FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?
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FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?
NEW ANALYSIS: UK emissions fell 2.4% in 2025 as coal fell to a 400-year low. Incredibly, we used less coal last year than than in 1600, when Queen Elizabeth I was on the throne and Shakespeare was writing Hamlet.
All the details in our article: www.carbonbrief.org/...
"Los números muestran que la inmigración es una consecuencia natural de ciclos económicos, ningún misterio. Pero también muestran que, en la España actual, esa inmigración es una necesidad demográfica y económica" by @marrv.bsky.social vía @convershistoria.bsky.social
Las preguntas que habría que hacerse sobre la migración y la economía, por mi colega @marrv.bsky.social :
What a privilege to present our research on Navarra’s renewables industrial take off at Glasgow University! Great Q&A session, lots of meat for thought and the conviction that this needs to become a book.
Y la presentación de la humilde experiencia de Más Planeta a favor de la transición ecológica justa, a cargo de @maestroconganas.bsky.social @jluisgarciah.bsky.social y @marrv.bsky.social
Un placer encontrarnos con tanta gente colega. Muy buen ambiente riojano-navarro.
Volveremos!
📌21st AEEE Annual Conference #EnergyEconomics
📍Pamplona | 🗓️ May 27-29
Keynotes
- Monica Giulietti (Nottingham)
- Peter Hartley (Rice U)
Call for Papers (deadline Mar 4)
aeee.es/xxi_congreso...
Host: Instituto Cultura y Sociedad (@unav.edu)
Scientific chair: @marrv.bsky.social (@upna.bsky.social)
Un placer colaborar con el Grupo investigación Análisis Sociologico y Cambio Social de la Universidad de La Rioja. El 15 enero en Logroño contaremos con @esantiago.bsky.social para hablar de "Ecologismo y prosperidad. Horizontes de abundancia en un planeta finito"
www.unirioja.es/actividades/...
@marrv.bsky.social
Announcement (it is online and free!) The water-energy-food nexus symposium 2025 is here:
www.waterfootprint.org/event/water-...
🇬🇷 Exciting week in Kozani (Greece) for our 5th TEAMIT+ consortium meeting!
Key highlights:
• M1 in Pamplona - 2/12/2025 (Understand)
• M2 in Bidart, France - 4/12/2025 (Innovate)
• M3 Bootcamp 1 Greece 3/2026, fo Bootcamp France - 5/2026 (create)
Recruiting open now: teamit.plus/register/
Economics Seminar at
@upna.bsky.social !
📅 Date and time: Monday, September 14, 12:00 PM.
📍 Location: Meeting Room, Department of Economics (Los Madroños Building, 2nd floor, ECON-2026).
👤 Speaker: Iker Arregui-Alegria (@lusemlu.bsky.social)
📜 Title: "Basque".
Thrilled to announce that I've been elected as a Trustee of the European Historical Economics Society (@theehes.bsky.social)! 🎉
Grateful for this opportunity to serve our scholarly community.
#HistoricalEconomics #EHES #AcademicService
13 articles and one book of mine, shall I be proud or worried?
Screenshot with text: "Throughout most of its history, the United States has been confident of an endless supply of energy. The first government involvement in energy management developed after World War II. Forecasts of a future energy crisis led President Harry Truman to establish the Materials Policy Commission. The Commission was mandated to investigate potential shortages of vital resources. In 1952 the commission recommended that the United States set up a federal energy agency and begin solar energy development. Discovery of large oil deposits and faith in the future of cheap nuclear energy led the federal government to disregard the commission's recommendations."
Interesting opening paragraph from a 1982 report.
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.2...
Petrol and diesel vehicles continue to lose market share to 🔋EVs in the UK 🇬🇧
In the 12 months to August, petrol vehicles made up less than half (47.9%) of vehicles registered in the UK.
Diesel registrations fell to just 5.8%
Battery EVs rose to 22.5%🔋📈
Many colleagues have been asking for the slides from my keynote at the WEHC. You can find them on the Knowledge Transfer tab of my webpage, or use the direct link below.
Feel free to share with anyone who might find them useful!
drive.google.com/file/d/16QF6...
@.hannahritchie.bsky.social
I think you may like to see how I used some of your beautiful energy visuals in my keynote energy past (and present and future!) at the World Economic History Congress
youtu.be/oQ0Wc06MQV4?...
Some meat for thought about the Spanish blackout. I keep saying it is more about social sciences (markets,incentives, regulation) than about technology! -as most of our current pressing problems!
ceepr.mit.edu/wp-content/u...
Here you have my keynote at the #WEHC2025 where I did explain lots of things about energy history (and present, and future).
The bit about the adoption of electric lighting got missing from the video! (read Roger Fouquet instead!)
www.youtube.com/live/GMu7y4s...
More than 100 humanitarian groups warn of mass starvation in Gaza - BBC News
The scale of this is hard to comprehend.
If this dam is built and generates at the advertised output (300 TWh), it would generate more electricity annually than every natural gas plant, nuclear plant, coal plant, wind farm and solar farm in Canada, combined (261 TWh in 2023). 😳
Without the ability to know what the total energy use of their customers with PV installed, utilities won't be able to efficiently, in terms of cost, pollution, and meeting demand, make plans related to securing adequate generation capacity. #EnergySky #HeatPump
reneweconomy.com.au/how-electric...
El periódico La Verdad de Murcia se hace eco de nuestra investigación sobre para quién es el agua embalsada:
www.laverdad.es/agro/falso-m...
Are you thinking about Spain and Portugal??
Like the ones in the 1960s made in Spain???
Apparently in Sweden (Affärsvärlden by Christian Sandström) claim it was the clouds.
Here the (lack of) clouds on 28th April over the Iberian Peninsula🤦♀️
view.eumetsat.int/productviewe...
Que la mañana del lunes 28 estuvo rara está claro. EDF v.2 sobre #Golfech1 (parada antes de la desconexión y el apagón)
www.edf.fr/groupe-edf/a...
