Francesco
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(ex) nuclear engineer, (ex) consultant, passionate 4 startups, climate tech, innovation & people. https://t.co/rBUiwDtA0c
London
Joined May 2007
In 2024 the UK real estate sector is stubbornly anchored to the 19th century. For no reason, the building freeholder in which I live is blocking my access to fiber cable. UK politicians love to boast about innovation, but in fact UK could be very backward. Let's hope for change.
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They killed him, because even in jail he threatened a regime that thrives on lies and secrets
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Russian opposition leader’s death described as political assassination attributable to president
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"Here’s how many private jets besides Taylor Swift’s ride landed in Vegas for the Super Bowl" https://t.co/zy1N0osF02
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This year’s Super Bowl in Las Vegas saw the second-most private jet flights on record, according to estimates from business flight tracker WingX.
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Against all the scientific evidence, the UK government is planning to EXPAND plans to cull badgers, despite killing 200k already. Sign the petition here, and help me save our furry friends: https://t.co/EnQENXG5mm
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If we don’t act fast, hundreds of thousands more badgers could be killed.
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It is not high-tech but I strongly believe that hydro with large dams and pumped storage will play a key role. Large dams are the only economical seasonal storage and pumped hydro are great for balancing daily solar output. Can we still expand hydro in Europe ?
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For all the folks who read Vaclav Smil and claim that we're doomed because energy transitions take hundreds of years. Here's the share of coal of UK electricity generation. It went from 39% in 2012 to 1% in 2023.
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This trend has a boringly obvious explanation. Boys and girls used to hang out together more. The girls made the boys more liberal and the boys made the girls more conservative. But now the boys are at home playing shooter games, and the girls are at home posting on Instagram.
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We have removed over 8,000,000 kg (17.8m lb) of trash from the oceans and rivers worldwide. As a non-profit organization, it’s your donations, big and small, that make this happen. Thank YOU. You can help clean our oceans, too, by donating here: https://t.co/wzskOKmnfR.
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Have incumbent car makers been asleep at the wheel? 16 out of the top 20 models are either Tesla or Chinese. Will established brands ever be able to catch up?
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The first global temperature data is in for the full month of September. This month was, in my professional opinion as a climate scientist – absolutely gobsmackingly bananas. JRA-55 beat the prior monthly record by over 0.5C, and was around 1.8C warmer than preindutrial levels.
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Horrific. THOUSANDS of Ukrainian children have been taken by Russia - with many sent to re-education camps to replace their love of Ukraine with "a love of mother Russia" @RishiSunak and @JamesCleverly - Sanction the abductors. Bring Ukraine's Stolen Children home
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Indeed "It is time to cut Russia out of the global financial system" https://t.co/zz6R5pZTfq
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At midday today, wind is producing 42% and nuclear almost 16% of the UK's electricity. Solar is producing almost 7% - in the middle of January. UK grid carbon intensity is well below 100g CO2 per kilowatt.
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I just learned that the first formula for calculating the n-th decimal digit of pi (without calculating all the preceding digits) has been found by Simon Plouffe in 2022 😲
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Over the past 2 yrs, @climatetech_vc has tracked 135 new announced climate funds w combined $94B AUM We estimate that there’s ✨$37B of investable dry powder✨ ready to deploy into decarbonization More math & implications here 👉🌍💸 https://t.co/fgR1R8rsXa
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$64B of new dollars for climate in 2022
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So messy ...
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