newrepublic.com/article/2006... This is how democracy dies— not with a bang, but with a whimper.

This is what it looks like when ICE violates our First Amendment rights.

Last June, in Ep. 226, @oboylemm.bsky.social and I raised a red flag about Big Tech throwing the climate under the bus in their rush to procure power for their AI data centers. xenetwork.org/ets/episodes... They denied it then. They're not denying it anymore. bsky.app/profile/davi...

Tiffany Trump Cruised on an Oil Mogul’s Yacht as Her Father-in-Law Talked Oil Deals More deep investigative work from The NYT. Jo Becker reported from Istanbul and Paris; Tariq Panja from Tripoli, Libya; Bradley Hope from London; and Justin Scheck from Paris. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/w...

Last June, in Ep. 226, @oboylemm.bsky.social and I raised a red flag about Big Tech throwing the climate under the bus in their rush to procure power for their AI data centers. xenetwork.org/ets/episodes... They denied it then. They're not denying it anymore. bsky.app/profile/davi...

An evergreen question! As are the reasons why nuclear still isn’t growing. These “ideas” change nothing. The answer is still no.

I wonder if Jentleson et al. have noticed that the US is deep in the throes of a fascist takeover that demands a strong leftist response, or considered whether issues-based voters even exist anymore? Their whole approach sounds like it's from 20 years ago. Guys...we're not in that world anymore.

Good thread. As the O&G industry stokes its lie machine under Trump, it’s crucial to distinguish facts from propaganda.

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The reviews are rolling in and our audience agrees: Ep. 258 is really long. Long and fascinating! The kind of content you won’t find anywhere else. Stay tuned for our next place-based miniseries, which I am currently researching in South Africa. 🇿🇦

TFW your episodes are longer than Oppenheimer or Titanic.

Are you ready for our longest (3.5 hour) episode yet? If you love electricity grid regulation, you'll love this super geeky (Geek Rating 8) conclusion to our Alaska miniseries.

A fine example of why I have said that South Australia is at the cutting edge of leveraging DERs. 135% renewables on their grid today and paying customers to consume power. xenetwork.org/ets/episodes...

The US and UN today, ladies and gentlemen….

10 years ago: China is building a new coal plant every 3 days, why should the US make itself less competitive by transitioning to renewables? Today: One in four emerging economies (led by China) get more of their final energy from electricity than the US...and it's making them more competitive.

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H/t to <squints> environmental groups and the Miccosukee Tribe for getting Alligator Alcatraz shut down.

This was a fascinating microgrid unlike any other I have seen, which showed that wind, solar and batteries can provide lifesaving electricity and heat, even in the frozen north.

And now, journalism has nothing to say either. Our institutions have failed. The public is utterly rudderless in the face of a fascist coup.

And there it is: He now has his SS...

Excellent @liamdenning.bsky.social update on soaring grid power prices due to AI driving more capacity investment on the PJM www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti... 🎁 🔗 is the Q.E.D. to our @TransitionShow warning 15 months ago xenetwork.org/ets/episodes...

Of course the FF industry's minions and bankers claim that there isn't now and never will be an #energytransition. They've been saying that for decades. What troubles me is the Doomers like @natehagens.bsky.social peddling that line. Are they making common cause with the FF industry intentionally?

WOW. @marcelias.bsky.social goes off on the failures of legacy media: "We have an absolute collapse and failure by the institutions that have promised us that democracy would not die in darkness, that in fact, they stand for the proposition that democracy will die in plain sight of daylight."

I will for evermore referr to @chrisnelder.bsky.social as “the Taylor Swift of energy nerds”

The adamant elite refusal to call bullshit is a big part of How We Got Here. The prevailing cultural attitude for years is you must not, under any circumstances, treat anything as bad faith. You are obligated to find some reasonable idea and engage with that, even if you distort to get there.

It's very weird to be in Anchorage right now

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🚨🚨 LAGNIAPPE EDITION! 🚨🚨 This episode is free in its entirety to all, so please enjoy! It's a really inspiring story!

@andrewhickey.500songs.com Some sad Buck Owens news www.billboard.com/music/countr...

Fascinating observations on EVs from @davidfickling.bsky.social: - High adoption rates in developing countries - EVs pencil out unsubsidized - Oil & gas are ~1/3 of all imports to India & Pakistan - EVs could eliminate India's current account deficit www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti... 🎁 🔗

I do bloody love this chart. Who'd have thought, 20 years ago, that solar would be ~10% of world electricity generation by 2024 - and over 20% in some countries, rising rapidly in others? Definitely not me. When I started this job I hoped to be part of a solution for maybe 1% of global electricity.

Giles had it averaging 19.4% for 2024 (as of June 2024) here: reneweconomy.com.au/solar-hits-n...

👏 RT: @[email protected] Tucson City Council pulls plug on Amazon's Project Blue. Tucson city leaders unanimously voted to halt discussions with the developers of a massive planned data center and continue to implement a policy regulating such sites. tinyurl.com/4uhtny4m

Good piece outlining how Big Tech companies' carbon emissions are soaring due to the AI boom, but it overlooks a huge piece of the puzzle It's not just the energy use of AI hurting the planet, but the fact that many tech companies are selling AI to oil companies to help them drill more

Can't afford to support renewable energy in places like remote Alaska where people in poverty are desperate to swap millions of dollars a year in diesel fuel for cheap renewables, but no problem funding a nuke on the moon!

I maintain that the energy transition is the one force that's fast enough, powerful enough, and unstoppable enough to dislodge the petrostate die hards who form the core of the global reactionary movement.

Hm, looks like the branching of the threads caused a lot of people to miss the main points I was trying to share, so here's the bottom of the thread, scroll up from here...

Boosting this exchange for others who might be interested, since these issues keep coming up.

So you can still have some PBS, but you have to pay for it privately. All public dollars must now flow to billionaires.

This chart. Damn. And I've heard not a peep from the GOP lawmakers who went to all those ribbon cutting ceremonies at the factories. www.canarymedia.com/articles/cle... (chart by @danmccarthy.bsky.social)

Some people come to the Arctic Circle to fish, or see wildlife….

Huh. Turns out it's really easy to dismiss decades of careful scientific work on climate by thousands of researchers globally. You just need "an exercise in discretionary judgment!"

@35:12 @mikegrunwald.bsky.social quotes Tim Searchinger: "100 acres of corn grown for ethanol to generate the energy of a one acre solar array. So humanity would have to use 30% of its cropland to produce 2% of its energy. It just doesn't work." @timsearchinger.bsky.social @chrisnelder.bsky.social

🎙️What makes an effective and enduring green industrial policy? IIPP Prof @mazzucatom.bsky.social spoke to @chrisnelder.bsky.social from the @transitionshow.bsky.social on rethinking industrial strategies to support a sustainable energy transition. 🎧 Listen to the episode here: buff.ly/TfbGfN7

quite the contrary... www.utilitydive.com/news/data-ce...

I've heard many claims by various companies that they can smooth load spikes and moderate AI data center demand to be a beneficial sort of flexible load. I've seen no evidence that they actually do it. Nor any guarantees that they will. But if there is empirical evidence, I'd like to see it.

I was impressed enough with Australia's #energytransition progress to create a 6-part miniseries on it: www.energytransitionshow.com/Australia2024 Now climate change and energy minister Chris Bowen (see Ep. 246) has increased the capacity investment scheme by 25%!

One thing I really didn't appreciate until coming to Alaska and doing this interview is how much sheer logistical challenges dictate what you can and can't do here. Part 1 of 3 in a new miniseries on the land of the midnight sun!