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Maybe this, but also maybe that. Honesty, kindness and hard work - the rest is negotiable. Oh. And bikes.

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New Scientist @newscientist.com · 17/06/2025
Your breathing patterns are unique to you - and could reveal a lot about your physical and mental health.
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How you breathe could reveal a lot about your health
Your breathing patterns are unique to you - and could be linked to your weight and mental health
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Kyle Williams @kylewwilliams.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
This podcast on advanced geothermal with @timlatimer.bsky.social from @volts.wtf is one of the most hopeful things I've heard/read in awhile: www.volts.wtf/p/catching-u... Distributed, non-polluting, proven tech, appeals to right- and left-leaning politicians, and room to run. Super cool stuff.
It's carbon-free energy
that employs people from the oil and gas
workforce. So, it's a just transition workforce story,
which is fantastic. It's a climate change story,
which is fantastic. You know what else it is? It uses
uniquely American innovation, domestic, the
drilling sector, which is really exciting.The chair of the Senate Energy
and Natural Resources Committee is Senator Mike
Lee from Utah, a very proud and principled
conservative. He will tell you that he is probably
one of the most outspoken people in the Senate in
terms of his diehard conservative principles. The
ranking member is Senator Martin Heinrich from
New
Mexico, who is very proud of his progressive
bona fides and proud to tell everybody that. You
look at where there is common ground for those
two people to overlap between the ranking
member and the chair of the Senate Energy and
Natural Resources Committee.
I can tell you
where it is. Sponsorship of the GEO
Act that they both co-sponsored in 2024 to drive
more incentives and streamlined permitting for
geothermal.And the key thing that made our geothermal work
was when you turn horizontally, you get access to
way more hot rock per well that you drill than a
vertical well.
And so, we were able to flow across a much larger
system of rock so we could get way higher flow
rates. Importantly, they could sustain at the same
temperature for a lot longer. So, we flow tested
that well. We were able to show that it could flow
at over 60 liters per second, which at that power
plant, operational efficiency means that our two-
well system could produce over three megawatts
of electricity. And that was more than double what
any other enhanced geothermal system
technology had done. And it was also, you know,
10 times higher than what I would say, the average
output of prior EGS attempts.It's probably conf
using whenever you start talking
about it because is it low emission or no emission?
Do we use some water or no water? There are just
all these questions. If you use an air-cooled system
that is an organic Rankine cycle, because all we do
with the geothermal brine is bring it up, run it
through a heat exchanger, and pump it back down,
it's a no-emission technology. And I think as we
scale, it's going to be more and more important
over time to be no emission, not just low emission.
Standardizing and driving innovation on a closed-
loop organic Rankine cycle system with air cooling
is a way where you can go and put those power
plants anywhere in the world, not worry about the
emissions, not worry about the water, and just go.
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blinddumbdeaf @fluffytufts.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
www.technologyreview.com/2025/03/12/1...
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This startup just hit a big milestone for green steel production
Boston Metal completed its first run of an industrial reactor that uses electricity to make steel.
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blinddumbdeaf @fluffytufts.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
thehill.com/policy/equil... The downside of geothermal remains elusive.
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Tyler Norris @tnorris.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
1/ 🚨New study alert!🚨 🔌💡 My DukeU colleagues and I just released a 1st-of-kind study on how the US grid could integrate up to 100 gigawatts of data centers w/out major new infrastructure, provided modest load flexibility (0.5%/yr). AI load growth can be managed faster, cheaper, & cleaner. 🧵👇
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Billy Bragg @billybragg.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Imagine you were the richest man in the world. You could have anything you wanted, go anywhere you wished, do whatever took you fancy. How would you spend your weekend? Depriving the poorest people in the world of food and healthcare and boasting about it?
Elon Musk tweet: We spent the wekend feeding USAID
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
“The Constitution did not imagine what we are seeing.” —Columbia law professor, in this rundown of Trump’s horrific lawlessness, 15 days in. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/u...
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Trump Brazenly Defies Laws in Escalating Executive Power Grab
In the radical opening weeks of his second term, President Trump has appeared to feel little constraint by any need to show respect for the rule of law.
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Kelly Hereid @kellyhereid.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
I know this figure got called out in the newsletter but it still amazes me every time I see it. My annotation is why I get so excited about geothermal - you have to understand what fracking did to fossil energy to really grasp the potential for clean energy.
US net energy exports - a net importer from 1973-2019, turned around at beginning of shale gas boom around 2008 to be a net exporter as of 2019.
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blinddumbdeaf @fluffytufts.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
The topic is fascinating. The passion around it even more so. www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/s...
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Scientists Who Found Mysterious 'Dark Oxygen' on the Ocean Floor Plan a New Expedition, Hoping to Settle Disputes
Last year, the team made headlines when it published a paper describing how metal lumps at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean seemed to produce oxygen without sunlight
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blinddumbdeaf @fluffytufts.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Last year Texas electricity demand grew by ~20,000GWh. Wind and Solar accommodated 99% of that growth. www.reuters.com/business/ene...
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Texas tops US states for renewable energy and battery capacity
Texas is dominating the development of renewable energy generation and battery capacity within the United States, and is estimated to have installed nearly 80% more combined solar, wind and battery capacity than the next largest state.
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Tim Latimer @timlatimer.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
1/In 2024, we have seen unprecedented energy demand as the grid has been swamped with new growth from AI and other sources. Historically, lack of funding has kept geothermal from being a serious solution. Today we take another step forward to close that gap. www.businesswire.com/news/home/20...
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Fervo Energy Secures Additional $255 Million Funding to Meet Unprecedented Energy Demand
Fervo Energy has secured $255 million in new funding and capital availability through both opportunistic corporate equity and new debt financing.
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The MCP @themcp.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Same thing.
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International Energy Agency @iea.org · 13/12/2024
Our report on The Future of Geothermal Energy is out now! 📢 It shows technology breakthroughs are unlocking geothermal energy’s vast potential in countries worldwide, but cost reductions are needed to drive a new generation of projects Read more ⬇️
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Pete Massie @petemassie.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
The Alberta Geological Survey has published the Geothermal Atlas of Alberta. It includes data on temperature, depth, fluids, pore volume, and other important features. Resource maps like this are critical to enable investment in resource development. 🔌💡 www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
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Alberta Geological Survey on LinkedIn: Geothermal Atlas Version 1
Explore Alberta’s regional geothermal energy potential with the Geothermal Atlas of Alberta! We are thrilled to announce the release of the Geothermal Atlas of…
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Energy Gang @theenergygang.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
The Trump administration hopes to hit the ground running in Jan, implementing rapid changes to the US government and economy. The LNG industry will be an important test case for its approach to energy. Our host @edcrooks.bsky.social discusses in his latest blog. #EnergySky #ClimateSky #GreenSky
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US LNG a test case for the Trump administration’s ambitions | Wood Mackenzie
The Trump administration hopes to hit the ground running in January, implementing rapid changes to the US government and economy. The LNG industry will be an important test case for its approach to en...
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Connie Schultz @connieschultz.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
I keep reading that this is a place for kinder people, but gentle souls have always been among us. We just couldn’t hear them anymore. Perhaps our gathering here is proof that we missed those voices. What a wonderful thing to believe about ourselves. It can be a bold move to choose kindness.
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
I gotta say that being able to play YouTube links in-app is amazing and it doesn't make me want to leave Bluesky, it makes me want to use it more. I cannot believe what we've been forced to tolerate by tech behemoths for so long in their desperation to prevent access to the rest of the internet.
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Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
A Brief History of The Art of Conversation is Dead 🧵
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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
🔊 Exciting news! The 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Scottish #DarkSky Observatory will live again! We were all so upset when it burnt to a cinder back in 2021, but yesterday we bought the land for its new home, deep within the Galloway Forest Dark Sky Park! 🧵1/3 🧪🔭 #astrophotography
In the forest: the smouldering wreckage of a completely gutted building  with a red fire truck parked nearby.  
Credit:  Ayrshire PostA wooden building with a telescope dome in the snowy hills at night.  Up above the sky is full of stars including the famous constellation of Orion.
Credit:  Dave Dubya, Scottish Dark Skies ObservatoryA building on fire at night with smoke billowing out and hot flames.
Credit: Danny Cameron
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Art Candee 🍿🥤 @artcandee.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Happy Thanksgiving to everyone who isn't Donald Trump or Diddy, who's in prison where Donald should be today.
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blinddumbdeaf @fluffytufts.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
My hope for Bluesky isn’t an environment free from people I disagree with. I yearn for more, not less disagreement. I want folks to tell me where I erred. I just don’t see much value in being disagreeable in the process.
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blinddumbdeaf @fluffytufts.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Felix and Oscar in domestic bliss: www.prnewswire.com/news-release...
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RWE and Peabody Partner to Develop Solar and Energy Storage Pipeline on Repurposed, Reclaimed Mine Lands
/PRNewswire/ -- RWE, a leading renewable energy company, and Peabody (NYSE: BTU) today announced a new partnership to strategically advance renewable energy...
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Judy Aldridge @atlantishome.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
This is my very spicey chihuahua Roman. He had to be sedated for x-rays at the vet and he is high AF. Otherwise he was okay.
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blinddumbdeaf @fluffytufts.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
oilprice.com/Energy/Energ... A “good bit of business” Interesting project and not modest.
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Ofgem Approves £2 Billion Subsea Cable to Slash UK Energy Bills | OilPrice.com
The UK government has approved a £2 billion subsea cable project to transport clean energy from North Sea wind farms, boosting energy security and reducing consumer bills.
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blinddumbdeaf @fluffytufts.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Glass half full? www.economist.com/interactive/...
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The energy transition will be much cheaper than you think
Most analysts overestimate energy demand and underestimate technological advances
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blinddumbdeaf @fluffytufts.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
www.bbc.com/future/artic... Plan long. Think big. Move fast.
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'A bullet train for power': China's ultra-high-voltage electricity grid
China produces more clean energy than any other country. Now it's rolling out an ultra-high-voltage grid to match – will its strategy of going big pay off?
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blinddumbdeaf @fluffytufts.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
www.instagram.com/reel/DB-HTif... In darkness the light shines brighter
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