Jeff Hubbs

Interesting. I’ve been conceptualizing in my mind an abstract value of AI services that isn’t associated with GDP and what the relationship is between that value and the services’ energetic cost. This policy seems to cap the total energetic cost and encourages competing for value per unit energy.

Data is key for understanding and leasing the impacts of climate change on our economy and people. Glad to see @climatecentral.org continuing the data when our government fails.

Someone will comment this so I’d might as well: like Russia, China, Israel, Libya, Qatar, and North Korea, the US isn’t a member of the ICC.

Suffice it to say that a general strike in the US would have to be so extremely pervasive and indefinite that the socioeconomic world that existed after the strike would look very different from the one that existed when it started.

Did this indictment come out of a grand jury?

Doesn’t a grand jury have to approve any criminal counts that make it into an indictment?

Good point. In the case of hydro, you lose land to reservoir water but 1) the land you lose might have limited usefulness anyway 2) you may gain back some welfare in the form of flood control and irrigation, which improves the utility of land that’s not even connected to the reservoir.

Nailed it. Data General Nova 2, teletypes, BASIC. 13 years old.

I've never understood why anyone would believe that CO2 pressurized in natural underground reservoirs would stay down there indefinitely. Maybe for a year - or 10, or 100, or 1000 - what's to say it's not going to find its way to the surface where it might asphyxiate a whole town?

I confess to not knowing a whole lot about jurisdictions with respect to criminal investigations so I ask out of honest ignorance: why is the FBI involved?

Hair dryer holder. I have one.

And here’s the real kicker: if you aren’t charging enough for your energy products, you can’t afford to buy that storage.

But what it really signifies is that there has been a planning lapse such that you have assets *and* free embargo-proof primary energy that you cannot realize maximum value from because you have not bought enough storage.

When this happens, I try not to focus so much on the idea of a “negative price” (i.e. paying someone to take something). For one thing, that doesn’t mean you have buyers at that price; it may be like you’re trying to pay people to take water but no one’s got a bucket.

Exactly in what form is this carbon to be stored underground?

Absolutely. It seems that there’s a choice between making a post-fossil transition in a way that’s most beneficial for society and having things just go like they’ll go so some folks can make a quick buck.

Just what, exactly, is “cleaned up” to you, and exactly what is the armed deployment doing - within the bounds of the law - to accomplish that? Are they painting over graffiti? Gathering litter? Mowing grass?

In the middle of all this is a noteworthy Method performance out of Michael Moriarty.

Isn't he in, like, half of all weird movies?

I set up and run modeling systems like EIA NEMS, GCAM, and Switch as part of my consulting work. Not sure where they are w.r.t. releasing a source tree that I can build from but it looks like they’ve got precompiled binaries I can run on one of my Linux machines here.

The kinds of reactors we use on Earth for electrical power use uranium, not plutonium. Again, I don’t know what their intended use case is but it must be pretty precious if they’re talking about a reactor to support it. NASA & Grumman ran the 20’-tall 2-man 2-stage LM off batteries.

I’d be more concerned about why are we doing that when too many people can’t afford to get their teeth fixed as it is.

Such launches have happened many times before and RTGs have been designed that no matter what happens to a rocket carrying one on ascent it would plunk harmlessly into the ocean such that it can recovered. I don’t know what power we’re talking about re said reactor but I’m not worried.

Do you think those rates will increase just in the states where new w/s are banned or will it carry over to the whole US?

You can (literally) see the problem here: how efficient can these panels be when they’re reflecting green?

Climate Policy in America: Where We Go From Here Rob does a post-vacation debrief with Jesse and Heatmap deputy editor Jillian Goodman on the One Big Beautiful Bill.

NEW SHIFT KEY

WHAT JUST HAPPENED TO US CLIMATE POLICY — AND WHAT COMES NEXT

This is your orientation to US climate law post-OBBBA, from @jessedjenkins.com and me. What died, what survived (more than you think!), what it all means for America’s ability to decarbonize:
heatmap.news/podcast/shif...

Did I find a bad time to go into energy/climate research?

Opinion: Epstein list: Something happened on the way to transparency | Chattanooga Times Free Press It was supposed to be a slow news week.

It’s important to get the gist of the entire commentary (link below) but yes, the editor should have stepped in. www.timesfreepress.com/news/2025/ju...

Thanks! Implemented in Vensim, I see - I worked that a bit in grad school. Turns out I know one of your reviewers.