this is such a fun/exciting/important list... if you know any entrepreneurial or scientifically-minded people (esp. young people) trying to figure out what to devote their career to, this would be a good list to consult! kudos @energyinnovation.org thepowerline.substack.com/p/30-clean-t...

Vertical solar panels didn't decrease wheat yields at all. Although exposure to sunlight was decreased, wind protection seemed to make up for it. Everybody wins. techxplore.com/news/2025-09...

I'm writing something on why Canada develops megaprojects instead of innovation systems In 1957 staple theorist WT Easterbrook wrote Canada puts "a high premium on bigness in entrepreneurship" - that our capitalists seek security in gov't infrastructure projects. #cdnhist #cdnpoli #elbowsup

I see AI-generated text everywhere in academic writing. And it's making me a bit sad. It feels like all the argumentation is homogenized, and stylistically represents a consulting report (McKinsey style), with a lot of empty strawman arguments and other logical/intellectual blunders. #GenerativeAI

This is the primary contributor to the acceleration in global warming in recent years. Cutting air pollution saves lives and is unequivocally worth doing, but it is also driving about a quarter (~0.14C) of the approximately 0.5C warming the world has experienced between 2007 and 2024.

I have a new @nytimes.com guest essay w/ @davidkeith.bsky.social about sunlight reflection. We note its not a solution for climate change and at best a band aid to treat systems, and suggest if its ever done it should only be to replace the cooling from air pollution today:

You: clean energy policy should only aim to exactly internalize the marginal damages of the social cost of carbon using hyperbolic discounting across a range of time preferences. Me: we’re gonna built party lakes with tiki bars powered by geothermal energy.

Yes, farmers are mad about Trump’s farm policies. Yes, those policies suck. But it would be a huge mistake for Democrats to read stories like this and decide to pander even harder to farmers who will never vote for them. Pander to eaters! www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

this is such an immensely satisfying, morally clear read. The screenshot especially, but all of it. Kudos to Adam Tooze. adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-...

The world is on fire and the future in question but, small ray of sunshine: Solar-powered cars are coming next year. Yeah, you read that right. Imagine getting 10-40 miles a day of range from just parking your car someplace sunny. It's coming. www.wsj.com/business/ene...

Too perfect.

In retrospect, that analog signals work seems more bizarre & miraculous than digital.

Going to council today - motion #5 I’m really curious to see how this is received. The motion potentially up-zones almost all of the weathiest single detached properties in the city. Will be telling who is for/against.

Great new episode of UCLA Housing Voice podcast @shanedphillips.bsky.social, featuring @holz-bau.bsky.social on single-stairs & ecodistricts, and how they differ from TOD. Definitely worth the listen to learn more about these issues:

This is the first AI art I’ve ever seen that is actually funny / clever

What cities in North America have the best West African food???

As for the energy transition, here is chart showing how far we are along each scenario trajectory given historical data. It is not possible to tell yet which with certainty which scenario we are following. We could see linear growth from now on, or see another decade-plus of exponential growth. 🔌💡

Israel has committed genocide in Gaza, says UN inquiry

The capacity of solar & battery industry is really good news... From Ember's Electrotech Revolution report: ember-energy.org/latest-insig...

Finally, egress failure and smoke penetration are incredibly rare. Two times as many people die each year in LA County from car accidents than in the ENTIRE COUNTRY from apartment fires. And the vast majority of these deaths are in older buildings without fire sprinklers.

Wild. $2.8 Billion less money to fund climate action, never mind schools, hospitals, transit, or housing, and gas prices are the same as a year ago. $2.8 Billion taken from your public services, from your pocket, to boost the record profits of oil companies. Good work all around, folks.

“The coolest temperatures you will experience again” is probably more accurate…

Worth a read. www.noahpinion.blog/p/china-is-q...

excellent summary of the implication of a couple of reports on clean energy & China from Bill McKibben billmckibben.substack.com/p/a-tale-of-...

Thousands of women are sharing this and saying yes, this was their experience, many of them sharing their own horrific 70s, 80s, 90s, 00s experiences. (And almost everyone sharing it appears to be female.)

This message was crystal clear in early 20th century discussions of the income tax - the principled value of progressive taxation is that it retethers the wealthy to society.

Do I have to listen to this? Is it just gonna depress me? Maybe I should just work on decarb, be a good dad, do a bunch of push-ups, try to learn a bit of sparring to deter these losers if any try to come at me…

2/ The axis of petro-stupidity (editorializing my own) will be US, Saudi Arabia and Russia, and any others that double down on #fossilfuels.

Hey #polisci: we need more work like Gilman’s new FP piece: plausible scenarios of how world order is reorganized by climate, or more accurately, the shift from fossil to green assets. 🧵 foreignpolicy.com/2025/09/01/e...

A reasonable public, corporate and government understanding of where #CCS is working and where it’s not, how to improve this, is going to be critical in the coming decades. Our small contribution to this conversation @dralaaclimate.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Awesome thread

5. On average, countries that electrify their economies will grow faster over the next three decades. Even if they relied on imported electricity technologies.

this is such a wonderful list of takes. But what even is "capitalism"? If it is rapacious greed & a philosophy of prioritizing shareholder returns above social & environmental wellbeing... then yeah, less good. Is it a market economy? Markets often good (not for everything)!

We begged Korea for factory investments. Our visa system is too slow (and was shut down altogether for a while earlier this year) , so they used ESTA/B-1 workarounds. Now we're raiding the sites and halting the investments we wanted. 22 projects frozen. www.kedglobal.com/business-pol...

The current administration has claimed renewables are making the grid less reliable. If that were the case, I'd expect states adding the most renewables over the past decade to have the largest increase in outages. However, the opposite seems to be true!

“We should not have to live in a country where the government can seize anyone who looks Latino, speaks Spanish and appears to work a low wage job,” - Justice Sonia Sotomayor

🚗💸 #EV owners are paying 49% more for insurance than gas car drivers. That’s ~$4,058/year vs. $2,732. Here’s why — and the overlooked fix that could change the game. 🧵 🔌💡 #energysky #EVs #battchat 1/5

'a liberalism that builds'

How is it that these jackasses win elections??? (Oh right... electoral college, gerrymandering, 2 Senator per state, broken media... bah....)

Advanced, next-gen geothermal is very exciting and something I would be betting on. www.canarymedia.com/articles/geo...

The very serious natsec think tanks, columnists, & editorial boards basically said nothing this year when our own government threatened to annex Canada--our NATO ally and neighbor--Canada! It's insane, and career-ending. Everything is much worse than folks know-- BUT THE MASTHEADS COULD SAY SO.

Breaking: The value of China’s exports of clean energy technologies hit a new all-time record in July, passing the previous high from March 2023. China exported $18.4 bln worth of solar and wind power equipment, EVs and batteries during the month.

While the Trump administration tries to cancel offshore wind for "national security" reasons, here's the CEO of Ukraine's largest private energy company

As a Canadian, I would love to read more about the philosophies that prevail in China’s leadership & CCP. I’d like to learn about alignment & tensions with my interests, and those of other low to upper middle income people. And whether more free trade with China is good for us, even if…

Here’s something absent from parenting books: Cars are dangerous and they are everywhere. We’re car-free; walk/bike/transit in the city. It’s healthy for my kid; she gets a lot of exercise and at 2 aged can walk a couple miles at a time. But on so many streets, I’m very stressed…

I’m a strong believer in taxing the super wealthy at the ~80%+ marginal rates that prevailed in the 1950s, and otherwise creating more equal wealth & power… But Liebreich makes an important point. Arguments that that is somehow THE key for decarbonization are thin

This is why I always offer to buy a car for $0 when it’s just sitting there worthlessly stationary on the lot…

We’ve been bringing PDFs to a quote post fight.

God I just love this…

If your daytime prices spike, install solar. If your early evening prices spike, install batteries. Texas also lends itself to, overnight price spikes being satiated by wind. Now they just gotta keep their nuclear on, build more batteries, and keep the newer faster gas plants in place.