If you’ve tracked lithium, EVs, AI, solar, China, batteries & renewables for two decades, nothing here is “unbelievable.” It’s the inevitable collision of S-curves, compounding trends and industrial scale. Not surprising — just timely. In truth, this is what the future has been signalling for years.

Wolf at sunrise

Maybe someone should tell Petey about this math…. 👇

Solar + wind growth is outpacing global demand growth by more than 5% through the 3rd quarter of this year. Add nuclear and clean energy is outpacing demand by 10% per this Canary Media graphic. Michael Liebreich showed what 3% growth over 40 years would do... 1/2

ERCOT demand is up 5% year-over-year & 23% since 2021 with nearly all of the demand growth being met by wind, solar & batteries, according to EIA. Solar has gone from a barely perceptible sliver to nearly 15% in only 4 years, with most of the growth in the last year. 1/2

From a crewmember on yesterday's Teal 74 mission into now-Category 5 Hurricane #Melissa. As clear of an eye as you will see in the Atlantic basin.

Good morning with good news: Why did global EV sales skyrocket 26% in 2025 for Jan-Sept, reaching 2.1 million sales in September? LEAF 2011 versus Leaf 2026 shows why: HUGE EV improvement with a 33% price drop. EV innovation also is just starting! cleantechnica.com/2025/10/25/t... #energysky

"Unvaccinated people with metastatic melanoma survived an average of 27 months; by the time data collection ended, vaccinated people had survived so long that the researchers couldn’t calculate an average survival time."

There are nearly 23 gigawatts of thermal plants offline for maintenance as Texas continues to have way above average heat. To pick up the slack, batteries are deploying for longer periods; they discharged over 3,000 megawatts for 2+ hours Tuesday evening. 1/2

M63 is a spiral galaxy located about 29 Mly away in the constellation Canes Venatici. Though classified as a spiral galaxy, invisible light its spiral arms are difficult to discern and it is often called a flocculent spiral as a result. #astronomy

34 people killed in 50 days. Their guilt or innocence unknown, for an alleged crime that doesn't carry a death sentence. That's a lot of death. adamisacson.com/boat-strikes/

From a new @thelancet.com article today entitled "Health care in the USA: money has become the mission" www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Over 40% of corn grown in Indiana is used to make ethanol that cars burn. One acre of corn yields about 16,500 vehicle-miles per year of ethanol, which sounds high until you realize that one acre of solar yields about 2,700,000 vehicle-miles per year: 16,000% more driving for a given plot of land.

The post-pandemic dip in gasoline consumption in California is pretty stunning

Solar power also continues to skyrocket in Texas, with solar generation up 45% compared to last year and setting a new record high!

Official data is in today, and America set a new record-high for solar power in July, with generation up 30% compared to last year!

Again, with the essential use of sibling controls, in a nationwide prospective study in Sweden of ~2.5 million children, no increased risk even with higher dose exposure jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... Let's talk about "gold standard science"

A new large study of alcohol intake using genetics (Mendelian randomization) finds a dose-response relationship for risk of dementia with no protective effect at low levels of intake ebm.bmj.com/content/earl...

The @washingtonpost.com story on Tylenol & autism leaves out a MAJOR 2.5M sibling-controlled study of children in Denmark, which "found no evidence that acetaminophen use during pregnancy was associated with children’s risk of autism, ADHD or intellectual disability." jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Happy September equinox 2025! Enjoy your week! 🌞 Understanding seasons - graphic shows the incoming solar radiation around the two equinoxes (sun passes over the equator)... Download this visualization at zacklabe.com/arctic-clima...

Big randomized trial of a GLP- pill (vs placebo) achieves significant weight loss www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

Today in Texas solar provided more than one-third of the power for 8 straight hours, peaking over 29,000 megawatts at 1:25 for the 3rd highest total ever. Last night, batteries set an all time record @ 7.3 gigawatts. Despite an 80 GW peak, prices have been <2.5c/kWh all day.

It took 68 years to build the first 1 TW of solar, just 2 years to add the second. At the current pace, we’re on a 1.5-year doubling curve: 4 TW by 2026, 8 TW by 2028, and 10–14 TW by 2030. Panels aren’t the limit anymore—BESS & lithium are. ⚡☀️🔋 #EnergyTransition #Solar #BESS #Lithium #LFP

A nasal spray reduced the risk of Covid infections in a double blind, placebo controlled randomized trial jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

NEW DATA: ANOTHER year and EVEN HIGHER installations☀️ Solar's rise is absolutely mindblowing🤯

#PPOD: A gigantic jet was photographed from the International Space Station by astronaut Nichole Ayers on 3 July 2025. Gigantic jets are transient luminous events (TLEs) that appear to initiate as an intracloud flash between the middle negative and upper positive charge regions in a thundercloud. 🧪

How much protein should you consume? erictopol.substack.com/p/our-preocc...

More evidence for the efficacy of GLP1s in HFpEF #jama - jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

The #1 cause of death in women is heart disease. A new report makes the case for treating women with statins who have a high inflammation marker (hs-CRP) but no traditional risk factors academic.oup.com/eurheartj/ad...

Many countries in Africa are now importing solar panels at scale.

Gliding in for a landing

More on the protective effect of estrogen open.substack.com/pub/erictopo...

Found out today that by using millisecond pulsars as your reference points, you can determine your position in the galaxy down to 7km or less, which is frankly a ridiculous degree of accuracy on the cosmic scale #PSETI2025

Adorable baby horse figuring out his new legs… 😊🥰 He is so fast now you see him now you don’t… ❤️

Could a metal ion supplement that cost pennies per day protect from Alzheimer's disease? erictopol.substack.com/p/lithium-an...

Heat index in Houston is 111. Air conditioning demand is high. Gas & coal plant outages are up sharply. But prices in Texas are the lowest in the country ($20/MWh). Why? Texas' nation leading solar resources are generating >30% of the power needed on peak. #txlege #txenergy

Global ICE sales peaked in 2016 at 80.47 million autos and fell to 62.05 million in 2024! They may fall below 50 million by 2028. EV sales were 1.8 million in June or ~21.6 million/yr. EV sales may be 30 million in 2028, pushing ICE below 50 million. ourworldindata.org/electric-car... #energysky

FMT might have a first line role in c. diff infection, and might be better at preventing recurrence # www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/...

The most majestic thing you will see on #bluesky today. 😇

The astonishing power of the Rubin Observatory--a tale in 4 pictures. This early-release image of the Virgo cluster shows 10 million galaxies. By the time Rubin's survey is over, it will have mapped 20 *billion* galaxies into a decade-long movie. (1/4) 🔭🧪 rubinobservatory.org/news/first-i...

Totalling around 120 hours of observing time, this is the longest the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has ever focused on a single target. The deep field aims to probe the Cosmic Dawn, when the Universe was only a few million years old. Read more 👉 www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed... 🔭 🧪 ☄️

The Perseverance rover also recently spotted an outbreak of dust devils on Mars. The Red Planet is cold, dry, harsh, inhospitable...but it sure is beautiful. 🧪🔭 photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA2...

Corgis have an extremely low center of gravity and the density of a dead star. PERFECT for skateboarding! 😇

NEW: #NASAWebb reveals a distant spiral galaxy perfectly aligned near the tip of Herbig-Haro 49/50—an outflow generated by a nearby still-forming star. This near- and mid-infrared image uncovers intricate details about how stars form: webbtelescope.pub/4iGQg9K 🔭 🧪

Today, I’d like to introduce you to a woman named La-tubashinni, who fought for her children in Babylon in October of 560 BCE.

Lights, camera, action! The world's largest digital camera has been installed at NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory! 🤩 The LSST Camera was the final major component of the observatory. With it in place, Rubin officially enters its final phase of testing!🔭 🔗: rubinobservatory.org/news/lsst-camera-installed

Blue Mars? 💙 A cool new near-infrared image of Mars and its smaller moon Deimos from @esa.int's Hera mission, taken as it flew past on its way to the asteroid moonlet Dimorphos. 🔭

This eagle has the BEST view omg

Good morning Blue Sky

More collaborative #Seestar S50 🔭 imaging by @astronomyedinburgh.bsky.social members me, Ramsay McIver and @neilem.bsky.social . This is 3.9 hours of 10s exposures on M51, stacked & post-processed in PixInsight. Hopefully more clear nights soon, so we can add to it! #astrophotography