Cleantech chemistry start-ups in Europe continue to attract investment to commercialize their technologies despite tough market conditions experienced by traditional chemical manufacturers in the region.
#chemsky 🧪
"With 1 billion smartphones replaced annually, that’s 50 million tonnes of CO2e per year just from smartphone manufacturing, before anyone even turns them on" [🇩🇪 CO2-emissions 2026: 640 million tonnes] spectrum.ieee.org/data-center-...
Das hier passt gut zum Thema energy.mit.edu/news/a-new-w...
Forest damage in Europe from wildfires, storms & bark beetles could rise by ~20% by 2100 even if warming is limited to 2°C: new study with PIK scientist Christopher Reyer.
In high-emissions scenarios, the damaged forest area could even double.
www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/late...
Title: Inhale
Artist: Edouard Ferlet
www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2Co...
When the climate shifts, it squeezes the safe climatic space of grasslands, says lead author Chaohui Li in @cnn.com interview. The researchers find that world's grasslands could shrink by half as climate change becomes more intense, threatening global food systems.
edition.cnn.com/2026/02/27/w...
"CBAM’s impact is already being felt outside the 27-nation EU. In December, analyst Jian Wu cited the European tariffs as a major force behind China’s 'thriving' hydrogen-fired metallurgy this year." www.canarymedia.com/articles/emi...
"India is set to launch a carbon-credit trading scheme this year, and the European Union recently enacted a carbon-border tariff on polluting imports, which applies to metal from India." www.canarymedia.com/articles/gre...
Bei €300/Tonne CO2 könnten es worst case €100 Milliarden werden buveg.de/pressemeldun... Und die Technologieoffenheit am Vordereingang könnte durch die (SPD)-Hintertür wieder einkassiert werden ...
... und dann vielleicht Schwierigkeiten bekommen, wenn sie ihr Gasnetz Stück für Stück stillegen wollen. Jede Verzögerung bei EU-Effort-Sharing bis 2030 wird dann richtig teuer www.umweltbundesamt.de/themen/klima...
Advanced energy technologies are affordability solutions. While states build needed energy supply, demand flexibility and scaling VPPs with all types of DERs can help us get so much more out of the existing grid quickly and affordably. @advancedenergyunited.org 💡🔌 www.canarymedia.com/articles/vir...
Exercises like the writing an IPCC report or a thorough review of a climate tipping points requires both familiarity with the literature and the ability to make expert judgements on how to weight the credibility and importance of different sources, something I find lacking in AI-based assessments.
GOOD NEWS: The world’s largest steam-producing heat pump is now online in Finland, delivering 12 MW of superheated steam from waste heat and CO₂-free electricity.
Proof that industrial heat can be electrified at scale.
www.pv-magazine.com/2026/02/19/w...
Retraite militaire / Military tattoo (or Military retirement)
https://botfrens.com/collections/61/contents/3115312
Thermal batteries may be bringing renewable power to a 24/7 manufacturing plant near you. Read the full article in @cenmag.bsky.social
cen.acs.org/business/Dec...
The political effects of X's feed algorithm https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-10098-2 Received: 16 December 2024 Accepted: 4 January 2026 Published online: 18 February 2026 Open access • Check for updates Germain Gauthier,5, Roland Hodler?5, Philine Widmer35 & Ekaterina Zhuravskaya3,4,5 m Feed algorithms are widely suspected to influence political attitudes. However, previous evidence from switching off the algorithm on Meta platforms found no political effects'. Here we present results from a 2023 field experiment on Elon Musk's platform X shedding light on this puzzle. We assigned active US-based users randomly to either an algorithmic or a chronological feed for 7 weeks, measuring political attitudes and online behaviour. Switching from a chronological to an algorithmic feed increased engagement and shifted political opinion towards more conservative positions, particularly regarding policy priorities, perceptions of criminal investigations into Donald Trump and views on the war in Ukraine. In contrast, switching from the algorithmic to the chronological feed had no comparable effects. Neither switching the algorithm on nor switching it off significantly affected affective polarization or self-reported partisanship. To investigate the mechanism, we analysed users' feed content and behaviour. We found that the algorithm promotes conservative content and demotes posts by traditional media. Exposure to algorithmic content leads users to follow conservative political activist accounts, which they continue to follow even after switching off the algorithm, helping explain the asymmetry in effects. These results suggest that initial exposure to X's algorithm has persistent effects on users' current political attitudes and account-following behaviour, even in the absence of a detectable effect on partisanship.
A new paper shows that less than 2 months of exposure to Twitter’s algorithmic feed significantly shifts people’s political views to the right.
Moving from chronological feed to the algorithmic feed also increases engagement.
This is one of the most concerning papers I’ve read in awhile.
Great Proof-of-Concept about what happens when High-Tech & Simplicity finds a female Venture Capitalist www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2Ab...
"Next, the researchers are working to bring the polymer capacitors, for which they have filed a patent, to market." www.psu.edu/news/researc...
"Heron’s solid-state transformers are about 30% smaller than traditional units seen at power stations and weigh about a fourth as much, according to the company." www.forbes.com/sites/alanoh...
"This phenomenon, known as sycophancy, can prevent a model from telling a user they are wrong, eroding the accuracy of the LLM’s responses." news.mit.edu/2026/persona...
Given the scale of the challenge building a european circular plastics economy there is even less money and attention. That would also require AI e.g. for sorting. But a lot oft it could be done just by putting EU regulation on track, Plastics Europe has some ideas plasticseurope.org/de/wp-conten...
So should the engagement of private capital also become more european? Today, the KfW "Capital Markets Conference on Energy and Infrastructure" with Deutsche Bank only focuses Germany www.kfw.de/About-KfW/Ne... Would we need an european version of New York Climate Week to discuss such things?
Perhaps you might be interested in the book "Nationalism and Sexualtiy" by George L. Mosse mosseprogram.wisc.edu former Professor of History at University of Wisconsin-Madison, published in 1985 www.thetedkarchive.com/library/geor...
"Ore is targeting a product that is as much as 10 times cheaper than lithium-ion, a difficult feat in a market where lithium-ion system prices have been decreasing." www.latitudemedia.com/news/the-rac...
"Happy Talk is the end of Reason"
Keynote of Julio Friedmann about the "Maturation of the Carbon Management Enterprise" at Carbon Forum 2025 from Novo Nordisk Foundation CO₂ Research Center in Århus, Denmark
www.youtube.com/watch?v=neHg...
@esabcc.bsky.social calls for strengthened adaptation policy in new report.
Europe is warming about x2 the global average, with rising temperatures driving more frequent and severe heatwaves, droughts, wildfires, flooding, sea-level rise and coastal erosion.
www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/late...
Most interesting voice and facts by Lynn Dicks about insects and regenerative agriculture 👍 www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZRT...
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The compressorless gas turbine developed by a KIT team
Runtime record and first electricity generation with a compressorless #HydrogenGasTurbine: #KITKarlsruhe researchers surpass #NASA and achieve a technological breakthrough toward a CO₂-neutral #EnergySystem. www.kit.edu/kit/english/...
"The plant is designed to convert CO2 and hydrogen into protein. The process is powered by green electricity and microorganisms." corc.au.dk/news/news-an...
