Jan Fichtner

WELCH: Mr. Yoho is also the husband of your former spokesperson, Tricia McLaughlin?

NOEM: Yes

WELCH: So your former assistant and her husband are the ones that got the DHS no bid contract for $143m. Any dispute about that?

NOEM: No.

Excellent, detailed and quite long read on oil & gas.

The nightmare Iran energy scenario is becoming reality
economist.com/finance-and-...

Think this misses basic point: reason for writing an academic article is not to produce an academic article; it is through the research for and writing of an academic article that we are able to think, learn, develop ideas, come up with new ideas, collaborate, inspire, etc.

Bernie Sander’s 2028 litmus test would strangle America’s golden goose

Surprise! The Jeff Bezos-owned Washington Post is against my 5% billionaire wealth tax. I wonder why?

If enacted, Bezos would owe $12 billion in taxes, and an average family of 4 would receive a $12,000 direct payment.

Poor Jeff would be left with just $224 billion to survive.

Scary. And from a European perspective hard to believe this is even possible.

Forever war you say?

Led by Donkeys made this. And it continues to be the best thing I've seen in a long time.

Trump's war on elections is hiding in plain sight False claims that foreign government interference caused him to lose in 2020 have been a staple of the diet of lies Trump feeds to his faithful.

I do not traffic in or promote conspiracy theories. But I also refuse to turn a blind eye to what is plainly happening to our democracy.

My latest. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/trum...

Bin absolut kein Verteidiger von BlackRock, aber es ist wichtig zu beachten, dass nicht BlackRock über das Portfolio der Fonds entscheidet, sondern die großen Index Provider S&P DJI, MSCI & FTSE Russell bzw die Endkunden. Das meiste sind ETFs und die bilden zu 100% Indizes nach.

Musk’s fossil data centres are undoing Tesla’s climate benefit I know you already know the data centres built to power the generative AI software running on X are intensely harmful and wildly polluting, often in breach of rules and regulations. You may not kno…

It's a simple way of putting it, but I hope the fact that one group of data centres powering one shitty, evil chatbot for one crappy little social media site undoing most or all of Tesla's entire global climate benefits puts in perspective how WILDLY bloated genAI is as software

Solche Speicher gibt es (leider) noch nicht - jedenfalls keine die sich wirtschaftlich rechnen. BESS werden mWn für 6-8h genutzt, so dass man sie idealerweise jeden Tag mittags lädt und nachts entlädt.

Especially batteries, here in Europe we're starting to get zero/ negative power prices whenever the sun comes out! Increasing the gas prices increases the spread that batteries can arbitrage from daytime to evening.

Green TLTROs when?!

Important point: fuel costs go up, inflation goes up, interest rates go up, RE deployment suffers

Handelsblatt vom 01.03.2026: "Ölpreis: Schlimmste Befürchtungen – kommt nun der Energiepreis-Schock? / Der Iran fasst eine Blockade der Straße von Hormus ins Auge. Sie ist eine der wichtigsten Routen für den weltweiten Öl- und Gashandel – die Folgen könnten auch in Deutschland zu spüren sein."

Wir hätten die Technologien, die Fähigkeit und die Möglichkeit, uns von teuren, fossilen Energieträgern unabhängig zu machen. Es fehlt allein der politische Wille. Man kann es nicht genug betonen.

Dirty Data An ERC investigation looking into the cost of data center infrastructures powering AI and the people paying the price.

For months, ~40 journos across Asia, LatAm & EU delved into the environmental impact of data centers w. the Environmental Reporting Collective.

I reported from Thailand, but as a whole, the project shows how unsustainable (and opaque) the AI data center boom's starting to look.

www.dirtydata.earth

Gas prices are up 50 (!) percent 𝘵𝘰𝘥𝘢𝘺. Do we have a public @lse-ei.bsky.social lecture on fossil fuel profits scheduled for 𝘵𝘰𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘳𝘰𝘸? Yes.

And will our speaker @gregorsemieniuk.bsky.social be joined by @mazzucatom.bsky.social as discussant? Also yes!

Registration: www.lse.ac.uk/european-ins...

Economists love to point to insurance as the market-based solution for adaptation - allow premiums to reflect risk and adaptation will follow.

In the real world there are limits to the effectiveness of this approach.

Nice commentary by Jo Weil and Jesse Gourevitch:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Thrilled that Prof. @mazzucatom.bsky.social is joining my talk on "Fossil fuel profits and the low-carbon transition: who stands to lose?" at the LSE as a discussant!

Tomorrow at 6:30pm GMT - coordinates of the hybrid event open to all at:
www.lse.ac.uk/european-ins...

Major fossilflation incoming. In an ideal world, EU countries would massively accelerate decarbonization now.

Hedge fund fools 😂

Operation Epic Fury Making Sense of the Energy Risks and beyond

A useful piece that underscores the benefit of energy sources that do not have to pass thru the Strait of Hormuz (e.g. sunshine & wind). Renewable energy is an investment in geopolitical resilience.

A quote from Jackie Garton, Interim Head of Corporate Climate Campaigns that reads: "The standards that were originally designed to help foster an emerging voluntary renewable energy market are no longer fit for purpose. Renewable energy is now the fastest growing source of energy, making this a critical moment to ensure the rules fully reflect how power is generated, transmitted and consumed today.”

📢 Today, 14 investors with $1.2 trillion assets under management are urging the Greenhouse Gas Protocol to update Scope 2 rules so reporting reflects real electricity use.

Press release: shareaction.org/news/emissio...

#ResponsibleInvestment #ClimateDisclosure #EnergyTransition

Pete Hegseth's Department of War press conference on 2 March 2026 is the Trump administration's manifesto for war without any humanitarian limits.

The grim darkness of a near present in which there is only war.

One data centre or one million homes? Mapping Ontario's proposed hyperscaler boom Canada’s National Observer found and drew from multiple sources to put together a map of planned data centres in Ontario, and found at least 15 projects with a combined capacity of 2,202 MW currently ...

New story out from @cloelogan.bsky.social and me. Data centres are being planned across Ontario, with some using the same amount of electricity as 700,000 homes. Where are they? And why are communities being left in the dark?

www.nationalobserver.com/2026/03/02/n...

Ex-Meta lobbyist put in charge of EU's digital rules: 'Tech oligarchy writing its own rulebook' Pressure is growing to drop the appointment of a former Meta lobbyist, elected as an MEP in 2024, from a file which could rewrite the EU's regulation of US tech giants.

Ex-Meta lobbyist put in charge of EU's digital rules: 'Tech oligarchy writing its own rulebook'

Did the petrostate’s trigger-happy oligarchy read our paper and conclude “Oil price shocks are good and easy to engineer”? We’ll never know. But we know where the profits go. 👇

We live in a world in which its entirely possible that Iran negotiations failed because people involved bet the under.

Makes total sense for both countries. Decarbonization technologies can act as a foreign policy lever. Solar and batteries the ideal combo here.

one of the problems with the "prediction markets have social utility" thesis is that acquiring true information to beat the markets works better the *shorter* the timeframe before the rest of the market gets that information because you can cash in more quickly x.com/itslirrato/s...