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MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

In "The Carbon Wave," climate advocate @leahstokes.bsky.social chronicles the turbulent path of the largest climate law in American history alongside policy wonk Sonia Aggarwal in the White House, and DC insider Adrian Deveny in the Senate: lnkd.in/e_a34nCt

A copy of "The Carbon Wave: A Story of Democracy, Parenthood, and the Race to Protect Our Planet" by Leah C, Stoke on a white background. The cover features stylized waves in blues, purples, and greens.

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Emil Dimanchev @emildimanchev.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

These are all traits of terrible forecasters.

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Emil Dimanchev @emildimanchev.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Europe can build a lot of renewables without getting into grid issues. What’s also worth noting here is that private investors must have known this all along. That this hasn’t yet happened means there are barriers to investment beyond the grid.

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Kevin J. Kircher @kevinjkircher.com · 05/07/2026

Now that millions of electric vehicles have been on the road for a decade or more, we have the data to check in on how their batteries are holding up. Quite well, it turns out.

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EV Batteries Are Defying Expectations After Hundreds of Thousands of Miles

Industry experts think newfound knowledge of battery durability is a game-changer for consumer confidence in EVs.

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Emil Dimanchev @emildimanchev.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

This is a rather weird fourth. I fell in love with America, the country where it doesn’t matter where you are from. It saddens me how much we’ve regressed, but I also believe that that America as an idea is still alive.

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MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research @mitceepr.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Least-cost electrification plans have become more sophisticated. This working paper proposes an integrated regulatory–financial framework. Universal access becomes bankable when planning, regulation and financing are integrated. ceepr.link/4lc8Ysm

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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Famous authors asking you out

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Pete Sikora @petesikora.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

TODAY: New York City’s entire electric grid just got about 20% more renewable power. That’s because it’s the first day the CHPE transmission project is sending commercial power to New York City's electric grid. 👏👏👏 Lower prices! Less pollution! HUGE!

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Matt Burgess @matthewgburgess.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Hi everyone! I'm new to Bluesky. I'm an economist who studies growth, political polarization and the environment. Here are recent summaries of some of the things I'm working on: Long-run growth patterns and their implications: guidedcivicrevival.substack.com/p/regular-ec...

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Regular economic development patterns with seismic implications

Global economic development has progressed with several highly regular patterns for more than half a century. These patterns may change, but their implications deserve much more attention and respect.

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no brain, only alison @alisonborealis.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

A child on a bicycle on the sidewalk next to a gigantic pickup truck that's parked backed up to the sidewalk, wheels directly on the curb and tail and trailer hitch hanging over more than half the sidewalk. The child on their bike is shorter than the truck's closed tailgate.

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Emil Dimanchev @emildimanchev.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

As an American immigrant from Bulgaria, I thought I left this graft and corruption behind. Apparently not.

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Emil Dimanchev @emildimanchev.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Slightly diminish a book: As I Lay Drying

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Jonathan Buonocore @jjbuonocore.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

I was on a flight and I watched an interesting documentary about the Straight of Hormuz

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Emil Dimanchev @emildimanchev.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

“Nearly three-quarters of planned generation equipment for data centres is natural gas fired, according to energy research firm Cleanview, which is tracking 56GW of projects across the US.” ($) www.ft.com/content/b0f8...

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Can Big Tech deliver on Trump’s pledge to shield consumers from higher energy bills?

US president pushes data centre operators to build their own power supplies as AI demand adds to costs

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Emil Dimanchev @emildimanchev.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

It's being increasingly normalized for us all to be in someone's camera. Meta's glasses are trying to take that to an extreme. So this is worth highlighting: "Smart glasses from Meta turn you into a 'douchebag with a camera on your face'" www.ft.com/content/3039...

ft.com

Say no to a ‘camera on your face’, says Meta smart glasses rival

Shenzhen-based Even Realities pitches itself as a premium alternative that does not harvest user data

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Emil Dimanchev @emildimanchev.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

In response to Trump's War in Iran, the European Commission this week published a proposal to amend the EU's CO2 price. The problem is that the proposed changes are exactly backward: they degrade the long term CO2 price with little to nor relief in the short term. 🤦‍♂️ ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

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EU reinforces the stability and predictability of its carbon market

The Commission has today announced a first concrete measure to reinforce the European Union Emissions Trading System (EU ETS).

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Emil Dimanchev @emildimanchev.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Hear hear! ”Perhaps consuming a few dozen book pages a day should become the new 10,000 daily steps — a basic foundation of activity to maintain cognitive fitness.” www.nytimes.com/2026/03/27/o...

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Opinion | There’s a Good Reason You Can’t Concentrate

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Emil Dimanchev @emildimanchev.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Oh I know this one! Trump has always wanted his name attached to stuff right?

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Emil Dimanchev @emildimanchev.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

That men reading in public is vilified as "performative" is idiotic. Books are good y'all.

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Leo Hickman @leohickman.carbonbrief.org · 16/03/2026

Kier Starmer: "What gives us control is renewables. Our own home-grown energy which is then more secure and more independent. That’s why I think we should go further and faster on renewables. Let’s get control of our own energy…so we don’t have to keep worrying that our bills are going to go up"

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Emil Dimanchev @emildimanchev.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Electricity markets suffer from a missing market problem that is hindering decarbonization but remains poorly understood. So it's good to see this good non-academic read on the topic, and Australia is a good case study for understanding it better. inflectionpoints.work/articles/rew...

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Rewiring Incentives | Inflection Points

Australia’s National Electricity Market is a marvel of moment-to-moment operation. But it lacks the tools required to spur long-term energy growth.

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Emil Dimanchev @emildimanchev.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

As EU lawmakers are looking to soften the continent's CO2 price, it's worth remembering that policy makers can overcome political constraints by complementing CO2 pricing with subsidies without sacrificing much economic efficiency, as I and @knittelmit.bsky.social show here: doi.org/10.1016/j.en...

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Ken Caldeira @kencaldeira.com · 28/02/2026

"Our president will start a war with Iran because he has absolutely no ability to negotiate. He's weak and he's ineffective." -- Donald J. Trump (Nov. 2011) www.youtube.com/shorts/siIXY...

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Resurfaced clip shows Trump accusing Obama of wanting a war with Iran

YouTube video by The Independent

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Emil Dimanchev @emildimanchev.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Solar is cheap, exhibit 3,141,592,653.

A moving stairway leading to an airplane door in Trondheim, Norway. The stairway walls are covered with solar PV panels.

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Emil Dimanchev @emildimanchev.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Reason for hope: “The 2024 elections weren’t a tectonic social and cultural shift. They were not about rejecting the Enlightenment; they were a complaint about the cost of ground beef. Voters were not embracing patriarchal dictatorship“. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/o...

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Opinion | The Great Capitulation Is Over. What Will Take Its Place?

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John Smillie @johnsmillie42.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

www.visualcapitalist.com/mapped-what-... Love a good map

Map of US states and Canadian province, color coded by their largest source of electricity.

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Kevin J. Kircher @kevinjkircher.com · 04/02/2026

An important and underappreciated fact of electricity economics: The US average *wholesale* electricity price is ~5 c/kWh, or ~25% of the average *retail* price of ~19 c/kWh. The other ~75% of the electricity prices we pay is about poles, wires, transformers, generation capacity, and utility profit.

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Commercial Solar Guy @commercialsolarguy.com · 31/01/2026

‘Great Britain’s day-ahead wholesale prices in 2024 could have been up to 33 per cent higher had there been no large-scale wind capacity…around £83/MWh, but could have been as high as £121/MWh…has over 29 GW of operational wind capacity’

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British wind farms drive down day-ahead wholesale energy prices by almost a third in 2025

British wind farms helped limit the role of gas power plants in setting prices, cutting power prices by almost a third, according to new analysis.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

We’re just not a free country. Any American watching this play out between regime forces and journalists overseas would recognize it for what it is.

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Emil Dimanchev @emildimanchev.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Bring. Your. Own. New. Clean. Energy.

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Emil Dimanchev @emildimanchev.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

"Ultimately, failing to accurately price the chaos of a blackout prevents the very investments that could stop it — investments in resilience."

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Emil Dimanchev @emildimanchev.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

One heck of an image of ICE inhumanity from Wednesday last week in Minneapolis.

Photo showing ICE agents pepper spraying a subdued person pinned down by three other agents on a street in Minneapolis. Photo credit: Vincent Alban / The New York Times

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Emil Dimanchev @emildimanchev.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Good news about EV sales below. But bad news is that we are far off target given the current pace of vehicle turnover: This figure is from recent research by me and colleagues. Open access link below. #energysky

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Emil Dimanchev @emildimanchev.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

It will long be a vexing question for psychologists how everybody in the current WH and other ICE enablers will be able to look at themselves in the mirror one day.

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Emil Dimanchev @emildimanchev.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

As lies are being spread by the federal government about the murder of Alex Pretti by ICE, this is deeply troubling: “32 percent of Americans consider Mr. Trump to be honest and trustworthy, according to a survey this month by The Economist and YouGov.” 32%! www.nytimes.com/2026/01/25/u...

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For Trump, the Truth in Minneapolis Is What He Says It Is

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Dhyan @khalsafamily.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

"Of all the things at risk, the loss of an objective reality is perhaps the most dangerous. The death of truth is the ultimate victory of evil." - Mon Mothma Andor A Star Wars Story, S2

Mon Mothma delivering a speech to the Senate with a caption “"Of all the things at risk, the loss of an objective reality is perhaps the most dangerous. The death of truth is the ultimate victory of evil."

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Emil Dimanchev @emildimanchev.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Every ICE agent can (and should) be held accountable.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Alex Pretti was an ICU nurse serving veterans. He died trying to protect protestors being assaulted. A group of anonymous & masked men fired chemicals into his face, beat him, disarmed him, and shot him in broad daylight in front of witnesses. Then his government smeared him & defended his murder.

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 25/01/2026

The govt lying about the killing of a U.S. citizen at the hands of the state, is by itself, a front page a story, worthy of drumbeat coverage, resignations, and impeachments.

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

They murdered him in cold blood, and then they lied and called him a terrorist for trying to help his neighbours. They’ll do it to anyone.

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