5th Anniversary Special! Clean Energy Progress Since 2020
Why this work is in the frame
A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Our special fifth-anniversary episode! This week, we take a trip down memory lane to reflect on five years of clean energy news, predictions, and surprises. James takes us through just how much progress has been made in clean energy since we started the podcast five years ago. The growth is staggering, even compared to the most optimistic 2020 predictions!The Baltic states have officially disconnected from the Russian power grid and joined the EU grid. Workers literally cut the cord and took pieces home as souvenirs, along with safety, security, and peace of mind.Celebrating Five Years Our first show aired on February 12, 2020, in Brian's bomb shelter studio, where we recorded the first five episodes. How Predictions Held Up Back in 2020, some clean energy forecasts missed the mark-by a lot:A 2020 climate report estimated 2.5 million EVs on the road by 2030. We're at 85 million today, with four years to go.EV Boom in Five YearsIn 2020, 2.9% of new car sales in Canada were EVs-by the end of 2024, it was 13.2%.There were only 4 million EVs in the world when we started. Now, 4 million EVs are sold every two months.China's Rapid GrowthIn 2020, China exported 1 million cars. By 2024, that number skyrocketed to 6.4 million.When we started the podcast, there were 8 million EVs worldwide. Now, China alone produces 238,000 plug-in vehicles every day!Join the Clean Club at https://www.patreon.com/c/cleanenergypod for exclusive content, ad-free episodes, and more!The Lightning RoundOzempic is reportedly messing with climate predictions by reducing food consumption. Less food, less pollution!Over $2 trillion was invested in the global energy transition in 2024-a record-breaking amount.The U.K. would need a forest twice the size of London to offset its airport expansion emissions.Oxford University, at 699 years old, is replacing gas heating with heat pumps to cut carbon emissions.The Baltic states successfully cut ties to the Russian power grid and are now fully synchronized with the EU grid.Thank you for five years of listening! Here's to the next five!Follow us on https://www.tiktok.com/@cleanenergypod | https://www.instagram.com/cleanenergypod/ | https://www.youtube.com/c/thecleanenergyshow Listen on https://open.spotify.com/show/7nIGJi8pZ9EmiJTPY4VOr5 | https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/the-clean-energy-show/id1498854987 Donate via PayPal at https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=VMDCRPHLNR8YE
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.006 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it