Solar farms can help INCREASE biodiversity. Critics often claim that they are an environmental disaster leading to a loss in biodiversity. But research shows: Solar farms tend to have more species of plant, insect & bird than equivalent farm fields. theconversation.com/solar-farms-a-…

When you can't feel your fingers anymore but find the courage for a sibling summit selfie because these memories are priceless!! ⛰️😃

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Still hot here at the beach in Charente-Maritime

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When I started working on renewable energy, in 2002 or so, I had hopes for windpower, but I thought PV was just a toytown technology. I was wrong.

"the dissolution had a profound effect on English and indeed British scholarship, marking the minds of budding humanistic historians, and giving them unprecedented access to original documents."

Solar pushing out gas in power generation all over Europe

This is one of the best bits of the enthusiastic Girondins monument in Bordeaux. Travelling Companion and I visited it earlier this month. The monument's stories and symbolism were obscure to us. For example, why is the man on the left holding a mask? Is he a disrobed deceiver?

It is time to start our local convention, #WarszawskiWargameron. The first game we play is full, seven-player Struggle of Empires!

Wow - a 20 MW wind turbine

Holiday's over, time to go home. First Paris train out of La Rochelle this morning. "Relay" was open but didn't yet have Sud Ouest, so no last read of this good French regional paper before it's back to the British press.

Will solar PV soon be the cheapest source of electricity in most places around the world? This Nature Communications paper says yes. Most surprisingly this is AFTER including short- and long-term storage costs for renewable energy sources. nature.com/articles/s4146…

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A great catch for Cambridge!

I call this the Shakespeare of board wargames. It is packed with things that no one had done before, and it hangs together and tells a beautiful story simply.

THIS IS A HUGE ACHIEVEMENT: The EU now generates more electricity from wind and solar than from fossil fuels. Graph from Nat Bullard data Ember

In 2020 my aunt made me a replica of the Lindisfarne Gospels as my unbirthday cake and it does me good to remember that from time to time. Life is studded with beauty and kindness and aunts.