“What we're likely to see over the next five to 15 years is a new infrastructure of data centers evolving in different regions of the country that are going to shape electricity demand for a couple decades. The real question is whether we plan for them or we let them plan for us.” - Prof. V. McRib

Here is what the WaPo is focused on.

Within the next few years, renewable energy sources will surpass coal, oil, and gas on a global scale. www.thecooldown.com/green-busine...

Good

So check out the column if you would, share it widely if you’d like, & solidarity as we continue to fight for a nation in which the law is king, & we have no other. @hcrichardson.bsky.social www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2026/01/cons...

The Mad King speaks.

Hey!! Here's a new piece for @thepointau.bsky.social - the first of what will be many little updates on the current state of carbon capture and storage. Both failure-prone and eternally immune to the consequences of failure: there is absolutely nothing like it -->> thepoint.com.au/off-the-char...

Peaceful protest in DC right now

New day new shooting.

it simply cannot go on like this. and it cannot be the case that going on like this is a regular feature of electoral cycles either. something has to be done about the violent white nationalist movement.

Emily Heller, an eyewitness, is speaking out to set the record straight. Officers were screaming at Renee Nicole Good, “Move, move, move.” So she moved, and they shot her multiple times? Then Noem and Trump branded her a domestic terrorist. Does everyone see how absolutely insane that sounds?

I stand with my adopted home town of Minneapolis. THIS CAN NOT CONTINUE. to our alleged political leaders grow some balls and put a stop to this entire criminal regime. NOW.

Fuck these people. They killed this woman. Then I am told by people close to the scene they allegedly delayed EMS to make sure she was deceased.

PJM, the biggest U.S. power market, badly needs a way to flexibly connect data centers without driving up electricity costs. This report from Camus Energy, encoord and Princeton's ZERO Lab provides a blueprint — one backed by real-world grid data: www.canarymedia.com/articles/dat... #energysky

Endorse

Here is what does not require illegal special Operations on foreign shores. Wind and solar. We have paid for fossil fuel dominance in so many different ways. Such an abusive relationship.

Dark times. Welcome to day 3 of 2026. apnews.com/article/vene...

Oh…

💯 he is happy to be feted.

"I spent 50 years in the #nuclear industry, advancing to senior vice president and managing projects at 70 nuclear power plants. I once believed the dream. The nuclear industry’s latest pitch is an expensive distraction from real #climate solutions." www.theenergymix.com/the-nuclear-...

‘This is the Costco of energy, man!’: author Bill McKibben on the promise of renewables. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Money quote ‘the current view of the SNP that nuclear is unsafe and too costly collapses under scrutiny,’ because nuclear is, ‘safer on a deaths-per-unit-of-power basis than wind’ This is a must read article. 1

Does anyone know if @hcrichardson.bsky.social has a recommended reading list? Looking for a recommendation on history of consolidation of media power during the Gilded Age and how it was countered by Muckrakers etc. please and thank you.

The citywide outage is San Francisco is going to be the straw that broke PG&E's stranglehold on California politics. Here's my state Senator calling for public ownership- not just for San Francisco but all of PG&E statewide. The future is public and that's what @publicgrids.org is for.

Heartily recommend. So timely for many reasons.

Not monuments to enlightenment.

So looking forward to a time when we celebrate Humanity. Have also never been more pleased to have a degree in humanities and the critical thinking skills it taught.

Using hydrogen for low/medium temperature industrial process heat is by far the most expensive option available. Our recent analysis shows that heat pumps coupled with electro-thermal storage is the most cost-effective technology. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Restrictions on solar and wind farms are proliferating around the country, with scores of local governments going as far as to forbid large-scale clean-energy developments ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/12/05/t...

Hegseth's statements: In his 2024 book, The War on Warriors, Hegseth recounted telling his platoon to ignore legal advice regarding rules of engagement, stating, "Men, if you see an enemy who you believe is a threat, you engage and destroy the threat".

There is this…. During 2005 deployment to Samarra, Iraq, Hegseth was part of a company where Four soldiers from that company were later court-martialed, with three convicted of killing unarmed Iraqis.

A new study finds that combining load flexibility and “bring your own power” strategies could accelerate data center deployments by 3 to 5 years. The findings offer a data-driven approach to address key challenges delaying AI deployments. open.substack.com/pub/datacent...

PJM is the regional grid serving 67 million customers in 13 states

Heat pumps are the most efficiency heating technology ever invented. That's because they harvest, compress and transport pre-existing heat from the air, the ground or the water. Compared to a gas boiler heat pumps deliver ~4x more heat for each unit of energy inout.

So Pakistan is *paying* Qatar to *not* deliver LNG because even including this penalty payment their solar PV and battery spending is much better value for money and saves them billions. How fascinating!

This whole power structure needs a hard reboot. Honestly not working for any average person.

Bill Gates hasn’t made sense on Climate since he teamed up with Bjorn Lomberg in 2009. This is just a restating of Bjorn’s book from this year about how we have a finite amount of money and we shouldn’t use it for climate. What they get wrong is that climate solutions are now fully profitable.

One of these won’t end well for anyone.

Absolute post of the century “it is difficult to recognize the apocalypse when you are waiting for an Amazon delivery.” youtu.be/YV2bGgAOGNw?...

How it started. How it is going.

And here's a longer version of why new nuclear is useless for addressing air pollution, climate, or energy security. www.youtube.com/shorts/3O9Bl...

This headline leaves a bit to be desired. apple.news/AMS1u_iCcRh-...

Exactly

This headline makes no sense. Not getting past the paywall but still.

Who here harbors car hostility? 🤔 2024 (Estimate): 39,345 people died in traffic crashes. Historic High: In 2023, a total of 1,155 bicyclists were killed in crashes with motor vehicles, the highest number ever recorded by the (NHTSA).

China. Gets it. Almost.

Seriously fuck these people.

The #chiefs are terrible. Poorly coached, prepared and not talented enough on offense. Can not believe we are here. Recurring theme in life right now.

Yet another reason to back solar and not dirty, planet-polluting fossil fuels.