TODAY is the 70th Birthday of Britain’s 275kV Supergrid 🇬🇧🎂🥳🎉⚡️At 12.35pm, please raise a glass to Sayers, Lane & Forrest, who designed, planned, ordered and built it, from a standing start, in just one decade for £52 million. Cheers 🥂 🍻

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Is Britain getting a bad deal? Ben Hopkinson and I looked at 242 infrastructure projects across 14 different countries. Our conclusion? It costs more to build new tram systems, railways, and roads in Britain than almost anywhere else in the world. 🧵 samdumitriu.com/p/britains-inf…

Vindication.

Glad to see Robert Colvile subscribe to a decade of electrification today! It lays out the scale of the challenge and the need for a practical plan to meet it. We have one. institute.global/insights/clima…

UK exceptionalism underlined in a high-speed map of Europe. Colour code: BLUE: existing high-speed rail connections; PURPLE: coming pre-2030; GOLD: coming post-2030.

Breakthroughs of 2023

BREAKING | Renewables produce more than 100% of Scotland's electricity demand for first time. i.stv.tv/4988b4b

To accelerate technological innovation, we need not only seed funding and innovators, but sometimes the neglected ‘Buyers of First Resort’

Words fail me. Here's HS2 being built at Chipping Campden. Anyone bellyaching about why HS1 costs so much, look at this and then just shut up and go away.

Insane statistic: 78% of noise complaints lodged against Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport were made by a single household. Reminder that NIMBYs are a very loud minority of people.

Life changing paragraph from C. S. Lewis

Jay Rosen nailed this phenomenon years ago in his "cult of savviness" articles.

Good week to see Steve Clarke & trophies ⚽️ St Mary's, Saltcoats 1974. Top back: Morrison, Stevenson. Back: Ballantyne, Delahunt, Behan, Carson, Moultrie, McCafferty, O'Hanlon. Seats: Reid, Kelly, Quinn, McGee, Black, Mulgrew. Front: Dickson/Clarke. Coaches JJ McCann, Neil Mackay

Reading Torsten Bell’s new book. Scarcely 30 pages in you’re hit with this absolutely staggering statistic

WE ARE WARRIORS ⚔️🛡️ WE ARE CHAMPIONS 🏆

Coal has been burned in power stations to power this nation since 1882. It ends in just 12 weeks’ time

This is the moment Ratcliffe power station came off the electricity system for the final time, marking the end of 142 years of coal generating electricity in Great Britain!

The bipolar express makes the news.