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Brendon Slotterback @bslotterback.bsky.social · 1h

100 MWh sounds like a lot, but I don't really know if it is

Jesse D. Jenkins @jessedjenkins.com · 6h

Base Power raises $1B to deploy home batteries everywhere share.google/KwAsfbfTQLKs...
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Base Power raises $1B to deploy home batteries everywhere | TechCrunch

Base Power's Series C will help the company expand beyond Texas, its beachhead market, and build batteries in the United States.

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Brendon Slotterback @bslotterback.bsky.social · 1h

always love the China episodes!

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John Smillie @johnsmillie42.bsky.social · 3h

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/o...

I compiled about 15 reasons a month ago. NYT editorial board is now on board.

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Robert Ferry @robertferry.bsky.social · 2h

If you read one thing today it should be this. Then send it to your congressmember, senators, and to the White House.

Opinion | Why You Should Blame Trump When Your Energy Bills Go Up

www.nytimes.com

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Kevin J. CREATURE @kevinjkircher.com · 2h

In April, Spain and Portugal suffered Europe's worst blackout in 20 years. Now, 5 months later, an expert panel has released a report on the blackout. In the meantime, opportunists filled the information void, blaming renewables without evidence. The misinfo stuck, @juliaradio.bsky.social reports.

After Spain's blackout, critics blamed renewable energy. It's part of a bigger attack

When millions lost power in Spain and Portugal this spring, some were quick to blame too much solar and wind power. That wasn't the cause, but the misinformation had an impact.

www.npr.org

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Ross Macfarlane @rossmacfarlane.bsky.social · 19h

With the Trump Admin bashing renewables and boosting fossil fuels, most folks would assume that the smart money is going into oil and gas stocks. The investment returns tell a very different story, with green funds doubling the performance of fossil funds.

Green funds double performance of oil assets in Q3, defying Trump

Despite cuts, data center thirst for energy lifts renewables again

www.callawayclimateinsights.com

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Brendon Slotterback @bslotterback.bsky.social · 23h

I always look forward to reading your stuff!

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

MAE SOT, Thailand (AP) - Mohammed Taher clutched the lifeless body of his 2-year-old son and wept. Ever since his family's food rations stopped arriving at their internment camp in Myanmar in April, the father had watched helplessly as his once-vibrant baby boy weakened, suffering from diarrhea and begging for food.
On May 21, exactly two weeks after Taher's little boy died, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio sat before Congress and declared: "No one has died" because of his government's decision to gut its foreign aid program. Rubio also insisted: "No children are dying on my watch."
That, Taher says, "is a lie."

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Brendon Slotterback @bslotterback.bsky.social · 23h

I have a fusion company that fuses foam insulation to air gaps in houses. Please VC me

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 23h

Should elected officials be imprisoned for speaking out against an invasion of their cities? Hard to say. Very technical question. Really one for the lawyers to sort out.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Q: Do you agree that the mayor of Chicago and governor of Illinois should be in prison?

MIKE JOHNSON: Should they be in prison? I'm not the attorney general. I'm not following the day to day on that

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Brendon Slotterback @bslotterback.bsky.social · 1d

My good friend with younger kids is telling me about this saturation and I’m grateful to observe from the teenage years

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William Hazen @williamhazen.bsky.social · 1d

This is the most accurate depiction of the Midwest to date. Wichita has always felt like the last Midwest city while also being the first plains city.

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Brendon Slotterback @bslotterback.bsky.social · 1d

Amazing gradients

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Dave @astronomydave.bsky.social · 1d

A sky like this can be difficult to capture the way I see it. But in this case, this is almost exactly how it looked.

A dusk scene. The horizon is black. There are some wind turbines and trees along the horizon. A deep orange fades slowly into a lighter orange upward, then turns light blue into a deeper blue at the top.

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Sexy CHOAM Nomsky costume @samthielman.com · 1d

Richard Nixon lived long enough to play NBA Jam

Zach Rabiroff @zachrabiroff.com · 1d

Albert Woolson, the last surviving veteran of the Union army in the Civil War, lived long enough to hear Elvis’s debut lp

Zach Schonfeld @zachschonfeld.bsky.social · 1d

A man who witnessed the Lincoln assassination lived until 1956 and could have theoretically listened to the first album by Harry Belafonte, who in turn lived long enough to hear "WAP"

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 1d

listen. when dolly parton’s sister says it’s time for us all to be prayer warriors for dolly. you fucking pray for dolly

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Tyler Norris @tnorris.bsky.social · 1d

NextEra SVP Petter Skantze says battery storage is now “the cheapest form of new capacity” in the US w/ “order of magnitude” faster deployment than gas w/ more modularity & flexible siting to enable higher system utilization & large load integration — #GridFWD in Monterey, CA 🔌💡

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 1d

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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Brendon Slotterback @bslotterback.bsky.social · 1d

Trump believes he writes laws and congressional Republicans agree

Emily Pontecorvo @emilypont.bsky.social · 1d

Some additional info on the new list of axed DOE projects circulating.
- All 7 H2 Hubs
- All 13 IRA grants to convert at-risk auto plants to EV mfg
- 11 of 15 grants to speed domestic clean energy mfg in former coal communities
- 10 of 38 grants for battery materials
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Trump to Axe All 7 Hydrogen Hubs, Bucking Bipartisan Law

A new list of Department of Energy grants slated for termination will hit clean energy and oil majors alike, including Exxon and Chevron.

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 1d

There is good news on renewable energy vs. fossil fuels, just not here

My latest, please subscribe:

The (Rest of the) World is Leaving Fossil Fuels Behind

Welcome to my relaunched newsletter, with independent writing and reporting on science, politics, and policy. Read more about it here, and please subscribe at the bottom of this post to support this w...

www.gravityisgone.com

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Brendon Slotterback @bslotterback.bsky.social · 1d

@dave.bzky.team so the AGs say asset managers worked to keep prices high, but forcing them to divest would devastate the coal companies?

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⚡Taylor Kuykendall⛏️ @taykuy.bsky.social · 2d

🚨 A landmark antitrust lawsuit against BlackRock, Vanguard, and State Street could reshape US coal industry! 11 AGs allege collusion to keep coal prices high while production dips. W/ $22.83B at stake, implications for investors and coal companies could be massive: www.spglobal.com/market-intel...

www.spglobal.com

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David Weiskopf believes in you @dave.bzky.team · 2d

Offsets can't cut carbon *even in theory*

The whole point of offsets is to create permission to *not* cut carbon.

So when they don't even live up to their own standard, they are so much worse.

David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 2d

News that shocks no one: Carbon offsets do nothing for climate.

Carbon offsets fail to cut global heating due to ‘intractable’ systemic problems, study says

Analysis of 25 years of evidence shows most schemes are poor quality and fail to lower emissions

www.theguardian.com

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Brendon Slotterback @bslotterback.bsky.social · 1d

A neat bonus is that all these households would save money on heating/cooling, get a more resilient home, and have cleaner air

PM2.5 Kills ~9 Million People Worldwide Annually @tkovach.bsky.social · 1d

"Between installing heat pumps in homes with inefficient heating and cooling, and installing rooftop solar and storage, we can more than meet the projected load growth from data centers."

New report: Household upgrades could offset all new projected data center energy demand | Rewiring America

Our report, Homegrown Energy, finds household upgrades are the best, fastest solution for increasing energy demand.

www.rewiringamerica.org

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

Highest long-term inflation expectations in 18 months. (March 2024)

FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 1d

NY FED: SEPTEMBER ONE-YEAR AHEAD EXPECTED INFLATION 3.4% VS. AUGUST’S 3.2% NY FED: SEPTEMBER THREE-YEAR AHEAD EXPECTED INFLATION UNCHANGED AT 3% NY FED: SEPTEMBER FIVE-YEAR AHEAD EXPECTED INFLATION 3% VS. AUGUST’S 2.9%

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