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Whoa 🤯 in Slow-Mo @0lsi.bsky.social · 6h

🇩🇪 Germany just switched on a vertical floating PV plant, #solar panels mounted upright on a lake in Bavaria using a special “SKipp-Float” system that’s more storm-resistant, uses minimal footprint, and even seems to boost local water quality 🏞️⚡☀️ #SolarInnovation #CleanEnergy #FloatingPV

Vertical floating PV plant comes online in Germany

Sinn Power has deployed a 1.8 MW vertical solar array on a quarry lake in the Bavarian municipality of Gilching. The company highlights the ecological benefits of the vertical system configuration and...

www.pv-magazine.com

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Whoa 🤯 in Slow-Mo @0lsi.bsky.social · 6h

This #NYT article highlights that #renewables and #battery tech are on the brink of a boom. Even with shifting policies, momentum is strong and the clean energy revolution looks set to keep powering ahead 🌱⚡ #RenewablesRising #CleanEnergyFuture #HopeInAction

Renewable Energy Is Booming Despite Trump’s Efforts to Slow It

www.nytimes.com

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Climate Social Science Network @cssn.org · 1d

It's finally here! 100+ scholars, global scope, practical insights. “Climate Obstruction: A Global Assessment” shows how organized interests stall policy—and how governance can respond.

Open access available now! Or order for paperback and hardcover. cssn.org/wp-content/u...

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Bill Bovingdon @williambovingdon.substack.com · 13h

State capture is costly reneweconomy.com.au/renewable-de...

reneweconomy.com.au

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Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick @sarahinscience.bsky.social · 2d

For so long, fossil fuel projects have said their contribution to climate change is "negligible".
Turns out that's wrong.
Our research in NPJ Climate Action proves it.
Every tonne of CO2 matters.
@21stcenturyweather.bsky.social
@minderoo.bsky.social
#climatechange
www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Quantifying the regional to global climate impacts of individual fossil fuel projects to inform decision-making - npj Climate Action

npj Climate Action - Quantifying the regional to global climate impacts of individual fossil fuel projects to inform decision-making

www.nature.com

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Royce Kurmelovs @roycerk2.bsky.social · 2d

"The end result has been that domestic gas prices on Australia’s east coast have trebled, resulting in surging electricity prices that have put Australian households and energy intensive businesses under extreme pressure."

Why Santos is behind your soaring electricity and mortgage costs

It was a primary force behind Australia’s inflationary surge, it’s forced businesses either to the wall or to shift offshore, undermined national industry policy and resulted in the loss of countless ...

www.abc.net.au

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Bill Bovingdon @williambovingdon.substack.com · 1d

Geez 1st Santos now this - the national broadcaster has finally decided to start calling out this kind of cronyism www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

NT government accused of 'turning a blind eye' to unlawful fracking allegations

A gas company operating in the Northern Territory has been accused of breaching environmental laws by an NT government department, which decided against prosecution in favour of a formal letter encour...

www.abc.net.au

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Bill Bovingdon @williambovingdon.substack.com · 1d

Great work here by Wes and colleagues theconversation.com/for-the-firs...

For the first time, we linked a new fossil fuel project to hundreds of deaths. Here’s the impact of Woodside’s Scarborough gas project

The results challenge claims that the climate risks posed by an individual fossil fuel project are negligible or cannot be quantified.

theconversation.com

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Bill Bovingdon @williambovingdon.substack.com · 2d

Santos socialising losses by trying to make the “cost of a failed high-risk strategy undertaken by the company in previous years become a national responsibility” www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Why Santos is behind your soaring electricity and mortgage costs

It was a primary force behind Australia’s inflationary surge, it’s forced businesses either to the wall or to shift offshore, undermined national industry policy and resulted in the loss of countless ...

www.abc.net.au

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Laura76574 @laura76574.bsky.social · 2d

One of the two remaining egg-laying mammals on Earth.
This is terrible.

factanimal.com/platypus/

16 Peculiar Platypus Facts - Fact Animal

Platypus Profile The platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus) is a semi-aquatic, egg-laying mammal that is native to Australia, and often referred to as the ‘duck-billed platypus’. It’s

factanimal.com

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Bill Bovingdon @williambovingdon.substack.com · 3d

Consultant reports notoriously reflect whoever pays the commission - public policy needs independent research www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Regulator asked to investigate claim 'distorted research' behind government gas policy

Advocacy group Climate Integrity has accused the gas industry of using "distorted research", produced by the accounting firm EY, to influence the Australian government's Future Gas Strategy.

www.abc.net.au

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Bill Bovingdon @williambovingdon.substack.com · 3d

Fab www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

Electricity from renewables overtakes coal in Australia for the first time

Power from solar, wind hydro and biomass totals 9.24 terawatt hours, compared with 8.8 terawatt hours from burning the fossil fuel

www.theguardian.com

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Bill Bovingdon @williambovingdon.substack.com · 3d

Well there”s an achievement to be ashamed of
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Platypus vanish from river where Charles Darwin pondered evolution

Almost 190 years on, in the place where Charles Darwin first spotted a platypus, the egg-laying mammal seems to have disappeared.

www.abc.net.au

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Bill Bovingdon @williambovingdon.substack.com · 4d

Pricing carbon within the super system is not a moral or ethical gesture; it’s financial risk management. Markets will eventually reprice emissions reneweconomy.com.au/why-super-ne...

reneweconomy.com.au

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Bill Bovingdon @williambovingdon.substack.com · 4d

"Air pollution in China had plunged 41 percent since 2014. That added almost two years to the country’s average life expectancy" - An often over-looked dividend

How China Powers Its Electric Cars and High-Speed Trains www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/b...

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Bill Bovingdon @williambovingdon.substack.com · 5d

Falling in line with US Agencies where climate is a swear word?

Royce Kurmelovs @roycerk2.bsky.social · 5d

It really does say something when an article about reactions to a coal power plant continuing to operate says nothing about climate change, the existential threat it poses and the need to phase out oil, gas and coal.

ABC News Bot (unofficial) @abcnewsbot.bsky.social · 5d

Communities across Queensland have welcomed plans to keep coal and gas burning across the state, though some warn a lack of future planning could undermine short-term benefits.

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Prof Ros Gleadow FAA @rgleadow.bsky.social · 5d

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Here’s Saturday’s good news story. Australian Wildlife Conservancy do a great job buy properties, excluding predators and reintroducing wildlife

Baby numbats spotted at two wildlife sanctuaries in hopeful sign for one of Australia’s rarest marsupials

Video shows some of the juveniles exploring outside their den at Mallee Cliffs national park in south-western NSW

www.theguardian.com

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Laurie Gwen Shapiro @lauriestories.bsky.social · 13d

My very first piece for @theatlantic.com

My first piece for @theatlantic.com

“…Earhart’s 1937 disappearance has been fertile ground for speculation: pulp stories, Hollywood films, and best-selling books that turned a tragic...”

#theaviatorandtheahowman #ameliaearhart @vikingbooks.bsky.social

The Truth About Amelia Earhart

Conspiracy theories about her disappearance do a disservice to the pilot’s remarkable, flawed legacy.

www.theatlantic.com

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Greenpeace Australia Pacific @greenpeaceap.bsky.social · 22d

A huge win for people power: 60 countries have now ratified the Global Ocean Treaty, bringing this landmark agreement to life. This will pave the way for high seas marine sanctuaries, giving life the chance to recover and thrive.

A global win: 60 countries ratify the Global Ocean Treaty - Greenpeace Australia Pacific

Big news for our ocean, 60 countries have now ratified the Global Ocean Treaty, meaning we now have enough ratifications to bring this landmark treaty to life, allowing governments to…

www.greenpeace.org.au

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Royce Kurmelovs @roycerk2.bsky.social · 6d

Working through the submissions to the Senate inquiry on climate misinformation and the patterns emerging sure are interesting.

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Bill Bovingdon @williambovingdon.substack.com · 5d

Partly on the moon
- shrapnel everywhere

Dylan McConnell @dylanjmcconnell.bsky.social · 6d

Thought this was going to be a parody piece, based on the title

www.smh.com.au/national/nuc...

Nuclear-powered villages could be on the moon within 10 years. Where do we fit in?

The world is also firmly in the grips of Space Race 2.0 as the US and China battle to occupy the moon – and beyond.

www.smh.com.au

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Bill Bovingdon @williambovingdon.substack.com · 5d

“Tax it, cut subsidies, wind it down” You forgot to add

And “crucially, don’t bail it out!”

Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 6d

Please enjoy this executive at one of America's biggest gas companies openly admitting that expanding supply leads to increased demand for fossil fuels

He is not wrong: frantic expansion of fossil fuel supply worsens climate change. Tax it, cut subsidies, wind it down

www.ft.com/content/5ba8...

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Will Jordan, chief legal and policy officer at EQT, a leading US gas producer, also thought that any glut would be temporary, and said US demand was also rising on the boom in power-hungry artificial intelligence data centres.

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BP’s new chair signals more asset sales and demands faster restructuring

“Supply leads demand — you put the supply on the market and demand gets created.,” he said. “Over the long term we’re very bullish.”

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PhENtastic.bsky.social @phenominal.bsky.social · 6d

"Gets created" by advertising. This is why we should ban fossil fuel ads like we did smoking!

Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 6d

Please enjoy this executive at one of America's biggest gas companies openly admitting that expanding supply leads to increased demand for fossil fuels

He is not wrong: frantic expansion of fossil fuel supply worsens climate change. Tax it, cut subsidies, wind it down

www.ft.com/content/5ba8...

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Bill Bovingdon @williambovingdon.substack.com · 7d

They deliver

reneweconomy.com.au/australia-po...

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Rory Koehler @rorykoehler.bsky.social · 9d

Former Arsenal and current Betis footballer Hector Bellerin bikes to work and advocates for "greener cities, with fewer cars". Great to see him using his voice for this cause #urbanism #walkable #carsruincities #cardependency #carfree

'With power comes responsibility' - Hector Bellerin wins BBC Green Sports Award

Former Arsenal defender Hector Bellerin talks about his attempts to live a more sustainable life as he wins the BBC Green Sports Award.

www.bbc.com

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