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Avid Cyclist @paustian.bsky.social · 7h
Metrorail's driverless future is WMATA's best hope for organizational reinvention: ggwash.org/view/105078/...
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Metrorail’s driverless future is WMATA’s best hope for organizational reinvention
If WMATA fails to modernize itself along with its signals, a chaotic rollout of driverless train control and a scramble for costly repairs could lie in its future.
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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
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Energy Institute at Haas @ucenergyinstitute.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Pain at the Pump: $130 Billion and Counting. Lucas Davis digs into Brown University’s Iran War Energy Cost Tracker (@climatesollab.bsky.social). The tracker estimates that increased fuel costs from the Iran war now exceed $1,000 per U.S. household. energyathaas.wordpress.com/2026/10/12/p...
Photo of person fueling diesel truck.
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Avid Cyclist @paustian.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
www.canarymedia.com/articles/pol...
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Clean-energy super PAC names its target list for general elections
The Invest in Tomorrow Coalition wants to extend its perfect primary performance in the general elections as it homes in on seven Republican Congress…
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Avid Cyclist @paustian.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
www.zeit.de/politik/deut...
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Katherina Reiche: Handelt Katherina Reiche wie eine Klimaleugnerin?
Die Wirtschaftsministerin schafft ihr Wind- und Solarreferat ab. Nicht nur in diesem Punkt wirft ihr Tun und Unterlassen große Fragen auf. Eine Abrechnung in elf Punkten
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Avid Cyclist @paustian.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
What an inspiration! www.canarymedia.com/articles/cle...
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A new group to help US small towns lead the clean energy transition
Enfield Mayor Mondale Robinson announced the group’s launch in September, saying that small towns, often overlooked, will have more power if they work…
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Martin Austermuhle @maustermuhle.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
D.C. VOTERS: Ballot drop boxes open today at 11 a.m.! So if you've filled out your mail ballot and want to do your civic duty really early, go ahead and drop it off starting today. Here are the locations: dcboe.org/voters/find-...
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2026 General Election Mail Ballot Drop Box Locations | District of Columbia Board of Elections
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Alex Koma @alexkoma.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Hard not to see the parallels with the Silverman case from 2022: OCF issues a fine right before the election, then the elections board (under two different chairs) rescinds it months afterward. JLG and her supporters drew pretty much that exact comparison at the time.
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alexvonwitzleben.bsky.social @alexvonwitzleben.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
#ArtificialIntelligence #AI #DataProtection #DonaldTrump
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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
We will need both carrot (incentives for clean energy) and stick (disincentives for fossil fuels) to follow the needed decarbonization pathway. Anyone who tells you otherwise is selling something — probably (directly or indirectly) fossil fuels.
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perpetual screaming 🇺🇦 @bazub.zubko.cc · 29/09/2026
#UkrainianView On 10 February 2022, Lavrov said Russia had ‘no plans to invade Ukraine’. Five days later, he dismissed reports of an imminent invasion as ‘Western hysteria’ and claimed Russian troops were already returning to their bases. Nine days later, on February 24, Russia invaded Ukraine.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Hey you, Europe, You know how we started a war without telling you, failed badly, and hurt all our economies? No, after we tariffed you, lectured you that Russia isn’t a threat, and demanded territory. Okay. So. Weaken yourself to rescue us or we’ll hurt our own economy more and you’ll be sorry.
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Avid Cyclist @paustian.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Trump adds 1 trillion in energy costs. Economic, Consumer Cost, Pollution Impacts of Federal Energy Policy Changes In 48 U.S. States energyinnovation.org/report/econo...
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Economic, Consumer Cost, Pollution Impacts of Federal Energy Policy Changes In 48 U.S. States
Federal energy policy changes will harm all 48 contiguous U.S. states through higher energy bills, lost jobs, and worse air pollution.
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UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 03/10/2026
Watch Tucker Carlson get a quick economics lesson after claiming Russia’s economy is bigger than Britain’s.
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Gernot Wagner @gwagner.com · 03/10/2026
$800m > $300m, it seems. All joking aside, there's a good reason FedEx, UPS, NYC cabs and other large fleet management co's have driven EV adoption from the very beginning.
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Avid Cyclist @paustian.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Exactly right. He is being told 500 million is too expensive for a new metro station and that spending 10 million on BRT is better and he says: "10 million? that's too much". Is anything low enough for him?
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Right To Zero @righttozero.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
BREAKING: @governor.ca.gov just signed the Home Energy Choice Act, a bill that will give Californians the freedom and funds to install electric appliances with money that would otherwise have been used to replace old gas lines earthjustice.org/press/2026/c...
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California Passes the Home Energy Choice Act
AB 2313 gives Californians the option to install non-polluting appliances with the help of funds that would otherwise have been used to replace the old gas line to their home
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Avid Cyclist @paustian.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This CFO almost always is too pessimistic about revenue, as he did just now.. So some of those dire projections need to be bias adjusted upwards a little bit ...
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Geoffrey Propheter @gpropheter.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Bowser pushed for $10b+ to three teams and removed 20 acres of riverfront land from taxpayer control for 90yrs just so she can leave office with a legacy. When we say politicians are more interested in stroking their egos than serving residents, this is what we mean. www.axios.com/local/washin...
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Avid Cyclist @paustian.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I think her point is just the distinction between railcar capacity and access to the station platform. Two stations will reduce boarding times on the existing number of trains, but to truly solve the problem you will need more frequent trains. Boarding the same train faster is nice though.
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Avid Cyclist @paustian.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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SEAI Found Deep Retrofit Needn’t Come Before Heat Pumps
Ireland’s 2022 heat study distinguished necessary fabric improvements from extensive renovation. Its July 2026 grant changes revisit that distinction.
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Blue Virginia @bluevirginia.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This video isn't directly related to VA (this Schmitt douchebag is from MO), but it is HIGHLY revealing about how totally f'ed up, slimy, sloppy, dishonest, nasty, stupid, reckless, etc. MAGA/Trump R's are, including the ones in VA... bluevirginia.us/2026/09/tues... h/t @atrupar.com
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Sammy Roth @sammyroth.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
All those "emergency" orders from the Trump administration ordering power companies to keep running coal plants otherwise slated to shut down? Turns out federal officials got the idea from a coal lobbyist: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/c...
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The Coal Industry Asked for a Rescue. Trump Obliged.
In a previously unreported letter, a top lobbyist floated the idea of using emergency powers to keep aging coal plants open.
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Malte Kreutzfeldt @mkreutzfeldt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Der Redispatch-Vorbehalt, über den derzeit im Rahmen des Netzpakets intensiv verhandelt wird, wurde nicht nur aus dem Eon-Konzern entwickelt. Das Unternehemen würde wirtschaftlich auch am stärksten davon profitieren. Details gibt's im aktuellen Climate.Table (€): table.media/climate/anal...
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Avid Cyclist @paustian.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Die Frage ist doch wie sich das auf den Ausbau der erneuerbaren Energien auswirkt in Konzert mit allen anderen Änderungen. Insgesamt ist das dann schon krass . Kürzere EEG Förderungszeit, Wegfall der Redispatchverguetung, etc etc. In der Summe wird das zum "Reiche Knick" beim Zubau führen.
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klstone / Klaus Steinfelder @klstone.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
FORSA v. heute: AfD, #Union & #Grüne verlieren je einen Prozentpunkt. Union erstmals auch bei Forsa unter 20% und die #Grünen mit immer noch 16% nur 3 Punkte hinter der Union. #SPD verbessert sich auf 14%. Wäre dies ein Wahlergebnis, wäre es fast schon eine #GrünRotRote Mehrheit
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Avid Cyclist @paustian.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Carbon pricing across the Atlantic: Lessons from the EU ETS fsr.eui.eu/carbon-prici...
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Carbon pricing across the Atlantic: Lessons from the EU ETS - Florence School of Regulation
This is the fourth intalment of this blog series that features contributions from FSR and MIT experts, ahead of the first FSR–MIT CEEPR Annual Conference on Energy and Climate Policy.
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Heiko Stubner @hstubner.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
DLF: Neuer Rekord - Schon jetzt mehr Solarstrom produziert als im Gesamtjahr 2025. Deutschland hat nach Branchenangaben einen neuen Solarrekord erreicht: Bis Sonntag wurden im laufenden Jahr schon 90,2 Terawattstunden Solarstrom erzeugt und damit mehr als im gesamten Jahr 2025.
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Neuer Rekord - Schon jetzt mehr Solarstrom produziert als im Gesamtjahr 2025
Deutschland hat nach Branchenangaben einen neuen Solarrekord erreicht: Bis Sonntag wurden im laufenden Jahr schon 90,2 Terawattstunden Solarstrom erzeugt und damit mehr als im gesamten Jahr 2025.
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Chris Conaton @conatonc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A familiar story for anyone who follows @volts.wtf. “The Chronicle spoke to more than half a dozen grid experts…to try to understand why Texas’s notoriously unreliable grid had a remarkably reliable summer. The answer was unanimous: solar panels and batteries.”
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Texas shattered energy demand records this summer. Here's why the grid held up.
Texas repeatedly broke electricity demand records this summer, but ERCOT avoided emergencies as booming solar and battery capacity helped keep the grid stable.
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Avid Cyclist @paustian.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Genau ! www.midea.com/de/hvac/h-pa...
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H-Pack Wärmepumpe
Maximale Flexibilität – kein Außengerät, keine Einschränkungen. Das kompakte, moderne Gerät hat nahezu uneingeschränkte Aufstellmöglichkeiten. Durch das ausgeklügelte Design ist die Installation einfa...
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Avid Cyclist @paustian.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Es gibt Wärmepumpen ohne Außeneinheit. Luft wird durch Rohr von außen angesaugt. Sieht aus wie eine Gasetagen Heizung. Heizleistung meist auf 4 oder 5 KW begrenzt.
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Martin Austermuhle @maustermuhle.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
As D.C. debates whether to legalize self-driving cars like Waymo, people ask: Do the cars get into crashes? My colleague @zaraleinorman.bsky.social wanted to find out, but learned that D.C. refuses to release crash reports: www.washingtonsun.com/metro/waymo-...
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Waymo Touts Its Crash Safety Data, But D.C. Won’t Release the Numbers
Autonomous vehicle companies — which could be permitted to operate in the District this fall — enjoy a blanket exemption from public records law.
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Sammy Roth @sammyroth.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Natural gas demand on the California grid peaked in 2014 and has been falling ever since. Gas-fired electricity fell 15% last year, then another 26% in the first half of this year as solar and batteries continued to boom. insideclimatenews.org/news/1009202... via @dangearino.bsky.social
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How California Is Kicking Its Natural Gas Habit - Inside Climate News
Solar and batteries matter, but they’re not the only reasons for the steep decline in gas-fired electricity.
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Avid Cyclist @paustian.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Link ?
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CM Janeese Lewis George @cmlewisgeorgew4.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
To our Jewish neighbors across Ward 4 and DC observing Yom Kippur, I'm wishing you a meaningful fast and a sacred time of reflection, atonement, and renewal. May this day strengthen our commitment to repair harm, extend grace, and care for one another. G'mar chatima tovah.
Graphic on a warm beige background featuring the Janeese Lewis George DC Council Ward 4 logo. Large purple text reads, “Wishing you a meaningful Yom Kippur,” followed by “G’mar chatima tovah.” Three glowing gold candles are surrounded by white flowers and soft green leaves at the bottom.
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VCÖ - Mobilität mit Zukunft @vcoe.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Sorry, hier der richtige Link: www.derstandard.de/story/300000...
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In wenigen Jahren wurde Lustenau zu Österreichs Rad-Mekka. Was ist da passiert?
Seit 2019 hat die größte Marktgemeinde des Landes ihren Radanteil an Alltagswegen von 22 auf 34 Prozent hochgeschraubt. Hierzulande ist das der absolute Bestwert
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Avid Cyclist @paustian.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
@ddotdc.bsky.social Why is this road even repaved at all. It was in pristine condition and the last paving was only about 5 years ago. And please make this safe for cyclist. I rode on that stretch and almost got kile when the bike lane merged with the lane.
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Avid Cyclist @paustian.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I just signed a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social petition: DC Council, Pass the District bottle bill to clean up litter at no cost to the District government or residents. . Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/dc...
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DC Council, Pass the District bottle bill to clean up litter at no cost to the District government or residents. https://bit.ly/3rcbottlebillpetition
The District is drowning in littered bottles and cans, especially plastic bottles. More than 75% of the bottles and cans sold in DC are not recycled. Instead they end up in landfills and suffocate our...
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Treetop Flyer @treetopflyer.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I’m watching the whole interview now www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLDE...
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Jimmy Kimmel’s Interview with James Talarico That the FCC Doesn’t Want You To See
YouTube video by Jimmy Kimmel Live
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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
BREAKING: Our banned interview with Kimmel generated 6 million views on YouTube.
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Christians for Future @christians4future.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Nachdem der Tankrabatt das letzte mal schon spektakulär gescheitert ist, kommt jetzt wohl die Merzsche Neuauflage. Wie man wirklich entlasten könnte: Schnell Elektromobilität ausbauen, Deutschlandticketpreis senken, ermäßigte MWSt für mehr Lebensmittel, ... www.tagesschau.de/eilmeldung/e...
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Bundeskanzler Merz kündigt Entlastungen bei Spritpreisen an
Bundeskanzler Friedrich Merz hat angesichts der hohen Spritpreise Entlastungen angekündigt. Merz sagte beim Unternehmertag des Handelsverbands BGA, er sei der Meinung, "dass wir handeln müssen".
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Erin Palmer @erinpalmerdc.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I collected this pile of litter today just from the 15-minute walk home after school drop off. I think it’s time for a bottle bill, DC.
More trash than one should find on a 15-minute walk.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
“Guys, they want us to go home.” 🔥 🇫🇷 French short film about what would happen to society if all the immigrants listened to angry old racist white men and left (aka the Republican agenda)
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Elektrizitätswerke Schönau @ewsschoenau.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Video-Tipp: Das Kraftwerkssicherheitsgesetz sollte nach dem Willen der Wirtschaftsministerin für ein Backup an fossilen Gaskraftwerken sorgen. Doch bei echter "Technogieoffenheit" sind Batteriespeicher deutlich überlegen. www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdXIcHFKBTk
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 12/09/2026
Would be fun to compare this to academia in Norway, where one very consistent complaint I hear is of deeply pointless and extremely long meetings
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Avid Cyclist @paustian.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
substack.com/@leonardneam...
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Leonard Neamtu (@leonardneamtu)
What happens when you remove cars from cities? You get something beautiful. Not too long ago, in the centre of London around the Strand you would’ve been hit by a busy multi-lane road, filled with tr...
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Building Decarbonization Coalition @buildingdecarb.org · 10/09/2026
💲 BDC Report: Pennsylvania’s “Big Six” gas utilities spent $11 billion on Act 11-enabled gas pipeline replacement programs from 2013 to 2025, driving 67% surge in gas utility bills. bit.ly/4xkVfDV #EnergySky #ClimateSky #BuildingDecarb #HeatPump #CleanHeat #ThermalEnergyNetworks
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klstone / Klaus Steinfelder @klstone.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Trotz Sommer hoher #Marktwert bei den #EE Im August 26 lag der durchschnittliche Marktwert #PV bei 6,36 ct/kWh. Dies war 1,1 ct mehr als im Juli und fast doppelt so hoch wie im August 25. Auch die Marktwerte für #Windstrom an Land & auf See.. 1/2 www.pv-magazine.de/2026/09/09/m...
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Marktwert Solar im August bei 6,359 Cent pro Kilowattstunde - pv magazine Deutschland
Gegenüber dem Juli hat sich Marktwert damit um mehr als einen Cent erhöht. In 226 Viertelstunden war in dem Monat ein negativer Börsenstrompreis zu verzeichnen. Der Überschuss auf dem EEG-Konto stieg ...
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klstone / Klaus Steinfelder @klstone.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
2/2 ..lagen im August 26 mit 11,5 bzw. 12 ct/kWh fast doppelt so hoch wie im August 25. Die hohen Strombörsenpreise in diesem Sommer (Gasmangel wg. Irankrieg, niedrige Wasserstände, hoher Kühlungsbedarf) trieb den EE-Marktwert in die Höhe und das EE-Konto für August ins Plus.
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