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William Lawrence @wewill2026.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
There's so much good stuff we need to build: Housing, Schools, Vehicles and Transit Infrastructure. But data centers are sucking up all the available capital investment and crowding out everything else. It's time to reevaluate our national priorities.
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Josh Lappen @jlappen1.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This one's a cri de coeur from @gruberte.bsky.social, @jmijin.bsky.social, and I: The coal sector's decline has created strong empirical evidence about how energy transitions play out, but most decarb scholarship and policymaking ignore it. That has to change. www.tandfonline.com/eprint/DJ88Z...
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How to Save the Energy Transition: What Coal Scholars Can See Coming, and What to Do About It
The energy transition requires rapid, coordinated retirement of essentially all fossil fuel infrastructure with careful attention to impacts on workers and affected communities. Experience with the...
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Josh Lappen @jlappen1.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Airport expansion isn't just counterproductive domestic energy policy - increasingly, it's an attempt by the oil industry to prop up future demand!
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Leo Hickman @leohickman.carbonbrief.org · 22/06/2026
After 18 months of R&D with a team of specialist academics, I'm VERY excited to say that @carbonbrief.org has just launched 'Project Cosmos'... ...the world's largest database of climate research Our hope is this becomes a major new resource interactive.carbonbrief.org/cosmos/index...
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Project Cosmos – the world’s largest database of climate change research
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
for reference and comparison: conservatively, the United States spent two-thirds of that figure in the *first week* of the war on Iran. it's genuinely difficult to overstate how many world-historical own goals US politics has accumulated over the past few decades
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Daniel Aldana Cohen @aldasky.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
It’s a dream come true to see our think tank @cplusc.bsky.social profiled in the Guardian! I’m so grateful to the brilliant @dharna.bsky.social for laying out our working class climate agenda. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
theguardian.com
As household bills soar, is it time for a ‘working-class climate agenda’?
Proposal from group that worked with AOC and Bernie Sanders seeks to counter claim that climate policy is politically toxic
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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Can never get over how tawdry the modern Right's view of Western Civilization is; nothing to build, nothing to aspire to, nothing even really to destroy or wage war against, just sullen resentment of their own children and seething hatred of the cities whose economics subsidies their regimes.
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Josh Sutphin @joshsutphin.com · 12/04/2026
What the fuck are we *doing* here?
Philosopher Derek Shiller develops this perspective in arguing that

...our resources are finite, and the same resources that might allow human beings to live ... could be more effectively spent on creating and sustaining artificial creatures. When that becomes the case, the beneficent thing to do is to choose that our children be artificial, rather than natural.

He concludes that we should then "engineer our extinction so that our planet's resources can be devoted to making artificial creatures with better lives."
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guybrod.bsky.social @guybrod.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Fun and terrifying thing to learn from a Dallas Fed post about the blockage of the strait of Hormuz: the 1973 oil price shock was caused by what was roughly 6% of global oil supply!!! What's affected today is 20% of global supply, and 25% of shipped oil trade.
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guybrod.bsky.social @guybrod.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Underrated aspect of a wealth tax or any sort of jail time for ultra wealthy criminals is it would be probably be a very low cost form of emissions reduction
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advait @advaitarun.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
For this reason, the folks at @cplusc.bsky.social were entirely correct to say that we should use public programs for high speed rail and dense new housing to backstop a market for green steel
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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Gas prices up by around 50% today. A painful reminder that relying on imported fossil fuels is a risky strategy.
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guybrod.bsky.social @guybrod.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
It's been exciting but to see VPPs with Resi resources take off across the US UK and EU, with startups being formed to develop and provide that really cheap and valuable grid service. It's hard (or wrong?) to compare it to Peak Perks in ON, which is huge & Resi but compensated by two gift cards?
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Brad Reed @brad-reed.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
A California agency received 20k AI-generated comments opposing heat pump rules. Staff called a sample to verify—several said they never sent comments. Raises serious questions about the opposition campaign that helped kill the clean air standards, that would've prevented 1000s of premature deaths.
latimes.com
Southern California air board rejected pollution rules after AI-generated flood of comments
SoCal’s pollution authority scrapped a plan to phase out gas-powered appliances after receiving more than 20,000 emails sent by an AI-powered platform called CiviClick.
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guybrod.bsky.social @guybrod.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
This is gonna be so good
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Jim Stanford @jimbostanford.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Somebody had to say it: doubling down on fossil fuels while the global energy transition continues (Trump can't stop it) is like investing in Blockbuster just as Netflix arrived. Great stuff here from UBC's @mk49.bsky.social & David Boyd: calgaryherald.com/opinion/colu... #cdnecon
calgaryherald.com
Opinion: Alberta’s oil economy has 10 years before electric takes over. It’s time to invest in the future.
Alberta’s oil economy has 10 years before electric takes over. It’s time to invest in the future.
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CCPA — Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives @policyalternatives.ca · 14/01/2026
A public grocery network across Canada could save families approximately 30-45% off their grocery bill, depending on where they live—and would only cost a reasonable amount to set up. By @avansi.bsky.social @grocerynerd.bsky.social Raj Patel Anna Paskal www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...
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How public grocery stores could work in Canada - CCPA
Chances are you spent some of your holiday gatherings talking about the price of food. Costs to consumers have increased by almost 30 per cent since 2020, while mega-grocers doubled their profit margi...
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 09/01/2026
Today on Volts: "closed-loop" geothermal energy digs deeper than conventional geothermal & does not require natural hotspots, so it can be done anywhere. I talk with Eavor, a cutting-edge Canadian startup that has just opened its first closed-loop facility in Germany, about the possibilities.
volts.wtf
What's the deal with closed-loop geothermal?
I talk to Eavor’s Jeanine Vany and Mark Fitzgerald about the engineering breakthroughs that could finally make geothermal geography-agnostic.
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guybrod.bsky.social @guybrod.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Pretty incredible gem from this great roundup of indicators on building electrification in the US: 14 US states have legislation (multiple in most cases) supporting Thermal Energy Networks (district heating and the like)! Many are just from the past couple years. www.canarymedia.com/articles/car...
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Ryan Katz-Rosene, PhD @ryankatzrosene.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
I've added 2025 to this ridiculous chart
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
finally started Pluribus. many thoughts, chief among which is: find you somebody that loves you like Vince Gilligan loves Albuquerque
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guybrod.bsky.social @guybrod.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
Currently on the TTC subway heading north, annoyed that viarail was late enough that I missed the gotrain that would have been quicker, but if that didn't happen I wouldn't have been able to hear the clear, understandable announcement on the subway!! First time in how many years, it's pretty wild.
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Colin Kinniburgh @colinreports.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
⚠️ It’s official! New York has repealed the “100-foot rule” subsidy for new gas hookups, joining five other states that have ended similar subsidies. Statement from Hochul:
 GOVERNOR HOCHUL SIGNS LEGISLATION TO ELIMINATE UNFAIR UTILITY SUBSIDY THAT PASSES THE BUCK FOR NEW RESIDENTIAL GAS HOOKUPS TO ALL CUSTOMERS

 

Legislation S.8417/A.8888 Will Do Away With Outdated 100-Foot Rule for Natural Gas Hookups That Cost New Yorkers Hundreds of Millions of Dollars Each Year

 

 

Governor Kathy Hochul today signed legislation to eliminate the “100-foot-rule” for new natural gas hookups that costs New Yorkers hundreds of millions of dollars a year.

 

“It’s simply unfair, especially when so many people are struggling right now, to expect existing utility ratepayers to foot the bill for a gas hookup at a brand new house that is not their own,” Governor Hochul said. “I have made affordability a top priority and doing away with this 40-year-old subsidy that has outlived its purpose will help with that.”

 

Each year, New Yorkers spend hundreds of millions of dollars on connecting new homes to the gas system. Currently, all existing ratepayers of a utility subsidize the first 100 feet of new gas lines. Under legislation S.8417/A.8888 signed by Governor Hochul, new applicants must pay 100 percent of the material and installation costs for gas service, as opposed to other ratepayers.

 

State Senator Liz Krueger said, “Kathy Hochul just gave New Yorkers a $600 million Christmas present by signing our bill to repeal the 100-foot rule. This is a massive win for New York’s gas customers, and for clean air and a livable climate. In recent years the 100-ft rule has forced all ratepayers to subsidize gas hookups for new customers and a tidy profit for utility shareholders, at a cost of $600 million every year, which compounds many times as it is paid off on gas bills for years down the road. That burden on New Yorkers will now be lifted.”

 

Assemblymember Jo Anne Simon said, “This is a victory for hard-working New Yorkers, our wallets, and our climate. Utility companies have had a blank check to expand polluting gas infrastructure and pass those co…
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Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 19/12/2025
this is a good reminder of how things that are shitty but have been accepted as normal and inevitable can actually turn out to be abnormal and evitable with some science, time, education and political will
reddit post from a presumably young person who watched sex and the city and couldn’t get over how much people smoked indoors. “wouldn’t everything smell bad?” they asked
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John Smillie @johnsmillie42.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
14 Thousand transformer shortfall this year. Both Siemens and Hitachi are expanding (in NC and VA) but they won't be online until 2027 and 2028. Tariffs killed the Cleveland Cliffs expansion. wvmetronews.com/2025/05/07/c...
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Yakov Feygin @buddyyakov.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
I'll add that in 2025, the average rate of project abandonment by a renewable developer was around 30% of planned output so NYPA's 20% is better than the industry standards.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
"Our analysis shows that in the aftermath of extreme weather events, lower-income neighbourhoods are less likely to rebuild and do not return to their pre-disaster state, whereas higher-income areas rebuild and tend to improve...highlighting increasing disparities in their built environments."
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Covering Climate Now @coveringclimatenow.org · 20/11/2025
Starting in earnest around 1997, during the early years of UN-led efforts to forge a global climate pact, Atlas Network and its partners created and executed a playbook to sabotage support for international treaties across the Global South, according to hundreds of documents obtained by @desmog.com
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‘A Pretty Ugly History’: How Exxon Exported Climate Denial to the Global South
With Brazil about to host COP30, DeSmog has obtained copies of checks Exxon mailed to the right-wing Atlas Network in the 1990s to turn Latin America against climate treaties.
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John Smillie @johnsmillie42.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
www.canarymedia.com/articles/hea... An IRA program that yet lives - may it help shift the default heating mode to the heat pump
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New England kicks off $450M plan to supercharge heat pump adoption
The program aims to use federal funds awarded under the Biden administration to deploy more than 500,000 heat pumps in the chilly region over the next few…
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guybrod.bsky.social @guybrod.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Would this not be a sort of nation building project we could do in Canadian cities? It would dramatically reduce transportation emissions (and EV critical mineral needs) and also address issues of rising transportation costs in sticker prices & rising transit fares amid declining service? Congestion
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Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
My latest on the AI bubble in finance: 6 charts that tell the story in ways that are hard to put into words. 1. U.S. data-center build-out. Notice the explosion in 2025. That's the permitting gold rush happening now. Would be shocking if 1 in 20 of these get built, but they factor into projections.
U.S. data-center build-out status by year of construction or planning, in gigawatts of capacity

Chart shows that data center build-out was in the single-digit gigawatts until '21 or so, then in 22 when chatgpt happened it goes hockey stick. 2025 planned data centers are *80 gigawatts*
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Adrienne Buller @adriennebuller.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Yesterday marked 30 years since the execution of the Ogoni 9 For those unaware of the story, @oilchange.bsky.social have produced this short documentary — oilchange.org/blogs/shell-... Give it a watch. 30 years on, the fight for justice in the Niger Delta is ongoing.
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Shell Shocked Land — new documentary to remember the Ogoni 9 - Oil Change International
Today is the 30th Anniversary of Ken Saro-Wiwa and the Ogoni 9. To mark the event, Oil Change International has collaborated with the Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF) and Rewild TV to produce...
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Philipp Heimberger @heimbergecon.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
In the past 20 yrs, China extended >$800 billion in loans to emerging market and developing country economies to finance infrastructure, energy etc. China’s loan portfolio surpassed those of the World Bank, the IMF, and all 22 Paris Club creditor governments combined.
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matthew ellis @matthiasellis.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
I've noticed that there isn't much talk here about the current internecine war that is unfolding on the right, spearheaded in large part by Nick Fuentes, Tucker Carlson, and Candace Owens after the assassination of Charlie Kirk. I know this shit is insane and feels bad. But this is a mistake (1/)
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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 05/11/2025
Republicans thought they had a permanent hold over young men. They didn't. Spanberger wins men 18-29 by 14%, Sherrill by 10%, and Mamdani by a stunning 40%.
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guybrod.bsky.social @guybrod.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Mamdani winning is a lot of things but it's alsoo a win for the people who still think we can have nice things!! Why balance austerity when there's enough to go around and support functioning healthy cities
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Canary Media Inc. @canarymedia.com · 30/10/2025
Massachusetts heat pump owners will pay lower electric rates starting this weekend — and the program could help more residents install clean heat.
canarymedia.com
Massachusetts heat-pump owners are about to get cheaper electricity
The state’s innovative winter heat-pump rates go into effect this weekend and should make the tech more accessible. Deeper discounts could come next year.
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Ryan Katz-Rosene, PhD @ryankatzrosene.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Holy Heat Pumps! "Almost half of New Brunswick homes relied on heat pumps as their primary heating system in 2023"
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Jesse D. Jenkins @jessedjenkins.com · 30/10/2025
Woah. High altitude tethered wind turbines maybe finally a thing? Chinese company Sawes just demonstrated a 1 megawatt turbine operating at 1,000 feet! www.linkedin.com/posts/kaiser... 🔌💡
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Sawes Energy breaks record with airborne wind turbine | Kaiser Yang posted on the topic | LinkedIn
In September, a wind turbine the size of a basketball court floated 1,000 feet above the Xinjiang desert and generated 1 megawatt of power. It wasn't mounted on a tower. It was suspended in the air b...
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guybrod.bsky.social @guybrod.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
No one said the bandwagon would be stressful this is wild
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guybrod.bsky.social @guybrod.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
So fun to be on a blue Jays band wagon but also rough to see ads about developing the ring of fire during the world series
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Sara Hastings-Simon 🇨🇦 @shastingssimon.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
I love the image this evokes, happy little batteries just relaxing on the pasture, eating grass and living their best calm life, recounting the stories of crazy adventures they had. (from @volts.wtf interview of Colin Campbell about Redwood)
So one is that electric vehicle batteries are incredibly robust, and grid-scale energy storage is a relatively pastoral life for those batteries — it's really like putting the old horse out to pasture. So what that means is you don't have to do much to them. They're mechanically made for salt spray and vibration and being underwater, and they're electrically made for fast charging, for
merging onto the freeway, for high performance.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 22/10/2025
Remember how I said electricity prices are the sleeper political issue of the next few years, especially in crucial state elections? Here's RW media telling NJ voters that renewables are the cause of those high prices:
mediamatters.org
Murdoch media continues scapegoating renewable energy in New Jersey
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Pete Massie @petemassie.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Great look at Canada's dynamic geothermal sector. It's no surprise: Canadian companies are leveraging our world-class O&G expertise to drive innovation in next-generation geothermal power. Canada has a real opportunity to build a new industry using its existing strengths
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Jenny Chase @solarchase.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
54. Levelized Cost of Electricity, LCOE, should be defined as “what you gotta pay someone per MWh to get them to build you a power plant”. Tax treatment and future inflation assumptions can turn out to be the most important inputs.
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Kate Mackenzie @katemac.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
ALL OF THE ABOVE? "There are contexts where building a broad energy portfolio makes sense, such as in research and development of new technologies, where failure is part of the process. But when applied to infrastructure, regulation, and deployment, the lack of prioritization becomes a liability."
caravanseraiforum.substack.com
You can choose to look up—at all that is above.
Is "all-of-the-above" energy policy a smokescreen for fossil fuel lock-in? If not, why not?
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guybrod.bsky.social @guybrod.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Sorry to dr volts but let's gooo blue Jays
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2025
"There are currently one to two Starlink satellites falling back to Earth every day ... Soon, McDowell told us, there will be up to 5 satellite reentries per day." 😳
earthsky.org
1 to 2 Starlink satellites are falling back to Earth each day
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