Tim Grejtak

This is great. Bravo to whoever is behind this.

A photo of the Southwick manufacturing plant before it closed. The photo shows a bunch of people at various sewing stations. This was located in Massachusetts.

I support the US garment industry. I don't believe in making life harder for immigrants or erecting blanket tariffs. So how can we reshore some of our US garment manufacturing without xenophobia or protectionism? Here's my view. 🧵

The Volunteer Data Hoarders Resisting Trump’s Purge Can librarians and guerrilla archivists save the country’s files from DOGE?

More than 130,000 government pages have gone dark in a purge that one scientist likened to a “digital book burning.” A group of librarians and archivists is fighting back.

Does residential solar have a bad product? With rooftop solar in a downturn, where the industry needs to improve to ensure sustainable growth.

Link to an incredible podcast: www.latitudemedia.com/news/open-ci...

Thank you, @jigarshahdc.bsky.social, @cleangridview.bsky.social, and @stephenlacey.bsky.social. This made my month.

If another VC tells me to drop services and hardware because software just sells better, I'm telling them to grow up.

@jigarshahdc.bsky.social spitting fire on @open-circuit.bsky.social 🔥🔥🔥

Brb, I'm going to get a "Put your big boy pants on and fix your product!" tattoo.

The $x00K seed funding to very early stage ventures is gone. VCs have pulled back after 2021/2022 exuberance, and federal grants from DOE/NSF/SBA are frozen.

It's pretty dire out here.

These are good, but the inverse - designing electrification projects to put downward pressure on rates - is more effective long-term and avoids potential cost shifts.

Chart: What Assets Make Up Wealth? This chart breaks down the composition of assets for each tier of wealth. See what assets make up a regular person's net worth, versus that of a billionaire.

A good excuse as any to bring up my favorite graphic about wealth: www.visualcapitalist.com/chart-assets...

Tesla stock ticker showing $227/share at 2:30pm March 10, 2025.

In case anyone else is wondering, he loses to Zuckerberg at around $45/share (all other things being equal)

A stacked area chart titled "Paralytic polio: estimated cases by world region, 1980 to 2023" displays data on estimated total cases of paralytic polio, caused by both wild and vaccine-derived polioviruses. The y-axis represents the number of cases ranging from 0 to 500,000, while the x-axis indicates the years from 1980 to 2023. Colored area bands represent different world regions: Oceania is shown in dark blue, Europe in light brown, North America in red, South America in orange, Africa in dark green, and Asia in teal. The chart illustrates a significant peak in cases in the early 1980s, followed by a dramatic decrease through the 1990s and early 2000s, leveling out to very low estimates by 2023. The footer cites the data sources: World Health Organization for the years 2019 and 2024, as well as Tebbens et al. from 2010. The graph is licensed under CC BY.

Foreign aid programs have played a crucial role in the fight against polio.

In the early 1980s, almost half a million people worldwide were paralyzed by polio every year, most of them children. But since the peak in 1981, the number of cases has fallen by more than 99%.

2/3rd of that long term gain are Biden-era industrial policy, credited by Slok himself (helpfully published after the election 🙄)

You can't build economic prosperity through tariffs and cuts. No one got richer by having less resources.

This is a dare?! How is a government shutdown any worse or different than the R's gutting federal administration?

What are they going to do? Freeze federal funding more?

The right thing to do is keep these opportunities to companies open. I'm proud of my New England senators @chrismurphyct.bsky.social and @whitehouse.senate.gov for being true champions for small businesses, innovation, and energy abundance.

The prize was perfect for early stage companies like my own: a small grant for initial operations and a platform at DistribuTECH to catalyze private investment.

But no. The administration doesn't think homeowners should have access to solutions that help them save money and ride out power outages.

Today's the big day! The DOE's Beyond the Meter: Energy Storage Integration Price is being awarded today!

...except that it's not, because despite state suits and the OMB memo pulled, the funding is being held from disbursement against court order and OMB guidance.

Best one yet

Dammit @support.bsky.team! It's content like this that merits longer video support!

I wasn't aware of the ~9% headcount growth since 2020. If my own experience is any indicator, those new employees were hired for utility energy transition programs.

My favorite Christmas movie is Elf. It's fundamentally about solving an energy crisis. 🔌💡

This was such a good one! Damn these 60s limits! C'mon @bsky.app!

This might be the first insightful thing on Trump I've seen from the New York Times

This is incredible!

Here's where an edit button would help. C'mon Bluesky...

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I've read whispers of R support for IRA, but it doesn't seem to have moved voters, given district election outcomes. Will R's go to bat for Biden's policies? Will they keep them and rebrand them?

I fear they'll fall in line and scrap them, but I'd love to be proven wrong.

a) Cute
b) Yum
c) Boozy whipped cream is also a good move, too. Just not too much or it won't set!

If we preach the abundance of the energy transition, we have to make that abundance human-scale. Rooftop solar is great at that, but we need to do more. Not every objection to and proposal of development is authentic, but I have to believe most of us work in each other's interests.

I've got to.

Wind, solar, and transmission lines are at eye level. Despite the fact we'll need 1/2 to 1/3rd less MJ from them, a fraction of a big number is still a big number. Many people, even clean energy practitioners, can be shocked at that scale. It can feel encroaching, intrusive, and marginalizing.

We dig up oil and gas from underground with small wellheads, transport it through pipelines (often underground), and burn it to release an invisible gas to the atmosphere.

Fossil fuels allow us to ignore the scale of our own consumption.

Still thinking about this. A story I've been telling is we're so used to our invisible fossil fuel energy infrastructure it's jarring to see it brought to eye-level with renewables. This drastic change from what we're used to is part of the backlash against wind and solar.