Kees de Vries

'Met name omdat Mercks in De brave soldaat Svejk alle stilistische registers heeft opengetrokken om Haseks romanpersonages hun eigen stem te kunnen geven.’ Michel Krielaars

@zelensky1961.bsky.social @nrc.nl
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We do this in the Netherlands as well. Pay farmers to empty the lands...

Mannheim 🇩🇪 takes the lead 🥇 with the 165 MW (an increase from the planned 150 MW) heat pump, extracting heat from the river, prosaically named 'Flusswärmepumpe 2'.

The Rhine, like other rivers a source of German lyric, surely deserves a better name for something to which it gives so much warmth?

Germany should accelerate its renewable energy transition - Communications Earth & Environment Germany’s energy transition relies on variable renewables and electricity use across sectors, and it needs to accelerate. This Comment argues that consistent policy commitments to proven technologies,...

1/ How is Germany's #Energiewende going, and how should it proceed? In our brand-new piece in Communications Earth & Environment, we show that the expansion of variable renewables has progressed substantially in recent years, but electrification and flexibility have not kept pace. A short 🧵

German non-renewable power generation during the past 75 years.

(nuclear / lignite / coal / gas)

Last year Germany produced just 160 TWh of electricity from fossil sources. The last time the number was that low was 1961.

29 oktober is hét moment om je stem te gebruiken om een verschil te maken! Wij weten het wel: we kiezen namelijk altijd voor biodiversiteit en landschap. Nu de politiek nog.

Gebruik jij ook jouw stem om de bloemen en de hommels te beschermen? Om de bodem te herstellen?
Deel dan dit bericht!🌱💚

»Wenn man einen Wahlkampf wissentlich und willentlich auf Unwahrheiten aufbaut, dann erntet man das, was man gesät hat. Die Vertrauenskrise, die die Union erleidet, ist selbst verschuldet und sehentlich konstruiert worden. Selbst schuld, Union« Robert Habeck | Länderrat 2025, Berlin

Putting the Dutch offshore wind train back on the tracks Putting the Dutch offshore wind train back on the tracks

The Dutch offshore wind programme is in trouble. While 4.5 GW is in operation and another 1.5 GW under construction, the plan was to rapidly build out capacity to 21 GW by 2032. That is now out of reach.
My thoughts on how this happened, and what to do about it!
www.commonfutures.com/en/insights/...

1.6 billion on the seabed — Ireland’s first link to Europe begins to unspool Ireland begins unspooling its first seabed cable link to Europe, a €1.6 billion project set to transform energy security, and digital infrastructure.

A new €1.6 billion subsea cable is being deployed across the Atlantic, providing Ireland’s first direct energy connection to Europe. 🔌💡
www.eldiario24.com/en/ireland-u...

Gustavo Petro zegt het klip en klaar.

Meer van dit graag.

Mooi om te zien dat het uiteindelijk gelukt is!

While extreme poverty (less than $3 per day) has been declining, it is still very present in big parts of Africa.

Antifascisten worden door extreemrechts verdacht gemaakt.
Het waren de antifascisten die tijdens de Nazi dictatuur (1933 in Duitsland, 1940 in Nederland-1945) de strijd aangingen met de nazi's.
Velen moesten dat met de dood bekopen.
𝑨𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒇𝒂𝒔𝒄𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒏. 𝑯𝒆𝒍𝒅𝒆𝒏 𝒊𝒏 𝒉𝒆𝒕 𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒛𝒆𝒕 𝒕𝒆𝒈𝒆𝒏 𝒉𝒆𝒕 𝒌𝒘𝒂𝒂𝒅.
Deel 5

Een aantal quotes uit mijn interview met Psychologie Magazine.

Het is uiteindelijk een prachtig persoonlijk stuk geworden, veel dank hiervoor aan Vivian de Gier en natuurlijk dank voor de prachtige foto’s door Dana van Leeuwen!

Lees het hele interview in de uitvoering van deze maand!

Of course everything is different this time. But is it?

Electricity demand growth in IEA scenarios, in TWh between 2024 and 2030, due to data-centre expansion (dark blue) – including a scenario in which expansion happens faster (light blue) – as well as from other sectors (grey). Source: IEA energy and AI report.

NEW – AI: Five charts that put data-centre energy use – and emissions – into context | @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social

Read here: buff.ly/vJ5juMa

Agronomische basisprincipes van de tomatenteelt | Yara Nederland Het doel van de teler is om een hoogproductief, kwaliteitsgewas te telen welke aan de behoeften van de markt voldoet. Er zijn een groot aantal teelt-tec...

Bist du sicher? Unsere niederländische Tomaten wachsen meist auf Steinwolle. www.yara.nl/gewasvoeding...

Did you know: Even if 100% of our electricity is from gas it is still less carbon intensive to use a heat pump than a gas boiler.

Professor David MacKay already told us this in 2008 in his celebrated book “Sustainable Energy Without the Hot Air”.

interactive.carbonbrief.org/factcheck/he...

Op weg naar Duinkerken moest ik één dag voor de vakantie overschakelen van Tesla snelladers naar de infra van #Ionity. Was even stressen, maar kwam goed.
Hetzelfde geldt voor regels voor wind op zee. Vertrouwde en betrouwbare partners helpen. Wordt idd ingewikkeld bij multi- routeplannen.

Sure, charging in Germany is expensive. But using the free #ewego charging card results in Eur 56 for 600 km (0,52 × 18 x 6). Lower than petrol costs.

Mooie hemel hier aan de kust, Haarlem

❗⚠️ We are hiring a Professor at W2 level in urban and regional geography. The link below is in English, however candidates must also be able to speak German. If you have any questions about the position itself, please write to the email in the job ad.

www.geographie.uni-bonn.de/de/medien-fo...

De meeste klimaatprojecties stoppen in 2100. Een nieuwe studie kijkt wat er met de Atlantische oceaanstroming #AMOC gebeurd in modelruns die tot 2300 doorlopen. De AMOC blijkt dan vaak stil te vallen, zeker in scenario's met een hoge CO2-uitstoot.
www.knmi.nl/over-het-knm...
@knmi.nl #klimaatbericht

Möglicher Zusammenbruch der atlantischen Umwälzzirkulation nach 2100 bei hohem Emissionspfad 28.08.2028 - In Szenarien mit hohen Treibhausgasemissionen könnte die Atlantische Meridionale Umwälzströmung (AMOC) – ein zentrales System von Meeresströmungen, zu dem auch der Golfstrom gehört – nach...

Link zur deutschen Pressemitteilung des PIK: www.pik-potsdam.de/de/aktuelles...

'Belangrijkste oorzaak van deze lijdensweg is een veehouderijlobby die zich al tientallen jaren met succes venijnig verzet, eigen verantwoordelijkheid verzaakt, zich verstopt in een mythologische slachtofferrol.'

w-ja.nl/van-wie-is-n...

Scientists’ role in defending democracy The United States’ democratic leadership, commitment to freedom of expression, and investment in the pursuit of knowledge have long enabled its preeminence in science and technology. Yet today we are ...

My new @science.org editorial on the role of scientists in defending democracy is out today. As authoritarianism takes hold in the US, we must fight for the democratic principles that enable a free society and scientists have a key role. I hope you'll join us.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

"In Bolzano charged from 49% - 86% & then up to 1800m to Niger Pass, then down to Merano. When we arrived in Merano, we had 10% more battery charge due to the recuperation on board, which means about 75km of range. Back in Erding, consumption was an avg of 73 kWh /100km, means a range of 500km+!"

Brilliant as always by @mliebreich.bsky.social, including his fact-&-logic-based demolition of "small modular reactors" as anything more than a niche, super-expensive technology for decades to come (note: video sped up 1.5x to fit on here) bluevirginia.us/2025/08/ivy-... cc: @markwarner.bsky.social

Fascinating! I foresee that battery storage will strongly increase (which combined with strong battery price decreases means ~100x more batteries in the coming 10 years) and this will support solar+wind and reduce grid investments.
www.iea.org/reports/worl...

European automakers stuck in an impasse EDITORIAL. By prioritizing short-term profits, European car companies have fallen significantly behind in the transition to electric vehicles, and now face both rising competition from Chinese firms…

Today @lemonde.fr says what T&E has been arguing for years: the EU 2035 zero-emission cars target must stay if European carmakers are to compete with their Chinese rivals.
🧵⤵️
bit.ly/4motsNP
@vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu @wopkehoekstra.ec.europa.eu