David NicholsonOur @rivergecko twitter feed includes some of the UK electric car news but is also Clean Tech – Climate change Tech – EVs – Renewable Energy including wind and solar – clean trains and boats – air pollution – divesting from fossil fuels
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@GeorgeMonbiot The Gov reckons its #CCS plans are like "taking 4m cars off the road".
Wrong.
CCS plans are mostly about building 𝗻𝗲𝘄 fossil fuel infrastructure—with 2/3rds of the emissions uncapture-able upstream—so in fact it's like adding 12m cars then 𝙩𝙧𝙮𝙞𝙣𝙜 to take 4m away. Minimum…
Incredible stat:
A single container ship of solar panels can provide as much electricity as more than 50 large LNG tankers of gas – or 100 large coal ships
There's many more insights in IEA Energy Technology Perspectives 2024 – here's a selection 🧵
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Seems like a good time to freeze fuel duty …
BREAKING: Ofcom fines GB News £100,000 for giving Rishi Sunak an uncontested platform to "promote the policies and performance of his Government during the election".
Channel will have to broadcast Ofcom's findings "on a date and in a form determined by us."
Brexit is on course to cut UK trade by 15%, the OBR has warned.
In documents published alongside Rachel Reeves’ Budget the OBR said that “weak growth in imports and exports over the medium term partly reflect the continuing impact of Brexit, which we expect to reduce the…
Today, Kamala says she will lower prescription drug costs, expand the child tax credit, reproductive rights, and “making housing, elder care and childcare more affordable.
Today, Trump says he’s not Hitler.
#DemocratsDeliverChildCare
Wow! Jimmy Kimmel made a brilliant super cut of all the crazy things Trump has said.
It’s easy to forget these, but this video is masterful:
The scariest thing is the fact that this isn't the new normal... it's only about halfway to the new normal.
I don't think you'll like the new normal.
"Good news, drivers! We froze fuel duty."
UK Gov Still protecting the wealthy oil and gas lobby
Very disappointing to see Labour rehash the Conservative fuel duty freeze and even the Conservatives temporary 5p fuel duty cut.
And while air passenger duty on private jets is increased the proposed £450 per passenger neither…
A brand-new report just found that billionaires are spewing as much carbon in 90 minutes as the average person emits in a lifetime. This is hideous. This is grotesque. This is a crime against humanity. If this does not shock you to your core, what will? What will?
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The scale of the flooding currently unfolding in Valencia, Spain is unfathomable. This is footage from Chiva, where a jaw-dropping 343 mm of rain was recorded in just 4 hours earlier today, between 4:30 PM and 8:30 PM.
Video credit: Nalabcer
Lots of interventions today that seem to imply that if the Conservatives had won the election there wouldn't be a £22bn black hole in the UK's public finances and we could just cut all the taxes and magically fix public services.
New X users with interests in topics such as crafts, sports and cooking are being blanketed with political content and fed a steady diet of posts that lean toward Trump and that sow doubt about the integrity of the election, a @WSJ analysis found.
Utiel, Valencia in Spain today....
This is not normal #SpainFloods
They’re quotes. He’s quoting.
An important message that many American Christians seem to have left behind somewhere…
You’ve heard Trump say these things before. But not like this.
Guess who...
#TrumpIsUnfitForOffice #TrumpIsAnExistentialThreat #TrumpIsARacist
I did Nazi that coming...
#TrumpIsUnfitForOffice #TrumpIsAnExistentialThreat #TrumpIsATraitor
