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Sunday reading notes about electric aviation
It’s a Sunday and I finally have a chance to a catch up on some reading – mainly reducing the number of angry red dots in NetNewsWire (yes, I still use RSS), and tabs in Vivaldi. One thing that caught my eye though was learning about a recent Atlantic crossing in a electric-hybrid aircraft for…
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How could you extend YANG to verify clean electricity claims?
These are some notes put together, after attending the two day IRTF “Sustainability and the Internet” workshop in Passau, Germany, on learning that there was a IETF hackathon that had a focus on the provenance of energy readings. There will be a broader follow-up post about the IRTF event, but I am dashing this one…
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Understanding the potential of solar & batteries for getting off fossil fuels for electricity
I came across an astonishing long read / report on Friday that I’ve linked below, and if you have any interest in the energy transition, or moving on from fossil fuels, I really recommend you spend the the time to read through it and play around with visualisation in each section. Here’s the link: The…
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If 24/7 clean energy matching is good for the company buying it, is it good for anyone else too?
I’m jotting this down because I made an abortive attempt to write a blog post about this property of 24/7 fossil free / carbon free energy a couple of months ago, and I was hunting around for the draft for quite a while before realising that I must have deleted it or lost it somewhere.…
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Are the big hyperscalers reporting power consumption in Germany like the laws say they’re supposed to?
I noticed something recently that I can’t find an clear explanation for, so I’m posting it here to help understand what’s going on. In the European Union, there is a sort of law called the Energy Efficiency Directive, which I’ve written about before, and this relevant when we think about data centres and decarbonising the…
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Default to calling it ‘carbon pollution’, not ‘carbon emissions’, when talking about climate change
I’ve heard a few people use this specific framing of greenhouse gas emissions when talking about climate change, but it hasn’t become a real habit for me. This is a quick note for me to refer back to later. There is a now lots and lots of peer reviewed research, and advice from communications professionals…
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Can you phase out oil and gas in the UK with CFDs at 14 GBP per MWh?
This is a quick note, because a report I was keeping an eye out for is now in the public domain. As I understand it, it was commissioned by Dale Vince of Ecotricity, and presented at the UK Labour party in September, and lays out a ‘mid-transition’ argument for effectively bailing out oil and gas…
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What’s the single thing you would do to make a web service more sustainable these days?
From between 2018 and April 2025, I was an organiser of an online community called climateAction.tech. I’ve written about it a few times before on this blog. In the community slack, someone who I respect asked a valid question: For context, they work in a business selling what I consider domain names at the higher…
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Is the problem just GenAI?
I’m trying to make sense of some of the figures shared when we talk about the environmental impact of AI, and what the specific drivers of it are, in terms of the specific kinds of AI being deployed around the world. Here are some notes, and a request for help to point somekind of useful…
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Is the GHG Protocol including “enabled emissions” in Scope 3 in future?
I found this when I sitting down to read Killian Daly’s recent update on the Energy Tag blog about how the GHG Protocol is changing how organisations report the greenness of electricity and it seemed interesting enough to jot some notes here for others, as I hadn’t seen it coming at all. The next version…