Hey there! 👋
Jordy here.
From now on, twice a month, we’re going to send you the climate news that’s actually good.
Here’s where this came from. Skander hated posting on LinkedIn. Then he started sharing what’s going right in climate, watched mini essay after mini essay take off, and went from roughly zero posts a year to over 2 million views a month.
Turns out people are starving for climate hopecore.
The problem: the algorithm decides who sees what, and you never know what you’re going to get.
Great posts about genuinely important developments vanish before anyone reads them.
So, this roundup. Every two weeks:
👉 The 3 posts that blew up
👉 The one that deserved to and didn't
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🌊 Without further ado, let’s jump right in!
Europe built the most advanced transformer on earth, and the contract includes teaching China to build the next seven. Come for the 820 tons transformer, stay for the comment section arguing about whether we just sold the factory with it.
Roughly 3 kW of fold-out panels, 15 kWh a day in a sunny spot, 75-100 km of range while the car sits in a parking lot doing nothing. Come for the arithmetic, stay for the engineers in the comments arguing about dust, wind load and whether the shade is the real product.
Every Lidl store in the Netherlands, restocked by electric truck from 2027, three years early. The reason is the least romantic one available: diesel is a volatile cost and rooftop electrons are a fixed one. When the cheapest supermarket in the country decides electric trucks keep it the cheapest supermarket in the country, the argument is over.
Viking Link runs along the seabed between the UK and Denmark, the longest subsea power link on earth, and it's one node on a map that quietly dismantles "the wind doesn't always blow." It doesn't have to blow everywhere at once. Connect enough of Europe and geography becomes the storage.
We listened to the full Stepchange Show episode on the US electricity grid so you didn’t have to.
OK fine, you should still listen to it. It’s incredible.
👉 Listen to the full episode here
But if you want the cocktail party version, the investor dinner version, or just the “blow your colleague’s mind on Slack” version, here are 100 facts that stuck with us.
Anyway, this is it for today.
Someone in your life is doom-scrolling right now. Send them this instead.