This channel seeks to understand the issues that face our civilisation in the 21st Century and focusses on the potential solutions that will save as many lives as possible and hopefully bring about a greater level of equality in the world. The channel is not a debating forum about whether Human Induced Climate Change is a real phenomenon or not. If that’s what you’re after then I can highly recommend chat forums on Social Media, where people on both sides of the argument go round and round in circles achieving precisely nothing at all.
That is a mug’s game. And it’s not my game.
Anyway, outside of those caveats, I do try to keep it light and humorous wherever possible, so I hope you enjoy the content.
Oh..and me… Dave Borlace. Born 1969. BSc in Technology from the Open University in the UK. After a 30 year career in People and Project Management, I now work full time on the channel thanks to the amazing folks who support me on Patreon http://www.patreon.com/justhaveathink
From Just Have a Think. Home battery storage systems are becoming one of the essential keys to a successful energy transition. Australia has understood this and has acted promptly to embrace the technology. Spain’s recent blackout suggests European countries have a lot of catching up to do. So can we do it? Help support this…
From Just Have a Think. Fiduciary Duty is a phrase often touted by corporate CEOs and Wall Street types to justify their dodgy deals and questionable board level decisions. But Fiduciary Duty also involves safeguarding the LONG-TERM security of shareholders investments. Now a group of expert lawyers has published a report outlining how Exec Boards…
From Just Have a Think. I had a completely different video planned for today. But life changed last week, and I thought you should know about it. Help support this channel’s independence at http://www.patreon.com/justhaveathink Or with a donation via Paypal by clicking here https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=GWR73EHXGJMAE&source=url You can also help keep my brain ticking over during the…
From Just Have a Think. There is a quiet revolution happening across the vast content of Africa. Imports of solar PV panels jumped 60% in the 12 months to June 2025. Millions of microgrids and individual solar installations are now driving the electrification of just about every African nation. But fossil fuels still dominate most…
From Just Have a Think. Bill Gates recently offered us some of his ‘wisdom’ on the subject of climate change. Donald Trump immediately seized on Gates’ 17 page essay, saying he had "just won the war on the Climate Change Hoax". So, has this little exchange fatally undermined the COP30 conference in Brazil, or was…
From Just Have a Think. Solid State batteries. Always just around the corner aren’t they? Well, maybe not any more. There are now more than a dozen credible manufacturers who are either at prototype stage or close to full scale commercial production. So, is it time to put a deposit down on your first all-solid-state…
From Just Have a Think. The cost of Solar PV technology has dropped by 90% in the last decade. But believe or not there are still more reductions in the pipeline. An Australian team has now replaced gold and silver conductive backings with a functionalised graphene layer that not only doubles the efficiency of basic…
From Just Have a Think. El Niño events in the Pacific Ocean have affected weather patterns around the world for millennia. But as our oceans rapidly warm, new research shows a potentially devastating trend towards more regular, more powerful El Niño events that are pulling the planet’s other weather systems into synchronisation – meaning when…
From Just Have a Think. There’s an understandable focus on the the energy transition in the United States right now. But down in South America there is a quiet revolution going on in renewable power which could see that continent decarbonise far sooner than its northern neighbour. Help support this channel’s independence at http://www.patreon.com/justhaveathink Or…
From Just Have a Think. The US energy system has arguably never faced such an existential crossroads. Renewable generation sources like hydropower, wind and solar, backed up by battery energy storage are already proving to be the quickest and cheapest way to add huge amounts of additional power to the US grid. But the incumbents…
From Just Have a Think. Heat Pumps are the future of home heating. But until recently most companies have grossly over sized the Heat Pump systems they install for fear of leaving the client with a cold home. In the age of super-efficiency that level of shoddy service is completely unacceptable. That’s all changed now…
From Just Have a Think. Fossil Fuel Carbon Capture and Storage yet again under-delivered in 2025 when the Norwegian state oil company, Equinor, was forced to admit the Sleipner CCS facility was capturing only about 10% of it’s claimed 1 million tonnes per year. Similar missed CCS targets are happening all over the world. And…
From Just Have a Think. Climate scientists (and communicators like me) have been telling you for years that Arctic Sea ice is dwindling so quickly that it might all be gone as soon as the end of this decade. Now a new research paper published in the American Geophysical Union journal points out that there…
From Just Have a Think. Renewable energy technologies will make up 99% of all new electricity grid installations in the USA in 2025. Not because of some sort of ‘left wing ideology’, but simply because the numbers add up better than they do for fossil fuels and developers see them as the quickest and easiest…
From Just Have a Think. The fossil fuel propaganda machine has been extremely effective in recent years at highlighting what it suggests are the terrible environmental harms being perpetrated on mother nature by those horrible people making solar panels, wind turbines, batteries and anything else that dares to carry the label ‘renewable’. But the big…