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Jul 27, 2023 • 5 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
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Can 100% renewables really work? What about night & windless winter days?
The answer’s YES based on numerous independent studies.
It will deliver huge £ savings, help clean our air - and end dependence on oil dictators & profiteering oil companies. 🧵1/
brookes.ac.uk/About-Brookes/…
2/ A major study looked at 3 years of grid data for 145 countries. They demonstrated:
✅100% renewables is feasible
✅63% saving on total energy costs
✅Large upfront investment, but the savings are so big, it could pay back in under 7 years.
thehill.com/opinion/energy…
3/ Natural variability is dampened by building a mix of complementary sources: wind, solar, tidal, wave, hydro & geothermal. The remaining shortfall can be covered with storage in pumped hydro & batteries (grid, home, car), and price can be used to time-shift demand.
4/ And the study in (2) suggests we can get there without any new costly, slow & unreliable nuclear plants, and without any dishonest fake solutions like BECCS or blue hydrogen.
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Mar 2, 2025
This week's impressive Climate Change Committee report makes a rock solid case for net zero.

BUT it recommends a major program of new fossil fuel infrastructure—giving Big Oil exactly what it wants.

Why that’s a bad mistake, and what the alternative is.

A thread 🧵1️⃣Image
2️⃣ This will be lots of new gas power stations & dirty ‘blue hydrogen’ plants (making hydrogen from fossil-gas). The flawed idea is that carbon capture will make them green.

This👇means roughly 2.5 new plants the size of the Net Zero Teesside power station every year. (p210) Image
3️⃣These 'carbon capture' plants will be around as bad as coal for the climate, even if the #CCS works (scientists warn it likely won’t).

But because most of the emissions they cause occur beyond UK borders, Gov & the CCC simply ignore them and pretend this is ‘low carbon’.
Read 12 tweets
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Feb 16, 2025
Shocked at this week's response from Labour's Sarah Jones MP to warnings from leading scientists that UK carbon capture plans will worsen warming.

Sarah's reply ignores one of the biggest concerns & is very misleading.

My analysis + an appeal to @LabourSJ🧵👇
Letter at end
2️⃣Sarah, only by ignoring the huge warming impact along imported gas supply chains is your dept able to pretend that these plans are 'low carbon'.

The reality? These new gas power stations & dirty “blue” hydrogen factories are as bad as coal.
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3️⃣This stance☝️really is absurd. The UK Gov ignores upstream emissions just because they occur outside UK borders.
That’s a loophole in our outdated climate targets—which ignore consumption emissions—leading to perverse decisions.
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Jan 25, 2025
It's not just scientists & environmentalists warning of the huge danger of unchecked climate & nature breakdown 🧵

1️⃣ Consultants Deloitte say that:

❌ Continued inaction: will cost the 🌍 $178 trillion
✅ Accelerating net zero: a $43 trillion benefit.
deloitte.com/global/en/abou…
2️⃣ The Institute & Faculty of Actuaries—expert advisers to the insurance industry—warn we're heading for:

💀 4 billion deaths by 2050
💥 A 50% collapse in GDP from 2070


The billionaire media of course keep quiet about this...theguardian.com/environment/20…
3️⃣ Zurich Insurance: "There could be 1.2 billion climate refugees by 2050".

This is roughly thousands of times the current migration levels. Where will they go? How will destination societies adapt?

zurich.com/media/magazine…
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Jan 7, 2025
Some Labour MPs are telling constituents they support the Climate & Nature Bill's aims but say it's not needed because existing targets are sufficient.

Here's why they're mistaken 🧵
[copy of their standard email at the end]
2️⃣They acknowledge the crisis and cite existing policies like onshore wind, solar projects, or green funding. But the truth is, these steps are nowhere near sufficient, and our targets far too weak to drive meaningful change in the vital coming years.
3️⃣Celebrating small wins while ignoring the transformative action we need—which the CAN Bill would deliver—is like bailing the water in a sinking ship instead of fixing the leak.
Under our current laws, we totally ignore the emissions from all the manufacturing we've offshored!
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Dec 16, 2024
Brief reasons why I think Ed Miliband—whose sincerity I don't doubt—has been persuaded we need new power stations & blue hydrogen plants ('CCS plans'). 🧵
2️⃣The UK grid operator set out a scenario which virtually eliminates the need for carbon capture, but it means growing renewables faster.
That's not happening because the big energy companies aren't investing in them. Why? Image
3️⃣Companies can charge sky-high prices for scarce fossil fuels. But you can’t do that with abundant wind, solar, or water—nothing stops a competitor setting up nearby.
Gov should fix this market failure with a big tax on oil/gas profits. Instead, they’re doing the opposite....
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Dec 16, 2024
1️⃣ People are asking why Labour is backing the Conservatives' carbon capture plans, which rely heavily on new gas & hydrogen plants.

I'll do a fuller thread on this, but I've just found an important new reason, and it would be laughable if not so serious.
A quick explainer 🧵
2️⃣Turns out that the computer model that DESNZ uses to find the cheapest way to net zero only accounts for emissions within UK territorial boundaries.

So that means they totally ignore the huge emissions caused along the supply chain for the LNG feeding their new 'CCS' plants! Image
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3️⃣The model produces perverse results, because it's driven by the UK's emissions targets—which ignore the emissions we cause overseas.
So the computer picks solutions that spew out huge amounts of greenhouse gases, but that's apparently OK because they happen somewhere else🙄
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