Long-durational thermal storage is coming.

The world's largest thermal storage project is underway in Finland with a capacity of 90 GWh, enough to meet the heating demands of a medium-sized city for up to a year.

Vantaan Energia Vantaan kaupunki
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Just a 'blip' or 'unacceptable'? What does the global rise in dirty coal mean?

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'[China]already has more coal power than it needs, but a rigid grid system makes it hard for provinces to share power, meaning many are building their own coal plants...' 🤦‍♂️
news.sky.com/story/new-coal…

(c/o Victoria Seabrook/Daniel Dunford/Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air)

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New coal plants in China soar despite President Xi's pledge to 'strictly control' dirtiest fuel

Surge has driven first increase in global coal capacity in 4 yrs

But there's more to the story than China's coal

news.sky.com/story/new-coal…

Getting power from windy, sparsely-populated parts of the UK to the big cities (esp London) is one of the great infrastructure challenges facing the UK in the coming years. These kinds of links are part of the answer.

Exhibit A

When GMB union was branded ‘institutionally sexist’ by an independent report they promised things would rapidly change. I’ve been speaking to women inside unions for over a year to hear what’s it’s been like since - some told me bullying and misogyny is worse than ever before

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'Exceptionally intense' Saharan dust cloud hits Europe, bringing hazy skies and blanketing cars

news.sky.com/story/exceptio…

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🌴The number of trees lost in Brazil & Colombia fell by a 'dramatic' 36% and 49% in 2023

Finds analysis that cites new leadership prioritising the environment

Offers 'ray of hope' that rapid change is possible

World Resources Inst Global Forest Watch
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I know many of you will be shocked, but this piece by Matt Ridley in the The Telegraph on solar farms has quite a lot wrong with it

Let’s start with the impact on farming. Getting to the target of 70GW will take ~0.4-0.7% of English farmland

Not the ‘5-10%’ Ridley claims…