Si Cy
In aviation but incurably curious about renewable energy & clean tech. Blame the Physics degree
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- Latest rage bait dragging in the old is about tomatoes being taken out of pasta sauces to comply with a sugar limit.
- Reposted by Si CyAnd we're done for the season.
- Reposted by Si CyNews from Helsinki, Finland which recently became coal-free when the last two coal plants closed. The local government just released a statement that the coal exit led to very clear air quality improvements. Can you spot the coal exit in the graph of SO2 concentrations?
- Reposted by Si CyHere's a sneaky peak the next release of the GB Renewables Map, or should I say the GB Not Just a Renewables Map… That's right, all types of power assets are coming to the map! Plus a whole bunch of other improvements.
- Reposted by Si CyNext time someone asks you about energy and land use, maybe remind them that the ~35 million acres that currently grow corn for ethanol in the US could produce ~15 PWh per year of electricity from solar photovoltaics. That's ~3.5 times more than *total annual generation from all US power plants*.
- Reposted by Si CyMy comment to the misleading Ecotricity report post almost got more likes than their post - let’s at least match theirs. www.linkedin.com/posts/ecotri...
- Reposted by Si CyEurope is losing the race for rare earths. It is playing the long game. Will that be enough? My latest for The @economist.com, with my fantastic colleague Matthieu Favas. economist.com/europe/2026/...
- Seems like a load of rage bait headlines about pensioners being targeted to pay more road tax have come out today. I’ve read the articles and it seems that an increase *for everyone* is being presented as a raid on pensioners. What am I missing here? Am I being a bit thick?
- Reposted by Si Cy🤯 Bloomberg: "China adds more power capacity in a year than most countries have total" www.bloomberg.com/ne...
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- Reposted by Si Cy"Get it all on record now — get the films — get the witnesses — because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened." - Dwight D. Eisenhower, in April 1945 🧵 (1/2)
- Sorry Donald, what was that? I can’t hear you over the sound of you backtracking.
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- Reposted by Si CyJust imagine being the parent of a soldier from Canada or Denmark or Great Britain or France who was killed in Afghanistan in the one and only time Article 5 was invoked and the entire alliance came to America's aid, and hearing President Bone Spurs say this.
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- Reposted by Si CyMark Carney's speech is now only the second most acute analysis of where the world is at right now:
- Reposted by Si CyAs the world hurtles towards geopolitical crisis, my marine biologist son sends photo of an underwater leaf slug from Fiji to wish us calm.
- Reposted by Si CyTake a look at The Telegraph's view on Trump. Every single 'columnist' (I use the term loosely) utterly wrong and totally disproven. Never read again.
- Reposted by Si CyIf you think gas power is cheap, meet Keadby 2, the last CCGT gas plant built in Great Britain It opened in 2023, after 5yrs of development, at a cost of £350m Owner SSE says it would now cost 3.5x to build the same plant (~£1.2bn) 1/6
- Reposted by Si CyCompare & contrast. This is Trump’s demand for Greenland. And this is Hitler’s for the Sudetenland. There is no difference. The language. The unstoppable need to dominate. The megalomania. It’s the same. And Keir Starmer’s response is appeasement. We are in that moment. 1/
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- It certainly makes for a very pleasant urban environment. One of my favourite countries to visit.
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- Reposted by Si CyThe families of Danes killed in Afghanistan have a message for Trump www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...
- Reposted by Si CyThis photo was taken in 1911 using glass plate technology by Herbert Ponting who was part of Scott's Antarctic expedition, The composition and detail are exquisite with the band of white snow/ice creating a perfect frame around the two people and the ship in the distance Iconic imo
- Big things, awkward spaces. Ingenuity & drama www.linkedin.com/posts/windle...
- Reposted by Si CyDo you like charts? Oh yes you do. I've just published hundreds of them, as I do every year. www.nathanielbullard.com/presentations
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- Jesus wept 🤦♂️
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