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...

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

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

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

Short-haul flights are a tiny fraction of total emissions.

AND

Short-haul is where innovation is happening. Forcing it to go clean, will bring long-term benefits across the whole sector.

So don't ban short-haul outright. Ban short-haul that burns fossil fuels. Encourage innovation.

#energysky

required reading. feed your brain. www.nathanielbullard.com/presentations

#energysky #climatesky

I highly recommend following my favourite stand-up comic working in climate mitigation.

But I do notice how dark the days are getting, when even *he* starts channelling Albert Camus.

Characteristically, @hannahdaly.bsky.social is asking the crucial question. Because if we don't view heat decarbonisation as primarily a *systems* question, we WILL screw up.
By 2050 we see ~90 PJ/y residential water & space heating demand, and ~300 PJ/y total electricity (~3x today).
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