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🧵El próximo domingo, 15 de septiembre, hemos organizado junto a otras organizaciones la I Marcha "Columna de los ocho mil". Con salida y llegada en Fuente del Arco. ¿Sabes lo que es la Columna de los ocho mil? Te lo contamos. 👇

"Understanding Money Using Historical Evidence" -- a good one from the Annual Review of Economics eprints.lse.ac.uk/125356/1/annur…

Ever since the beginning of renewable energy rollout stark warnings about blackouts were issued. Incumbent German electricity suppliers said in 1993 that renewables could not provide more than 4% of electricity in the long run to keep the grid stable. Last year it was >10x

El fin de la era del petróleo ✅ solar y eólica generan ya más en Europa q las fósiles ✅ en China se hunde las ventas de coches de combustión ✅ los fabricantes de coches mal posicionados en eléctricos se van al garete ✅ se desploma el precio del petróleo Esto va muy rápido

Not sure there's a single chart that better summarizes the relentless improvement of batteries. Costs down over 90%, energy density up ~5X. In just over 20 years. Innovation is incredible. Chart from RMI rmi.org/the-rise-of-ba…

Did the arrival of fast internet create jobs in Africa? It's a super interesting natural experiment: a 2019 AER paper found a massive (4.6 to 7.7pp) increase in the number of people with jobs across several countries.

Nearly a third of major car plants in Europe are making less than half the vehicles they have capacity for, per Bloomberg. Guess who will be happy to acquire some of that overcapacity in one way or another? European OEMs should accelerate their EV plans, not downsize them.

“the marketplace of ideas in economics is becoming less efficient and fair”…plus some other good meat for thought about the economics profession in this piece

Just a fact check now that we are all with the “Europe is falling behind”

📢New paper in PNAS! How rich was Vienna at the time of Mozart or Tuscany at the time of Michelangelo? Historical GDPs per capita are scarce, leaving this unanswered. Here, we provide new estimates using machine learning to augment historical GDPs per capita. /1 🧵

Global wind power installations reached a new high in 2023, increasing renewable energy’s share of total power generation to 30%. Who are the leading countries? This graphic highlights the top 15 countries by total installed wind turbine capacity, based on data from the Energy

Noruega ya tiene más coches eléctricos que de gasolina y concentran el 90% de las ventas. El país nórdico aspira a convertirse en el primero del mundo en poner fin a la venta de coches de combustión en 2025. elperiodicodelaenergia.com/noruega-ya-tie…

Some European OEMs will actually have to start making better, more affordable EVs, instead of lobbying to delay and fall further behind China 👍 "EU Commission rebuffs car industry calls to delay CO2 targets" euractiv.com/section/electr…

The distributed solar story in Pakistan is nuts!! It's now the third largest importer of solar in the world and basically all of it isn't a part of the utility system. All of this is in response to the central planners that run the national grid making decisions that ended up

Uh oh. Don't tell the "EV sales have stalled" folks, but August saw a set of new records in the US: -Most plug-in vehicles sold (145k) -Most battery electric vehicles sold (121k) -Highest battery electric (8.6%) and plug-in vehicle sales shares (10.2%) Hybrids are also growing

Never forget, a 13-year study found that protected bike-lanes led to a drastic decline in fatalities for all road users. ALL ROAD USERS. And painted bike-lanes? No safety improvement at all. For sharrows, it’s safer to NOT have them. Via Streetsblog USA usa.streetsblog.org/2019/05/29/pro…

-"La liberación demuestra que Renfe era muy cara porque las nuevas son más baratas". No, amigo, no. Están todas vendiendo a pérdidas en una batalla de precios que acabará con alguna quiebra (y posiblemente rescate). Iryo pierde más que Renfe con menos servicios y líneas.

No entiendo como se les ocurrió al Real Madrid hacer un campo de fútbol en el mismísimo centro de una ciudad sabiendo que iban a molestar a los vecinos.

NEW RECORD: Ember estimates that at the current rate of additions, the world will install 593 GW of solar panels this year. That’s 29% more than was installed last year. ember-climate.org/insights/in-br…

This FT story (quotes me) focuses on the problems solar creates for Pakistan's power grid, which is stuck making capacity payments to coal plants. It's losing sales to its best customers, wealthier households and businesses, which can afford to go solar. ft.com/content/69e4cb…