Deepest Sleeper
@deepest-sleeper.bsky.social
mostly just observing. climate change, news, energy topics.
Michael Mann posted an article. I disagreed with the framing. Very politely! Blocked. Honestly bizarre behavior.
October 31, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Michael Mann posted an article. I disagreed with the framing. Very politely! Blocked. Honestly bizarre behavior.
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Terrible on its own terms, and also poisoning the waters in congress for any kind of bipartisan deal on transmission/permitting issues.
SCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled
The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency
@heatmap.news
The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency
@heatmap.news
Esmeralda 7 Solar Project Has Been Canceled, BLM Says
It would have delivered a gargantuan 6.2 gigawatts of power.
heatmap.news
October 10, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Terrible on its own terms, and also poisoning the waters in congress for any kind of bipartisan deal on transmission/permitting issues.
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it's related I think to how liberal funders and institutions are allergic to spending on progressive media (eg how CAP shuttered ThinkProgress). rather than invest in that kind of long-term project the money vanishes into the election consultant maw
August 21, 2025 at 2:06 PM
it's related I think to how liberal funders and institutions are allergic to spending on progressive media (eg how CAP shuttered ThinkProgress). rather than invest in that kind of long-term project the money vanishes into the election consultant maw
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Terrific news for Marine Le Pen: the French left is campaigning *against* air conditioning amid a heat wave while her far-right party is promising a sweeping expansion of cooling equipment. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/w...
August 12, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Terrific news for Marine Le Pen: the French left is campaigning *against* air conditioning amid a heat wave while her far-right party is promising a sweeping expansion of cooling equipment. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/w...
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First they ignore you
Then they laugh at you
Then they fight you < we are here
Then you win
Then they laugh at you
Then they fight you < we are here
Then you win
July 29, 2025 at 7:49 AM
First they ignore you
Then they laugh at you
Then they fight you < we are here
Then you win
Then they laugh at you
Then they fight you < we are here
Then you win
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Yet another set of detrimental effects of the Trump administration: Renewables deployment declines, coal use surges, electricity prices rise. Effin' morons!
July 28, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Yet another set of detrimental effects of the Trump administration: Renewables deployment declines, coal use surges, electricity prices rise. Effin' morons!
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Based on fossil fuel growth rates from the IEA Coal Mid-Year Update, July Oil Market Report, & Gas Market Report Q3, fossil CO2 emissions would grow around 0.8% in 2025, reaching another record high...
We are only half way through the year, but don't build too much expectation for peak emissions.
We are only half way through the year, but don't build too much expectation for peak emissions.
July 28, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Based on fossil fuel growth rates from the IEA Coal Mid-Year Update, July Oil Market Report, & Gas Market Report Q3, fossil CO2 emissions would grow around 0.8% in 2025, reaching another record high...
We are only half way through the year, but don't build too much expectation for peak emissions.
We are only half way through the year, but don't build too much expectation for peak emissions.
@benbondlamberty.bsky.social @ckoven.bsky.social
I'm curious what the wider carbon cycle science community thinks about this recent analysis: www.newscientist.com/article/2489...
I'm curious what the wider carbon cycle science community thinks about this recent analysis: www.newscientist.com/article/2489...
Major carbon sink may have vanished for a second year in a row
Record heat in 2024 caused ecosystems on land to emit nearly as much carbon dioxide as they took out of the atmosphere
www.newscientist.com
July 27, 2025 at 10:40 PM
@benbondlamberty.bsky.social @ckoven.bsky.social
I'm curious what the wider carbon cycle science community thinks about this recent analysis: www.newscientist.com/article/2489...
I'm curious what the wider carbon cycle science community thinks about this recent analysis: www.newscientist.com/article/2489...
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This headline makes me feel physically ill
E.P.A. Is Said to Draft a Plan to End Its Ability to Fight Climate Change www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/c...
E.P.A. Is Said to Draft a Plan to End Its Ability to Fight Climate Change www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/c...
E.P.A. Is Said to Draft a Plan to End Its Ability to Fight Climate Change
www.nytimes.com
July 23, 2025 at 12:51 PM
This headline makes me feel physically ill
E.P.A. Is Said to Draft a Plan to End Its Ability to Fight Climate Change www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/c...
E.P.A. Is Said to Draft a Plan to End Its Ability to Fight Climate Change www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/c...
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coal demand is going up and the trump administration wants in on it heatmap.news/energy/cleve...
Global Coal Demand Is Rising, and America Wants In
The CEO of Cleveland Cliffs is just the latest U.S. voice to affirm the dirtiest fossil fuel’s unexpectedly bright future.
heatmap.news
July 22, 2025 at 1:39 AM
coal demand is going up and the trump administration wants in on it heatmap.news/energy/cleve...
alright I'm just a CCP guy now
*US SET TO IMPOSE 93.5% TARIFF ON BATTERY MATERIAL FROM CHINA
July 17, 2025 at 5:58 PM
alright I'm just a CCP guy now
it's over. between this and federal permitting nonsense, idk how we can have a solar industry in america. I may have to go live in the woods.
BREAKING: A new anti-dumping/countervailing duty petition has been filed against #solar imports from India, Indonesia, and Laos.
This is almost certainty going to shut off supply from these 3 countries & it couldn't come at a worse time for the US solar market.
I'll explain why in this thread. /1
This is almost certainty going to shut off supply from these 3 countries & it couldn't come at a worse time for the US solar market.
I'll explain why in this thread. /1
July 17, 2025 at 2:11 PM
it's over. between this and federal permitting nonsense, idk how we can have a solar industry in america. I may have to go live in the woods.
@chrisbataille.bsky.social
Curious to hear your thoughts on this article: www.linkedin.com/pulse/all-qu...
Is "power-to-x" just a dead end until post-2050?
Curious to hear your thoughts on this article: www.linkedin.com/pulse/all-qu...
Is "power-to-x" just a dead end until post-2050?
All Quiet on the HyFront
Twelve months ago, I joined Marble , a Paris-based cleantech incubator with the idea of founding a Power-to-x Company. The move was a culmination of an eight-year analyst career spanning market resear...
www.linkedin.com
July 8, 2025 at 3:30 PM
@chrisbataille.bsky.social
Curious to hear your thoughts on this article: www.linkedin.com/pulse/all-qu...
Is "power-to-x" just a dead end until post-2050?
Curious to hear your thoughts on this article: www.linkedin.com/pulse/all-qu...
Is "power-to-x" just a dead end until post-2050?
oh boy, that Hansen prediction looks pretty good
Except that climate models expect a faster rate of future warming than we’ve seen since 1970, in line with our 0.27C/decade estimate in Forster et al 2025:
June 27, 2025 at 5:36 PM
oh boy, that Hansen prediction looks pretty good
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The importance of renewables growth is subordinate to total demand growth for power, as we monitor decarbonization. The 4.3% growth last year in total demand was far more determinative to 2024's decarb outcome than the growth of renewables. | per today's EI Stat Review release.
June 26, 2025 at 6:30 PM
The importance of renewables growth is subordinate to total demand growth for power, as we monitor decarbonization. The 4.3% growth last year in total demand was far more determinative to 2024's decarb outcome than the growth of renewables. | per today's EI Stat Review release.
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Tremendous piece:
June 26, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Tremendous piece:
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⚠️ Hochul announces that she has tasked the New York Power Authority with building “at least one” new nuclear plant, generating 1 GW or more of energy by 2040. Would be NY’s first new nuclear plant in 40+ years
June 23, 2025 at 3:16 PM
⚠️ Hochul announces that she has tasked the New York Power Authority with building “at least one” new nuclear plant, generating 1 GW or more of energy by 2040. Would be NY’s first new nuclear plant in 40+ years
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The recent WMO 5-year temperature projections suggest that we might firmly pass 1.5C a few years earlier than expected. I explore the details in a new piece over at The Climate Brink: www.theclimatebrink....
June 12, 2025 at 4:36 PM
The recent WMO 5-year temperature projections suggest that we might firmly pass 1.5C a few years earlier than expected. I explore the details in a new piece over at The Climate Brink: www.theclimatebrink....
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Stellantis scraps plans for Illinois battery plant, parts hub
www.automotivedive.com/news/stellan... 🔌💡 🔌🚗
www.automotivedive.com/news/stellan... 🔌💡 🔌🚗
Stellantis scraps plans for Illinois battery plant, parts hub: UAW
The automaker remains committed to restarting its idled Belvidere factory in 2027.
www.automotivedive.com
June 10, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Stellantis scraps plans for Illinois battery plant, parts hub
www.automotivedive.com/news/stellan... 🔌💡 🔌🚗
www.automotivedive.com/news/stellan... 🔌💡 🔌🚗
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So, in recent years we’ve been going up >3pm/yr. Very roughly, if +2°C is 450-480ppm, if we don’t slow down we’re going to tap +2°C in 8-18 years …
May 2025 experienced the first 430 ppm+ monthly #co2 average in human history, per Keeling Curve: scripps.ucsd.edu/news/annual-...
Annual Carbon Dioxide Peak Passes Another Milestone
For the first time, the seasonal peak of carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere exceeded 430 parts per million (ppm) at NOAA’s Mauna Loa Observatory on Hawaii, scientists from NOAA and Scripp...
scripps.ucsd.edu
June 5, 2025 at 6:55 PM
So, in recent years we’ve been going up >3pm/yr. Very roughly, if +2°C is 450-480ppm, if we don’t slow down we’re going to tap +2°C in 8-18 years …
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It's pretty much impossible to read this and not feel some kind of existential horror. Like, what are we all doing?
Das erste Mal habe ich als Teenager in den 90ern gegen die Klimakatastrophe protestiert. Damals wurden wir hauptsächlich ausgelacht. Ich habe also ein dickes Fell was menschliche Ignoranz betrifft, aber das nun komplette Tierpopulationen verschwinden und es einfach niemanden stört, macht mich irre.
‘Half the tree of life’: ecologists’ horror as nature reserves are emptied of insects
A new point in history has been reached, entomologists say, as climate-led species’ collapse moves up the food chain even in supposedly protected regions free of pesticides
www.theguardian.com
June 3, 2025 at 1:59 PM
It's pretty much impossible to read this and not feel some kind of existential horror. Like, what are we all doing?
a lot more of this kind of news coming
‘will postpone its third battery factory in Oklahoma, US…focus on the production launch of 2nd factory in Kansas…third US battery factory that Panasonic is now delaying…factory in De Soto, Kansas to cost ~$4 billion…30 GWh/yr capacity…largest economic development project in Kansas's history’
Breaking News! Panasonic Delays US Battery Plant Plans- EnergyTrend
According to Wechat Official Account @ofweeklibattery, recently, foreign media reported that Panasonic Holdings has adjusted its battery production plan..
m.energytrend.com
May 23, 2025 at 6:21 PM
a lot more of this kind of news coming
I am curious what you think of this piece: thebreakthrough.org/journal/no-2...
In this new era of high deficits and fossil authoritarianism, I am not sure an "IRA2" is possible. What's the alternative? Back to a carbon tax? Muddle through until the next Covid provides a stimulus opportunity?
In this new era of high deficits and fossil authoritarianism, I am not sure an "IRA2" is possible. What's the alternative? Back to a carbon tax? Muddle through until the next Covid provides a stimulus opportunity?
The Era of the Climate Hawk Is Over
The Breakthrough Institute is an environmental research center based in Berkeley, California. Our research focuses on identifying and promoting technological solutions to environmental and human devel...
thebreakthrough.org
May 23, 2025 at 2:46 PM
I am curious what you think of this piece: thebreakthrough.org/journal/no-2...
In this new era of high deficits and fossil authoritarianism, I am not sure an "IRA2" is possible. What's the alternative? Back to a carbon tax? Muddle through until the next Covid provides a stimulus opportunity?
In this new era of high deficits and fossil authoritarianism, I am not sure an "IRA2" is possible. What's the alternative? Back to a carbon tax? Muddle through until the next Covid provides a stimulus opportunity?
I highly doubt this is going to work, but it will require dropping the idea of mandates and timelines probably
We have a lot more work coming on the idea of green economic populism. We don't have all the answers, but we do have the right question.
How do we get to a place where poor and working class people hear words like green investment, and think "that's my shit"?
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/07/o...
How do we get to a place where poor and working class people hear words like green investment, and think "that's my shit"?
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/07/o...
Opinion | Biden Left Us With a ‘Prius Economy.’ It’s Time for Something Different.
www.nytimes.com
May 23, 2025 at 1:13 PM
I highly doubt this is going to work, but it will require dropping the idea of mandates and timelines probably