A milestone achieved on Australia's main electricity grid, the NEM.
Energy discharged from utility batteries over the last 12 months now exceeds generation from peaking (OCGT) gas turbines.
Those who thought batteries would only provide ancillary services now looking foolish.
"Countries are already starting to get to grips with this reality. [...]
China’s state-owned oil and gas company Sinopec has already cancelled a planned expansion of an LNG import terminal. Vietnam’s Vingroup has cancelled 4.8GW of LNG-fuelled power generation."
"Third Way" liberal politics involves *saying* things that working people love, but *doing* things that sociopathic plutocrats love. It works ...right up until voters notice that you're not *doing* the things. That realisation breeds cynicism and fury and paves the way for fascist strongmen.
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If solar panels or heat pumps blew up entire apartment buildings as often as natural gas systems do, they would be banned tomorrow.
You can get to a high-warming world without high emissions
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That's the part of this week's "RCP 8.5 is implausible" discussion that's getting missed.
A short thread on why the relief is premature 🧵
Brazil’s solar generation surpassed fossil fuels in 2025, catching up with wind which outpaced fossil power three years earlier ☀️🇧🇷
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I read a very compelling argument that when this weasel chewed through a cable and unexpectedly shut down the Large Hadron Collider’s 17-mile particle accelerator in April 2016, that’s when our reality went haywire. I have yet to hear a more persuasive explanation. Not even really joking.
the B.C. Coroners Service posted two reports on April 24 and I guess nobody noticed? I did just now. it should've been A HUGE SCANDAL
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Deaths of Individuals Experiencing Homelessness in British Columbia (2016-2024)
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NEW: My full dispatch for @nationalobserver.com from a very hectic day in Alberta politics
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Elections Alberta has obtained a temporary injunction against a separatist organization and political party for an app that allegedly built a database of voters drawn from the province’s list of elect...
My latest for Bloomberg: "We are about to see the Great Clean Energy Acceleration 2.0 – a discontinuity in energy markets as profound as the oil shocks of the 1970s, and one that could bring forward the peak in fossil fuel use and emissions to this side of 2030." about.bnef.com/insights/cle...
CERN weasel is on display in an exhibit in Rotterdam! Which naturally makes one wonder if it might be possible to collect its DNA, clone the weasel and send it back into the LHC for a timeline reboot
In September 2022, six months after Russia invaded Ukraine and with oil and gas prices around the world soaring, I wrote a piece entitled After Ukraine - the Great Clean Energy Acceleration, predictin...
