HEY FRIENDS Two fun and goodnewsy pieces for @thepointau.bsky.social - grid-scale batteries are just over-performing when it comes to pushing fossil gas out of the grid 🥂🍾 Read: 1-> thepoint.com.au/explainers/2... 2-> thepoint.com.au/explainers/2... Watch -> www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FWq...

Pedocon theory just keeps being more correct as time passes.

This, sadly, is not surprising. Many examples of labor saving tech, which LLMs aren't but that's another story, tend to be used to increase productivity before they're applied to making people's work genuinely easier. Genuine labor saving requires meaningful input & real agency for end users.

“In 1986 the conservative Republican president Ronald Reagan issued an amnesty to undocumented immigrants. When the chaos and contradictions are too much, the best thing to do is wipe the slate clean. Congratulations, you're American now.” www.liberalcurrents.com/abolition-am...

I hadn't found a comprehensive(ish) roundup of Trump's attacks on the energy transition, so I decided to do an episode about it.

Check out my latest at @liberalcurrents.com on why public power is the best way to manage utilities, how the US could have it for less than half the price of Trump's tax cuts, and more! #EnergySky #ClimateSky #Greensky #EconSky

Doug Burgum is best understood as a man trying to thwart trains because he stands to gain from preserving the horse and buggy industry. The one place this metaphor falls short is his horses & buggies are killing the biosphere and holding back our society. #EnergySky #Greensky #Climate

Remember: Fascists & slavers always overreach for the same reason. Their refusal to see their targets & victims as humans causes them to underestimate their enemies, prioritize force over logistics, and ultimately pick fights they can't win. That doesn't mean the rest is easy, but so it goes.

“I think Greenland was a wake-up call. There is more talk [in Brussels] about replacing one dependency with another.” This is what I told the Wall Street Journal about Europe’s increasing dependence on US LNG following the end of Russian pipeline gas.

Future historians will be using this clip. I'm not sure what for, but I know they will be.

Abolishing ICE & the DHS before then prosecuting all those responsible is the moderate position.

Check out my latest at @liberalcurrents.com on why public power is the best way to manage utilities, how the US could have it for less than half the price of Trump's tax cuts, and more! #EnergySky #ClimateSky #Greensky #EconSky

Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude

Battery costs down 60% in two years!! The economics of solar plus storage are tough to beat. The "businessman president" doesn't seem to understand that here in America. Everyone else does. And solar wins.

Your regular reminder this guy cites an imaginary version of himself in his book to justify his tariff hawkishness and mass deportation will mostly make food, housing, & many other goods we take for granted more, rather than less, expensive. Here's a link where I explain that part more. #EconSky

It's the dead of winter, and California just supplied a peak of 117% of its demand with solar alone and 136% of its demand from WindWaterSolar and over 100% of demand for 6 hours. Gas output down 58% and batteries output up 303% in 2025 v '2023 Solar+batteries replacing gas

More precisely: solar and batteries can supply 90% of electricity for 80% of the world's population at less than 80 €/MWh (including a fuel backup) with 2030 assumptions. Add some wind, existing hydro, or wait a few more years for costs to decline, and the equation just gets better.

I feel like I'm losing my goddamnned mind. This op-ed was written by Kathrine Mangu-Ward. Katherine is editor-in-chief of Reason magazine. Reason fired @shikhadalmia.bsky.social for being too anti-Trump.

Global warming has cut incomes in the US by 12% since 2000, according to a study published in the journal PNAS “A lot of the real cost comes from how temperature changes across the whole country ripple through prices and trade"... theweek.com/environment/...

📍 NEW 📍Tech billionaires aren’t denying climate change outright — Instead, they pitch AI miracles and space escape plans to divert attention. Read Rei Takver’s new Q&A revealing this new climate denial playbook. buff.ly/TO4YnoO @rtakver.bsky.social

Do you live in the United States and enjoy drinking water? Ask your elected representatives to ensure your drinking water utility is climate resilient. There's a good chance the utility faces climate risks and they are not doing much about it.

This is an important excerpt from @gregsargent.bsky.social’s piece. More people still support Trump and ICE than I would like, but it’s true that Trump and co assumed the manosphere would be with them unanimously. And that’s not the case. newrepublic.com/article/2062...

I wrote about ways to bridge the gap between the national party and the civil resistance. newrepublic.com/post/206262/...

Yep. "But what about the NYT?" Essentially one family backed/ran that paper for its entire existence and they subsidized revenue moves (Games! Cooking! Wirecutter!) that have made it more self-sufficient in face of declining ad rates. Ditto the Atlantic.

Just thinking back to this moment

On 1 February 2026, batteries in CAISO never reached zero discharge rate while the sun was down, displacing gas and imports in California and supplying renewable electricity all night long. #energysky www.caiso.com/todays-outlo...

Who is antifa? Pretty much everyone it turns out

Despite recent reporting showing continued global interest in renewable energy expansion, right-wing media is baselessly suggesting that climate solutions are no longer relevant.

Possibly the best thing we can do (now) to cut emissions and energy bills is build more rooftop solar. My new paper in Climatic Change pins low deployment and racial inequality on high up-front costs: link.springer.com/article/10.1... And this @volts.wtf episode walks through how to fix that!

More of this please!

What about the data centers?

Today at school dismissal, I followed a suspicious pickup around for a bit, keeping an eye on them, trying to figure out if they were ICE. Then I realized they were keeping an eye on me also. Then I realized they were, in fact, other parents. Life in Minnesota, January 2026.

“Let us be clear: we want the power of the state. We wish to hold the criminals of the regime accountable. We wish to seize back the public funds looted by Trump and his cronies. We wish to undo the damage he has done to the government. More than any of that we wish to rebuild.”

One usually doesn't see it stated so plainly as this.

On one hand, this is an inspiring example of mutual aid in communities. On the other hand, this shouldn't even be necessary to begin with.

I have a radical proposal for every Democrat: What if, and I know this is a huge ask, you tried doing good things for people that are within your power to do?

More petro-politics in action. Adam Tooze's thesis on electro-states vs petro-states is unfolding in the political realm just as energy transition gains momentum. Watch for petro-tyrants to keep escalating such points of tension as they consolidate their positions. #EnergySky #ClimateSky #Greensky

think of all the college students who were disciplined or expelled for protesting genocide

Next time someone asks you about energy and land use, maybe remind them that the ~35 million acres that currently grow corn for ethanol in the US could produce ~15 PWh per year of electricity from solar photovoltaics. That's ~3.5 times more than *total annual generation from all US power plants*.

One of the biggest killers in the Nazi concentration camps was typhus so this, sadly, tracks.

Eh, the Allies knew while it was going on. Not all the details, for sure, but they certainly knew the general contours of Nazi genocidal plans and that they were being carried out.

A huge 89% majority of global people [56% even in the United States] want stronger action to fight the #ClimateCrisis, but mistakenly believe they’re in a minority. The “silent majority” for #ClimateAction needs to get loud. People want action. Smart cities need to go much further, much faster.

Just to reiterate: loads of academics have fully successful careers without ever having to suck up to pedophiles (or Nazis, or whatever) for money. I want to push back on the defeatest attitude that says this obsequiousness is required, because that's the surest way to make it *become* required.

Schools all over the city, public and private, are walking out today.

Happening now: Hundreds of students from Urban School of San Francisco walk out in protest of ICE.

"I will never forget this episode, the ugliest moment in the ugliest campaign of my lifetime. They attempted to spark what amounted to a pogrom in a small city, a city run by their own party, in a state run by their own party, and there were no consequences for it whatsoever."

"Most of the increase in peoples bills in the UK when it comes to electricity are from the added cost of gas, just over two thirds of the bill." - @janrosenow.bsky.social explains a new report by UK Energy Research Centre (UKERC) to @lbcnews.bsky.social