Next time someone asks you about energy and land use, maybe remind them that the ~35 million acres that currently grow corn for ethanol in the US could produce ~15 PWh per year of electricity from solar photovoltaics. That's ~3.5 times more than *total annual generation from all US power plants*.

*Winter Storm Uri has entered the chat*

"NERC also warned that new resources — which will largely consist of battery storage and solar in the next five years — and transmission are not being built quickly enough" This isn't because of the last administration--this is on the current one. subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2026...

Has anyone asked the airlines if they want safety rules written by slop machines? If I were advising on the use of LLMs in federal rulemaking, this is about the last area I’d recommend. Up next: oil spill prevention, food safety, nuclear power plants?

There’s actually a really easy way out of this and it’s for the feds to stop lying, terrorizing and murdering innocent people. Thats it!

Cool!

This sure seems more like the tyranny the Constitution is supposed to protect against than forgiving student loans.

People are being executed in the street over a problem that straight up does not exist and both parties are complicit in the lie

no. next question

“Environmental Insurrectionists” is actually a great name for climate deniers and extreme fossil fuel supporters.

Exclusive from @bengeman.bsky.social: The Solar Energy Industries Association is ramping up its advocacy for policies that help deploy storage. www.axios.com/2026/01/22/s...

Numerous *law firms* sending out marketing materials about exciting new business opportunities in Venezuela gets my vote for Most Disgusting Promotional Tactic

Did you know? The average age of sitting U.S. Senators named Chuck is 84 years old.

Great story by @mariagallucci.bsky.social on how Trump forcing all Department of Interior reviews of clean energy projects to get personal approval from DOI Secretary Doug Burgum has stifled 22GW of development in the midst of an energy crisis: www.canarymedia.com/articles/cle... #energysky

Worth remembering: The world has been spending more on solar than oil for the last two years.

Where are the highly obscure ABSOLUTE DC characters? I want ABSOLUTE GUNFIRE. Give me ABSOLUTE AZTEK: THE ULTIMATE MAN. Where are the ABSOLUTE PSYBA RATS

Think about the mindset, and the expectation of immunity, of someone who texts this to friends.

less than a week ago the US extraordinary renditioned a foreign head of state and now we’re just talking about lading and refining logistics for the hydrocarbons we now control (??) and I feel like I’m going insane

Here’s some things that can be done by a party out of power - file impeachment articles every day in the House - withhold unanimous consent in the senate and filibuster every nominee - be everywhere with comms saying this is lawless and impeachable

Good lord.

Happy retirement to the true ACE of the universe

if you are talking today about how bad maduro was and were alive, at all, during the run-up to the iraq war you are potentially the dumbest person to ever live

More recently, I made the case that the current administration's approach to energy is akin to trying to resist the transition from horse and buggy to automobiles, or from wood to coal. brnw.ch/21wYpXm

permitting reform be like

The right only cares (or pretends to care) about wildlife when they can use it to kill renewable energy projects.

The world's solar power industries just got a new tag line:

Fans of permitting reform say that it will work to renewable energy's advantage. But of course, that's not true if the administration is also *specifically intervening to stop solar development*.

Bring back leaded gas. No catalytic converters. No seat belts

The predictable result of disastrous tax, trade and energy policies.

imagine what we could be doing if the federal government wasn't actively trying to throttle the growth of this industry

A+ headline

The overlap between these two maps is fascinating. Almost as if... dare I say it... Clean energy = cheap energy?

huh wonder why

my “we are not Enron” memo has a lot of people asking questions already answered by my memo

This is every school voucher program

good for them. they sure needed one!!!

Trump is being nicer to Mamdani than Democratic leadership was lol

If you've ever played and enjoyed a video game, she probably had something to do with it. RIP to a trailblazer and a legend.

The AI techbros need MASSIVE quantities of electricity and they need it, like, yesterday. How long until they realize that their plans are in direct conflict with the Trump admin's policies here?

"...solar power is also seen as a way for Jamaica and other nations in one of the world’s most hurricane-prone regions to become more resilient to ever-intensifying storms." www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/c...

Backwards, discriminatory permitting policies are putting over 500 solar facilities and 100 GW of power supply at risk. And they will force your utility bills even higher. Learn more: underthreat.seia.org

Critics of renewables often point to land use as a reason not to do wind & solar. Land use IS a real issue for all energy assets incl renewables unless onsite. But what critics conveniently forget is huge land impact of fossil fuels. Aerial view of fracking sites in Texas. 👇

Congrats to Delegate-elect @johnmcauliff.bsky.social — another clean energy champion in Richmond!