Prof Ray Wills
@profraywills.futuresmart.com.au
Futurist
Disruption
Ag, biz, cities, climate, ecology, economy, energy, renewables, robots, tech, transport
World Top100 Sustainability
MD Future Smart Strategies™ Aus
Prof UWA
NB: I only follow accounts with name+pic+profile (+give me poke!)
Disruption
Ag, biz, cities, climate, ecology, economy, energy, renewables, robots, tech, transport
World Top100 Sustainability
MD Future Smart Strategies™ Aus
Prof UWA
NB: I only follow accounts with name+pic+profile (+give me poke!)
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It's New Year's Eve
Going to watch fireworks tonight be like queuing up to see a hand puppet performance at a robotics show
ICYMI Skyshow with 15,947 drones
Liuyang in central China's Hunan Province, 17Oct2025
Fireworks so last decade
youtu.be/i3_N_mnBE8g?...
Going to watch fireworks tonight be like queuing up to see a hand puppet performance at a robotics show
ICYMI Skyshow with 15,947 drones
Liuyang in central China's Hunan Province, 17Oct2025
Fireworks so last decade
youtu.be/i3_N_mnBE8g?...
December 31, 2025 at 3:36 AM
It's New Year's Eve
Going to watch fireworks tonight be like queuing up to see a hand puppet performance at a robotics show
ICYMI Skyshow with 15,947 drones
Liuyang in central China's Hunan Province, 17Oct2025
Fireworks so last decade
youtu.be/i3_N_mnBE8g?...
Going to watch fireworks tonight be like queuing up to see a hand puppet performance at a robotics show
ICYMI Skyshow with 15,947 drones
Liuyang in central China's Hunan Province, 17Oct2025
Fireworks so last decade
youtu.be/i3_N_mnBE8g?...
Reposted by Prof Ray Wills
From 1 July to 31 December Australians have installed 184,672 home batteries under the Albanese Government's Cheaper Home Battery policy. This has added 4.27 gigawatt hours of storage capacity.
December 31, 2025 at 2:31 AM
From 1 July to 31 December Australians have installed 184,672 home batteries under the Albanese Government's Cheaper Home Battery policy. This has added 4.27 gigawatt hours of storage capacity.
ICYMI
Iceland recorded its hottest ever Christmas Eve at 19.8 °C
Iceland is warming fast from global warming caused by greenhouse gases, especially from fossil fuels, driving climate change, and earlier this year mosquitoes were found there for the first time
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
Iceland recorded its hottest ever Christmas Eve at 19.8 °C
Iceland is warming fast from global warming caused by greenhouse gases, especially from fossil fuels, driving climate change, and earlier this year mosquitoes were found there for the first time
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
December 31, 2025 at 1:46 AM
ICYMI
Iceland recorded its hottest ever Christmas Eve at 19.8 °C
Iceland is warming fast from global warming caused by greenhouse gases, especially from fossil fuels, driving climate change, and earlier this year mosquitoes were found there for the first time
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
Iceland recorded its hottest ever Christmas Eve at 19.8 °C
Iceland is warming fast from global warming caused by greenhouse gases, especially from fossil fuels, driving climate change, and earlier this year mosquitoes were found there for the first time
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
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New Year’s wish; fix our many tax loopholes to make our system fairer!
Overwhelmingly tax system favours those with $ already - CGT, negative gearing, super, family trusts etc
- all at expense of wage earners.
We risk working poor, intergenerational inequity, shrinking tax base.
@albomp.bsky.social
Overwhelmingly tax system favours those with $ already - CGT, negative gearing, super, family trusts etc
- all at expense of wage earners.
We risk working poor, intergenerational inequity, shrinking tax base.
@albomp.bsky.social
December 30, 2025 at 4:28 AM
New Year’s wish; fix our many tax loopholes to make our system fairer!
Overwhelmingly tax system favours those with $ already - CGT, negative gearing, super, family trusts etc
- all at expense of wage earners.
We risk working poor, intergenerational inequity, shrinking tax base.
@albomp.bsky.social
Overwhelmingly tax system favours those with $ already - CGT, negative gearing, super, family trusts etc
- all at expense of wage earners.
We risk working poor, intergenerational inequity, shrinking tax base.
@albomp.bsky.social
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Average people who commit crimes don’t have a chance to comment on statements about their guilt before they’re issued by the police.
Why the hell do companies who do wrong things get given this option by ACMA?
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
Why the hell do companies who do wrong things get given this option by ACMA?
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
'Shocking at every level': Watchdog deleted quotes after Sportsbet pressure
Gambling giant Sportsbet pressured the Australian Communications and Media Authority into "watering down" enforcement announcement, the ABC can reveal.
www.abc.net.au
December 31, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Average people who commit crimes don’t have a chance to comment on statements about their guilt before they’re issued by the police.
Why the hell do companies who do wrong things get given this option by ACMA?
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
Why the hell do companies who do wrong things get given this option by ACMA?
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
Reposted by Prof Ray Wills
🆕 #Blog Solar-powered irrigation: A pathway to low-carbon farming in sub-Saharan Africa
🖋️ By @claudiaringler.bsky.social and Hua Xie.
🔗 Learn more here: https://on.cgiar.org/3LbBSeq
@cgiar.org
🖋️ By @claudiaringler.bsky.social and Hua Xie.
🔗 Learn more here: https://on.cgiar.org/3LbBSeq
@cgiar.org
Solar-powered irrigation: A pathway to low-carbon farming in sub-Saharan Africa
A cost-effective alternative to diesel pumps.
on.cgiar.org
December 22, 2025 at 9:50 PM
🆕 #Blog Solar-powered irrigation: A pathway to low-carbon farming in sub-Saharan Africa
🖋️ By @claudiaringler.bsky.social and Hua Xie.
🔗 Learn more here: https://on.cgiar.org/3LbBSeq
@cgiar.org
🖋️ By @claudiaringler.bsky.social and Hua Xie.
🔗 Learn more here: https://on.cgiar.org/3LbBSeq
@cgiar.org
It's not
- Africa can't afford to have #renewables and #EVs
It's
- Africa can't afford to NOT have renewables and EVs
bsky.app/profile/prof...
- Africa can't afford to have #renewables and #EVs
It's
- Africa can't afford to NOT have renewables and EVs
bsky.app/profile/prof...
Gift link for a fascinating & characteristically problematic NYTimes article:
What's problematic is the wholesale importation (pun intended) of the empty-headed zero-sum Trumpian view of trade. China sells & finances African solar, which is bad because...Africa won't build solar factories? C'mon
What's problematic is the wholesale importation (pun intended) of the empty-headed zero-sum Trumpian view of trade. China sells & finances African solar, which is bad because...Africa won't build solar factories? C'mon
Cheap Solar Is Transforming Lives and Economies Across Africa
www.nytimes.com
December 31, 2025 at 1:05 AM
It's not
- Africa can't afford to have #renewables and #EVs
It's
- Africa can't afford to NOT have renewables and EVs
bsky.app/profile/prof...
- Africa can't afford to have #renewables and #EVs
It's
- Africa can't afford to NOT have renewables and EVs
bsky.app/profile/prof...
Trump doesn't build things
He steals things and perverts their original purpose for his own aggrandisement
Else known as entrumpification
Trump will soon insist that he wrote Moby Dick, oft considered a pinnacle of American literature, a profound exploration of obsession and the human condition
He steals things and perverts their original purpose for his own aggrandisement
Else known as entrumpification
Trump will soon insist that he wrote Moby Dick, oft considered a pinnacle of American literature, a profound exploration of obsession and the human condition
December 31, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Trump doesn't build things
He steals things and perverts their original purpose for his own aggrandisement
Else known as entrumpification
Trump will soon insist that he wrote Moby Dick, oft considered a pinnacle of American literature, a profound exploration of obsession and the human condition
He steals things and perverts their original purpose for his own aggrandisement
Else known as entrumpification
Trump will soon insist that he wrote Moby Dick, oft considered a pinnacle of American literature, a profound exploration of obsession and the human condition
Reposted by Prof Ray Wills
BREAKING NEWS: Actual facts appear for the first time on "Truth" Social.
December 30, 2025 at 7:47 PM
BREAKING NEWS: Actual facts appear for the first time on "Truth" Social.
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In France, every available publicly-owned roof is being panelled, even bus stops & cycle sheds. Why? - 'cos panels are relatively cheap and France has a well-invested national grid and excellent sub-station networks. French electric bills went up by only 4% in 2022; cf the UK's sharp price hikes.
ICYMI
British golf courses cover ~125,600 hectares
If all existing and proposed UK solar farms were built, would cover 36,000ha
That would leave 72% UK courses taking the place of farming
(Or just keep them all, but only play 13 holes)
Of course >1/2 that solar could just be on rooftops
British golf courses cover ~125,600 hectares
If all existing and proposed UK solar farms were built, would cover 36,000ha
That would leave 72% UK courses taking the place of farming
(Or just keep them all, but only play 13 holes)
Of course >1/2 that solar could just be on rooftops
December 30, 2025 at 10:36 AM
In France, every available publicly-owned roof is being panelled, even bus stops & cycle sheds. Why? - 'cos panels are relatively cheap and France has a well-invested national grid and excellent sub-station networks. French electric bills went up by only 4% in 2022; cf the UK's sharp price hikes.
ICYMI
British golf courses cover ~125,600 hectares
If all existing and proposed UK solar farms were built, would cover 36,000ha
That would leave 72% UK courses taking the place of farming
(Or just keep them all, but only play 13 holes)
Of course >1/2 that solar could just be on rooftops
British golf courses cover ~125,600 hectares
If all existing and proposed UK solar farms were built, would cover 36,000ha
That would leave 72% UK courses taking the place of farming
(Or just keep them all, but only play 13 holes)
Of course >1/2 that solar could just be on rooftops
December 30, 2025 at 8:24 AM
ICYMI
British golf courses cover ~125,600 hectares
If all existing and proposed UK solar farms were built, would cover 36,000ha
That would leave 72% UK courses taking the place of farming
(Or just keep them all, but only play 13 holes)
Of course >1/2 that solar could just be on rooftops
British golf courses cover ~125,600 hectares
If all existing and proposed UK solar farms were built, would cover 36,000ha
That would leave 72% UK courses taking the place of farming
(Or just keep them all, but only play 13 holes)
Of course >1/2 that solar could just be on rooftops
Reposted by Prof Ray Wills
EV efficiency standards in China, assume this is based on CLTC duty cycle etc, most of the big brands already meet this but its good to see progress going forward and not backwards as in some countries
China rings in an efficient New Year that won't ruin your weekend
China national standard for battery EVs efficiency from 1Jan2026
World’s first mandatory BEV standard updates China’s previous framework
All new domestic production must comply from 1Jan
carnewschina.com/2025/12/26/c...
China national standard for battery EVs efficiency from 1Jan2026
World’s first mandatory BEV standard updates China’s previous framework
All new domestic production must comply from 1Jan
carnewschina.com/2025/12/26/c...
December 29, 2025 at 7:49 AM
EV efficiency standards in China, assume this is based on CLTC duty cycle etc, most of the big brands already meet this but its good to see progress going forward and not backwards as in some countries
Reposted by Prof Ray Wills
China rings in an efficient New Year that won't ruin your weekend
China national standard for battery EVs efficiency from 1Jan2026
World’s first mandatory BEV standard updates China’s previous framework
All new domestic production must comply from 1Jan
carnewschina.com/2025/12/26/c...
China national standard for battery EVs efficiency from 1Jan2026
World’s first mandatory BEV standard updates China’s previous framework
All new domestic production must comply from 1Jan
carnewschina.com/2025/12/26/c...
December 29, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Australian values ought be tied to a strong Europe
Expressed in our support for Ukraine
And in our relationships with our key trading partners
And strongly distanced from the loss of values to be found in a Gulf of Trump Trump MAGA administration
The US-es-arh pony club
bsky.app/profile/prof...
Expressed in our support for Ukraine
And in our relationships with our key trading partners
And strongly distanced from the loss of values to be found in a Gulf of Trump Trump MAGA administration
The US-es-arh pony club
bsky.app/profile/prof...
BREAKING: A Russian newspaper today — “America no longer sees our country as a threat… The US leader’s philosophy is closer to the values of Russia’s president, not the politicians of the Old World… he sees Europe as a liberal stronghold that must be destroyed…”
Read that again.
Read that again.
December 30, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Australian values ought be tied to a strong Europe
Expressed in our support for Ukraine
And in our relationships with our key trading partners
And strongly distanced from the loss of values to be found in a Gulf of Trump Trump MAGA administration
The US-es-arh pony club
bsky.app/profile/prof...
Expressed in our support for Ukraine
And in our relationships with our key trading partners
And strongly distanced from the loss of values to be found in a Gulf of Trump Trump MAGA administration
The US-es-arh pony club
bsky.app/profile/prof...
While the RoW is still captured by lobbyists for fossil fuel, China is unencumbered
Informed by science
Acting accordingly
Just doing
bsky.app/profile/prof...
Informed by science
Acting accordingly
Just doing
bsky.app/profile/prof...
China rings in an efficient New Year that won't ruin your weekend
China national standard for battery EVs efficiency from 1Jan2026
World’s first mandatory BEV standard updates China’s previous framework
All new domestic production must comply from 1Jan
carnewschina.com/2025/12/26/c...
China national standard for battery EVs efficiency from 1Jan2026
World’s first mandatory BEV standard updates China’s previous framework
All new domestic production must comply from 1Jan
carnewschina.com/2025/12/26/c...
December 29, 2025 at 9:22 AM
While the RoW is still captured by lobbyists for fossil fuel, China is unencumbered
Informed by science
Acting accordingly
Just doing
bsky.app/profile/prof...
Informed by science
Acting accordingly
Just doing
bsky.app/profile/prof...
#AustraliaFair
New "Best Available" law
Any product placed on the Australian market must meet
(a) Australia’s own minimum standards, and
(b) where higher, the relevant binding technical/ safety/ environmntl standards applicable to that product in its country of manufacture
bsky.app/profile/prof...
New "Best Available" law
Any product placed on the Australian market must meet
(a) Australia’s own minimum standards, and
(b) where higher, the relevant binding technical/ safety/ environmntl standards applicable to that product in its country of manufacture
bsky.app/profile/prof...
China further leadership in clean tech
Many changes to standards including safety, resource recycling, circular utilisation, explicitly including power batteries, PV, & wind hardware for clean tech full‑lifecycle management
New standard from China becomes standard for RoW?
bsky.app/profile/prof...
Many changes to standards including safety, resource recycling, circular utilisation, explicitly including power batteries, PV, & wind hardware for clean tech full‑lifecycle management
New standard from China becomes standard for RoW?
bsky.app/profile/prof...
December 29, 2025 at 7:51 AM
#AustraliaFair
New "Best Available" law
Any product placed on the Australian market must meet
(a) Australia’s own minimum standards, and
(b) where higher, the relevant binding technical/ safety/ environmntl standards applicable to that product in its country of manufacture
bsky.app/profile/prof...
New "Best Available" law
Any product placed on the Australian market must meet
(a) Australia’s own minimum standards, and
(b) where higher, the relevant binding technical/ safety/ environmntl standards applicable to that product in its country of manufacture
bsky.app/profile/prof...
China rings in an efficient New Year that won't ruin your weekend
China national standard for battery EVs efficiency from 1Jan2026
World’s first mandatory BEV standard updates China’s previous framework
All new domestic production must comply from 1Jan
carnewschina.com/2025/12/26/c...
China national standard for battery EVs efficiency from 1Jan2026
World’s first mandatory BEV standard updates China’s previous framework
All new domestic production must comply from 1Jan
carnewschina.com/2025/12/26/c...
December 29, 2025 at 5:57 AM
China rings in an efficient New Year that won't ruin your weekend
China national standard for battery EVs efficiency from 1Jan2026
World’s first mandatory BEV standard updates China’s previous framework
All new domestic production must comply from 1Jan
carnewschina.com/2025/12/26/c...
China national standard for battery EVs efficiency from 1Jan2026
World’s first mandatory BEV standard updates China’s previous framework
All new domestic production must comply from 1Jan
carnewschina.com/2025/12/26/c...
Reposted by Prof Ray Wills
🔋China has finalized hundreds of new and revised national standards, including EV battery safety rules.
The updated standard, GB 38031-2025, takes effect July 1, 2026, and requires EV batteries to not catch fire or explode under standard test conditions.
#battchat #batteries #energysky #greensky
The updated standard, GB 38031-2025, takes effect July 1, 2026, and requires EV batteries to not catch fire or explode under standard test conditions.
#battchat #batteries #energysky #greensky
December 27, 2025 at 7:40 PM
🔋China has finalized hundreds of new and revised national standards, including EV battery safety rules.
The updated standard, GB 38031-2025, takes effect July 1, 2026, and requires EV batteries to not catch fire or explode under standard test conditions.
#battchat #batteries #energysky #greensky
The updated standard, GB 38031-2025, takes effect July 1, 2026, and requires EV batteries to not catch fire or explode under standard test conditions.
#battchat #batteries #energysky #greensky
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NZ solar power generation up 31% in 2023, 52% in 2024, 61% in 2025. Long may it continue. Still only 1.9% of total power generation to there is plenty of remaining scope.
The 4th quarter of 2025 is likely to come in at the lowest emissions and highest renewable proportion on record.
The 4th quarter of 2025 is likely to come in at the lowest emissions and highest renewable proportion on record.
December 27, 2025 at 10:33 PM
NZ solar power generation up 31% in 2023, 52% in 2024, 61% in 2025. Long may it continue. Still only 1.9% of total power generation to there is plenty of remaining scope.
The 4th quarter of 2025 is likely to come in at the lowest emissions and highest renewable proportion on record.
The 4th quarter of 2025 is likely to come in at the lowest emissions and highest renewable proportion on record.
Economists from the west avidly underestimate China
China has almost doubled its renewable energy share of electricity generation to 38% in < 10 years
China fossil fuel share continues to fall and in Nov 2025 is now <57.4%?
Not "2/3"
Faster, not slower
RoW, too
bsky.app/profile/prof...
China has almost doubled its renewable energy share of electricity generation to 38% in < 10 years
China fossil fuel share continues to fall and in Nov 2025 is now <57.4%?
Not "2/3"
Faster, not slower
RoW, too
bsky.app/profile/prof...
December 27, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Economists from the west avidly underestimate China
China has almost doubled its renewable energy share of electricity generation to 38% in < 10 years
China fossil fuel share continues to fall and in Nov 2025 is now <57.4%?
Not "2/3"
Faster, not slower
RoW, too
bsky.app/profile/prof...
China has almost doubled its renewable energy share of electricity generation to 38% in < 10 years
China fossil fuel share continues to fall and in Nov 2025 is now <57.4%?
Not "2/3"
Faster, not slower
RoW, too
bsky.app/profile/prof...
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The team behind Climate.us aims to provide the same kind of reliable, fresh content that used to be available via Climate.gov. We hope you’ll support us. #ClimateForUs
December 17, 2025 at 1:10 PM
The team behind Climate.us aims to provide the same kind of reliable, fresh content that used to be available via Climate.gov. We hope you’ll support us. #ClimateForUs
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Ray is definitely on the money as the bikini rating being the main way MSM acknowledges climate change in Western Australia.
Which gives a lot of insight to the level of brains involved, imnho.
Which gives a lot of insight to the level of brains involved, imnho.
So the news editors clearly pay homage to the bikini gods
With that clear addiction, and a dedicated conviction of don't look up, don't mention the war, and most certainly never mention climate change
Editors signing off on the hottest Christmas ever
That's officially a 5 bikini Christmas
With that clear addiction, and a dedicated conviction of don't look up, don't mention the war, and most certainly never mention climate change
Editors signing off on the hottest Christmas ever
That's officially a 5 bikini Christmas
December 26, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Ray is definitely on the money as the bikini rating being the main way MSM acknowledges climate change in Western Australia.
Which gives a lot of insight to the level of brains involved, imnho.
Which gives a lot of insight to the level of brains involved, imnho.
So the news editors clearly pay homage to the bikini gods
With that clear addiction, and a dedicated conviction of don't look up, don't mention the war, and most certainly never mention climate change
Editors signing off on the hottest Christmas ever
That's officially a 5 bikini Christmas
With that clear addiction, and a dedicated conviction of don't look up, don't mention the war, and most certainly never mention climate change
Editors signing off on the hottest Christmas ever
That's officially a 5 bikini Christmas
December 26, 2025 at 9:13 AM
So the news editors clearly pay homage to the bikini gods
With that clear addiction, and a dedicated conviction of don't look up, don't mention the war, and most certainly never mention climate change
Editors signing off on the hottest Christmas ever
That's officially a 5 bikini Christmas
With that clear addiction, and a dedicated conviction of don't look up, don't mention the war, and most certainly never mention climate change
Editors signing off on the hottest Christmas ever
That's officially a 5 bikini Christmas
So Perth had its hottest Christmas morning in its 110-year data record
Red dots hotter, blue dots cooler than normal
Notice the trend line - for red dots, and for blue
This summer among the hottest of our lives so far
And among the coolest of the rest of our lives
Any hoo, Merry Christmas
Red dots hotter, blue dots cooler than normal
Notice the trend line - for red dots, and for blue
This summer among the hottest of our lives so far
And among the coolest of the rest of our lives
Any hoo, Merry Christmas
December 25, 2025 at 9:32 AM
So Perth had its hottest Christmas morning in its 110-year data record
Red dots hotter, blue dots cooler than normal
Notice the trend line - for red dots, and for blue
This summer among the hottest of our lives so far
And among the coolest of the rest of our lives
Any hoo, Merry Christmas
Red dots hotter, blue dots cooler than normal
Notice the trend line - for red dots, and for blue
This summer among the hottest of our lives so far
And among the coolest of the rest of our lives
Any hoo, Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas, & Season's Greetings all!
“Maybe Christmas,” he thought,
“doesn't come from a store.
Maybe Christmas …
perhaps …
means a little bit more!”
#DrZeuss
May your Christmas be un-stolen, too
And bring a more sustainable you.
#ProfRay #FutureSmart
Merry Grinchmas
“Maybe Christmas,” he thought,
“doesn't come from a store.
Maybe Christmas …
perhaps …
means a little bit more!”
#DrZeuss
May your Christmas be un-stolen, too
And bring a more sustainable you.
#ProfRay #FutureSmart
Merry Grinchmas
December 25, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Merry Christmas, & Season's Greetings all!
“Maybe Christmas,” he thought,
“doesn't come from a store.
Maybe Christmas …
perhaps …
means a little bit more!”
#DrZeuss
May your Christmas be un-stolen, too
And bring a more sustainable you.
#ProfRay #FutureSmart
Merry Grinchmas
“Maybe Christmas,” he thought,
“doesn't come from a store.
Maybe Christmas …
perhaps …
means a little bit more!”
#DrZeuss
May your Christmas be un-stolen, too
And bring a more sustainable you.
#ProfRay #FutureSmart
Merry Grinchmas