Nick Bad Seeds - Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus

Portishead - Third

Cohen - I see a darkness

Bowie - Blackstar

PJ Harvey - Let England Shake

Tom Waits - Alice

Blur - The Ballad of Darren

Springsteen - Devils and Dust

Mogwai - As the Love Continues

MBV - m b v

Dylan - Time OO Mind

“Half of antidepressant users see no benefit. Relapse rates hit 80% after ceasing medication.

A new generation of treatments is on the horizon – led by the work of Dr Ayla Selamoglu at Cambridge University.”

Psychedelic medicine, explained 👇

How will Trump’s trade war affect global CO2 emissions and energy? Initial thoughts.

Note for those in UK who think an pragmatic alternative to net zero is LNG. The US and Russia are petrostate bullies that will leverage seller power. We need to double down on homegrown energy, particularly wind and solar.

Trump: "We have a deficit with the EU of $350 billion. And it's gonna disappear fast. And one of the reasons and one of the ways that can disappear easily and quickly is they're gonna have to buy their energy from us."

A reason why offshore wind has struggled over the past few years is because governments around the world have wanted to:
a) localise supply chains, b) remove subsidies, c) allocate more risk to private sector,
d) extract economic rents.

Cakism like this won't get us to net zero.

Slightly concerning prognosis on the chances of UK offshore wind AR7 success by a guy who knows what he is talking about

As someone who has reported on AI for 7 years and covered China tech as well, I think the biggest lesson to be drawn from DeepSeek is the huge cracks it illustrates with the current dominant paradigm of AI development. A long thread. 1/

An important but under-discussed issue: Norway oil and gas is entering structural decline which will exacerbate the UK’s own structural decline.

Notwithstanding climate change risks, it means further geopolitical, cost, and security of supply risks #energysky

www.sodir.no/en/whats-new...

Fascinating article describing what Big Solar looks like from both a technology and project finance perspective

This is an excellent little widget that provides a good breakdown of costs in the power bill stack. I would probably have characterised the capacity market as part of the wholesale market, but that is very much up for debate!
www.electricitybills.uk

LNG from the US was a great way to displace gas from Putin, but good that it's huge carbon footprint (larger than coal!) is rationally acknowledged.
A bad day for the fracking lobby is a good day for the climate.

Norway’s position as the energy powerhouse of Europe will be coming to an end.

Even if you ignore climate change, it is still vital for European energy security that we see a big ramp up of offshore wind, onshore wind, solar, and nuclear to counteract the natural decline of the North Sea basin.

I can see some upsides to this. It looks to be close to a large demand centre in Dongying city, the solar PV should compliment the yield profiles from the offshore windfarms further out. (1/5)

An interesting thought given the extent of European moaning about unfair green subsidies contained within the IRA.

My first rambling and incoherent thread on #energysky 🙂

It's important that we learn the lessons of the past to better understand power dynamics acting on the current energy transition.

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Thanks to everyone who followed me in the last few days. I'm a historian who works on the energy economy and work, labour and protest, primarily in Scotland and the UK.

I recently wrote an essay - James Watt in Shenzhen - for the Break Down project discussing capitalism, carbon and workers' power.