I've seen the insides of both parties. Totally different cultures.
Irish Greens value competence, compromise, coalition, sound policy formation, & minimising the attack surface.
Hopefully, in a few years, with experience & good management, English Greens will get there; it's a long road from here.
Irish Greens have competent legislators: reliable, thoughtful, pragmatic. I was impressed by Brian Leddin, and Marc Ó Cathasaigh showed promise. And they & Eamon Ryan made the coalition work.
There's no one in the English greens of their calibre that I can think of.
But Polanski does make great tv
Engineers (sometimes grid / electrical) in or close to retirement. Ecomodernists. Fossil/nuclear lobbyists.
Decades of that nonsense, even after Czisch et al's 100% renewables studies.
"but inertia" "but not enough land" "but firm capacity" "but dunkelflaute". Lots of buts from talking butts.
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The time for *anything* first, is gone.
It's now: everything, everywhere, all at once.
Energy efficiency & electrification go hand in hand.
Every watt of energy consumption that we eliminate via efficiency, takes us one watt closer to maximal clean electrification.
#energysky
Julia King's caveat applies here even more strongly than usual:
There are three types of liars:
- liars
- damned liars
- battery suppliers
#energysky
No, no, no
Connect as many people to heat networks as viable: 40%+ of homes
Heat pumps for the rest.
This is a *systems* issue. Thinking households only, results in a clusterfuck.
Fabric is for public wellbeing, futureproofs against any AMOC collapse, and good climate mitigation.
#energysky
Maybe, but will it ever be commercially viable?
Dolphy entropy prevails.
Perhaps the only way to do it sensibly, is to keep free jazz 150 million km away, and just harness its energy via pv bebop.
#energysky
I agree with you that "solar is cheaper", at the scale of the individual generator.
@ketanoli.bsky.social is right too, that at the *system* scale, in many climates, big wind reduces total system cost.
Just as, in some places, big hydro reduces total system cost.
#energysky
Never mind the miracle cells, just give us cheap perovskite with a decent life expectancy #energysky
No, it's not. It's just what it says.
That lever marked "cut energy bills":
- Locational Marginal Pricing
- move policy costs from elec to taxation
- tax fossil fuel industries more; subsidise energy efficiency & elec standing charges
- single state purchaser for electricity: break the link between wholesale elec price & gas price
Professor @michaeljgrubb.bsky.social of UCL #energysky
It's the best single indicator of whether the room ventilation is sufficient when occupied. Levels above a few hundred ppm are enough to diminish thinking.
If you wait by the river long enough, you will see... well, not a dam floating past, that's exactly the opposite of what should happen with a dam.
If we want it built, some of us are gonna have to go make it happen.
It's been proposed as a key part of a #supergrid for 20+ years
It would be a source of power & balancing at a wide range of timescales for a vast area. #GregorCzischWasRight
& there is hope that an Africa united in trade and mutual inter-dependence could move to a new era of unity & prosperity
And *that* is why parking maximums and parking-space taxes are necessary
Hey #energysky please give a warm welcome to energy economist & deep thinker Michael Grubb @michaeljgrubb.bsky.social Prof of Energy & Climate Change at UCL.
Please ask relevant starter-pack owners to add him to their pack of experts worth following.
www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives...
A battle of wits between two unarmed men
I woke up with an idea for an article on how pseudo-intellectuals are taking up the space in the public discourse that was previously occupied by genuine intellectuals.
Working title: "The Midwit Cuckoos".
I won't get round to writing it, but maybe @robertshrimsley.bsky.social might
Enormous potential, for renewables, rewilding, rainforest, rewetted wetlands.
But the public discourse is impoverished, despite the best efforts of a handful of heroes: @hannahdaly.bsky.social @peterthorne.bsky.social @caugustenborg.bsky.social @thinkorswim.bsky.social @irishrainforest.bsky.social
Hi, I guess I'm kind of active. Well, by my own benchmark, at least.
The government's Climate Change Advisory Council were briefed by experts that new data centres would make it very difficult to meet the carbon budgets.
Industry lobbyists span a different story.
Lobbyists carry more weight than experts.
It's profoundly upsetting, frustrating & insulting.
And GB is absolutely going to need heat networks at huge scale, probably 40-50% of dwellings. It would be absurd not to. It's crucial to take a systems-level view here: optimising for one dwelling and then scaling that solution to national level is doomed.
There's been 30 years of research on how to do policy evaluation, since then. Plus a slowly growing realisation that England isn't anywhere near as exceptional as it likes to think it is. And a better understanding of how to (re)shape institutional cultures.
GB *can* do what Denmark did, which is build local capacity in local not-for-profit delivery bodies.
If GB chose to be smart about it, it could buy in expertise from DK and other successful places, to bring their corporate culture & processes.
Or it could reinvent the wheel.
I thought for one wonderful moment that Britain was going to break from decades of stupidity, and you were going to say: we studied countries that have been doing this well for decades, and decided to copy that exactly.
Energy Institute stats review for 2024 is out: and #wind & #PV continue to be the fastest growing sources of clean energy that the world has ever seen.
And, as is normal for PV, we're soon going to need a bigger scale on the y-axis.
#energysky
Yes, those emissions are largely from manufacturing. As manufacturing, freight transport & concrete decarbonise, those trend to zero.
There is no 1 "actual" number: there are credible ranges, which steadily as economies decarbonise.
See scholar.google.com/citations?hl... for PV
These cables aren't for net imports. They're primarily for balancing services.
Intercontinental transmission can significantly reduce the need for local long-duration storage at both ends, and is one of the cheapest ways to do that.
Here's a fascinating read, and a substantial bit of research, on the history of decision-making rules at COP. On the consensus imperative, how it came about, and when it has (and hasn't) been interpreted to mean unanimity. www.carbonbrief.org/guest-post-t...
#energysky #climatesky #ipcc #unfccc
