I was thinking about this too…in a fire sale all the new fossil generation is the only valuable part, in some reads

this article does the funniest thing in the world to me (which is true of basically every COP summary) in opening with "omg can you even IMAGINE, these people were working for TWELVE HOURS"

Amazing! ceees.nd.edu/graduate/

You are too kind!

Maybe so!! Is your friend obsessed with excellent and human-centered decarbonization? :D

WILD. this is the glory of being 1) the EiC and 2) a little more senior -- that I get to be like "wow, blocked"

Gotta say the next part where I was able to be like "hm, we don't tolerate that kind of interaction here, you no longer get to resubmit" was pretty cool. Love 2 protect my community.

Side note: I'll probably be hiring a postdoc on similar themes, but will confirm that by early 2026.

Scope also includes how we dismantle stuff!

I’m talking about the power plant part, mostly

Tbc just like with CDR I think it is bad to let buildout for AI happen in service of counterproductive things -- it's an appropriation of scarce resources that we really don't need -- my concern isn't "let 'em do it" but "I don't think people understand what electrification entails" on capacity

it's also a very problematic rounding error because it's spurring fossil build out! Google cheerfully emailed me that they're doing a new gas CCS plant for this. and it eats up capacity (institutional and otherwise) to do better stuff! I hate it!

AND

if we can't do ~100 GW, we're in big trouble

The fossil fuel industry has a long, sordid history of leaving behind toxic sites for taxpayers to clean up. State policy makers now need to protect taxpayers from the costs of stranded data centers and the gas plants and pipelines built to power them.

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