The UK has done well with driving fossil fuels out of electricity year by year.
But more than 90% of our heating still comes from fossil fuels - mainly fossil gas.
To meet the UK climate goals ambitious policies are needed.
It’s wild that Aaron Swartz was aggressively prosecuted for scraping JSTOR articles.
Meanwhile huge companies routinely scrape the public internet and sell it for $20/month and all is well.
Aaron helped create RSS, Creative Commons, Markdown and a little site called Reddit (which now ironically sells its data to AI companies) - all by the age of 26.
All he wanted was free and open access to information. Really makes you wonder the dent he’d have made on the world if he was still alive today.
Apple rolled out Private Cloud Compute to the fanfare around Privacy, and now OpenAI has added the former chief of the NSA to its board of directors. Apple can’t continue to roll out Apple Intelligence with its optional link to ChatGPT when the NSA is the opposite of privacy
Very eye-opening to see who's leading the way on clean energy investment – and who's leading on fossil fuels
China: Clean energy investment 3.7x fossil fuels
Europe: 5.5x more in clean energy
N America: Biggest investor in fossil fuels
Middle East: 5.4x more on fossil fuels
@EcoNorfolk @RippleEnergy People were taken in by the return from the first project at a time of crazy high energy prices. It was obviously never a good investment
@StephenJBeynon@g__j They also removed mine for free, but they quoted hundreds initially. I appreciate there is a cost to Octopus, but maybe removal should be centrally funded to encourage moving away from fossil fuels. It’s something that will become a bigger issue as we push more towards renewables