Dirk Singer
@dirksinger.bsky.social
Author of two books on aviation and net zero. Climate tech advocate, UK / US - authory.com/dirktherabbit
While MAGA plays culture war around renewables, China added 119 GW of new solar and wind in a single month (www.ecowatch.com/china-solar-...)
In context, that's four times the *total* monthly electricity capacity of a US State like Ohio (27.4 GW).
In context, that's four times the *total* monthly electricity capacity of a US State like Ohio (27.4 GW).
China Solar and Wind Installations Break More World Records - EcoWatch
China is leading the world in new solar and wind installations, and saw a decline in carbon emissions for the first time in May.
www.ecowatch.com
July 8, 2025 at 2:46 PM
While MAGA plays culture war around renewables, China added 119 GW of new solar and wind in a single month (www.ecowatch.com/china-solar-...)
In context, that's four times the *total* monthly electricity capacity of a US State like Ohio (27.4 GW).
In context, that's four times the *total* monthly electricity capacity of a US State like Ohio (27.4 GW).
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'Whatever malicious thing can be found anywhere in the world can be found [in London]… actors, jesters, smooth-skinned lads, Moors, flatterers, pretty boys... quacks, belly dancers [and] sorcerers'.
A visitor to London, 1180.
A visitor to London, 1180.
June 24, 2025 at 8:14 AM
'Whatever malicious thing can be found anywhere in the world can be found [in London]… actors, jesters, smooth-skinned lads, Moors, flatterers, pretty boys... quacks, belly dancers [and] sorcerers'.
A visitor to London, 1180.
A visitor to London, 1180.
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Fmr President Clinton: Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu has long wanted to go to war with Iran
June 21, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Fmr President Clinton: Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu has long wanted to go to war with Iran
The cruelty in all this is unbelievable
A father screams for his child from a tiny interview room within a basement waiting room inside LA federal building. The space is not a holding area. No food. No water. No diapers. Those initially detained include a 2-year-old US citizen and a woman with high-risk pregnancy.
June 7, 2025 at 7:52 PM
The cruelty in all this is unbelievable
The best thing about all this is that neither has any measure of self-control, meaning this will just run and run and run.
June 5, 2025 at 8:04 PM
The best thing about all this is that neither has any measure of self-control, meaning this will just run and run and run.
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The absolute disgrace taking place today in front of cameras in the White House is yet another reminder that for all the talk of Joe Biden's failures, the people who failed America the most are our citizens. Empowering this guy (again) was a foreseeable disaster we'll be lucky to survive.
May 21, 2025 at 5:16 PM
The absolute disgrace taking place today in front of cameras in the White House is yet another reminder that for all the talk of Joe Biden's failures, the people who failed America the most are our citizens. Empowering this guy (again) was a foreseeable disaster we'll be lucky to survive.
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Trump's press events with world leaders that he doesn't like are quickly becoming the weirdest moments in U.S. history.
RAMAPHOSA: I am sorry I don't have a plane to give you
TRUMP: I wish you did. I'd take it. If your country offered the US Air Force a plane, I would take it
RAMAPHOSA: Okay
TRUMP: I wish you did. I'd take it. If your country offered the US Air Force a plane, I would take it
RAMAPHOSA: Okay
May 21, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Trump's press events with world leaders that he doesn't like are quickly becoming the weirdest moments in U.S. history.
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Trump loses it at Peter Alexander: "What are you talking about? You oughta get out of here ... you're a terrible reporter. You don't have what it takes to be a reporter. You're not smart enough ... Brian Roberts and the people that run that place they ought to be investigated."
May 21, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Trump loses it at Peter Alexander: "What are you talking about? You oughta get out of here ... you're a terrible reporter. You don't have what it takes to be a reporter. You're not smart enough ... Brian Roberts and the people that run that place they ought to be investigated."
WTF? Trump is at it again ambushing Ramaphosa in the White House. He's doing much better than Zelensky
May 21, 2025 at 4:54 PM
WTF? Trump is at it again ambushing Ramaphosa in the White House. He's doing much better than Zelensky
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Several friends have told me in recent years that *insert country* is immune to the far-right, and yet just a few years later they are surging in the polls in each of those places. We still don't talk enough about the supercharged hatreds that algorithms have pumped into our society.
May 20, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Several friends have told me in recent years that *insert country* is immune to the far-right, and yet just a few years later they are surging in the polls in each of those places. We still don't talk enough about the supercharged hatreds that algorithms have pumped into our society.
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Social media this morning is a zombie apocalypse of dinosaur Tory politicians and right wing hangers-on hankering after the nasty Brexit wars of the last decade. Our country has moved on!
May 19, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Social media this morning is a zombie apocalypse of dinosaur Tory politicians and right wing hangers-on hankering after the nasty Brexit wars of the last decade. Our country has moved on!
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The unbelievable condescension we’re already seeing today towards working class people- suggesting they don’t travel to Europe or their kids might not want to go to university and study in Europe- is quite something to behold.
May 19, 2025 at 10:44 AM
The unbelievable condescension we’re already seeing today towards working class people- suggesting they don’t travel to Europe or their kids might not want to go to university and study in Europe- is quite something to behold.
In my new book, we discovered that not just one funding gap kills promising climate tech. It's three distinct chasms.
The most treacherous? When startups with successful pilots try to jump to commercial production. Even $100M isn't enough.
Full analysis here: green.simpliflying.com/p/how-sustai...
The most treacherous? When startups with successful pilots try to jump to commercial production. Even $100M isn't enough.
Full analysis here: green.simpliflying.com/p/how-sustai...
How sustainable aviation startups can navigate the three Valleys of Death
Learn why climate tech startups fail, and how to avoid It.
green.simpliflying.com
May 18, 2025 at 10:04 AM
In my new book, we discovered that not just one funding gap kills promising climate tech. It's three distinct chasms.
The most treacherous? When startups with successful pilots try to jump to commercial production. Even $100M isn't enough.
Full analysis here: green.simpliflying.com/p/how-sustai...
The most treacherous? When startups with successful pilots try to jump to commercial production. Even $100M isn't enough.
Full analysis here: green.simpliflying.com/p/how-sustai...
This is excellent -
"There is no modern ailment which cannot be lain at their door. They are the perfect foil for right and left: a simple compelling villain whose malevolence explains a complex world."
"There is no modern ailment which cannot be lain at their door. They are the perfect foil for right and left: a simple compelling villain whose malevolence explains a complex world."
We despise immigrants for not putting down roots, even as we make sure that it is impossible for them to do so. We do this because we have no idea what we want.
open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...
open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...
May 16, 2025 at 11:07 AM
This is excellent -
"There is no modern ailment which cannot be lain at their door. They are the perfect foil for right and left: a simple compelling villain whose malevolence explains a complex world."
"There is no modern ailment which cannot be lain at their door. They are the perfect foil for right and left: a simple compelling villain whose malevolence explains a complex world."
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Gov't criticised from all sides. From the right, "not enough". From all others for its awful rhetoric.
"Why are we trying to ape Reform when that will do nothing to improve constituents' lives and just stoke division?" ~AA @timfarron.bsky.social @carladenyer.bsky.social @nadiawhittomemp.bsky.social
"Why are we trying to ape Reform when that will do nothing to improve constituents' lives and just stoke division?" ~AA @timfarron.bsky.social @carladenyer.bsky.social @nadiawhittomemp.bsky.social
May 12, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Gov't criticised from all sides. From the right, "not enough". From all others for its awful rhetoric.
"Why are we trying to ape Reform when that will do nothing to improve constituents' lives and just stoke division?" ~AA @timfarron.bsky.social @carladenyer.bsky.social @nadiawhittomemp.bsky.social
"Why are we trying to ape Reform when that will do nothing to improve constituents' lives and just stoke division?" ~AA @timfarron.bsky.social @carladenyer.bsky.social @nadiawhittomemp.bsky.social
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Not once have we had a government which is willing to openly state the benefits of immigration to our society and our economy, the way that diversity has made us a wealthier and culturally richer country. Not once. And yet we're constantly told that we've been living in an experiment of no borders.
May 12, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Not once have we had a government which is willing to openly state the benefits of immigration to our society and our economy, the way that diversity has made us a wealthier and culturally richer country. Not once. And yet we're constantly told that we've been living in an experiment of no borders.
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Incredibly depressing day. I've spent my entire life being told by British governments how dreadful immigration is. New Labour did it. The Coalition. The Brexiters. Now Starmer. All of them accusing the ones who came before them of failing to clamp down. The same old vacant mean-spirited bollocks.
May 12, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Incredibly depressing day. I've spent my entire life being told by British governments how dreadful immigration is. New Labour did it. The Coalition. The Brexiters. Now Starmer. All of them accusing the ones who came before them of failing to clamp down. The same old vacant mean-spirited bollocks.
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Dumb on so many levels.
Demographically: there simply aren't enough Britons to staff the care sector, especially with a growing elderly population. There never will be.
Economically: the UK only has ANY kind of GDP growth because of immigration, so ...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Demographically: there simply aren't enough Britons to staff the care sector, especially with a growing elderly population. There never will be.
Economically: the UK only has ANY kind of GDP growth because of immigration, so ...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
UK care homes face ban on overseas recruitment under migration plans
Yvette Cooper to announce proposals to reduce net migration in response to growing pressure from Reform UK
www.theguardian.com
May 11, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Dumb on so many levels.
Demographically: there simply aren't enough Britons to staff the care sector, especially with a growing elderly population. There never will be.
Economically: the UK only has ANY kind of GDP growth because of immigration, so ...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Demographically: there simply aren't enough Britons to staff the care sector, especially with a growing elderly population. There never will be.
Economically: the UK only has ANY kind of GDP growth because of immigration, so ...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
The whole debate and the fixation about numbers, is depressing
The claim by Yvette Cooper that there is a link between immigration and higher levels of inactivity (related to sickness and disability) has absolutely no basis in evidence or data.
Just retrofitting the evidence to the policy...
Just retrofitting the evidence to the policy...
May 11, 2025 at 8:13 AM
The whole debate and the fixation about numbers, is depressing
American bro from South Carolina in the hotel bar in Amsterdam, telling the bar staff about Trump, and sounding like Fox News brought to life:
"They are only deporting illegal criminals", " Musk found loads of fraud" etc.
Seriously, when you come to Europe, don't be like this.
"They are only deporting illegal criminals", " Musk found loads of fraud" etc.
Seriously, when you come to Europe, don't be like this.
May 6, 2025 at 8:26 PM
American bro from South Carolina in the hotel bar in Amsterdam, telling the bar staff about Trump, and sounding like Fox News brought to life:
"They are only deporting illegal criminals", " Musk found loads of fraud" etc.
Seriously, when you come to Europe, don't be like this.
"They are only deporting illegal criminals", " Musk found loads of fraud" etc.
Seriously, when you come to Europe, don't be like this.
Ten years ago there was a study showing that at most 14% of people are regular news consumers. A great many people have zero clue about any of this, or even know what tariffs are. They are in for a surprise
Is this bad? I'm no international shipping expert, but this sounds bad.
May 5, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Ten years ago there was a study showing that at most 14% of people are regular news consumers. A great many people have zero clue about any of this, or even know what tariffs are. They are in for a surprise
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Trump is going to insist that the only way for any non-American film to escape tariffs is for him to have a cameo.
May 5, 2025 at 5:32 AM
Trump is going to insist that the only way for any non-American film to escape tariffs is for him to have a cameo.
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Despite the widespread and often employer-encouraged adoption of AI tools, a new study finds that artificial intelligence chatbots "have had no significant impact on earnings or recorded hours in any occupation."
Time saved by AI offset by new work created, study suggests
Survey of 2023–2024 data finds that AI created more tasks for 8.4 percent of workers.
arstechnica.com
May 2, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Despite the widespread and often employer-encouraged adoption of AI tools, a new study finds that artificial intelligence chatbots "have had no significant impact on earnings or recorded hours in any occupation."