Of 73 reactors under construction worldwide, 63 are Chinese or Russian builds, and Rosatom alone is building 28. Russia also supplies much of the world’s enriched uranium. So who is talking up nuclear online, and why?
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A handful of extreme price intervals can add 15 to 40 per cent to a region’s quarterly wholesale price. AEMO’s latest report on South Australia in June 2026 shows why more battery storage, held back for the worst moments, could cut costs for everyone.
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Forbes says climate change is not an existential crisis, but its assumptions are demonstrably false. The doomer view says retreat; the optimistic view says innovate. Two slogans spell it out: stop burning rocks, and wires not pipes.
A Forbes article says climate change is not an existential crisis. That is true but beside the point. Overshoot above 1.5°C, an IPCC built on compromise, and new Australian economics all show that “not existential” is a very low bar.
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Three books, three covers and a KDP series page had drifted apart. Here is how I used Claude to find every inconsistency, from the wrong series order to a duplicate barcode, and why the decisions, and the fact-checking, still belong to the author.
The three-volume Optimistic Storm series is being released on Substack, three posts a week for a year: energy on Mondays, the hydrogen, nuclear and CCS debunks on Wednesdays, and AI, food and health long reads on weekends. Subscribe free and follow along.
How seven scanned family booklets became Amazon paperbacks: scanning, AI transcription, Kindle Print formatting, a clarification checklist, back covers and listing text, plus the reusable skill behind it.
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The 2026 World Nuclear Industry Status Report confirms a quarter-century of stagnation: 411 reactors, record 375 GW, yet just 8.8% of global electricity. Russia and China dominate reactor construction, AUKUS partners the UK and US run ageing fleets, and renewables added 462 times more new capacity than nuclear in 2025.
Oil wells average just 15 years of life, stretching to 25–30 years only with heavy maintenance. Solar panels need almost no upkeep, run for at least 30 years, and can be 80–95% recycled at end of life. So why do people whine about solar panels and not about oil derricks?
Australia’s EV sales more than doubled in the first half of 2026. The Electric Vehicle Council’s tenth State of EVs report shows 157,957 new EVs sold, a 25.8% share of new-car sales by June and 196 models on offer. However, electric trucks, vans and several state governments still lag behind.
New UNSW research included in the NSW Net Zero Commission report estimates that current global warming levels of approximately 1.35°C have already caused median economic losses of around 18% for NSW residents, equating to roughly $21,300 less per person annually.
The research indicates that disruptions to global trade and supply chains, rather than local weather events such as bushfires or floods, are the primary driver of these economic losses.
The evidence is in: new solar and wind now undercut every fossil fuel option on cost, EVs catch fire 10–20 times less often than petrol cars, and the UK Treasury’s own numbers show that not transitioning costs twice as much as doing it.
For the first time, EVs officially out sold ICE (petrol) in the EU in December 2025. Battery EV registrations surged 51% – 17.4% increase while as petrol demand plummeted. Hybrids remain the largest segment. This historic shift highlights a rapidly evolving market, even as the EU adjusts its long-term emissions targets for the automotive sector.
Electric trucking in Australia offers significant cost and environmental advantages over diesel, which accounts for 20% of the nation’s transport emissions. Electric B-Double prime movers cost about 30 cents per kilometer for electricity, a third of diesel’s cost. New Energy Transport is pioneering a fully outsourced, low-carbon transport solution to reduce freight costs by 20% on routes like Sydney-to-Canberra and, eventually, Sydney-to-Melbourne.
BYD’s Blade Battery 2.0 is a game-changer, offering a million-kilometer lifespan and 1,000 km range. With “Flash Charging” adding 400 km in just five minutes, the traditional advantages of petrol engines have vanished. As BYD supplies this tech to Tesla and Toyota, the shift from internal combustion to ultra-durable, rapid-charging EVs has become inevitable.
At Everything Electric UK 2025, pushed as both car and house, the house energy was very subdued. Most of the show where new EVs into UK. From Hyundai, to BYD, Geely, GWM, and Zeckr there are Chinese cars gallore. Octipus had a range of dozens of cars to suit lease with free charging.
Deep-sea mineral mining is a proposed industry that aims to extract valuable minerals from the ocean floor. While it offers potential benefits for meeting the growing global demand for metals, it also poses significant environmental risk. The pros and cons are shown to provie little benefit to the supply of minerals but the money speaks. More destruction likelu
Actor network theory or ANT described by Bruno Latour can be used to understand why the world thought hydrogen was a critical part of carbon emissions reduction to mitigate climate change. Turns out that the black box of Hydrogen is a myth. Based on faulty science, supported by subsidies to support existing fossil fuel companies. Thankfully is dying as the box is exposed.
A detailed look at solar panel recycling. The egulators are aware and have pilot programs in place and ready to scale for up to ensure the tsunami of panels from 2030 can be recycled. A challenge is cost and over 80% are currently landfilled. By 2030 with right policies that can be brought up to over 60% or higher.
Solar panels can be recycled. To date, there has been no legal requirement to do so, but governments are now mandating and the purchase price will includee recycling costs. The latest innovation is to recycle 98% profitably with recovery of all components and even recycling of silicon and glass, rather than repurpose.
