transition to clean energy while keeping the price down is hard

This is a frustrating column by Martin Wolf - which is sadly typical of a lot of economics commentary on GB energy.

It does identify some of the key causes of high electricity prices - including Britain’s high exposure to gas prices and rising network costs. But there’s a lot it leaves out…

Hell of a chart, this, from @financialtimes.com. Spot the JCPOA.

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"successful" 😳

River or sankey diagram showing the allocation of profits from global oil and gas companies to quantiles of the US wealth size distribution via financial system intermediaries, such as asset managers, and categories of ultimate beneficiaries, such as business owners, pension funds and shareholders in listed companies. The scale is hundreds of billions of US dollars, and ultimately 50.4% of profits reaching the US personal wealth distribution go to the richest 1% of households.

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We all know the 2022 energy price shock fueled the cost of living crisis. It also caused a profit bonanza for the very rich. We show the US reaped the largest profits ($377bn) of any country. 50% went to the richest 1%, only 1% to the bottom 50%. A🧵 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Deluge fore­cast to raise food prices in Europe Winter ‘pantry’ depleted as rains dev­ast­ate crops across Medi­ter­ranean coun­tries

#Fossilflation European food price edition

Scatter chart shows UK industries as dots. The x-axis is their electricity consumption as a share of turnover. The y-axis is the industry's share of GVA. Manufacturing industries are coloured blue, services are green.

I'm getting worried about the narrative about how big a problem high electricity costs are for UK businesses.

Whenever I look at the data... there are just hardly any industries spending more than a few per cent of their turnover on electricity.

incredible win for beat reporting that hundreds of Londoners get to stay in their homes

of course they still have to pay rent to the heartless billionaire who tried to evict them but that's capitalism baby

when broadcasters repeat Mandelson claim he was “not motivated by financial gain”

please also report the $75,000 of financial gain Mandelson received from Epstein in 2004 and 2004

and the £10s of thousands Mandelson’s husband received from Epstein in 2009/10

plus free flights & mansion stays

niche but colourful thing: I was in Oxford and the river was too high for punting. apparently people (tourists) will punt in all sorts of weather and were on the river the same time last year

Discernible among my friends and colleagues who remain heavy X users: affects both their sense of issue salience and the intellectual framework (i.e., usually race and migration) through which to understand them. Many think themselves exempt through critical thinking skills. You are what you eat!

huh, I assumed immigration was generally what animated the far right. what does "politics" mean in this context?

Europe’s Noise Capital Tries to Turn Down the Volume To combat the ill effects of urban noise pollution, Paris is deploying automated sensors and cracking down on the loudest vehicles.

“The effort to quiet Paris complements the wider campaign to make Paris greener, cleaner & less car-dependent, which include vehicle restrictions in the center, crackdowns on polluting vehicles, & an ambitious expansion of bike networks. Those have cut the city’s average noise level by 2 decibels.”

Paris Court Holds Historic Climate Trial in Case Against TotalEnergies - Inside Climate News The lawsuit challenges the oil major’s expansion plans and could set a significant precedent on climate responsibilities for fossil fuel companies if successful, advocates say.

Judges are examining, for the first time in the history of France, whether a multinational oil and gas company can be legally required to reduce its fossil fuel production in line with climate objectives.

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A staggeringly cynical exploitation of the precarity & repacious rent seeking of the Thatcherite housing model in this country. This is what you get once you've flogged off most of your national housing stock to private landlords who then rent you back what you used to own at vastly inflated prices

Among earth humans, e-bikes are winning the mobility wars and it's not even remotely close.

Americans are a deep outlier.

This bill will raise your electricity costs and cook the planet to give tax cuts to the richest people ever.”
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as a Londoner, my biggest safety concern is road traffic.

immigrants? only enriching my community. teaching my kids. fixing up my home. socialising.

"In January, pollster YouGov released new data suggesting a majority of Britons now believe London is unsafe, but only a third of people surveyed in the capital agreed - and 81% of them said their own local area was safe." 🫠

Nigeria and Kenya lead Africa’s push for electric vans assembled from Chinese EV kits E-mobility companies in Africa are beginning local assembly of electric vans and taxis using Chinese-made kits and innovative financing to spread use of electric public transport across the continent.

“This feat is a clear signal that electric mobility in Nigeria is practical, scalable and ready for adoption,” Falaye said.

It is simple economics....

"EV charging costs average about $3 for up to 200 kilometers (123 miles), compared with more than $15 in petrol costs for similar distances."

Brits can take criticism of British food; just not from a nation that puts sugar in its bread

How tech turned against women As AI-generated sexualised images proliferate and app-facilitated abuse spreads, we are sleepwalking into a new age of gender inequality. It is time to regulate properly

"large language models such as ChatGPT were consistently advising women to ask for lower salaries than men in recruitment processes,... AI tools already in use by more than half of England’s councils were downplaying women’s medical conditions, potentially resulting in unequal care"