1/Today Fervo Energy hosted our Second Annual Tech Day, where we unveiled several advancements: -Record breaking flow test at our Project Cape achieving 10MW/production well -A $100m construction loan from X-RC -10+ months of stable Production from Project Red An update THREAD.

BDI argues that German industry has skills and know-how to position itself in a number of these sectors -- if it can fund the necessary investments, retooling, and R&D. 4/

Fracking (aka hydraulic stimulation) is enabling enhanced geothermal, a new terawatt scale clean firm energy resource that is being invented and scaled in America (and hopefully will soon be exported around the world) using expertise & a skilled workforce developed in oil & gas.

WHAT A BEAST! Finland’s capital city, Helsinki, is building one of the world’s largest heat pumps to keep as many as 30,000 homes warm in the winter while reducing carbon emissions. interestingengineering.com/energy/worlds-…

Battery breakthrough could see electric planes finally take off flip.it/6I8LVh

Ja mannekes, deze transitie gaat hard! Opvallend: veel industriële bedrijven maken zelf plaats op hun terreinen voor batterijparken. Industrie & energietransitie gaat hand en in hand. Flexibiliteit, vraagsturing, PPAs... neem dit mee in het beleid! tijd.be/ondernemen/mil…

Totaal investeringsbedrag van 4.6 miljard eur (bij realisatie van alle projecten). Dat kan tellen! Zeker nu investeringen in andere industriële sectoren lager liggen.

And that includes the EU ETS cost of CO2, which due to marginal pricing (and imho suboptimal ETS design) fully paid also for non CO2 emitting power production.

Shock to the system 🥶 Unusually strong cold is pouring south out of the Arctic into Europe right now. This is an ideal setup for deep fresh snow accumulations in the Alps and flooding in Central Europe. This is about as cold as it gets this early in September.

The Inflation Reduction Act invests well over half a trillion dollars to ensure we are manufacturing, deploying, and consuming more clean energy technologies in America. To pay for a big chunk of it, Congress instituted a new 15% corporate minimum tax that means billion dollar

Aurore Lalucq (S&D) warned that the state-led industrial strategies pursued by Washington and Beijing have put Europe at serious risk of becoming “a continent of consumers” rather than manufacturers. ✍️Thomas Moller-Nielsen 🔗eurac.tv/9XgL 📷EP Photo

Here we go. You’re about to find out who works for Russia. Publicly. 😉🇨🇦

POV: You're on Mars, looking up at the night sky and you notice... 🌜⭐️ That's Phobos, one of Mars' two moons – and the tiny evening "star" to its right is Earth! It's the first time I've captured them together in a photo. #ObserveTheMoon

Most people don't act like homo economicus for every little decision. It would be paralyzing, because it's too complex. Perhaps ironically, those who come closest to behaving like homo economicus are the poor. From Richard Thaler's new book on behavioural economics: Misbehaving

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"Silent solar" surging up in the developing world is the best news you haven't heard open.substack.com/pub/billmckibb…

This graphic really highlights just how much rain has fallen in central Europe in the last few days. Poland for example has doubled and in some spots tripled the record for September rainfall. Millions and millions of litres of water with no where to go.

Wat het Draghi-rapport zegt over competitiviteit en loonkosten 👇 "Not about using wage repression to lower relative costs. Competitiveness today is less about relative labour costs and more about knowledge and skills" standaard.be/cnt/dmf2024091…

Wow! Methaan-pyrolyse, it’s happening.