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Alex Turnbull @alexbhturnbull.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Absolutely not shocked @sierraclub.org trying to wreck permitting reform bill. The. worst.

Alex Turnbull @alexbhturnbull.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Back - twitter seems to have figured out I am male, white and straight and my feed is now completely insane stuff. This must be election related.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 16/09/2026

Just going to keep saying this - the fossil fuel crisis stopped being segmented and is now persistent and probably perpetual. The only way to protect yourself from this is to lobby your politicians to end reliance on this war-torn, unreliable, expensive fuel and switch to modern technology instead.

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Saudi Arabia shuts down key oil pipeline, blaming drones from Iraq

Riyadh has increased use of East-West pipeline since start of war on Iran to bypass closure of strait of Hormuz

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Alex Turnbull @alexbhturnbull.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

The voters yearn for not a centre left Joe Rogan, but a centre left Billy Butcher

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Alex Turnbull @alexbhturnbull.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

TFW you close the series A and feel no further need to have a presence at the bad place.

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

In the midst of an awful lot of ever-so-sophisticated equivocating and oh-so-thoughtful-chin-stroking and too-clever-by-half-over-thinking, I just want to say, simply and unequivocally and for the record: The Resistance Libs Were Right.

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Felix Hamer • electricfelix @electricfelix.eurosky.social · 28/08/2026

@alexbhturnbull.bsky.social: "The copper bear case is always human invention - amazing jumps in power density (kW/L) which maps very closely to reduced copper content. In this case, about a 75% cut in copper per kW of charger." x.com/alexbhturnbu...

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Jorrit Gosens @jorritgosens.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

These maritime chokepoints do create geographical separation of regional markets, with costs and revenues rising or falling for different importers and exporters in different regions.

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Jorrit Gosens @jorritgosens.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

The overall effects on prices are remarkably small, less than 0.5 $/t in most scenarios. In case of a disruption to traffic in the South and East China seas, China could become reliant on domestic and rail-borne imports from Mongolia and Russia at an increase in costs of about 10 $/t.

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Jorrit Gosens @jorritgosens.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Our analysis shows global coal markets are resilient to such maritime chokepoints. Trade flows are readily re-directed. In case of restrictions to the Panama Canal, Colombian exports of thermal coal originally bound for Japan are redirected to Europe, whilst Japan increases supplies from Indonesia

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Jorrit Gosens @jorritgosens.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

There are more relevant chokepoints. The Panama Canal has seen restrictions due drought, the Suez Canal was blocked, there's militant groups in the Bab al-Mandab Strait, and the Black Sea is an active warzone. The Malacca Strait, the Taiwan Strait, and the South China Sea may be future chokepoints

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Jorrit Gosens @jorritgosens.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

The Hormuz Strait crisis and its effect on energy prices has been making headlines for months now. We’ve analysed what maritime chokepoints could do to global trade in coal. Pre-print here: arxiv.org/pdf/2608.00328 With @alexbhturnbull.bsky.social & @frankjotzo.bsky.social .

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Alex Turnbull @alexbhturnbull.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

So how long will it take the DC blob complex to accept: - US lost with Iran - Iran still sucks - The only way to pay them less is to use less oil and LNG from them AND - Build diversion pipelines etc ?? This is hard because green left hates all pipelines, and blob takes a lot of oil money.

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Jenny Chase @solarchase.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Seems worth bookmarking if you want to know about vehicle registration data by type (and who doesn't?)

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Dr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

I especially love this diagram.

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Mike Zaccardi, CFA, CMT @mikezaccardi.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Closed Strait of Hormuz? Doesn't seem like it.

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Dave Osmond @davidosmond.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

A milestone achieved on Australia's main electricity grid, the NEM. Energy discharged from utility batteries over the last 12 months now exceeds generation from peaking (OCGT) gas turbines. Those who thought batteries would only provide ancillary services now looking foolish.

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Alex Turnbull @alexbhturnbull.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

I am sort of surprised passive atmospheric window cooling tech has not come up at all in data center world - what gives? This is what I am talking about: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passive... #EnergySky

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Passive daytime radiative cooling - Wikipedia

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Possum @pollytics.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Tony Abbott has always been a man dedicated to the scoreboard. Lost his Prime Ministership, then lost his seat, now apparently wants to lose the entire Liberal Party. Have to admire the |absolute value| of the dedication, regardless of its direction

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Alex Turnbull @alexbhturnbull.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Only thing that could make Talarico more relatable is if a fantasy football group chat leaks where he is around a few people with a cancellable sense of humour / reddit memesband is not a douche about it.

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esouthard @esouthard.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

(TALARICO, talking through a mouth entirely full of brisket): sorry babe it’s for work

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Alex Turnbull @alexbhturnbull.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Talarico being a multi generational Texan white guy dating a hot Latina who is vegan and has a lot of loud gay friends is one of the most normie straight relatable things I have ever seen. Does not hurt he is running against the Saul Goodman for pedophiles.

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Alex Turnbull @alexbhturnbull.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

It will be simultaneously not normal, cringe and incredible content.🍿

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Jake Lahut @jakelahut.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Already?! C’mon, the party barely got started

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zatapatique @zatapatique.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

quiz: Bond villain or character who appears at the 43' mark in Lost Highway in a single scene that will make you have nightmares for the next three decades

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Alex Turnbull @alexbhturnbull.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

To see Blair as anything other than a filter for what the Gulf and Ellison wants is a mistake.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 24/05/2026

In chemistry, a supersaturated solution is one where you've kept adding a solute to a liquid beyond where the liquid can dissolve everything. All it takes is a nucleation site / seed crystal for the solution to rapidly (sometimes violently) crystalize. Unrelatedly, the US has more guns than people.

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Alex Turnbull @alexbhturnbull.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

EA thought goes wrong without a well calibrated reward discount rate which is a lot like reinforcement learning or economics. Its weirdly non-revolutionary and basic utilitarianism which somehow captured some otherwise very smart people with basic ideas.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

ICYMI, new piece/thread from me:

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Rob Cyran @robcyran.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

It’s so ofd. My brother had a lot of patients that were unable to get hip or knee transplants because their obesity made surgery too dangerous. Now they qualify after taking GLP-1s, get transplants, and can walk again. And people are mad about that? WTF?

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

now that is an incredible quote "The U.S. has depleted much of its inventory of advanced missile-defense interceptors after expending far more high-end munitions defending Israel than Israeli forces used themselves"

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Just Kevin @kevinleecaster.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Reducing the energy needs for LLMs should be a much more important priority than it seems to be imho.

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Alex Turnbull @alexbhturnbull.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

A few years ago I did the LLM inference math on how much power we would use and I did not like what I saw. Scaling LLM based AI would use a lot of power, create a lot of emissions and it seemed wholly unclear how that would work with the climate. #EnergySky www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qph-...

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How We Built AI Inference Chips That Use 100x Less Energy

YouTube video by Opticore

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 20/05/2026

Massie, and Cassidy, will now enter the land of freedom to do what you want. It’s a wonderful land of milk and honey. And telling Trump to eat balls is the best part of it

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Robert Merkel @rgmerk.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

@alexbhturnbull.bsky.social has the receipts: batteries *are reducing power prices* in Australia in absolute terms, in a world where the Middle East is making gas more expensive. open.substack.com/pub/syncreti...

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Read 'Em and Weep: Australian Power Edition

batteries and renewables make prices go down in practice and theory

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Margaret Morgan 🇪🇺🇳🇱🇦🇺 @margaretmorgan.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Given he's now got Senior Statesman™ status, I can see the desperate Libs seeing this as a masterstroke and carrying him in on a sedan chair with rose petals strewn in his path. (And after all, now Orbán's gone, Tones' got a bit of time on his hands.) *sigh*

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alex williams @atwilliams.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

still can't believe larry summers called this one in like 2023, before trump was even re-elected to do the oil shock. now thats real foresight, like how yield curves predicted the pandemic

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Matt Schrader @mattschrader.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Super exciting stuff. Computing with light! Can't wait to see this tech roll out

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Alex Turnbull @alexbhturnbull.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Datacenters don't get a lot of love here for obvious reasons. Power, water (due to power) are the main reasons. Opticore has figured out how to get around those issues using light to do the linear algebra underlying LLMs. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PRa...

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We Built AI Inference That's Faster and Uses 100x Less Power

YouTube video by Opticore

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

At Polycrisis 2023 panel, @alexbhturnbull.bsky.social explained enormous stockpiling of oil that China had done (its size was deliberately kept obscure) and how it was a major swing provider to oil markets - demand then, and supply now... @katemac.bsky.social www.phenomenalworld.org/interviews/o...

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Nick Timiraos @nicktimiraos.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Or as former NY Fed president Bill Dudley put it to me, “This is the Trump administration once again not thinking through the consequences of their actions and assuming that their targets don’t have any ability to respond.”

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