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Paul Boldrin @paulboldrin.bsky.social · 30m

As an example electrified industry has far lower benefits of scale than thermal based industry. We've gone through a century of consolidation of production of commodity goods like steel and chemicals because of the immense benefits of larger scale production. Will that continue or start to reverse?

Paul Boldrin @paulboldrin.bsky.social · 37m

I think your 9th post is important as well. Electrification is a fundamentally different technology on many levels to thermal energy. Economies will react to that regardless of what political power wants.

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Paul Boldrin @paulboldrin.bsky.social · 1h

Can you imagine giving those Germans food with some spice in it like Turkish or middle Eastern? Haha, I bet they'll never have tried anything like that in their lives!

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Paul Boldrin @paulboldrin.bsky.social · 1h

I can't imagine how different the Internet would be if the US didn't speak English. Would Americans be posting videos of someone feeding spicy deep fried chicken wings to Spanish kids? It would make much more sense than this.

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Paul Boldrin @paulboldrin.bsky.social · 1h

Oh man, would've been so nice for him to bury that.

Paul Boldrin @paulboldrin.bsky.social · 1h

Poppelgangers:

Peoples Pop Polls: Black Pop History 82-85 @peoples-pop-polls.bsky.social · May 11

So CONGRATULATIONS to the WINNER of #Poppelgangers

🥇"I WISH" - Stevie Wonder & Skee-Lo

and to the runners-up

🥈"The Look Of Love" (Dusty Springfield/ABC)
🥉"Dreams" (Fleetwood Mac/Cranberries)

Skee-Lo... in the world of people's pop, you ARE a baller

a man is saying i wish i was a baller in front of a car at night .

ALT: a man is saying i wish i was a baller in front of a car at night .

media.tenor.com

Paul Boldrin @paulboldrin.bsky.social · 1h

I think people are thinking so much about energy system change as a thing we have to push to combat climate change that there are not many people thinking about what happens when the energy transition gains its own momentum and doesn't need to be pushed anymore.

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Paul Boldrin @paulboldrin.bsky.social · 2h

Maybe he's getting confused about which PE the book is about.

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Paul Boldrin @paulboldrin.bsky.social · 2h

I voted for Wrong earlier. Although 0+2=1 is my favourite NMN album.

Paul Boldrin @paulboldrin.bsky.social · 4h

Fun nerdy battery fact - it's not actually possible to measure how much charge a battery has left, the percentage remaining is basically an educated guess.

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Paul Boldrin @paulboldrin.bsky.social · 4h

It's just mean pitting Fugazi against Nomeansno. Although these are not my favourite albums from either of these two bands.

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Paul Boldrin @paulboldrin.bsky.social · 6h

I've had a similar strategy for dealing with capricious bosses in the past where if they ask me to do something I think is stupid I don't do it the first time they ask. They have to demonstrate they are actually serious about it by asking me "what happened about X?" a couple of weeks later.

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Paul Boldrin @paulboldrin.bsky.social · 6h

Incidentally in the future I think almost all waste furniture in the UK is going to end up with the carbon being buried up in the north west as part of the Hynet project, so it will at least produce negative carbon electricity.

Paul Boldrin @paulboldrin.bsky.social · Aug 5

The government just announced the priority list for the first bunch of CCS projects in Hynet (north west England) which hopefully should assuage some of the worst doubts about what the CCS stuff is about. On the list is CCS from a cement works, from a domestic wood waste facility (1/2)

HyNet expansion: project negotiation list

www.gov.uk

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Paul Boldrin @paulboldrin.bsky.social · 6h

One of my relatives tried to sell everything from their mum's house, it took weeks of hassle and finally they had to pay more to clear the rest because they'd sold everything the clearance guys could make any money on. So when I did my gran's I just paid £500 to clear the lot. Very sad.

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Paul Boldrin @paulboldrin.bsky.social · 6h

"Oh I see you like to get together in a crowded room with lots of people to listen to music AND GIVE EVERYONE COVID, you monster!"

Paul Boldrin @paulboldrin.bsky.social · 11h

Saudi is installing solar for less than $20/MWh! The US has gone mad.

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Paul Boldrin @paulboldrin.bsky.social · 11h

Extremely likely to be excess wind from UK under those conditions I would think.

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Paul Boldrin @paulboldrin.bsky.social · 12h

As long as it's not oil! I guess "unknown" could be imports?

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Paul Boldrin @paulboldrin.bsky.social · 12h

Also, none of those people are cool anymore. It's 2025. 65 year olds calling 80 year olds "cool" is stretching the definition of the word way beyond its breaking point. If one of them (the alive ones anyway) wants to be cool they need to get arrested or something, 50 year old songs don't cut it.

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Paul Boldrin @paulboldrin.bsky.social · 12h

Hope he enjoys the data centres.

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Paul Boldrin @paulboldrin.bsky.social · 12h

Imagine complaining about pointless white elephants in a post using an incredibly dumb AI generated image!

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Paul Boldrin @paulboldrin.bsky.social · 13h

Is the blue at the top geothermal, oil or unknown? Don't know if it's my eyes but those colours all look exactly the same!

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Paul Boldrin @paulboldrin.bsky.social · 1d

Ain't nothing but a hard hake
Ain't nothing but a missed hake
I never want to hear you say
I threw that fish away

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Paul Boldrin @paulboldrin.bsky.social · 1d

Favourite in the current squad to watch in the stadium is probably Porro. Such an incredible right foot on him. Or maybe Van de Ven because if you see him anywhere near the ball you can relax because the other guy is not going to get it.

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Paul Boldrin @paulboldrin.bsky.social · 1d

My favourite ever to watch in the stadium is Dembele. The season we were at Wembley I finally got to see us against Arsenal and Man Utd rather than Stoke and Burnley and it was just crazy the way he could just get the ball with some of the best players in the world on him and just spirit away.

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