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Logan Mitchell PhD

@loganemitchell.bsky.social
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Climate scientist & energy analyst @UtahCleanEnergy. #ElectrifyEverything #EnergySky #GreenSky 🔌💡. Posts my own.

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Logan Mitchell PhD @loganemitchell.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Speed to clean, firm power is a precious commodity in the data center world. @fervoenergy.bsky.social providing 1 GW next generation geothermal for @newsfromgoogle.bsky.social by 2030 is a game changer. This is the power sector's iPhone moment. Me in @sltrib.com 👇 www.sltrib.com/news/environ...
sltrib.com
Google inks massive Utah geothermal deal to power potential data center
Fervo’s Cape Station near Milford could soon supply up to 1 gigawatt to the tech giant, which clean energy advocates call a win.
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Logan Mitchell PhD @loganemitchell.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
I was on On with @karaswisher.bsky.social w @erinbrockovich.bsky.social @andyschor.bsky.social & Elena Schlossberg talking about how the AI data center boom is straining our grid, consuming water, & bypassing public transparency (eg #Stratos in Utah). Check it out: www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3hq...
youtube.com
Everything you’ve been wondering about data centers, explained
YouTube video by On with Kara Swisher
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Logan Mitchell PhD @loganemitchell.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
I was on On with @karaswisher.bsky.social w @erinbrockovich.bsky.social @andyschor.bsky.social & Elena Schlossberg talking about how the AI data center boom is straining our grid, consuming water, & bypassing public transparency (eg #Stratos in Utah). Check it out: www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3hq...
youtube.com
Everything you’ve been wondering about data centers, explained
YouTube video by On with Kara Swisher
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 04/08/2026
Don't look now, but the world has now installed 3TW of solar. Took 10 years to get from 100GW to 1TW. Less than 3 years to get to 2TW. Less than 2 years to get to 3TW. Analysts expect *9TW* by 2036.
bloomberg.com
The World Crossed a Major Solar Milestone. No One Noticed
The next phase of the boom may reveal a shift in who is gaining access to the technology.
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Logan Mitchell PhD @loganemitchell.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
"Utah produced more power from solar than any other source in May, marking a new first" Several quotes from me & @dvschroeder.bsky.social in the article, check it out! Zero fuel cost, reliable & fast-to-build renewables are the path to Utah's energy future! #utpol www.sltrib.com/news/environ...
sltrib.com
Utah produced more power from solar than any other source in May, marking a new first
“Wind plus solar is on a tear right now,” said Utah climate scientist Logan Mitchell. “We may have achieved liftoff.”
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Dan Schroeder @dvschroeder.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
A milestone for Utah! In May, for the first calendar month ever, solar was our number-one electricity source at 32.9%, surpassing gas (32.2%) and coal (28%). Three big new solar farms have boosted Utah's solar capacity by more than 50% over the last year. 🔌💡
Chart from https://ember-energy.org/data/us-electricity-data-explorer/ showing monthly electricity generation in Utah, broken down by source, from January 2020 through May 2026. Before 2023, coal was the dominant source, followed by gas and then solar. (Other sources, mostly hydro, wind, and geothermal, provide only about 5% of the total.) There are large seasonal fluctuations, but coal has generally trended downward over this time period while solar has risen to exceed both coal and gas for the first time in May 2026. A hand-drawn red circle highlights this most recent data point.
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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 30/05/2026
Here’s the list of countries taking action to save energy and cut costs during the energy crisis. The United States isn’t doing anything.
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Logan Mitchell PhD @loganemitchell.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
This is the obvious path forward for Israel & Palestine www.nytimes.com/2026/05/26/o...
nytimes.com
Opinion | The Hard Truth My Party Needs to Face
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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 19/05/2026
These folks just published a real study measuring the local temp impacts of data centers: about +1.8°F (max 4°F) in neighborhoods up to a third of a mile nearby. Much smaller than the other draft paper, but in neighborhoods, need to mitigate waste heat. asmedigitalcollection.asme.org/sustainableb...
asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
Data Center Waste Heat as an Emerging Urban Thermal Hazard: First Field Measurements of Neighborhood-Scale Air Temperature Impacts
Abstract. Data centers are among the fastest-growing sources of concentrated anthropogenic heat in urban environments. Despite heat flux densities that exceed peak solar irradiance by a factor of 2–6,...
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 19/04/2026
EU: The European Union will require sale of mobile phones with “user-replaceable and longer-lasting batteries” starting in 2027. The regulation demands “availability of spare parts and manuals for 10 years to curb planned obsolescence”.
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Science is good. We should fund it.
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Logan Mitchell PhD @loganemitchell.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Me in @sltrib.com on Rocky Mountain Power's latest IRP that zeros out wind and solar for the next 20 years in Utah: “It’s a major missed opportunity, it'll lock us into a more expensive generation mix that’s riskier and exposed to volatile fossil fuel prices.” #utpol www.sltrib.com/news/environ...
sltrib.com
Rocky Mountain Power’s latest plan shows more investment in fossil fuels for the foreseeable future
Clean energy advocates decry no new investment in renewables, calling it contrary to Gov. Spencer Cox’s “Operation Gigawatt.”
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Logan Mitchell PhD @loganemitchell.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Me in @kuer.org PacifiCorp has no new wind or solar projects planned for Utah customers through 2045 That’s why Mitchell said URC stands to make a difference “This program is a concrete way to build new clean energy resources for serving Utah customers” www.kuer.org/politics-gov...
kuer.org
The Utah Renewable Communities energy program is almost ready for launch
June 2 is the deadline for communities to officially enroll in Utah Renewable Communities. Participating customers will pay $4 a month toward new clean energy sources in the West.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
"He wanted it big. He wanted lots of gold, lots of marble. He wanted visitors awestruck by his architectural expansion of the country’s symbolic seat of power." {gift link} www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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Alexandra Witze @alexwitze.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Follow along with us at @nature.com as we bring you today’s #ArtemisII lunar flyby - straight from mission scientists at Mission Control in Houston. I’ll have live updates throughout the day on this historic Moon mission. 🧪🔭 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
nature.com
Artemis II astronauts fly by the Moon today: follow along with Nature live
Humans are seeing parts of the Moon’s far side never observed by eye. Nature is in Houston with the mission’s scientists.
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Logan Mitchell PhD @loganemitchell.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
This winter is a postcard from the future with a dramatically warmer climate. It is in our collective power to determine how warm the future is based on how quickly we can reduce our emissions. The time to act is now.
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The Salt Lake Tribune @sltrib.com · 24/03/2026
Opinion: All emissions matter. Every tank of gasoline, cross-country flight and fossil-fueled load of laundry makes the earth a little warmer. So anything you do to reduce your emissions makes the problem a little easier to solve — once we collectively decide we want to solve it.
sltrib.com
Opinion: Now is the perfect time to buy an electric vehicle
Opinion: Now is the perfect time to buy an electric vehicle
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The Salt Lake Tribune @sltrib.com · 29/03/2026
Letter: This summer, when temperatures sizzle and water is scarce, ask yourself what you can do so that our political leaders (state and federal) promote our future instead of destroying it.
sltrib.com
Letter: The Trump administration paid $1 billion to stop wind turbine projects. Who thinks that’s the best way to spend that money?
Letter: This summer, when temperatures sizzle and water is scarce, ask yourself what you can do so that our political leaders (state and federal) promote our future instead of destroying it.
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The Salt Lake Tribune @sltrib.com · 30/03/2026
Letter: Why are our state leaders so fixated on nuclear energy — one of the most expensive options out there — when we could lead the nation in clean, reliable and economically sound geothermal?
sltrib.com
Letter: Utah is a hotbed of geothermal energy. Why aren’t we using it?
Letter: Why are our state leaders so fixated on nuclear energy — one of the most expensive options out there — when we could lead the nation in clean, reliable and economically sound geothermal?
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Kate Marvel @drkatemarvel.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
I just resigned from NASA. It breaks my heart to leave, but I’ve become convinced the best path forward is to do the best science I can, and that can’t be here anymore. I’m still in love with the promise of those four magic letters. Ad astra per aspera, and remember: Earth is the only good planet.
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Jeffrey Mervis @policyhound.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
The US government lost more than 10,000 STEM PhDs last year, according to an analysis by Science of newly released OPM data, with 11 departures for every hire. And many OPM calls "voluntary" separations were probably pushed. www.science.org/content/arti...
science.org
U.S. government has lost more than 10,000 STEM Ph.D.s since Trump took office
A Science analysis reveals how many were fired, retired, or quit across 14 agencies
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Trump provokes an historically unprecedented brain drain from the US. The United States has lost more than 10,000 STEM Ph.D.s since Trump took office.
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
the pace of awful news has outstripped our ability to give it the attention and duration it all deserves
The abiding feeling of 2026 is that too many consequential things are happening too fast for most people to follow, let alone understand. The United States invaded Venezuela in the night and captured its leader, Nicolás Maduro, 69 days ago. Renee Good was killed by an ICE agent 66 days ago; Alex Pretti was tackled to the ground in Minneapolis and killed by agents of the state 49 days ago. The last tranche of the Epstein files—millions of pages documenting Jeffrey Epstein’s dizzying connections to many of the most famous and powerful people in the world—came out 43 days ago. It’s been 22 days since the Supreme Court struck down Donald Trump’s tariffs. On February 4, a pseudonymous account believed to belong to an Open AI employee snarkily commented that “Anthropic has the same level of name recognition among superbowl viewers as literally fictional companies.” Now the company is embroiled in a massive fight with the Pentagon; its CEO is on the cover of a forthcoming issue of Time. Yet most of these events have been pushed aside to make space for a war in Iran that the administration has hardly attempted to justify.
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 15/03/2026
Admitting publicly that you only want this bill that is designed to disenfranchise voters is necessary to make sure your party wins is quite a choice. The GOP has done away with subtlety and euphemisms and is now all "we need to cheat because the polls say people don't like us."
Mike Lee tweet. He's quote tweeting a tweet from "Leading Report" saying that Dems are now the favorites to win control of the Senate in 2026.

Lee says: Let’s turn this around—by passing SAVE America 

Pass it onMike Lee quote tweeting MAGA influencer ALX saying:

Senate GOP, this is your sign to start doing your job and stop subverting the will of the people.

Pass the SAVE America Act.

Lee says: Republicans will lose power—likely for a long time—if we don’t get SAVE America passed 

This shouldn’t be hard 

It is, but failure cannot be an option
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
The lawyers are likely correct that Carr would lose this in court. They were also likely correct that Trump would lose his lawsuits against ABC and CBS -- but their corporate owners (with much deeper pockets to fight than a local station) folded instead. That’s the real threat.
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Chris Edelson @chrisedelson.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
when a presidential admin screws up as badly as the trump admin has screwed up in Iran, accountability is essential. There must be congressional hearings, investigations, and consequences for those responsible--including people losing their jobs, going all the way up to the top 1/2
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
i would like to have people take war seriously
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 13/03/2026
"wherever renewables have been installed, they are turning out to be security gold." prospect.org/2026/03/13/i...
prospect.org
The National Security Case for Renewable Energy - The American Prospect
Turns out oil is vulnerable to price shocks caused by blood-crazed presidents.
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
The Iran war is showing that renewable energy is a national security imperative, and that fighting renewables tooth and nail as the White House has been doing since day one deeply undermines national security, as @ryanlcooper.com writes. prospect.org/2026/03/13/i...
prospect.org
The National Security Case for Renewable Energy - The American Prospect
Turns out oil is vulnerable to price shocks caused by blood-crazed presidents.
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 13/03/2026
credit where due, Macron is right on this one prospect.org/2026/03/13/i...
prospect.org
The National Security Case for Renewable Energy - The American Prospect
Turns out oil is vulnerable to price shocks caused by blood-crazed presidents.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
“One mile on a bike is a $.42 economic gain to society, one mile driving is a $.20 loss.” “Which means that Copenhagen, a city of 1.2 million people, saves $357 million a year on health costs because something like 80% of its population commutes by bike.” #CityMakingMath Some costs aren’t costs.
grist.org
One mile on a bike is a $.42 economic gain to society, one mile driving is a $.20 loss
Copenhagen, the bicycle-friendliest place on the planet, publishes a biannual Bicycle Account, and buried in its pages is a rather astonishing fact.
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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
This action "is a ringing alarm bell warning all of us of the extent to which this administration has succeeded in degrading our governing institutions in such a short period of time." My statement progressivereform.org/cpr-blog/epa...
progressivereform.org
Statement on the EPA’s Final Rescission of the ‘Endangerment Finding’ - Center for Progressive Reform
Over the course of more than a century, serious statespeople came together to build the modern administrative state out of a shared commitment to redeeming their constitutional duty to form a more per...
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Logan Mitchell PhD @loganemitchell.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Big 2026 energy news is hotter, deeper, faster! @fervoenergy.bsky.social drilled a successful appraisal well (11 days 555 F) proving a 2nd gigawatt scale greenfield geothermal site in Utah. Data centers should sprint to capitalize near term, clean, firm energy! #utpol fervoenergy.com/fervo-energy...
fervoenergy.com
Fervo Energy Drills Hottest Well to Date at New Giga-Scale Geothermal Project Site - Fervo Energy
HOUSTON, TX (February 9, 2026) – Fervo Energy, a leader in next-generation geothermal development, has announced the successful completion of an appraisal
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Logan Mitchell PhD @loganemitchell.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Big 2026 energy news is hotter, deeper, faster! @fervoenergy.bsky.social drilled a successful appraisal well (11 days 555 F) proving a 2nd gigawatt scale greenfield geothermal site in Utah. Data centers should sprint to capitalize near term, clean, firm energy! #utpol fervoenergy.com/fervo-energy...
fervoenergy.com
Fervo Energy Drills Hottest Well to Date at New Giga-Scale Geothermal Project Site - Fervo Energy
HOUSTON, TX (February 9, 2026) – Fervo Energy, a leader in next-generation geothermal development, has announced the successful completion of an appraisal
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Logan Mitchell PhD @loganemitchell.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Context and quote from me in the this @sltrib.com article. It should be alarming to anyone in Utah that Rocky Mountain Power/PacifiCorp isn't planning to build any new solar, wind, or battery storage in the next 20 years for Utah. #utpol
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Climate News @climatenews.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Excellent new video by Simon Clark interviewing @hausfath.bsky.social discussing the rate of warming and climate sensitivity in great detail. Must watch!
youtu.be
We don’t know how much warming we’ll see by 2050. Here's why.
YouTube video by Simon Clark
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PM2.5 Kills ~9 Million People Each Year Worldwide @tkovach.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
It's hard to keep up, but did we already know Bjorn Lomborg was hanging out with Epstein?
To: jeevacation©gmaitcomheevacation@gmail.comj; /Bjorn Lombo 
Cc: Jeffrey Epstein[jeevac ; John Brockman( 
Horvath, (PA for Bjorn Lomborg) I 
From: 
Sent: Tue 9/25/2012 1:21:59 AM 
Subject Re: Jeffrey Epstein 
Perfect. Thanks, 
Sent from my iPhonc 
On Sep 24, 2012, at 9:08 PM, Bjorn Lomborg a wrote: 
Dear 
Good to meet. Thanks, John! 
I'm on the phone now or let's do this tomorrow morning. My PA is in 
Budapest, Zsuzsa, and she'll call you tomorrow morning and set this up. 
Looking forward to meeting Jeffrey! 
all the best 
bjom 
Bjom Lomborg, Ph.D. and Adjunct Professor 
Copenhagen Consensus Center 
1875 I Street, NW, Suite 500 
Washington, DC 20006 
www.lomborg.com 
Twitter: ©bjornlomborg 
Facebook: www.facebook.com/biornlomborq
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Logan Mitchell PhD @loganemitchell.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Join me at the #SLC @Patagonia.com Outlet Tues 1/20 5-9pm for Running Up For Air pre-race event. 5k interactive run, food, drinks, conversations w RUFA & non-profits Breathe Utah & @utahcleanenergy.org to get involved in air quality & climate solutions rufaclimatestridessaltlakecity.splashthat.com
rufaclimatestridessaltlakecity.splashthat.com
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Carbon Brief @carbonbrief.org · 17/01/2026
Recommended read: A commentary co-authored by climate scientist Prof @clequere.bsky.social in Nature argued that several climate trends have locked in “irreversible progress in climate action”.
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Irreversibility in climate action - Nature Climate Change
Although climate action is undermined by political interests and institutional inertia, multiple safeguards are in place to prevent backsliding on progress so far, and positive feedbacks reinforce…
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Sarah Dougherty @sarahdougherty.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
So many reports of ways that climate change is costing us lots of money now and near term. No longer far off in the future. This one might connect with people interested in outdoor sports. Each might not seem big, but added up climate change is already costing us far more than clean energy.
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 08/01/2026
After the US admin cancelled the $B Climate + Weather Disaster dataset, @climatecentral.org hired the scientists who ran it and set it back up. Now the 2025 numbers are in: it's 3rd highest year on record and highest year w/o land-falling hurricanes. More: www.climatecentral.org/climate-serv...
A map of the US with each 2025 billion-plus dollar weather and climate disaster geo-located on it. Source: Climate Central
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Logan Mitchell PhD @loganemitchell.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Whether you like it or not, climate policy is energy policy. The misguided decision to leave these international organizations means that US interests will not be represented in rooms where international energy decisions are being made. It's undermining US national interests.
Marco Rubio's announcement that undermines US energy policy and interests
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Logan Mitchell PhD @loganemitchell.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
How about some good news? In December 2025 wind surpassed coal in PacifiCorp's (Rocky Mountain Power's parent) monthly generation. Thanks to new transmission lines & a 600 MW Wyoming wind facility coming online last year, we’re building momentum for a #CleanEnergy future. #utpol 🔌💡
Figure showing monthly wind energy exceeding coal on PacifiCorp's energy grid for the first time in December 2025
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Joint European statement on Greenland. They moved quickly after Miller’s comments about annexation last night.
6 January 2026
Joint Statement on Greenland
Statement by President Macron of France, Chancellor Merz of Germany, Prime Minister Meloni of Italy, Prime Minister Tusk of Poland, Prime Minister Sánchez of Spain, Prime Minister Starmer of the United Kingdom and Prime Minister Frederiksen of Denmark on Greenland.
Arctic security remains a key priority for Europe and it is critical for international and transatlantic security.
NATO has made clear that the Arctic region is a priority and European Allies are stepping up. We and many other Allies have increased our presence, activities and investments, to keep the Arctic safe and to deter adversaries. The Kingdom of Denmark - including Greenland - is part of NATO.
Security in the Arctic must therefore be achieved collectively, in conjunction with NATO allies including the United States, by upholding the principles of the UN Charter, including sovereignty, territorial integrity and the inviolability of borders. These are universal principles, and we will not stop defending them.
The United States is an essential partner in this endeavour, as a NATO ally and through the defence agreement between the Kingdom of Denmark and the United States of 1951.
Greenland belongs to its people. It is for Denmark and Greenland, and them only, to decide on matters concerning Denmark and Greenland.
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InsideEVs @insideevs.com · 03/01/2026
No gas, no problem in Norway. Most buyers went electric last year, even as incentives start to fade. insideevs.com/news/783304/...
insideevs.com
Norway’s New Car Sales Were Almost Entirely Electric Last Year
Even with Chinese carmakers increasing their market share and presence, Tesla has remained the bestseller.
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Logan Mitchell PhD @loganemitchell.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Don't support the US illegally stealing Venezuela's oil? Get yourself an EV and destroy that demand!
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Logan Mitchell PhD @loganemitchell.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Don't support the US illegally stealing Venezuela's oil? Get yourself an EV and destroy that demand!
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Logan Mitchell PhD @loganemitchell.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Worth noting, there will never be an illegal war over solar energy. That's what true energy independence looks like.
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Logan Mitchell PhD @loganemitchell.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
The big difference between 2002 and 2026 is that we now have viable alternatives to oil for transport. Don't want to support an illegal foreign war for oil? Drive an EV!
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