Steve Fawkes
@drstevefawkes.bsky.social
Founder of epgroup.com Practitioner, author and speaker on energy efficiency, distributed energy & financing the energy transition. Blog at onlyelevenpercent.com
Very alarming
This is the most alarming story I’ve read today. Giving up the fight before it’s started
November 30, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Very alarming
Classic but little known book - a founding text of science fiction.
The SF Collections at Liverpool host the Olaf Stapledon Archive. We're delighted that SFF trustee Una McCormack was able to discuss Stapledon's landmark debut novel with Matthew De Abaitua and Andy Miller. www.backlisted.fm/episodes/253...
253. Last and First Men by Olaf Stapledon — Backlisted
Writer and critic Matthew De Abaitua joins Andy, Una and Nicky to discuss Last and First Men: A Story of the Near and Far Future (1930), the astounding first novel by Olaf Stapledon. The...
www.backlisted.fm
November 26, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Classic but little known book - a founding text of science fiction.
Here's a good idea..
Cooking with gas.
Well-oiled machine.
Burning the midnight oil.
Step on the gas.
Too many everyday expressions reek of fossil fuels. Help me come up with cleaner alternatives, please! I'm taking suggestions at Climate-Colored Goggles: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/watch-your...
Well-oiled machine.
Burning the midnight oil.
Step on the gas.
Too many everyday expressions reek of fossil fuels. Help me come up with cleaner alternatives, please! I'm taking suggestions at Climate-Colored Goggles: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/watch-your...
Watch your f-ing language
Too many expressions reek of fossil fuels. Let's stop "cooking with gas" and come up with cleaner alternatives.
www.climatecoloredgoggles.com
November 26, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Here's a good idea..
Great message on the benefits of employee ownership vs ‘prevailing model of leadership and remote boards, rewarding for short-term shareholder value at any cost’ - from Guy Singh-Watson at #Riverford #EOT #stewardownership
November 26, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Great message on the benefits of employee ownership vs ‘prevailing model of leadership and remote boards, rewarding for short-term shareholder value at any cost’ - from Guy Singh-Watson at #Riverford #EOT #stewardownership
Write up the session at Elemental on 'Using real world data to plan, prioritise and evaluate retrofit at scale' tinyurl.com/d8ytmbka
#retrofit #energyefficiency
#retrofit #energyefficiency
Using real-world data to plan, prioritise and evaluate retrofit at scale - elemental
At this year’s elementalLONDON, three industry experts came together for a panel session on retrofit, sharing their updates and insights – and announcing an important new resource – that could […]
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November 26, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Write up the session at Elemental on 'Using real world data to plan, prioritise and evaluate retrofit at scale' tinyurl.com/d8ytmbka
#retrofit #energyefficiency
#retrofit #energyefficiency
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Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
November 25, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
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“Have they given up? Are they just deciding to build up herd immunity by watching us die? The government has given up, hasn’t it? They are throwing us into the slaughterhouse.”
It’s not hindsight - we knew this at the time @drrachelclarke.com writes:
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
It’s not hindsight - we knew this at the time @drrachelclarke.com writes:
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
I’ll never forget the horror of the Covid wards | The Observer
observer.co.uk
November 23, 2025 at 10:02 AM
“Have they given up? Are they just deciding to build up herd immunity by watching us die? The government has given up, hasn’t it? They are throwing us into the slaughterhouse.”
It’s not hindsight - we knew this at the time @drrachelclarke.com writes:
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
It’s not hindsight - we knew this at the time @drrachelclarke.com writes:
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
1st time in Bruges. It’s as good as people say it is.
November 22, 2025 at 1:25 PM
1st time in Bruges. It’s as good as people say it is.
In all the times I have been to Brussels I have never seen the superb Gare du Nord
November 22, 2025 at 7:57 AM
In all the times I have been to Brussels I have never seen the superb Gare du Nord
Back in Place Rogier, Brussels
November 21, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Back in Place Rogier, Brussels
My current reading- very interesting account of the rise of commodity traders
November 21, 2025 at 7:38 AM
My current reading- very interesting account of the rise of commodity traders
All of My Employees Are AI Agents, and So Are My Executives | WIRED
All of My Employees Are AI Agents, and So Are My Executives
Sam Altman says the one-person billion-dollar company is coming. Maybe I could be that person—if only I could get my colleagues to shut up and stop lying.
www.wired.com
November 21, 2025 at 7:03 AM
All of My Employees Are AI Agents, and So Are My Executives | WIRED
From 2023. A fascinating and scary account of hackers hacking the anti-hacking companies and through them many others.
The Untold Story of the Boldest Supply-Chain Hack Ever
The attackers were in thousands of corporate and government networks. They might still be there now. Behind the scenes of the SolarWinds investigation.
www.wired.com
November 21, 2025 at 6:33 AM
From 2023. A fascinating and scary account of hackers hacking the anti-hacking companies and through them many others.
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It’s fun to think about the surgeon who will botch your surgery 20 years from now and what he’s doing at this moment. He just ran all his homework through ChatGPT. He just read that article about vaccines and autism at the CDC website. He just watched an Instagram video about the moon landing hoax.
November 21, 2025 at 4:27 AM
It’s fun to think about the surgeon who will botch your surgery 20 years from now and what he’s doing at this moment. He just ran all his homework through ChatGPT. He just read that article about vaccines and autism at the CDC website. He just watched an Instagram video about the moon landing hoax.
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Omfg help us all
November 21, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Omfg help us all
Worth reading. So Russia gets everything it wants essentially. Gets welcomed back into world economy & G8. USA (read administration cronies) get 50% of profits from investments from $100bn of Russian money. No way.
The full leaked text of the proposed US-Russia agreement on Ukraine (translated from Russian):
November 21, 2025 at 6:09 AM
Worth reading. So Russia gets everything it wants essentially. Gets welcomed back into world economy & G8. USA (read administration cronies) get 50% of profits from investments from $100bn of Russian money. No way.
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This week, I withdrew from a speaking engagement at a public university because they sent me a list of prohibited “words & concepts.” I will not humor this censorship. It does a disservice to the stories I’m discussing & the audience, who deserve unfettered access to information & conversation.
November 20, 2025 at 10:20 PM
This week, I withdrew from a speaking engagement at a public university because they sent me a list of prohibited “words & concepts.” I will not humor this censorship. It does a disservice to the stories I’m discussing & the audience, who deserve unfettered access to information & conversation.
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In related news, the claim ‘the Tooth Fairy does not actually take lost baby teeth from under pillows’ is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that magical beings are secretly thieving teeth in the dead of night…”
www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
CDC backpedals on vaccines and autism, despite earlier assurances from RFK Jr.
The CDC, under the direction of an unqualified health secretary, is now promoting claims that flunk Logic 101.
www.ms.now
November 20, 2025 at 8:43 PM
In related news, the claim ‘the Tooth Fairy does not actually take lost baby teeth from under pillows’ is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that magical beings are secretly thieving teeth in the dead of night…”
www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
Funny to read them all but also deeply concerning.
oh my god i take it back, grok is amazing
November 20, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Funny to read them all but also deeply concerning.
This is a great project
“A lot of people think #netzero is a waste of time or they’ve lived through previous government home improvement schemes that were failures and don’t want the disruption. When we started talking to the local community about retrofit we realised we had to go at it from a different angle.”
Immy Kaur
Immy Kaur
‘It’s about quality of life’: Can Birmingham’s Retrofit House help fix the UK’s terrible housing?
From flood protection and encouraging wildlife to fixing doors and reducing fuel bills, a new initiative aims to empower residents and make their homes more comfortable
www.theguardian.com
November 20, 2025 at 9:43 AM
This is a great project
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Back in 2022, I tried to explain on Twitter how it feels to be a Finnish reservist, who also happens to be a leftist even by Nordic standards, and live next door to Russia. Archive here:
(I'm amazed how people live in earthquake-prone areas, or next to active volcanoes :))
bsky.app/profile/jmko...
(I'm amazed how people live in earthquake-prone areas, or next to active volcanoes :))
bsky.app/profile/jmko...
Greetings again from a Finnish leftist, especially to everyone identifying as progressive or leftist but living far away from Russia at the moment! I'll try to explain a bit how it feels like to live in a country neighboring Russia, and why we seem to disagree about e.g. NATO.1/
November 20, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Back in 2022, I tried to explain on Twitter how it feels to be a Finnish reservist, who also happens to be a leftist even by Nordic standards, and live next door to Russia. Archive here:
(I'm amazed how people live in earthquake-prone areas, or next to active volcanoes :))
bsky.app/profile/jmko...
(I'm amazed how people live in earthquake-prone areas, or next to active volcanoes :))
bsky.app/profile/jmko...
The signs of a bubble getting ready to burst are increasingly clear.
From the people who brought you the financial crisis, Theranos, and Juicero: say hello to data center financial engineering!
I'm pretty nervous about this ending badly, but everyone's dug in because AI is the only pulse in the economy.
prospect.org/2025/11/19/a...
I'm pretty nervous about this ending badly, but everyone's dug in because AI is the only pulse in the economy.
prospect.org/2025/11/19/a...
The AI Bubble Is Bigger Than You Think - The American Prospect
It’s not just OpenAI that looks overhyped. There’s a whole mountain of sketchy financial engineering underneath.
prospect.org
November 19, 2025 at 3:38 PM
The signs of a bubble getting ready to burst are increasingly clear.
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Study of all-electric properties in Birmingham, with heat pumps and solar, shows they use less energy at peak times than expected, reducing stress on the grid
“We’re finding all those reasons not to go ahead with a heat pump are slowly but surely falling away”
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
“We’re finding all those reasons not to go ahead with a heat pump are slowly but surely falling away”
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Heat-pump homes put less strain on grid than expected, study shows
Analysis of new-builds in Birmingham suggests all-electric homes not only use less energy but vary in peak usage
www.theguardian.com
November 19, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Study of all-electric properties in Birmingham, with heat pumps and solar, shows they use less energy at peak times than expected, reducing stress on the grid
“We’re finding all those reasons not to go ahead with a heat pump are slowly but surely falling away”
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
“We’re finding all those reasons not to go ahead with a heat pump are slowly but surely falling away”
www.theguardian.com/environment/...