Shaun Sweeney
187 posts
@EnleashedT17667
Founder, on a mission to fix the electricity market through digitalisation, PhD @ Imperial: https://t.co/AVRcjrOpsZ Contact: [email protected]
Yanis Varoufakis slams UK energy pricing, "The fact that you're paying for your kWh the price of production of the most expensive kWh, is a crime against logic" "Stop it"
Time to get the 'big coat' back out 🧥 Temperatures are dropping widely below average but in brisk northerly winds, it will be feeling closer to freezing for many of us 🥶
The only industry that profits whether it works or not. Wind farms get guaranteed prices through subsidies. Then get compensated when they’re told to switch off. Meanwhile we have some of the highest energy bills in the world. It’s a racket. Who’s getting rich off our bills?”
Sometimes there is too much wind for our outdated grid to handle, especially in Scotland and the East of England. Rather than paying wind farms to switch off we’re trialling a new system where people who live near these constrained areas get cheaper - or even free - electricity.
This article is anti-ambition, anti-excellence, anti-merit. Europe is falling behind, and instead of asking why we don’t produce enough generational companies, the author has decided the real threat to society is young men working too hard, competing too hard, and wanting to win. What a joke. Nothing is easier than mocking people who are actually trying. Nothing is cheaper than dressing up resentment as moral sophistication. The author hides behind the noble language of "inclusion" to attack the only thing that actually democratises success: an obsession with output. We are told that intense, hyper-focused teams are "monocultures" that build bad products. History disagrees. Every technological leap was forged by relentless, obsessed groups of people who sacrificed their comfort to solve hard problems. Calling that a "monoculture" is the cope of the comfortable spectator. We are told that an intense work ethic excludes people. Is 996 for everyone? No. Does having a family change your priorities? Of course. But demanding we lower the speed limit for an entire continent just because some people prefer the slow lane is a recipe for terminal irrelevance. The actual exclusionary culture is the one advocated by this article: a bureaucratic, HR-driven gatekeeping where you are judged on looking good rather than being good. The people writing these pieces will never build companies that matter. They will never invent the future. They will simply stand on the sidelines, sneering at the few people still willing to do something difficult. That is not wisdom. It is decadence. Europe does not need less edge. It needs more. More obsession. More work ethic. More conviction. More builders who do not ask permission from people who have built absolutely nothing. sifted.eu/articles/europ…
