Luke Bevan

Climate, Energy, Uncertainty and Decision-making | Building climatetech ventures @zincvc | Ex @UCL @imperialcollege @UniofOxford @ukhsa | Views Own

[Luke Bevan @lukebevan]

🚨📰 Paper alert! 📰🚨

Absolutely delighted that my article "The ambiguities of uncertainty: A review of uncertainty frameworks relevant to the assessment of environmental change" is out in Futures!!!

You can access it via: https://t.co/SRk1n51M0X

[Robert Colvile @rcolvile]

This is the point I keep making. Natural England are legally mandated to only care about the fish, not Putin, power cuts, bankrupt businesses etc. We have eliminated any concept of ‘trade-offs’, at vast expense.

[taimur @taimurabdaal]

The kingscrossmaxxing from tech/AI cos is a major bull signal for St Albans which will totally commutemog other areas (18 mins to kings cross) in 2027-2030 once rich-but-not-super-rich tech employees want to get big family homes in nice areas for £1-4m but won’t be able to afford £5m+ in Hampstead etc

[Luke Bevan @lukebevan]

I sometimes wonder how to recount the mad stories of UK Nimbyism and planning to my foreign friends, without sounding like I am making things up.

[John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch]

British NIMBYism is truly a sight to behold.

“We are rejecting this solar farm, because one time I saw an electric vehicle on fire, which reminded me that decades ago a coal mining disaster killed lots of children”.

[Patrick @dramaticirony]

adam tooze letting out a sigh and closing his climate change book draft again to write his third market crash polycrisis book in 10 years

[Luke Bevan @lukebevan]

I wrote about the strange times climate tech is going through and the identity crisis at the heart of it. Check it out -> https://t.co/V40WgPqQBg

[Yuan Yi Zhu @yuanyi_z]

“iconic Edinburgh scrapyard”

“in operation for 30 years”

Help my economy is dying we don't know what to do.

[Luke Bevan @lukebevan]

@gnievchenko Can be good and productive as long as they don't touch the credit markets! https://t.co/Yq78TCQ8qh

[Luke Bevan @lukebevan]

In the seasonal spirit of everyone making lots of end-of-year lists, I rounded up some of my favourite books in 2024 over on my blog. Happy new year!
https://t.co/sTV9oTgk83

[Tom Forth @thomasforth]

"emergency"

[Sam Bowman @s8mb]

I don't want to single anyone out here, but it's important to realise that a sizeable share of people involved in public policy think you need some kind of formal expertise to judge whether £100m is an appropriate price to pay to protect a colony of bats from a train line.

[Luke Bevan @lukebevan]

@gnievchenko Its not just farming credits: its tryna brand BECCS cool and sexy.
Gasification, oxy-combustion and CO2 turbines in a cool workshop - sounds vibey
Burning wood in a boiler in a themal power plant with amine post-combustion capture, probably in a post-industrial town - yawn

[Luke Bevan @lukebevan]

@gnievchenko hmu!

[Zinc @zincvc]

🏙️ How will we cool London in 2050?

💭 To mark #LondonClimateAction Week, Dr @lukebevan, Senior Associate on Zinc’s Deeptech team, shares his thoughts about the solutions needed to cool cities like London and protect the health of citizens.

https://t.co/NtNOFi9AYO

[Andy Greenberg (@agreenberg at the other places) @a_greenberg]

Lots of well deserved remembrances of Ellsberg’s heroism today. I’ll just post my favorite passage from his incredible memoir, Secrets. He’s telling Henry Kissinger (who as many have noted is somehow still alive) what access to truly secret information can do to a person’s mind.

[Robert Long @rgblong]

I really want to read this alt-history novel

[Robin Klein @robinklein]

Up to 40% of UK start-ups and scale-ups use SVB. It's a vital part of our start-up success. If the UK wants a world-class tech sector, it has to act today to ensure it's open for business tomorrow. Else very many jobs at risk this week and hundreds of thousands in the future.

[Zinc @zincvc]

Zinc is thrilled to announce our newest mission to eliminate environmental threats to our health! We are looking to support 70 driven individuals to join the next 12-month Venture Builder starting in October 2023 Apply now! 🌍🌿 https://t.co/jj30fQozKZ

[Luke Bevan @lukebevan]

@sethbannon @hellotmrc Pop by us at @zincvc for a coffee in London!

[Luke Bevan @lukebevan]

Thrilled that our preprint detailing producing consensus estimates for an ensemble of COVID-19 models is now up online. The result of fantastic collaboration across government (@UKHSA @dstlmod SPI-M )and academia. Thanks to all involved!
https://t.co/CA2D5TKgq9

[Rona Wang @ronawang]

never felt so seen by a meme