Trust you had a good August. We spent our summer buying & turning around a power station. 50 days to purchase 😰. 60 more and it’s back on the grid 🏃‍♂️💪. Take a look: www.gladsmuir.energy 

What mattered this week

Hottest UK summer; rest of world thinks moderately cold

Well, I didn’t need a jumper. Average temp 16.1°C. 1.5°C above long-term average. Four heatwaves, persistently hot nights.
Dry too. England has 42% of average rain in August.
Read more: UK Met Office 

By the way, we’re running out of freshwater

Err don’t we need… water? We do. 
And the problem? Rising temperatures increase evaporation & aquifer depletion. Dry areas getting dryer, and expanding.
Best commentary: New Scientist

75% of new cars in Nepal are electric

Why? They have cheap hydro power and don’t like importing fossils.
Anywhere else? Everywhere else. The revolution is faster than you think.
Read more: InsideEVs; Bloomberg (£)

One thing to worry about

France: Before 1980, 40°C was recorded 4x.

Since 2019, 180x.

One thing to be optimistic about

Pakistan’s solar revolution. Without planning - just Chinese panels and TikTok (really). 32GW installed in two years. 65% of the grid’s capacity 😱

Result? Diesel down 35% and two LNG ships/month cancelled (Bloomberg).

Listen to this postcast with Bill Mckibben for more, or read this on NPR.

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If you’ve got more time, read this…

ESG is being rolled back. Is the revolution dead?

No, answers the loquacious Michael Liebriecht in “The Pragmatic Climate Reset”:

• The energy transition is happening, but like anything it’s slow and messy

• Fossil fuels look huge because we count “primary energy”. Factor in losses from burning those fossils (i.e. useless heat, say from a car) and clean energy is already one third of the energy we actually use 

• His back-of-envelope: if clean energy grows 5% a year, and demand 2% - then fossils vanish by 2065

• Carbon capture not needed (as so far, it’s useless)

This is not the utopian vision of a transition by 2030 some want. But the it is practical - and is under way.