Matthew Smith

4.6 Billion Years On, the Sun Is Having a Moment In the past two years, without much notice, solar power has begun to truly transform the world’s energy system.

Excellent essay by @billmckibben.bsky.social on solar saving the world. #energysky www.newyorker.com/news/annals-...

Ultimately is a perfectly cromulent word.

In America we call them measles burial grounds

This kind of smart, walkable, mixed-use development is illegal to build these days.

If you’re in New York this summer and you miss this show, you miss a unique chance to understand the scale of our planet in relation to the human. Such a compelling show! So don’t miss it!

If you see this, quote with a robot that isn't from Star Wars, Star Trek, Doctor Who or Transformers.

Voters in Ann Arbor, Michigan, create a local clean energy utility The municipal effort aims to supplement utility DTE's grid with local, reliable, clean energy at below-market rates.

Tomorrow, I'm talking with folks in Ann Arbor, Michigan, about their new clean-energy utility, which is operating alongside (rather than replacing) big utility DTE.

Got any questions?

Australia: Zen Energy sees solar-plus-storage site with up to 8-hour BESS approved in 17 days Zen Energy has received approval for a 200MW solar-plus-storage project, which could feature a BESS between 4 and 8 hours in duration.

Australia: Zen Energy sees solar-plus-storage site with up to 8-hour BESS approved in 17 days #energysky -- via Energy Storage News: www.energy-storage.n...

Republicans' strategy is to retreat from these technologies so we're not buying them from China, doubling down on 20th Century fossil technologies. But you know who's buying those technologies from China? EVERYONE ELSE! If we squash domestic industries, China becomes the global superpower (6/8)

You may have heard that globalchange.gov and all the national reports on climate change have gone down.

We got em all on #sciop, a webrip and all the PDFs extracted: https://sciop.net/datasets/globalchange-gov-webrip

Per @ER: "The US has spent nearly $1 trillion on disaster recovery and other climate-related needs over the 12 months ending May 1, according to an analysis released Monday by Bloomberg Intelligence. That’s 3% of GDP that people likely would have spent on goods and services they’d prefer to have […]

A carbon-free, load-following electric supply resource sits literally right below our feet — the earth’s heat, which radiates continuously from the earth’s core. Entrepreneurs are quickly figuring out how to tap it. 🔌💡
www.rtoinsider.com/108596-aroun...

As someone who lived in New Orleans during the thing you call Katrina, I’m here to say that the time to politicize governmental failure in a tragedy is when anyone is still paying attention.

One of DOE's high-level conclusions is that AI data centers are exacerbating resource adequacy challenges. If that's true, DOE's report heightens the need for new rate designs and tariffs that force data centers to pay for the costs they're imposing on the bulk power system.

Here's the Dept of Energy's new report on resource adequacy, that was mandated by an April Executive Order -- www.energy.gov/sites/defaul...

DOE's recent "emergency" orders will be challenged in court. This document does nothing to bolster the legal defensibility of future "emergency" orders.

This is the thread Americans needed to see this weekend to feel better about our country.

no amount of free money is going to get people to have children in a stagnant society of rampant corruption and dwindling opportunity

Billionaires driving warming more than all of commercial Heathrow. How consistent with their destructive data farms and pipelines, megayachts and fake "intelligence." A plague on billionaires.

The Most Perverse Part of the ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’ The Republican megabill could be setting America up for the worst energy-affordability crisis since the 1970s.

"It’s hard to think of a bigger self-own. We’re effectively raising taxes on the country’s main sources of new power at a time when electricity prices are already rising,” @jessedjenkins.com told Rogé Karma: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc... 🔌💡

Is Newgate the prison the escape artist in Crichton’s The Great Train Robbery is seen … er… escaping from?

Pork nubbins or sushi? Damn shame Prime had no guts for a second season.

Poorest Americans Dealt Biggest Blow Under Senate Republican Tax Package

With the House bill now passed, I wanted to re-up two important stories:

The bill benefits the rich, and inflicts deepest harm on the poorest Americans, data show www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/b...

The deep federal aid cuts will not arrive immediately. A timeline: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/u...

"Alligator Alcatraz" is wrong and media should not use it. It's propaganda. Alcatraz held people convicted of crimes, particularly violent crimes.

The Florida camp holds people *not* convicted of any crime. If they had been, they'd be in prison elsewhere.

The site is a textbook concentration camp.

I imagined the Chatsubo in 1984. 41 years later I opened its door. Neuromancer is in production.

Cover of *How to Get Out of the Rat Race and Live in $10 a Month” by George & Berthe Herter

Giving this one a fresh look

How the Senate GOP’s New Tax on Renewables Could ‘Kill’ the Industry As bad as previous drafts of the reconciliation bill have been, this one is worse.

Republicans are now suddenly planning to TAX renewable energy, transforming the repeal of the IRA from a challenge to a full-blown crisis for American solar and wind.

I spent the last 24 hours putting this story together to explain why.

Please share! This is really important!!!

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'I was shocked': Melbourne man's 'unbelievable' find after buying house Daniel Xu has loved trains since he was a child. In a surprising twist of fate, he now lives above an extensive hobby train network set.

Here’s something delightful. New homeowners in Melbourne found an extensive model train setup under the floor after they move in.

We discuss the power of demand flexibility on the last episode of Open Circuit! We talk to the indomitable Arushi Sharma Frank!

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o...

Huh, turns out everything Republicans said about "all of the above" energy strategy was bullshit meant to manipulate Democrats until they could take power and crush renewables! The key is for all political analysts to immediately forget this so that we can be surprised again the next time.

Taxing wind and solar, while subsidizing fossil fuels and biofuels. Get it yet?