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Pedro MFD Sousa
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Working in the science business (PT), focusing on photovoltaics, energy storage systems, nanotechnology, solid-state chemistry, data science...
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Breakthrough of the year? Renewable energy www.science.org/content/arti...
December 21, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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And because we need to hear from Carl at moments like this:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTaE...
December 17, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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Dez anos depois do acordo feito entre as nações para limitar o aquecimento global, continua a aumentar a quantidade de CO2 que lançamos para a atmosfera, agravando as alterações climáticas.
Em 2025, emitimos 10% mais gases de estufa do que no ano do Acordo de Paris
Dez anos depois do acordo feito entre as nações para limitar o aquecimento global, continua a aumentar a quantidade de CO2 que lançamos para a atmosfera, agravando as alterações climáticas.
www.publico.pt
November 13, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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Signal is pretty easy to use out of the box, but there are a variety of things that can go wrong if you don’t spend some time learning how it works. Here’s our guide to help you get started. ssd.eff.org/module/how-...
How to: Use Signal
Download location: Google Play Store, Apple App Store System requirements: Android 5 or later, iOS 13 or later Version used in this guide: Android: 7.38.6 iPhone: 7.5.1 License: GPLv3 Level: Beginner Time required: 15-20 minutes Other reading: https://signal.org/ https://support.signal.org/ https://signal.org/blog/ Table of Contents Download and Install Signal Register and Verify...
ssd.eff.org
November 12, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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The International Federation of Journalists and European Federation of Journalists have called for the reinstatement of the journalist who was fired for asking an EU Commission spokesperson if Israel should pay for Gaza's reconstruction
November 6, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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"I like people who don't collapse"
incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty
November 6, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative

electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity
Australia's extensive solar power penetration makes so much energy that the government wants to offer free electricity at peak hours.
electrek.co
November 6, 2025 at 4:58 AM
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Batteries are going to get some major upgrades, soon.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7Mu...
Finally, Real Battery Breakthroughs!
YouTube video by Sabine Hossenfelder
www.youtube.com
November 4, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Alaska Tests a Theory: Solar Farms Help Nearby Crops Grow www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/c...
Alaska Tests a Theory: Solar Farms Help Nearby Crops Grow
www.nytimes.com
October 29, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Rosalía: “Berghain”
Read Walden Green’s review.
pitchfork.com
October 27, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Is This Dapper Man Going to Crack the Louvre Heist Case?
www.nytimes.com
October 24, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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This should be Time Magazine’s 2025 Photo of the Year:
October 18, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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Como é que é possível?!
O novo comentador da RTP desfiliou-se do Chega por achar que o partido se estava a moderar demasiado. Como entretanto foi banido do X, tomei a liberdade de ir espreitar o Wayback Machine (publicações de 2023).
October 14, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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PNNL researchers showed rooftop solar + storage could offset two-thirds of the savings households try to get by cutting heat, cooling, or even food/health spending
Clean energy can fight climate change and help families live safely & comfortably. nature.com/articles/s43247-025-02517-5 #EnergySky
Rooftop solar and energy storage programs can remediate energy-limiting behaviors of energy insecure households in the United States - Communications Earth & Environment
In the United States, rooftop solar and energy storage programs can provide utility bill relief for households facing energy insecurity and who may be ineligible for traditional assistance, according ...
nature.com
September 12, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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Portuguese President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa said on Wednesday, August 27, that US President Donald Trump is a "Russian asset."

The Portuguese leader also accused the American of strategically helping Russia👇
August 28, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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VPPs are getting big, y'all.
California is pushing the limits of crowdsourced energy
The state’s biggest-ever test of ‘virtual power plants’ was a success.
www.semafor.com
August 8, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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New study: researchers looked at hospital visits after a coal plant was closed near Pittsburgh
--> immediate 20.5% decrease in weekly respiratory emergency dept visits
--> immediate 41.2% decrease in pediatric asthma ED visits
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40691837/
August 8, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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Motherfucking wind farms…
July 31, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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Our new paper updating key metrics in the IPCC is now out, and the news is grim:

⬆️ Human induced warming now at 1.36C
⬆️ Rate of warming now 0.27C / decade
⬆️ Sharp increase in Earth's energy imbalance
⬇️ Remaining 1.5C carbon budget only 130 GtCO2

essd.copernicus.org/...
Indicators of Global Climate Change 2024: annual update of key indicators of the state of the climate system and human influence
Abstract. In a rapidly changing climate, evidence-based decision-making benefits from up-to-date and timely information. Here we compile monitoring datasets (published at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15639576; Smith et al., 2025a) to produce updated estimates for key indicators of the state of the climate system: net emissions of greenhouse gases and short-lived climate forcers, greenhouse gas concentrations, radiative forcing, the Earth's energy imbalance, surface temperature changes, warming attributed to human activities, the remaining carbon budget, and estimates of global temperature extremes. This year, we additionally include indicators for sea-level rise and land precipitation change. We follow methods as closely as possible to those used in the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) Working Group One report. The indicators show that human activities are increasing the Earth's energy imbalance and driving faster sea-level rise compared to the AR6 assessment. For the 2015–2024 decade average, observed warming relative to 1850–1900 was 1.24 [1.11 to 1.35] °C, of which 1.22 [1.0 to 1.5] °C was human-induced. The 2024-observed best estimate of global surface temperature (1.52 °C) is well above the best estimate of human-caused warming (1.36 °C). However, the 2024 observed warming can still be regarded as a typical year, considering the human-induced warming level and the state of internal variability associated with the phase of El Niño and Atlantic variability. Human-induced warming has been increasing at a rate that is unprecedented in the instrumental record, reaching 0.27 [0.2–0.4] °C per decade over 2015–2024. This high rate of warming is caused by a combination of greenhouse gas emissions being at an all-time high of 53.6±5.2 Gt CO2e yr−1 over the last decade (2014–2023), as well as reductions in the strength of aerosol cooling. Despite this, there is evidence that the rate of increase in CO2 emissions over the last decade has slowed compared to the 2000s, and depending on societal choices, a continued series of these annual updates over the critical 2020s decade could track decreases or increases in the rate of the climatic changes presented here.
essd.copernicus.org
June 18, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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The full 182 Spain gov't blackout report - in Spanish, with many parts blacked out.....

www.lamoncloa.gob.es/consejodemin...
www.lamoncloa.gob.es
June 18, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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I was down on sodium-iom batteries a couple weeks ago, but CATL—who knows a bit more about battery tech than I do!—believe sodium-ion could eventually take up half of the market share that’s currently dominated by lithium, iron phosphate batteries.
www.detroitnews.com/story/busine...
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CATL teases five-minute EV charge with longer range than BYD
Contemporary Amperex Technology Co. Ltd., the world’s biggest producer of batteries for electric vehicles, unveiled the latest versions of its cells, playing up the durability and range.
www.detroitnews.com
April 21, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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❄️ March 2025: Arctic sea ice reached its lowest March extent in the 47-year satellite record. It was the fourth consecutive month with record low sea ice extent. Antarctic sea ice extent was the 4th lowest for March. Get the details in the #C3S Climate Bulletin climate.copernicus.eu/sea-ice-cove...
April 8, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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The steady improvement of lithium ion batteries eats yet another competing battery chemistry: Bedrock Materials is pulling the plug on their sodium ion battery development, saying that "sodium stopped making sense." Read more: www.linkedin.com/pulse/sodium... 🔌💡
Sodium Stopped Making Sense
Why We're Pausing Our Work at Bedrock Materials Today, we’re sharing a tough announcement with the battery community: that Bedrock Materials is pausing our development of sodium-ion batteries and retu...
www.linkedin.com
April 6, 2025 at 3:35 PM