"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk

One reason not to miss the network of methane pipes when they're gone

This is really dumb and lazy, even for Bjorn. Hey, B, what's the biggest cause of both air pollution and climate change? (burning stuff, mainly fossil fuels) And what's causing forest fires to increase, dramatically raising air pollution? (climate change)

More on the adage: Whether EVs are a boon or a burden to the grid depends almost entirely on when you charge (or potentially even discharge!) them.

cleantechnica.com/2025/11/03/a... More deals for Rondo. Decarbonizing beer in Portugal >>> doing enhanced oil recovery in CA.

Here's money that definitely should've been spent on public health instead

Incredibly well constructed joke lol

Playing "spot the neighbors' insulation gaps" this morning

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11... Assuming you don't blow out the local transformers, what would you do if electricity was zero marginal cost from 11AM to 2PM?

Faster, safer, cleaner, and easier: This is why you should consider switching to an induction stove. www.reviewed.com/ovens/featur...

Amazing things are happening in: 1. Immunotherapy (both for cancer and autoimmune diseases) 2. Clean energy 3. Material science 4. Electrochemistry And the last 3 are mutually reinforcing

Indy Star: The long view pays off for Randolph,IN "millions of dollars have poured into school districts, emergency services, bridge repairs, streets, sidewalks and parks." Andy Fahl, lifelong resident "I’ll be dead and gone, but it will be generational wealth.” 🔌💡 www.indystar.com/story/news/e...

Big "Sir, this is a Wendy's" energy

insideclimatenews.org/news/0311202... Probably too much to hope that "modernize" means "stop burning coal and put a bunch of batteries at the interconnection".

Trump says the SNAP money that he’s been ordered by a court to release won’t be released until the government shutdown ends.

finance.yahoo.com/news/first-a... While I love the idea of a fast-breeder reactor, as a follower of this space, I've heard very little about this company that is supposedly now bringing 5000 jobs to Indiana (to no exact location in Indiana). @astein.bsky.social

tech.yahoo.com/home/article... Going to highlight this one since I used to work in the biz. Whirlpool developing a "highly porous powder" to replace polyurethane foam in refrigerator insulation, improving both energy efficiency and recyclability.

Somewhat miffed that, in the wake of a global pandemic, taking out a second mortgage and putting it all on bitcoin would've worked out to be terrific advice.

Nuclear phaseouts are phasing out h/t @heatmap.news Building NPPs might not be the fastest way to cut emissions, but shuttering them is probably the fastest way to go backwards.

theconversation.com/you-cant-eat... "Can't eat electricity" my dude, here is a map of UK land use and a picture of some very happy sheep. You will figure it out.

Is there some way we can channel this marble fetish into a passion for mineralized carbon storage?

In 2023-2024, US investment in new manufacturing capacity reached its highest level, as a % of GDP, in recorded history

Manufacturing factory construction investment DOUBLED from 2021-2024. The IRA made clean energy cheaper to make, cheaper to use, and cheaper to build in America. Much of it now rolled back, energy will be more expensive for everyone for the next 10 years. It’s a crisis.

This right here, this exact sentence, is THE problem in American political journalism. The IRA *was* cheap energy and good jobs! That was the whole bill! Democrats did precisely what political pundits are telling them to do and the pundits just ignore it.

Utterly bizarre to describe climate change policy as some kind of radical-left albatross. The IRA contained precisely the kind of 'kitchen table' programs everyone says Democrats should focus on — and they're popular! The problem was that Americans *didn't know* what the IRA was or who passed it.

And now I am back to being mad at Bill Gates for regular stuff: busted ass waterfall chart features

Conceptually, Thanksgiving is the best holiday- let's just take the day off and have a big meal. It's just a shame none of the foods involved are very good, except pie.

www.eenews.net/articles/mic... A particularly grim marker in the climate fight

www.nprillinois.org/government-p... Illinois passes bill that boosts battery storage and energy efficiency, and also lifts the moratorium on large nuclear reactors.

One of my small joys in life lately is watching how excited the dog gets to see the bus coming to drop off her boy.

If you take the time to read the whole Gates memo (which I did), the bulk of the content was mostly solid and encouraging. Really! It was the FRAME that was off--very off, from the first line. And when your framing is off, then how you make decisions and set priorities is off. THAT'S the problem.

www.politico.com/news/2025/10... "We are holding the food hostage until you also give up on the healthcare"

"The Diplomat" has extremely strange ideas of how likely it is for a career State Dept. employee to jump straight to VP.

This is the kind of blatant abuse of fiscal discretion that Charles I used during Personal Rule, when he tried to govern England as an absolute monarch without ever having to call parliament again. IOW, it's king shit & represents the most dangerous possible breach of the constitutional order

One thing I run into over and over again with an inquisitive 5yo is the Illusion of Explanatory Depth. I do petty well, I think, but you hit that "I just don't know, buddy" wall pretty fast. Most people can't even really draw a bicycle from memory. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illusio...

Trump admin: there is no link between autism and Tylenol use, but you should stop taking Tylenol. Also Trump admin.: there is a link between autism and tiny particle pollution, so we are rolling back health standards for it and increasing particle pollution. www.medpagetoday.com/neurology/au...

It's probably fine if he wants to focus his resources on global health, though when 1/5 of deaths are tied to fossil fuel pollution, and diseases are expanding their ranges, amd heatwave deaths are on the rise, you're going to have overlap.

This is the most consequential climate decision point on the table right now in the US, and I am somewhat frustrated that more people are not treating it that way.

Halloween is the number 1 day of the year by far for child pedestrian fatalities. A kid was killed in my town a few years back. Be safe out there (that goes double if you are the one driving).

Oh hey, a reason to be hopeful: groves of American chestnut trees have once again become self-reproducing in the wild. Turned off comments so 12 people don't show up to tell me why this is actually very sad. Be happy, you assholes.

Unsurprising, yet maddening. Especially given yet another study dropped yesterday connecting one of his obsessions with air pollution, specifically sulfates from fossil fuel combustion and ammonium. Maybe look into that. www.medpagetoday.com/neurology/au...

analyticalscience.wiley.com/content/news... On the other website, I had a thread going about new advanced imaging techniques that allowed us to see what individual atoms were up to. MIT figured out how to do this in certain settings with good old-fashioned optical microscopy, opening some new doors

www.utilitydive.com/news/new-yor... Blackouts might change minds here...

www.canarymedia.com/articles/geo... The Eavor pilot project for closed loop advanced geothermal in Gerestried, Germany is about to come online. It's quite small, but they are gaining learning and belive they are already competitive on heat delivery in Europe.

It's the beef.

Well, since this has gone more viral than expected: In the absence of my cunning plans, here's a resource to find food banks locally. Volunteer and contribute if you can, and don't be ashamed to get help if you need it. We're all in it together. www.feedingamerica.org/find-your-lo...

Great to see @washingtonpost.com cover cancer rates in the Corn Belt but nitrate pollution is mentioned as an aside while glyphosate is the "center of the controversy." This ignores reporting from @sentientmedia.org @investigatemidwest.bsky.social & others and research from... wapo.st/3Le1yXo

world-nuclear-news.org/articles/san... VC Summer might get a second shot at 2 AP1000's after an abandoned boondoggle in the 2010's, and TerraPower passes another milestone toward construction permit. Another review still pending for Dec 2025. interestingengineering.com/energy/terra...

Bragging, unprompted, about doing well on the "very hard" dementia tests kind of tells you all you need to know