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Climate, energy, emerging tech, resilience, & policy professor. Carnegie Mellon Univ. Institute for Energy Innovation Director. Former Biden-Harris White House OSTP Chief Advisor for the Clean Energy Transition. Personal account. He/Him. costasamaras.com
Because the price of oil is global, a disruption to oil flows in the Strait of Hormuz or elsewhere raises the global price. Doesn’t matter if we don’t import any oil. We all pay about the same price, except for the shipping costs.
So as Fat Joe said, “yesterday’s price is NOT today’s price”.
poster for the hit TV series The Shield, starring Michael Chiklis
Original Shield of the Americas was better
Roughly equivalent to a carbon tax of $80 per metric ton of greenhouse gas emissions.
Scoop: I’ve learned the solar permitting thaw is real, according to documents I can exclusively report.
Contrary to what MAGAworld and beltway pundits want you to think,
It’s probably a maneuver for Trump to avoid losing in federal court.
Via @heatmap.news
#greensky #energysky #climatesky
Electrification of transportation is a national security and economic resilience strategy, which would work well for this exact scenario we are in right now.
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In this piece I said, "It’s important to evaluate the administration’s actions, rather than evaluate the administration’s pledges. To ensure that prices don’t continue to spike because of the demand growth in artificial intelligence, we need to add much more clean energy to the grid”.
Someone putting the Institute for Advanced Study chalkboards to other good use…
dude rocks
analysis: vibes aren't great
thanks to @volts.wtf for having me on to talk about coordinating and planning fossil phase out to build a better and actually decarbonized world. there‘s a lot we can do if we imagine a people-centered, service oriented future — and a LOT we miss if we don’t.
The White House is treating war like a video game
I talked with NBC in Dallas about data centers and here's the extended cut on instagram. Data centers are indeed big warehouses full of computers. Maybe I should use instagram again. Does it have a Discover Tab? www.instagram.com/reels/DVKX35...
gotta say it was more fun than making graphs that's for sure
lol
getting to watch Ms. Davis act was really out of this world.
casting agents hmu for a new role and I will log off during filming, a win-win for all! bsky.app/profile/cost...
I was lucky to get to be a background actor in the Academy Award-winning film Ma Rainey's Black Bottom starring Viola Davis and Chadwick Boseman.
never, ever, ever, ever accept "how will you pay for it?" as an argument against social programs.
I talked with the @latimes.com @hayleysmith.bsky.social about the Administration promising to lower electricity bills while also blocking new sources of clean energy supply. When demand is spiking because of AI and the government is blocking supplies, prices go up. www.latimes.com/environment/...
Today on Volts: for the next few decades, we'll be in the "mid-transition," with clean energy systems growing as FF systems decline. Those FF systems will not decline smoothly -- there will be thresholds, "cliffs," where they suddenly crumble -- so maybe we should, I dunno, plan for it?
This is great news, congratulations!
It's been a journey of nearly 3 years, but I'm very excited to announce the CNTR AISLE Portal! 🚀 cntr-aisle.org It’s a new way to review and evaluate the 1,000+ AI bills introduced in the U.S. over the last three years. Check out the Bill Library and our Profiles#AIPolicy #OpenData
Time to say it again!
What it's like for me under the missiles
open.substack.com/pub/musgrave...
🎵 There's blood in my mouth 'cause I've been biting my tongue all week (logged out)
[Decemberists voice] This is why, why we post
The energy market is on edge. Iran was exporting almost its entire daily oil production in the last few weeks, IRGC-linked news outlets say the Strait of Hormuz is "effectively closed," Saudi says the Eastern Province was attakced, the US hit Iranian naval assets heatmap.news/energy/trump...
It's just too bad Congress isn't around to see this
