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A weekly log of mastication activity in Nevada. IYKYK
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what comes first: AP1000s on the moon, or whalers on the moon

Great short series from @laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social on China solar (and wind) in the first half of 2025

Important data drop that I've been waiting for on China's massive solar installations in H1:
🌞 solar power capacity additions doubled year-on-year to 212 gigawatts, with total capacity at the end of H1 increasing a whopping 54% year on year

I still have the stuffed Figment which I picked up on my one and only visit to Epcot in the mid-1980s.

Place of manufacture: South Korea.

Headline from Harvard Crimson: "Harvard President Garber Tells Faculty He Is Not Considering a $500 Million Deal With Trump."

Text of story: Harvard prez Garber says report of a deal "was apparently leaked to the press by White House officials." NYT ran with it as a story.

Important details from this story:

1) Yet another news-break by student journalists (this time @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social) www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

2) Harvard saying "see you in court," not "let's make a deal."

3) Per Garber, WH/MAGA leaked news of a "deal." NYT then ran with it.

At the top, universities changed from engines of upward mobility to zero-sum knife fights among the top 20% of Americans. It does feel like a metaphor for some other areas of American life.

we are starting to approach "physical molecular limits of global trade flows expressed in dollars terms" here

Nice to see this now-canonical @ember-energy.org chart rebuilt by GS, and in @alphaville.ft.com (thanks @robinwigglesworth.ft.com). www.ft.com/content/5a97...

Bunnings launches zero up-front offer for home batteries and rooftop PV #energysky -- via Renew Economy: reneweconomy.com.au/...

@mliebreich.bsky.social:

"We can use a very simple model, requiring only a four-line spreadsheet, and explore what happens as clean energy continues to outgrow overall energy demand for a few more decades."

Liebreich: The Pragmatic Climate Reset - Part I | BloombergNEF As the tide on clean energy turns, Michael Liebreich makes a strong case for a pragmatic climate reset.

I've been reading everything that @mliebreich.bsky.social writes for nearly two decades. His latest doesn't disappoint. about.bnef.com/insights/cle...

This year, India will beat the US on renewables deployment. Its goal to reach 500 GW in carbon-free power capacity by 2030 now looks achievable. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

-> What Robbie said.

That really, truly has nothing to do with it.

This isn’t a stagnation story, though. “Endpoint nearly the same as start point with little variation in between” is stagnation. This is not that pattern, and it clearly shows that goods export has given up all post pandemic recovery

“Goods export volumes are lower than before the pandemic” is pretty clear to me! It’s lower in relative terms. It’s lower in absolute terms too.

I mean, there is an entire article with lots of additional text and even more charts.

What’s the crime? Same Y axis for both

Whatever could have caused this

Great reporting of late from @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social on electricity rate hikes. I found another very concrete example just now, in Missouri. A minimum 30% hike, and proportionally more for those at the lowest tiers of consumption.
Direct from the @halcyonai.bsky.social feed today...

I wrote something about information products and capturing change. It’s both abstract and technical.

Happy reading.

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Diesel market crunch coming *despite* weakening diesel demand in China

First natural gas-substitution, now electric.

"Electric-powered heavy trucks are rapidly gaining market share in China, driven by subsidies and the quick rollout of chargers, further curbing diesel usage"

A brief observation on data center energy and capacity growth. For years, electricity consumption growth YoY lagged capacity growth. Now, it's nearly 1:1.

Thanks for this, Pete - agree with your assessment that it's not the developers who are raising the costs, it's the market writ large.

We don't track Canada specifically but it's very worth seeing, so thank you!

Also, a real bar at 580 Sutter St in SF:

Good list, all; I will add:

Itchy & Scratchy Land
Kamp Krusty
Dimoxonil
Movementarians
Duff Gardens

Fresh intel from state utility regulatory filings Podcast Episode · Catalyst with Shayle Kann · 07/03/2025 · 39m

I had fun as always on @catalyst-pod.bsky.social this week. There's just so much power sector information to wrassle with these days, some of it deeply useful, some of it silly, all of it public and accessible if you can apply technology to it. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/f...