Sky-high electricity costs, coupled with the piecemeal support successive governments have given to big industrial power user, are said to have made power prices an obstacle to the U.K.'s shift towards cleaner energy. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/environment/2025/08/28/energy/electricity-costs-britain-net-zero/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #environment #energy #uk #energy #electricity #coal #netzero #emissions #fossilfuels #renewables #wind #solar
Tom
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@Garyb_spectabilis a little bit from an email from the Guardian
“Renewables might now be cheaper than fossil fuel in the vast majority of cases, but this makes them less attractive to capital, not more. Fossil fuels are uncompetitive and highly profitable. Renewables are highly competitive and not very profitable.
As a result, fossil fuel extractors will fight tooth and nail to prevent market forces from operating.”
Basically, you are not going to change these companies from within because they can’t afford to give up their business model.
@Garyb_spectabilis a little bit from an email from the Guardian
“Renewables might now be cheaper than fossil fuel in the vast majority of cases, but this makes them less attractive to capital, not more. Fossil fuels are uncompetitive and highly profitable. Renewables are highly competitive and not very profitable.
As a result, fossil fuel extractors will fight tooth and nail to prevent market forces from operating.”
Basically, you are not going to change these companies from within because they can’t afford to give up their business model.
alcinnz
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There are many methods we can use to tackle the #climateCrisis#climateChange by reducing our dependency on #fossilFuels
Personally, I am inclined to embrace #Kyiv's method for doing so:
Just fucking bomb the refineries
💪 😤 🇺🇦
"#Ukraine knocks out 17% of #Russia’s oil capacity — and that’s just this month, Reuters says
#Moscow’s #energySecurity unravels as Ukraine escalates long-range attacks on its most vulnerable assets."
There are many methods we can use to tackle the #climateCrisis#climateChange by reducing our dependency on #fossilFuels
Personally, I am inclined to embrace #Kyiv's method for doing so:
Just fucking bomb the refineries
💪 😤 🇺🇦
"#Ukraine knocks out 17% of #Russia’s oil capacity — and that’s just this month, Reuters says
#Moscow’s #energySecurity unravels as Ukraine escalates long-range attacks on its most vulnerable assets."
Jonathan Schofield
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Elon Musk is choking a black community with air pollution to run a racist chatbot on a right-wing social media site. And the next data centre planned to run "Grok" will nearly double the number of fossil fuelled turbines.
Far from 'saving' the climate, it really looks like fossil-fuelled data centres are running climate-denying racist text generators for right-wing billionaires.
I found a new dataset that lays it all out pretty nicely: as bad as the generative AI data centre panic-build is, Musk is the worst of a bad bunch by a good margin.
Enjoy:
Links ->
The dataset: https://epoch.ai/data/ai-supercomputers?view=table#data-insights
Southern Environment Law Centre update: https://www.selc.org/news/resistance-against-elon-musks-xai-facility-in-south-memphis-gets-stronger/
Thermal images of the gas turbines: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/apr/24/elon-musk-xai-memphis
More Perfect Union short documentary on the town Musk is poisoning: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VJT2JeDCyw
Musk's chatbot is racist: https://www.reuters.com/business/musks-xai-updates-grok-chatbot-after-white-genocide-comments-2025-05-17/
Once the site is grid connected, it'll raise power prices and increase grid-scale fossil fuel use: https://floodlightnews.org/power-for-data-centers-could-come-at-staggering-cost-to-consumers/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/business/energy-environment/data-centers-utilities-electricity-bills.html
A nice case study of a defeated 3.5 gigawatt data centre fossil fuel power station combo https://www.selc.org/news/a-rural-virginia-county-is-a-case-study-in-community/
#ElonMusk #XAI#Grok#AI#Datacentres#Racist#Chatbot #epochai #data#Fossilfuels #ClimateChange #climate#Fossilgas#Methane
PersonalEscrito
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#Tourism surge is driving up #pollution in #Antarctica scientists warn
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250821-surging-tourism-is-polluting-antarctica-scientists-warn
> A boom in tourism over the past two decades is increasing pollution in Antarctica and accelerating the melting of snow, scientists have warned. Much of the pollution caused by the increase in human presence comes from transport powered by #fossilfuels releasing fine particles containing heavy metals into the #environment.
#Tourism surge is driving up #pollution in #Antarctica scientists warn
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250821-surging-tourism-is-polluting-antarctica-scientists-warn
> A boom in tourism over the past two decades is increasing pollution in Antarctica and accelerating the melting of snow, scientists have warned. Much of the pollution caused by the increase in human presence comes from transport powered by #fossilfuels releasing fine particles containing heavy metals into the #environment.
China's low-carbon technology trade: Facts and implications -
Kevin P. Gallagher, Renliang Liu, Jiaqi Lu, Ruyu Yin, Miaojie Yu, Praveena Bandara
"This study examines China's evolving role in global low-carbon technology (LCT) trade and its impact on climate mitigation. The novel data suggests China's transition from a net importer to a net exporter of LCTs over the past three decades. Employing a gravity-equation framework, we identify the economic and institutional factors that drive bilateral LCT flows. Fixed-effects regressions show that China's LCT exports significantly reduce partner-country CO₂ emissions, measured in total, per-capita, and intensity terms, and that these reductions are larger for high-income partners and for the energy-storage and pollution-control LCTs. We further find that partner-country human capital, political stability, and development assistance amplify these environmental benefits. We conclude with policy recommendations including sustained R&D investment, stable export prices, encouragement of outward FDI, further trade liberalization and improved international dialogue on capacity issues to advance global sustainable trade and decarbonization."
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1043951X25001038#f0020
#China#LowCarbonTechnologies#LCT#CarbonEmissions#Renewables#Energy#Pollution#FossilFuels
Aral Balkan
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'‘Maddening’ Proof Plastics Industry Knew Recycling Was False Solution in 1974, New Document Shows
Exclusive finding by DeSmog shows high-level industry awareness that recycling plastic ‘not feasible’ as companies face lawsuits over alleged public deception campaign.'
https://www.desmog.com/2025/08/05/maddening-proof-plastics-industry-knew-recycling-was-false-solution-in-1974-new-document-shows/
#fossilfuels #plastics #pollution #environment
'‘Maddening’ Proof Plastics Industry Knew Recycling Was False Solution in 1974, New Document Shows
Exclusive finding by DeSmog shows high-level industry awareness that recycling plastic ‘not feasible’ as companies face lawsuits over alleged public deception campaign.'
https://www.desmog.com/2025/08/05/maddening-proof-plastics-industry-knew-recycling-was-false-solution-in-1974-new-document-shows/
#fossilfuels #plastics #pollution #environment
Ika Makimaki
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#FYI#ClimateGenn#NickBreeze#MarkMaslin
"There are eight richest billionaires [who] own the same amount of wealth as the poorest four billion people… That should make everybody angry, pick up their pitchforks and demand change"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdIaMxMNzzw
#ClimateScience #climatechange#ClimateEmergency#ClimateCrisis#ClimateBreakdown #climatecatastrophe#ClimateDisruption#globalWarming#globalHeating#ExtremeWeather#EcosystemCollapse #systemcollapse #ecocide #fossilfuels#Co2#Co2Emissions
Guess what % of plastics have been #recycled? No prizes :(
China's independent oil companies are ramping up operations in Iraq, investing billions of dollars in OPEC's number two producer even as some global majors have scaled back from the market https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/08/04/markets/china-oil-firms-iraq/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #markets #china #iraq #oil #fossilfuels
priryo@linernotes.club
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After a week of learning and living together, taking action against fascism, and preparing our movement for the struggle against the new fossil fascists, Climate Camp Scotland 2025 comes to an end.
Climate Camp Scotland will return to take the fight to fossil fuels and their fascist allies. Stay tuned and join the fight.
Music by the amazing Zoe Bestel who played at our camp
#scotland #climatechange #climatecrisis #climateaction #activism #fascism #climate #fossilfuels
After a week of learning and living together, taking action against fascism, and preparing our movement for the struggle against the new fossil fascists, Climate Camp Scotland 2025 comes to an end.
Climate Camp Scotland will return to take the fight to fossil fuels and their fascist allies. Stay tuned and join the fight.
Music by the amazing Zoe Bestel who played at our camp
#scotland #climatechange #climatecrisis #climateaction #activism #fascism #climate #fossilfuels
Tim Chambers
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Nice article about growth in solar power. It is good to see the progress.
I am a big fan of both solar and EVs, both 4 wheel ones and two wheel ones. We need to get off fossil fuels, and the sooner, the better.
Nice article about growth in solar power. It is good to see the progress.
I am a big fan of both solar and EVs, both 4 wheel ones and two wheel ones. We need to get off fossil fuels, and the sooner, the better.