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Steve Fawkes @drstevefawkes.bsky.social · 6h

Steve Fawkes @drstevefawkes.bsky.social · 16h

Something different this morning - attending the International Copper Association industry leaders forum. Always good to get a different perspective.

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Steve Fawkes @drstevefawkes.bsky.social · 1d

Me neither! But may be a useful image to help make the point. Was a time when we were sending Russia €1 bn a day!

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Steve Fawkes @drstevefawkes.bsky.social · 1d

So a round €750 million a day. Now looking for an image of a stack of €750m for a slide. Here’s a pallet of $50m so c.15 pallets a day. Source: propmoney.info

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Steve Fawkes @drstevefawkes.bsky.social · 2d

Here's an example from Battersea Power Station - well worth visiting if you haven't done it. The 1950s control room is great, hoping to see the 1930s control room sometime, need a private function.

Steve Fawkes @drstevefawkes.bsky.social · 2d

it has been more in presentation than prose - although I did write this piece way back in 2013 before I switched onto the iconography www.onlyelevenpercent.com/the-close-li... The image I posted before was from a recent presentation. Maybe inspiration for a new article.

The close link between electrical power and political power | Only Eleven Percent

It is easy to forget in a modern, developed democracy but there is a very real link between electrical power and political power. This is most noticeable in emerging economies but it is true everywhe...

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Steve Fawkes @drstevefawkes.bsky.social · 2d

They reflect the links between electrical power and political power which will change in the new paradigm

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Steve Fawkes @drstevefawkes.bsky.social · 2d

Interesting image, I've written and spoken about the iconography of big centralised power which is similar wherever you go. Here's 3 examples: Romania, UK, USA. It reflects that 'big government bringing you power' 1930s-1960s vibe. Distributed power- 'Electricity 2.0-desparately needs some new icons

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Adrian Hiel @adrianhiel.bsky.social · 3d

The faster we go, the greater the rewards.

Join us on Dec. 9th in Brussels to learn #WattsNextEU

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Juergen Maier CBE @juergenmaier.co.uk · 3d

We are making incredible progress on driving the #energytransition although you wouldn't think so from the increasingly polarised debate. My latest thoughts on this topic in this @vocluk.bsky.social vlog 👇

If you want to join the conversation contact:
www.vocl.uk/contact/

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Reflections on a polarised week regarding our energy transition. But we are making great progress!

YouTube video by Prof. Juergen Maier

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Steve Fawkes @drstevefawkes.bsky.social · 4d

Here's a blog on the subject: 'Domains Of Power'. www.onlyelevenpercent.com/domains-of-p...

Domains of Power | Only Eleven Percent

IntroductionFor more than a century, the link between technological systems and political power has been clear. Centralised grids, heavy industry, and national utilities reflected the centralised auth...

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David Whitehouse, Ph.D @davidw38.bsky.social · 5d

There was a good article in Bloomberg about the "Circular AI Deals"

www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Figure showing the flow of money between Nvidia, OpenAI, Orcale, AMD, Intel, Microsoft and other AI companies.

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Steve Fawkes @drstevefawkes.bsky.social · 5d

The famous umbrella shop on New Oxford Street

Steve Fawkes @drstevefawkes.bsky.social · 6d

Well least dependence on Petrostates for sure means geopolitical shifts & economic winners/losers. Distributed energy means more distributed political power but for sure the incumbents will fight it as hard as they can. Explains some of what we are seeing today in anti-renewables rhetoric and action

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Steve Fawkes @drstevefawkes.bsky.social · 6d

Agreed. I think we are moving out of the having to push stage rapidly but the general perception is it still has to be pushed. Also think social and economic changes will be huge. Power so wrapped up with political power.

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Steve Fawkes @drstevefawkes.bsky.social · 6d

10/10 'And if the resulting change in the economy is important enough, we call that a revolution'. Think about PV, BESS, heat pumps, smart controls etc as a technology domain - what was called Electrotech in the excellent 'The Electrotech Revolution' by @ember-energy.org and this description fits.

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Steve Fawkes @drstevefawkes.bsky.social · 6d

9/n 'that comprise the railways comes along. In fact the economy does not adopt a new body of technology, it encounters it. The economy reacts to the new body's presence, and in doing so changes it activities, its industries, its organisational arrangements - its structures.....'

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Steve Fawkes @drstevefawkes.bsky.social · 6d

8/n He goes on 'Domains also affect the economy more deeply than do individual technologies. The economy does not react to the coming of the railway locomotive in 1829 or its improvements in the 1830s - not much at any rate. But it does change significantly when the domain of technologies....

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Steve Fawkes @drstevefawkes.bsky.social · 6d

7/n so more of that to follow. Another insight from W.Brian Arthur is about revolutions and recombining. (He talks about domains of technology). 'Domains are more than the sum of their individual technologies. They are coherent wholes'...think PV, BESS, heat pumps, intelligent controls.....

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Steve Fawkes @drstevefawkes.bsky.social · 6d

6/n But today, a new technological logic is emerging — one built not on combustion, but on electrons. We are entering the Electric Era: an epoch in which energy is generated, stored, and consumed as electricity — clean, flexible, and increasingly intelligent.

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Steve Fawkes @drstevefawkes.bsky.social · 6d

5/n For more than a century, the global economy has been built around the energy-dense power of fossil fuels. Oil, coal, and gas defined the Industrial Age — shaping not just our machines, but our geopolitics, cities, and patterns of life.

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Steve Fawkes @drstevefawkes.bsky.social · 6d

4/n W. Brian Arthur says: 'An era does not just create technology. Technology creates the era.' Applying that to the energy transition and the recent rise of the idea of 'the electrostate': ...

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Steve Fawkes @drstevefawkes.bsky.social · 6d

will write some longer pieces for onlyelevenpercent.com and epgroup.com but here's some short form thoughts....

Only Eleven Percent

Dr Steve Fawkes’ blog on energy efficiency

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Steve Fawkes @drstevefawkes.bsky.social · 6d

2/n studied than the high profile major technical changes. Anyway, I am currently reading "The Nature of Technology. What it is and how it evolves" by W. Brian Arthur which is full of insights on the subject - it does what it says on the tin. Of course I have applied it to the energy transition & ..

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Steve Fawkes @drstevefawkes.bsky.social · 6d

1/n As well as technology (of all sorts) I have always been interested in the linkages between technology and the economy. Much of my PhD on energy efficiency years ago was about the nature and importance of incremental technical change - something still generally under-appreciated and ...

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