Rob Glover
@robboman.bsky.social
Pro clean energy development | Astrophotographer | runner and cyclist | EV evangelist | Instagram: robglover
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Potentially significant breakthrough as lithium extracted and processed in Cornwall is used to produce batteries for the first time. www.businessgreen.com/news/4535619...
Lithium produced in Cornwall used to make batteries for first time
Lithium hydroxide monohydrate mined and processed by Cornish Lithium at its site in Cornwall has been successfully used to manufacture coin cell batteries
www.businessgreen.com
September 11, 2026 at 11:38 AM
Potentially significant breakthrough as lithium extracted and processed in Cornwall is used to produce batteries for the first time. www.businessgreen.com/news/4535619...
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Dismayed by defeat of the assisted dying bill. Nothing was won today – no new palliative care funding, no new disability support. And the suffering that brought this bill to parliament remains.
September 11, 2026 at 1:45 PM
Dismayed by defeat of the assisted dying bill. Nothing was won today – no new palliative care funding, no new disability support. And the suffering that brought this bill to parliament remains.
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Chatting just now with local Kent winegrower at farmer's market. This year's grapes are "smaller than peas" - not going to bother to harvest.
What did he think of politicians saying 'hey enjoy your English sparkling wine thanks to climate change'?
"Fucking morons."
What did he think of politicians saying 'hey enjoy your English sparkling wine thanks to climate change'?
"Fucking morons."
September 5, 2026 at 11:21 AM
Chatting just now with local Kent winegrower at farmer's market. This year's grapes are "smaller than peas" - not going to bother to harvest.
What did he think of politicians saying 'hey enjoy your English sparkling wine thanks to climate change'?
"Fucking morons."
What did he think of politicians saying 'hey enjoy your English sparkling wine thanks to climate change'?
"Fucking morons."
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Growing up with the phrase “Wikipedia isn’t a valid source,” only to end up in a daily life where everyone says, “Just ask ChatGPT.”
August 30, 2026 at 8:23 PM
Growing up with the phrase “Wikipedia isn’t a valid source,” only to end up in a daily life where everyone says, “Just ask ChatGPT.”
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A pioneering scheme to reuse turbines from one of Britain’s first wind power projects has sent less than 0.1 per cent to landfill
ScottishPower fully recycles Hagshaw Hill wind farm in UK first
www.thetimes.com
August 30, 2026 at 5:33 PM
A pioneering scheme to reuse turbines from one of Britain’s first wind power projects has sent less than 0.1 per cent to landfill
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Energy chat on Twitter (or X, of Nazi hell site of doom, whatever your preferred name) is going to very funny places.
Note: this is in reaction to Octopus Energy running a marketing campaign to push the residential flexibility services it can call on as part of a high profile event. Totally normal.
Note: this is in reaction to Octopus Energy running a marketing campaign to push the residential flexibility services it can call on as part of a high profile event. Totally normal.
August 13, 2026 at 8:40 AM
Energy chat on Twitter (or X, of Nazi hell site of doom, whatever your preferred name) is going to very funny places.
Note: this is in reaction to Octopus Energy running a marketing campaign to push the residential flexibility services it can call on as part of a high profile event. Totally normal.
Note: this is in reaction to Octopus Energy running a marketing campaign to push the residential flexibility services it can call on as part of a high profile event. Totally normal.
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Not sure how the woke leftists managed to do this but what a disgusting start to the day.
August 6, 2026 at 6:35 AM
Not sure how the woke leftists managed to do this but what a disgusting start to the day.
Thanks "Sunny Jim" from Private Eve, I'm going to remember this analogy for geoengineering next time I hear someone bring it up.
August 5, 2026 at 5:39 PM
Thanks "Sunny Jim" from Private Eve, I'm going to remember this analogy for geoengineering next time I hear someone bring it up.
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Today is the only day you can experience Ray Bradbury’s “There Will Come Soft Rains” on the day it is set.
Audio: archive.org/details/brad...
PDF: thephilosopher.net/bredberi/wp-...
Audio: archive.org/details/brad...
PDF: thephilosopher.net/bredberi/wp-...
August 4, 2026 at 10:51 AM
Today is the only day you can experience Ray Bradbury’s “There Will Come Soft Rains” on the day it is set.
Audio: archive.org/details/brad...
PDF: thephilosopher.net/bredberi/wp-...
Audio: archive.org/details/brad...
PDF: thephilosopher.net/bredberi/wp-...
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At Berlin Pride they were celebrating love, freedom, and the right to be themselves. That is why they were attacked and it is why attackers like this will fail in their ultimate aim. Hatred of human freedom has never yet extinguished it completely and it never will. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c3...
Berlin Pride attack suspect shot and killed during police operation - live updates
Police say suspect Abdul Ballout was shot and killed after he rushed at officers with a knife, in a western borough of Berlin.
www.bbc.co.uk
July 26, 2026 at 6:02 PM
At Berlin Pride they were celebrating love, freedom, and the right to be themselves. That is why they were attacked and it is why attackers like this will fail in their ultimate aim. Hatred of human freedom has never yet extinguished it completely and it never will. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c3...
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When the story of why humanity didn't stop climate change is written, it will feature front pages like this.
Even as the skies blacken with climate change-induced wildfires, right wing media continue their relentless crusade against measures to tackle it.
Even as the skies blacken with climate change-induced wildfires, right wing media continue their relentless crusade against measures to tackle it.
July 24, 2026 at 10:03 PM
When the story of why humanity didn't stop climate change is written, it will feature front pages like this.
Even as the skies blacken with climate change-induced wildfires, right wing media continue their relentless crusade against measures to tackle it.
Even as the skies blacken with climate change-induced wildfires, right wing media continue their relentless crusade against measures to tackle it.
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So, a joke MP with 5 houses bought for cash, links to criminality and a £5Mill ‘gift’ in his bank… is so enraged at being held to account… that he resigns from the MP role he never did anyway…and demands a “people v the establishment” by-election to vote him back in.
What an insufferable wanker.
What an insufferable wanker.
July 7, 2026 at 4:57 PM
So, a joke MP with 5 houses bought for cash, links to criminality and a £5Mill ‘gift’ in his bank… is so enraged at being held to account… that he resigns from the MP role he never did anyway…and demands a “people v the establishment” by-election to vote him back in.
What an insufferable wanker.
What an insufferable wanker.
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UK Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy is quitting X -- significantly her department is too, she says.
July 2, 2026 at 4:06 PM
UK Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy is quitting X -- significantly her department is too, she says.
I honestly can't see what Kiet Starmer did that was so unforgivably wrong that his own party has pushed him out. Yes, he was a weak communicator. Was that it? Really?
June 22, 2026 at 8:46 AM
I honestly can't see what Kiet Starmer did that was so unforgivably wrong that his own party has pushed him out. Yes, he was a weak communicator. Was that it? Really?
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Absolutely disgusting. So many, many people have just lost all sense of decency.
For Fathers' Day, Keir Starmer posts a photo of his own father, who died in 2018, and a non-political message.
The replies are a torrent of vitriol & cruelty, all with hundreds of Likes.
We complain a lot about the quality of leadership, but there's a huge problem with the way we treat politicians
The replies are a torrent of vitriol & cruelty, all with hundreds of Likes.
We complain a lot about the quality of leadership, but there's a huge problem with the way we treat politicians
June 21, 2026 at 6:29 PM
Absolutely disgusting. So many, many people have just lost all sense of decency.
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We all need to resist attempts like this to politicise Henry Nowak’s death and divide our country - whether they come from MAGA politicians like Vance or their cronies here in the UK.
June 5, 2026 at 6:13 PM
We all need to resist attempts like this to politicise Henry Nowak’s death and divide our country - whether they come from MAGA politicians like Vance or their cronies here in the UK.
This is another great article in a long line from Michael Liebreich. Packed with facts and statistics, it repays careful reading.
My latest for Bloomberg: "We are about to see the Great Clean Energy Acceleration 2.0 – a discontinuity in energy markets as profound as the oil shocks of the 1970s, and one that could bring forward the peak in fossil fuel use and emissions to this side of 2030." about.bnef.com/insights/cle...
Liebreich: The Great Clean Energy Acceleration 2.0 | BloombergNEF
In September 2022, six months after Russia invaded Ukraine and with oil and gas prices around the world soaring, I wrote a piece entitled After Ukraine - the Great Clean Energy Acceleration, predictin...
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May 30, 2026 at 3:26 PM
This is another great article in a long line from Michael Liebreich. Packed with facts and statistics, it repays careful reading.
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A third of the children in the UK are non-white.
Shakespeare and Homer are not going to remain cultural pillars if you tell a third of the class they can never play Hamlet, or Odysseus, or Helen, or Juliet.
open.substack.com/pub/edrith/p...
Shakespeare and Homer are not going to remain cultural pillars if you tell a third of the class they can never play Hamlet, or Odysseus, or Helen, or Juliet.
open.substack.com/pub/edrith/p...
Let's talk about colour-blind casting
Ethnic gatekeeping of the canon would condemn it to obscurity
open.substack.com
May 20, 2026 at 5:59 PM
A third of the children in the UK are non-white.
Shakespeare and Homer are not going to remain cultural pillars if you tell a third of the class they can never play Hamlet, or Odysseus, or Helen, or Juliet.
open.substack.com/pub/edrith/p...
Shakespeare and Homer are not going to remain cultural pillars if you tell a third of the class they can never play Hamlet, or Odysseus, or Helen, or Juliet.
open.substack.com/pub/edrith/p...
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NEW ANALYSIS: Do renewables make electricity cheaper or more expensive?
I pulled together wholesale and retail data across Europe and the US.
Wholesale prices track gas exposure, not renewables share.
Retail prices barely track either. Read full piece👇
janrosenow.substack.com/p/do-renewab...
I pulled together wholesale and retail data across Europe and the US.
Wholesale prices track gas exposure, not renewables share.
Retail prices barely track either. Read full piece👇
janrosenow.substack.com/p/do-renewab...
Do renewables make electricity cheaper or more expensive?
The honest answer is: it depends on what you measure, and where you look.
janrosenow.substack.com
May 17, 2026 at 9:24 AM
NEW ANALYSIS: Do renewables make electricity cheaper or more expensive?
I pulled together wholesale and retail data across Europe and the US.
Wholesale prices track gas exposure, not renewables share.
Retail prices barely track either. Read full piece👇
janrosenow.substack.com/p/do-renewab...
I pulled together wholesale and retail data across Europe and the US.
Wholesale prices track gas exposure, not renewables share.
Retail prices barely track either. Read full piece👇
janrosenow.substack.com/p/do-renewab...
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Hilarious. Some guy claiming because his family history extends back to the Crusades, he should be involved in governing the rest of us. And claims that we’ll forget history if we oust him. ALL our family histories go back that far…
www.channel4.com/news/the-end...
www.channel4.com/news/the-end...
The end of history? Hereditary peers set to be removed from House of Lords
From the Duke of Wellington to the Earl of Caithness, they’ve been sitting on the famous red benches of the House of Lords for centuries.
www.channel4.com
April 29, 2026 at 7:54 PM
Hilarious. Some guy claiming because his family history extends back to the Crusades, he should be involved in governing the rest of us. And claims that we’ll forget history if we oust him. ALL our family histories go back that far…
www.channel4.com/news/the-end...
www.channel4.com/news/the-end...
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I see the Greens are opposing (checks notes) solar power now.
'Industrial scale' solar farms attacked by Norfolk's Green
The county council's Green leader says solar panels should be locally owned and put on roofs.
www.bbc.co.uk
April 18, 2026 at 8:43 AM
I see the Greens are opposing (checks notes) solar power now.
All the land for miles around, bathed in nuclear radiation! The fear!
April 9, 2026 at 11:58 AM
All the land for miles around, bathed in nuclear radiation! The fear!
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The government should approve more drilling, but on the condition that if it fails to lead to a fall in energy costs everyone who implied that it would should be made to go and get the oil and gas they insist is out there using a black and decker and a lifeboat.
April 5, 2026 at 9:53 AM
The government should approve more drilling, but on the condition that if it fails to lead to a fall in energy costs everyone who implied that it would should be made to go and get the oil and gas they insist is out there using a black and decker and a lifeboat.