A pro Palestine pro Sustainability photographer who loves cities. Currently in London but close ties to Brum ❤️
Energy storage is full of innovation at present. Hardly a day goes by without new battery technology advancing.
Jon Burke🌍The next generation of iron-air batteries can do *at least* 6,000 cycles - equivalent to more than 16 years of daily operation - with zero storage capacity loss. This will destroy the fossil fuel industry. That’s why the campaign to ‘kill net zero’ has dramatically ramped up.
Sand batteries can help solve the problem of storing of intermittent solar and wind energy - but they perhaps are best when linked to District heating schemes. Something the UK sadly lacks many of. www.cnbc.com/2026/07/25/f...
Finland’s radical answer to renewable energy’s biggest headache: The world’s largest sand batteryA small Finnish town has turned to the world's largest commercial sand battery to tackle a major hurdle in the energy transition: intermittency.www.cnbc.com
Progress but a lot more to do.
Will NormanLast year the number of deaths on London's roads fell 13% - one of the lowest years on record. However, people being seriously injured has increased. There's much more work to do. Our bold new Action Plan sets out how we'll make London's streets safer: tfl-newsroom.prgloo.com/news/london-...
“Helsinki hasn’t registered a single traffic-related fatality in the past year…Citing data that shows the risk of pedestrian fatality is cut in half by reducing a car’s speed from 40 to 30km/hr, city officials imposed the lower limit in most of Helsinki’s residential areas and city center in 2021.”
Helsinki just went a full year without a single traffic deathThe capital city is Finnish’ed with car-related fatalities.www.politico.eu
Not a fan of Burnham anyway, but seriously, what is the point of changing leader if they are going to keep the same inhumane and hostile policies Starmer supports which have pushed so many voters away from Labour. Whoever takes over needs to u-turn on them, fast. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Burnham to back Shabana Mahmood’s immigration changes, allies sayExclusive: Greater Manchester understood to support home secretary’s push to limit legal and illegal migrationwww.theguardian.comRiding bikes is 10X more important than electric cars for reaching net-zero cities. And that’s just the climate emissions. Doesn’t include the massive public & personal cost difference, the air & noise pollution difference, the massive space difference, etc, etc…Via @theconversation.bsky.social
Cycling is ten times more important than electric cars for reaching net-zero citiesActive travel can help tackle the climate crisis earlier than electric vehicles – even if you swap the car for a bike for just one trip a day.theconversation.comTime for the UK to follow.
Codfather #FBPE 🇫🇷🇪🇺France is mandating solar panels on every large commercial car park in the country — turning millions of square metres of idle asphalt into one of Europe's most productive clean energy assets. I have been mentioning this for months - they are shooting up on all the supermarket car parks.
So disappointing to see the lack of political will now in Birmingham for safer streets. After questions from Babiker Yahia, whose 4-year-old daughter Mayar was killed by a driver in April 2024, only one candidate (after quite a pause) backed 20mph limits on all residential streets.
Something shocking and out of the ordinary is happening in the UK. While in most comparable countries, healthy life expectancy is rising, here it is plunging steeply. Q. So what marks us out? A. 47 years of extreme neoliberalism, culminating in austerity. www.health.org.uk/reports-and-...
www.health.org.ukIs the Hungarian vote of wider importance. An ex colleague of mine thinks so. open.substack.com/pub/bylineti...
Has the Forward March of Populism Been Halted?The victory of Péter Magyar over Viktor Orbán in Hungary's election has profound significance, not just for Hungarians but for the rest of the world too, argue Jon Bloomfield and David Edgaropen.substack.com
Huge poll explodes the growing contention that #netzero should be dropped as unpopular. Most Europeans want #renewables expanded even if they cost more (which they don’t). Few would go for fossil fuels even if they were cheaper which they aren’t). www.politico.eu/article/poll...
Europeans want more renewables, even if it increases energy billsPublic enthusiasm for clean energy comes as the Iran war exposes Europe’s vulnerability to global oil and gas markets.www.politico.eu
How can the BBC justify how much coverage they give other marches which are significantly smaller in size? The bias is so obviously blatant. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/live...
‘The tide is turning’, Green party leader tells crowd at march against far right – as it happenedOrganisers claim half a million people are marching through central London, protesting against the rise of the far rightwww.theguardian.com
