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Ramez Naam

@ramez.bsky.social
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Author of the Nexus trilogy. Climate tech investor, author, and activist. Optimistic about the future.

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Ramez Naam @ramez.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
The Constitution needs an upgrade. Trump has made clear that the US Constitution & overall system have significant security flaws + traits that benefit extremism. We need structural changes, inc. multiple Constitutional Amendments, to improve resilience to future authoritraians. A starter list: 🧵
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Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · 24/01/2026
Federal law enforcement agents shot and killed a man in Minneapolis on Jan. 24 according to local police officials. DHS told Fox News that the man was “armed with a gun”. A video of the shooting appears to show that a gun was taken from the man before the first shot was fired. x.com/BillMelugin_...
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Ramez Naam @ramez.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Hey, clean energy folks: I recently spoke with Megan O'Rourke, a climate scientist running for Congress in NJ-7, a flippable seat. If I set up a group zoom with her, would you be interested in joining. Feel free to reply here or DM. meganorourkeforcongress.com
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Megan O'Rourke for Congress
NJ-07 is one of the most flippable seats in the country: Join Megan’s campaign to help her do it
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Lars Iversen @larsiversen.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Are we there yet? Crazy that this blogpost from @ramez.bsky.social is almost 7 years old. rameznaam.com/2019/04/02/t...
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The Third Phase of Clean Energy Will Be the Most Disruptive Yet
Building new solar, wind, and storage is about to be cheaper than operating existing coal and gas power plants. That will change everything. When the history of how humanity turned the corner on clima...
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Felix Hamer • electricfelix @electricfelix.eurosky.social · 10/01/2026
@ramez.bsky.social: "The EV revolution will be - and has been - telegraphed years in advance." #alwaysbecharging nitter.net/ramez/status...
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Ramez Naam @ramez.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
Hey, @jgkoomey.bsky.social . Just seeing this as I don't check BlueSky much. And thanks @erikbryn.bsky.social for tagging me. Also cc @ketanjoshi.co So, where I agree: 1. Shutting down higher emissions production is good, as the worst are something like 20% higher total emissions than avg.
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Ramez Naam @ramez.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Now that RFK Jr has found the cure for autism, he can retire with our thanks.
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Ramez Naam @ramez.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
This weekend's episodes of the America show are giving final season vibes.
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Ramez Naam @ramez.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
Donald Trump ordering his Attorney General to prosecute his enemies, on Truth Social. Seems he meant to text or DM her. It's all out in the open. The corruption. The assault on freedom of speech. The weaponizing of the DOJ to prosecute his enemies, even when no crime can be found. All right there.
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Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
The number of times an aspiring authoritarian was stopped through capitulation remains 0
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Ramez Naam @ramez.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Last year, the Supreme Court ruled that government officials can't use legal coercion as a way to punish or suppress speech. The decision was unanimous. What Trump and Carr did broke the law and violated the First Amendment rights of multiple parties.
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Ramez Naam @ramez.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Look, folks, I don't make the rules.
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Ramez Naam @ramez.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
I didn't want Charlie Kirk's killer to be a liberal, but that's where we are*. Two excerpts from the charging document. Full document linked below. * - Unless you believe law enforcement is just outright lying here, which seems unlikely, as this will become evidence in the case.
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Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Here’s a brief story, with receipts about Trump administration corruption and crypto industry collusion that WILL be investigated once the majority of the House is filled with people who take ethics and the Constitution seriously:
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Ramez Naam @ramez.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
It's completely appropriate to criticize extreme things said by leaders and prominent people on the other side. It's incredibly corrosive to amplify and dunk on extremist nobodies on the other side.
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Ramez Naam @ramez.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
Liberal friends posting that the killer is MAGA or a Groyper: Wait for real info. And understand that it's unlikely. 1. Registered 'unaffiliated'. 2. Casings had anti-Nazi, anti-fascist slogans. 3. Family member says the kid saw Kirk as full of hate and spreading hate.
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Ramez Naam @ramez.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Everyone with a platform right now should be condemning political violence of all stripes, and particularly from their own side. Fanning the flames here - on either side - is an act of encouraging further political violence. We have to stop this cycle, not feed it. RIP, Charlie Kirk.
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Jesse D. Jenkins @jessedjenkins.com · 10/06/2025
Stellantis scraps plans for Illinois battery plant, parts hub www.automotivedive.com/news/stellan... 🔌💡 🔌🚗
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Stellantis scraps plans for Illinois battery plant, parts hub: UAW
The automaker remains committed to restarting its idled Belvidere factory in 2027.
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Felix Hamer • electricfelix @electricfelix.eurosky.social · 23/05/2025
@ramez.bsky.social: "Allowing Chinese EVs into the country - and ending the tariffs on China - would do more for EV growth in the US than the now-dead EV tax credit. Won't happen under this admin, clearly." #alwaysbecharging
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Brian PJ Cronin @brianpjcronin.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
If, while campaigning this fall, Kamala Harris said “If you let Donald Trump back into the White House he will destroy our alliance with Canada in less than sixty days” everyone would have thought she was nuts.
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Ramez Naam @ramez.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
You can fool some of the people some of the time..
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John Hanger @jrfhanger.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Good morning with good news: Chile is using wind and solar to rapidly decarbonize its grid. Wind and solar skyrocketed from 5.50% of Chile's electricity in January 2016 to 42.93% in January 2025! Jan 2025 43% Jan 2022 31% Jan 2019 14% Jan 2016 5.50% Rapid decarbonization! #energysky #greensky
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Ramez Naam @ramez.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Annual births in the US peaked in 2007 and have been dropping since. After 2025, most forecasts are that we'll see high school graduating classes start shrinking. America needs immigrants. One day, perhaps, we'll wake up to that fact.
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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 08/02/2025
these aren’t the actions of people who are strong these are the actions of weak losers
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Ramez Naam @ramez.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Trump is losing in court so far. Still early days, though.
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Ramez Naam @ramez.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Tesla sales plummet across Europe.
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Gen Michael Hayden @genmhayden.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Fellow NSA - National Security Agency veterans. Look at what’s happened at the National Cryptologic Museum. They covered up with brown paper the photos of Women in American Cryptology. All in response to President Trump’s anti-diversity executive order.
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 09/01/2025
I am a climate scientist and this is correct ⬇️
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Jesse D. Jenkins @jessedjenkins.com · 08/01/2025
Have greenhouse gas emissions in #China peaked? If not, when will they? When it comes to #climate mitigation, it could be the single most important question. This week on SHIFT KEY, we talk to a leading expert, @laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social and unpack China's energy transition. Do NOT miss it. 🔌💡
A screen shot showing the latest Shift Key podcast episode, "Have China's Emissions Already Peaked?". You can listen to it at https://heatmap.news/podcast or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Ramez Naam @ramez.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
House Republicans kill permitting reform. So much for wanting to build.
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Jesse D. Jenkins @jessedjenkins.com · 17/12/2024
Plaquemines LNG export facility in LA is now operational, the eighth liquefied natural gas export facility in the U.S. to come online. The facility will be able to produce 20 million metric tons of LNG annually (~2.6 Bcf/day) or ~20% of total 2023 US exports www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/... 🔌💡 🛢️🔥
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Plaquemines LNG starts production, launching one of the largest natural gas export facilities in the US
Officials with Venture Global said Plaquemines LNG started producing 30 months after the company made a final investment decision on the $21 billion project.
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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Growing wine grapes under solar panels can increase yields by 60%. That seems like the definition of unalloyed good news www.pv-magazine.com/2024/11/29/a...
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Agrivoltaics can increase grape yield by up to 60%
French agrivoltaics company Sun'Agri says that two of its facilities increased grape yields by 20% to 60% in 2024, compared to areas without solar panels. The PV modules helped regulate temperature fl...
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Ramez Naam @ramez.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
This is the way.
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Jacob Lorinc @jacoblorinc.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Canada's exports to the US. Safe to expect the price at the pumps to rise with sky-high tariffs:
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Nat Bullard @nathanielbullard.com · 26/11/2024
A propos some news today: 60% of US oil imports are from Canada. "Many U.S. refineries are designed to handle heavy oils like those produced in Canada’s oil sands" www.eia.gov/todayinenerg... h/t @jordantcarlson.bsky.social
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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 26/11/2024
We're all joking & dunking on this ridiculous tariff idea but if implemented it will make food, energy, housing, & cars more expensive for American households and it will no kidding be really bad, especially for low-income families who could just use some breathing room to get ahead instead of this.
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Dr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Post-election, we will stand up for climate action. First, we are going to stand up for science. We will also stand up for dreams of a better future – and keep them alive. Finally, we will stand up for climate heroes – to celebrate & support their incredible work. drawdown.org/insights/sta...
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Standing up for science and climate action, now more than ever
A message from Project Drawdown and Executive Director Jonathan Foley, Ph.D. Dear Friends of Project Drawdown,I’m writing to you today with a heavy heart – and a deeply reenergized commitment to our w...
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A Jaded View @lindaleecf.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
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Jesse D. Jenkins @jessedjenkins.com · 25/11/2024
Circa 2030, replacing an EV battery pack will cost no more than replacing an internal combustion engine insideevs.com/news/742022/...
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Battery Replacement Costs Are Poised To Plunge: 'Cheaper Than Fixing An Engine'
A new report highlights the outsize effect of falling lithium prices on used EVs and second-life batteries.
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Jigar Shah @jigarshahdc.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
We need to deploy 2-5 GW and $25B by 2030 to achieve #liftoff in enhanced #geothermal. This will bring the price down far enough to unlock 90 GW by 2040. liftoff.energy.gov/next-generat...
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Next-Generation Geothermal Power - Pathways to Commercial Liftoff
Learn more about the U.S. Department of Energy’s Pathways to Commercial Liftoff Report on Next-Generation Geothermal Power
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Jesse D. Jenkins @jessedjenkins.com · 16/11/2024
There is no “game over” in the fight against climate change. Today, it remains our collective task to continue to bend the arc of global emissions towards net zero. The next battle begins today. heatmap.news/ideas/trump-...
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Ramez Naam @ramez.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
35 years ago this week (this past Saturday) the Berlin Wall came down. Over the months and years that followed, tens of millions of people in Eastern Europe gained or regained freedoms. Today we're seeing a march of authoritarianism around the world. I, for one, do not think it will last. (1/2)
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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
Climate change terminology does not influence willingness to take climate action Our new paper (N=6,132, across 63 countries) suggests that focusing on subtle terminology in climate messaging is not an effective use of resources. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @kimdoell.bsky.social
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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 12/11/2024
Today at COP29, the US announced a roadmap to deploy 15 GW of nuclear by 2035, & 15 GW per year after that by 2040, for a total of 200GW by 2050. I kicked this off and led it from OSTP while there and I’m very glad to see the final product from whole team. Let’s go www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Trump choosing a Fox anchor to be Secretary of Defense is my first real "is this a dream?" moment since election day.
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John Kennedy @micefearboggis.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
1. It’s that time of the year. The WMO State of the Climate Update was released today(ish), taking momentary stock of where the climate is. So, some climate nuggets. 🧵
Twelve graphs (arranged in three columns and four rows) covering the period 1960 to 2024. Starting top left these are Carbon Dioxide, Ocean heat content, glacier mass, methane concentrations in the atmosphere, global mean sea level, Greenland ice sheet cumulative mass balance, nitrous oxide concentrations in the atmosphere, arctic sea ice extent, Antarctic ice sheet mass balance, global mean temperature, Antarctic sea ice extent and ocean pH. Data from various sources.
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Andrew Gelston @agelston.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
Scrap / Match all the people you follow on X who are on Bsky (requires chrome and waiting a bit on the X page, about 3 hour estimate to scan though my 5k ish list here) - chromewebstore.google.com/detail/sky-f... When I mass follow people in a few hours this is why. Free
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Andrew Gelston @agelston.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
Export your data Archive, import it into Bsky so it's algo picks up your community / your content is transferred which helps can attract the same following community - blueark.app I have 7k pieces of media which, when viewing in aggregate, make me consider my mental health :). And the.
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Andrew Gelston @agelston.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
Unlike when BlueSky initially launched, there are now tools to migrate X data to make using Bsky basically immediately like twitter was before the algo became very political. These are quite amazing for preserving the 'value' of time put into X for many of us over years.
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