Steve Fawkes
@drstevefawkes.bsky.social
Founder of epgroup.com Practitioner, author and speaker on energy efficiency, distributed energy & financing the energy transition. Blog at onlyelevenpercent.com
A ‘cold’ spell hits London
November 18, 2025 at 6:27 AM
A ‘cold’ spell hits London
Great thread on Finlandisation, so relevant to Ukraine, US and much else
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 18, 2025 at 5:41 AM
Great thread on Finlandisation, so relevant to Ukraine, US and much else
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Fascinating! AI might hurt productivity as LLM-tailored job applications destroy the value of the cover letter as a signal, leading to worse job-employee matches.
Is AI making job recruitment less meritocratic? We're getting some v interesting research studies on this question now, and the news is... not good. @jburnmurdoch.ft.com & I dive in, in the latest edition of our newsletter The AI Shift www.ft.com/content/e5b7...
November 15, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Fascinating! AI might hurt productivity as LLM-tailored job applications destroy the value of the cover letter as a signal, leading to worse job-employee matches.
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NEW: I wrote about British churches installing heat pumps, in some cases in 1,000-year-old buildings! Decarbonisation may not be easy, but many view it as an act of faith.
This is a special feature to mark The Reengineer’s first anniversary! Spread the word! 🥳
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This is a special feature to mark The Reengineer’s first anniversary! Spread the word! 🥳
www.thereengineer.pro/p/let-there-...
Let there be warmth! The British churches putting their faith in heat pumps
Ancient buildings and old bones aren’t getting in the way of decarbonisation
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November 13, 2025 at 12:06 PM
NEW: I wrote about British churches installing heat pumps, in some cases in 1,000-year-old buildings! Decarbonisation may not be easy, but many view it as an act of faith.
This is a special feature to mark The Reengineer’s first anniversary! Spread the word! 🥳
www.thereengineer.pro/p/let-there-...
This is a special feature to mark The Reengineer’s first anniversary! Spread the word! 🥳
www.thereengineer.pro/p/let-there-...
Great thread on why IEA assumptions in Current Policies Scenario are so improbable- to believe in this scenario is like the White Queen in Alice in Wonderland believing six impossible things before breakfast.
🤡OIL DEMAND WILL KEEP RISING🤡
What are the IEA assumptions that make rising oil demand so improbable?
What are the IEA assumptions that make rising oil demand so improbable?
November 12, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Great thread on why IEA assumptions in Current Policies Scenario are so improbable- to believe in this scenario is like the White Queen in Alice in Wonderland believing six impossible things before breakfast.
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The chance find of a piece of newspaper in a London street reminded me last week that no matter how depressing the state of the international consensus on climate action, we have been here before.
mliebreich.substack.com/p/the-global...
mliebreich.substack.com/p/the-global...
The global climate pendulum - A reminder
The chance find of a piece of newspaper in a London street reminded me last week that no matter how depressing the state of the international consensus on climate action, we have been here before.
mliebreich.substack.com
November 11, 2025 at 6:14 PM
The chance find of a piece of newspaper in a London street reminded me last week that no matter how depressing the state of the international consensus on climate action, we have been here before.
mliebreich.substack.com/p/the-global...
mliebreich.substack.com/p/the-global...
A rare trip to the British Interplanetary Society to hear @drkevinfong.bsky.social and Apollo era flight controller Jerry Griffin talk ‘From Apollo to Artemis’
November 11, 2025 at 7:00 PM
A rare trip to the British Interplanetary Society to hear @drkevinfong.bsky.social and Apollo era flight controller Jerry Griffin talk ‘From Apollo to Artemis’
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It takes an obscene amount of hubris to lecture the BBC when you have The Telegraph’s record on truth-telling.
Some of the paper’s errors this year are so bad they’re almost laughable 👇🏻
Some of the paper’s errors this year are so bad they’re almost laughable 👇🏻
The Telegraph’s BBC hypocrisy
A paper that knows a thing or two about editorial f*ck-ups...
writesbright.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:48 PM
It takes an obscene amount of hubris to lecture the BBC when you have The Telegraph’s record on truth-telling.
Some of the paper’s errors this year are so bad they’re almost laughable 👇🏻
Some of the paper’s errors this year are so bad they’re almost laughable 👇🏻
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It's 2025. A quarter of the way through the 21st century. And the UK government still hasn't got a clue what sustainability, sustainable development and good governance mean.
Developers met ministers dozens of times over planning bill while ecologists were shut out
Exclusive: Leading ecologists say warnings over threat to wildlife have been ignored in drive to build 1.5m new homes
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 11:39 AM
It's 2025. A quarter of the way through the 21st century. And the UK government still hasn't got a clue what sustainability, sustainable development and good governance mean.
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Illinois: $1 billion in battery investment will save consumers $13 billion in capacity costs.
This is what @jigarshahdc.bsky.social and I have been talking about the past years. As capacity costs rise while battery costs plummet, we will see more of this.
pv-magazine-usa.com/2025/11/05/i...
This is what @jigarshahdc.bsky.social and I have been talking about the past years. As capacity costs rise while battery costs plummet, we will see more of this.
pv-magazine-usa.com/2025/11/05/i...
Illinois to add 3 GW of batteries, saving consumers $12 billion over 20 years
Illinois is set to issue procurements for 3 GW of battery storage, under a bill expected to be signed by Governor JB Pritzker. Transmission improvements to speed renewable deployment are also in the w...
pv-magazine-usa.com
November 9, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Illinois: $1 billion in battery investment will save consumers $13 billion in capacity costs.
This is what @jigarshahdc.bsky.social and I have been talking about the past years. As capacity costs rise while battery costs plummet, we will see more of this.
pv-magazine-usa.com/2025/11/05/i...
This is what @jigarshahdc.bsky.social and I have been talking about the past years. As capacity costs rise while battery costs plummet, we will see more of this.
pv-magazine-usa.com/2025/11/05/i...
Just been to see ‘Space Woman’ the documentary about Eileen Collins, first woman pilot and commander of the space shuttle. Excellent.
November 8, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Just been to see ‘Space Woman’ the documentary about Eileen Collins, first woman pilot and commander of the space shuttle. Excellent.
Definitely echos of Enron
Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, argues that technological revolutions are driven by new ways of paying for them. Here are unusual financial agreements helping to drive the ambitions of the poster child of the A.I. revolution.
How OpenAI Uses Complex and Circular Deals to Fuel Its Multibillion-Dollar Rise
Here are seven unusual financial agreements helping to drive the ambitions of the poster child of the A.I. revolution.
nyti.ms
November 7, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Definitely echos of Enron
A bail out for AI before the bubble has burst? That’s a good one.
November 6, 2025 at 6:41 AM
A bail out for AI before the bubble has burst? That’s a good one.
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The guy who got famous betting against the housing market in 2007 just before that bubble burst - played by Christian Bale jn “The Big Short” - just wagered $1 billion on the collapse of the AI boom.
www.wsj.com/livecoverage...
www.wsj.com/livecoverage...
Michael Burry Returns With Two Big Shorts: Palantir and Nvidia
Signs of an AI bubble abound: Stock valuations have become uncomfortably rich, AI-related debt is ballooning, and a sustainable financial model for the technology has largely yet to emerge. Now Michae...
www.wsj.com
November 4, 2025 at 9:35 PM
The guy who got famous betting against the housing market in 2007 just before that bubble burst - played by Christian Bale jn “The Big Short” - just wagered $1 billion on the collapse of the AI boom.
www.wsj.com/livecoverage...
www.wsj.com/livecoverage...
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Britain’s red-tailed bumblebees may have an unlikely saviour in solar farms
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Britain’s red-tailed bumblebees may have an unlikely saviour in solar farms
Though intensive farming has ravaged its habitat, could sensitive planting at energy sites aid the species’ revival?
www.theguardian.com
November 5, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Britain’s red-tailed bumblebees may have an unlikely saviour in solar farms
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Interesting visit to the Museum of the Home, rooms through the years
November 1, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Interesting visit to the Museum of the Home, rooms through the years
A different Halloween decoration in South Hampstead
November 1, 2025 at 12:30 PM
A different Halloween decoration in South Hampstead
Just watched ‘House of dynamite’. Highly recommend it - a scary reminder of the reality of the nuclear threat.
October 31, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Just watched ‘House of dynamite’. Highly recommend it - a scary reminder of the reality of the nuclear threat.
So true. The 'innovate, innovate, innovate' versus 'deploy, deploy, deploy' argument as I described in several recent presentations.
October 31, 2025 at 6:37 PM
So true. The 'innovate, innovate, innovate' versus 'deploy, deploy, deploy' argument as I described in several recent presentations.
'A look back at the last forty years of the energy transition and a look forward to the next forty years'. Following my guest lecture last week @unibirmingham.bsky.social I published an edited version of my remarks - tinyurl.com/44bu9anm
A look back at the last forty years of the energy transition and a look forward to the next forty years | Only Eleven Percent
tinyurl.com
October 29, 2025 at 2:50 PM
'A look back at the last forty years of the energy transition and a look forward to the next forty years'. Following my guest lecture last week @unibirmingham.bsky.social I published an edited version of my remarks - tinyurl.com/44bu9anm
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This new reconstruction of global whale biomass shows that countries can successfully tackle environmental problems when they come together
But it's a story with an under-recognised hero
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But it's a story with an under-recognised hero
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October 28, 2025 at 4:40 PM
This new reconstruction of global whale biomass shows that countries can successfully tackle environmental problems when they come together
But it's a story with an under-recognised hero
🧵 1/
But it's a story with an under-recognised hero
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Wind power has cut at least £104bn from UK energy bill since 2010
- the cost of avoided gas and gas-fired power plants significantly outweiged subsidies for wind power
Story by @fionaharvey.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
- the cost of avoided gas and gas-fired power plants significantly outweiged subsidies for wind power
Story by @fionaharvey.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Wind power has cut £104bn from UK energy costs since 2010, study finds
Reduction comes from energy generated from windfarms and lower cost of gas owing to lower demand
www.theguardian.com
October 28, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Wind power has cut at least £104bn from UK energy bill since 2010
- the cost of avoided gas and gas-fired power plants significantly outweiged subsidies for wind power
Story by @fionaharvey.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
- the cost of avoided gas and gas-fired power plants significantly outweiged subsidies for wind power
Story by @fionaharvey.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Opinion | How a Fringe Movement of Gun Nuts, Backwoodsmen and Free Marketers Paved the Way for Autocracy
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October 26, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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