Obviously Norway is blessed with vast hydro resources and LCOE is a flawed and insufficient metric for measuring the value of different energy sources but interesting to see how a LLWR compares to offshore wind or SMRs. Would be nice to see what a full system cost estimate looks like for these.

God bless the EIA

Between this and her leveraging gas and nuclear infrastructure to save some of New York’s offshore wind, Kathy Hochul seems to be managing Trump better than many blue state governors.

In this morning's AM briefing from @alexckaufman.bsky.social: 🫧 DOE kills West Coast hydrogen hubs 🚗 Tesla hits a sales record 🇬🇧 Tories propose scrapping landmark UK climate law Find more on all these stories (and sign up to receive the newsletter yourself!) here:

The government shut down at 12:01 a.m. this morning. Among the many consequences could be a slowdown in EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin's deregulatory efforts, reports @alexckaufman.bsky.social in this morning's Heatmap AM: More on the shutdown, plus lithium and Pope news in the link below ⤵️:

My latest feature in @canarymedia.com:

My latest scoop for @heatmap.news

Scoop: Trump lost the legal battle over halting the offshore Revolution Wind project after Orsted, its developer, brought reams of evidence to court alleging the government was lying about military security concerns. It’s a sign truth can empower companies Trump targets. Via @heatmap.news

With its first phase of its debut Russian-made nuclear plant coming online next year, Turkey is already thinking about new financing models for its next project.

Trump: “We don’t do wind because wind is a disaster. It’s a very expensive joke, frankly.” Trump may not like jokes. But if the popularity of this video is any indication, Europeans are having a laugh at him. Americans will laugh, too, as long as comedians are free to make the jokes. My latest 👇

The White House Office of Management and Budget directed federal agencies to prepare to reduce personnel during a potential government shutdown. More in this morning’s climate briefing from @alexckaufman.bsky.social.

Big news for workers in New England covered in today's @heatmap.news morning newsletter from @alexckaufman.bsky.social.

My latest exclusive for @heatmap.news:

More than a million NY state households are at least two months behind on payments, owing utilities close to $2 billion. And record numbers of households had their electricity or gas shut off this spring, including more than 61,000 in May…

often the algorithm extracts from you, sometimes the algorithm nourishes

too many Climate Week events, everyone needs to cool it

In an exclusive by @alexckaufman.bsky.social, Deep Isolation has struck a deal with Navarro Research & Engineering to license its patented deep borehole nuclear waste disposal tech — potentially bringing in hundreds of thousands in annual revenue. www.latitudemedia.com/news/nuclear...

I'm sitting in a cafe working and watched three parents with babies in strollers negotiate opening the door for themselves to enter or exit. But one woman just showed up with a shih tzu in a dog stroller and got some woman to get up from her meal to get the door for her.

New analysis piece up from @alexckaufman.bsky.social looking at last week's merger between Electric Hydrogen and Ambient Fuels and what it says about the broader hydrogen industry. www.latitudemedia.com/news/why-the...

You hear a lot about Morocco as a solar superpower, not so much as a new titan of manufacturing. But the data are undeniable. www.economist.com/business/202...

what was promised vs. what actually happened

I'm proud to share a new project that @alexreisner.bsky.social and I launched at @theatlantic.com today! It's called AI Watchdog, and it's our new home for all of the investigations into training data sets, such as LibGen, Books3, and OpenSubtitles. www.theatlantic.com/category/ai-...

Journalist @alexckaufman.bsky.social reports AI startup Atomic Canyon is partnering with the INL to develop industry-wide benchmarks for testing LLMs tailored to nuclear applications helping utilities safely design + operate atomic power plants. www.latitudemedia.com/news/atomic-...

A sign of China’s advancement up the value chain

I realize this is partly a function of waiting to see whether can hold his Senate seat next year, but it's surprising to me how seldom Jon Ossoff's name comes up as a 2028 Democratic presidential contender.

After a week of eating pierogi, beef roulade, and tartare in Poland, I’m pleased to report that I am celebrating my return to America with a big breakfast of loroco-flower papusas from the Salvadoran deli. Thank you for your attention to this important matter. 😌

U.S. immigration authorities arrested hundreds of South Korean workers at a Hyundai battery plant in Georgia. More in this morning's climate briefing from @alexckaufman.bsky.social.

The Canadian nuclear developer Atkins Realis is making a play to sell its pressurized heavy water CANDU reactors to the Philippines for a debut atomic power station. The company just confirmed it’s in talks with Filipino utilities. mb.com.ph/2025/09/05/c...

A scene from a major city in a country on the NATO border

Inside this morning's climate briefing from @alexckaufman.bsky.social: ✅ Transportation Department joins the War on Wind ✅ California and Exxon Mobil battle over plastics ✅ The U.S. is facing potential uranium shortfalls

Amazing what adding solar and turning your nuclear plants back on will do.

When someone parrots the oft-repeated line that nuclear isn’t zero carbon because of emissions from mining uranium, show them this.

this project was recommended by the local planning staff but then overruled when a flood of people in red shirts came to oppose it solar project permitting is a political campaign, but often only one side is running

Geothermal is getting a shake-up. ⚡️ Ormat Technologies, Inc., one of the world’s largest geothermal players, has inked a major deal with startup @sagegeosystems.bsky.social to pilot its Pressure Geothermal technology. Full story by @alexckaufman.bsky.social www.latitudemedia.com/news/geother...

Extremely depressing: posting a feature story you worked hard to research and write only to have some reader on a social media platform tag an AI chat bot to ask a question that would have been answered if only they'd actually read the story.

Big new scoop in @technologyreview.com this a.m.: A U.S. company designing nuclear fuel that can convert existing run on thorium instead of uranium just got a very rare export license to India, setting the stage for a potential breakthrough. www.technologyreview.com/2025/08/29/1...

Amazon-backed nuclear developer x-energy is looking to sell its high-temperature gas-cooled reactors in South Korea.

Portugal's center-right president: “The supreme leader of the world’s greatest superpower is, objectively, a Soviet or Russian asset. He functions as an asset. I am saying that, objectively, the new U.S. leadership has strategically favored the Russian Federation." cnnportugal.iol.pt/guerra/ucran...

New piece up on @latitudemedia.bsky.social looking at the big deal between conventional geothermal giant Ormat and the next-generation upstart Sage Geosystems. Sage will debut its fracking-based wells at an existing Ormat power plant out West by next year. www.latitudemedia.com/news/geother...

A cadre of iron-rich extraterrestrial particles picked up faint whiffs of our planet’s atmosphere when they fell to Earth millions of years ago. eos.org/articles/fos...

Exclusive from @alexckaufman.bsky.social reveals that 64% of U.S. voters say they’re unfamiliar with geothermal energy. Yet after hearing a simple explanation, support for expanding geothermal jumps to nearly 75% across party lines. www.latitudemedia.com/news/poll-mo...

Really good in-depth look by @maeveallsup.bsky.social into how much the Energy Department has already applied its Project 2025 blueprint to the agency, and what's still in the works. www.latitudemedia.com/news/project...

RFK Jr. has been wrong on energy & the environment for two decades. He helped block wind power off the east coast in the 2000s. We could've had a thriving offshore wind industry & power a lot homes. But the brain worm couldn't have just one bite. insideclimatenews.org/news/2209202...

Super interesting BNEF chart showing advanced nuclear running away all the data center deals while next-gen geothermal lags.

Denmark is accusing three U.S. citizens, potentially acting as agents of the American government, of fomenting political opposition to Greenland's current sovereignty arrangement.

Exclusive from Latitude Media: San Francisco–based grid-tech startup Splight has raised $12.4 million to accelerate its U.S. expansion, reports @alexckaufman.bsky.social www.latitudemedia.com/news/grid-te...

In the United States, investments in renewable energy fell by 36% — equal to $20.5 billion — compared to the second half of last year. Read more in this morning's climate briefing from @alexckaufman.bsky.social ⬇️

The Trump administration issued a stop-work order to halt construction of Orsted’s flagship project off the coast of Rhode Island. Read more in Monday morning's climate briefing from @alexckaufman.bsky.social:

Trump rounded out a week of going after wind farms by hitting Ørsted with a stop-work order for its Rhode Island offshore project.

Trump rounded out a week of going after wind farms by hitting Ørsted with a stop-work order for its Rhode Island offshore project.