Just announced: OpenAI plans to lease a 9.2 gigawatt 100% fossil-fuelled data centre on Ohio.
Its emissions will be between 20 - 37 MTCO2-e - somewhere between the total grid emissions of France -> Netherlands
As much GHGs as 9.5 average coal plants. Will raise US total emissions by 0.5%
Going to give this Passivhaus starter pack a bump, with so many people having joined recently.
If you know of someone who should be added, please let me know.
go.bsky.app/K4gWTBi
Thoroughly recommend this, between @garethkane.bsky.social and @paulbrannenne.bsky.social.
Great as informal CPD for built environment professionals, or as an explainer for anyone of the many advantages of timber construction.
@alastaircampbell2.bsky.social Hi Alistair,
Are you all aware of the National Emergency Briefing, a film about the current state of the climate crisis?
www.nebriefing.org
Have you been to a screening or do you plan to go to one? Do you support the campaign to get it shown on national TV?
We’re bringing the National Emergency Briefing to Gosforth. Tickets are free, but please book early.
Time: 6pm (for a 6:30pm start) until 8:30pm
Venue: @gosforthcivictheatre.co.uk
(Please share.)
@nebriefing.bsky.social
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/national-e...
You know what would be a better use of road space?
Public transport. Cycle paths, pavements, greenery.
Having worked together for a good proportion of their careers Bill Butcher and Chris Herring are planning to become neighbours! I went to visit their site and find out more about their project.
Check out the full interview here - www.houseplanninghelp.com/400
#Housing #Passivhaus #EnergyEfficiency
Ketan Joshi
I'm always open for editorial commission enquiries! Please contact via link in bio. This was a recent one for Exclusive Resorts' The Club magazine, to illustrate a piece by photographer and writer Chris Wallace recalling his first trip to Venice in 1999.
There will be a #Gosforth showing of @nebriefing.bsky.social next month too if anyone can’t make tonight!
@iamnicksimpson.bsky.social
@gosforthcivictheatre.co.uk
We are calling on the government to stage a prime-time televised emergency briefing on the severe threats to the UK presented by climate change and nature loss - introduced by the Prime Minister and delivered by independent experts.
#NationalEmergencyBriefing #PEBUK #TimeToStepUp
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New research examines Waymo's California robotaxi trips btw Aug 2023 and Dec 2025.
Conclusion: 46% of miles driven involved no one inside the car.
That's 40 million miles of deadheading, with Waymo vehicles using road space w/o transporting a human.
doi.org/10.32866/001...
National Emergency Briefing
Stephen Collins
Ben Adam-Smith
In this week's podcast episode, Paul Brannen and I dive deep into the topic of timber framed buildings (particularly in the UK context), talking embodied energy, sequestered carbon, policy incentives and barriers and more!
www.terrainfirma.co.uk/wooden-it-be...
David Zipper
We’re bringing the National Emergency Briefing to Gosforth. Tickets are free, but please book early.
Time: 6pm (for a 6:30pm start) until 8:30pm
Venue: @gosforthcivictheatre.co.uk
(Please share.)
@nebriefing.bsky.social
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/national-e...
Gareth Kane
Free screening of the National Emergency Briefing presented by Chris Packham, plus discussion with Professor Hayley Fowler.
This week I’m joined by Paul Brannen, a passionate advocate for timber framed buildings. Not just because timber has much lower embodied energy than steel, bricks and blocks, but because it sequesters...
