Words, what do they mean
06.03.2026 16:56
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Words, what do they mean
Meanwhile, Spain's massive investment in renewables is paying dividends now: with prices for Spanish industry and consumers low and stable compared with other European economies.
www.ft.com/content/ac77...
Sunlight travels 93 million miles to reach the earth
None of them through the Strait of Hormuz
billmckibben.substack.com/p/sunlight-t...
Chart showing European gas, Brent crude oil and stock prices since the start of 2026. Gas prices are up 80% (mostly since the Iran invasion), oil prices up 40%, and stocks have barely changed
One way in which a 2026 energy crisis* might be different to 2022: it would likely affect oil as well as gas.
In 2022, the main issue was gas, which mainly affected electricity and heating bills.
If oil spikes as well, expect transport and more industrial production to face problems
As @adambell.bsky.social floated earlier this week, things could get a lot more serious if Trump were to block US gas exports.
Given the politics of rising oil and gas prices, that seems… worryingly plausible right now
No.6, of course, is that you will lose even more faith in political leaders' ability to make the world a better place.
The Middle East conflict is stress testing global energy. Bloomberg sees oil at $108 in a severe escalation.
We have seen this before. The difference now is that solar and batteries are more cost competitive. Every fossil fuel spike strengthens the case for renewables on energy security alone.
Multiple commentators have argued that the American LNG business is about to reap massive profits off the Iran war. @sebkennedy.bsky.social's calculations suggest the industry could pocket up to $4bn in windfall profits if the conflict lasts a month www.energyflux.news/war-profits-...
I understand the pressures on Rutte but he really has turned into a hapless buffoon. Helping to eradicate the rules based order he believes he's upholding.
A chat detailing whether the artist topping the Billboard Hot 100 is solo, a band, or collab. There have been fewer bands in recent years.
I feel like we should be giving bands more love than we do.
Data viz by @ilokhov.bsky.social
🗳️ As the dust settles after Gorton and Denton's hard-fought byelection, JUST Deputy Director @matpaterson.bsky.social provides a striking expert analysis of how the UK political landscape is evolving - and what this means for climate policy.
Read the full analysis: bit.ly/40cSczE
They deserve Dubai and Dubai deserves them
Cartoon by
Jeff Stahler
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FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?
Five ways the Iran conflict is upending Europe’s energy plans
Europe is not a big importer of fossil fuels from the Gulf — less than 10% of its gas comes via Strait of Hormuz, and not much more oil but the route’s closure has taken a huge chunk of global supply out of the picture.
I have to do Career Day at my kids' school, what's a good way to teach them about science? I was thinking of giving them a fun activity and then making them fill out a lot of paperwork before abruptly canceling it
#UpTheEnergy 🤦
If the economy is so dependent on oil that it requires a war in the Middle East or some other devastating exogenous event to buoy oil prices and come closer to balancing budgets, maybe we're not making the best decisions.
The ‘wind mills’ Trump hates mean the UK is at least somewhat less exposed to the spike in gas prices he just triggered.
A headline from GB News stating: Motorists switch to using public transport to avoid paying £5 daily congestion charge
In shock news, motorists have switched to public transport to avoid paying the Oxford Congestion Charge.
A spokesperson* said: "This is exactly what was meant to happen, and it did."
The guy with the worst risk assessment in the world is now pricing insurance.
If you liked this experiment, I published a full piece today in the same vein: a text that gets 100 years older with every section, from a modern blog post to a medieval chronicle.
It's a single story spanning 1000 years of English. See how far you get.
www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-ba...
This is a frustrating column by Martin Wolf - which is sadly typical of a lot of economics commentary on GB energy.
It does identify some of the key causes of high electricity prices - including Britain’s high exposure to gas prices and rising network costs. But there’s a lot it leaves out…
Here's our first story about the U.S. strikes on Iran and impacts on global oil markets for @npr.org 🎧📻🛢️
With @camilareads.bsky.social
(NB these days I'm helping w oil coverage, my old beat was oil, But I still cover climate. Roughly 70% of planet-heating gases come from burning fossil fuels)
With the failure of efforts to limit the climate crisis, climate shocks will come more frequently and hit with more severity. This new comment in @nature.com makes a convincing case that we need a global assessment of avoidable climate change risks www.nature.com/articles/d41...
This is genuinely entertaining; the interviewers are absolutely owned by Zack. It's informative and educational too, thanks to Zack's skill at communicating
but wait, all the Very Serious People said that oil and gas companies were too rational to be interested in Venezuela 🧐
Another reason to ditch ChatGPT, besides Altman's $1 million Trump donation. Anthropic's Claude is far better than ChatGPT anyway. (NYT Gift article 👇)
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/27/t...
