Tom Harvey

@robinwobbles.bsky.social me, my wife and our 6yr old spent a long time today loving line wobbler and quantum jungle in Madrid. Amazing fun! Don’t suppose you have a github (or sponsored equivalent)? It’s a work of creative genius!

We don't need to speed up production. We need to slow down. We don't need to write code faster. We need to think through what we write. We've spent decades working to ship faster, and that's landed us in a world of hurt. Build better products, not faster.

Data center survey reveals majority believe renewables and BESS are the ideal energy mix, power issues start in 2027 #energysky -- via pv magazine usa:

is that a lot

“China is now making more money from exporting green technology than America makes from exporting fossil fuels. This trend will continue simply because renewables are cheap.” 🔌💡 Gift link: China’s clean-energy revolution will reshape markets and politics

"Spain’s rapid renewables build-out means its power prices were set by fossil generation just 19% of the time, down from 75% in 2019. As a result, wholesale electricity was almost a third cheaper than the EU average" Imagine having cheaper power Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Ooh, Adam Curtis is back. "...life in Britain today has become strange - a hazy dream-like flux in which no one can predict what is coming next. While distrust in politicians keeps growing. And the political class seem to have lost control."

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez announced that his country will submit a draft resolution to the UN General Assembly calling for "urgent action to stop the massacre of civilians in Gaza and ensure the entry of humanitarian aid into the Strip." #gaza #palestine #israel #aid #blockade

Much ado about the role of renewable energy (RE) in the Spanish blackout. The investigation into the effective cause is still ongoing, but many pointed to the fact that RE has no ‘inertia’. Is that true? The answer is: yes, but ... 🧵

Turns out individual actions aren’t the real problem; systemic change is needed to solve climate change … again. But make it “AI” Some great⚡️analysis here from @hannahritchie.bsky.social which I’ve massively oversimplified for an intro. 🔌💡 www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com/p/carbon-foo...

I’m skeptical about the $3 billion valuation of a VSCode fork that relies on an AI API service it doesn’t own.

I was listening to @trientertainment.bsky.social … and then “something unexpected happened” when Marina Hyde revealed a new Adam Curtis film called Shifty due out in June! Podcast went out 6 days ago but I can’t find any more about it. I did learn that there is a DJ called Adam Shifty tho.

I thought it was remarkably fast! 👏 Getting the cities (mostly) back online before night fall was a huge win in so many ways. When/if we learn more about the causes it’ll become clear how it came back online. But it’s my understanding that there was black start required.

Rapid (your views may vary) recovery of the Spanish grid. For those on #energysky who are following our news. 10hr after the blackout. At 70% of predicted load. Detail in the alt text. Long way to go to meet tomorrow’s peak. Src: (in Spanish and behind paywall) elpais.com/espana/2025-...

Probably shouldn’t have made snarky comments about the Texas grid this morning… Of all days… When I live in Spain. 🌚 #energysky

I would be remiss not to live post from #spain to #energysky today; here’s the grid mix now (massive blackout across the country) vs yesterday. Courtesy of @electricitymaps.com Looks like the gas and nuclear have *vanished*. But solar is ~half of what is was yesterday. And it’s plenty ☀️ today

If the infra (power grids) aren’t there yet - use what you have. Can’t help but think of this old quote. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_...

New way to improve accuracy of electricity price forecasts #energysky -- via pv magazine global: www.pv-magazine.com/...

Well I think I've fully come around to the idea that LLMs are computers. So I wrote about that. I guess this is my most bombastic blog post www.phillipcarter.dev/posts/llms-c...

I’ve spent the past 4ish weeks wrestling with my own realisation of this. And here it is all written out neatly. Perfectly describing the journey and (so far) conclusions. 👌🏻

Electricity prices are up 40% since 2021 but fossil fuels are cheap. The power isn't any cleaner, either. Here's a free link where I dig into the cost spike and show why normal improvements are passed off as sustainability initiatives. medium.com/the-new-clim... 🔌💡 #energyhub

Anyone on #energysky got this?

"Simplicity requires discipline." - Dr. Werner Vogels. This is now one of my favorite quotes It perfectly captures the mindset needed to tackle complex systems. Here are some other key takeaways: 🧵

Stands to reason if you imagine technology works like Star Trek. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

The fossil fueled power plant closures never seem to draw nearly as much mainstream and social media attention as do the renewable energy shortfalls.

So if this keeps happening, energy tariffs will rise accordingly

It’s almost as though the likes of BP and Shell have an incentive to give the renewables sector a bad name… 🔌 💡

Why is this still the aesthetic of all residential battery storage and solar inverters? 10yr since the powerwall arrived, can we have something different? 🔌 💡

Launching in 2025, world’s largest, zero-emissions, fully electric, aluminum ferry will carry 225 cars & 2,100 passengers between Argentina & Uruguay. Powered by 40 MWh battery (~667 EVs, 287 tons), charges faster than any system today! Half the weight of steel ships, proof electricity powers all!

Hello everyone, this is all playing out exactly as we warned: nuclear gets used as a rhetorical empty future promise while big tech companies actively and knowingly increase the climate damage they're enabling today www.theregister.com/2024/12/05/m...

There’s a false dichotomy in AI discourse: 1. AI is dumb. Nothing to worry about. 2. AI is becoming hyper intelligent. Panic! When the below perfectly highlights the danger in AI being dumb, and humans are applying it foolishly*. * That’s assuming the kindest interpretation of our applications.

"Old code never dies—you have to kill it" — @gradybooch.bsky.social What a fascinating interview, highly recommended.

Your Code Is A Liability chrismdp.com/your-code-is... A quick and timeless read from @chrismdp.com 🪳Features (not code) are your asset 🙂‍↔️ More code: less responsive to change 🧪 Test the critical, risky bits 🚮 Cut the superfluous (code & features) 🐢 Pair & share. Slow is fast, fast is slow

From meganjherbert.bsky.social in SMH

Developers, do you want to verify yourself here but don't have a personal domain? You can use your GitHub account! 🦋🐱 I temporarily renamed myself to @nicolo-ribaudo.github.io :)

Two reasonable ideas that are not working. 1. We'll build so much wind, solar, storage that we'll cut into FF in global power, sending emissions into decline. 2. We'll build so much wind, solar, storage there'll be no need for nuclear. #energysky

Simple thing I like about Bluesky: > When I click a link, it opens in a real web browser.

Now this place is cooking, maybe worth doing a big old energy thread. Let’s talk about how electricity prices are set, why they’re so high in Britain, and how we could reduce them… 🧵

Why I’m optimistic about the energy transition: Humans tend to underestimate the pace of innovation and overestimate the inertia of incumbent technologies. Clean energy technologies have scaled much more rapidly than predicted by modellers

You know you paid a smart meter? What do you think happened next: 1. Hard news from BBC Panorama for 🇬🇧 (or vpn) users www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis... 2. Laughing at the absurdity of it all (how else to deal with it?!) while informing deeply with @volts.wtf for all www.volts.wtf/p/free-the-s... 🔌💡

Some good news for a change. China's EVs are helping lower oil demand in China, which is the 2nd largest consumer of oil. The same is happening here in the US. Love to see it. #EnergySky www.reuters.com/business/ene...

Rivian and VW Group announce a $5.8bn joint venture, making sure that all that cool EV truck tech goes on living and makes its way to VW wheels. www.theverge.com/2024/11/12/2...

The current 2TW of global solar generation is equal to the total electricity capacity (all fuel types) of 🇺🇸 + 🇮🇳 + 🇬🇧 With ambitions for 8TW in the next 6yr, they are right to say: “we need to unlock financing and bring down the cost of capital for solar projects, particularly in the Global South”

If only everyone was pushing in the same direction to fight climate change. Like this - but preventative! Today, one week after the floods, people in Valencia are fighting the affects of climate change together.

I meant to do this ages ago but finally got around to it - this is a 'getting started on climate bluesky' doc that gathers up basic intro stuff, climate starter packs and climate feeds *Please* reply with everything I've forgotten (which is a lot), I had to smash this out quickly last night!