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Chris Nelder

@chrisnelder.bsky.social
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Creator and Host of: Transition Times and Nelder Notes: @TransitionTimes.bsky.social Energy Transition Show: @TransitionShow.bsky.social Energy writer/podcaster/analyst/speaker Home: www.ChrisNelder.com

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Zeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com · 30/09/2026
Details on the effects of the bill's major provisions:
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Chris Nelder @chrisnelder.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Very smart thinking here from the mid-transitionistas!
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Chris Nelder @chrisnelder.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
A fascinating thought experiment here - well worth the read for AI, energy, & macro watchers.
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Justin Mikulka @justinmikulka.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
“Any individual journalist you meet is likely to be a desperate soul tortured by dreams of literary fame while existing in a pit of freelance despair”
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Chris Nelder @chrisnelder.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The Arab Spring occurred against the backdrop of a major global food-price spike and resulted in the overthrow of four countries’ leaders. The unrest we’re seeing now against the backdrop of a major global fuel-price spike could spell the end for Trump and his oil-soaked allies.
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Chris Nelder @chrisnelder.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Thread! 1/ In a Guardian article yesterday, the CEO of Climate Group, organizer of NYC Climate Week, bemoans the “climate hushing” at the event and says “this is the time to be loud…The world is standing on the edge of the abyss, and people are seeking change.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘Planetary boundaries’ necessary for flourishing of life have been massively breached, scientists warn
New report shows key indicators of Earth’s health are ‘outside the safe operating space’ as climate disaster looms
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Chris Nelder @chrisnelder.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
US judge won't block transfer of wildlife refuge land to Musk’s SpaceX www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... The swap amounts to a gift of public lands to SpaceX, “clearing the way for bulldozers to tear into this wildlife refuge as soon as next week and turn a public treasure into a private payday”
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US judge declines to block transfer of wildlife refuge land to Musk’s SpaceX
Environmental groups vow to continue opposition to deal that would expand site for Elon Musk rocket company
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Chris Nelder @chrisnelder.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
How about that, the TV press pool covering the White House chose solidarity over access after all. www.politico.com/news/2026/09... “This follows the White House’s position preventing CNN from fulfilling its assigned pool duties. There will be no replacement pool put in place.”
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Major TV networks decline White House pool duties
The move comes after the Trump administration restricted access to the White House for CNN, MS NOW and POLITICO.
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Paul Barnfather @clanger9.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
This is the most inspirational clean energy messaging I've heard in years @chrisnelder.bsky.social People, we have work to do! www.transitiontimes.net/nn-9-organiz...
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NN#9: Organizing for Power
In NN#9, we welcome Steve McBee, founder of AMPED, “the political and cultural infrastructure the clean energy industry never built.” We discuss how the clean energy industry needs to organize to do battle with the fossil fuel industry and win on every level—from popular opinion to federal policy.
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Chris Nelder @chrisnelder.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Aw man. A true giant among sustainability champions. 😢
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Chris Nelder @chrisnelder.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I seriously struggle to get my head around the idea of a data center that costs over $66 BILLION to build. That’s like half the annual budget of NYC. epoch.ai/data/ai-data...
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OpenAI Stargate New Mexico | AI Data Centers
OpenAI Stargate New Mexico is an AI data center under construction with AI chips owned by Oracle and used by OpenAI. In Q4 2028, we project it to host an estimated 5,104k H100-equivalents of AI comput
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Chris Nelder @chrisnelder.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
As I say in this interview, I believe the job before Transitionistas now is entirely political—not technical, not economic. Political. And it's less about persuasion than leadership. Listen in and then get mobilized!
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Chris Nelder @chrisnelder.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The same guys who brought you a war that caused the highest gasoline prices on a Labor Day want you to know that it's YOUR fault for driving so much www.businessinsider.com/gas-prices-l... and that if the US pulled out of the war now it would CAUSE an energy crisis. www.cbsnews.com/live-updates...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/09/2026
Trump: "Please right your right hand. I pledge to the greatest president in the history of the United States. That loves us so much he can't even breath. That I will go out with my family, my friends, I'll do it any way - I don't care if I'm registered or not, I'm going to try to cheat like hell..."
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Chris Nelder @chrisnelder.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Energy Transition Show fans, please see the important announcement below. Then join me on my new platform as a free or paid subscriber to continue following my work: www.transitiontimes.net/subscribe/
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Chris Nelder @chrisnelder.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
[Now with correct math!] So the shorts earned at least $2.9bn more than the three companies did in the same period, combined.
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Chris Nelder @chrisnelder.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Call me crazy, but I feel like characterizing AfD's win in Germany as "No far-right party has controlled a German state since World War Two" rather understates the critical bit of historical context.
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Chris Nelder @chrisnelder.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
“EU Arctic Strategy,” you say… 🤔
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Chris Nelder @chrisnelder.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Some good tight messaging right here
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Chris Nelder @chrisnelder.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
“EU Arctic Strategy,” you say… 🤔
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Chris Nelder @chrisnelder.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Lots of good stuff here that you probably haven't seen elsewhere!
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Chris Nelder @chrisnelder.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
How to destroy the "full faith and credit" of the USD in two easy steps! 1) Threaten to stop trading with countries that buy your debt if the Fed doesn't lower interest rates. www.cnbc.com/2026/09/04/t... 2) Norway's SWF trims about $80bn from its UST portfolio. www.reuters.com/business/nor...
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Chris Nelder @chrisnelder.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Loser stuff thehill.com/policy/trans...
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Auto companies call for ban on Chinese-made cars
A group representing American automakers sent a letter Thursday to congressional leaders asking for a “permanent ban” on Chinese-made cars in the U.S. John Bozzella, the Alliance for Automotive Inn…
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Chris Nelder @chrisnelder.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Loser stuff thehill.com/policy/trans...
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Auto companies call for ban on Chinese-made cars
A group representing American automakers sent a letter Thursday to congressional leaders asking for a “permanent ban” on Chinese-made cars in the U.S. John Bozzella, the Alliance for Automotive Inn…
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Chris Nelder @chrisnelder.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
The voice of a generation. If you haven't checked out his YouTube channel, do. He's been pumping out good songs about whatever is happening every couple of days for years...
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Chris Nelder @chrisnelder.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
In @transitiontimes.bsky.social TT#15, I reviewed polling on data centers suggesting that data centers are seeing strong bipartisan resistance...and asked why Trump is using the federal government to build a massive gas plant for use by a private AI company. www.transitiontimes.net/tt-15-data-c...
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TT#15 – Data Center Emissions
Before Big Tech gets much farther along in their heedless pursuit of gas-powered data centers, we ought to have a proper public debate about whether having AI is worth throwing the climate under the b...
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Chris Nelder @chrisnelder.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Hearing that Trump is changing the name of the show to “Beat the Press” and it will just be televised flogging of journalists who say anything not flattering to him. thehill.com/homenews/med...
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Trump promises NBC’s Welker will be reported to FCC ‘for rebuke or punishment’
President Trump said Sunday that NBC News’s “Meet the Press” host Kristen Welker will be reported to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) after she reportedly said on the p…
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Chris Nelder @chrisnelder.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
As uber-environmentalist David Brower put it, "When they win, it’s forever: when we win, it’s merely a stay of execution. We’ve got to remain eternally vigilant."
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Chris Nelder @chrisnelder.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Yes, do, right here: www.transitiontimes.net/subscribe/ Why is Donald Trump going into business with the Japanese government to construct a single massive power plant on federal land to power a single data center that will be used by a private company?
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Chris Nelder @chrisnelder.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
A cautionary point Justin raises here about California gubernatorial hopeful Xavier Becerra's plan to borrow from Australia's "Solar Sharer" offer giving a few hours a day of free electricity: If the regulator isn't on the ball and the utilities hike rates elsewhere, it can RAISE prices overall!
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Justin Gerdes @justingerdes.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
"The public dialogue that we should be having about the trade-offs between the potential benefits of AI technology and the carbon emissions they create are not happening anywhere," writes @chrisnelder.bsky.social: www.transitiontimes.net/tt-15-data-c... via @transitiontimes.bsky.social 🔌💡
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TT#15 – Data Center Emissions
Before Big Tech gets much farther along in their heedless pursuit of gas-powered data centers, we ought to have a proper public debate about whether having AI is worth throwing the climate under the b...
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Chris Nelder @chrisnelder.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
The decision to worsen global warming by building the largest gas power plants on earth is one we should be making as a society after careful consideration, not one made over our objections by Big Tech billionaires and unscrupulous officials they have paid off.
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Ted Zukoski @tedzukoski.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Don't like EPA's terrible proposal? Here's something you can do about it. earthjustice.org/action/ai-da...
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AI data centers are trying to avoid accountability
Tell the EPA you oppose its proposed rule that would allow AI data centers’ backup generators to avoid clean air rules and keep communities in the dark.
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Justin Gerdes @justingerdes.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
ICYMI: Governments around the world, including fossil fuel exporters, are adding offshore wind to their grids. Donald Trump wants to kill the industry in the U.S. despite the toll on workers, the grid, and the economy: www.quittingcarbonmedia.com/the-world-is... via @quittingcarbon.bsky.social 🔌💡
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The world is embracing offshore wind power. Trump wants to smother the industry in the U.S. – no matter the costs.
Governments around the world, including fossil fuel exporters, are adding offshore wind to their grids. Donald Trump wants to kill the industry in the U.S. despite the toll on workers, the grid, and t...
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Chris Nelder @chrisnelder.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
My work is usually pre-scripted and strictly audio, so it was a fun change of pace to join my old friend and colleague Nick Hodge on his Bizarro World Podcast last week for an on-camera, totally unscripted, free-flowing conversation about all sorts of energy topics: www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqdS...
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Peak Oil to Peak Minerals: The Next Energy Crisis — Bizarro World 377
YouTube video by Bizarro World Podcast
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Chris Nelder @chrisnelder.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
The Ministry of Truth has been busy.
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Transition Times @transitiontimes.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
In TT#14, we review some recent reports and forecasts on battery storage deployments in the US, Australia, India, and China, and see how they’re helping to keep grids reliable even as they accommodate larger shares of variable wind and solar generation. www.transitiontimes.net/tt-14-boomin...
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TT#14 – Booming Batteries
The bulk of renewable energy and storage capacity added to the grid thus far has been from large, utility-scale systems. But the potential for smaller distributed energy resources (DERs) is enormous, ...
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Chris Nelder @chrisnelder.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
If you are utterly fed up with the craven sycophancy of American media, apparently unable to hold TFG to account for anything, please enjoy the incredibly refreshing newsman stylings of @jonathanpienews.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndkF...
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Trump The Peacemaker
YouTube video by Jonathan Pie
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Chris Nelder @chrisnelder.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
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Chris Nelder @chrisnelder.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
More precisely, friendly Republican regulators who are more than happy to get in on the data center grift and who are no friends to the energy transition, happily participating in (occasionally legal) open corruption.
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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Carl saw this coming
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David Burbach 🇺🇸 @dburbach.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
My god. Personally diverted 9 aircraft and a hot shot crew , as a start, for a 7 acre road accessible fire given everything else burning -- and this after slashing overall USFS fire fighting capacity by 1/3 or so.
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Chris Nelder @chrisnelder.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
If you've been checking out my new @transitiontimes.bsky.social platform but wishing I were still doing interviews... well here ya go, with the inestimable @gruberte.bsky.social!
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Chris Nelder @chrisnelder.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
If you've been checking out my new @transitiontimes.bsky.social platform but wishing I were still doing interviews... well here ya go, with the inestimable @gruberte.bsky.social!
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Chris Nelder @chrisnelder.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
I absolutely agree with George here. I started studying energy during the George W. Bush administration, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the fossil fuel industry. The progress we have made in the energy transition was unthinkable then. What happens next could defy all rational expectations. Chin up!
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Chris Nelder @chrisnelder.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Excellent curation here of the many recent successful efforts to stymie Trump's war on the energy transition. If you don't already subscribe to Justin's newsletter, you should!
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Chris Nelder @chrisnelder.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Reposting for those who may have missed this thread on my new platform and direction for my work. I invite all creators to send me their stuff, and all readers and listeners to follow my work at @transitiontimes.bsky.social by signing up right here: www.transitiontimes.net/subscribe/
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Trickcyclist 🦋🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺 @trickcyclist.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
If like me you are concerned for future generations due to the inevitable and accelerating changes to our global climate. This is and excellent account to follow.
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Transition Times @transitiontimes.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
In TT#13, we look at some exciting new policies designed to encourage the spread and integration of distributed energy resources (DERs) around the world. www.transitiontimes.net/tt-13-unlock...
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TT#13 – Unlocking DERs’ Potential
The bulk of renewable energy and storage capacity added to the grid thus far has been from large, utility-scale systems. But the potential for smaller distributed energy resources (DERs) is enormous, ...
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Chris Nelder @chrisnelder.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
I've been very touched by all the incredibly kind and generous responses to my announcement yesterday, especially this amazing tribute by my old friend @jigarshahdc.bsky.social. Thank you Jigar, you really warmed my heart! energyempirepodcast.substack.com/p/a-tribute-...
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A Tribute to Chris Nelder: The Energy Transition's Most Rigorous and Restless Chronicler
On the Occasion of the Retirement of the Energy Transition Show — 280 Episodes, a Decade of Straight Talk, and a Graduate Seminar I Needed
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