NEW DATA: Renewables for the first time reached more than 50% of quarterly UK electricity generation in Q4 2024.

39% was from solar and wind.

Department for Energy Security and Net Zero gov.uk/government/sta…

Astonishing chart from John Burn-Murdoch- on.ft.com/49OMvdz The UK is brilliant at handling immigration, relatively.

Could be a huge strength in the decades ahead

I still can't believe this iconic pathway was disfigured like this. Walking through this narrow opening was a discomforting moment as you entered the garden. It helped you visualise and understand the nature of the tragedy.

Now it looks like a Ramoji Rao Film City exhibit.

I was looking at the list of parties that received the fewest votes in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. Here are some interesting entrants:

Corruption Abolition Party - 275 votes
Gareeb Aadmi Party - 385
All Indians Party - 396
Real Democracy Party - 532
Fauji Janta Party - 564…

Siddharth Singh Just a reminder that '2 nm' and '3 nm' are not actually measurements of anything, they're more like... creative marketing terms. The actual dimensions of a transistor are more on the order of 20+ nm.

2 nanometre chips are around the corner. What incredible advancements in the semiconductor industry. Graph by TSMC.

BYD has more people in R&D than the rest of the auto industry outside of China, COMBINED. And we are starting to see what they’ve been up to.

International Energy Agency Thanks to the rapid decline of battery costs – 90% since 2010 – they're speeding up opportunities to cut emissions in road transport & electricity

In 2023:

Electric car sales rose to a record of almost 14 million

Battery storage deployment in the power sector more than doubled

Batteries are a vital part of the energy transition. Here's why:

- They're the fastest growing clean technology on the market

- They help meet climate goals & ensure energy security

- They bring down emissions in power & transport

International Energy Agency's new report ➡️ iea.li/3QmAogL

Siblings.. 😂

Apple’s scale is unreal. Even for a “failing” product, they’re expecting to generate USD 1.4 billion in revenue after a slash in anticipated sales.

Apollo Hospitals in a recent report has called India the “cancer capital of the world” as cancer incidence is rising faster here compared to other countries, and the incidence is on younger people compared to other countries. apollohospitals.com/apollo-in-the-…

go ahead!

Amitabh Bachchan Noted Sir, will let my child know who is preparing for UPSC

his Coca-Cola can appears reddish, though it consists of black and white random dots.

This is one of the most hilarious conversations I’ve seen in a bit. I’m still not sure if this is real or a skit.

Question to Indian tweeps: Is this available in India too? I imagine it isn’t. Grid connected solar rooftop is probably more financially compelling. Or no?

Stuff that will cool down passengers:
• Trees
• Massive shades at traffic junctions made of solar PV panels (pays for itself)
• Electric vehicles rather than heat generating internal combustion ones
• Air conditioned buses and metro

Stuff that won’t:
• Whatever this is

“For the first time in one billion years, two lifeforms truly merged into one organism” popsci.com/science/two-li…

“Mark Zuckerberg was a dropout.”

Yeah, he dropped out of Harvard not 10th grade social studies.