Tom Harvey

@tom.electron-one.com

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Here to talk climate, energy transition and tech startups. Or, maybe sometimes, things that aren’t my job. 🏠 Valencia, Spain 🇪🇸 👶🏻 Glasgow, Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 … took the scenic route between them

Transcript of the show: “I watched a new cut of Adam Curtis's forthcoming series of films, which I don't think people actually know is forthcoming, but it is. It's coming to iPlayer in early June, I think, and it's called Shifty and it's about the 80s. It's a sort of social history, so it's totally different from what we did before. It's really interesting. Kind of like how we all shifted in a sort of consciousness, shifted to this completely individualistic thing. He's very good at making you realize how things felt when they were happening and your memories are false.” From The Rest Is Entertainment: How Liz Hurley Slid Into Billy Ray Cyrus’s DMs, 29 Apr 2025 https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-rest-is-entertainment/id1718287198?i=1000705296835&r=113 This material may be protected by copyright.
12:35 and the grid demand collapses (blackout) to 10GW Fails to meet the usual demand peak of 34GW at 21:00 Currently back at 19GW of expected 27GW at 22:35 (70%)
Yesterday’s grid mix in spain. Predominantly solar (12GW) with a bit (4GW) of each of hydro, wind and nuclear.
Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway. — Andrew s Tanenbaum
BluePack™ Critical Power Battery A 25kW, 48-volt battery for systems up to 812 volts is a safer, more sustainable alternative to lithium-ion.
Apple Magic Mouse - famously awkward to charge
A tech-bro, announcing that he’s making the world a better place through some meaningless tech-bro activity. Specifically, fault tolerant, distributed databases (which is very Bluesky 😀)
View from the north platform of Monte Alban
Caption: It has to get worse before it gets worse. Image: the planet burning.
Video showing people working together. In a group, with brooms and shovels, punching food water off of the streets of their city.
Energy wasted in generating power has fallen by 21% since 2000 Clean sources supply just under two-thirds of the UK power generation. Since wind and solar waste much less input energy than coal and gas, the share of wasted total input energy has fallen from 60% in 2000 to 47% in 2023.
Chart showing share price of constellation energy (owner of the nuclear plant) moving from low of $200.30 to a high of $257.12 after the announcement.
James Cameron announces, in the Hollywood reporter, that he has realised it’s been 30 years since he was relevant and will now seek relevance by joining Stability AI to cannibalise the creative industry that once made him relevant.
A tweet that reads: Britain is about to switch off its last coal power station. MyGridGB has been tracking coal use for 10 years now. From supplying 40% of our electricity when I started my PhD to today… it’s been quite the journey. So, bye bye King Coal. It’s time for renewables now
A photo of Serge Gainsbourg and Brigitte Bardot hung above a urinal in a French-themed British restaurant
What’s if climate is a big hoax and we create a better world for nothing
One like. From a very anti wind farm account.
Table showing retired generation plants by fuel type in 2023. 15GW in total and < 40MW of that is zero carbon supply.
Spanish beer