Mark S. Langevin
marklangevin915.bsky.social
Mark S. Langevin
@marklangevin915.bsky.social
I'm writing a book on Brazil's energy development, examining the nexus of prices, profits and politics. Everyone's views and suggestions are welcome.
Thanks Norm!
Coordinated a beer drop by a white friend to deliver a 30-rack of Hamm’s to a Hispanic friend’s doorstep because his wife wouldn’t let him leave the house to go buy more beer for fear he’d be brutalized by lawless armed masked federal paramilitaries. This is Minnesota community. We take care of us.
January 18, 2026 at 12:17 AM
What’s the best balcony solar package on the market: quality and price?
I suspect that new Washington state rep @electzachhall.bsky.social listens to @volts.wtf

Balcony solar! 1h 1m into the hearing video at tvw.org/video/house-...

app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary?...

Also generation on agri lands. app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary?...
January 17, 2026 at 11:59 PM
Yep, in an era of electrification, unbundling and marketization raises costs and profits. Can US industry afford this? Maybe, but it reinforces the political pressure for protection, shifting costs onto consumers across the board.
Fundamentally these grid operator schemes were designed to raise your electricity bills by injecting a new source of profit for the private sector. Instead of one profit margin from you, they wanted two- one for making the electricity and one for owning the wires that got it to you.
The White House on Friday urged the largest U.S. electric grid to conduct an emergency power auction to protect against rolling blackouts as energy demand from data centers grows faster than the country can build new generation plants.
January 17, 2026 at 5:15 PM
Even if U.S. gas remains below global price it will bake in infrastructure, locking U.S. industry to expensive energy systems, raising costs, limiting export competitiveness, and signaling strategic misdirection.
As this article points out, Trump's new plans to accelerate energy for new data centres will probably *worsen* power bills: the energy will be mostly fossil gas, and gas is set to become even more cripplingly expensive

insideclimatenews.org/news/1601202...
January 17, 2026 at 5:12 PM
Picking up Bill. Most of my associates in oil and gas ⛽️ talk addition while standard scholarship says transition. Agreeing with Bill, we are moving through a transformation that currently looks like addition but the real game changer is increasing energy self- reliance. More later.
January 15, 2026 at 10:28 PM
Pegou!
Preso pela PF no caso Master deu milhões à campanha de Bolsonaro e Tarcísio… - Veja mais em noticias.uol.com.br/colunas/leon...
January 14, 2026 at 2:27 PM
Keep us posted!
Norway's state-owned fossil fuel company Equinor is in court in the US tomorrow trying to get its Empire Wind offshore project unblocked - one of many projects unceremoniously trampled by the Trump administration on flimsy grounds

CC @jael.bsky.social

www.nrk.no/rogaland/skj...
Skjebnedøgn for Equinor og Empire Wind i USA: Kan tape 53 milliarder kroner
Etter at energiselskapet Ørsted vant frem i retten mandag, tror analytiker at det kan øke sjansene for at også Equinor kan vinne over Trump i kampen om et stort havvindprosjekt.
www.nrk.no
January 14, 2026 at 12:16 AM
I don’t see an EO posted yet, but in the end it’s CBP’s ball.
There is no plan. Nothing is thought through. Many folks in Washington have not yet absorbed this alarming reality.
So a new 25% tariff on China and India effective immediately? When do these new tariffs start getting collected? This is on all goods from those countries immediately? What about the limited trade deal we just made with China? That’s over now or is this just more bs?
January 13, 2026 at 2:50 AM
Certainly not what democracy looks like. If the Congressional Republican leadership allows this, well it’s a downward spiral. All eyes 👀 on Speaker Johnson. Wait, Johnson has allowed it without protest.
Three Members of Congress showed up to inspect the actions of federal officers in their state and the federal officers drew their weapons?
JUST NOW: Huge mass of agents in a standoff, weapons drawn as Reps. Ilhan Omar, Angie Craig, and Kelly Morrison attempt to conduct congressional oversight at the Whipple Building, which has been HQ for thousands of ICE agents.

@zeteo.com
January 10, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Bukele’s father Armando was brilliant in politics and business, Nayib majored in marketing and has not stopped since, all smoke, mirrors and torture.
Either create content or run a country, president shouldn’t be members of the gig economy.
January 4, 2026 at 2:13 AM
Reposted by Mark S. Langevin
Either create content or run a country, president shouldn’t be members of the gig economy.
January 4, 2026 at 2:05 AM
Reposted by Mark S. Langevin
Fascinating
1. Admin may not have informed Congress but has been talking regime change w US oil industry
2. Oil at $60, US firms not excited about major capex to get VZ heavy sour crude
3. Sounds like WH wants to prod oil firms to make their vision happen, more than WH doing US oil's bidding
a lot of interesting revelations between the lines of this story www.politico.com/news/2026/01...
January 4, 2026 at 1:07 AM
Marta, querida, inspiradora ♥️
January 4, 2026 at 12:58 AM
Fortunate Son!!!
Holy Crap!!!
The White House is now posting videos of them doing imperialism in Venezuela set to Creedence Clearwater Revival.

You may want to say “Who could’ve written this???”

Well, I did. It is quite literally the second verse to “devorah” by @ekkoastral.bsky.social.
January 3, 2026 at 11:04 PM
#Venezuela the talk of the town but I am also thinking about the USA capture of Manuel Noriega of Panama in 1989, and destruction of the Defense Forces. The comparison is limited but both framed as anti-narcoterrorism actions. Washington famous for creative pretexts.
January 3, 2026 at 11:02 PM
Colegas, estou buscando estudos que tratam a transição energética ao nível de análise municipal no Brasil.

Isso pode incluir variáveis ​​como instalações de #energiaeólica, projetos de #energiasolar, projetos de #biocombustíveis ou biomassa, estações de recarga para veículos elétricos, etc.
January 1, 2026 at 5:32 PM
New to Blue Sky and interested in learning more about energy, policy and politics, technology and behavioral dimensions of the #energytransition in #Brazil and worldwide.
December 31, 2025 at 10:00 PM