Janne Blomqvist
@janneblomqvist.bsky.social
Computing, Environment, Energy, Materials Science, Ships, Aircraft, and other random things. And cute animals.
Turtles all the way down.
Turtles all the way down.
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WATCH: If you REALLY want to understand a BIG reason why cycling [aka riding a bike] is so dangerous in North America, and one of the biggest villains in the origin story of our unsafe status quo, invest some time watching this one, by NOT JUST BIKES (aka @theurbanistagenda.com here). Then share it.
This is Why Cycling is Dangerous in America
YouTube video by Not Just Bikes
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November 11, 2025 at 11:04 PM
WATCH: If you REALLY want to understand a BIG reason why cycling [aka riding a bike] is so dangerous in North America, and one of the biggest villains in the origin story of our unsafe status quo, invest some time watching this one, by NOT JUST BIKES (aka @theurbanistagenda.com here). Then share it.
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November 12, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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Good news: more than 50% of the world’s economies have seen carbon emissions from fossil fuel power generation peaking. And with the speed of change in the electricity sector many more will join this growing list in coming years.
November 11, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Good news: more than 50% of the world’s economies have seen carbon emissions from fossil fuel power generation peaking. And with the speed of change in the electricity sector many more will join this growing list in coming years.
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Batteries are coming to Europe. Earlier this year Europe’s largest battery storage site went live at Blackhillock, Scotland.
The facility has a capacity of 300MW/600MWh.
Much larger batteries are under development: A huge 1 GW / 4 GWh system is being constructed in Jänschwalde, Germany.
The facility has a capacity of 300MW/600MWh.
Much larger batteries are under development: A huge 1 GW / 4 GWh system is being constructed in Jänschwalde, Germany.
November 10, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Batteries are coming to Europe. Earlier this year Europe’s largest battery storage site went live at Blackhillock, Scotland.
The facility has a capacity of 300MW/600MWh.
Much larger batteries are under development: A huge 1 GW / 4 GWh system is being constructed in Jänschwalde, Germany.
The facility has a capacity of 300MW/600MWh.
Much larger batteries are under development: A huge 1 GW / 4 GWh system is being constructed in Jänschwalde, Germany.
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Toisaalta kyllä, vihreä kaupunkielämä ja ratikat on oikeansuuntainen ajatus ekologisen siirtymän jälkeiselle elämälle.
Samalla, miten fiilistelet rauhaan jätetyn suon? Ja pitää myös rakentaa perinteisen teollisen näköistä infraa. Eikö me vain katsota sitä?
Samalla, miten fiilistelet rauhaan jätetyn suon? Ja pitää myös rakentaa perinteisen teollisen näköistä infraa. Eikö me vain katsota sitä?
Imagining better futures is a powerful tool.
From AI-generated cities to climate scenarios, visualising what’s ahead helps people reflect, connect, and act.
Research shows: when we can see the future, we’re more likely to shape it.
Video: Buntes Amt für Zukunft in Nürnberg
From AI-generated cities to climate scenarios, visualising what’s ahead helps people reflect, connect, and act.
Research shows: when we can see the future, we’re more likely to shape it.
Video: Buntes Amt für Zukunft in Nürnberg
November 10, 2025 at 7:06 AM
Toisaalta kyllä, vihreä kaupunkielämä ja ratikat on oikeansuuntainen ajatus ekologisen siirtymän jälkeiselle elämälle.
Samalla, miten fiilistelet rauhaan jätetyn suon? Ja pitää myös rakentaa perinteisen teollisen näköistä infraa. Eikö me vain katsota sitä?
Samalla, miten fiilistelet rauhaan jätetyn suon? Ja pitää myös rakentaa perinteisen teollisen näköistä infraa. Eikö me vain katsota sitä?
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Imagining better futures is a powerful tool.
From AI-generated cities to climate scenarios, visualising what’s ahead helps people reflect, connect, and act.
Research shows: when we can see the future, we’re more likely to shape it.
Video: Buntes Amt für Zukunft in Nürnberg
From AI-generated cities to climate scenarios, visualising what’s ahead helps people reflect, connect, and act.
Research shows: when we can see the future, we’re more likely to shape it.
Video: Buntes Amt für Zukunft in Nürnberg
August 10, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Imagining better futures is a powerful tool.
From AI-generated cities to climate scenarios, visualising what’s ahead helps people reflect, connect, and act.
Research shows: when we can see the future, we’re more likely to shape it.
Video: Buntes Amt für Zukunft in Nürnberg
From AI-generated cities to climate scenarios, visualising what’s ahead helps people reflect, connect, and act.
Research shows: when we can see the future, we’re more likely to shape it.
Video: Buntes Amt für Zukunft in Nürnberg
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1. This is a thread on freedom, and how easy it is to lose.
Over the past 2,000 years in Europe, there have been few periods and places of freedom. For much of the time we lived under highly oppressive tyrannies of various kinds, whether small or grand, local or imperial, secular or religious.🧵
Over the past 2,000 years in Europe, there have been few periods and places of freedom. For much of the time we lived under highly oppressive tyrannies of various kinds, whether small or grand, local or imperial, secular or religious.🧵
November 7, 2025 at 6:35 AM
1. This is a thread on freedom, and how easy it is to lose.
Over the past 2,000 years in Europe, there have been few periods and places of freedom. For much of the time we lived under highly oppressive tyrannies of various kinds, whether small or grand, local or imperial, secular or religious.🧵
Over the past 2,000 years in Europe, there have been few periods and places of freedom. For much of the time we lived under highly oppressive tyrannies of various kinds, whether small or grand, local or imperial, secular or religious.🧵
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Timo R. Stewartin nimitys vuoden tieteentekijäksi on hyvinkin ansaittu. Tämähän siis ei ole niinkään tunnustus julkaisuista tai tutkimuksellisista läpilyönneistä -- niitäkin tietysti olisi -- vaan yhteiskunnallisesta vaikuttavuudesta tutkijana.
Tätä asiaa voisi taas käsitellä lyhyen ketjun verran.
Tätä asiaa voisi taas käsitellä lyhyen ketjun verran.
Suorapuheinen Gazan sodan kommentoija Timo R. Stewart on palkittu Vuoden tieteentekijänä
Stewart kertoo, että vihapostin lähettäjät ovat yrittäneet vaientaa hänet.
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November 8, 2025 at 6:55 AM
Timo R. Stewartin nimitys vuoden tieteentekijäksi on hyvinkin ansaittu. Tämähän siis ei ole niinkään tunnustus julkaisuista tai tutkimuksellisista läpilyönneistä -- niitäkin tietysti olisi -- vaan yhteiskunnallisesta vaikuttavuudesta tutkijana.
Tätä asiaa voisi taas käsitellä lyhyen ketjun verran.
Tätä asiaa voisi taas käsitellä lyhyen ketjun verran.
Interesting discussion about the new Ember report. The world is going electric, lead by China. The question for Europe and the Western world at large, how to respond? In which areas can we compete, and how? Or are we going to cede the world market to China?
Premiering right now! Kingsmill Bond and the Electrotech Revolution on @cleaninguppod.bsky.social
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The Electrotech Revolution Will Not Be Fossilized | Ep231: Kingsmill Bond
YouTube video by Cleaning Up Podcast
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November 6, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Interesting discussion about the new Ember report. The world is going electric, lead by China. The question for Europe and the Western world at large, how to respond? In which areas can we compete, and how? Or are we going to cede the world market to China?
November 6, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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73% of Copenhageners don’t own a car, and the city has made huge strides reclaiming public space for people that had been previously surrendered to cars. Now candidates in the upcoming city election want to prioritize “car storage” again. Not surprisingly, @colville-andersen.com isn’t holding back.
Debunking political myths about car #parking in #copenhagen #kv25 #cities #cars
YouTube video by Coolville feat.:The Life-Sized City
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November 6, 2025 at 5:57 AM
73% of Copenhageners don’t own a car, and the city has made huge strides reclaiming public space for people that had been previously surrendered to cars. Now candidates in the upcoming city election want to prioritize “car storage” again. Not surprisingly, @colville-andersen.com isn’t holding back.
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BTW those protests were deliberately stoked by the publisher.
BUT the game also caused a very real diplomatic crisis in #Finland.
THAT is what #finlandization was in practice.
A thread, to help understand why most Finns are critical of oblivious foreigners pushing the same for, say, #Ukraine.
BUT the game also caused a very real diplomatic crisis in #Finland.
THAT is what #finlandization was in practice.
A thread, to help understand why most Finns are critical of oblivious foreigners pushing the same for, say, #Ukraine.
Raid Over Moscow (Access/U.S. Gold, 1984, C64/Spectrum)
#2 for one week in March 1985
Follow-up to Beach-Head. The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament protested against its insensitivity.
#2 for one week in March 1985
Follow-up to Beach-Head. The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament protested against its insensitivity.
November 3, 2025 at 10:43 AM
BTW those protests were deliberately stoked by the publisher.
BUT the game also caused a very real diplomatic crisis in #Finland.
THAT is what #finlandization was in practice.
A thread, to help understand why most Finns are critical of oblivious foreigners pushing the same for, say, #Ukraine.
BUT the game also caused a very real diplomatic crisis in #Finland.
THAT is what #finlandization was in practice.
A thread, to help understand why most Finns are critical of oblivious foreigners pushing the same for, say, #Ukraine.
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Sähkön hinta vaihtelee yhä edelleen tuulen mukaan, mutta menee enää harvoin negatiiviseksi. Kaukolämpöyhtiöillä on 2000 MW:n edestä lämpökattiloita, jotka menevät päälle hinnan lähestyessä nollaa. En tunne kaikkien ajojärjestystä, mutta luulen tämän olevan pois puun poltosta, siis säästävän metsiä.
November 2, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Sähkön hinta vaihtelee yhä edelleen tuulen mukaan, mutta menee enää harvoin negatiiviseksi. Kaukolämpöyhtiöillä on 2000 MW:n edestä lämpökattiloita, jotka menevät päälle hinnan lähestyessä nollaa. En tunne kaikkien ajojärjestystä, mutta luulen tämän olevan pois puun poltosta, siis säästävän metsiä.
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IMPORTANT: The Dutch invest €595 million annually on urban biking, resulting in €19 BILLION saved in public health care costs alone. That’s how smart governments do the math on investing in better mobility.
Let’s be clear— it wastes public money to NOT do it.
#CityMakingMath HT @modacitylife.com
Let’s be clear— it wastes public money to NOT do it.
#CityMakingMath HT @modacitylife.com
October 29, 2025 at 6:51 AM
IMPORTANT: The Dutch invest €595 million annually on urban biking, resulting in €19 BILLION saved in public health care costs alone. That’s how smart governments do the math on investing in better mobility.
Let’s be clear— it wastes public money to NOT do it.
#CityMakingMath HT @modacitylife.com
Let’s be clear— it wastes public money to NOT do it.
#CityMakingMath HT @modacitylife.com
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Here’s something really graphic for Halloween:
October 31, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Here’s something really graphic for Halloween:
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What it would look like if Finnish followed French orthography.
As someone who probably still goes as Mrs. Yanne in some French records, this somehow breaks my brain :D.
(BTW still bigly mad that literary Finnish wasn't codified based on Savo dialect. It would've been gloriously silly.)
As someone who probably still goes as Mrs. Yanne in some French records, this somehow breaks my brain :D.
(BTW still bigly mad that literary Finnish wasn't codified based on Savo dialect. It would've been gloriously silly.)
October 31, 2025 at 8:03 AM
What it would look like if Finnish followed French orthography.
As someone who probably still goes as Mrs. Yanne in some French records, this somehow breaks my brain :D.
(BTW still bigly mad that literary Finnish wasn't codified based on Savo dialect. It would've been gloriously silly.)
As someone who probably still goes as Mrs. Yanne in some French records, this somehow breaks my brain :D.
(BTW still bigly mad that literary Finnish wasn't codified based on Savo dialect. It would've been gloriously silly.)
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" #AfD is abusing its parliamentary powers to gather information about #Germany's transport infr, water supply, digital infr. and energy supply."
"With its requests, one gets the impression that the AfD is working through a list of tasks assigned by the Kremlin"
www.dw.com/en/is-german...
"With its requests, one gets the impression that the AfD is working through a list of tasks assigned by the Kremlin"
www.dw.com/en/is-german...
Is Germany's far-right populist AfD party spying for Russia? – DW – 10/26/2025
Lawmakers accuse the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party of using its parliamentary powers to gather intelligence on Germany's critical infrastructure to share it with Russia.
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October 29, 2025 at 9:30 AM
" #AfD is abusing its parliamentary powers to gather information about #Germany's transport infr, water supply, digital infr. and energy supply."
"With its requests, one gets the impression that the AfD is working through a list of tasks assigned by the Kremlin"
www.dw.com/en/is-german...
"With its requests, one gets the impression that the AfD is working through a list of tasks assigned by the Kremlin"
www.dw.com/en/is-german...
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Erinomainen idea.
”Biologin silmin paras ratkaisu olisi rajaseudun luontokäytävä, joka olisi suojeltujen ja ennallistettujen soiden ja metsien mosaiikki. Vanhat, tiheät metsät tarjoaisivat suojaa luontokappaleille ja drooneilta piiloutuville taistelijoille.”
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”Biologin silmin paras ratkaisu olisi rajaseudun luontokäytävä, joka olisi suojeltujen ja ennallistettujen soiden ja metsien mosaiikki. Vanhat, tiheät metsät tarjoaisivat suojaa luontokappaleille ja drooneilta piiloutuville taistelijoille.”
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”Ei kukaan hullu siitä hyökkää” – Biologi suunnitteli itärajalle upottavan panssariesteen
Biologi Risto Sulkava ehdottaa ennallistettavaksi 50 ojitettua suoaluetta itärajalta. Ne toimisivat panssariesteinä ja hiilinieluina.
suomenkuvalehti.fi
October 29, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Erinomainen idea.
”Biologin silmin paras ratkaisu olisi rajaseudun luontokäytävä, joka olisi suojeltujen ja ennallistettujen soiden ja metsien mosaiikki. Vanhat, tiheät metsät tarjoaisivat suojaa luontokappaleille ja drooneilta piiloutuville taistelijoille.”
suomenkuvalehti.fi/paajutut/ei-...
”Biologin silmin paras ratkaisu olisi rajaseudun luontokäytävä, joka olisi suojeltujen ja ennallistettujen soiden ja metsien mosaiikki. Vanhat, tiheät metsät tarjoaisivat suojaa luontokappaleille ja drooneilta piiloutuville taistelijoille.”
suomenkuvalehti.fi/paajutut/ei-...
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“Air pollution fell substantially as Paris restricted car traffic and made way for parks, people-streets and bike-lanes.”
Better for the climate, better for health, better for livability and quality of life.
Common sense.
Such a no-brainer, it’s remarkable that more cities HAVEN’T done the same.
Better for the climate, better for health, better for livability and quality of life.
Common sense.
Such a no-brainer, it’s remarkable that more cities HAVEN’T done the same.
Paris said au revoir to cars. Air pollution maps reveal a dramatic change.
Air pollution fell substantially as the city restricted car traffic and made way for parks and bike lanes.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 28, 2025 at 2:31 AM
“Air pollution fell substantially as Paris restricted car traffic and made way for parks, people-streets and bike-lanes.”
Better for the climate, better for health, better for livability and quality of life.
Common sense.
Such a no-brainer, it’s remarkable that more cities HAVEN’T done the same.
Better for the climate, better for health, better for livability and quality of life.
Common sense.
Such a no-brainer, it’s remarkable that more cities HAVEN’T done the same.
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1 year after his report, Draghi pushes for EU pragmatic federalism, as a response to EUs being slow to act, when the world has grown hostile in both trade, democracy & security, eg returned to global power competition.
🎯💯
This should be your reading today.
🫶🇪🇺⚔️
#EUsky #EUdef
🎯💯
This should be your reading today.
🫶🇪🇺⚔️
#EUsky #EUdef
The European Union is “struggling” to respond to the changing world order, former Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi said late Friday, promoting “pragmatic federalism” as a way to overcome the bloc’s difficulties.
Draghi pushes ‘pragmatic federalism’ to get Europe out of its predicament
The EU is now “faced with protectionism and unilateral action” and the “return of hard military power,” Draghi said, arguing that the EU is not equipped to address these cha…
www.politico.eu
October 25, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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1. It's fascinating to see, as you can from the responses to the post below, how many daft things people believe, to justify their continued meat eating. So let's examine a few of the common myths in the following thread. 🧵
For years, there's been a massive over-emphasis on food miles, and a massive under-emphasis on food type.
By far and away the best dietary decision you can make, for environmental, humanitarian and public health purposes, is to cut out animal products.
By far and away the best dietary decision you can make, for environmental, humanitarian and public health purposes, is to cut out animal products.
Remember this, whenever someone says "alternative proteins - yuck!"
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October 22, 2025 at 7:22 AM
1. It's fascinating to see, as you can from the responses to the post below, how many daft things people believe, to justify their continued meat eating. So let's examine a few of the common myths in the following thread. 🧵
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China has pushed Russia out of Central Asia.
In 2024, China’s trade with Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and Kyrgyzstan reached nearly $95 billion - almost twice Russia’s figure of $45 billion.
Just 25 years ago, the situation was the opposite: Moscow dominated the region.
In 2024, China’s trade with Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and Kyrgyzstan reached nearly $95 billion - almost twice Russia’s figure of $45 billion.
Just 25 years ago, the situation was the opposite: Moscow dominated the region.
October 21, 2025 at 2:32 PM
China has pushed Russia out of Central Asia.
In 2024, China’s trade with Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and Kyrgyzstan reached nearly $95 billion - almost twice Russia’s figure of $45 billion.
Just 25 years ago, the situation was the opposite: Moscow dominated the region.
In 2024, China’s trade with Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and Kyrgyzstan reached nearly $95 billion - almost twice Russia’s figure of $45 billion.
Just 25 years ago, the situation was the opposite: Moscow dominated the region.
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Meanwhile...
Solar Foods explain that their 1st commercial-scale facility is now growing "the same amount of protein per day as a 300-cow dairy farm would produce milk protein... while being entirely decoupled from the demands & environmental stresses of traditional agriculture."
shorturl.at/8i8Yk
Solar Foods explain that their 1st commercial-scale facility is now growing "the same amount of protein per day as a 300-cow dairy farm would produce milk protein... while being entirely decoupled from the demands & environmental stresses of traditional agriculture."
shorturl.at/8i8Yk
October 21, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Meanwhile...
Solar Foods explain that their 1st commercial-scale facility is now growing "the same amount of protein per day as a 300-cow dairy farm would produce milk protein... while being entirely decoupled from the demands & environmental stresses of traditional agriculture."
shorturl.at/8i8Yk
Solar Foods explain that their 1st commercial-scale facility is now growing "the same amount of protein per day as a 300-cow dairy farm would produce milk protein... while being entirely decoupled from the demands & environmental stresses of traditional agriculture."
shorturl.at/8i8Yk
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Time for 2025 updates to my annual “opinions about solar” thread. If you like these, you might like the second edition of my book, Solar Power Finance Without The Jargon. A 30% discount code WSQ0437 is valid on publisher website until end of November 2025.
www.worldscientific.com/worldscibook...
www.worldscientific.com/worldscibook...
Solar Power Finance Without the Jargon
www.worldscientific.com
October 20, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Time for 2025 updates to my annual “opinions about solar” thread. If you like these, you might like the second edition of my book, Solar Power Finance Without The Jargon. A 30% discount code WSQ0437 is valid on publisher website until end of November 2025.
www.worldscientific.com/worldscibook...
www.worldscientific.com/worldscibook...
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A story in three acts.
October 7, 2025 at 8:00 PM
A story in three acts.