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🧵Want to understand why weaning ourselves off fossil fuels like oil is such a tricky challenge? Best place to start is with this ubiquitous toy👇 This is a thread about what I call...
🌞Here's a short story abt how I went to Morocco to see one of the world's biggest solar plants. It didn't go quite as I expected This is the Noor complex near Ouarzazate. It's mas...
Here’s the story of an extraordinary journey, poss the most amazing journey in the world. Through time, physics & around the globe, to produce the very thing you’re reading this on...
🔎THE GLASS FAMINE🔎 I think you’ll find this story from #materialworld pretty 🤯 It’s about how a simple substance changed the world. About how decisions taken centuries ago still sh...
Why, you might be wondering, are illegal raiders going to the extraordinary lengths of stealing metal from old WWII wreckages, war graves at that? Are they after gold? Silver? Stol...
⚙️STEEL🧵 Pretty 👀 statistic: no other country save Venezuela has seen steel output contract as quickly as UK. Tempting as it is to cast this as “normal” it’s anything but… If u wan...
- Markets are frantic - Govt u-turning on everything - @theIFS warns its fiscal plans don’t add up - The @bankofengland governor is dropping bombs - Jacob Rees-Mogg says the curre...
The tale of Newport Wafer Fab is a parable for our times. Tells you everything u need to know abt: - UK's industrial strategy; or complete lack of it. - UK's inability to decide w...
🍅THREAD🍅 What cherry tomatoes tell you about the cost of living crisis we're all going through. Amid the wider consternation about inflation, perhaps you missed the fact that tomat...
The Humber Refinery in NE England. This place looks and smells like a ghost of fossil fuel history. It's where they turn crude oil into petrol, jet fuel & many other petrochemical...
THREAD: How did we end up here? With the UK’s plans to lift lockdown threatened by a new variant. Just as we taste freedom, it might be stolen from us! Well. It’s a slightly long a...