Xavier Evans
@xavierevans.bsky.social
Sustainability @ Elaia. MPP @ Sciences Po Paris. Researcher, Analyst, Consultant. Focused on climate, decarbonisation, climate tech & VC, critical raw materials, green metals.
Excellent exposé into an industry we all hoped would work, and therefore got a bit carried away with how poorly it was working 👇
#scam I paid @Climeworks £1,650 to remove 2 tons of CO2 from the atmosphere. Was I a gullible idiot? Yes.
Icelandic newspaper @heimildinhas shown that they not only haven’t captured my 2 tons, they don’t even capture their own emissions heimildin.is/FGY3 via @heimildin
Icelandic newspaper @heimildinhas shown that they not only haven’t captured my 2 tons, they don’t even capture their own emissions heimildin.is/FGY3 via @heimildin
Climeworks’ capture fails to cover its own emissions
The carbon capture company Climeworks only captures a fraction of the CO2 it promises its machines can capture. The company is failing to carbon offset the emissions resulting from its operations – wh...
heimildin.is
May 15, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Excellent exposé into an industry we all hoped would work, and therefore got a bit carried away with how poorly it was working 👇
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🚨Announcement: THE CLIMATE LAUNDRY is BACK - now on @ghost.org. I delve into Quinn Slobodian's new book, Hayek's Bastards: "The neoliberals realised that, to succeed, they would have to make an enemy of empathy itself."
Your Planet, Our Choice
Elon Musk's claim that “the fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy” has caused shock and revulsion. But a new book, Hayek's Bastards, suggests that this central pillar of the Trump re...
the-climate-laundry.ghost.io
March 7, 2025 at 11:50 AM
🚨Announcement: THE CLIMATE LAUNDRY is BACK - now on @ghost.org. I delve into Quinn Slobodian's new book, Hayek's Bastards: "The neoliberals realised that, to succeed, they would have to make an enemy of empathy itself."
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Once again, the rise of the AfD and its relatively greater popularity in the East has led to yet another round of discussion around the legacy of the GDR and contemporary German politics. A short thread:
February 25, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Once again, the rise of the AfD and its relatively greater popularity in the East has led to yet another round of discussion around the legacy of the GDR and contemporary German politics. A short thread:
If you don't laugh, you cry
February 20, 2025 at 10:55 AM
If you don't laugh, you cry
The combination of the masthead, name, headline, and (best of all) the headshot of the guy?? It's all so classically ridculous that I'm genuinely surprised it isn't satire
Gottliebsen writes exclusively for rich boomers who deny climate change. (ie The Oz's key audience)
February 14, 2025 at 12:41 PM
The combination of the masthead, name, headline, and (best of all) the headshot of the guy?? It's all so classically ridculous that I'm genuinely surprised it isn't satire
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I’m going to take a break from the chaos and share the most interesting slides from @nathanielbullard.com new deck
Really quite cathartic right now
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www.nathanielbullard.com
Really quite cathartic right now
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www.nathanielbullard.com
Nat Bullard
www.nathanielbullard.com
February 4, 2025 at 8:14 PM
I’m going to take a break from the chaos and share the most interesting slides from @nathanielbullard.com new deck
Really quite cathartic right now
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www.nathanielbullard.com
Really quite cathartic right now
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www.nathanielbullard.com
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The AI bubble was inflated based on the idea that we need bigger models that both are trained and run on bigger and even larger GPUs. A company came along that has undermined the narrative - ways both substantive and questionable - and now the market panicked that $200bn got wasted on AI capex
Can someone explain it to me like I'm stupid?
January 27, 2025 at 12:18 PM
The AI bubble was inflated based on the idea that we need bigger models that both are trained and run on bigger and even larger GPUs. A company came along that has undermined the narrative - ways both substantive and questionable - and now the market panicked that $200bn got wasted on AI capex
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What will the future of the warming stripes be?
2024 could be the start of a stabilisation of global temperatures, or it might appear to be a cool year.
Which one of these stories becomes reality depends on our choices today, and every day until then.
We are likely to regret not acting sooner.
2024 could be the start of a stabilisation of global temperatures, or it might appear to be a cool year.
Which one of these stories becomes reality depends on our choices today, and every day until then.
We are likely to regret not acting sooner.
January 10, 2025 at 11:13 AM
What will the future of the warming stripes be?
2024 could be the start of a stabilisation of global temperatures, or it might appear to be a cool year.
Which one of these stories becomes reality depends on our choices today, and every day until then.
We are likely to regret not acting sooner.
2024 could be the start of a stabilisation of global temperatures, or it might appear to be a cool year.
Which one of these stories becomes reality depends on our choices today, and every day until then.
We are likely to regret not acting sooner.
This is really cool, saved for later reference!
Given it's my first day on BlueSky, I wanted to share my "Electricity Storage Cheat Sheet": docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
I'm starting to think about my next update so please let me know whether I'm missing any...
(a) technologies, or
(b) exciting companies
I'm starting to think about my next update so please let me know whether I'm missing any...
(a) technologies, or
(b) exciting companies
Electricity storage cheat sheet (UPDATED for 2024)
docs.google.com
November 21, 2024 at 11:03 AM
This is really cool, saved for later reference!
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Time for the @bsky.app community to see one of my favorite visualizations of climate change...
"Shifting Distribution of Land Temperature Anomalies" by svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5211/ ⚒️🧪
"Shifting Distribution of Land Temperature Anomalies" by svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5211/ ⚒️🧪
November 14, 2024 at 12:59 AM
Time for the @bsky.app community to see one of my favorite visualizations of climate change...
"Shifting Distribution of Land Temperature Anomalies" by svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5211/ ⚒️🧪
"Shifting Distribution of Land Temperature Anomalies" by svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5211/ ⚒️🧪
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In the summer of 2021, villagers of northern Mozambique’s remote and troubled Afungi peninsula sought refuge with government soldiers operating out of a nearby TotalEnergies’ gas plant.
Instead, they found brutality.
Read our full investigation: www.politico.eu/article/tota...
Instead, they found brutality.
Read our full investigation: www.politico.eu/article/tota...
September 26, 2024 at 7:35 AM
In the summer of 2021, villagers of northern Mozambique’s remote and troubled Afungi peninsula sought refuge with government soldiers operating out of a nearby TotalEnergies’ gas plant.
Instead, they found brutality.
Read our full investigation: www.politico.eu/article/tota...
Instead, they found brutality.
Read our full investigation: www.politico.eu/article/tota...
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This is a good little example of three different techniques in terms of writing industrial emissions propaganda.
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September 16, 2024 at 10:39 AM
This is a good little example of three different techniques in terms of writing industrial emissions propaganda.
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"Why are electricity prices so high if renewables break generation records and are so cheap?" I have been asked.
The main reason: Gas still sets the price 63% of the time in wholesale electricity markets in EU27 & >90% in some countries.
The graphic is from the Draghi Report.
The main reason: Gas still sets the price 63% of the time in wholesale electricity markets in EU27 & >90% in some countries.
The graphic is from the Draghi Report.
September 12, 2024 at 7:08 AM
"Why are electricity prices so high if renewables break generation records and are so cheap?" I have been asked.
The main reason: Gas still sets the price 63% of the time in wholesale electricity markets in EU27 & >90% in some countries.
The graphic is from the Draghi Report.
The main reason: Gas still sets the price 63% of the time in wholesale electricity markets in EU27 & >90% in some countries.
The graphic is from the Draghi Report.
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Electrification: Europe’s forgotten industry decarbonisation option
Electrification: Europe’s forgotten industry decarbonisation option
After having spent years on hydrogen, policymakers should now focus on the direct electrification that could deliver 90% of process heat by 2035, argues a new study by think-tank Agora Industry.
dlvr.it
June 5, 2024 at 12:41 PM
Electrification: Europe’s forgotten industry decarbonisation option
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Rich countries sent climate funding to the developing world with interest rates or strings attached that benefited the lending nations.
What makes us think CO₂ removal (CDR) will be any different? Why would rich countries spend trillions of dollars to benefit the developing world?
What makes us think CO₂ removal (CDR) will be any different? Why would rich countries spend trillions of dollars to benefit the developing world?
Rich nations are earning billions from a pledge to help fix climate
Wealthy countries sent climate funding to the developing world in recent years with interest rates or strings attached that benefited the donor nations, a Reuters data analysis found.
www.reuters.com
May 22, 2024 at 12:20 PM
Rich countries sent climate funding to the developing world with interest rates or strings attached that benefited the lending nations.
What makes us think CO₂ removal (CDR) will be any different? Why would rich countries spend trillions of dollars to benefit the developing world?
What makes us think CO₂ removal (CDR) will be any different? Why would rich countries spend trillions of dollars to benefit the developing world?
Transfers of capital and wealth from the Global North to the Global South are crucial for climate change mitigation and resilience. But rich countries are just using climate finance as a form of green protectionism and neocolonialism 👇 #EnergySky #GreenSky
Rich nations are earning billions from a pledge to help fix climate
Wealthy countries sent climate funding to the developing world in recent years with interest rates or strings attached that benefited the donor nations, a Reuters data analysis found.
www.reuters.com
May 22, 2024 at 12:52 PM
Transfers of capital and wealth from the Global North to the Global South are crucial for climate change mitigation and resilience. But rich countries are just using climate finance as a form of green protectionism and neocolonialism 👇 #EnergySky #GreenSky
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Vermont passes a first-in-nation "Climate Superfund" law mandating that big oil companies and others with high emissions pay for damage caused in the state by global warming. This would be a massive shift in climate liability.
www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...
www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...
May 8, 2024 at 1:00 AM
Vermont passes a first-in-nation "Climate Superfund" law mandating that big oil companies and others with high emissions pay for damage caused in the state by global warming. This would be a massive shift in climate liability.
www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...
www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...
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A carbon capture project at a steel mill? $150 million dollars.
What will that achieve? "The project will capture less than 1 percent of the roughly 10 million metric tons per year of carbon dioxide that Gary Works emits."
$150 million for 1% capture.
Why?
What will that achieve? "The project will capture less than 1 percent of the roughly 10 million metric tons per year of carbon dioxide that Gary Works emits."
$150 million for 1% capture.
Why?
US Steel plant in Indiana to host a $150M carbon capture experiment
CarbonFree’s SkyCycle technology will capture CO2 and extract calcium from steel slag to make high-value chemicals. The goal: making carbon capture profitable.
www.canarymedia.com
April 3, 2024 at 12:23 PM
A carbon capture project at a steel mill? $150 million dollars.
What will that achieve? "The project will capture less than 1 percent of the roughly 10 million metric tons per year of carbon dioxide that Gary Works emits."
$150 million for 1% capture.
Why?
What will that achieve? "The project will capture less than 1 percent of the roughly 10 million metric tons per year of carbon dioxide that Gary Works emits."
$150 million for 1% capture.
Why?
Has anyone done any work around the concept of the EU borrowing against future ETS revenue to accelerate climate investment this decade? Would love to read up on the concept - EnergySky, GreenSky
March 19, 2024 at 12:31 PM
Has anyone done any work around the concept of the EU borrowing against future ETS revenue to accelerate climate investment this decade? Would love to read up on the concept - EnergySky, GreenSky
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"But what about all the energy and carbon emissions to produce wind turbines and solar panels?"
They pay off the energy and carbon debt within a few months.
After that their existence prevents the continuous burning of fossil fuels for decades.
Data from Ember
They pay off the energy and carbon debt within a few months.
After that their existence prevents the continuous burning of fossil fuels for decades.
Data from Ember
February 13, 2024 at 9:23 AM
"But what about all the energy and carbon emissions to produce wind turbines and solar panels?"
They pay off the energy and carbon debt within a few months.
After that their existence prevents the continuous burning of fossil fuels for decades.
Data from Ember
They pay off the energy and carbon debt within a few months.
After that their existence prevents the continuous burning of fossil fuels for decades.
Data from Ember
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We need CO₂ removal (CDR) to reach net zero, but it's incorrect to say we must ramp up both decarbonization and CDR today.
Minimizing CDR deployment will decrease fossil fuel use, greenhouse gas emissions, and air pollution.
Find out more from @jeffreyampah.bsky.social and colleagues.
Minimizing CDR deployment will decrease fossil fuel use, greenhouse gas emissions, and air pollution.
Find out more from @jeffreyampah.bsky.social and colleagues.
pubs.acs.org
January 30, 2024 at 12:39 AM
We need CO₂ removal (CDR) to reach net zero, but it's incorrect to say we must ramp up both decarbonization and CDR today.
Minimizing CDR deployment will decrease fossil fuel use, greenhouse gas emissions, and air pollution.
Find out more from @jeffreyampah.bsky.social and colleagues.
Minimizing CDR deployment will decrease fossil fuel use, greenhouse gas emissions, and air pollution.
Find out more from @jeffreyampah.bsky.social and colleagues.
Good thread on the problems of green hydrogen as a continuation of energy neocolonialism. There is still the opportunity to develop decarbonised industries in the Global South, but only by developing exportable final goods, not raw commodities. New approach to capital allocation probably also needed
We need to talk about "green hydrogen". Why are the European ruling classes so interested in it? And what's wrong with it? 🧵
January 22, 2024 at 2:04 PM
Good thread on the problems of green hydrogen as a continuation of energy neocolonialism. There is still the opportunity to develop decarbonised industries in the Global South, but only by developing exportable final goods, not raw commodities. New approach to capital allocation probably also needed
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🚨 New investigation & 🧵
Oxy built the world's largest carbon-capture plant by capacity in 2010. It never operated at more than a third of its capacity. In 2022, Oxy quietly sold it for a fraction of the price.
Story with Natasha White & Kevin Crowley. Free to read:
Oxy built the world's largest carbon-capture plant by capacity in 2010. It never operated at more than a third of its capacity. In 2022, Oxy quietly sold it for a fraction of the price.
Story with Natasha White & Kevin Crowley. Free to read:
An Oil Giant Quietly Ditched the World’s Biggest Carbon Capture Plant
Occidental Petroleum is leading the global charge to vastly expand the use of technologies that suck up carbon dioxide. The failure of company’s biggest-ever bet shows the challenges ahead.
www.bloomberg.com
October 23, 2023 at 12:23 PM
🚨 New investigation & 🧵
Oxy built the world's largest carbon-capture plant by capacity in 2010. It never operated at more than a third of its capacity. In 2022, Oxy quietly sold it for a fraction of the price.
Story with Natasha White & Kevin Crowley. Free to read:
Oxy built the world's largest carbon-capture plant by capacity in 2010. It never operated at more than a third of its capacity. In 2022, Oxy quietly sold it for a fraction of the price.
Story with Natasha White & Kevin Crowley. Free to read: