@christianonre.bsky.social I really love these diagrams.

Should we switch to this colormap as well?
No color for zero output, dark yellow for max output (blue for wind, etc.)

That was also thanks to the EU DMA:

digital-markets-act.ec.europa.eu/document/dow...

We could say even before 1800s, with the invention of refrigerators

Internal combustion engines had 100 years of incremental development to reach current power-density and efficiencies.
EV motors are just getting started 🤩

But 35MW isn't "world's biggest":
bsky.app/profile/janr...

There is also this:
aptera.us/vehicle/

For example:
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/t...

Silicon Valley is purportedly offering AI researchers 9 figure salaries... I'd expect Demis Hassabis' team to demand such compensation as well. And that would count as "Services export", no? Maybe also StabilityAI team and others? Or are these numbers too small in the grand scheme of the UK exports?

Growth in Services seems to correlate with the launch of ChatGPT (Nov 2022)... is it DeepMind driving services exports? Or other LLM related services? Or is it too early for LLMs to have such an impact yet?

Some limited info on specs here.
www.afstor.com/product/

I think they don’t show the price because they don’t have a mass production so their costs must vary a lot

Here one can donate a solar+battery+stove to Africa
www.afstor.com

Plus, remittances tend to be sent in (relatively) small amounts, which adds up to many individual transactions accumulating transaction fees (those fees tend to have fixed amount plus percentage)

Yes, but space is never used as a decimal separator. Sometimes, it’s used as a thousands separator, so this makes it look like €193 trillion