@andyfrewx.bsky.social
Water based city scale thermal storage systems can help. In the case of Southeast Asia, chilled water for cooling, stored above or underground.
Every power outage is becoming increasingly costly for ASEAN economies.
By 2040, Southeast Asia can lose up to $2.3 billion without timely grid upgrades
Modernising #ASEAN's power system with smart grids turns risk into advantage.
https://loom.ly/TWO8mpQ
By 2040, Southeast Asia can lose up to $2.3 billion without timely grid upgrades
Modernising #ASEAN's power system with smart grids turns risk into advantage.
https://loom.ly/TWO8mpQ
December 1, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Water based city scale thermal storage systems can help. In the case of Southeast Asia, chilled water for cooling, stored above or underground.
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If Russia wanted peace, they would stop killing Ukrainians.
If the US wanted peace, they would stop Russia.
If the US wanted peace, they would stop Russia.
November 30, 2025 at 6:33 PM
If Russia wanted peace, they would stop killing Ukrainians.
If the US wanted peace, they would stop Russia.
If the US wanted peace, they would stop Russia.
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The Western world’s geosecurity system, founded on NATO, Five Eyes and other institutions proven effective over decades, is likely now doomed under Trump. The conduct of an amoral and mercantilist US foreign/security policy by his unelected cronies Witkoff and Kushner is incompatible with democracy.
November 30, 2025 at 9:56 PM
The Western world’s geosecurity system, founded on NATO, Five Eyes and other institutions proven effective over decades, is likely now doomed under Trump. The conduct of an amoral and mercantilist US foreign/security policy by his unelected cronies Witkoff and Kushner is incompatible with democracy.
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I thought this was fairly well established, but: here's another new study showing that wind and solar complement each other and make for a more stable grid when combined.
Intermittent solar and wind complement each other for a more stable grid
A study finds combining wind and solar leverages their alternating peak periods, significantly boosting total generation capacity while providing a constant, predictable power curve critical for grid ...
pv-magazine-usa.com
November 24, 2025 at 9:53 PM
I thought this was fairly well established, but: here's another new study showing that wind and solar complement each other and make for a more stable grid when combined.
The Russian peace plan promotes nuclear war.
We have a US administration trying to bully Ukrainians into accepting Russia’s proposal that their sovereignty be undone. Aside from the naked injustice of this, there are five basic practical reasons why it would make the world far more dangerous.
(video)
snyder.substack.com/p/the-putin-...
(video)
snyder.substack.com/p/the-putin-...
The Putin-Witkoff Plan Worsens the War
Five Reasons the US should not help Russia subjugate Ukraine
snyder.substack.com
November 24, 2025 at 7:20 AM
The Russian peace plan promotes nuclear war.
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Spain’s rapid wind and solar growth has CUT the link between gas and electricity prices 🌪️☀️
🇪🇸’s decoupling of gas and electricity prices happened faster than in other European countries, making it one of the cheapest power markets in Europe.
https://loom.ly/8DEmqVc
🇪🇸’s decoupling of gas and electricity prices happened faster than in other European countries, making it one of the cheapest power markets in Europe.
https://loom.ly/8DEmqVc
October 3, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Spain’s rapid wind and solar growth has CUT the link between gas and electricity prices 🌪️☀️
🇪🇸’s decoupling of gas and electricity prices happened faster than in other European countries, making it one of the cheapest power markets in Europe.
https://loom.ly/8DEmqVc
🇪🇸’s decoupling of gas and electricity prices happened faster than in other European countries, making it one of the cheapest power markets in Europe.
https://loom.ly/8DEmqVc
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Tomorrow is #WorldNewsDay.
World News Day is a global initiative to draw public attention to the role that journalists play in providing trustworthy information that serves citizens and democracy.
World News Day takes place annually on September 28.
🌐 worldnewsday.org
World News Day is a global initiative to draw public attention to the role that journalists play in providing trustworthy information that serves citizens and democracy.
World News Day takes place annually on September 28.
🌐 worldnewsday.org
September 27, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Tomorrow is #WorldNewsDay.
World News Day is a global initiative to draw public attention to the role that journalists play in providing trustworthy information that serves citizens and democracy.
World News Day takes place annually on September 28.
🌐 worldnewsday.org
World News Day is a global initiative to draw public attention to the role that journalists play in providing trustworthy information that serves citizens and democracy.
World News Day takes place annually on September 28.
🌐 worldnewsday.org
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“The Next Terrorist Attack,” which I published in April. Please have a look.
snyder.substack.com/p/the-next-t...
snyder.substack.com/p/the-next-t...
The Next Terrorist Attack
And What Comes After
snyder.substack.com
September 12, 2025 at 7:59 PM
“The Next Terrorist Attack,” which I published in April. Please have a look.
snyder.substack.com/p/the-next-t...
snyder.substack.com/p/the-next-t...
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China isn't only the world's clean energy factory - it's also the world's clean energy science lab.
In 2024, clean energy industries contributed $1.9 trillion to China’s economy, becoming the key pillars of its economic growth.
https://loom.ly/psjqvhE
In 2024, clean energy industries contributed $1.9 trillion to China’s economy, becoming the key pillars of its economic growth.
https://loom.ly/psjqvhE
September 11, 2025 at 4:00 AM
China isn't only the world's clean energy factory - it's also the world's clean energy science lab.
In 2024, clean energy industries contributed $1.9 trillion to China’s economy, becoming the key pillars of its economic growth.
https://loom.ly/psjqvhE
In 2024, clean energy industries contributed $1.9 trillion to China’s economy, becoming the key pillars of its economic growth.
https://loom.ly/psjqvhE
By preventing earlier actions by government to prevent climate change, systematic lying and disinformation spreading by bigger fossil fuel companies has compounded the damage caused and made large damages awards more likely.
For the first time, scientists have quantified the causal links between worsening heat waves and global warming pollution from individual fossil fuel and cement companies, pushing the boundaries of extreme weather event research in multiple surprising ways.
Scientists trace heat waves back to individual fossil fuel companies, with potentially sweeping courtroom implications | CNN
For the first time, scientists have quantified the causal links between worsening heat waves and global warming pollution from individual fossil fuel and cement companies, pushing the boundaries of ex...
www.cnn.com
September 10, 2025 at 10:35 PM
By preventing earlier actions by government to prevent climate change, systematic lying and disinformation spreading by bigger fossil fuel companies has compounded the damage caused and made large damages awards more likely.
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Of course
www.wsj.com/business/ene...
www.wsj.com/business/ene...
Exclusive | Exxon Held Secret Talks With Rosneft About Going Back to Russia
Resuming business in Russia would mark a dramatic rapprochement after Exxon’s messy breakup with Moscow when Putin attacked Ukraine in 2022
www.wsj.com
August 27, 2025 at 5:36 AM
Of course
www.wsj.com/business/ene...
www.wsj.com/business/ene...
Fossil fuelled dictatorship: bylinetimes.com/2025/08/18/t...
The Real Story of the Trump-Putin Summit Is a US Oil Deal Hiding in Plain Sight
While no progress was made towards a Russia-Ukraine ceasefire, the Kremlin opened the door to a deal that could pour billions into its own war coffers
bylinetimes.com
August 27, 2025 at 6:10 AM
Fossil fuelled dictatorship: bylinetimes.com/2025/08/18/t...
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Piece from me on how Putin dominates Trump’s White House and the wider Western far right by enveloping them in an environment saturated with Russian money, Russian propaganda, and Russian spies
open.substack.com/pub/nickcohe...
open.substack.com/pub/nickcohe...
Trump and the far right wallow in a “Putinogenic environment”
Russian spies and lies saturate their world
open.substack.com
August 26, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Piece from me on how Putin dominates Trump’s White House and the wider Western far right by enveloping them in an environment saturated with Russian money, Russian propaganda, and Russian spies
open.substack.com/pub/nickcohe...
open.substack.com/pub/nickcohe...
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HOT TYPE: How Acts of Terror Help Information Warfare Triumph
In my weekly column for @bylinetimes.bsky.social I report on the ingrained links between terrorism and Russian disinformation
www.bylinesupplement.com/p/how-acts-o...
In my weekly column for @bylinetimes.bsky.social I report on the ingrained links between terrorism and Russian disinformation
www.bylinesupplement.com/p/how-acts-o...
How Acts of Terror Help Information Warfare Triumph
Heidi Siegmund Cuda reports on the ingrained links between terrorism and Russian disinformation
www.bylinesupplement.com
August 25, 2025 at 9:06 AM
HOT TYPE: How Acts of Terror Help Information Warfare Triumph
In my weekly column for @bylinetimes.bsky.social I report on the ingrained links between terrorism and Russian disinformation
www.bylinesupplement.com/p/how-acts-o...
In my weekly column for @bylinetimes.bsky.social I report on the ingrained links between terrorism and Russian disinformation
www.bylinesupplement.com/p/how-acts-o...
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Residents of California, Texas, New York, Pennsylvania and New Jersey are hit the hardest.
Study Links Oil And Gas Pollution With 90,000 Premature Deaths, 10,000 Preterm Births Annually
Residents of California, Texas, New York, Pennsylvania and New Jersey are hit the hardest.
www.forbes.com
August 22, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Residents of California, Texas, New York, Pennsylvania and New Jersey are hit the hardest.
Fossil fuel oligarchs must destroy democracies before we close down the oil gas and coal industries, and will murder civilians to keep the money flowing while a hotter climate destroys crops and people.
🔴The Real Story of the Trump-Putin Summit Is a US Oil Deal Hiding in Plain Sight
While no progress was made on a Russia-Ukraine ceasefire, the Kremlin opened the door to a deal that could pour billions into its own war coffers, reports @zarinazabrisky.bsky.social
bylinetimes.com/2025/08/18/t...
While no progress was made on a Russia-Ukraine ceasefire, the Kremlin opened the door to a deal that could pour billions into its own war coffers, reports @zarinazabrisky.bsky.social
bylinetimes.com/2025/08/18/t...
The Real Story of the Trump-Putin Summit Is a US Oil Deal Hiding in Plain Sight
While no progress was made towards a Russia-Ukraine ceasefire, the Kremlin opened the door to a deal that could pour billions into its own war coffers
bylinetimes.com
August 19, 2025 at 5:41 AM
Fossil fuel oligarchs must destroy democracies before we close down the oil gas and coal industries, and will murder civilians to keep the money flowing while a hotter climate destroys crops and people.
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As Ukrainian and European leaders travel to Washington for discussions in the White House this Monday about ending Russia’s illegal war of aggression, Americans would do well to remember ten principles of negotiation.
snyder.substack.com/p/common-sen...
snyder.substack.com/p/common-sen...
Common Sense about Negotiations
For Americans about Ukraine
snyder.substack.com
August 17, 2025 at 9:26 PM
As Ukrainian and European leaders travel to Washington for discussions in the White House this Monday about ending Russia’s illegal war of aggression, Americans would do well to remember ten principles of negotiation.
snyder.substack.com/p/common-sen...
snyder.substack.com/p/common-sen...
Homes may not need replumbed to add heat pumps. www.youtube.com/watch?v=cd4Q...
Why Your Heat Pump May Not Need a Buffer or Repipe After All
YouTube video by Heat Geek
www.youtube.com
August 17, 2025 at 6:47 AM
Homes may not need replumbed to add heat pumps. www.youtube.com/watch?v=cd4Q...
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For the global green #hydrogen market to thrive, we need certification systems that work across borders—not just for hydrogen, but also its derivatives. IRENA expert highlights the importance of intl collab to standardise hydrogen and related commodities, like e-methanol and ammonia. bit.ly/45yhGuC
Standardisation and Certification to Drive International Markets for Green Hydrogen Derivatives
International standards help to align expectations between producers and consumers in different countries for green hydrogen and its derivative commodities in the global energy, and the use of and adh...
www.irena.org
August 4, 2025 at 8:29 AM
For the global green #hydrogen market to thrive, we need certification systems that work across borders—not just for hydrogen, but also its derivatives. IRENA expert highlights the importance of intl collab to standardise hydrogen and related commodities, like e-methanol and ammonia. bit.ly/45yhGuC
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Governments can be held legally responsible for climate inaction, the world’s highest court said in a landmark decision today, opening the door to a cascade of lawsuits.
World’s top court says climate inaction can breach international law
Nonmembership of the Paris Agreement doesn’t exempt countries from duty to fight global warming, ICJ says.
www.politico.eu
July 23, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Governments can be held legally responsible for climate inaction, the world’s highest court said in a landmark decision today, opening the door to a cascade of lawsuits.
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Carol Vorderman tells the @bylinetimes.bsky.social festival says millionaires threatening to leave the UK over non dom reforms "is like the school bully saying: 'If you don't give me your money, I'll leave the playground' How terrible..."
July 12, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Carol Vorderman tells the @bylinetimes.bsky.social festival says millionaires threatening to leave the UK over non dom reforms "is like the school bully saying: 'If you don't give me your money, I'll leave the playground' How terrible..."
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President Trump would deserve a Nobel Peace Prize for saving Ukraine and eliminating threat of WW3 by:
1. Arming Ukraine to liberate all its land from the Russian invaders.
2. Bankrupting Russia so it can't fund wars.
@nobelprize.bsky.social please confirm.
open.substack.com/pub/igorsush...
1. Arming Ukraine to liberate all its land from the Russian invaders.
2. Bankrupting Russia so it can't fund wars.
@nobelprize.bsky.social please confirm.
open.substack.com/pub/igorsush...
The United States Should Make Putin Beg for Negotiations
The path is obvious once we finally dismiss Putin's nuclear blackmail and overcome our irrational fear of Russia's collapse
open.substack.com
July 13, 2025 at 7:29 AM
President Trump would deserve a Nobel Peace Prize for saving Ukraine and eliminating threat of WW3 by:
1. Arming Ukraine to liberate all its land from the Russian invaders.
2. Bankrupting Russia so it can't fund wars.
@nobelprize.bsky.social please confirm.
open.substack.com/pub/igorsush...
1. Arming Ukraine to liberate all its land from the Russian invaders.
2. Bankrupting Russia so it can't fund wars.
@nobelprize.bsky.social please confirm.
open.substack.com/pub/igorsush...
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Your Medicaid is cut. Your health insurance is not safe. Your tips are still taxed. You pay the tariffs. There’s no trade deals. No wars have ended. Gas isn’t $2. Eggs aren’t cheaper. There isn’t $10 trillion in investment. The Epstein files are buried.
It’s. All. Lies.
All the time.
It’s. All. Lies.
All the time.
July 8, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Your Medicaid is cut. Your health insurance is not safe. Your tips are still taxed. You pay the tariffs. There’s no trade deals. No wars have ended. Gas isn’t $2. Eggs aren’t cheaper. There isn’t $10 trillion in investment. The Epstein files are buried.
It’s. All. Lies.
All the time.
It’s. All. Lies.
All the time.
"Those in power should change. The best way to elect leaders is through honest and free elections. Everyone needs a fair legal system. Corruption destroys the state. There should be no censorship.
The future lies in these principles. . "
The future lies in these principles. . "
Pursued relentlessly by the government of Vladimir Putin, the Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny died in prison. He left behind an account of his final years—and an admonition to his country and the world.
Alexei Navalny’s Prison Diaries
The Russian opposition leader’s account of his last years and his admonition to his country and the world.
www.newyorker.com
July 3, 2025 at 6:41 AM
"Those in power should change. The best way to elect leaders is through honest and free elections. Everyone needs a fair legal system. Corruption destroys the state. There should be no censorship.
The future lies in these principles. . "
The future lies in these principles. . "
Except when green electricity needs to meet winter heat demands, as biomass is limited, and when making green fuels is inefficient. Then we need to store a lot of hot water for a few weeks.
The obvious end point is an electricity grid that has enough storage on it, in enough places, that the timing of energy generation basically becomes irrelevant.
July 3, 2025 at 6:35 AM
Except when green electricity needs to meet winter heat demands, as biomass is limited, and when making green fuels is inefficient. Then we need to store a lot of hot water for a few weeks.