Future Tech

New tech: automation, robotics, 3dprint, gaming, data, IoT, blockchain. Clean tech & energy: efficiency, wind, solar, storage, built environment, transport, EVs

[Future Tech @FSS_Tech]

2024 - The Year of the Dragon
Dragon new year drone show!

2024 - The Year of China's ascension to tech dominance?

"Want to know the future?
Watch China.
The future looks like what China is doing now"
— @ProfRayWills

vid @China_Fact

[Prof Ray Wills @ProfRayWills]

Electric cars will be price competitive with petrol by 2023: Professor

My comments from 2019

I'd say I'm only a couple years off - sorry, I didn't predict Covid and Russia's war on Ukraine and supply chain woes, and finance corrections

Mea culpa
https://t.co/pyxvgWNZgv

[AEVA @AEVA_National]

Diesel is dead.

New EV sales hit a record 19.9% in May in Australia. Tesla Model Y was the best selling vehicle outright.

https://t.co/SCozwoOgl6

[Mark Z. Jacobson @mzjacobson]

Despite ~400,000 new EVs and ~200,000 new heat pumps in California during the past year and the 3rd-most data centers in the U.S., demand has hardly changed since 2025 and decreased 1.3% versus 2023, largely due to the growth in roof PV.

Roof PV reduces grid demand for electricity.

At the same time WindWaterSolar has supplied 56.4% of demand this year and >100% of demand for parts of 129 of 153 days, including 63 straight.

Gas is down 61% vs 2023, yet California's main grid is the most reliable in the US based on the lowest wholesale electricity prices in the past year.

[David Osmond @DavidOsmond8]

Australia Electricity Emissions Update:
Average NEM emission intensity over last 12 months: 523 kg CO2-e/MWh. Down 23% since 2020, down 38% since 2015
Sth Australia reductions leading the way thanks to its increase in wind & PV generation. Down 29% since 2020, 69% since 2015.

[The Driven @TheDriven_io]

#BYD's new electric van is heading to #Australia, with key spec details revealed in sales approval documentation.. https://t.co/3dU6tCPMYn

[Renew Economy @renew_economy]

One of the segments flowing rivers of gold from the #datacentre boom is backup #diesel gensets. Our major cities could be awash with them. But batteries provide a better solution.. https://t.co/2hqEU9Mdsu

[Prof Ray Wills @ProfRayWills]

Germany has over 13.45 GW / 28 GWh BESS + ESS May 2026
2.7 GW / 5.4 GWh utility scale - ESS
76% of Germany's batteries are in homes (BESS)
Global energy storage systems (ESS) totalled 275.3 GWh in 2025, a 61.3% increase from 2024
BESS + ESS shipments likely 800 GWh in 2026

[The Driven @TheDriven_io]

The recreational off-road vehicle segment has been slow to embrace #electrification, but there are some significant advantages. Here's what's on offer.. https://t.co/q8DUwZCOqv

[AukeHoekstra @AukeHoekstra]

Interesting new paper documents clearly how the IAEA has been overestimating the growth of nuclear time and time again. It's the inverse of what I've documented for solar and batteries.
https://t.co/SCwMSJ9PIB

[Renew Economy @renew_economy]

Regulator says surge in home battery and rooftop #PV installations puts the 82 pct #renewables target back in reach because it reduces the burden on large scale #projects.. https://t.co/tSN7FVjMMM

[Prof Ray Wills @ProfRayWills]

Australian vehicle sales
Apr 2026 VFACTs + EV Council - 5May2026

BEV share 17%
Hybrid (inc PHEV) 30.5%
ICE only drive train share 52.5%

Country of origin:
China number one car supplier in Australia again April 2026
China 28% of sales Jan-Apr 2026, Japan 24%

[Prof Ray Wills @ProfRayWills]

Emissions targets, LNG, and an electrifying future:

WA is Making History on Renewables but Can’t Accept Gas is Dying

Fossil fuel squeeze to the exit continues
https://t.co/SSi7FP1KqA
@PeterNewmanCUSP @CurtinUni
@ProfRayWills @uwanews

[Prof Ray Wills @ProfRayWills]

Western Australian Budget 2026-27

Summary: Infrastructure Yes, Climate Action No

WA Government budget delivers impressive renewable energy hardware but dodges the policy framework needed for real decarbonisation.

Build up, not out
Build renewables + batteries
And EV networks

[Rob Grieves 🇦🇺 @RobGrieves]

It's hard to overstate how successful the Australian government's Cheaper Home Battery Scheme has been since its introduction. Since July last year, Australians have installed ~350,000 home batteries, adding more than 6.5GWh of storage behind the meter. Solar only installs have plummeted to only 7%, with 93% of people now adding or including batteries. Never before have I seen a tipping point reached so quickly.

[Prof Ray Wills @ProfRayWills]

China now biggest player as electric cars surge and ICE-only sales slump in Australia

Australia’s centre of gravity is shifting away from internal combustion and towards electric cars

BEVs jump to nearly 17% of monthly sales
https://t.co/JJzGlkJhwu @TheDriven_io

[Prof Ray Wills @ProfRayWills]

Australia’s energy transition often described as if it were one national grid making a cautious journey away from fossil fuels
In reality, it's a constellation of islanded & semi‑islanded grids rewriting the rules while the old fossil empire still insists they are in charge

[Prof Ray Wills @ProfRayWills]

Build up, not out
Build infrastructure for peeps and liveability
Picking the best locations for redevelopment and what infrastructure we need
Theory of urban fabrics describes 3 key areas in cities: car-based suburban fabric (BAU), transit city fabric and walking city fabric

[Prof Ray Wills @ProfRayWills]

Our island homes:
Isolated grids are now the test beds for high‑penetration renewables and storage
https://t.co/I7GUY6YXuo @renew_economy

[Prof Ray Wills @ProfRayWills]

Robotics and automation don't take jobs in the energy transition

Robots hand us the only credible way to build enough clean energy quickly without burning through people

It's not ‘robots vs jobs’, it's robots plus good policy avoiding a slow transition and more climate damage

[Arik Ring - Energy Engineering Expert @arikring]

The Israeli Climate Forum,
in collaboration with Israel Earth Guardians Association, invites you to a webinar on the Impact of global crises on the electricity sector.

Zoom link to the Webinar:
https://t.co/udvelQmzmD