I'm not sure how intuitive the curtailment vs. generation bubble colours are? Did you consider a transparent green ring for potential generation with a transparent red circle for curtailment in the middle?

In case you haven't already seen this... Here's a recording of @fasterthanli.me and @jamesmunns.com doing a live compiler optimisation quiz complete with audience interaction: m.youtube.com/watch?v=ubXj...

But what this really reflects is the consistent loading of extra costs onto electricity bills and not gas.

It is essential that the government reverses this, and begins removing levies from bills - whether to taxation or rebalancing on to gas.

I'll see your unread count, and raise you by one order of magnitude.

I foresee an ABX blind listening test in your future.

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...the small expected reduction is due to reduced deforestation outweighing the 1.1% increase in fossil fuel emissions. Hopefully plateauing demand will suppress global oil prices, easing cost of living pressures, and weakening the US fracking lobby (prices are already at or below their break-even).

Yes sorry my typo - however there are early indications (e.g. Global Carbon Budget project) that 2025 human-caused emissions will be slightly lower than 2024, so may have peaked. This of course would mean that the problem would still be getting worse, just not so quickly.

We are now starting to move in the right direction, albeit slowly. Politicians have to navigate the right path between maintaining momentum and rough global consensus, vs. short term cost-of-living impacts which are catnip to Reform and the like.

CO2 levels have climbed more rapidly than before due to reduced CO2 uptake by the earth's natural systems, which may have caused the confusion. The growth in renewables is still accelerating, and has now caused fossil fuel usage to decline slightly in China (src: Carbon Brief).

On the COP30 coverage @andrewhunterm.bsky.social said that emissions were rising faster than ever. 2025 emissions are currently forecast at 42.2 bn tonnes CO2 down from 42.4 bn tonnes in 2024. Not a big win by any means, but when it comes to climate news I'll take what I can get...

The UK government is said to be planning to impose a 3p per mile tax on all EVs (regardless of size or efficiency) starting in 2028. That's equivalent to about £0.12 per kWh in a country which already has some of the highest public charging costs in the world.

yep bsky.app/profile/holz...

If you look at something like the Renault 5, a new EV at the same price point five years ago had half the range that the Renault 5 had and was also considerably smaller. Judging by the reviews I've seen, the Renault 5 is just a much better car all around and nicer to drive too.