Perverse utility incentives, rising equipment costs, aging distribution networks, sclerotic permitting ... take your pick. Whatever your bogeyman is, it's in the mix. Everyone in our deranged info environment wants a clear, single villain, but reality just won't provide one here.

The Center on Global Energy policy investigates rising electricity prices in the US and finds ... the same thing all the other research has found. It's not data centers, except in a few confined areas. It's a broad, complicated mix of factors with no fun, simplistic, social-media-friendly slogan.

This is something I find most gamers I chat with don't just not know, but violently do not want to know - they pine for $50 games from 1995, but without realizing that's $110 in 2026 dollars. Games got a *lot* cheaper because the prices got sticky, which is why you see a lot of strain.

Well they recharged the 12V and got it running, but identified no problems (including the ICCU) and any explanations they offered made no sense. The guy even said I should try driving in utility mode to make sure the 12V charges, but that is impossible. You have to be in park for that to work.

Planning to fail

Pretty clear indicator that you need to raise the cap h/t @heatmap.news

Farms are not nature! Farms are by far the greatest threat to nature. (And thanks for the kind plug for my book!)

www.fedweek.com/federal-mana... The road has been bumper than expected, but the USPS continues to move forward with the "duck truck" EVs 😃

This is the ecological nightmare (/s) my fellow county residents are saving us from

Two Minnesota solar farms seeded native wildflowers under their panels, and 5 years of counting revealed native bees had multiplied twentyfold, then crossed the fence to pollinate the neighbour's soybeans

Nobody hates children like Indiana, the (by some metrics) most polluted and least childcare-rich state.

When your well is a little TOO active

Of course they did, because it's a horrible freaking idea that we already tried and rejected once.

Time and again I see solar farms viewed as a burden as opposed to an asset that someone else pays for, quietly sits there, and hands you (or at least your municipality) money.

Most blackpilling thing living in a rural area is the right wing people opposing data centers for environmental reasons and JUST AS LOUDLY opposing solar farms for what they also believe to be environmental reasons.

Legally REQUIRED to procure 1 AP1000 worth of nuclear generation. New Jersey currently has 3,450MW of capacity, so this is a 32% increase. Without demand growth, this would displace about 30% of the gas generation. Biggest problem is how long it will take to build.

you can't get much clearer than this on the state's priorities

defunding start-ups to (not even) make up for the deficit caused by our governor's gas tax holiday. indiana: a state that works

Electric cars are taking off quickly in Latin America— Five years ago, almost no one in Latin America bought an electric car. Today, the situation is different: electric cars now make up a meaningful and fast-growing share of new car sales.

New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill (D) signed a bill requiring the state to procure at least 1,100 MW of new nuclear power while aiming to avoid burdening ratepayers with cost overruns associated with building the plants. #energysky 🔌💡 See Full Story: ow.ly/sVQs50Zn9k6#energyskyWriter: James Downing

Tow empty idling cop cars spewing waste heat as I go to unlock my bike

We're destroying what remains of the world's rainforests for biofuels that aren't benefitting the climate at all, & the Trump admin's unprecedented expansion of the state-manufactured market for soybean oil-based diesel will make it all the worse. It really be that bad :(

An unfathomable clean air act violation. I worked in this exact field for years, including in oil and gas, and i still can't get over how wanton and obvious this crime is. Just stunning

It's strange how "Who was President in 2020?" has been such a major issue for Trump since about June of 2020.

Was curious how much solar Hawaii would need to clean their grid. It would only take about 20,000 acres of solar (with batteries) to force that oil wedge into a back-up only position. Land is super tight on Hawaii, so offshore wind wouldn't hurt. The Big Island may be able to expand geothermal,too

What climate tech should make this year's 10 Breakthrough Technologies list? (Quick, I'm on an editorial brain storming call and have no ideas of my own! 🙏)

Well my Ioniq 5 just died (warning about 12V appeared on screen but now is as dead as a doornail) and left the wife and kid stranded 50 miles away. Waiting for a tow, but I may have been hit by the dreaded ICCU problem. @zamafir.bsky.social @michaelmclean.me

www.newscientist.com/article/2533... Clean energy is my main topic, but I'm also in awe of everything happening with immunotherapy.

www.mining.com/web/chiles-m... Despite high copper prices, Chilean output fell by over 18% YoY. Declining ore quality has been cited. We're going to need substitutes.

www.goodreads.com/series/71097... Just started this series, which is sort of Steampunk, but also asks "What if biofuels, but they pollute worse than coal, also yield opiates, the crops are super allelopathic, and the cartel that runs them is also a puritanical cult." And I give ethanol a hard time

If an apartment were built next door to me and cut my solar production by half, to ~ 3.2 MWh, the carbon from electricity on the grid would increase by 659 pounds. If 10 low-income people lived in that building and each reduced their driving 50% (I'm four blocks from BART/bus/Berkeley Bowl) ...

In addition to the fact that solar panels aren't a replacement for oil -- 99% of cars in the U.S. run on oil, not electricity -- it is far more effective, both in terms of energy and climate change, to replace parking lots with housing. I did the math. 🧵

Best part of my first road trip in an all electric car is the enthusiastic EV small talk with other EV Dads at the charging stations

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202... Not the Senatorial death announcement I was expecting

I have done the research, and now I must root for France.

it's actually a much better political economy to be invested in liquid assets that track the overall health of the american economy, rather than a single extremely illiquid asset subject to high local variance i would not call this rocket science

It is bad that so much of US household net worth has historically been locked in an illiquid asset that requires you to greatly increase monthly expenses if you ever sell it. Your home should not be your primary investment vehicle and it’s good that equities are passing it

UUUUUGGGHHH

New NSF policy essential bans all collaboration with Chinese scientists. This is another disaster for science. www.science.org/content/arti...

www.cbsnews.com/news/housing... Wow all that pouting really worked for ya, huh

if you want to see climate action happen? and you’re not engaging with your local government? on the most local possible level? missed opportunity. for real get in there and go to some boring meetings

On the seashore on vacation, the kiddo poked an anemone. I told him not to. Him: Why? Me: Well, you wouldn't like it if someone poked you in the butt Him: That's not its butt, that's its mouth Me: I've got bad news for you bud, they've only got the one hole.

Wastewater facilities are the perfect place for many municipalities to begin their solar journey, as they typically are big energy consumers with otherwise unused buffer land around them. www.chicagotribune.com/2026/07/09/d...

Solar parking also coming to the Indianapolis airport. They already have 187 acres of solar surrounding the airport. The parking shuttles are also electric. This does not solve the carbon pollution problem of it being an airport, however. www.wthr.com/article/news...

Also tired of rhyme schemes that only work in non-rhotic dialects. R's exist! I won't pretend they don't! And I won't put them where they aren't!

We don't have our hearts in polluting with energy anyhow. The Trump Administration is a couple hundred of the most pro-pollution guys on Earth at the height of their powers, & new US power installations are still like 93% green

Meanwhile, I've taken the same Jennifer Egan book on about 10 vacations, pretending I would read it. "Surely there will be reading downtime on this vacation..." Sorry, Charlie, you're a Dad now.

www.wevv.com/news/evansvi... Evansville, IN, released a relatively large solarization plan for municipal facilities. Evansville is in one of the coal-heavy pockets in the nation.

Recent Belgian Heatwave Declared Deadliest on Record: “the situation during the peak weekend was so severe that excess mortality surpassed even the worst weekend of the COVID-19 pandemic. Between June 22nd and June 27th, a staggering 1,747 excess deaths were recorded.” #Belgium #heatwave #europe

chi.streetsblog.org/2026/06/17/c... This exact same thing happened in Chicago last month.