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You can say “know” rather than suspect.
It doesn’t take a US blockade to make renewables cheaper to build, run and consume.
The cost of clinging to a contracting fossil-fuel economy will cost the USA dear.
And then there's the small matter of handing the future to the Chinese.
And the flight of global capital out of FFs and into renewables.
To the winners, the spoils.
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We should pay much more attention to the big insurers. They put a price tag on accelerating climate change as it happens. Great data.
The science of climate prediction will always be disputed, but sceptics can’t shrug off insurance data. It’s about real money lost.
Never went away.
The markets now drive the accelerating growth of renewable energy. Cheaper to build, run & consume.
Except in the White House where Victorian energy policy is having last, limp hurrah.
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The big insurance companies, inc Swiss Re & Munich Re, have been sounding the climate warning claxon for 30 years. Great data.
Too many greens ignored them for too long.
Now Trump is wilfully deaf. Politics trumps (sorry) hard data. Again-again.
Wales should relegated to the European championship (replaced by a promotion). Scotland should be worried.
The game is now too big to carry deadweight teams and futile games.
Change the bottom team every year. Add some jeopardy.
To cut a long story down to size, here’s the concluding thought:
“If anything, the Battery Day was a reminder that in battery manufacturing, physics sets the schedule, not press events.”
In a word: ‘Meh!’
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Oil glut. LNG glut. US Coal mining rights auctions pulled as prices collapse. Trump kids power bit coin mines with renewables. AND my EV & house cost diddleysquat to run.
Hmm. Looks like, I dunno, there’s a theme here …
Umm …. People who earn less, save less? That’s a story?
What happens to researchers at Bristol university? Not savers?
It all makes me rather queasy. Schadenfreude, and yes, that's me, can end very badly.
“Trading floors are abuzz with talk of the “debasement trade”, a broad term for bets on the deterioration of American financial exceptionalism. If the debasement traders are right, then the sell-off in the greenback has barely begun.”
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Half solar, plenty of wind and some FF. Curiously, they're building coal generation they don't need: "... even as the country builds new coal power plants, all the new clean energy means they’re being used less."
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Re-introduce Pine Martens. They kill grey squirrels so effectively that the greys disappear (dead/fled).
Reds and Martens evolved together. Reds know they can escape at the branch ends, where Martens are too heavy to get them.
Greys have no answer except relocation or death.
‘Made O’Meter’ works well in the UK.
Indian adoption of solar out performs China at the same stage.
"It’s cheaper to build a new solar farm in India than to simply keep buying the coal for an existing coal-fired power plant." Bill McKibben.
India is out performing China at the same stage ..
USA's FF policy is an outlier. A domestic hold-out against a global switch to renewables.
What’s the smart meter got to do with it? Ours isn’t even plugged in because it can’t get a signal. We do everything on-line & on the app.
NEW | Wind and solar overtake fossil fuels in the EU power sector 🇪🇺⚡️
Our @ember-energy.org European Electricity Review is out today, showing wind and solar reaching 30% of EU power, compared to 29% for fossil fuels.
Here's what happened in EU electricity generation in 2025 🧵
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I didn’t use it that way …
For UK readers of my vintage (mostly):
'1066 & All That' is the ultimate skuel-boy history of everything. The book ends in 1919 with "America was thus clearly Top Nation, and history came to a ...."
DJT’s letter nails the skuel-boy venacular. Is it a new last chapter?
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Renewables support a high-tech industrial revolution that is sweeping the world. Cheap energy is irresistible.
There are a few Luddites out there. No prizes for knowing who said this: “SCAM OF THE CENTURY!”
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The rising cost of electricity rates will make the payback time on commercial solar installations 33% shorter. 🧪🔌☀️💡💨💧🔋
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Bad news for Trump. Good news for the USA & cheaper energy for consumers.
The project is 90% complete. Stopping it is economically nuts.
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The world has an oil glut. Indian/Chinese consumption is falling as the world electrifies fast.
Oil assets are stranding because renewables are cheaper to build, run and consume. Ask the bankers and investors. It‘s all about money.
Trump's Venezuelan venture is the death rattle of a dying era.
If Trump wants to makes real money and keep up with China, he needs to throw everything at renewables.
If not he’s going to join the growing list of fossil fuel stranding assets.
"Wall Street’s biggest banks made more money financing green projects than they did from working with fossil fuel companies for a fourth straight year..."
How many people know this?
The economics are on the side of clean energy.
The petrofascists know. Can they stop it?
Miss Piggy: "the porcine prima-donna" gets the prize, with extra points for the agronomic alliteration.
Happy New Year to you too.