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David Savage @dtsavage.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I look at enough projects that are stymied by county or township level permitting to think the benefits of the permitting bill in terms of easing development might be a bit overstated (or at least limited in geographic scope)

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David Savage @dtsavage.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Gabby Williams is the best French player in professional basketball.

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David Savage @dtsavage.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

SRAM Transmission should really be 345kV

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David Savage @dtsavage.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Been seeing a lot of mixed reviews on Digger. But what I really need to know is if it's a good movie for climate/energy people, general audience appeal is kinda irrelevant to me.

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David Savage @dtsavage.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I did some super cursory poking on exactly this question, and it looks like there's a few provisions: 20M/year for CEQ to disburse to agencies for training (sec. 1133) Minor expansion to FERC special hiring power (sec. 2241) Geothermal ombuds and permitting task force (sec. 2224)

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David Savage @dtsavage.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Whether lithium mining at rhyolite ridge causes tiehms buckwheat to be extinct in the wild is a single species conservation outcome question more so than a broader community level biodiversity question. But "biodiversity" is a convenient shorthand for that range of concerns.

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David Savage @dtsavage.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

There's a lot of different metrics for biodiversity out there, but the best framing in this particular context is probably "reduced extinction risk for species of conservation concern"

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David Savage @dtsavage.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The framing of "I really hope you succeed but I'd bet money that you won't" seems to be a hard one for people to accept.

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David Savage @dtsavage.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

2. How much improvement should we really expect from this package in areas where the bottleneck is often permitting at the township or county level rather than at the federal level

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David Savage @dtsavage.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

1. What is the message that the pro-permitting-reform coalition would like to send to people more focused on biodiversity or public lands who may be skeptical of the package and feel like they're being thrown under the bus

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David Savage @dtsavage.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

IDK I'd trust this guy to fix my jumper.

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David Savage @dtsavage.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

As somebody who used to work on biodiversity and now works on energy absolutely second this. And it's not like biodiversity orgs don't care about clean energy. Just look at Audubon's work on transmission for a really nice example.

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David Savage @dtsavage.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

But also Lance Stephenson famously *did* go after LeBron and it was incredibly funny. Real sports knowers would have used the correct analogy.

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LeBron James vs. Lance Stephenson NBA Staredown

ALT: LeBron James vs. Lance Stephenson NBA Staredown

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David Savage @dtsavage.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

People shouldn't be shocked that biodiversity and public lands organizations care about biodiversity and public lands even when climate is also nominally part of those organizations' portfolios.

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David Savage @dtsavage.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Needs to dye the stache in rainbow

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David Savage @dtsavage.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Absolutely wild collapse from the valks

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David Savage @dtsavage.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

If salt lake city can have light rail, Indianapolis can have light rail.

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David Savage @dtsavage.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

In a state with a vaguely functioning transit system (Utah)

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David Savage @dtsavage.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Unironically and with complete and absolute patriotism: LETS GO BRANDON

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David Savage @dtsavage.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

All you need is enough acceleration to safely get up to highway speed on the shortest uphill onramp you're likely to encounter in the wild. Any more than that is overkill.

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David Savage @dtsavage.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Got new headphones and immediately threw on The Inner Mounting Flame like a true dork.

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David Savage @dtsavage.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The Beer Mile should be an olympic sport. But every athlete who competes in it has to already be on their nation's team in a non-track&field sport.

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David Savage @dtsavage.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Steam is, unfortunately for this graphic, Purdue-coded.

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David Savage @dtsavage.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Absolutely love the demographics section, which just does not acknowledge that asexuality can exist.

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David Savage @dtsavage.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I'm sorry but avatar the last airbender is easily top ten

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David Savage @dtsavage.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Single issue voter on beaver reintroduction.

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David Savage @dtsavage.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

My jealousy of friends with covid mortgages has been damped significantly by being grateful I got in before this.

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David Savage @dtsavage.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Nyt should have me in their focus group so I can explain that the biggest problem facing the country is constantly declining ELCC as we chasing risk hours around the year.

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David Savage @dtsavage.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Even if we accept that's true for the sake of argument, that in 2036 data centers are carbon-neutral, that's still a decade of dozens of gigawatts worth of gas generation that they'd need to pay back in carbon terms.

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David Savage @dtsavage.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

It's pretty simple: the competition has been extremely weak. Choosin' Texas is a good song, but in a stronger year it wouldn't have stayed number one. Nothing more complicated than that.

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David Savage @dtsavage.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Love being almost right-hooked by a driver turning into their driveway despite my being in a curb-separated bike lane. You know, the thing that's supposed to be the safest possible option.

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Charles Pulliam-Moore @charlespulliam.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The Emma Frost x Miss Piggy comic has hit the internet and it's so, so, so much more magnificent than I ever could have hoped for

Emma Frost: "Emma Frost, darling. I'm a telepath. May I read your mind to ascertain if you're telling the truth?"

Miss Piggy: "But of course, darling I am an open book, a tell-all memoir."

Emma Frost telepathically witnessing the entirety of Miss Piggy's life.

Wolverine: "Frost? She legit?"
Emma Frost: "She's..She's... She's everything. And I would die for her."

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David Savage @dtsavage.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

It's good to see this argument articulated, but I'm seeing a lot more dollars discussed than tons. The key question is in what year if ever the carbon reductions AI supposedly enables begin to outweigh the cumulative emissions of the gas buildout to support it. heatmap.news/ideas/ai-cli...

heatmap.news

The Future Climate Benefits of AI Are Worth the Risks

An investor argues that climate tech should learn to stop worrying and love the robots.

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Kevin J. Kircher @kevinjkircher.com · 21/09/2026

One weird thing about energy/climate academia is how many people choose to do lots of unnecessary and harmful stuff (fly lots, eat lots of beef, drive fossil vehicles lots, etc.). I get that we need policy and system change, but also, doesn't this it undermine credibility after a point?

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David Savage @dtsavage.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Jokic would never. He'd be at a physical bookie three cigarettes before his horse races.

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Dr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The idea that "regenerative" grazing is a climate solution has really taken hold in some quarters. But the science is clear: It doesn't work. Methane and land-use emissions just overwhelm any soil carbon benefits. Here's a great piece by @nicholasdcarter.bsky.social drawdown.org/insights/eig...

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Eight reasons regenerative grazing can’t make beef climate-friendly

An influential regenerative grazing movement continues to grow. But here's why the science doesn't back up the purported climate benefits.

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David Savage @dtsavage.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

A lineage which I find especially interesting given the extent to which the modern EA/rationalist movement seems disinterested in any form of conservation work.

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David Savage @dtsavage.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

New Carly Rae Jepsen album is excellent.

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David Savage @dtsavage.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

There is a protected bike lane on Michigan right here. It's not enough to keep us safe.

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Danny Cullenward @ghgpolicy.org · 17/09/2026

The inimitable @mikegrunwald.bsky.social has an exceptionally well written oped on the disastrous proposal from the Greenhouse Gas Protocol to give companies carbon credit for cutting down trees.

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Opinion | The Latest Corporate Climate Ruse (Gift Article)

Making deforestation look climate-friendly will encourage a lot more deforestation.

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David Savage @dtsavage.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Disney princesses have elaborate wardrobes though, so isn't the real princess avasarala

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David Savage @dtsavage.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

People really need to work on their empathy mussels

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David Savage @dtsavage.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Gotta wonder how many vehicles on catalina overall run on diesel to begin with.

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