#Artemis II 🚀🌕🌍🪂 Relive the moment Orion splashed down Mission Control erupts into applause and cheering

#Artemis II 🚀🪂 ‼️ All four astronauts are green! Undersea medical officer is reporting all four astronauts are green, meaning they are feeling great and ready to extracted from Orion capsule!

NEW: Microsoft Is Pausing Carbon Removal Purchases The tech giant has been the overwhelming buyer of carbon removal technologies, accounting for 90%+ of industry volume last year. Now sources tell me it’s pausing its voluntary buying. a @heatmap.news exclusive heatmap.news/carbon-remov...

Except we’ve spent $50 billion, the Strait is closed and 3000 people are dead. @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

15 people have died in ICE custody JUST THIS YEAR. That is 1 death a week. Under this regime, 2026 is set to be the deadliest year for ICE detention EVER. The need for guardrails and meaningful oversight could not be more urgent.

Best Star Trek crew, wrong answers only

Things that help calm the nervous system, quickly: - Box breathing (in for 4, hold for 4, out for 4, hold for 4, repeat) - Immerse your face in cold water (activates mammalian dive reflex) - Humming (stimulates vagus nerve) - Exercise (anything helps, outside even better) - Impeachment and removal

Thanks to Factor This for inviting me to talk about my reporting on the world's biggest solar-battery (and grid) project being planned in California's Central Valley! (PS - Mike Casey is doing some great work on rural clean energy...) www.renewableenergyworld.com/podcasts/cou... #energysky

Depluralize a movie: The Good, the Bad or the Ugly

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“It’s war. We’re in war,” says the president. Meanwhile, congressional Republicans continue to treat it as a non-war to avoid holding a vote on declaring war, as is required by the Constitution. www.nbcnews.com/world/iran/l...

exonerated after FORTY THREE years in prison, only to end up falling in ICE detention immediately www.nytimes.com/2026/04/02/u...

With a replica of FIFA Peace Prize as your armrest

“.. the million-square-foot plant is mostly empty and losing money, .. one of dozens of now desolate or sparsely used EV parts plants across the country.” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/business/aut...

GM idles Detroit EV plant, temporarily laying off 1,300 workers reut.rs/3PHx3eP

if you thought China was going to be the big economic loser from our Iran War -- since CHina purchases so much Iranian oil -- think again. Goldman Sachs thinks China will take half the hit to GDP growth we will, thanks in part to the country's massive investments in renewables + big oil reserves

Confirming my scoop from last week, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum announced this deal with TotalEnergies today. Story w/ @bradplumer.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/03/23/c...

They haven't even given a reason for the war, and are asking for an amount of money that would be like funding the whole EPA for 22 years.

Constellation to sell PJM generation assets to LS Power for $5 billion in Calpine deal remedy reut.rs/3Pgg9Uo

The Trump administration is considering paying nearly $1 billion to cancel existing offshore wind farm leases (and dodge a court fight that the track record so far indicates the government would lose), @maxinejoselow.bsky.social reports: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/17/c...

Two EV family here. One of the things I learned while reviewing this book is that electric cars go back as far as the auto industry, b/c back then, as now, most people drive <100 miles a day. They were killed off by oil interests, including gas car makers. www.nytimes.com/2024/05/14/b...

"Worst possible moment for EVs" meet "the largest supply disruption in the history of oil markets" bsky.app/profile/iea....

CAISO batteries earned $1.81/kW in January 2026, a 48% decline YoY due to lower natural gas prices compressing arbitrage spreads. This signals tougher revenue conditions for grid-scale sto... https://modoenergy.com/research/en/caiso-battery-revenues-january-2026-winter-storm-fern-natural-gas-prices

You shouldn’t care about either of those things. Where we make things that last for decades once built is vastly less important to NatSec the fuel you have to use (or not) to generate every single kWh. To conflate opex & capex is just to shill for fossil fuel.

"Friends" is a beloved American sitcom that aired from 1994 to 2004, following six young adults—Rachel, Ross, Monica, Chandler, Joey, and Phoebe—living in New York City. The show explores their friendships, romances, careers, and personal growth over ten seasons.

Donald Trump’s new 15% global tariff will most greatly benefit countries he has singled out for heavy criticism, including China and Brazil. Long-standing US allies including the UK, the EU and Japan will suffer the largest hit from the new levy. ft.trib.al/O1tXfR7

No kidding! I was right. It did say "beautiful clean coal"...slightly off in predicting the order of adjectives!! 🔌💡 bsky.app/profile/atru...

Shouldn't it be "Undisputed Champion of 'Clean Beautiful' Coal"?

All the various kinds of revisions add up -- by the end of the year, there were more than a million fewer people employed than previously estimated.

Energy Secretary Chris Wright says wind and solar were "a cost center" and "not actually helpful" for the East Coast grid during Winter Storm Fern. He ignored renewables' year-round value, the Texas solar-battery boom, and winter risks to fossil fuels: www.canarymedia.com/articles/tra... #energysky

#grid represent at #superbowl60 #halftime show

How can you keep power going in a blackout? Smelly, high-maintenance generators are out. Battery powered backups—which can keep fridges on for days—are in, writes columnist Nicole Nguyen. 🔗 on.wsj.com/4a9HRc4

Batteries are the bacon of the grid; they make everything better.

Story: www.wbur.org/news/2026/01...

So. No particular order… Tell me again we’re still the dependable nation. He’s proving Carney’s point from that speech in Davos Convenient the markets are closed, no? The President of the United States is a chaos agent. Republicans in Congress endorse this with their silence.

The winter storm is a chance for batteries to defend the power grid @opinion.bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Somebody this stupid shouldn’t be president. Maybe some of those scientists that he fired or defunded can explain Arctic amplification to him.

Your regular reminder that Republicans in Congress approve of what the President is doing.

Sen. Hawley put more effort into blocking a power line than defending the Senate’s prerogatives on war powers. That isn’t likely to change.

Speaking of IEEPA tariffs, Bloomberg's ace SCOTUS reporter @gregstohr.bsky.social says we can all stand down for a while. "The court is preparing to begin a four-week recess, and under its usual procedures for releasing opinions, the next potential day for a tariff decision is Feb. 20."

New from the @nytimes.com Visual Investigations team: Detailed, second-by-second video analysis of all of the video footage of the killing of Renee Good in Minneapolis. www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...

I think there are basically 3 phases to the year: Now through March/April: Trump stimulus/OBBB vibes April through June: Fed transition Second half of the year: Taking the data at face value, preparing for a blue wave

Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG... www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...

The Shaheed return! Charbonnet touching the football! The fourth down stop! So many insane moments

Here's our reporting on the proposed dismantling of the jewel of US atmospheric science, @ncar-ucar.bsky.social. The plan is to break NCAR apart and disburse some parts to other locations (like the research aircraft fleet) and eliminate others. www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪 #AGU25 #climate

I asked ESPN Research and they asked Elias Sports Bureau and they looked back as far as they could (to 1978) and it would appear Jalen Hurts is the first player to ever commit two turnovers in one play. Isn't history beautiful?

As of 5pm today, batteries were the largest single source of power for the Californian grid www.caiso.com/todays-outlo...

The fight tonight was over about $25 billion. Thats about 2.5% of the Defense budget. Would cover a year of the enhanced ACA credits. Republicans said that’s unaffordable.

Tell me you don’t understand risk pools without telling me you don’t understand risk pools