Europe is seriously waking up to the power of Bitcoin mining in clean energy, heat and flexibility, again on the main stage at @BTCPrague . This is probably why @RenewaBlox has been inundated with enquiries since yesterday's presentation.
📣18th June 2026 @BitcoinSurrey meet-up
🍺 Casual beers and social
🎤 No guest speaker nor special event on this occasion.
🗓️Thursday 18th June
⏰6pm-10pm
📍The Castle, 5 Castle St, Farnham GU9 7HR
📚 In the gorgeous triple aspect library on the 1st floor
🍖Food served 5pm-9pm
🎟️ Free to attend, everyone welcome
🍊 Meet in the library on the 1st floor. @0rangecoins will be wearing an orange T shirt
Come down to talk all things Bitcoin 😊
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Kim Jong-un says he is seriously concerned about free speech in UK and says he stands ready to welcome British refugees fleeing Keir Starmer's dictatorship
@A1an_M@JamesGAyling@Ed_Miliband If we get to net zero it will be 18c all year round, day and night.
And energy bills will be zero because green energy costs nothing.
Hello @Ed_Miliband
It's currently 10 degrees Celsius below the typical temperature for mid June where I live. It's been like this for most of June so far.
Shouldn't we be emitting more CO2 to warm things up a bit?
Maybe fire up a coal fired power station or six?
Germany currently has about 26 gigawatt hours of battery storage. Most of it sits in home batteries with only 4.3 gigawatt hours actually serving the grid.
Building that storage already cost more than 10 billion euros and at national demand levels it only covers roughly 30 minutes of summer electricity usage.
The winter months bring what's known as "Dunkeflaute" - cold dark windless periods and higher energy usage.
To survive a 10-day winter lull (the minimum realistic requirement), Germany would need about 12,000 gigawatt hours of batteries, 470 times today's storage.
Such a system would weigh roughly 60 million tons and would be made from vast quantities of lithium, nickel, graphite, copper, aluminum and steel, all requiring intensive mining.
At current battery prices, the system would cost trillions of euros. And batteries last only 10 to 15 years, meaning the entire system would need constant replacement.
The conclusion is unavoidable...
Wind and solar require reliable backup power, renewables need oil, coal, gas and nuclear.
Seeing the sort of laughable ideas that get oxygen in echo chambers such as Reddit makes me grateful that I spend my time on X.
Imagine launching a petition to ban a technology that 30 peer reviewed papers have said is an essential part of the green energy transition
@leicesterliz@SabriSun_Miller The country is falling to pieces and your first instinct is to crack down on people who talk about it. You are authoritarian scum.
Trip to the head feeding the hydro plant today, a couple of miles hike through breathtaking terrain while the generator is bought to temperature . More tests completed. Looking good!
Our statement on the UK government’s demand that all content on all devices sold or used in the country be scanned, on the presumption of nudity, using a dystopian combination of age verification and content scanning. This proposal will not safeguard children. It endangers us all.
https://t.co/VdWe9uhi8p
This stranded energy asset has been stuck offline for several years & @RenewaBlox is working with the owners to install a viable solution. A long day onsite testing control panels & a first examination of crucial systems. Tests are succesful ... she lives!