Wesley Garner

Like millions of New Yorkers, I want to put down roots in this city. Families like mine can't afford to buy a home in the neighborhoods we grew up in.

The solution to $1,000,000 home prices? I’ll deliver 1,000,000 homes in NYC.

My plan: zellnor.nyc/rebuild-nyc

Social media isolates and depresses us because it substitutes the spectacle of distant politics for the real life local organization and participation within politics. One is empowering, the other draining.

Close your eyes and take a breath. Answer me: Why are you still reading this?

Really important contribution here from @ricoconnell.bsky.social and team:

Rivian achieved a gross profit in Q4 for the first time ever:

I am sure a lot of people reading this will say "well duh" and they are right. But for those of us who have not done this before - take an hour out of this weekend or next and enjoy such a sense of connection. I joined working groups on things I cared about (community gardening!) and housing.

Hadn't attended a community organizing event in years. Found a group in RI and within an hour I felt so hopeful and energized; I had no idea how welcomed and included I would feel. There's so much determination you don't see when you don't know where to look.

Welcome to Trump Tracker: Probationary workers at health agencies being fired today Follow President Donald Trump’s impact on U.S. research and science globally

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Please let me know if you are hiring, I have a large network of the most talented and mission-driven energy professionals all looking for work (including me!).

This is almost too stupid to comment on, but I hope it's clear to everyone what's going on here: authoritarians bully you into doing little shit like this as a way to train you to comply, to grease the skids for bigger things. You talk yourself into a little thing, the next thing is easier.

Book covers for: Hollow Fires by Samira Ahmed, The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo, The Many Half-Lived Lives of Sam Sylvester by Maya MacGregor, Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson, Monster by Walter Dean Myers, To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee.

Got my first "Violating an Executive Order" and "I'll make sure you lose federal funding" parent threat today for teaching "DEI" books in our upcoming "Liberty and Justice" themed unit. Even in "Blue" Massachusetts we're dealing with this.

Anyway, don't obey in advance, and don't obey later.

Microsoft's own research confirms something that was already pretty obvious: relying on a text generating machine to come up with answers erodes critical thinking, and is a method favoured by those who never liked doing critical thinking in the first place

advait.org/files/lee_20...

A clam with a spring attached to the shell. The spring has a magnet placed above a sensor.

Hardly new info, but BSky should know:

Warsaw's water quality is monitored by eight clams with magnets attached to their shells. If contamination in the water causes the clams to close, the magnets trigger an alarm and shut off the city's water supply.
Thank you, little guardian molluscs.

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Wind and solar is cranking today, providing almost 70% of the power in ERCOT right now. #txenergy

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A ton of bunker oil costs about as much as a ton of DAC ($600-ish), but a ton of bunker oil has 3-ish tons of co2 in it, so it’s 3x more expensive to sequester that one ton of bunker oil (I.e, $1800-ish)

I am all for DAC but I think it’s greenwashing when the deal doesn’t math.

More specifically at citizens united enabling them to redefine said “deal”

I am filled with hope and confidence in my career choice. Let's get to work.

The market forces are undeniable - Texas led 50% of U.S. solar additions, and 80% of new energy infrastructure landed in conservative regions. This is a story of growing momentum that we could not imagine ten years ago.

Despite these challenges, I'm more optimistic than ever. This year alone, the U.S. invested $250B in EV/battery manufacturing, transmission, small modular reactors, and sustainable aviation fuels among other clean technologies.

3) Beyond capital deployment, we must strengthen supply chains, streamline permitting, and rapidly commercialize proven technologies.

2) Success demands coordination across the full capital stack: grantors, VCs, growth equity, PE firms, private credit, and lenders working together to accelerate grid modernization and create a mature clean energy ecosystem.

1) We need to deploy something like the current global GDP ($100 trillion) across the world by 2050 to avoid the worst effects of climate change.

Grateful to have attended Deploy24 this week - a conference uniting capital distributors, developers, and asset financiers driving the energy transition.

Key takeaways (1/n)

I hear truth is stranger than fiction