BREAKING: The Philippines declares a state of emergency after Typhoon Kalmaegi leaves at least 114 dead and hundreds missing in central provinces.

Outspoken Democrat Zohran Mamdani beat Trump-endorsed serial sexual harasser Cuomo to become New York City Mayor.

Australia has so much clean energy they're literally giving it away. Meanwhile, GOP is in all-out war to stamp out solar

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

Road violence is a choice. www.forbes.com/sites/tanyam...

“Individuals on the ground sent a message that reached us Monday morning that 1,200 were dead,” Nathaniel Raymond, the lab’s executive director, said. “By that evening, they said 10,000. By Tuesday, we couldn’t reach them anymore. We assume our ground contacts are dead.”

You're welcome. It's unfortunately not easy to decrease temperature in existing grids as all substations must be changed...

The US also has fascinating development in #ThermalEnergyNetworks (TEN) which might be called 5th generation district heating in Europe.

buildingdecarb.org/resource-lib...

bloomberg ran an absolutely killer investigation this week into the Silicon Valley + Koch/Abundance forces running the show on nuclear deregulation this year:

For example: The Finnish energy industry recently revised #DistrictHeating design temperature recommendations from 115°C to 90°C, to facilitate use of various #WasteHeat sources and high efficiency heat pumps.
energia.fi/julkaisut/ra...

FT correctly states:
"Unlike European water-based systems, most US energy networks use steam, and cities such as Boston have “steam lines” running across them that deliver heat to buildings"
but fails to explain why subsequent generations of #DistrictHeating apply significantly lower temperatures.

While I welcome the roll out of #heatPumps, using steam networks is very inefficient.
First generation #DistrictHeating used steam, but lower temperatures exhibit less heat loss, higher coefficient of performance (COP) for heat pumps and higher yield for combined heat & power (CHP) plants.

Grundgesetz
1) Die Rechte des Autofahrers sind unantastbar
2) Jeder hat das Recht auf freie Geschwindikeitsentfaltung, auch vor Schulen und Kitas
3) Alle Verkehrsteilnehmer sind vor dem Gesetz gleich (ha ha, kleinen Scherz eingestreut)
4) Die Freiheit der götzenhaften Autoanbetung ist unverletzlich

Illinois will becoming the 5th state to eliminate local parking requirements for new development projects near transit, after:
—California (assembly bill 2097, 2022)
—Colorado (house bill 24–1304, 2024)
—Oregon (Land Conservation and Development Commission, 2022)
—Washington (house bill 1491, 2025)

Neue Kernkraftwerke vom Typ EPR werden immer teurer.
Baukosten pro Reaktorblock:
Taishan: 4,9 Mrd. €
Olkiluoto 3: 11 Mrd. €
Flamanville 3: 23,7 Mrd. €
Hinkley Point C: 27,35 Mrd. € (aktuelle Schätzung)
Datenquelle:
@wikipedia.org

Perhaps the head of IAEA Grossi doesn't want to anger Putin, since he needs broad support for his candidacy for UN secretary-general.

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

The German mind cannot comprehend this.

In Denmark, 150,000 petrol cars and 250,000 diesel cars have disappeared from the roads, while 475,000 EVs and 106,000 PHEVs have been added. By early 2026, there will be more EVs than diesel cars in Denmark.

HOT RESEARCH NEWS!

Motonormativity ("car brain") is a bias that stops people making rational judgements about driving en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motonor...

Our new study shows where this bias comes from AND how it makes people think they're odd for supporting changes to the transport system 🧵

It's the end of the road for BBC Science in Action. But science itself is facing growing roadblocks. For this terminal edition of SinA I'm joined by @naomioreskes.bsky.social @drdebhoury.bsky.social @michaelemann.bsky.social & @angierasmussen.bsky.social for where now?

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w...

Back to the mines isn't it
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/c...

Forcing developers to include a minimum amount of parking can add tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars to the cost of a project.

This is one of the reasons why repealing parking mandates is part of the 6 strategies for becoming a Housing-Ready City.

When I worked in WaPo Opinions in 2017-2018, senior editors specifically told junior editors not to factcheck Marc Thiessen and other MAGA columnists, otherwise they wouldn’t be able to publish anything by them at all, and “we need them for intellectual diversity.”

NEWS: CBS News gutted its climate team as part of the big Paramount layoffs this week. These journalists had been doing incredible reporting on extreme heat, flooding, clean energy investments and more.

I've got details for Climate-Colored Goggles: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/cbs-news-g...

The city of Würzburg was a transport hub for Nazi Germany deportations 1941 - 1944.

A sad chapter in history for this beautiful city, but it must not be forgotten.

Today there is a memorial at the railway station.

#DenkortDeportationen
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DenkOrt...

denkort-deportationen.de

To be clear, the US govt already shoulders the vast majority of the risk of nuclear power. The Price-Anderson Act of 1957 - which civil developers including Bechtel lobbied to create! - makes the federal government responsible for most liability in case of a nuclear disaster. Now they want more...