The dark secret of astronomers and solar panels revealed here.

Nice illustration of the worldwide demise of coal to produce electricity. Even coal country UK has entirely phased out coal recently. Japan sticks out by being one of the few countries to not decrease coal consumption. A consequence of shutting down nuclear plants post Fukushima?

Electric busses are taking over the bus market even faster than electric cars. I love the gentle swoosh sound of passing electric busses in my hometown Lund. The sound of the future.

A graphical representation of just how ridiculously costly Russia’s snail pace invasion of Ukraine is. So tired of journalists dooming about territorial loss and neglecting to provide any analyses of how unsustainable the human loss rate is for Russia.

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Story in Scientific American about Vega’s planet-free debris disc. With quotes from me. I think it’s because of the low metallicity. scientificamerican.com/article/famous…

I published a rebuttal today in reaction to a recent claim that Earth did not form by pebble accretion. Our conclusion is that Earth likely formed by a combination of pebble accretion, large impactors and a giant impact. Questions and comments welcome. arxiv.org/abs/2411.17043

Best analysis I have seen of yesterday’s blow up of US-Ukraine relations. This was not a derailed discussion, but seems well planned from Trump side. Zelensky is not stupid, he knows he is better off walking away from an unjust peace treaty than going along with this bs.

“Sure we need to address global warming. But what about China?”

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I really recommend this long read about Pakistan’s solar power boom.