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Ryan Alimento @ryanalimento.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Aluminum smelting could hold the secrets to industrial decarbonization and advanced manufacturing. But to rebuild its aluminum sector, the U.S. needs to learn how and why China seized control. Learn more in a new whitepaper from colleagues and myself thebreakthrough.org/issues/energ...

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A Crossroads for Aluminum and Electrified Heavy Industry

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Ryan Alimento @ryanalimento.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

China just lifted export bans on Ga, Sb, and Ge to the US GaSbGe sounds kinda like Gatsby F Scott Fitzgerald’s Gatsby was obsessed with a green light The green light represented wealth & the American dream Green also = environmental Ga Sb Ge = the American dream = clean energy

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Ryan Alimento @ryanalimento.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Georgia PSC elections show voters ARE responding to high electric bills Dems Alicia Johnson and Peter Hubbard beat incumbent Republicans Tim Echols and Fitz Johnson Utilities funded 87% of F. Johnson's & 61% Echols' campaigns They spent 12x as much as A. Johnson and Hubbard

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Ryan Alimento @ryanalimento.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Few know that we owe our global Internet infrastructure to Erbium (Er), a rare earth element But it's not NdPr used in permanent magnets so nobody cares!

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Ryan Alimento @ryanalimento.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Dems forget that hydrogen and CO2 pipelines will stay pipe dreams without permitting reform

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Ryan Alimento @ryanalimento.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

FTC oversees cell tower siting STB oversees railroad construction FERC oversees pipeline siting Transmission lines enable interstate commerce just as much…law needs to treat them like it!

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Ryan Alimento @ryanalimento.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

I’d prefer an apolitical climate transition that reaches net-zero by 2100 but is based on technological merit alone over what we’re doing now

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Ryan Alimento @ryanalimento.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

DOE is officially moving forward with plans to site and build private data centers at Idaho National Lab DOE also identified Oak Ridge, Savannah River, and the deactivated Paducah uranium enrichment plant as DOE-owned lands that can house data centers www.energy.gov/ne/articles/...

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Energy Department Seeks Proposals for AI Data Centers, Energy Projects at Idaho National Laboratory

Solicitation to scale-up reliable power technologies and cement U.S. leadership in artificial intelligence

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Ryan Alimento @ryanalimento.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Many picture carbon capture as just a filter or sieve that you just put in a smokestack. It’s actually more like building a chemical plant next door Note that carbon capture uses so much energy that it needs its own source of electricity (the cogeneration plant)

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Ryan Alimento @ryanalimento.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Great article. Hurts to see it spread the false narrative: "Much of China’s formidable manufacturing advantage stems from robotics, automation, and the early adoption of AI. To compete with China, American factories will also need to be highly automated" www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

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The World Economy Was Already Broken

But there is a better way to fix it.

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Ryan Alimento @ryanalimento.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Pic of a pressure vessel getting forged, likely for a nuclear reactor

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Ryan Alimento @ryanalimento.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Critical mineral processing and revitalizing American manufacturing are all the rage right now. But a big part of the supply chain gets left out: How do we actually make the solar cells, rare earth magnets, and high-strength alloys used in next-gen tech?

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Ryan Alimento @ryanalimento.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

In our new report, colleagues @cookpj.bsky.social @wang-seaver.bsky.social and I outline a policy framework and recommend best practices for a critical mineral reserve that would promote market stability and global competitiveness for US advanced energy industries thebreakthrough.org/issues/energ...

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Taking Inventory of Critical Mineral Stockpiling

The Breakthrough Institute is an environmental research center based in Berkeley, California. Our research focuses on identifying and promoting…

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Seaver Wang @wang-seaver.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Should a US national critical minerals reserve program act more like the National Defense Stockpile or more like the Strategic Petroleum Reserve? Major new report by my team deep dives into this question, looking at 15 minerals relevant to energy. My thoughts🧵: thebreakthrough.org/issues/energ...

thebreakthrough.org

Taking Inventory of Critical Mineral Stockpiling

The Breakthrough Institute is an environmental research center based in Berkeley, California. Our research focuses on identifying and promoting…

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Ryan Alimento @ryanalimento.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Timely updates on the CCUS & blue H2 scene that align with my recs for blue fertilizer in Africa: - Chevron announced $5B blue H2 and ammonia plant to nab 45V credits before they expire (enr.com/articles/610...)

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Chevron Plans $5B Blue Hydrogen and Ammonia Project in Texas

Energy producer aims to start construction by 2027 to secure U.S. tax credits before they expire under the new federal budget reconciliation law.

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Seaver Wang @wang-seaver.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

New original analysis by colleague @ryanalimento.bsky.social argues green urea production stays far too pricey for widespread application for Sub-Saharan African countries even at green H2 costs <$1/kg. But low-CO2 blue urea via gas + CO2 capture may prove more affordable. 🧵

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Ryan Alimento @ryanalimento.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) can't improve fertilizer access using only green H2 and CO2 capture In my new study I provide much-needed cost estimates of green fertilizer made in SSA The result? Even <$1/kg green H2 wouldn't make green fertilizer affordable🧵 www.breakthroughjournal.org/p/sub-sahara...

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Ryan Alimento @ryanalimento.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

10,000 years ago, the development of agriculture let humanity to spend less time hunting & gathering and more time developing civilization. A society can't function without abundant food access This is still relevant for 1/8 of the world (1 BN ppl) in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA)

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Ryan Alimento @ryanalimento.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Some goofy White House justifications for the billions in foreign aid cuts in the current rescissions package: www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...

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Ryan Alimento @ryanalimento.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Lots of talk about the gas turbine shortage and copper tariffs Not enough attention on our transformer shortage and how the steel-copper tariff combo will obstruct both interconnection and grid expansion 🧵

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