Spain spent 6 years investing heavily in wind and solar energy, now has some of cheapest power prices in Europe
Ember: 2020-2024 Spain cut its power sector import bill more than any other EU country & avoided 26bn cubic metres of gas imports costing €13.5bn
And we're now on our 2nd crisis in 4 years. Suspect we're going to continue having crises until the last LNG tanker docks.
Great to hear that Incredible Edible Ludlow are still doing good things. Orchards are such a good idea. Benefits for local food, climate resilience, reducing food risk, biodiversity. I could go on. We should also grow more nuts. I'm arranging a talk with nut growing experts in April
"Hands up if you flew 4,400 miles to kiss the arse of a tangerine turd, only for him to ignore you"
“Dear Diary,
Super excited to say that I’ll be serving my Clacton constituents today by flying to Mar-a-Lago to meet Donald Trump and to undermine the UK government. God I love being a patriot!”
Dirty Business on C4 was absolutely brilliant and fucking terrifying. It’s imperative we re-nationalise our water companies otherwise the greedy bastards will kill us all.
Promotional image for Channel 4 show Dirty Business. Two men in waders standing waist-deep in water examining a device; family on shore and dead fish visible underwater.
Watched Dirty Business? Feeling despair, fury, frustration and outrage? You are not alone.
A new water law is coming. Let your MP know that it must have teeth.
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BRUTAL HEAT WAVE IN SOUTHERN AFRICA
A Historic event has kicked off in South Africa and Namibia
ALL TIME RECORDS SMASHED
44.0C Alexander Bay 🇿🇦
43.7C Luderiz Point 🇳🇦
Next days will be much hotter and dozens of historical records will be pulverized.
A new study suggests that applying biochar to rewetted peatlands could increase carbon dioxide removal efficiency by about 30 percent and even make lower stability biochars highly effective for long term carbon storage.
#Biochar #CarbonRemoval #ClimateSolutions
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Have you heard of Axel Energy? Interesting model that is well explained here: youtu.be/IvMor9aUfhE?...
UK must double down on renewables as wars drive up energy costs, experts say
3D printing with Carbon negative biochar. This is the sort of stuff that excites me. What if most of the materials we use in daily life stored atmospheric carbon rather than be a source of it or be made of fossil carbon.
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@georgemonbiot.bsky.social
This is the most important thing happening in the world right now.
Trump and Hegseth want killer drones + mass surveillance of Americans.
Anthropic refuses to build it. While most tech companies fall in line, they are prepared to pay the price for their principles.
I would recommend a visit to Woodtek where they are using biochar to restore the soil biology. Woodtek & BDC Technology & Biochar walk open day
Date: Wed 18 Mar • 9 am
Location: Woodtek Engineering Ltd
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It was indeed. It's incredible how terra preta is still fertile after all this time. There are lots of misconceptions about biochar in agriculture. Poor results are usually because people use low quality biochar and/or keep using synthetic fertilizers and pesticides. My compost loves it
Biochar can help. Ideally activated biochar. I spoke to a guy from Morocco last year who is feeding small amounts to livestock. They charge the biochar and disperse it to gradually boost degraded soils
The sooner we remove our reliance on fossil fuels and petrochemicals the better. And that is something government and individuals can do.
This sort of thing is why people are understandably not coming to the US. I would be really surprised if the expected international crowds arrive for the World Cup, at least at the US venues. Maybe some diehard fans will come. But the risk is just too great.
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The low cost biochar water filters at Woodtek need replacing having successfully filled farmyard run-off for the last 3 months. The pool this leads to is so clean that it's used for wild swimming. Not many farmers would swim in farm run-off
#wildswimming
#saveourrivers
#RiverCleanup
20% biochar with 80% fine grade chipped tree (including leaves, branches, roots) makes perfect bedding for livestock. The biochar adsorbs urine preventing release of ammonia. So cattle sheds have no smell and all that useful nitrogen is kept for use as a fertilizer
There's much to be said for nerding-out. A place of wonder certainly helps
Such a lovely place. I've not been in years but would love to get back there. I could nerd-out and look for the very rare Least Adder's-tongue Fern. Enjoy your trip
Please spread this far and wide, as stories don't get much bigger than this. When the government blocks even the intelligence services from telling us we're heading for environmental catastrophe, you know we have a problem. A very big problem.
Thank you.
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They use 25% biochar with 75% 'woodfines' - which is the fine fraction removed from processing whole-tree wood chip. This is placed in the feeding areas where most urination happens. It's cleared out every few weeks, composted for a few weeks then applied to land
Students and lecturers from @harperadamsuni.bsky.social in a cow shed near Welshpool. There's virtually no smell here as the bedding is infused with biochar. Valuable nitrogen in the urea isn't lost to the atmosphere as harmful ammonia but held by the biochar. So no extra fertilizer needed.
GE?
Biting stonecrop in a bed of Sand-hill Screw-moss
Interesting idea! Thanks. My scraps go to my wormery or compost - with biochar mixed in of course.
What's it charging with?
