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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 8h

when everyone on the timeline is 38, you play the hits

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Jake Higdon @jakehigdon.com · 8h

There are real people on the end of these grants. Rust belt autoworkers. Great Plains farmers and roughnecks. Coal communities looking to a new economic future.

It’s genuinely heartbreaking. They don’t have do this — the money is already obligated — but I guess they enjoy destroying lives.

Emily Pontecorvo @emilypont.bsky.social · 12h

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
heatmap.news/politics/doe...

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.

heatmap.news

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Bob Kopp @bobkopp.net · 9h

Koonin spending an entire WSJ column criticizing @nationalacademies.org’s report for not being a review of his DOE climate contrarian report when (1) to my knowledge, the Academies have never reviewed a gov’t report without being asked (though such an independent review, or comparable, is necessary…

Opinion | Another Tale of Climate Change Bias

The government should stop funding the National Academies’ climate studies until they shed the political conformity.

www.wsj.com

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 8h

me when I got tenure:

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 8h

Some scoops in here: Adam O'Neal is telling people he will helm The WaPo's flagship opinion podcast, spending upwards of four hours a day on it. He's also indicated, per a source, that he plans to remain in his current job for decades. www.status.news/p/washington...

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 8h

but somehow the captioning font feels off

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 9h

folks is it woke to build winter air conditioners in the United States

Emily Pontecorvo @emilypont.bsky.social · 12h

10 out of 13 grants awarded for domestic Heat Pump manufacturing (the IRA’s Heat Pump Defense Production Act Program) are also listed. 🔌⚡

Awards for Gradient, Mitsubishi, and York International appear to be safe.

Emily Pontecorvo @emilypont.bsky.social · 12h

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
heatmap.news/politics/doe...

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 9h

I was speaking on a panel today and started thinking about this video and started almost laughing uncontrollably [sound on]

Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 22h

me logging on

🦇Zombatman🦇 @budbuddyguy.bsky.social · 21d

The reverb 🤌

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 9h

Apprentice: how many flavors you want to use boss, 4? 5?

Alderton [long drag]: 23

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 9h

whomever invented Dr. Pepper keep your phone ringer on tonight

PBS News @pbsnews.org · 9h

The 2025 Nobel Prize in chemistry will be announced Wednesday. https://to.pbs.org/42wDZz0

WATCH LIVE: The winner of the Nobel Prize in chemistry is...

The 2025 Nobel Prize in chemistry will be announced Wednesday. Watch here at 5:30 a.m. EDT.

www.pbs.org

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 9h

A shameful continued destruction of the innovation engine of the United States. For nothing! For no reason!

Emily Pontecorvo @emilypont.bsky.social · 12h

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
heatmap.news/politics/doe...

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.

heatmap.news

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 13h

yikes

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 13h

love bsky.app/profile/cost...

Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · May 13

🎵 I fell in love with the drummer

Marina city tower in Chicago, it looks like a tall honeycomb, with parking below and apartments above. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marina_City,
Featured on Wilco’s 2002 album Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 13h

don't know the context but yeah all bridges are overbuilt so they don't uh crash into the water

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 13h

Colleges that sign the compact to give away their future: we're all going to laugh at you and all your best faculty will leave and gasp your rankings will tank

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🎃 public HELLth guy 🎃 @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 21h

they just slapped a surgeons general warning on RFK like he’s a pack of cigarettes

Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 23h

“Secretary Kennedy is entitled to his views. But he is not entitled to put people’s health at risk.”

Six former surgeons general condemn RFK Jr.

Opinion | Six surgeons general: RFK Jr. is a threat to the health of Americans

It was our duty in office to warn of dangers when we found them. We’re doing that again today.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 13h

seems bad

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 13h

If you want the longer version of this: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

The Electricity Crisis with Costa Samaras

Podcast Episode · Why Is This Happening? The Chris Hayes Podcast · 09/23/2025 · 56m

podcasts.apple.com

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 13h

Some Legal Scholars See Problems With Driver Not Stopping At Red Light

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 13h

the graph is a visual pie chart that I explain over in approximately the shares needed over the next 10-15 years

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 13h

IN OPINION: "I'm an Originalist. Here's The Case for The Unconstitutional Use of Government Funds"

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 14h

I mean, I said it on Chris' podcast, and in our op-ed, and in my talk today and all my talks: if we can't do data centers with clean electricity we can forget about heat pumps and EVs and we won't get to zero emissions www.costasamaras.com/energy-ai-cl...

Data Centers and Al Are Only Part of Future Anticipated Electricity Growth

Image of an EV, a server, homes with solar panels, and a factory

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 14h

I know I give the mid econ blogs of the 2010s a hard time. There is no second part to this sentence.

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 14h

another thing Weiss does is give other very dull people a vehicle to spout bog-standard right-wing ideas and pretend they're being iconoclasts or innovative.

Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 14h

Weiss very intentionally does not describe herself as a conservative or Republican and wraps her politics in terms like "free press." That makes more useful at advancing Trumpism than explicitly right-wing figures. newrepublic.com/article/2014...

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U.S. Rep. Kathy Castor @usrepkathycastor.bsky.social · 14h

Hardworking American families and businesses deserve lower electric bills w/ solar and wind!

Yet, Trump and the Dept of Energy just canceled hundreds of 🇺🇸 clean energy projects and jobs as retribution 🤯

Jesse D. Jenkins @jessedjenkins.com · 14h

Worldwide solar and wind power generation has outpaced electricity demand this year, and for the first time on record, renewable energies combined generated more power than coal, according to a new analysis.
share.google/FrLUSBkG5xrX... 🔌💡 #Upshift

Solar and wind power has grown faster than electricity demand this year, report says

A new analysis of solar and wind power shows its generation worldwide has outpaced electricity demand this year.

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 14h

In my remarks at UVA about AI & the environment, I said the next 10 years of AI energy policy, in data centers, power infrastructure, & society, will set the trajectory of costs and emissions, and who bears those costs and emissions, for the next few decades. We don't want to look back with regret.

Scott Doney @scottdoney.bsky.social · 15h

Thanks so much @costasamaras.com for participating in today’s AI & Environment panel hosted by @uvaenvironment.bsky.social it was a great event with other panelists from @uvaenvisci.bsky.social and UVA @weldoncoopercenter.bsky.social

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 19h

Electric bicycles, and shared electric bicycles in particular, are a revolutionary transportation technology. Forward-looking cities should be building out the infrastructure necessary to make cycling safe and convenient for everyone who wants to do it.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21h

i recently got a great deal on a barely used folding ebike and i have to say it has revolutionized my train travel. i can get from my front door to the amtrak station in a little less than 5 minutes!!!

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