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Tim Grejtak @theenergynerd.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

This is great. Bravo to whoever is behind this.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

I support the US garment industry. I don't believe in making life harder for immigrants or erecting blanket tariffs. So how can we reshore some of our US garment manufacturing without xenophobia or protectionism? Here's my view. 🧵

A photo of the Southwick manufacturing plant before it closed. The photo shows a bunch of people at various sewing stations. This was located in Massachusetts.

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 06/04/2025

More than 130,000 government pages have gone dark in a purge that one scientist likened to a “digital book burning.” A group of librarians and archivists is fighting back.

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The Volunteer Data Hoarders Resisting Trump’s Purge

Can librarians and guerrilla archivists save the country’s files from DOGE?

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Tim Grejtak @theenergynerd.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

If another VC tells me to drop services and hardware because software just sells better, I'm telling them to grow up.

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Tim Grejtak @theenergynerd.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

@jigarshahdc.bsky.social spitting fire on @open-circuit.bsky.social 🔥🔥🔥 Brb, I'm going to get a "Put your big boy pants on and fix your product!" tattoo.

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Tim Grejtak @theenergynerd.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

The $x00K seed funding to very early stage ventures is gone. VCs have pulled back after 2021/2022 exuberance, and federal grants from DOE/NSF/SBA are frozen. It's pretty dire out here.

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Tim Grejtak @theenergynerd.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

These are good, but the inverse - designing electrification projects to put downward pressure on rates - is more effective long-term and avoids potential cost shifts.

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Tim Grejtak @theenergynerd.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

In case anyone else is wondering, he loses to Zuckerberg at around $45/share (all other things being equal)

Tesla stock ticker showing $227/share at 2:30pm March 10, 2025.

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Our World in Data @ourworldindata.org · 10/03/2025

Foreign aid programs have played a crucial role in the fight against polio. In the early 1980s, almost half a million people worldwide were paralyzed by polio every year, most of them children. But since the peak in 1981, the number of cases has fallen by more than 99%.

A stacked area chart titled "Paralytic polio: estimated cases by world region, 1980 to 2023" displays data on estimated total cases of paralytic polio, caused by both wild and vaccine-derived polioviruses. The y-axis represents the number of cases ranging from 0 to 500,000, while the x-axis indicates the years from 1980 to 2023.

Colored area bands represent different world regions: Oceania is shown in dark blue, Europe in light brown, North America in red, South America in orange, Africa in dark green, and Asia in teal.

The chart illustrates a significant peak in cases in the early 1980s, followed by a dramatic decrease through the 1990s and early 2000s, leveling out to very low estimates by 2023.

The footer cites the data sources: World Health Organization for the years 2019 and 2024, as well as Tebbens et al. from 2010. The graph is licensed under CC BY.

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Tim Grejtak @theenergynerd.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

2/3rd of that long term gain are Biden-era industrial policy, credited by Slok himself (helpfully published after the election 🙄) You can't build economic prosperity through tariffs and cuts. No one got richer by having less resources.

A clip from Apollo Chief Economist Torsten Slok saying, "The narrative that the labor market is cooling is inconsistent with the continued strength seen in the incoming data for above-trend GDP growth, strong retail sales, strong durable goods, low jobless claims, and rising average hourly earnings.

In addition, default rates continue to decline, corporate profits are at all-time highs, weekly forward profit margins are at record highs, and US household balance sheets are in excellent shape, see charts below.

In short, the US economy remains incredibly strong.

Combined with tailwinds to growth from record-high stock prices, tight credit spreads, M&A/issuance markets rebounding, the AI/data center boom, the Chips Act, the IRA, the Infrastructure Act, and lower taxes for domestic manufacturers and deregulation likely coming, the bottom line is that we could see a dramatic increase in job growth in November, including a reversal of the weather and strike effects that were pushing down nonfarm payrolls in October."

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Tim Grejtak @theenergynerd.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

This is a dare?! How is a government shutdown any worse or different than the R's gutting federal administration? What are they going to do? Freeze federal funding more?

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Tim Grejtak @theenergynerd.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

The right thing to do is keep these opportunities to companies open. I'm proud of my New England senators @chrismurphyct.bsky.social and @whitehouse.senate.gov for being true champions for small businesses, innovation, and energy abundance.

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Tim Grejtak @theenergynerd.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

The prize was perfect for early stage companies like my own: a small grant for initial operations and a platform at DistribuTECH to catalyze private investment. But no. The administration doesn't think homeowners should have access to solutions that help them save money and ride out power outages.

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Tim Grejtak @theenergynerd.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Today's the big day! The DOE's Beyond the Meter: Energy Storage Integration Price is being awarded today! ...except that it's not, because despite state suits and the OMB memo pulled, the funding is being held from disbursement against court order and OMB guidance.

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Tim Grejtak @theenergynerd.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

Dammit @support.bsky.team! It's content like this that merits longer video support!

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Tim Grejtak @theenergynerd.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

I wasn't aware of the ~9% headcount growth since 2020. If my own experience is any indicator, those new employees were hired for utility energy transition programs.

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Tim Grejtak @theenergynerd.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

My favorite Christmas movie is Elf. It's fundamentally about solving an energy crisis. 🔌💡

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Tim Grejtak @theenergynerd.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

This was such a good one! Damn these 60s limits! C'mon @bsky.app!

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Tim Grejtak @theenergynerd.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

This might be the first insightful thing on Trump I've seen from the New York Times

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Tim Grejtak @theenergynerd.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Here's where an edit button would help. C'mon Bluesky... *0.0049%

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Tim Grejtak @theenergynerd.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

I've read whispers of R support for IRA, but it doesn't seem to have moved voters, given district election outcomes. Will R's go to bat for Biden's policies? Will they keep them and rebrand them? I fear they'll fall in line and scrap them, but I'd love to be proven wrong.

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Tim Grejtak @theenergynerd.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

a) Cute b) Yum c) Boozy whipped cream is also a good move, too. Just not too much or it won't set!

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Tim Grejtak @theenergynerd.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

If we preach the abundance of the energy transition, we have to make that abundance human-scale. Rooftop solar is great at that, but we need to do more. Not every objection to and proposal of development is authentic, but I have to believe most of us work in each other's interests. I've got to.

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Tim Grejtak @theenergynerd.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Wind, solar, and transmission lines are at eye level. Despite the fact we'll need 1/2 to 1/3rd less MJ from them, a fraction of a big number is still a big number. Many people, even clean energy practitioners, can be shocked at that scale. It can feel encroaching, intrusive, and marginalizing.

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Tim Grejtak @theenergynerd.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

We dig up oil and gas from underground with small wellheads, transport it through pipelines (often underground), and burn it to release an invisible gas to the atmosphere. Fossil fuels allow us to ignore the scale of our own consumption.

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Tim Grejtak @theenergynerd.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Still thinking about this. A story I've been telling is we're so used to our invisible fossil fuel energy infrastructure it's jarring to see it brought to eye-level with renewables. This drastic change from what we're used to is part of the backlash against wind and solar.

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Tim Grejtak @theenergynerd.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

I worked on that artificial leaf. And let me tell you something...it was stupid.

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Tim Grejtak @theenergynerd.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

How far do they expect thermal demand response to get them? How will they manage customer comfort during DR events? What do they expect for opt-out? ConEdison's gas demand response pilot was...not great.

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Tim Grejtak @theenergynerd.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

So, behind OpenAI's $160 billion valuation are banner ads and a Netflix subscription?

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Tim Grejtak @theenergynerd.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

I initially read RI as "Rhode Island," and thought GW was way out of scale 😅

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Tim Grejtak @theenergynerd.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Class action lawsuit for racketeering or harassment? Court shop for a judge who'll issue an injunction?

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Tim Grejtak @theenergynerd.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

So...a tree's-worth to absorb as much as a tree...

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Tim Grejtak @theenergynerd.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

I know these are 80s vintage turbines, and developers are working to repower projects, but given the high profile, visibility, and history, we have to do better overall. Minimize total, space appropriately, and keep them always spinning. People have to see what good development looks like.

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Bureau of Land Management approves repowering wind farm near Palm Springs

The Bureau of Land Management on Wednesday approved a plan to repower a 37-year-old wind farm near Whitewater Canyon just northwest of Palm Springs.

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Tim Grejtak @theenergynerd.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Just drove past the wind farms outside of Palm Springs. I say this as an advocate of renewable power: this isn't a cute look for wind. Most were feathered, many were damaged, and all were packed so close together it looked like a wall.

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Tim Grejtak @theenergynerd.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Thanks, Nat. Any insight on rates or terms?

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Tim Grejtak @theenergynerd.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Oh man, this is brutal 🤦🏽‍♂️ Upstate projects canceled due to local opposition?

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Tim Grejtak @theenergynerd.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Worked for 7 years on flow batteries. Hardest problem was keeping them from leaking.

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Tim Grejtak @theenergynerd.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

I'm sad to read this just after I finished my coffee

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Tim Grejtak @theenergynerd.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Fair points. I guess, being in climatech myself, I had hope that organizations could grow to match the scale of the climate problem without causing problems themselves. Seems it really does require a whole new system.

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Tim Grejtak @theenergynerd.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

I'm with you. Wealth from exploitation is bad. A question I struggle with is, what happens when a beneficial idea gets big? AFAIK, billionaires are rich because they own a lot of a big company they started. They can't sell it, lest lose controlling interest. Is this just an outcome under capitalism?

A graph from VisualCapitalist depicting the source of wealth for different net worth tiers.

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Joseph D. Ortiz @earthsciinfo.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

OK, so folks asked me to add degree heating and cooling days to my heat pump calculations, so here we go. A 🧪🧵

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Tim Grejtak @theenergynerd.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

If you grew up with these, you're a STEAM professional, and your knees ache.

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Tim Grejtak @theenergynerd.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

I'm sorry that happened to you. You ought to be able to file a claim for a food spoilage credit with your utility as well. I hate to say it likely won't be much, but it should be something.

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