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From David Suzuki
A report released today by the David Suzuki Foundation, "Running on Fumes: B.C. LNG’s Overhyped Promises, Risky Future and Public Costs,” shows that the #LNG industry exhibits a pattern of grand promises, under-delivery and hidden costs.
The real winners are foreign multinationals, not British Columbians. Offshored profits, few jobs, higher energy costs and ignored environm…

AI use of water and energy is an issue. And the industry's bloviating smokescreens don't help us understand the issue.
All of the ways companies cause GHG gas emissions - from direct emissions on site to emissions from power generation off-site to emissions in their supply chain & from product usage are addressed in the #GreenhouseGasReportingProtocol .

AI use of water and energy is an issue. And the industry's bloviating smokescreens don't help us understand the issue.
All of the ways companies cause GHG gas emissions - from direct emissions on site to emissions from power generation off-site to emissions in their supply chain & from product usage are addressed in the #GreenhouseGasReportingProtocol .

China's response to Trump's tariffs: No grand statements, just stop buying American soy. Immediately and 100%.
https://newrepublic.com/article/201461/trump-tariffs-soybean-industry-china-reckoning

Trump’s Tariffs Should Force a Reckoning With America’s Soy Industry
The industry became the world’s second largest not because of human demand for soy, but to feed China’s pigs.

The Philippines just secured its first fixed-bottom offshore wind auctions—a major leap for clean energy in Asia.
The GEA-5 program targets 3.3 gigawatts of capacity, focusing on proven technology that can move to construction faster. This strategic approach positions the country as one of Asia's fastest-advancing offshore wind markets.

First Fixed-Bottom Offshore Wind Project Auctions In The Philippines Secured - CleanTechnica
Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. At the 2025 APAC Wind Energy Summit of the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) last September, the Philippines made its strongest commitment yet to building a commercial offshore wind industry (OSW). This month, a breakthrough Green Energy Auction Program Round ... [continued]

“Additional direct manufacturing costs do not fully explain the higher prices of electric cars outside China. [..] in Germany, the retail price difference is more than double the manufacturing cost difference.”
https://www.iea.org/reports/what-next-for-the…

Executive summary – What Next for the Global Car Industry – Analysis - IEA
What Next for the Global Car Industry - Analysis and key findings. A report by the International Energy Agency.

Trump frequently campaigned with coal miners during his 2016 presidential run,
and has since continued to participate in photo-ops using miners as a symbolic backdrop for his energy policies while campaigning and serving in office.
However, despite the president courting the CEOs of the mining industry heavily during his campaign,
miners themselves feel neglected and left behind.
Days after the executive order, on April 11,
just before coal mines were expected t…

Coal Miners Were Poised to Win Key Safety Protections. Then Trump Showed Up.
After courting coal miners during his campaign, Trump has left a trail of broken promises.

We think the industry turned away from design, but most people have simply never seen design done before, so they don't believe it's possible.
We need to show them, and we can't sit around waiting for permission.
If we want to prove that design isn't just decoration, we need to stop doing decorative work. Think backwards from valuable goals, and direct your energy down the path that leads you towards that value, rather than "just words" or "just pic…

"South Korea sets 3.5 million heat pump target in national decarbonization push"
#SouthKorea #Energy #HeatPumps

South Korea sets 3.5 million heat pump target in national decarbonization push
The South Korean government says it will deploy incentives, legal changes and industry backing to scale heat pump adoption nationwide, aiming to cut emissions from fossil fuel–dependent heating by the mid-2030s.

A look at some US energy companies linked to AI infrastructure, such as Sam Altman-backed Oklo, whose stocks have soared despite having little to no revenue (Jinjoo Lee/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-bubble-ener

Why does Trump want Greenland? “National security.”
Why should Trump’s ballroom vanity project proceed? “National security.”
Why is Trump killing the wind energy industry? “National security.”
Why does #Trump hate the New York Times? “National security.”
The pattern is ... not subtle.
☑️ For the

For the White House, ‘national security’ is becoming the answer to every question
Donald Trump and his team have a go-to tactic intended to shut down debate over their goals. It's not working.

"The railroad industry is slow to adopt new things" [electrified lines].
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/climate-energy/how-us-freight-rail-industry-got-dirtier-than-coal-power-plants-2025-12-14…

Details of the MOU as reported by CBC. Hot Take:
It's a sh_t show of oil soaked hopeium and climate defeatism.
- Shovels in Ground by 2029 *(may this be forever extended)
- Tanker Ban will be lifted if the project is approved by MPO *(Coastal First Nations setting rhetorical fire to MPO in 3-2-1)
- July 1, 2026 deadline for submission to MPO *(OIL CANADA DAY)
- 75% methane emissions cut on 2014 levels from methane by 2035 *(*shaking head* We are VERY GOOD at hitting 10 year targets *shaking head*)
- "both sides commited to net-zero by 2050” (implied via CCS) *(carbon capture and storage? should be Carney Can't Stop -- Emissions)
- industrial carbon price of $130 -- down from $170
*(Oil Industry - Very Poor)
- Alberta exempt from fed O&G emissions cap and clean electricity regulation *(Woop Coal! Let's Mine the Rockies!)
- No private proponents have been announced. *(Hear No Evil)
- No pipeline path/route has been announced. *(See No Evil)
#TMX #EndFossilFuels #ClimateSellout #ClimateEmergency #CdnPoli #CanPoli #BCPoli #ABPoli
Since multiple Ottawa CBC reporters seem utterly incapable of understanding what First Nations groups are what in BC here are some facts about the Coastal First Nations. It has existed since 2003.
https://coastalfirstnations.ca/about/
"The Great Bear Initiative Society (a non-profit society under the BC Societies Act), also known as Coastal First Nations-Great Bear Initiative (CFN), is an alliance of First Nations on the North Pacific Coast that includes the Gitga’at, Gitxaała, Haida, Heiltsuk, Kitasoo Xai’xais, Metlakatla, Nuxalk and Wuikinuxv First Nations. " Their territories span on the mainland coast of BC from the top of Vancouver Island to the Alaska Border including Haida Gwaii.

🥶 The world’s biggest consumers of electricity are hidden in plain sight
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/environment/2025/11/03/energy/biggest-electricity-consumers-industrial-gases/
🆓

The world’s biggest consumers of electricity are hidden in plain sight
There’s an industry that consumes even more power than many tech giants, and it has largely escaped the same scrutiny: suppliers of industrial gases.

The Trump administration on Monday said it would
pause leases for five #wind #farms under construction off the east coast
🔥essentially gutting the country’s nascent offshore wind industry
in a sharp escalation of Trump’s crusade against the renewable energy source.
The decision injected uncertainty into…

Trump Halts 5 Wind Farms Off the East Coast
The Interior Department said the projects posed national security risks, without providing details. The decision imperils billions of dollars of investments.

"Building sustainable sodium-ion batteries from wood industry by-products"
#Batteries #Energy
https://

Building sustainable sodium-ion batteries from wood industry by-products
In light of the growing demand for energy storage for the energy transition, there is an urgent need for cost-effective, safe and resource-efficient battery technologies. Sodium-ion batteries based on locally available and environmentally friendly materials offer a promising approach. Fraunhofer researchers and their project partners are working on a sodium-ion battery system based on lignin, a by-product of the wood and pulp industry.

Zero bids came in to develop the zero-subsidy 1 GW Dutch offshore wind farm Nederwiek-1A.
The slow pace of electrification depresses electricity price forecasts, and the uncertainty that Europe's heavy industry faces doesn't help either.
With the prospect of subsidies next year this outcome was already feared.

Windparkbouwers hebben voor het eerst geen interesse in ruimte op Noordzee
Voor het eerst is de aanbesteding van een nieuw windpark op de Noordzee mislukt. Windparkbouwers konden zich de afgelopen weken inschrijven op het gebied Nederwiek-1A, maar geen enkel bedrijf heeft interesse getoond.

A new Trump administration program is sidestepping the regulatory system that's overseen the nuclear industry for half a century.
The program will fast-track construction of new and untested reactor designs built by private firms,
with an explicit goal of having at least three nuclear test reactors up and running by the United States' 250th birthday, July 4, 2026.
If that goal is met, it will be without the direct oversight of America's primary nuclear regulat…

Trump's rush to build nuclear reactors across the U.S. raises safety worries
A new program at the Department of Energy is pushing the development of nearly a dozen new reactor designs at breakneck speed.

Call for evidence:
"Following an initial evidence session in Parliament on the role of the UK’s refinery industry in the energy transition, the Committee is launching a new inquiry and call for evidence on the future of UK oil and gas.
"Data from the oil and gas industry shows that it directly supports around 26,000 jobs across the UK and indirectly supports 95,000 more."
Managing the future of UK oil and gas - Committees - UK Parliament

"Scotland barely owns any of its own economy now. We are startlingly foreign owned. Our banks, our energy, our land, our supermarkets, our whisky industry – we work and we shop and we generate wealth and then the owners of these industries take the profit and ship it off overseas" -- Robin McAlpine
#ScotPol

Balancing Cost Savings and Import Dependence in Germany's Industry Transformation
Toni Seibold, Fabian Neumann, Falko Ueckerdt, Tom Brown
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00918 ht…

Balancing Cost Savings and Import Dependence in Germany's Industry Transformation
Greenhouse gas emissions from the steel, fertiliser and plastic industries can be mitigated by producing their precursors with green hydrogen. In Germany, green production may be economically unviable due to high energy costs. This study quantifies the 'renewables pull' of cheaper production abroad and high-lights trade-offs between cost savings and import dependence. Using a detailed European energy system model coupled to global supply curves for hydrogen and industry precursors (hot briquett…

"US energy storage installations surpass 2024 total by Q3 2025"
#US #USA #America #Energy

US energy storage installations surpass 2024 total by Q3 2025
US energy storage deployments exceeded full-year 2024 levels within nine months, led by utility-scale projects and sustained residential growth, according to industry data.

Voters across multiple states support expanding the electric grid and adding more renewable energy, despite fossil fuel industry pushback. #climatechange #climatesolutions #climate

Exposing The Fossil Fuel FUD About Renewable Energy - CleanTechnica
The fossil fuel industry is in a panic about renewable energy and is resorting to every dirty trick it can find to protect its profits.

Optimized SVR Framework for Electric Load Forecasting
Nishant Gadde, Yoshua Alexander, Sarvesh Parthasarthy, Arman Allidina
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06476 https://

Optimized SVR Framework for Electric Load Forecasting
Load forecasting has always been a challenge for grid operators due to the growing complexity of power systems. The increase in extreme weather and the need for energy from customers has led to load forecasting sometimes failing. This research presents a Support Vector Regression (SVR) framework for electric load forecasting that outperforms the industry standard. The SVR model demonstrates better accuracy across all evaluation metrics that are important for power system operations. The model h…

REMIND-PyPSA-Eur: Integrating power system flexibility into sector-coupled energy transition pathways
Adrian Odenweller, Falko Ueckerdt, Johannes Hampp, Ivan Ramirez, Felix Schreyer, Robin Hasse, Jarusch Muessel, Chen Chris Gong, Robert Pietzcker, Tom Brown, Gunnar Luderer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04388

REMIND-PyPSA-Eur: Integrating power system flexibility into sector-coupled energy transition pathways
The rapid expansion of low-cost renewable electricity combined with end-use electrification in transport, industry, and buildings offers a promising path to deep decarbonisation. However, aligning variable supply with demand requires strategies for daily and seasonal balancing. Existing models either lack the wide scope required for long-term transition pathways or the spatio-temporal detail to capture power system variability and flexibility. Here, we combine the complementary strengths of REM…

Few know the lengths to which the Trump administration is paving the way -- and the part it's playing
-- in deregulating a highly regulated industry
to ensure that AI data centers have the energy they need to shape the future of America and the world
To say the nuclear people are bullish on AI is an understatement.
“I call this not just a partnership but a structural alliance.
Atoms for algorithms. Artificial intelligence is not just powered by nuclear ene…

‘Atoms for Algorithms:’ The Trump Administration’s Top Nuclear Scientists Think AI Can Replace Humans in Power Plants
A presentation at the International Atomic Energy Agency unveiled Big Tech’s vision of an AI and nuclear fueled future.

Pretraining Large Language Models with NVFP4
NVIDIA, Felix Abecassis, Anjulie Agrusa, Dong Ahn, Jonah Alben, Stefania Alborghetti, Michael Andersch, Sivakumar Arayandi, Alexis Bjorlin, Aaron Blakeman, Evan Briones, Ian Buck, Bryan Catanzaro, Jinhang Choi, Mike Chrzanowski, Eric Chung, Victor Cui, Steve Dai, Bita Darvish Rouhani, Carlo del Mundo, Deena Donia, Burc Eryilmaz, Henry Estela, Abhinav Goel, Oleg Goncharov, Yugi Guvvala, Robert Hesse, Russell Hewett, Herbert Hum, Ujval Kapasi,…

Pretraining Large Language Models with NVFP4
Large Language Models (LLMs) today are powerful problem solvers across many domains, and they continue to get stronger as they scale in model size, training set size, and training set quality, as shown by extensive research and experimentation across the industry. Training a frontier model today requires on the order of tens to hundreds of yottaflops, which is a massive investment of time, compute, and energy. Improving pretraining efficiency is therefore essential to enable the next generation…

"Two-Headed Wind Turbine Could Solve Every Challenge in the Offshore Industry"
#WindTurbines #Energy #Renewables

Two-Headed Wind Turbine Could Solve Every Challenge in the Offshore Industry
Marketing for the 50MW leviathan has already begun, with production slated for next year according to company boss Zhang Qiying

From David Suzuki
Science Matters - Small or big, new nuclear reactors are not climate solutions
Despite the efforts of industry and its supporters to convince us otherwise, coal, gas and oil are outdated, inefficient, polluting energy sources, especially compared to alternatives. Some people, including politicians, are touting nuclear power as a good alternative. Is it?
it’s far from clean, and it’s rife with problems

A breakthrough in green hydrogen just happened in South Australia. Sparc Hydrogen achieved sustained hydrogen production using only sunlight and water—no electrolyzers, no electricity grid needed.
Their photocatalytic process uses concentrated solar energy to split water directly. With green hydrogen markets projected to hit $1.4 trillion annually by 2050, this could be the scalability breakthrough the industry needs.

Sparc hits production milestone at hydrogen pilot plant in Australia
Fortescue-backed startup Sparc Hydrogen has begun producing green hydrogen directly from water using concentrated solar at what it describes as a “first-of-its-kind” pilot plant in South Australia.

An #India-#Japan alliance could prove monumental for the #solar industry. The International Solar Festival at the #OsakaExpo…

Field Free Spin-Orbit Torque Controlled Synapse and Stochastic Neuron Devices for Spintronic Boltzmann Neural Networks
Aijaz H. Lone, Meng Tang, Camelia Florica, Bin He, Jingkai Xu, Xixiang Zhang, Gianluca Setti
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05616

Field Free Spin-Orbit Torque Controlled Synapse and Stochastic Neuron Devices for Spintronic Boltzmann Neural Networks
Spintronics offers a promising approach to energy efficient neuromorphic computing by integrating the functionalities of synapses and neurons within a single platform. A major challenge, however, is achieving field-free spin orbit torque SOT control over both synaptic and neuronal devices using an industry-adopted spintronic materials stack. In this study, we present field-free SOT spintronic synapses utilizing a CoFeB ferromagnetic thin film system, where asymmetrical device design and specifi…

"Corporate ‘middlemen’ mask who really profits from Australian fossil fuel projects, report warns"
#Australia #FossilFuels #Energy

A coalition of more than 230 environmental groups
has demanded a national moratorium
on new datacenters in the US,
the latest salvo in a growing backlash to a booming artificial intelligence industry
that has been blamed for escalating electricity bills and worsening the climate crisis.
The green groups, including
Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, Food & Water Watch and dozens of local organizations,
have urged members of Congress to halt the pro…

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The EU just opened the funding floodgates for clean energy innovation.
The European Commission launched €5.2bn in new funding opportunities targeting net-zero tech, low-carbon hydrogen, and industrial decarbonization. The goal: hit 2030 climate targets while keeping European industry competitive and resilient on the path to climate neutrality by 2050.

European Commission launches $6.06bn clean transition funding opportunities
The European Commission (EC) has launched three new funding opportunities under the Innovation Fund, backed by €5.2bn ($6.06bn) sourced from EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) revenues focusing on net-zero technologies, low-carbon hydrogen, and decarbonising industrial process heat.

"Chinese PV Industry Brief: January-October solar additions reach 252.87 GW"
#China #SolarPower #Energy #Renewables

Chinese PV Industry Brief: January-October solar additions reach 252.87 GW
China’s National Energy Administration (NEA) says developers installed 252.87 GW of new PV capacity from January to October 2024, including 12.6 GW in October alone.

"Ed Miliband says £1.1bn a year to be set aside for new offshore wind projects"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Renewables #Energy