Just so we are clear. There is nothing wrong with being trans or autistic. Don't give an inch on that

🤯🤯🤯 Trump: I think Ukraine, with the support of the European Union, is in a position to fight and WIN all of Ukraine back in its original form.

Even when it is not unbearably hot, I still run the heat pump. From 72% to 60% relative humidity in 30 minutes

Today, we launched the biggest thing that Project Drawdown has ever done -- the Drawdown Explorer. It is the world's *ultimate* guide to effective climate action. The latest data, the best science... brought down to actionable *here and now* recommendations.

Incredible! China is building 1.8 GW floating solar plant that will operate in July 2026. Cost is $2.2 billion. China plans 100 GW of floating solar by 2030! Petrostate politico heads explode. Truly incredible! www.pv-magazine.com/2025/09/22/c... #energysky

The reason to phase out fossil fuels is their emissions—not their "inefficiency" according to some arbitrary physics definition. Efficiency comparisons help us choose between different technologies for exploiting a *given* resource. Lower "efficiency" is not a reason to leave a resource unused. 🔌💡

Can anyone point me to a similar analysis of taxes that residential customers pay on retail electricity vs. retail natural gas in the US?

I have taken the Tylenol that was in the medicine cabinet and which they think probably is the reason you like trains forgive me but that’s bullshit you got autism from your dad

Interesting exchange between @jigarshahdc.bsky.social and @stephenlacey.bsky.social on latest Open Circuit episode w/ @charlesxhua.bsky.social 🔌💡 www.latitudemedia.com/news/open-ci...

Last week, New York DPS published an informative analysis on the current and projected costs of clean energy on utility bills, focused on programs approved by the Commission. Much to learn, but one finding is clean energy is not the chief driver of energy cost increases. 🧵 #EnergySky

This is what energy independence looks like. Solar, heat pumps, induction stoves, and electrified everything are how you achieve it!

⚡️ZOHRAN PULLS OUT OF ABC TOWN HALL IN SUPPORT OF KIMMEL: “The message it sends Americans is the first amendment is no longer a right that can be counted on… we cannot normalize these kinds of acts nor offenses.” www.amny.com/news/mamdani...

Would be nice to see the enthusiasm for SRM redirected toward methane abatement and urban heat island mitigation, neither of which are “magic bullets” like SRM, but both of which meaningfully complement the temporal and/or spatial scales of decarbonization benefits

“Eggs were the symbol of inflation in the last election. Now, as electricity bills spike, they are becoming a symbol for consumer frustration in 2026. Eighty million Americans are struggling to pay, four in five feel powerless, and politicians are scrambling for someone to blame."

"Solar power is longer the 'Whole Foods of energy — nice but pricey,' @billmckibben.bsky.social said. Instead, it’s become the 'Costco of power — cheap, available in bulk, and on the shelf ready to go,' he said." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/c... by @sachimulkey.bsky.social 🔌💡

TL;DR? It's because of this:

Hey #Greensky: if you don't already subscribe to Volts.wtf pod, get yourself over there & subscribe now. @volts.wtf is the pt. of overlap in the Venn diagram of #climate policy wonks, activists, energy, tech & business: he helps set the conversation across all of them. 🧵 below of some highlights.

currently at record-high search interest for canceling disney plus. pulling kimmel is a bigger deal to the company's bottom line than any of the "woke" scandals of the past 5 years. i think news & entertainment corp execs need put more work into understanding their audience, & get off twitter

In the Hudson Valley? Come to Vassar College to celebrate Sun Day, Sept. 21, 1:00 - 3:00. Come for a solar + EV powered musics, art, games, food and more!

“We have a choice to make about how we meet that increase in electricity demand,” report author from @rewiringamerica.bsky.social told me. The report says heat pumps, rooftop #solar and #batteries can meet 100% of projected data center electric load thru 2029. #energysky san.com/cc/rooftop-s...

Possible causes of your problems. It’s a diagram that (sadly) still seems relevant in 2025, so reposting a year and a bit on.

THE HYPOCRISY IS THE POINT!!

In the Hudson Valley? Come to Vassar College to celebrate Sun Day, Sept. 21, 1:00 - 3:00. Come for a solar + EV powered musics, art, games, food and more!

Join us on Sunday, September 21 from 1:00–3:00 p.m. for the Sun Day Festival on the Vassar Library Lawn! Celebrate the power of solar with an afternoon full of activities. For more info, visit bit.ly/46a1uQG.

Trump's tariffs and immigration crackdowns make food more expensive - but so do forest-killing biofuels mandates and the Everglades-killing sugar program. Democrats should be against all that stuff. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/12/o...

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...

🔌💡 #Greensky It's #PlayEnergetic day for my climate solutions class. Students are having so much fun! And they're learning a ton. Climate and energy educators: I can't recommend this game highly enough.

Live-posting #PlayEnergetic ! This is the 4th year I've had my climate solutions class play. The game gets so much so right - and it makes relations of decarbonization, affordability, grid reliability, community opinion, politics, policy intuitive in a way that all the readings in the world don't.

and a retired meteorologist shall lead us

There are like 3 of us and everyone yells at us but I'm gonna keep saying it: data centers are the test case and opportunity to get this shit right.

Jacobs must resign as chair of the NY Dem party if he cannot support what Dem voters have chosen. He should resign today, or continue to do very serious damage to the party. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/n...

🔌💡 The #ClimateTechAtlas is your guide to identifying the technologies that can accelerate decarbonization at scale. climatetechatlas.com Developed with contributions from Breakthrough, Elemental Impact, Energy Innovation, McKinsey Sustainability & Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability 👇

India has broken my graph. 30 GW of renewables added so far this year, ahead of 28.6 GW for all of 2024. robbieandrew.github.io/india

Data centers need a lot of juice — but we’ve got the power 🔋 Our new analysis shows that U.S. households could provide enough capacity to meet 100% of the projected electricity demand growth from data centers. Here's how (🧵): www.rewiringamerica.org/research/hom...

New report: hyperscalers could secure grid capacity at costs similar to building new gas power plants by paying for part of the upfront costs of electric upgrades, e.g. rooftop solar and storage, or heat pumps in homes with electric resistance heating. 🔌💡⚡ www.rewiringamerica.org/newsroom/pre...

Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.

Battery integrated heat pumps! Between this, Copper stoves, Pila Energy, V2H--we are seeing BTM #energystorage disintermediation and totally mee customer channels. (Which means every business is competing with every other business in this space...) Exciting times for innovation #energysky

🔌💡 I've been wondering who would do this first... didn't expect an incumbent OEM! Sounds like the goal is load-shifting rather than backup. (I'm guessing a big enough battery for winter backup would be cost-prohibitive?) @shreyassudhakar.com @kevinjkircher.com @energysmartwv.bsky.social

That new report is just incredible, can't wait to catch the episode

Ummm can I get a V2G rate for my EV too please?

🔌💡 #Greensky Hi All. I've written up some notes with links to resources for anyone who wants to understand and make the case for grid-scale batteries in their community, as we did in Poughkeepsie. Feel free to share. And for the many people on here who know more than me – please help me improve it.

🚨 NEW: Climate change is already causing 30,000 deaths per year - a global annual economic loss of $100-350B USD - but the true damage is probably 10x higher. Out TODAY in Nature Climate Change: the first systematic look at the science of "health impact attribution" 🔓 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🔌💡 This slide from the Electrotech deck is analogous to a point that @georgemonbiot.bsky.social makes: if alt proteins can displace the low-value parts of a cow used as ingredients, that raises the price at which meatpackers needs to sell high-value parts of cow in order to break even.

This is a direct result of EU's carbon tariffs. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Put another way: you don't have to have a cost-competitive replacement for steak or jet fuel in order to disrupt the economics of a cow or barrel of oil and so raise the price, and reduce the consumption, of steak/jet fuel. Maybe you can even raise the price enough to make alternatives competitive?

The crazy reduction in the material throughput of a post-fossil energy system is hard to convey. It's both less materials, and the materials play a fundamentally different role in the system. They don't flow through it once. They reside, maybe almost forever.

I wonder how much of this discrepancy in electrification of end uses is just due to much lower levels of car ownership / use.

Working my way through this @ember-energy.org slide deck. ember-energy.org/latest-insig... With 1.6 TW/yr of PV manufacturing capacity will it get harder to build new facilities that churn out cheaper, higher efficiency modules? Like trying to build renewables with no load growth? #EnergySky

🔌💡 This slide from the Electrotech deck is analogous to a point that @georgemonbiot.bsky.social makes: if alt proteins can displace the low-value parts of a cow used as ingredients, that raises the price at which meatpackers needs to sell high-value parts of cow in order to break even.

Can We Feed 10 Billion People Without Destroying the Planet? I tried to mix some pessimism about where we are with some optimism about where we could go in this @motherjones.com interview. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...