Ben Robins

If you're in the UK check out carbonintensity.org.uk It shows real time energy mix for each region But what's really useful is the carbon forecast, which can be used as a price-proxy for day-ahead energy control (battery charging etc.) It's got an API too you can use for automation

The Boiler Upgrade Scheme costs £400m/year. Compare that to the £40bn the Treasury spent propping up bills during the last energy crisis. It’s about 1% of that & it helps get all types of households - including social housing - off the gas that caused the crisis in the first place @gjuk.bsky.social

Lula pulled it off. Don't much like the guy but heck more better than the alternative. We are 2 out of 2 with Serbia. Israel to go

The executives of all German car companies should be fired for blatant stupidity

The question is: Why did Trump derail peace talks?

Told you so. This is what real technology agnostic (instead of German car lobby "agnostic") car developments look like. Truck are coming along also (after a slow start). This will quickly overtake any EU EV mandates (let alone US laggard policies).

Whenever someone says that electricity is expensive because of decarbonisation, there are only two possibilities Either they are knowingly lying to you Or they are the victims of disinformation, and have been fooled by someone who was lying to them

seeing Elon go on a multi-day crashout about Talarico has really highlighted how psychologically devastating it would be to Republicans if they lost Texas. So much of their self-identity is tied to repping Texas as the anti-California and would be shattered if the state even tipped blue.

The irony is the oligarchs helped blue-ify Texas by moving offices there. About 300K net CA-to-TX immigration in 5y is 1.6% of the TX voter pool, which in a close race could be decisive - and that's before you account for the newcomers' influence on neighbors.

You should never argue with a price, but.... The European (EU and UK) gas crisis that has tripled prices this year is not that bad... Storage is at normal levels relative to consumption. So much other evidence in my piece www.ft.com/content/31df...

"There are several reasons American automakers pulled back from an earlier determination to enter the electric era with the rest of the world. And for their customers to be left to scrounge when energy prices revived demand. But the biggest reason is Donald Trump." eks.creators.com/read/froma-h...

The president of Brazil has won a court case against Meta, after accusing them of restricting his posts and algorithmically favoring his opponent, Flavio Bolsonaro www.nbcnews.com/world/south-...

If you're still on X ... now my friends is the time to pull that plug. This very dangerous man needs to be stopped, not enabled www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...

I don't care if it produced an endless supply of hot delicious churros straight out of the glovebox, I will never buy a fucking Tesla

Guardian last month: "Scrap windfall tax on oil and gas firms early, North Sea industry urges" FT this week: "How will Big Oil spend its $32bn Iran war windfall?"

This is quite extraordinary. I don't think I have heard a more coherent, articulate and accurate deconstruction & demolition of Nigel Farage's ReformUK, Tory & Restore policy than this. In under 85 seconds! @rafaelbehr.bsky.social is on here folks and worth a follow.

11 of 17 Starlink antennas were set on fire at a guarded facility near Sofia, Bulgaria. Two masked individuals reportedly carried out the attack. Infrastructure supporting Ukraine is being targeted across Europe with growing frequency. At what point does “concern” become a response?

It's legitimate for the EU, the UK, Canada and others to support their Ukrainian ally. If Musk is going to (in effect) assist Putin's invasion of Ukraine, Ukraine's allies should sanction Starlink, X and Tesla. At the very least, governments (and people) should stop using his fucking site already.

My Trade Secrets today. Unfair Chinese competition may exist but it’s not the main reason the EU’s car industry is screwed, and tariffs won’t fix it on their own. Companies need to move faster and leave the internal combustion era behind.

Andy Burnham hugs Volodymyr Zelenskyy and welcomes him to Downing Street with a ceremonial guard of honour. This is how you treat the leader of the free world.

Reform figures see social media engagement drop after strikes on Russia data centres www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/ref...

It's accepted that there are troll/bot accounts creating fake engagement on X, Facebook etc. but the accounts themselves reside on the servers of Meta, X, etc. Orchestration of fake accounts can therefore be done anywhere connected to the internet, and it's not difficult to relocate such a workload

Likes and replies to Reform UK people fell off a cliff. e.g. Nigel Farage, Richard Tice, Zia Yusuf Not a rumor, I saw this by checking a few days X postings myself. Many others reported similar. But that was yesterday, and things since changed.

Feels like not enough people are aware of how fully cooked the internal combustion engine is. My mum's old diesel Honda currently costs £120 to fill up, on which it'll do just under 300 miles. My sister's EV costs £6 for a full charge which will take her 280 miles.

I see a potential for disorderly disruption. It doesn't take big shifts for increasing numbers of petrol stations to become unviable. So a tipping point where (esp rural/semi rural) stations close and users are bounced into car changes

Blows my mind how everything is about the cost of diesel and not about... **sweeping gesture**... Anything else

Yes. We focus so much attention on the dumpster fire that is this administration, but rarely talk about what the actual population truly values and what that says about the country.

⚡️ Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has criticised the U.S.–Russia diesel agreement, warning that providing Moscow with fresh revenue directly undermines allied efforts to achieve peace. united24media.com/war-in-ukrai...

Uh oh, did someone’s website and personal account experience a big drop in activity after Ukraine hit a Russian data center?

Maybe the most amazing aspect of the Russo-Ukraine War is that Russia is getting backing from both China and the USA, the two largest powers of the moment--and Ukraine could still emerge triumphant as long as Europe backs it stoutly.

Just leaving this here for morale

Rotten bit of bad luck eh, climate change disrupting coal power generation!

4% increase in imports from Canada would easily replace the entire physical volume of diesel “negotiated” in the new US-Russia pact.

Jan 2027 coincides with inauguration of the next US Congress. Putin and Trump are conspiring against Ukraine while they still have time.

Nobody seems to be noticing yet that Trump is taking a massive *political* risk here. Democrats need a 2/3 senate majority to impeach, and Trump's deal with the enemy just gave Republicans a stonking reason to cross the floor to join them.

Nobody seems to be noticing yet that Trump is taking a massive *political* risk here. Democrats need a 2/3 senate majority to impeach, and Trump's deal with the enemy just gave Republicans a stonking reason to cross the floor to join them.

Jan 2027 coincides with inauguration of the next US Congress. Putin and Trump are conspiring against Ukraine while they still have time.

Trump is creating a pretext to suspend satellite intel again. Or otherwise, to stop Ukraine targeting Russian refineries. Politically, it's a highly risky gambit for Trump, so we can deduce that the refinery strikes are severely hurting Russia.

Let’s go Ukraine! Let’s see how popular MAGA, AfD and Reform UK truly are without their Russian bot farms.

The nothing screams “natural party of government” like serving up discount imported MAGA policy reheated in a Tufton Street microwave.

😂 Democracy, russian style. Communists in Moscow held an officially approved rally. Then they started chanting “Down with the Tsar!” And suddenly the “approved rally” wasn’t so approved anymore - police beat them and dispersed the crowd.

Blown away by the interest and positive feedback! The Cleaning Up episode on the Primary Energy Fallacy with me and Michael Liebreich is now in the top 10 of all 276 episodes of the show available on YouTube. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xDH...

These anonymous MPs saying it's 'electoral suicide' to tinker with the triple lock. Exactly the type who got us into this mess: unwilling to lead, unwilling to recognise reality for fear of offending voters, unwilling to solve long-term problems if it presents the slightest short-term risk.

The major platforms—Facebook, YouTube, and X—are all refusing to show the trailer for the upcoming documentary that eviscerates the ridiculous pest Elon Musk. So I guess we have to do our part to make sure it is seen. www.youtube.com/watch?v=eY_8...

September has broken into multi-year lows for gas demand in Europe. With a warm first half of October on the cards, it could well be the case for the coming month too. Oh, front month NBP is down 6% today.