An absolutely brilliant essay from the EU ambassador to the Ukraine on differing responses to the war by Eastern and Western Europe. lmc.icds.ee/when-reality-b…

My all time favourite President, Theodore Roosevelt, was 42 on first taking office. JFK was 43. Obama, 44. FDR, 51. Lincoln was 52. (All time US average is 57). Zelensky is 44. Marin is 36. Really makes you wonder about re-shaping the future of the world…

The #Russia #Ukraine connection here is insane. It is the best shale in all of Europe, near Donetsk and Luhansk. In 2013, Ukraine signed a $10bn development contract here, and said it might even become a net gas exporter. Russia’s first invasion came less than a year later…

Spot the street(s) where I do my weekly hill sprints …

Motion to re-name ‘Peter the Great’ as ‘Peter the Dickhead’. Because 450,000 people died in the ‘Great Northern War’ (1700-1721). Mostly innocent people. Killed by famines. Maybe we should stop holding this up on a ‘pedestal of greatness’ so Putin will stop trying to emulate it…

Who cares about obscure chemical intermediate prices doubling? Turns out HCl is an input in making PV silicon for solar panels, Cl an input for rigid plastics (eg wind turbines), NaOH for battery metals and bio-diesel. #EnergyTransition

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1,000 miles per gallon-equivalent. As if I needed another excuse to cycle to Aegna this weekend :-)

Time to find new and more efficient method of making tea?

Just read an article online, from major news wire, promising to “explain” what is happening in the UK economy right now. It notes how more quantitative easing will put more money into the UK economy “thereby bringing inflation back down”. 🫣🤡 We are all doomed, aren’t we ?!

Verra, Gold Standard, American Carbon Registry... is your head spinning yet? Ours definitely were until our co-founder Lisett Lopez wrote this overview of the key carbon registries, their role and what the future might hold. Read it here: bit.ly/3SVlU6B

Finnish inventor Heikki Kärnä is the man behind the Vipukirves Leveraxe and his aim was to redesign the axe using simple principles of physics to make it more efficient and safer [read more: buff.ly/3rPiHr8] [video: buff.ly/3cN6eQo]

A note to the deeply unserious people in charge of OECD energy policy. Do you understand that we need to attract about $2trn pa of energy investment? Every time you upend rules, put in random new taxes, investors get scared. Please just give us a stable investment climate.

New spirit animal 🦊

Interesting thought. If silver becomes a huge bottleneck on solar, could it even cause PV silicon prices to crash? Because there is a lot of silicon capacity coming online, with little purpose, if you can’t make the front contacts…

So you have joined an afforestation project. What happens next? What do you have to do after the trees are planted? Answers to all of these questions and more are found in this article about monitoring: arbonics.com/knowledge-hub/…

Great faceplant today, on my first cross-country ski of the year in Estonia. At the exact next moment, The Rest Is History podcast quoted Nelson saying he’d “never felt better” after having his arm amputated. Felt I was channelling the Lord Admiral himself, as I dusted myself off…

Tropic Morning News The National. Enjoying how the lyrics call back familiar themes from Conversation 16 (10+ years ago) and Beautiful Head (20+years ago!). Grateful for the 20+ year journey…

Trying to convert high-grade electricity into a fuel is the thermodynamic equivalent of printing out your emails…

Over the last 4 years on twitter Ive attracted a decent following of ~9000 people who are interested in Energy. Here are 10 observations about posting in Energy Twitter that I’ve noticed: 1). Short posts hit harder (this is not one) 2). People LOVE extreme views (ie solar is a