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katie brigham

@kbrigham.bsky.social

climate tech reporter (or energy dominance, energy security, resilient infra etc. etc. reporter) at @heatmap.news | signal: katieb.40 📍 Seattle, WA

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Coco Liu@cocojournalist.bsky.social · 5d ago

NEW: The world is facing a looming #copper crisis. To extend the lifespan of one mine past its prime, #mining titan KGHM has recruited a group of unconventional miners. They arrived by the millions, transported in barrel-sized containers from a lab in Colorado. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Startups Are Extracting More Copper Using Microbes

As AI data centers, EVs and power grids drive a global copper shortage, young companies and mining giants are employing innovative solutions to extract more of the metal.

bloomberg.com

katie brigham@kbrigham.bsky.social · 5d ago

for a grand total of 8.7 seconds, a startup produced net power from a subsea geothermal power plant. it could be the dawn of a new energy era! OR an indicator that this is gonna be practically impossible to operate economically for any real length of time. who knows!

The World’s First Subsea Geothermal Well Had 8.7 Seconds of Glory

Endurance Energy hoped its generator would run for a full year, but the team isn’t afraid of the “error” in “trial and error.”

heatmap.news

Emily Pontecorvo@emilypont.bsky.social · 3w ago

I wrote about "project certainty" in the new permitting bill, looking at past examples like Obama vetoing the Spruce coal mine and Biden rejecting Keystone XL as case studies to show how the bill would (and would not) constrain executive power over energy projects. heatmap.news/politics/baa...

What a President Can and Can’t Do Under the Senate Permitting Bill

How the bill would have affected (or not affected) the Keystone XL pipeline, the Lava Ridge wind farm, and other major project proposals.

heatmap.news

JP@jpbrammer.bsky.social · 3w ago

opened chess dot com today. the bots are Halloween-themed. this is a huge relief because if they hadn't been Halloween-themed I would have done something drastic. I would have lost control

Robinson Meyer@robinsonmeyer.bsky.social · 3w ago

Under the new bipartisan permitting bill, AI data centers and crypto miners would have to report their energy use to the federal government for the first time. This is already required for other large energy users. Has been long sought for data centers by Elizabeth Warren and others.

SEC. 2114. COLLECTION OF DATA ON COMPUTATIONAL 2 LOAD ENTITIES. 3 (a) DEPINITION OF DATA CENTER ENTITY.- 4 (1) IN GENERAL.-In this section, the term 5 "data center entity" means an end-user, or group of 6 co-located end-users, the primary purpose of which 7 is to house computing, networking, or data storage 8 equipment used to process, store, or transmit digital 9 data, including equipment used for 10 (A) artificial intelligence training or infer- = ence; 12 (B) cloud computing or data hosting; or 13 (C) cryptocurrency mining or other distrib- 14 uted-ledger or digital-asset computation. 15 (2) ExcLUSION.—In this section, the term 이 "data center entity" does not include computing or 17 data storage equipment that is ancillary to a facility 18 the primary purpose of which is commercial or in- 19 dustrial activity other than an activity deseribed in 20 paragraph (1). 21 (b) DATA COLLECTION.—Not later than 90 days be- 22 fore the first April 1 after the date of enactment of this 23 Act, the Administrator of the Energy Information Admin-24 istration shall revise Form 861 of the Energy Information 25 Administration to include load from data center entities.
Kevin J. Kircher@kevinjkircher.com · 3w ago

The Senate's permitting bill text is up. It's way too big/complex for anyone who didn't have early access to digest today, so beware hot takes, but this bit (p. 54 line 9) is funny: If an agency misses a deadline, the agency head can't travel >25 miles from their desk til the agency submits the doc.

energy.senate.gov

Our World in Data@ourworldindata.org · last mo.

📝 New article on Our World in Data: Is organic farming better for the environment than conventional farming? One of the most common questions we’re asked about food systems is whether organic farming is better for the environment than conventional methods.

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katie brigham@kbrigham.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Odyssey Energy Solutions just raised $74 million to help small solar installers in emerging markets like nigeria and india access the financing and equipment they need to build distributed solar — supplementing unreliable national grids as diesel costs climb and energy demand surges

Odyssey Energy Raises $74 Million to Supercharge Small-Scale Solar

Across the Global South, distributed energy is “leapfrogging a centralized grid,” Odyssey’s cofounder told Heatmap.

heatmap.news

katie brigham@kbrigham.bsky.social · 2mo ago

the US is in the midst of a historic nat gas buildout — with much of it tied to data centers, many of the biggest projects going off-grid, and a meaningful chunk of it dirtier than the last big gas boom in the 2000s

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Emily Pontecorvo@emilypont.bsky.social · 2mo ago

There's been a lot of news about natural gas megaprojects tied to data centers recently, and it's getting hard to keep track. I put together a list of the 10 biggest projects, (according to their developers' aspirations, at least,) and the status of each. heatmap.news/energy/10-bi...