Self-Burn monbiot.com/2026/04/21/self-… Notwithstanding the chaos, venality, and retribution, the orange strongman has achieved what he and his donors least intended: the fastest shift away from fossil fuels in modern history. Everywhere, the exit signs are flashing. Well done, Donald.

Global energy crisis can be Australia’s gas opportunity: Shell boss afr.com/companies/energy/glo… - but energy consultants, Ember, have just reported that global gas consumption has gone down for the fifth year in a row. Short gas!

Enough to power roughly 750,000-1m homes

Australia’s biggest operating wind farm has set a stunning new record, becoming the first in the nation to surpass one gigawatt of electricity generation output. reneweconomy.com.au/golden-m…

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Two leaders who’ve done more than most to bend the emissions curve — @JohnKerry and @TurnbullMalcolm. Always energising to connect and keep pushing for real climate action. The work continues. 💪🌱 #ClimateChange #ClimateLeadership

What a disgrace.

The President of the United States is asleep at his desk. Again. Behind him stand seven grown adults in expensive suits, and not one of them is doing anything about it. One is mid-sentence. Another is gazing sideways with the haunted look of a man whose pension depends on never acknowledging what he can see in his peripheral vision. The rest of the world is watching, and the rest of the world has noticed something. Americans are terrified of authority. That fear has settled over this administration like a fog, and it turns otherwise functional adults into warm furniture. Nobody moves. Nobody speaks. The paralysis is total. In any European parliament, in any boardroom from Oslo to Ljubljana, someone would have leaned over by now. Tapped a shoulder. Said, quietly but clearly, that perhaps this isn’t the moment. Somebody would have done something, because the alternative, pretending a sleeping man is running a meeting, would have been too absurd to sustain. Not here. Here, seven men have collectively decided that the correct professional response to the President losing consciousness in the Oval Office is to carry on as though he were a particularly demanding houseplant.

A record-breaking month of #renewable energy generation has been set in three different states across #Australia, as big #batteries continue to smooth prices.. reneweconomy.com.au/wind-and…

AI giant chooses Australia's first 100 pct (net) renewable grid to build country's biggest data centre reneweconomy.com.au/ai-giant… - an 800MW data centre costing an estimated $10bn to build. Greenest grid on the planet supplies data services to South-East Asia. Go South Australia.

The Kardashev Scale: Australia’s staggering energy transition and its untapped opportunity  reneweconomy.com.au/the-kard… - this a must read for anyone wondering whether solar energy is a big deal for Australia or whether it just fades the curtains...

Australia’s renewable energy boom — proudly brought to you by those notorious woke warriors… the mining industry 😂 Fortescue and Rio Tinto are building solar farms faster than the outraged deniers can yell ‘unreliable.’ afr.com/policy/energy-and-cl…

I repeat: One Nation is a circus, Senator Hanson is the ringmaster, and Barnaby the clown. #Discuss.

RT @KosSamaras: In May, the federal budget did something Australian budgets almost never do. It touched the tax concessions that protect we…

When media outlets like the AFR publish editorials like this, they undermine the democratic rationale of journalism. Instead of holding power to account, they become propagandists for the richest and most powerful.

The Big American, majority US shareholder-owned, BHP, is treating Australians with all the contempt it can. Taking the profits, taking the subsidies and taking the piss. Of course our government could raise taxes and cut subsidies, — but they fear BHP going on a capital strike.

afr.com/wealth/people/billio… - Mussolini used his newspaper to sell WWI to Italy (disaster) then a fascist takeover and WWII (bigger disaster). How good has Murdoch been for Australia? This is rubbish.

200 Quadratmeilen Wüste. 15.000 Arbeiter. Eine eigene Entsalzungsanlage, ein eigenes Glasfasernetz, Roboter, die zweimal am Tag staubfrei wischen. Und Solarmodule, so weit das Auge reicht. Willkommen im Khavda Renewable Energy Park in Indien. Dem größten Kraftwerk, das die Menschheit je gebaut hat. 30 Gigawatt. Solar und Wind kombiniert, auf einer Salzwüste in Gujarat, betrieben vom Adani-Konzern. 13 Gigawatt sind bereits am Netz. Das allein wäre schon mehr als die gesamte installierte Solarleistung mancher europäischer Länder. Aber es wird noch verrückter. Weil tagsüber mehr Strom produziert wurde als verkauft werden konnte, hat Adani in neun Monaten die vermutlich größte Netzbatterie der Welt gebaut. 1,1 Gigawatt Leistung, 3,5 Gigawattstunden Kapazität. Offiziell in Betrieb seit diesem Monat. Bis April 2027 sollen weitere 10 Gigawattstunden dazukommen. 13,5 Gigawattstunden Batteriespeicher an einem einzigen Standort. Der Grund für die Batterie: Tagsüber ist der Strom billig, weil die Sonne scheint und alle Solaranlagen gleichzeitig liefern. Abends wird der Strom teuer, weil die Nachfrage steigt und Solar wegfällt. Adani speichert jetzt den billigen Tagesstrom und verkauft ihn abends zu Marktpreisen. Das ist kein Subventionsmodell. Das ist ein Geschäftsmodell. Adani-Nachhaltigkeitschef Arun Sharma sagt es so: "Wir machen nichts auf Megawatt-Ebene. Auch nicht auf Hunderte-Megawatt-Ebene. Wenn es nicht Gigawatt ist, haben unsere CEOs nicht die Aufmerksamkeitsspanne dafür." Und Khavda ist nicht allein. In der chinesischen Provinz Qinghai, auf dem Tibetischen Plateau in 3.000 Metern Höhe, steht der Talatan-Solarpark. Über 17 Gigawatt, auf einer Fläche von sieben Manhattan. Die Höhe ist kein Nachteil, sondern ein Vorteil: Die Sonne strahlt intensiver als auf Meereshöhe, und die kalte Luft macht die Solarmodule effizienter. Unter den Modulen grasen Schafe. In Kalifornien plant der Westlands Water District einen 21-Gigawatt-Solarpark auf brachliegenden Agrarflächen im Central Valley, deren Wasser versiegt ist. Aus einem Wasserproblem wird ein Energieprojekt. Stellt euch das vor: 30 Gigawatt Erzeugung plus 13,5 Gigawattstunden Speicher an einem einzigen Standort in Indien. 17 Gigawatt auf dem Dach der Welt in China. 21 Gigawatt auf ehemaligem Farmland in Kalifornien. Vor fünf Jahren galten Projekte mit einigen hundert Megawatt als Rekorde. Die Solarenergie hat die Gigawatt-Schwelle durchbrochen. Und sie kommt nicht wieder zurück. Quellen: Canary Media / New York Times / Adani Green Energy / cleanthinking.de

Abraham Lincoln got shot in the head and still managed to keep the country together. Franklin Roosevelt ran the entire Second World War from a wheelchair. Eisenhower defeated Hitler and then, just to stay busy, built 48,000 miles of motorway. Kennedy looked at the moon, said “we’ll have that,” and inside a decade they did. Reagan stared down the Soviet Union until it simply gave up and went home. Two hundred and fifty years. Forty-six men. Men who stormed beaches, split atoms, faced down nuclear annihilation over breakfast and then filed sensible paperwork about it afterward. And then, after all of that, the entire accumulated weight of American history, the most consequential democratic experiment the world has ever seen, produced this. A television review. No Mars landing. No cure for cancer. No Soviet empire dissolved before lunch. Just a man in the White House, in the year 2026, informing the internet that a CBS chat show host had no talent. That is what 250 years of American greatness built. America should be deeply, permanently ashamed of itself. If you like what you read, follow Gandalv on Substack: open.substack.com/pub/gandal…

You can’t be a good economic manager in 2026 without being a climate realist. APRA’s modelling is clear: climate inaction means household incomes up to 20% lower, persistent inflation & higher interest rates. Ignore climate and you’ll pay for it. 🔥 theaustralian.com.au/nation/…

EV global market share nears 30% in 2026! IEA said in 2019 EV market share would be 5% in 2026. EVs go from 80 million in 2025 to 510 million by 2035. Wow! EV trucks were 10% of global sales in 2025. Oil burning autos, buses, vans, trucks are doomed. iea.org/news/close-to-30-of-…