Alex Braun
@elbraunio.bsky.social
Just trying not to f*** up this unique opportunity we have to enjoy an inhabitable planet
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This is obscene. Why can't other politicians say that?
The 25 richest families are collectively $358.7 billion richer than a year ago, with a combined fortune totaling $2.9 trillion.
The 25 richest families are collectively $358.7 billion richer than a year ago, with a combined fortune totaling $2.9 trillion.
December 18, 2025 at 9:00 AM
This is obscene. Why can't other politicians say that?
The 25 richest families are collectively $358.7 billion richer than a year ago, with a combined fortune totaling $2.9 trillion.
The 25 richest families are collectively $358.7 billion richer than a year ago, with a combined fortune totaling $2.9 trillion.
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We now have a map view on heatpumpmonitor.org/map 🥳
📌 Find some of the best heat pump installers in your area, based on real world performance data
🌎 Explore examples of real-world heat pump performance data in many countries worldwide
@openenergymon.bsky.social
📌 Find some of the best heat pump installers in your area, based on real world performance data
🌎 Explore examples of real-world heat pump performance data in many countries worldwide
@openenergymon.bsky.social
June 19, 2025 at 2:20 PM
We now have a map view on heatpumpmonitor.org/map 🥳
📌 Find some of the best heat pump installers in your area, based on real world performance data
🌎 Explore examples of real-world heat pump performance data in many countries worldwide
@openenergymon.bsky.social
📌 Find some of the best heat pump installers in your area, based on real world performance data
🌎 Explore examples of real-world heat pump performance data in many countries worldwide
@openenergymon.bsky.social
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Finally!
Nearly a quarter of new UK homes now have heat pumps—big progress since we highlighted the fossil fuel problem with Ben Webster at openDemocracy in 2022.
Next step: fully implement the Future Homes Standard and end fossil fuels in new builds.
Nearly a quarter of new UK homes now have heat pumps—big progress since we highlighted the fossil fuel problem with Ben Webster at openDemocracy in 2022.
Next step: fully implement the Future Homes Standard and end fossil fuels in new builds.
June 11, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Finally!
Nearly a quarter of new UK homes now have heat pumps—big progress since we highlighted the fossil fuel problem with Ben Webster at openDemocracy in 2022.
Next step: fully implement the Future Homes Standard and end fossil fuels in new builds.
Nearly a quarter of new UK homes now have heat pumps—big progress since we highlighted the fossil fuel problem with Ben Webster at openDemocracy in 2022.
Next step: fully implement the Future Homes Standard and end fossil fuels in new builds.
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Good article here on how Scandinavian countries have embraced heat pumps moving almost entirely off fossil fuel heating. In short:
- grants
- lower electricity price
- carbon tax making other options expensive
- a ban on fossil fuel heating.
If this worked for them, it could work in the UK too.
- grants
- lower electricity price
- carbon tax making other options expensive
- a ban on fossil fuel heating.
If this worked for them, it could work in the UK too.
Scandinavian countries are the world's undisputed heat pump leaders. How have they done it?
Find out more in my piece for @carbonbrief.org 👇
www.carbonbrief.org/guest-post-h...
Find out more in my piece for @carbonbrief.org 👇
www.carbonbrief.org/guest-post-h...
June 4, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Good article here on how Scandinavian countries have embraced heat pumps moving almost entirely off fossil fuel heating. In short:
- grants
- lower electricity price
- carbon tax making other options expensive
- a ban on fossil fuel heating.
If this worked for them, it could work in the UK too.
- grants
- lower electricity price
- carbon tax making other options expensive
- a ban on fossil fuel heating.
If this worked for them, it could work in the UK too.
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NEW: A UK firm intends to start making this new form of "thin" triple glazing with a 0.5mm centre pane of super strong glass developed by Corning.
It could let people to swap out their double glazing for triple glazing - without changing their window frames.
www.thereengineer.pro/p/can-this-t...
It could let people to swap out their double glazing for triple glazing - without changing their window frames.
www.thereengineer.pro/p/can-this-t...
Can this tech solve triple glazing's biggest problems?
Triple glazing doesn't have to be excessively heavy and thick
www.thereengineer.pro
May 8, 2025 at 8:00 AM
NEW: A UK firm intends to start making this new form of "thin" triple glazing with a 0.5mm centre pane of super strong glass developed by Corning.
It could let people to swap out their double glazing for triple glazing - without changing their window frames.
www.thereengineer.pro/p/can-this-t...
It could let people to swap out their double glazing for triple glazing - without changing their window frames.
www.thereengineer.pro/p/can-this-t...
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If Western nations want to keep pace with China in the clean energy race, many well-meaning regulations and legacy approval processes will need to be streamlined or reimagined. Speed and scale are critical.
Graphic by Insider.
Graphic by Insider.
April 29, 2025 at 1:34 PM
If Western nations want to keep pace with China in the clean energy race, many well-meaning regulations and legacy approval processes will need to be streamlined or reimagined. Speed and scale are critical.
Graphic by Insider.
Graphic by Insider.
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🚗💨 EVs are holding up better than combustion cars, says ADAC.
In 2024, ICE cars aged 2–4 years were 2.5x more likely to break down than EVs.
EVs on the road ↑ 97%
EV breakdowns ↑ only 46%
In 2024, ICE cars aged 2–4 years were 2.5x more likely to break down than EVs.
EVs on the road ↑ 97%
EV breakdowns ↑ only 46%
April 16, 2025 at 7:15 AM
🚗💨 EVs are holding up better than combustion cars, says ADAC.
In 2024, ICE cars aged 2–4 years were 2.5x more likely to break down than EVs.
EVs on the road ↑ 97%
EV breakdowns ↑ only 46%
In 2024, ICE cars aged 2–4 years were 2.5x more likely to break down than EVs.
EVs on the road ↑ 97%
EV breakdowns ↑ only 46%
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It's a myth that "hydrogen combustion produces only water vapour".
Burning hydrogen results in harmful NOx emissions. In urban areas this becomes the dominant source of NOx pollution if we switched to hydrogen for heating.
Shocking to see H2Heat project financed by the EU peddling such untruths 👇
Burning hydrogen results in harmful NOx emissions. In urban areas this becomes the dominant source of NOx pollution if we switched to hydrogen for heating.
Shocking to see H2Heat project financed by the EU peddling such untruths 👇
April 2, 2025 at 1:16 PM
It's a myth that "hydrogen combustion produces only water vapour".
Burning hydrogen results in harmful NOx emissions. In urban areas this becomes the dominant source of NOx pollution if we switched to hydrogen for heating.
Shocking to see H2Heat project financed by the EU peddling such untruths 👇
Burning hydrogen results in harmful NOx emissions. In urban areas this becomes the dominant source of NOx pollution if we switched to hydrogen for heating.
Shocking to see H2Heat project financed by the EU peddling such untruths 👇
People often take the view of 'waiting until the boiler packs in' but this demonstrates that the best time to swap is when it's financially and practically convenient for the end user. Plus, you'll maximise the savings the sooner you do it.
Does it make sense to rip out a new gas boiler and replace it with a heat pump? From carbon perspective yes: Replacing a new gas boiler with a heat pump in the UK cuts emissions by 77-86%.
This includes embodied emissions from manufacturing.
A heat pump offset its embodied carbon after 13 months.
This includes embodied emissions from manufacturing.
A heat pump offset its embodied carbon after 13 months.
April 1, 2025 at 6:08 AM
People often take the view of 'waiting until the boiler packs in' but this demonstrates that the best time to swap is when it's financially and practically convenient for the end user. Plus, you'll maximise the savings the sooner you do it.
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Does it make sense to rip out a new gas boiler and replace it with a heat pump? From carbon perspective yes: Replacing a new gas boiler with a heat pump in the UK cuts emissions by 77-86%.
This includes embodied emissions from manufacturing.
A heat pump offset its embodied carbon after 13 months.
This includes embodied emissions from manufacturing.
A heat pump offset its embodied carbon after 13 months.
March 31, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Does it make sense to rip out a new gas boiler and replace it with a heat pump? From carbon perspective yes: Replacing a new gas boiler with a heat pump in the UK cuts emissions by 77-86%.
This includes embodied emissions from manufacturing.
A heat pump offset its embodied carbon after 13 months.
This includes embodied emissions from manufacturing.
A heat pump offset its embodied carbon after 13 months.
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This, it needs repeating aggressively and repeatedly. Gas drove up electricity prices in UK, not renewables or wretched Net Zero.
It wasn’t net zero — it was fossil gas that drove up UK electricity prices.
Spot on, @pilitaclark.bsky.social! Gas sets the price most of the time.
As @dharavyas.bsky.social Energy UK, says: "It’s the volatile cost of fossil fuels and our dependence on them that have driven up energy bills."
Spot on, @pilitaclark.bsky.social! Gas sets the price most of the time.
As @dharavyas.bsky.social Energy UK, says: "It’s the volatile cost of fossil fuels and our dependence on them that have driven up energy bills."
March 19, 2025 at 11:27 PM
This, it needs repeating aggressively and repeatedly. Gas drove up electricity prices in UK, not renewables or wretched Net Zero.
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Renew your EV vehicle tax before next month, while it's still free.
Do you have an Electric Vehicle? Urgent trick to save you cash.
Please share with anyone it’s relevant for.
A snippet from my ‘Beat April Deadlines’ show, watch the full thing on: www.itv.com/watch/the-ma...
Please share with anyone it’s relevant for.
A snippet from my ‘Beat April Deadlines’ show, watch the full thing on: www.itv.com/watch/the-ma...
Martin Lewis: Do you have an Electric Vehicle? Urgent trick to save you cash
YouTube video by MoneySavingExpert.com
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March 20, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Renew your EV vehicle tax before next month, while it's still free.
A work of art.
Thousands of people are ditching Tesla. Here’s one of them with a message you can see from space.
Location: Black Rock Sands, Wales, UK
Led By Donkeys is 100% funded by small donations.
Location: Black Rock Sands, Wales, UK
Led By Donkeys is 100% funded by small donations.
March 18, 2025 at 10:31 PM
A work of art.
It's insane that politicians will actively try to spoil progressive developments which will benefit the whole world just for the sake of a bit of political gain. Pathetic.
When will we embrace a political system which seeks to benefit the masses rather than just tribal point scoring?
When will we embrace a political system which seeks to benefit the masses rather than just tribal point scoring?
NEW – Factcheck: Why Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch is wrong about UK’s net-zero goal | @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org
Read here: bit.ly/440gAr0
Read here: bit.ly/440gAr0
Factcheck: Why Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch is wrong about UK’s net-zero goal - Carbon Brief
The leader of the opposition Conservative party, Kemi Badenoch, has shattered the political consensus on climate change in a speech attacking the UK’s net-zero by 2050 target.
bit.ly
March 18, 2025 at 10:23 PM
It's insane that politicians will actively try to spoil progressive developments which will benefit the whole world just for the sake of a bit of political gain. Pathetic.
When will we embrace a political system which seeks to benefit the masses rather than just tribal point scoring?
When will we embrace a political system which seeks to benefit the masses rather than just tribal point scoring?
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Electrification is efficiency.
With clean electricity, we cut major inefficiencies, lowering overall energy demand in a decarbonized world.
🔗 sustainabilitybynumbers.com/p/electrification-energy-efficiency
With clean electricity, we cut major inefficiencies, lowering overall energy demand in a decarbonized world.
🔗 sustainabilitybynumbers.com/p/electrification-energy-efficiency
March 15, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Electrification is efficiency.
With clean electricity, we cut major inefficiencies, lowering overall energy demand in a decarbonized world.
🔗 sustainabilitybynumbers.com/p/electrification-energy-efficiency
With clean electricity, we cut major inefficiencies, lowering overall energy demand in a decarbonized world.
🔗 sustainabilitybynumbers.com/p/electrification-energy-efficiency
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Just letting you know about some forthcoming talks about Retrofit and heat pumps in the Richmond and Hampton area.
Just letting you know about some forthcoming talks about Retrofit and heat pumps in the Richmond and Hampton area.
Upcoming Heat Pump Talks
Friends, I will be giving some more talks about retrofit and heat pumps in the coming months. Please do spread the word! Hampton Hub: 13th March 2025 At Hampton Hub on the evening of Thursday 13th …
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February 20, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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Just letting you know about some forthcoming talks about Retrofit and heat pumps in the Richmond and Hampton area.
Just letting you know about some forthcoming talks about Retrofit and heat pumps in the Richmond and Hampton area.
This is fantastic news! The problem is if we tell too many people, they may assume it's job done and down tools!
📢ANALYSIS: UK emissions fell 3.6% in 2024 to lowest since 1872
🏭Coal lowest since 1666, when Great Fire ravaged London
🚗EVs pushed oil down despite more traffic, saving £1.7bn
🌇Gas down on "cleanest ever" power
📈📉Since 1990, CO2 -54% / GDP +84%
www.carbonbrief.org/...
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🏭Coal lowest since 1666, when Great Fire ravaged London
🚗EVs pushed oil down despite more traffic, saving £1.7bn
🌇Gas down on "cleanest ever" power
📈📉Since 1990, CO2 -54% / GDP +84%
www.carbonbrief.org/...
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March 12, 2025 at 5:42 PM
This is fantastic news! The problem is if we tell too many people, they may assume it's job done and down tools!
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Time to use Amazon like they used to use brick-and-mortar book stores!
March 3, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Time to use Amazon like they used to use brick-and-mortar book stores!
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There is no country/zone with a) high prices and low carbon emissions or b) with low prices and high emissions.
The higher the carbon emissions from electricity generation in 2024, the higher the prices and vice versa.
HT Esko Heinonen
The higher the carbon emissions from electricity generation in 2024, the higher the prices and vice versa.
HT Esko Heinonen
March 5, 2025 at 9:15 PM
There is no country/zone with a) high prices and low carbon emissions or b) with low prices and high emissions.
The higher the carbon emissions from electricity generation in 2024, the higher the prices and vice versa.
HT Esko Heinonen
The higher the carbon emissions from electricity generation in 2024, the higher the prices and vice versa.
HT Esko Heinonen
A reminder that electrification remains the single most important route to reducing emissions. Increasing the rate of transition to heat pumps is key to that. More legislation is required to limit gas installations in existing properties urgently.
Last week the @thecccuk.bsky.social published its Seventh Carbon Budget, a crucial set of advice on how the UK can reach net zero.
What does it say about decarbonising home heating, one of the most difficult challenges for reducing emissions, and an area of focus for Nesta?
What does it say about decarbonising home heating, one of the most difficult challenges for reducing emissions, and an area of focus for Nesta?
What does the Seventh Carbon Budget tell us about decarbonising home heating?
The future of home heating will be electric, and we need to move towards that future quickly
www.nesta.org.uk
March 3, 2025 at 10:45 PM
A reminder that electrification remains the single most important route to reducing emissions. Increasing the rate of transition to heat pumps is key to that. More legislation is required to limit gas installations in existing properties urgently.
Great thread explaining how our grid structure is costing us money and perpetuating the use of fossil fuels to generate electricity.
It's lovely and windy today, which means lots of clean green electricity.
Or does it? See all those purple dots in Scotland? Those are wind farms that we're turning off as of 8am… 🤔
Or does it? See all those purple dots in Scotland? Those are wind farms that we're turning off as of 8am… 🤔
February 23, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Great thread explaining how our grid structure is costing us money and perpetuating the use of fossil fuels to generate electricity.
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Yesterday, Thu 20-02-25
Yesterday, wasted wind cost Britain: £17,225,039
£3,786,044 switching off wind turbines
£13,438,994 buying energy elsewhere
That's 109,260 MWh of green electrons: enough to power 3 Londons for a day.
Source: wastedwind.energy
Yesterday, wasted wind cost Britain: £17,225,039
£3,786,044 switching off wind turbines
£13,438,994 buying energy elsewhere
That's 109,260 MWh of green electrons: enough to power 3 Londons for a day.
Source: wastedwind.energy
February 21, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Yesterday, Thu 20-02-25
Yesterday, wasted wind cost Britain: £17,225,039
£3,786,044 switching off wind turbines
£13,438,994 buying energy elsewhere
That's 109,260 MWh of green electrons: enough to power 3 Londons for a day.
Source: wastedwind.energy
Yesterday, wasted wind cost Britain: £17,225,039
£3,786,044 switching off wind turbines
£13,438,994 buying energy elsewhere
That's 109,260 MWh of green electrons: enough to power 3 Londons for a day.
Source: wastedwind.energy
Credit to Renault for working hard to minimise the impact of EV fires. Considerably less common than in ICE vehicles, these fires can be time consuming to extinguish. They've created a 'Fireman switch' which will be freely available for other manufacturers to use.
Source: Top Gear
search.app/ssef
Source: Top Gear
search.app/ssef
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February 19, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Credit to Renault for working hard to minimise the impact of EV fires. Considerably less common than in ICE vehicles, these fires can be time consuming to extinguish. They've created a 'Fireman switch' which will be freely available for other manufacturers to use.
Source: Top Gear
search.app/ssef
Source: Top Gear
search.app/ssef
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Metronomes started randomly synchronize after a short period of time as they influence each other through the side-to-side motion of their shared base.
Credit: UCLA Physics & Astronomy
Credit: UCLA Physics & Astronomy
February 19, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Metronomes started randomly synchronize after a short period of time as they influence each other through the side-to-side motion of their shared base.
Credit: UCLA Physics & Astronomy
Credit: UCLA Physics & Astronomy
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I've written some musings on seeing outside your bubble.
open.substack.com/pub/llewelly...
open.substack.com/pub/llewelly...
At Last the Electric Car Nightmare is Over!
A comment on the Fully Charged Show YouTube Channel
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February 14, 2025 at 11:14 PM
I've written some musings on seeing outside your bubble.
open.substack.com/pub/llewelly...
open.substack.com/pub/llewelly...