Professor in Dublin City University, Ireland. Energy, ClimateChange, Hydrogen, Wasserstoff, Tech. EV owner. Green Hydrogen is Key. Divest from fossil fuels.
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Contributed to the "Explainer Podcast" for the @thejournal_ie
"What is hydrogen power, and could it replace coal, oil, and gas?"
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Paris macht einfach weiter! Der Nachfolger von Anne Hidalgo und neue Bürgermeister Emmanuel Grégoire hat heute seine Fahrrad-Pläne für seine erste Amtszeit bis 2032 vorgestellt. Hier seine 5 wichtigsten Maßnahmen:
- 140 Kilometer an neuen Radwegen
- 220 Kilometer neue Fahrradstraßen in Einbahnstraßen
- 420 neue fahrradfreundliche und sichere Kreuzungen
- 200 Mio. Euro in den Ausbau der Radinfrastruktur
- Aufbau einer eigenen Polizeieinheit, um gegen motorisierte Gewalt gegenüber Fahrradfahrern vorzugehen🙏
So schön zu sehen wie in Paris der lebenswerte Umbau der Stadt unbeirrt vorangeht und wie die 🇫🇷 Hauptstadt immer mehr zu einer wunderbaren Fahrradstadt wird❤️
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Most road widenings happened with 0 public input. Trucks just showed up in the middle of the night and bulldozed sidewalks to add a few traffic lanes because traffic engineers said so.
Now, when we want those lanes converted back to sidewalks or bike lanes, it requires 15 public meetings, coordination between 5 different city agencies, and special one-on-one meetings with NIMBYs.
And it still might not happen because that NIMBY knows people in city hall.
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La respuesta a la congestión es entregar espacio al transporte público y la movilidad activa, no ampliar capacidad viaria.
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Las Vegas, one of the driest city’s on earth, in a time of climate change…
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La peatonalización aumenta las ventas del comercio: las personas prefieren un entorno amigable a uno orientado al automóvil. Estudio en 14 grandes ciudades españolas analizando miles transacciones 💳
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Repeat after me. A habitable planet is more important than the profits of a few fossil fuel companies.
Pass it on.
#ActOnClimate
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BREAKING: Northern Ireland Environment Agency pulls water pollution limits set for Dalradian gold mine, telling public inquiry chiefs they got them wrong. Asks (rather angry) PAC carry on regardless.
“How am I supposed to do that?” says lead commissioner.
#WatchBelow
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“Now is the time to get into clean energy.”
Mary Robinson on @Newsweek on why this year’s COP in Turkey remains crucial in the global fight against climate change.
Listen here ➡️ newsweek.com/videos/climate-…
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Analysis: EVs are now nine times cheaper than petrol or diesel to drive in the UK
✍️ Written by Molly Lempriere
📊 Data analysis by Ho Woo Nam
Read here: buff.ly/VpxOLE5
ALT EVs are now up to nine times cheaper per mile than diesel cars. Pence per mile. A chart shows diesel highest at around 21p, petrol at 20p, EV at price cap at 7p, and EV off peak lowest at under 2.5p. Source: Carbon Brief analysis, DESNZ, Ofgem, Zapmap. - (alt text generated by Google Gemini)
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Ecuador bans oil drilling to protect 700,000-hectares of rainforest: buff.ly/M0Xg6vx These are the type of announcements we need.
No time to waste. #ActOnClimate
#climate #energy #IndigenousPeoples #ClimateWeekNYC
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The UK’s spy chiefs examined the impacts of the collapse of overseas ecosystems, under pressure of climate crisis and biodiversity loss, on UK’s national security.
Their findings?
“Apocalyptic.”
UK defence and society at risk, impacts within 5 years.
theguardian.com/environment/…
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If you're inclined to blame the kid for almost being squashed, you may be suffering from Car Brain.
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🇮🇶🇸🇾 Iraq's workaround for the Strait of Hormuz is to full-send tanker trucks packed with oil over the border into Syria towards Mediterranean ports
And it looks fking insane
Writer: Ian
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
This appears to be an AI generated video, with an implausibly sideways car at the end and more trucks than are likely available for this route.
The roads look somewhat different:
bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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Both are city vehicles, but...
Only one demands minimal space, doesn't threaten lives, and causes zero wear on our roads. Yet the cargo bike has to beg for every single scrap of safe infrastructure, while the massive SUV is just handed the entire city by default.
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The videos emerging out of Surf City, New Jersey, are horrifying.
The powerful nor’easter storm has transformed into entire blocks into waterways.
The flooding has made roads impassable and threatens homes as waters continue rising.
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You'll hear this "where will I park" complaint from people who assume a suburban-style design can fit in constrained city environments.
Cars are space hogs, which means you can't fit as many in cities as you can in sprawly areas.
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If fuel doesn’t run out, you can thank the EV drivers.
That’s because globally, electric vehicles are already displacing around 1.7 MILLION barrels of oil demand EVERY DAY.
That’s roughly 620 million barrels a year that would otherwise be consumed by those EV drivers driving inefficient ICE vehicles as well.
Less demand for petrol and diesel means less pressure on the fuel supply that everyone else relies on.
So if you pull into your local petrol station this week and there’s actually fuel left…
You’re welcome.
Maybe give the next EV driver you see a little wave 👋
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This is what a functioning urban centre of city with good density looks like.
No 8-lane highway. No sea of parked cars. No flyovers. Just people actually getting somewhere they wanna be using transit and active mobility
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The depth of Israel's international isolation is difficult to fathom if you're just watching mainstream media.
But these images do not lie. Look at all these delegates leaving the General Assembly in protest as soon as Netanyahu takes the podium... xitter.cf/RimaHas/status/2102652…