China has gone from being an also-ran exporter of cars to global leader in three years. And guess what: they are exporting electric cars, not burners. And guess what else: our legacy car makers are not competitive. You can debate why, but you cannot pretend this is not a BFD.

This graph blows my mind.. 63% of solar panels and 65% of wind turbines installed last year were installed in China 🤯

Second in the world 🥈 First in the UK and Europe 🥇 We are so proud of #OurImperial community for this brilliant result in this year's QS QS World University Rankings, and here's why 🧵⬇️ #QSWUR

The rank stupidity of closing Russell’s Footpath entrance to #Streatham Station is made all the more insulting by the fact ticket barriers at the main entrance are so frequently open. How is this new regime stopping fare evasion Southern? Please re-open the gate!

Very eye-opening to see who's leading the way on clean energy investment – and who's leading on fossil fuels China: Clean energy investment 3.7x fossil fuels Europe: 5.5x more in clean energy N America: Biggest investor in fossil fuels Middle East: 5.4x more on fossil fuels

What Brexit did to the UK economy. Astounding. ft.com/content/bc19bb…

Installing a heat pump is the singest largest step households can take to reduce carbon emissions from their homes. More insulation means lower bills + increased comfort but isn’t required to make heat pumps run efficiently & effectively. That’s why the mantra of fabric first

Just add the 4.4 billion metric tonnes of crude oil to this and you'd understand how much mining isn't even in the same league as oil extraction. It's also worth remembering that we don't really set fire to the stuff we mine, and it can normally be recycled or reused. Burnt

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Bold take from The Economist in last issue: “Solar cells will in all likelihood be the single biggest source of electrical power on the planet by the mid 2030s.”

The Economist latest cover story on solar energy is packed with interesting stats.  ▫️Solar energy will be the primary source of human energy use by 2040 ▫️$500B spent on buying and installing solar panels in 2024 (nearly same “sum being put into upstream oil and gas”) ▫️Solar

Solar energy is proving techno-optimists right.

Jan Rosenow Michael Liebreich - @MLiebreich.bsky.social bcbic72 TerraGen Solar @MAMortensonCo AukeHoekstra Please bookmark this IEA graphic. Grid batteries - even moreso than EV batteries - are ALREADY mostly LFP-technology, so nickel-free and cobalt-free. Plus, the emergence of sodium-ion (already beginning to scale up manufacturing) is cheaper than LFP and with a lower CO2

Q: Why have batteries become so cheap? A: Because many no longer need expensive minerals. The rise of the LFP battery means 40% of all EV batteries globally (higher in China), do not contain any nickel or cobalt…

A landslide for the green economy, says Greg Jackson.

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This is a must-read challenge to the "batteries consume sooo many minerals". Will they? Will they really? Or will chemistry, energy density and recycling mean this concern is rather overblown? OUT TODAY from RMI rmi.org/insight/the-ba…

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Some 🤯 EU + UK renewables stats out today: - Wind+solar share of EU power mix surpasses fossil fuels in H1. - Renewables at record high of 46.4%, fossil fuels at record low of 27%. - Coal down 24%, gas down 14%. - UK clean power passes 60% share in 2023. businessgreen.com/news/4341131/f…