Justin Ritchie

In Ep. 271, @laurimyllyvirta rejoins us to tease apart the complex picture of China’s energy transition. Listen and learn why China’s total CO2 emissions have been falling for the past two years even while it’s building more coal power plants than ever. xenetwork.org/ets/episodes/e…

In Ep. 270 @AdairTurnerUK, co-chair of the Energy Transitions Commission in London, shares with us his wide-ranging, high-level perspective on the energy transition in the UK and the world. xenetwork.org/ets/episodes/e…

In Ep. 269, @AriPeskoe rejoins us to review Trump’s attacks on the energy transition in the US and explore the legal options for defending it. Wind farms, solar farms, coal plants, regulations,Venezuela, UN climate bodies, oh my! xenetwork.org/ets/episodes/e…

In Ep. 268, veteran organizer @CarterLavin joins us to share some of the insights, tactics and lessons learned from his 15 years as a transportation advocate. Listen in and learn how you can help advance energy transition policies in your community! xenetwork.org/ets/episodes/e…

In Ep. 267, former IEA Director Nobuo Tanaka shares his perspectives on the global realignment into “petrostates” and “electrostates” and how US policy is pushing Europe and developing countries closer to China. We also discuss evolving Asian grids. xenetwork.org/ets/episodes/e…

To close out a huge year, we are lifting the paywall on Episode 254 so that all can enjoy this comprehensive review of the data on the global energy transition with Ember's @nicolasfulghum xenetwork.org/ets/episodes/e… Happy New Year from all of us at @TransitionShow! #lagniappe

@fitterhappierAJ we're in a slow motion train wreck, but I do wonder, does the disability data hit a critical threshold for society at some point?

This is on the people that overhyped immunity to covid In 2021 I was asked by a high up market person what the future of long covid and disability in the US was. I told them it would continue to get worse and reinfections would accumulate harm and disability In 2022 a journalist for an MIT publication interviewed me. I said covid would cause disability and wear at immunity via T cell death at a population level to cause other diseases to increase. I did not pull punches in that video recorded interview with them. That was now published last month in eLife. In 2022/2023 an MIT working group was scheduling me to ask about the future of Long Covid and what it would do. They never followed up, but now you have it clearly, in late 2025/2026 There is no treatment for Long Covid It is a valid and real disability and the greatest irony is that the people who qualify as “normal” and the “average” will be touched by T cell loss as published recently

In Ep. 265, @chrisnelder returns to Paris to interview @tim_gould_ about @iea.org’s flagship World Energy Outlook 2025 report. We clarify what its scenarios mean (and what they don’t), and find the global energy transition very much still going strong. xenetwork.org/ets/episodes/e…

BREAKING: Global coal demand rose to a fresh all-time high in 2025, the @IEA said Tuesday in a report. Worse, the IEA also revised its historical consumption estimates higher: it now pegs 2025 demand at 8,845 million tons, up 0.5% from 2024. 1/3 #TwitterCoal

#GPT52 feels like an employee facing a lot of anxiety at home, behind the scenes. "Code Red" might make ChatGPT worse as a product. Anxious orgs produce anxious training signals: "be thorough," "cover every base," "don't get criticized." The result is a model that over-engineers, adding 58 bullets to basic questions. The GPT-5.2 complaints (robotic, corporate, paternalistic) sound like someone whose job is on the line, triple-checking everything instead of just being helpful.

Initial review of #GPT52 - comparing to Opus 4.5 on a simple Sublime Text regex pattern match

Great to share how we're using @bitly's ChatGPT integration to manage custom access links for @TransitionShow institutional memberships, including those funded by #QCF for podcast access across the Global South 🚀 Case study: bit.ly/48mvppP Apply: transition.show/apply

In Ep. 264, we kick off a new miniseries on South Africa’s energy transition with one of its key progenitors, Professor Emeritus Anton Eberhard of the University of Cape Town, who has been agitating for power sector reforms there for over 35 years. xenetwork.org/ets/episodes/e…

Thanks #nanobanana team, kids absolutely loved seeing their favorite toys in a comic strip this weekend! #gemini3 👀@GeminiApp

In Ep. 263, @chrisnelder debates the CEO of Australian distribution utility @Ausgrid about when and whether it’s best for customers or distribution utilities to own and operate grid assets like battery storage systems. xenetwork.org/ets/episodes/e…

In Ep. 262, @nadiabahmad explains how creating a successful energy transition project depends on community engagement and the specific legal and regulatory frameworks of a place. xenetwork.org/ets/episodes/e…

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In Ep. 260, @ymymilan and @SamButl3r of @ember_energy detail how China has become the undisputed global leader in the energy transition, and is helping developing countries to decarbonize far more rapidly than the economic powerhouses of the West. xenetwork.org/ets/episodes/e…