Great @jael.bsky.social story on the right-left pincer movement against data centers heatmap.news/energy/data-...

reposting because I love drama

always be testing your ads to find out that a relentless focus on cost of living can be effective for progressive candidates

great @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social piece on zohran: how the "proud ecosocialist" who said we needed to fight trump with renewables clammed up about climate change on the campaign trail heatmap.news/politics/zoh...

How Mikie Sherrill took New Jersey's high and rising electricity prices and turned it to her advantage heatmap.news/politics/mik...

what if texas could build data centers the same way it builds wind, solar, and batteries (ie with permissive interconnection but accepting the risk of curtailment) heatmap.news/energy/texas...

good morning new york city heatmap.news/ideas/zohran...

Falling down the rabbit hole of online estate sales and folks it is going great over here

In NYC, recess sometimes looks like preschoolers excitedly waiting for the Franklin Avenue Shuttle to pass underneath them.

dems have been having debates about "social issues" vs "economic issues" and how that interacts with class and education for my entire life, what i think is genuinely new is the prominence of climate change and the priortization gap on climate change between college+ dems and everyone else

I talked to an ex FERC chair who helped stiffarm Rick Perry's efforts to get FERC to write the rules he wanted, but now Neil Chatterjee thinks Secretary Wright will have a far easier time of it heatmap.news/energy/chatt...

"Hurricane Melissa has been astonishing to watch — even as someone who studies how these storms are impacted by a warming climate," @andrajgarner.bsky.social told @zeitlin.bsky.social. Here's more on the storm that is battering Jamaica — and astounding researchers:

This is funny – the argument against bike lanes used to be that they slow down emergency vehicles. Now that the lanes are wide and clear enough to accommodate them, it’s that the emergency vehicles will use the bike lanes to drive too fast brooklyneagle.com/articles/202...

Major scoop from @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social: Stardust Solutions, the Israeli geoengineering startup led by a team of Israeli physicists, just raised $60 million to develop the technology to artificially cool the planet by reflecting sunlight as soon as the 2030s. heatmap.news/climate-tech...

Scoop: A court ruling last week quietly derailed battery storage development in more than half of L.A. County after activists successfully sued to kill a 400 megawatt battery in a wildfire risk area @heatmap.news #greensky #energysky

lots of young people spent a year or more on the computer during covid and their minds are completely scrambled in all sorts of ways that will pay off strangely and badly for years to come

California condor range expanding into the Bay Area and Santa Cruz Mountains, further south into Santa Barbara County too. 🪶 www.mercurynews.com/2025/10/20/f...

Google plans to buy most of the power produced by the country’s first commercial carbon-capture natural gas plant in Decatur, Illinois, @zeitlin.bsky.social reports: heatmap.news/climate-tech...

GE Vernova talking about selling smaller, simpler gas turbines to power data centers as a stopgap before grid connection

i'm with zaslav here, anyone can be rich, but only one guy gets to sit behind jack warner's desk

yes, the new york times had no idea that trump was being shady in potentially approving settlements for himself and only included this quote out of a sense of false balance

when it comes to electricity, "new jersey governor" is actually pretty far down the org chart heatmap.news/energy/new-j...

one barrier to green energy i've found when talking to "normal people" is that they find arguments about embedded emissions in wind turbines and solar panels (as well as arguments about harms from mining etc) to be very compelling

Thanks so much to @emilypont.bsky.social for covering what might be the most underrated climate battlefield there is. As I say in the piece, in the Trump era, there is no clearer opportunity for state and local elected officials to make a tangible difference on climate than saving transit.

we used to have real politics in this country: progressive liberals, moderate republicans, and independent democratic socialists from white, liberal states with big rural populations could join together in a milk toast

Glad to have a safe haven like Bluesky sometimes. Have been getting harassed non-stop by bullies on Twitter for suggesting that so-called "adults" should grow up, and stop celebrating Halloween for two weeks straight.

Learned that an anonymous outside expert on submersibles did an interview with the OceanGate Titan investigation, and they released a transcript, with all the names redacted. The first line of his first answer? "I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic."

There is an old Chinese saying: "Either the East Wind prevails over the West Wind or the West Wind prevails over the East Wind." I believe it is characteristic of the situation today that the East Wind is prevailing over the West Wind heatmap.news/energy/china...

a decarbonized grid will have (will need!) long-duration energy storage, but can the market support it? heatmap.news/energy/long-...

Nothing more beautiful than some pre 1916, no setback, high FAR NYC housing stock

It's not a climate economics nobel, but Philippe Aghion has applied his insights about creative destruction to climate. Namely that climate policy should seek primarily to foster and induce technological innovation especially by firms that specialize in green technology heatmap.news/economy/nobe...

Modeling Monday: How clean are EVs, really? Short answer: it depends on the question. Attributional vs. consequential LCA, average vs. marginal, short- vs. long-run... the metric can flip the answer. 1/🧵

you may have heard that china is becoming an "electrostate" or that it's leading the world in decarbonization. but actual chinese economic policy is far more muddled and complex. essential piece from @jeremywallace.bsky.social heatmap.news/ideas/china-...

The new winners of the AI boom are two old-school Midwestern pipeline and equipment-makers: Caterpillar and Williams Companies. Here's the full story from @zeitlin.bsky.social

There's a turbine shortage. If you want to build a gas-fired power plant, it will be on the grid sometime around the first midterms of the Vance administration. So solar and batteries are the fastest power to deploy? Not so fast. There is another (kind of turbine) heatmap.news/energy/natur...

The case for renewables I hear all the time is something like "Ignore emissions, we can do this faster than gas" and that may be true about combined-cycle power plants, but it may be much less true with using cheap turbines behind the meter heatmap.news/energy/natur...

The #1 piece of advice that TransLink's CEO offers other North American transit agencies: Provide frequent service

if you're reading this it's too late musgrave.substack.com/p/a-post-lit...

Absolute banger of a blog post from Dallas Fed economist Anton Cheremukhin who estimates breakeven payrolls have fallen to *30k* thanks to rapid declines in population growth. www.dallasfed.org/research/eco...

Much like "crab", industrial music is constantly re-evolving from first principles basically anywhere where there's a bunch of metal and plastic laying about

part of california's climate and energy policy: more oil drilling in kern county heatmap.news/energy/calif...

California passed a huge climate package last month, w/ a big effort to weave in affordability. It's wonky but important stuff, and I broke it all down for you: - Cap & invest extension / rebrand - transmission accelerator - permission to join a Western RTO! more here heatmap.news/energy/calif...

i appreciate a good aggressive tv interview as much as the next guy, but is there any evidence the "british style" has led to a more informed public, more responsive politicians, more honest politicians, better policy results, etc etc

russ vought fucntions as as the boogeyman that trump and congressional republicans will just have to release should a prolonged shutdown occur heatmap.news/politics/rus...

today's newsletter: a consideration of the many wonderful cars in One Battle After Another, in particular Willa's 2005 Yaris, Sensei's T-Bird Super Coupe and Bob's boosted 1991 Nissan Sentra SE-R

Bluesky is a site explicitly founded by cryptocurrency libertarians with the idea that it would be a decentralized platform where users would be free to choose the open-source moderation and algorithmic feed tools they wanted, and by accident acquired a power userbase that hates all of those things.

Heatmap is hiring an intern for our newsroom! heatmap.news/heatmap-is-h...

@katienotopoulos.bsky.social hacked my phone and has threatening to publicize a private video. I am posting it here to show I’m not afraid of blackmail

listen to hear me "go off" on paul wellstone's academic work on transmission politics, the oil and gas industry feeling sorry for offshore wind developers, and what the hell is "gold-plating" anyway