Huge amounts. Someone told me yesterday we had a GW or more of wind turned down/off while simultaneously importing.

Fantastic news! Record smashed with three and a half months to go!

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China’s EV charging network surged 53% YoY to 16.7M units. Europe? +35% to just over 1M. US? +20% to under 200k. Tesla? ~65k plugs. Nobody’s even close—this is how seriously China is taking electrification & its energy transition. Keep up or get left behind! 🚗🔌🔋⚡🇨🇳 #EV #EnergyTransition #BEV #RIPICE

They will try to tell you, “Resistance is futile.” It is never so.

“California is so far using forty per cent less natural gas to generate electricity than it did in 2023, which is the single most hopeful statistic I’ve seen in four decades of writing about the climate crisis.”

www.newyorker.com/news/annals-...

Renewable generation in Ireland has exceeded 1TWh for the first time ever in a June month. That's equal to more than 35% of the island's electricity demand.

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Statistical Review of World Energy for 2024 is now available. Hidden inside the large spreadsheet is this gem.

Note that calling a peak is fraught with problems. Often you don't know peak happened until a few years after. But there are SO many signs pointing to this moment coming!

Losing. To Tipp. Badly.

Great column in the Business Post making many of the same arguments against full privatisation of waste collection made by anti-bin tax activists 20 years ago.

Strange to see it coming from the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission!

www.businesspost.ie/article/irel...

"I worked hard all my life until I retired at 42. And it makes my blood boil that lazy snowflakes don't want to work."

Colin from Portsmouth on the benefits system.

Where on earth have you been all my life? Fantastic beer from the Dew Drop Inn brewery. Ordering by the caseload. #craftbeer #IrishCraftBeer

Great article by @hannahdaly.ie in the paper this week. A healthy dose of common sense in a context where so much discussion of energy issues and the merits of fossil fuel infrastructure is fantasy stuff.

www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

Congestion pricing is an unqualified triumph. One of the most immediately, strikingly successful public policies of my lifetime.

Pints and politics this weekend. Strongly recommend this book by British journalist Ash Sarkar. Read it in a day, terrific political analysis.

Maybe a little young at eight but, on the other hand, are we ever too young to learn about our neighbours?!!

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Haven’t cycled in town in ages but really hadn’t geared myself up again for the lack of space for cycling. The city REALLY needs to improve for road users other than cars, buses & trucks. Most of my headspace was taken up hoping I’d make it home to my kids in one piece! Do better DCC… 🛻🚙🚚🚛🚌🚴‍♂️🚑

The Infancy Gospel of Thomas as I learned from this book.

Arguably the greatest political self-saboteurs in the, very broadly defined, global left.

And that’s a tough field.

Jesus had killed two people by the age of five, and sold slaves, and his Mam cut off the hands of another woman in a really interesting way.

Fascinating story of the Christian gospels and teachings that got edited out and, in some ways, live on in Christian teaching. Great read.

Wouldn’t you be mortified if, as a political activist, this was the best you could come up with?

No wonder these boys lose elections they should win.