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@marrv.bsky.social

Energy.History.Economics & Business. Cornucopian. Del Atleti y osasunista.

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Announcement (it is online and free!) The water-energy-food nexus symposium 2025 is here:

www.waterfootprint.org/event/water-...

10.10.2025 15:31 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Register – TEAMIT+

🇬🇷 Exciting week in Kozani (Greece) for our 5th TEAMIT+ consortium meeting!

Key highlights:
• M1 in Pamplona - 2/12/2025 (Understand)
• M2 in Bidart, France - 4/12/2025 (Innovate)
• M3 Bootcamp 1 Greece 3/2026, fo Bootcamp France - 5/2026 (create)

Recruiting open now: teamit.plus/register/

17.09.2025 13:51 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Economics Seminar at
@upna.bsky.social !
📅 Date and time: Monday, September 14, 12:00 PM.
📍 Location: Meeting Room, Department of Economics (Los Madroños Building, 2nd floor, ECON-2026).
👤 Speaker: Iker Arregui-Alegria (@lusemlu.bsky.social)
📜 Title: "Basque".

12.09.2025 10:07 — 👍 4    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0

Thrilled to announce that I've been elected as a Trustee of the European Historical Economics Society (@theehes.bsky.social)! 🎉

Grateful for this opportunity to serve our scholarly community.

#HistoricalEconomics #EHES #AcademicService

09.09.2025 07:58 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 1

13 articles and one book of mine, shall I be proud or worried?

06.09.2025 14:17 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Screenshot with text: "Throughout most of its history, the United States has been
confident of an endless supply of energy. The first government
involvement in energy management developed after World War II.
Forecasts of a future energy crisis led President Harry Truman to
establish the Materials Policy Commission. The Commission was
mandated to investigate potential shortages of vital resources. In
1952 the commission recommended that the United States set up a
federal energy agency and begin solar energy development. Discovery
of large oil deposits and faith in the future of cheap nuclear energy
led the federal government to disregard the commission's
recommendations."

Screenshot with text: "Throughout most of its history, the United States has been confident of an endless supply of energy. The first government involvement in energy management developed after World War II. Forecasts of a future energy crisis led President Harry Truman to establish the Materials Policy Commission. The Commission was mandated to investigate potential shortages of vital resources. In 1952 the commission recommended that the United States set up a federal energy agency and begin solar energy development. Discovery of large oil deposits and faith in the future of cheap nuclear energy led the federal government to disregard the commission's recommendations."

Interesting opening paragraph from a 1982 report.
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.2...

06.09.2025 13:24 — 👍 27    🔁 6    💬 2    📌 0
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Petrol and diesel vehicles continue to lose market share to 🔋EVs in the UK 🇬🇧

In the 12 months to August, petrol vehicles made up less than half (47.9%) of vehicles registered in the UK.

Diesel registrations fell to just 5.8%

Battery EVs rose to 22.5%🔋📈

06.09.2025 13:43 — 👍 23    🔁 9    💬 3    📌 0
Keynote Mar 2.1.pdf

Many colleagues have been asking for the slides from my keynote at the WEHC. You can find them on the Knowledge Transfer tab of my webpage, or use the direct link below.

Feel free to share with anyone who might find them useful!

drive.google.com/file/d/16QF6...

03.09.2025 11:50 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
WEHC Keynote 3. 30th of July 2025. 6pm. AF Borgen Lund.
YouTube video by Lund University WEHC Keynote 3. 30th of July 2025. 6pm. AF Borgen Lund.

@.hannahritchie.bsky.social
I think you may like to see how I used some of your beautiful energy visuals in my keynote energy past (and present and future!) at the World Economic History Congress

youtu.be/oQ0Wc06MQV4?...

01.08.2025 09:17 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Some meat for thought about the Spanish blackout. I keep saying it is more about social sciences (markets,incentives, regulation) than about technology! -as most of our current pressing problems!

ceepr.mit.edu/wp-content/u...

01.08.2025 06:21 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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WEHC Keynote 3. 30th of July 2025. 6pm. AF Borgen Lund. YouTube video by Lund University

Here you have my keynote at the #WEHC2025 where I did explain lots of things about energy history (and present, and future).

The bit about the adoption of electric lighting got missing from the video! (read Roger Fouquet instead!)

www.youtube.com/live/GMu7y4s...

01.08.2025 06:16 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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More than 100 humanitarian groups warn of mass starvation in Gaza A joint statement says aid workers are "now joining the same food lines, risking being shot just to feed their families".

More than 100 humanitarian groups warn of mass starvation in Gaza - BBC News

23.07.2025 19:54 — 👍 20    🔁 14    💬 0    📌 0
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China starts building world’s biggest hydropower dam 1.2tn yuan project has broken ground in Tibet, premier says, despite fears of downstream nations India and Bangladesh

The scale of this is hard to comprehend.

If this dam is built and generates at the advertised output (300 TWh), it would generate more electricity annually than every natural gas plant, nuclear plant, coal plant, wind farm and solar farm in Canada, combined (261 TWh in 2023). 😳

23.07.2025 20:00 — 👍 40    🔁 15    💬 4    📌 0
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How electricity meters distort the role of rooftop solar generation On-site consumption of PV output is invisible to the meter, and shows up as a reduction in electricity consumption. Does this matter? Yes, it does.

Without the ability to know what the total energy use of their customers with PV installed, utilities won't be able to efficiently, in terms of cost, pollution, and meeting demand, make plans related to securing adequate generation capacity. #EnergySky #HeatPump
reneweconomy.com.au/how-electric...

23.05.2025 13:21 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Opinion | This is just embarrassing Everywhere I looked this week, I cringed for my country.

"Everywhere I looked this week, I cringed for my country."

23.05.2025 12:05 — 👍 373    🔁 69    💬 27    📌 8
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El falso mito del agua para riego de los embalses | La Verdad El uso fundamentalmente agrario de los grandes pantanos con el que la propaganda franquista promocionó estas infraestructuras no era tal, según un estudio de tres investi

El periódico La Verdad de Murcia se hace eco de nuestra investigación sobre para quién es el agua embalsada:

www.laverdad.es/agro/falso-m...

06.05.2025 20:05 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Are you thinking about Spain and Portugal??

05.05.2025 13:28 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Like the ones in the 1960s made in Spain???

05.05.2025 13:24 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Apparently in Sweden (Affärsvärlden by Christian Sandström) claim it was the clouds.
Here the (lack of) clouds on 28th April over the Iberian Peninsula🤦‍♀️

view.eumetsat.int/productviewe...

04.05.2025 15:43 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Que la mañana del lunes 28 estuvo rara está claro. EDF v.2 sobre #Golfech1 (parada antes de la desconexión y el apagón)

www.edf.fr/groupe-edf/a...

04.05.2025 09:51 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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"Necesitamos más interconexiones eléctricas con Francia y una de ellas pasaría por Navarra" Mar Rubio Varas, catedrática de la UPNA y experta en economía y energía, está segura de que se tardará tiempo en saber la causa del apagón y que no será una sola. "Aprenderemos de ello y será más difí...

www.noticiasdenavarra.com/economia/202...

02.05.2025 21:44 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Quién me iba a decir a mi que iba a poder intervenir junto a tres sabios! debió ser cosa de brujas (o de apagones!)

01.05.2025 09:28 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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En el capítulo de las cosas importantes que se hacen en mi departamento de la UPNA está esto que publica hoy El País

01.05.2025 09:25 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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La evolución del sector eléctrico, del mito del control franquista a la selva de intereses privados España, Portugal y algunas zonas del sur de Francia se han quedado este lunes sin suministro eléctrico.

El mito del control del gobierno a las elétricas (ni entonces, ni ahora)
www-publico-es.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.publ...

01.05.2025 09:23 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Spain and Portugal power cut: how public and official responses have prevented this energy emergency from becoming a crisis Robust systems, decisive moves by the authorities and responsible reactions from the public were all responsible for averting catastrophe.

Spain and Portugal power cut: how public and official responses have prevented this energy emergency from becoming a crisis
theconversation.com/spain-and-po...

29.04.2025 15:12 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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El apagón El apagón

LA VIÑETA | El apagón

✍️Por Manel Fontdevila

29.04.2025 08:10 — 👍 71    🔁 11    💬 2    📌 4

Situación del sistema eléctrico peninsular a las 07:00h:

➡️Recuperado el 99,95% de la demanda (25.794MW).

➡️Seguimos trabajando desde el Centro de Control Eléctrico para la total normalización del sistema.

29.04.2025 06:29 — 👍 120    🔁 48    💬 9    📌 6

Spanish grid operator Red Electrica is undertaking the painstaking process of 'black starting' generators: a careful balance of re-energizing power plants AND adding back demand simultaneously so that the supply & demand can stay balanced & frequency doesnt get out of control & cause another outage.

28.04.2025 18:38 — 👍 38    🔁 3    💬 4    📌 1

Spain is going to experience a rarer event than a blackout: a black start. All grids operate at a set frequency (Spain: 50Hz) and that's achieved by spinning turbines in gas, coal, nuclear or hydro power plants. Getting to that stable frequency takes time. More: www.nationalgrid.com/sites/defaul...

28.04.2025 15:59 — 👍 112    🔁 32    💬 8    📌 4

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