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Madison Lee @madisonvieira.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
So grateful that I had the opportunity to contribute a chapter to this very timely book! In this chapter I critically examine discourse that suggests AI can be used as a tool for achieving the SDGs. link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
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Mark Z. Jacobson @mzjacobson.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
“California is moving faster than the U.S. as a whole, but to really make inroads, CA needs to also electrify transport, industry and buildings as fast as it is building batteries, while growing offshore wind, utility solar, rooftop solar and enhanced geothermal"
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Dan Kammen @dankammen.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Our latest episode, out today, is on innovation and learning, 'Moore's Law' ('Swanson's Law), and technological change. Check out #EnergyMatters on all the usual podcast services. @johnshopkinssais.bsky.social @energyinnovation.org
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Dan Kammen @dankammen.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Hi All, Claire and I hope that you will give our new podcast, EnergyMatters a listen We'll be covering nuclear power, energy startups, Moore's Law, energy efficiency, energy access and justice ... @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social @johnshopkinssais.bsky.social sites.libsyn.com/589665/why-e...
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Energy Matters with Claire and Dan: Why Energy Matters
Hosts Dan Kammen and Claire Broido Johnson kick off Energy Matters with a candid look at the science, business, and urgency of the climate crisis. From clean cooking in Kenya ...
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Dan Kammen @dankammen.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
New work on @sustainableenergy.bsky.social for healthcare in @africa.theconversation.com from our @johnshopkinssais.bsky.social @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social @dukepress.bsky.social and #DRCongo based offgridbox.com and www.rcha-rdc.org Download here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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The Power to Breathe: Electricity, Oxygen and Mortality in the Medical System of North Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Background: Oxygen is considered an essential medicine with no substitute to treat and/or prevent hypoxemia, associated with conditions accounting for approxima
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Minghao Qiu @minghaoqiu.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
In this paper out in @nature.com, we documented a surprising trend in nuclear power plant construction costs: China and South Korea showed declines in the cost over time, showing potential for breaking the 'cost curse' of nuclear power. led by Shangwei Liu, Gang He, and @dankammen.bsky.social
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Dan Kammen @dankammen.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
In an excellent question from @chris8048.bsky.social on recent nuclear plant costs in France my co-author @shangwei-liu.bsky.social notes and corrects the record:
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Dan Kammen @dankammen.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Out today in @nature.com with Shangwei Liu, Gang He, and Minghao Qin our paper on nuclear power construction and (early) plant lifetime operation costs. @johnshopkinssais.bsky.social @stonybrooku.bsky.social @harvard.edu @baruch.cuny.edu Nature 643, 1186-1188 (2025) doi: doi.org/10.1038/d415...
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China reins in the spiralling construction costs of nuclear power — what can other countries learn?
Strengthening regulations and domestic supply chains could be key to making nuclear power more economically viable.
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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
How heatwaves are changing electricity demand in Europe: I’m quoted in the FT on the unprecedented challenges our energy systems face this summer. As repeated heatwaves drive demand we’re witnessing a “massive change” in how and when energy is used. full article: www.ft.com/content/23b3...
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Michael Liebreich @mliebreich.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
About to do the keynote interview and panel at the FT Live Hydrogen Summit 2025 in London. Wish the audience luck!
Michael Liebreich selfie at the FT Live Hydrogen Summit 2025, London
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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Europe relies heavily on imported fossil fuels—a big risk for energy security, competitiveness, and climate action. Geopolitical tensions can disrupt supply and spike prices, making us all vulnerable. Investing in local clean energy is key for resilience, jobs, and a sustainable future.
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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Electrification is THE dominant energy vector for the industry sector in all EU decarbonisation scenarios released by the European Commission. The share of gas declines markedly in all scenarios.
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WIRED @wired.com · 06/06/2025
Elon Musk’s companies—SpaceX, Starlink, and Tesla—could lose at least $48 billion in sales over the next decade if Donald Trump follows through on a threat to cancel their U.S. government contracts, according to a WIRED review of publicly available data.
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Elon Musk’s Fight With Trump Threatens $48 Billion in Government Contracts
The billionaire’s feud with the president over the nation’s debt is jeopardizing lucrative deals for SpaceX and other Musk companies.
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Michael Liebreich @mliebreich.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Today's #HydrogenSoufflé comes to you from the aviation supply chain. GKN is "scaling back" its hydrogen research programme following "delays" to Airbus's hydrogen aircraft launch. Just like the Charge of the Light Brigade led to "delays" and a "scaling back". www.flightglobal.com/engines/gkn-...
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GKN scales back hydrogen projects in reaction to Airbus ZEROe delay
GKN Aerospace has significantly scaled back its research and technology activities related to hydrogen propulsion in the wake of Airbus's decision to delay the launch of any hydrogen-powered aircraft ...
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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Pakistan’s solar and wind boom just got a boost—cheap Chinese batteries are making clean power reliable day and night. Factories like Lucky Cement are ditching fossil fuels, cutting emissions, and keeping the power flowing. When tech gets affordable, the energy transition speeds up.
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Michael Liebreich @mliebreich.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
It is over fifty years since Japan's "Sunshine Project" started governments pouring money into green hydrogen as a replacement for fossil fuels. How is it going? TLDR: not well. open.substack.com/pub/mliebrei...
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Fifty years of green hydrogen in five charts
It is over fifty years since Japan's "Sunshine Project" started governments pouring money into green hydrogen as a replacement for fossil fuels. How is it going? TLDR: not well.
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Michael Liebreich @mliebreich.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Today's #HydrogenSoufflé comes to you from Saudi Arabia, where NEOM, the largest green hydrogen project in the world that actually exists, has failed to find buyers for over half its output. Its buyer's CEO has been fired, and costs are escalating... www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Saudi Arabia’s Mega Neom Hydrogen Plant Struggles to Find Buyers
The world’s largest green hydrogen project being built in Saudi Arabia’s Neom is facing an uncertain future as it struggles to find international buyers for the fuel.
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Nicolas Fulghum @nicolasfulghum.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
NEW | In April 2025, solar ☀️ generated more electricity globally than nuclear power for the first time New @ember-energy.org data shows the rapid rise of solar generation over the last five years, resulting in this new record: April 2020: 79 TWh April 2025: 233 TWh 🏆
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Michael Liebreich @mliebreich.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Today's #HydrogenSoufflé is an update of a classic. I'm very much looking forward to the launch of the BMW iX5 Hydrogen in 2028, and seeing whether it can manage a single pixel on the RH chart before being taken off the market.
Chart of BEV versus H2FC sales but quarter since 2015, drawn on the same scale. BEV sales grow, H2FC sales are invisible - the chart looks the same as it did when first published in 2017.
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Michael Liebreich @mliebreich.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Three questions lie at the heart of any discussion of the transition to net zero. How to decarbonize the grid; how to maintain grid stability; and how to do both affordably. How one neglected approach could provide a big part of the answers… mliebreich.substack.com/p/decarboniz...
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Decarbonizing the last few percent
Three questions lie at the heart of any discussion of the transition to net zero. How to decarbonize the grid; how to maintain grid stability; and how to do both affordably.
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Dan Kammen @dankammen.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Humbling news and a huge thank you to so many wonderful, generous, and uplifting colleagues and friends, especially at a time when science is under such foolish and self-destructive attack. @nationalacademies.org @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social news.berkeley.edu/2025/05/02/n...
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National Academy of Sciences adds eight from UC Berkeley to its ranks - Berkeley News
The new members from Berkeley have spent decades researching gene editing, materials science, very young children, the depths of the universe and more.
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Balsillie School @balsillieschool.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Writing for Policy Options, BSIA Fellow Jatin Nathwani and Scholar Munur Sacit Herdem explore how deeper collaboration between Europe and Canada can foster a robust transatlantic talent hub to drive clean energy innovation and economic growth. policyoptions.irpp.org/magazines/ap...
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A Canada-Europe talent hub to overcome Trump threats
Such a hub would help build a robust innovation ecosystem and a strong start-up culture that attracts talented people from across the globe.
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Munur Sacit Herdem @herdem1.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Thank you for creating such an outstanding documentary!
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Michael Liebreich @mliebreich.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Help! ❤️ YouTube flagged our @cleaninguppod.bsky.social documentary on #ProjectBo as political advertising. 😬 Using #solar power to help save babies' lives is NOT political! 🌞 We've re-edited, now we REALLY need your likes, comments, RTs and shares to get the word out! 🙏 youtu.be/z-5QjSfy2SM?...
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How Solar Is Saving Newborns' Lives in Sierra Leone — Episode 204: Project Bo
YouTube video by Cleaning Up Podcast
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Dan Kammen @dankammen.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
In troubled times, a pleasure to release a @uofcalifornia.bsky.social-Tsinghua University joint project on clean energy integration via @ieeespectrum.bsky.social. ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/109... @chinamediaproject.bsky.social @madeinchinajournal.com @ember-energy.org @berkeleylab.lbl.gov
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SebasFC @sebasfc.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Saving babies is politically inappropriate, when done with solar energy YouTube shame on you. Watch this Cleaning up Podcast episode by @mliebreich.bsky.social and Share!
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How Solar Is Saving Babies’ Lives in Sierra Leone — Ep204: Project Bo | Sebastian Fleischhacker
Apparently saving babies lives is political content according to YouTube. The #RenewableEnergy generated by the #SolarPannels of Project Bo explained in this Cleaning Up Podcast episode by Michael Li...
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Jenny Chase @solarchase.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Wtf. This is a really important example of how electricity isn't a luxury and solar can help.
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Cleaning Up Podcast @cleaninguppod.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Project Bo: The Power of Solar. Our first ever documentary tells the story of how @mliebreich.bsky.social installed solar and batteries in a neonatal hospital in Sierra Leone, preventing life threatening power cuts. Comment your thoughts on our YouTube video now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMxJ...
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The Power of Solar in Sierra Leone — Ep204: Project Bo
In Sierra Leone, a 20-minute power cut can be the difference between life and death for newborn babies. In 2013, an extraordinary doctor called Dr Niall Conr...
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Michael Liebreich @mliebreich.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
We've figured out why our Sierra Leone solar vid has so few views. YouTube shadow-banned it as political content. We only found out because, in desperation, we tried to promote it. Apparently saving babies' lives is political in the US today. We have appealed, but WTAF! youtube.com/watch?v=yMxJ...
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How Solar Is Saving Babies’ Lives in Sierra Leone — Ep204: Project Bo
YouTube video by Cleaning Up Podcast
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Michael Liebreich @mliebreich.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Please watch this over the weekend and help spread the word. It's the story of a solar power project helping to save several hundred babies' lives each year in Sierra Leone. More than ever we need good news stories about clean energy, and people looking after each other. youtu.be/yMxJzLNc214?...
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How Solar Is Saving Babies’ Lives in Sierra Leone — Ep204: Project Bo
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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
NEW DATA: 46.9% of EU electricity in 2024 came from renewables says @eu-eurostat.extwitter.link 🏆 Top performers: 🇩🇰 Denmark – 88.4% (mostly wind) 🇵🇹 Portugal – 87.5% (wind + hydro) 🇭🇷 Croatia – 73.7% (mostly hydro) ⬇ Lowest shares: 🇱🇺 Luxembourg – 5.1% 🇲🇹 Malta – 15.1% 🇨🇿 Czechia – 15.9%
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Munur Sacit Herdem @herdem1.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Just published: In our Hill Times op-ed, we explore Canada’s innovation dilemma and propose a Canada-Europe Talent Hub to compete in the global tech race. www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/0...
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Canada's talent dilemma: how to win the global innovation and technology race
If Canada wants to compete globally in innovation and technology, it must do more than attract skilled talent—it must retain, integrate, and fully utilize their expertise. This requires not just expan...
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Munur Sacit Herdem @herdem1.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
#AE4H Member Spotlight:Clark A. Miller explores how energy systems can go beyond access to deliver real social value. From Sierra Leone to global theory, he champions equity and community empowerment. Check the link: uwaterloo.ca/waterloo-ins...
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Member Highlight of the Affordable Energy for Humanity - Dr. Clark A. Miller | Waterloo Institute Sustainable Energy | University of Waterloo
Dr. Clark A. Miller is the Director of the Center for Energy & Society and a Professor in the School for the Future of Innovation in Society at Arizona State University.
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Cleaning Up Podcast @cleaninguppod.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
In 2017 @mliebreich.bsky.social saw a tweet from Dr Niall Conroy, highlighting the devastating impact of power cuts in a NICU in Sierra Leone. It sparked Project Bo & the installation of a solar and battery system. This week on Cleaning Up, we tell that story:
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How Solar Is Saving Babies’ Lives in Sierra Leone — Ep204: Project Bo
In Sierra Leone, a 20-minute power cut can be the difference between life and death for newborn babies. In 2013, an extraordinary doctor called Dr Niall Conr...
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Munur Sacit Herdem @herdem1.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
A database of all cancelled hydrogen projects and their reasons might be a great idea. I believe a recent paper on cancelled green hydrogen projects was also published in Nature Energy.
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Michael Liebreich @mliebreich.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Today's #HydrogenSoufflé comes to you from beautiful #BritishColumbia #Canada. Reality bites. www.linkedin.com/posts/michae...
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7 Projects Down In The Inevitable Death Of Hydrogen For Energy In… | Michael Barnard | 41 comments
7 Projects Down In The Inevitable Death Of Hydrogen For Energy In B.C. B.C.’s hydrogen dream is dead. The FOIA documents just confirm what engineers already knew. Full article: https://lnkd.in/gh_SW...
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ianhrowlands.bsky.social @ianhrowlands.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
With @herdem1.bsky.social, and, at the University of Malaya, Dr. Muhammad Shakeel Ahmad, we have written an op-ed in PV Magazine, comparing Canadian and Malaysian prospects for greater use of hydrogen in remote communities to advance sustainability. www.pv-magazine.com/2025/03/21/e...
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Dan Kammen @dankammen.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Looking forward to a return visit and discussion next month! @uofwaterloo.bsky.social @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social uwaterloo.ca/waterloo-ins...
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Member Highlight of the Affordable Energy for Humanity - Daniel M. Kammen | Waterloo Institute Sustainable Energy | University of Waterloo
Daniel Kammen serves as the James and Katherine Lau Distinguished Professor of Sustainability at the University of California, Berkeley.
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Munur Sacit Herdem @herdem1.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Today, we're shining a spotlight on our member, Daniel M. Kammen! 🌍 Check out his recent work and contributions to energy access here: rb.gy/9o8nnr @dankammen.bsky.social #AE4H #EnergyAccess #Sustainability
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Member Highlight of the Affordable Energy for Humanity - Daniel M. Kammen | Waterloo Institute Sustainable Energy | University of Waterloo
Daniel Kammen serves as the James and Katherine Lau Distinguished Professor of Sustainability at the University of California, Berkeley.
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Munur Sacit Herdem @herdem1.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
A recent Nature paper (nature.com/articles/s4156…) highlights the gap between green hydrogen ambitions and implementation, backed by clear data and numbers. A must-read for anyone following clean energy transitions! #GreenHydrogen #CleanEnergy
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Nat Bullard @nathanielbullard.com · 25/01/2025
I'm a big fan of the annual Volta Foundation Battery Report. A few highlights volta.foundation/battery-repo...
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Dan Kammen @dankammen.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Great to see the amazing Nia Novella Jones -- a.k.a The Energy Queen and ERG @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social graduate and @eji.org campaigner is now publishing renewable energy education books! Next stop, @nytimes.com best seller list?! @carsoncenter.bsky.social
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Michael Liebreich @mliebreich.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
You will not want to miss this week's episode of @cleaninguppod.bsky.social on AI and energy. Particularly given yesterday's $500 billion announcement from the U.S. And there's something different about it. Going live shortly... youtube.com/watch?v=OwZ2...
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Michael Liebreich @mliebreich.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Today's #HydrogenSoufflé comes to you from the world of academia. Shaffiee & Schrag 2024 shows that the cost of emissions abatement via green hydrogen is $500 to $1250/TCO2e. And they didn't even bother to look at daft use cases like heating, cars or light freight. www.cell.com/joule/abstra...
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Carbon abatement costs of green hydrogen across end-use sectors
Green hydrogen has emerged as a potentially important pathway in decarbonizing a variety of hard-to-abate sectors, with many organizations predicting that it will become cost competitive with fossil f...
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Michael Liebreich @mliebreich.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
I you want to have a data-driven discussion, it is worth pondering this: 221GWh of grid connected storage is enough to meet the world's current power needs for 3 minutes and 49 seconds. 1.5 billion cars delivering 25kWh of demand response would provide 10 hours, 47 minutes 44 seconds. Enjoy!
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Dan Kammen @dankammen.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
Well, that changed / charged fast @electrifydc.bsky.social @electrifyamerica.bsky.social @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social on the road
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Dan Kammen @dankammen.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
The Wow! Signal: A Lingering Mystery or a Natural Phenomenon? www.seti.org/wow-signal-l... One of the coolest and most tantalizing events! @setiinstitute.bsky.social @carlsagandotcom.bsky.social #ContactTheMovie
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The Wow! Signal: A Lingering Mystery or a Natural Phenomenon?
Credit: Big Ear Radio Observatory and North American AstroPhysical Observatory (NAAPO).The Wow! Signal has captivated the imagination of scientists and the public alike since its detection in 1977. Th...
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Jesse D. Jenkins @jessedjenkins.com · 07/01/2025
This is more fantastic & high impact research by ZERO Lab's @wilsonar.bsky.social with @gruberte.bsky.social & @ghgpolicy.org that helped shape the final US hydrogen tax credit rules out last week: in this case, avoiding an outcome that could have ruined the whole program.🧵👇 🔌💡
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AI Now Institute @ainowinstitute.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Today, we published an article by @bcmerchant.bsky.social arguing that OpenAI is leaning on a flimsy presentation of AGI as its eventual business model––despite the lack of evidence it is a real possibility, or a viable profit pathway. Read: ainowinstitute.org/general/ai-g...
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AI Generated Business: The Rise of AGI and the Rush to Find a Working Revenue Model
By Brian Merchant In This Article Introduction OpenAI and the Generative AI Boom Silicon Valley Mythology, Distilled and Accelerated From “Safe AI” to AGI — and the Hype-Led Business Model Genesis Mar...
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Christian Odendahl @codendahl.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
Planning permissions to build out the energy grid double in 2024 in Germany, to 1400 km. (The country had eased planning laws considerably for renewables and grid.) It does seem to matter who is in government. www.tagesspiegel.de/wirtschaft/n...
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Neuer Rekord erreicht: Bundesnetzagentur genehmigt 2024 rund 1400 Kilometer Stromleitungen
Laut dem Vorsitzenden Klaus Müller kommt man so bei der Energiewende weiter gut voran. Ein erneuter Anstieg der genehmigten Leitungskilometer im kommenden Jahr ist bereits in Planung.
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