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Europe’s energy illusion: Why a €1 trillion green bet hasn’t broken its import habit - Analysis

The war with Iran is exposing a hard truth – Europe’s green push has left it no less dependent on imported energy
https://www.euractiv.com/news/europes-energy-illusion-why-a-e1-trillion-green-bet-hasnt-broken-its-import-habit/

Leon Overweel 1d ago

Eelco Mulder

🇪🇺1d ago

Dit denk ik dan ook wel vaak. Dank Hans!

#zomertijd #stopdediscussie

Leon Overweel Mar 24

Terry Godier Mar 16

📢 New Essay:

"What if the exhaustion everybody feels isn't a moral failure but the completely rational response to being made responsible for an ecosystem of objects that never stop asking?"

https://www.terrygodier.com/the-last-quiet-thing

The Last Quiet Thing

Your possessions came alive. Now they won't stop talking.

Terry Godier

Leon Overweel Mar 24

sam henri gold Mar 12

The MacBook Neo is such an interesting machine that it coaxed a thousand-word-essay out of me: https://samhenri.gold/blog/20260312-this-is-not-the-computer-for-you/

“This Is Not The Computer For You” · Sam Henri Gold

Sam Henri Gold is a product design engineer building playful, useful software.

Leon Overweel Mar 18

Akshat Rathi Mar 18

Electric vehicles are already cutting 2.3 million barrels of oil demand per day. That's about to double under a business-as-usual scenario this decade. It could go faster if EV sales rise, which there are indications they will at this oil price.

🎁🔗 https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-18/electric-vehicles-avoided-use-of-2-3-million-barrels-of-oil-daily-in-2025?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc3MzgyOTIwNywiZXhwIjoxNzc0NDM0MDA3LCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJUQzJJUFFLR0NUSEgwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiIwQzg4NkY0NTI0NzY0RUE0OEY2QTk4RTk1NDc5RTI2NSJ9.8MBMTiCrVmNRXzTXAhqhk5Atz-VrJc01wtzUTfcVDf8

Leon Overweel Mar 14

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Simon Evans Mar 13

Thanks to Ember for some unpublished data, I made this chart showing the massive shift away from gas-linked power prices in Spain, relative to the increasingly gas-reliant market in Italy

No wonder Italy wants to tackle high power prices!
7/8

Leon Overweel Mar 4

RE: https://zeppelin.flights/@jsnell/116171326705673571

(whispers) MacBook Mustard

Leon Overweel Mar 4

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Jaap Burger Mar 4

From 100 to 10,000 in 15 years: that means that on average, approximately one #EV charging station (with two charging points) was built per day in #Amsterdam.

Leon Overweel Mar 3

Peter Bloem Mar 3

This is a nice tool by @hannahritchie.bsky.social (sadly not bridged).

https://hannahritchie.github.io/energy-use-comparisons

It gives you energy comparisons for regular activities. If you remember that everything you do in a day adds up to about 125 KWh, you can see what the big expenses and the rounding errors are.

(spoiler: energy use is still the wrong thing to worry about around AI.)

Does that use a lot of energy?

Leon Overweel Feb 21

De Correspondent Feb 19

Al jaren schrijven we kritisch over onze afhankelijkheid van Amerikaanse techbedrijven. En wij vinden: wie daarin geloofwaardig wil zijn, moet ook bereid zijn het zelf anders te doen. Daarom starten wij samen met Follow the Money een meerjarig project om die afhankelijkheid substantieel te verkleinen.

https://decorrespondent.nl/16752/de-correspondent-en-follow-the-money-gaan-samenwerken-om-onafhankelijker-te-worden-van-amerikaanse-big-tech/e0c32870-2a1c-0aa8-14a9-ffe086894007

De Correspondent en Follow the Money gaan samenwerken om onafhankelijker te worden van Amerikaanse big tech

De Correspondent