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Anne Currie @annecurrie.bsky.social · 2d

I was interviewing a leading Indian AI academic on a podcast yesterday about the alignment of renewables and AI and I mentioned that IMO China and India were leading on growth in energy while the US was still looking backwards. He was nonplussed. That clearly wasn't what he was used to hearing...

Doug Parr @dougparr.bsky.social · 2d

In the first half of 2025, renewables became the biggest source of global electricity for the first time, as wind & solar growth exceeded global demand growth

Shocking that it's China & India leading - EU & USA have fossil power growing

ember-energy.org/latest-insig...

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Anne Currie @annecurrie.bsky.social · 2d

This would be an amazing thing to offer in poorer areas of the UK. I'm thinking Jaywick. Every time I walk through the (potentially beautiful) place I wonder when the artists will move in @tendringmag.bsky.social @tdalc.bsky.social Wonder how they administered the scheme to make it work so well?

Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 2d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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Fiona Charles @fionaccharles.bsky.social · 2d

Yes, indeed. Recommend reading this linked post also joanna-bryson.blogspot.com/2025/02/gene... where Professor Bryson says what really needs to be said about AI and agency.

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Ember @ember-energy.org · 6d

Spain’s rapid wind and solar growth has CUT the link between gas and electricity prices 🌪️☀️

🇪🇸’s decoupling of gas and electricity prices happened faster than in other European countries, making it one of the cheapest power markets in Europe.

https://loom.ly/8DEmqVc

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Anne Currie @annecurrie.bsky.social · 4d

The modern equivalent of "spot the ball"

Will - Absolute Shower 🇺🇦 @showerabsolute.bsky.social · Jul 23

As a Bluesky user in good standing obviously I love TheModernHouse.com. The best bit is working out where the TV normally sits, which they've removed for the pictures. Bonus points here for proving it with an accidental glimpse in the fourth pic

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Anne Currie @annecurrie.bsky.social · 4d

If you want to download the creative commons version of my novel Utopia Five it is available on my website www.annecurrie.com/book-downloads

Anne Currie: Sustainability & SciFi Writer - Book Downloads

Utopia Five, the first novel of the Panopticon Series is available free here under a CC BY-NC 4.0 Creative Commons license i.e. you can read it and quote it for non commercial purposes as long as you ...

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Anne Currie @annecurrie.bsky.social · 4d

Book podcast!!

In a change from tech, this week I was a guest on Tim Lewis's fun podcast Book Chat. We chatted about 8 novels, from murder mysteries to YA to fantasy to SciFi, all linked by world building - books that define worlds other creators build on.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJKz...

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The New Stack @thenewstack.io · 4d

Learn how HSBC, OVO Energy and the U.K. government are cutting carbon emissions and costs.

By @charleshumble.bsky.social feat. @annecurrie.bsky.social

Real-World IT Sustainability: 3 Case Studies From Green IO London

Learn how HSBC, OVO Energy and the U.K. government are cutting carbon emissions and costs.

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Anne Currie @annecurrie.bsky.social · 5d

(fortunately, that's just their garden)

Anne Currie @annecurrie.bsky.social · 5d

The theory is trees tend not to be blown down by prevailing winds because they grow their root systems to support them against the constant push. It is an example of real life chaos engineering or adaptive architecture. The danger is if the wind reverses pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/14871781/

Adaptive growth of tree root systems in response to wind action and site conditions - PubMed

Soil-root plate dimensions and structural root architecture were examined on 46-year-old Sitka spruce (Picea sitchensis (Bong.) Carr.) trees that had been mechanically uprooted. Rooting depth was rest...

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

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Anne Currie @annecurrie.bsky.social · 5d

Word of the (windy) day: thigmomorphogenesis. It's when plants adapt their growth depending on their physical environment.

I am pinning my hopes on it as I watch my neighbours blue cedar, which if it fell with the prevailing wind - like today - would squash my house. www.ebsco.com/research-sta...

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Anne Currie @annecurrie.bsky.social · 6d

Because if you reverse it: "degrowth" or "stagnate" that is obviously not something anyone with sense is aiming for. Your mission cannot be "be alive tomorrow". If the obvious response is well, d'uh then my suggestion is your message is unlikely to inspire

Anne Currie @annecurrie.bsky.social · 6d

Good article from Goodall. In terms of renewables I rail against the UK's lack of strategy but we do at least have a mission - convert the UK to renewables. To lack a mission, which is what the Starmer project lacks, is disastrous and inexcusable. "Growth" is not a mission. How do I know?

Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 6d

The near consensus view was that Keir Starmer's conference speech was his best yet. I heard something different. I think it was born of a profound weakness- and in its own way set up his own future failure.

My latest

goodallandgoodluck.substack.com/p/keir-starm... open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...

Keir Starmer: the new Joe Biden?

The consensus view was that Keir Starmer's speech was his best yet. I think it was born of deep frailty.

open.substack.com

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Anne Currie @annecurrie.bsky.social · 6d

this is indeed brilliant

Moose Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 6d

Oh, this is fantastic.

Barry (Non Canon/Oxygen Thief) @dolanthology.bsky.social · 6d

The song is inspired by a @mooseallain.bsky.social thread about inserting Where's Wally into other media.

It took me three years, and it's more from Wally's point of view* rather than me singing "oh look there's a guy with glasses and a stripey jumper", but I'm pretty chuffed with it.

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Anne Currie @annecurrie.bsky.social · 6d

Spain has a multi layered strategy. They are not only building loads of renewable capacity, via dynamic tariffs they are leading businesses and households towards how to use it effectively www.cleanenergywire.org/factsheets/q...

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Anne Currie @annecurrie.bsky.social · 6d

The US strategy of spending huge (brute force style) is not appropriate to the UK and even some US states are baulking (Texas, ironically enough, has a renewables strategy based on cheaper deals for large flexible loads)

Anne Currie @annecurrie.bsky.social · 6d

Great writeup of GreenIO conference last week, where I spoke on the strategic imperative of aligning AI and renewable energy. China and India are being clear on how they will do it. What's the UK strategy? Who knows.

The New Stack @thenewstack.io · 6d

Learn how HSBC, OVO Energy and the U.K. government are cutting carbon emissions and costs.

By @charleshumble.bsky.social feat. @annecurrie.bsky.social

Real-World IT Sustainability: 3 Case Studies From Green IO London

Learn how HSBC, OVO Energy and the U.K. government are cutting carbon emissions and costs.

bit.ly

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Anne Currie @annecurrie.bsky.social · 6d

it is nowhere near as simple as good folk and not good folk

Anne Currie @annecurrie.bsky.social · 6d

Isn't this bollocks? There was loads of research into this question.
It's 80% of folk, if they think that's what everyone else wants to do www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/a...

The question is how do you both avoid the situation & train folk to think independently. That isn't how people think by default

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Nicolas Fulghum @nicolasfulghum.bsky.social · 7d

NEW ANALYSIS | Spain is successfully decoupling electricity prices from gas power costs 🇪🇸⚡️

Spain reduced the number of hours where electricity prices exceed gas costs by 75% since 2019.

As a result, Spain's electricity prices were 32% lower than the EU average in H1-2025.

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Anne Currie @annecurrie.bsky.social · 7d

I love this article. The next step is to encourage governments to have national strategies for its use. For example China's East Data, West Computing strategy www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... or India's time of use tariffs carnegieendowment.org/india/ideas-...

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Anne Currie @annecurrie.bsky.social · 7d

"The Tories - remember them?"

John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 7d

This is a good example of something that *could* be a line drawn between Con & Ref, where Con voters are, broadly pro-environmental measures and they are popular with the broader public. And yet...

Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 7d

Tory party’s long journey away from science, reason, responsibility, common sense and truth is complete

Anne Currie @annecurrie.bsky.social · 8d

very interesting direction for tariffs. I think in the UK EV drivers usually use Octopus flexible tariff?

Jaap Burger @jaapburger.eu · 8d

Behind the scenes, this is a nomos tariff, which makes this possible for more companies.

Nomos - Dynamische Tarife für Ihre Kunden

Steigern Sie Ihren Umsatz, indem Sie für Ihre Kunden zum Full-Service-Energiepartner werden. Wir helfen Ihnen, einen dynamischen Tarif unter Ihrer eigenen Marke zu integrieren und Ihren Kunden anzubie...

www.nomos.energy

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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 9d

Denmark is becoming the new Norway!

Electric vehicles in Denmark follow a text book S-curve.

In August: 69% of new sales were full battery electric vehicles.

Source @leraffl.bsky.social

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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 9d

Renewables are a masterclass in learning-by-doing. Each doubling of deployment cuts costs via experience curves: better manufacturing, finance & supply chains.

Result:

Solar now cheapest new power in many regions
Falling battery costs enable flexibility
Electrification gets more attractive

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