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Steve Fawkes

@drstevefawkes.bsky.social

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Founder of epgroup.com Practitioner, author and speaker on energy efficiency, distributed energy & financing the energy transition. Blog at onlyelevenpercent.com

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Rick Wilson @therickwilson.bsky.social · 1d

The East Wing Obscenity

This piece is on the free side of the paywall, and I have to admit that writing it made me more sad than I could have imagined. The ugly destruction isn’t just to a building, but to memory, history, and American grace.

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The East Wing Obscenity

Trump's Ballroom Is a Tumor On The People's House

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Steve Fawkes @drstevefawkes.bsky.social · 1d

Also packed in the Lapworth geology museum @unibirmingham.bsky.social which was excellent

Steve Fawkes @drstevefawkes.bsky.social · 1d

Excellent Baggs Happiness lecture by Clive Myrie @unibirmingham.bsky.social

Steve Fawkes @drstevefawkes.bsky.social · 1d

Lanchester hybrid EV from 1927

Steve Fawkes @drstevefawkes.bsky.social · 1d

Face plate lathe of course

Steve Fawkes @drstevefawkes.bsky.social · 1d

Boulton and Watt. Pioneers of the Energy Services Company business model.

Steve Fawkes @drstevefawkes.bsky.social · 1d

Mercury arc rectifier from 1890.

Steve Fawkes @drstevefawkes.bsky.social · 1d

The oldest working steam engine - 1779

Steve Fawkes @drstevefawkes.bsky.social · 1d

Face plate large from 1850. Used to make parts of steam engines by Boulton and Watt. It could shape metal parts up to 8 metres across! Big stuff.

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Steve Fawkes @drstevefawkes.bsky.social · 2d

Attending an event at the @unibirmingham.bsky.social later - decided to stop in the city centre.

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 3d

An OpenAI executive said GPT-5 found solutions to 10 "previously unsolved" math problems when in reality all it did was find online references to places where people had already solved them

techcrunch.com/2025/10/19/o...

OpenAI’s ‘embarrassing’ math | TechCrunch

No, GPT-5 did not solve a bunch of previously unsolved math problems.

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Steve Fawkes @drstevefawkes.bsky.social · 2d

Excited to see energy questions on University Challenge! Which generation source is which? Starter was the coal graph! Question use of capital H in TWh though! #universitychallenge

Steve Fawkes @drstevefawkes.bsky.social · 2d

Highly unlikely given the history of over prediction of demand growth.

Steve Fawkes @drstevefawkes.bsky.social · 3d

Baker Street

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 5d

This morning my ChatGPT quota was inexplicably exhausted.

It took a while but I pieced it together. Voice mode somehow got activated when I went to bed.

The bot then engaged in a 10 hour conversation with my snoring dog, answering questions the pup wasn’t asking and praising him for his insight.

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Steve Fawkes @drstevefawkes.bsky.social · 5d

I think this was up for sale in the last year or so.

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Standplaats Kraków @standplaatskrk.pl · 5d

Zack Korman (@ZackKorman) on twitter: "Copilot in Excel is a global financial crisis waiting to happen."

Image of a spreadsheet where copilot just summed 1,2, and 3 to 15.

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Steve Fawkes @drstevefawkes.bsky.social · 6d

Steve Fawkes @drstevefawkes.bsky.social · 7d

Something different this morning - attending the International Copper Association industry leaders forum. Always good to get a different perspective.

Steve Fawkes @drstevefawkes.bsky.social · 8d

Me neither! But may be a useful image to help make the point. Was a time when we were sending Russia €1 bn a day!

Steve Fawkes @drstevefawkes.bsky.social · 8d

So a round €750 million a day. Now looking for an image of a stack of €750m for a slide. Here’s a pallet of $50m so c.15 pallets a day. Source: propmoney.info

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Steve Fawkes @drstevefawkes.bsky.social · 9d

Here's an example from Battersea Power Station - well worth visiting if you haven't done it. The 1950s control room is great, hoping to see the 1930s control room sometime, need a private function.