Snr Comms Adviser @SolarEnergyUK_, trustee @CHEMTrust, member @CroydonEnergy, co-founder, Campaign for Safe Furniture. Ex @TheENDSReport. Cargobiker. Own views.
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Gareth Simkins retweeted
🌞 Myth-busting research from @LancasterUni reveals UK solar farms use just 0.03% of agricultural land, with 95% still available for farming.
Many already combine solar panels w/ sheep grazing. Renewable energy and food production CAN coexist. Read more: ow.ly/hPoQ50VBprk
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1/Energy bills are set to rise again due to a spike in global gas markets, with wholesale gas prices up 15% since the last energy price cap was announced.
This will put up energy bills because of our reliance on global fossil fuel markets controlled by petrostates and dictators.
Gareth Simkins retweeted
"Almost everywhere, solar and wind are the cheapest sources of new electricity. So doubling down on #fossilfuels is absurd" ~
@antonioguterres #COP29Azerbaijan
Gareth Simkins retweeted
Today would have been Carl Sagan's 90th birthday. He wrote this in 1995. Carl was absolutely right. #CarlSaganDay
ALT I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time - when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the key manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness.
Watching the #Lucan documentary, I thought I should mention a little footnote to history that might otherwise be lost.
Not long after the #Lucan murders, my father and a colleague went to a conference somewhere. Arriving at a hotel, the receptionist told the colleague (not sure I was ever told who it was): “Here, your Lord Lucan!”
I gather the resemblance to #Lucan was more than slight. The police were called and were convinced enough to arrest the poor fellow, who was eventually released once his identity was verified. He missed the entire conference as a result.
Gareth Simkins retweeted
If you look very, very closely, you may detect just the slightest hint of a trend.
I mentioned flame retardant DBDPE when I gave evidence to @CommonsEAC's 2019 Toxic Chemicals in Everyday Life inquiry. Finding it to be vPvB comes as no surprise - and the busted Furniture Regulations mean you could be sitting on it right now. I'm still working on junking the law
🚨After 12 years of evaluations, Swedish agency KEMI has found the flame retardant DBDPE to be very persistent and bioaccumulative (vPvB).
🛋️ DBDPE is used in everyday products such as sofas!
More in our latest #ToxicFree4EU 👉 buff.ly/48FSfqR
#REACHrevisionNOW
Gareth Simkins retweeted
Word of the day is ‘recrudescence’ (17th century): the return of something terrible after a time of reprieve.
Gareth Simkins retweeted
Reminder: Victory for Trump is likely to all but end global hopes of staying below 1.5C, our analysis found in March
carbonbrief.org/analysis-tru…
Gutted that I won't be able to make it to the always-fun @CarbonBrief annual quiz this week due to family commitments.
Gareth Simkins retweeted
What have battery energy storage systems done to reduce GB Power Sector Emissions?
@ModoEnergy
Gareth Simkins retweeted
Welcome to the topsy-turvy world of farm lobbying... 🙃
"Small farms will be broken up and they'll all be bought by big landowners, this is the end of farming as we know it."
Reality:
🤫big landowners* currently buying up farmland because they get unlimited IHT relief
😩 pushing up prices for everyone else including small tenant farmers who want to buy
🧐 actual small farms unaffected by this reform because £3m farm still pays no IHT in practice
Capping IHT relief is part of the solution for small farms, not the problem!
Gareth Simkins retweeted
A ship with solar panels can provide the means to generate 100x more energy than a similar ship with coal, the @IEA says.
However... if you take final energy (the electricity from coal) instead of primary energy (the heat in the coal) it is actually 300x more energy.
New from IEA: "A single journey by a large container ship filled with solar PV modules can provide the means to generate the same amount of electricity as the natural gas from more than 50 large LNG tankers or the coal from more than 100 large bulk ships." iea.org/reports/energy-techn…
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This graphic is going viral.
This is how it was calculated... let's get geeky🤓...
Gareth Simkins retweeted
Stonehaven aren’t pollsters, they’re lobbyists, being paid by the gas industry to prolong unhealthy, dirty, climate-destroying boilers.
As it happens, all electric homes are cheaper to run, better to live in and healthier.
The gas industry know this and are shitting themselves.
Gareth Simkins retweeted
This is only the beginning of the battery revolution. We will get a resilient and affordable energy grid with solar, wind, and storage everywhere.
🚨 Lithium ion battery prices fall to their lowest point ever - Benchmark @benchmarkmin 🚨
•Benchmark Lithium ion Battery Cell prices have fallen to $66.5$/kWh in September (Benchmark’s Global Weighted Average); falling just shy of 20% this year
•The biggest story is LFP falling to below the sixty-dollar mark to $59/kWh driven by rock bottom lithium prices; this is down from $96.2/kWh at the same time in 2023
•LFP prices have been quoted as low as $45/kWh with the lower end of the market in the sub-50-dollar range
When batteries become cheaper, more application emerge - especially the true beginning of the large scale energy storage market in 2024
With key battery raw materials all low, especially lithium, this trend won’t last forever.
Controlling the battery supply chain from cell all the way upstream to the mine is crucial to dominance in this lithium ion battery era.
This will be one of the biggest talking points at Benchmark Week in LA, 12-14 Nov > benchmarkevents.benchmarkmin…
Gareth Simkins retweeted
A new study illustrates widespread exposure of people to a range of problematic chemicals ❗️
Chemicals identified included those from:
🛍️ Consumer goods
🧴 Personal care products
🍽️ Food
🌱Pesticides
Read more in our latest blog 👇
buff.ly/4043A1P
