#swb — Public Fediverse posts

Two of Australia's richest people. Both mining billionaires. Yet their visions for the future couldn't be more different.

One says renewables are a lie. The other is investing billions in them. Same industry. Different bets. Time will decide who's right. #Bettrification #SWB

New achievement unlocked: zwei Mal Schnellbremsung kurz nacheinander in einer KVB Stadtbahn in den Diensten der SWB.

Das war kurz vor einem Bahnübergang, eventuell gibt es da einen Zusammenhang.

#KVB #SWB #bahnbubble

SWB (Solar, Wind and Batteries) is the defining concept of the 21st century.

#SWB isn't just an energy system. It's the foundation of a Type I civilisation, where humanity increasingly powers itself from the continuous energy flows of its own planet rather than finite fuels buried beneath it.

After extreme heat & cooling-water constraints hit 8 European nuclear sites this summer, France just lost 3 more reactors to jellyfish clogging their cooling systems. That's the problem with confusing baseload with resilience, and why #SWB wins hands down! www.scmp.com/news/world/e...

Adjusted for lower capacity factor, solar still added 16× more avg power generation than nuclear (2015–2025). Subsidies? France's nuke fleet wasn't built on bake sales. Compare electricity per taxpayer $—nuclear hype crew rarely does. Facts aren't woke. Just inconvenient. #SWB #Bettrification

The story isn't just that batteries are getting cheaper. It's that batteries are getting cheaper while gas is getting more expensive. When the disruptor's costs fall as the incumbent's costs rise, adoption can accelerate far faster than most people expect. #SWB #Bettrification #Renewables

Batteries are getting cheaper ...

Some still erroneously defend baseload power as if electricity systems haven't changed in 100 years.

Solar. Wind. Batteries. AI. EVs. Demand response. Distributed generation. Objective hasn't changed, but optimal way of delivering reliable electricity.

#Bettrification #SWB #Renewables

Beyond Baseload: The Evolution...

60 Bonner Stadtbahnen dürfen noch wochenlang nicht fahren

#Bonn #Materialermüdung #NRW #Nahverkehr #SWB #Stadtbahn #Straßenbahn #ÖPNV

https://bahnblogstelle.com/258850/60-bonner-stadtbahnen-duerfen-noch-wochenlang-nicht-fahren/

@Neuromancer
Nee, heute die #swb wegen der nicht fahrenden Bahnen😇
Der gute Rat würde mich ja mal interessieren, auch wenn ich ihn mit meinem guten Rad...HaHaHa...nicht brauche.
Zugestellte Kreuzung vor der Auffahrt zur Südbrücke gen Beuel habe ich heute auch wieder bestaunt🧐

Bonn zieht 60 Stadtbahnen vorübergehend aus dem Verkehr

#Bonn #Materialermüdung #Nahverkehr #SWB #Stadtbahn #ÖPNV

https://bahnblogstelle.com/258666/bonn-zieht-60-stadtbahnen-voruebergehend-aus-dem-verkehr/

Irgendwie werden in letzter Zeit in #Bonn öfters Dinge gefunden, die völlig unerwartet kaputt sind. https://www.swb-busundbahn.de/aktuelle-meldungen/details/kurzfristig-weniger-stadtbahnen-im-einsatz/ #swb

The most important energy milestone of the 21st century.

In 2025, renewables overtook coal to become the world's largest source of electricity generation for the first time in modern history.

Coal powered the industrial age. Renewables appear set to define the electric age. #SWB #Bettrification

The most important energy milestone of the 21st century.

In 2025, renewables overtook coal to become the world's largest source of electricity generation for the first time in modern history.

Coal powered the industrial age. Renewables appear set to define the electric age. #SWB #Bettrification

France isn't just building offshore wind, it's building long-term energy security. EU-approved support for 11.1 GW will generate almost 48 TWh a year, around 10% of France's electricity demand. Speed is money, cost always wins, and nuclear's share of the mix is shrinking. #SWB #Bettrification #Wind

Since 2010, solar has gone from a niche technology to the fastest-growing energy source in history. In 2025 it entered the steepest part of the disruption S-curve with another record year.

Yet many analysts are already calling 2026 a "slowdown" while missing what's happening in absolute terms. #SWB

China's PM2.5 pollution fell by roughly 60% since 2013, one of the largest & fastest air-quality improvements ever recorded by a major industrial economy.

What's remarkable is that it happened while China continued growing, industrialising & expanding electricity generation. #Bettrification #SWB

Wind & solar don't need to individually match nuclear's or coal's capacity factor if they're paired with sufficient storage. The relevant metric increasingly becomes the utilisation and reliability of the combined generation + storage system, not the generator alone. #Bettrification #SWB

China's electricity transition is often portrayed as coal vs renewables. Reality is far more interesting: In 2000, fossils ~75% of installed capacity. By 2025, that fell down dramatically to 34% — not from shutting coal plants, but adding massive new renewables alongside them. #Bettrification #SWB

Update regarding my earlier post on China surpassing 4 TW of installed electricity capacity in May 2026.

After reconciling my China electricity datasets & charts from 2000–2025, I discovered that my original post actually underreported renewables & overstated fossil capacity. 🤯 #Bettrification #SWB

The old energy system sells dependence and a lifetime of bills.

The new one builds resilience and abundance.

➡️ Rooftop solar
➡️ Batteries
➡️ EVs
➡️ Microgrids
➡️ Local generation

The future of energy isn’t just cleaner. It’s more decentralized, democratic & resilient. #SWB #Bettrification

Wind now generates roughly as much electricity as nuclear globally, but its growth rate is vastly higher. Over the last decade, wind added around 870 GW of capacity versus roughly 40 GW for nuclear. Better economics, faster deployment and manufacturing scale are winning the day. #Bettrification #SWB

China has ranked #1 globally in installed wind power capacity for 15 straight years. By November 2025, installed wind capacity had surpassed 600 GW, more than any other country by a wide margin. The energy transition is operating at a scale many still struggle to comprehend. #Bettrification #SWB