These are all traits of terrible forecasters.

Europe can build a lot of renewables without getting into grid issues. What’s also worth noting here is that private investors must have known this all along. That this hasn’t yet happened means there are barriers to investment beyond the grid.

Christian Odendahl@codendahl.bsky.social · 2w ago

Very interesting. Build wind and solar next to hydro plants. The grid is already there and goes underutilised for much of the day.

Now that millions of electric vehicles have been on the road for a decade or more, we have the data to check in on how their batteries are holding up. Quite well, it turns out.

EV Batteries Are Defying Expectations After Hundreds of Thousands of Miles

Industry experts think newfound knowledge of battery durability is a game-changer for consumer confidence in EVs.

wsj.com

This is a rather weird fourth. I fell in love with America, the country where it doesn’t matter where you are from. It saddens me how much we’ve regressed, but I also believe that that America as an idea is still alive.

Least-cost electrification plans have become more sophisticated. This working paper proposes an integrated regulatory–financial framework. Universal access becomes bankable when planning, regulation and financing are integrated. ceepr.link/4lc8Ysm

Famous authors asking you out

TODAY: New York City’s entire electric grid just got about 20% more renewable power. That’s because it’s the first day the CHPE transmission project is sending commercial power to New York City's electric grid. 👏👏👏 Lower prices! Less pollution! HUGE!

Hi everyone! I'm new to Bluesky. I'm an economist who studies growth, political polarization and the environment. Here are recent summaries of some of the things I'm working on: Long-run growth patterns and their implications: guidedcivicrevival.substack.com/p/regular-ec...

Regular economic development patterns with seismic implications

Global economic development has progressed with several highly regular patterns for more than half a century. These patterns may change, but their implications deserve much more attention and respect.

guidedcivicrevival.substack.com

A child on a bicycle on the sidewalk next to a gigantic pickup truck that's parked backed up to the sidewalk, wheels directly on the curb and tail and trailer hitch hanging over more than half the sidewalk. The child on their bike is shorter than the truck's closed tailgate.

Tim Querengesser@timquerengesser.bsky.social · 2mo ago

As an American immigrant from Bulgaria, I thought I left this graft and corruption behind. Apparently not.

Justin Baragona@justinbaragona.bsky.social · 3mo ago

And there it is, folks. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/05...

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Slightly diminish a book: As I Lay Drying

Kevin J. Kircher@kevinjkircher.com · 3mo ago

Slightly diminish a book: Thumb War and Peace

I was on a flight and I watched an interesting documentary about the Straight of Hormuz

“Nearly three-quarters of planned generation equipment for data centres is natural gas fired, according to energy research firm Cleanview, which is tracking 56GW of projects across the US.” ($) www.ft.com/content/b0f8...

Can Big Tech deliver on Trump’s pledge to shield consumers from higher energy bills?

US president pushes data centre operators to build their own power supplies as AI demand adds to costs

ft.com

It's being increasingly normalized for us all to be in someone's camera. Meta's glasses are trying to take that to an extreme. So this is worth highlighting: "Smart glasses from Meta turn you into a 'douchebag with a camera on your face'" www.ft.com/content/3039...

Say no to a ‘camera on your face’, says Meta smart glasses rival

Shenzhen-based Even Realities pitches itself as a premium alternative that does not harvest user data

ft.com

In response to Trump's War in Iran, the European Commission this week published a proposal to amend the EU's CO2 price. The problem is that the proposed changes are exactly backward: they degrade the long term CO2 price with little to nor relief in the short term. 🤦‍♂️ ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

EU reinforces the stability and predictability of its carbon market

The Commission has today announced a first concrete measure to reinforce the European Union Emissions Trading System (EU ETS).

ec.europa.eu

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Brian Bartholomew@bpbartholomew.bsky.social · 4mo ago

The world's electricity infrastructure, mapped.

Hear hear! ”Perhaps consuming a few dozen book pages a day should become the new 10,000 daily steps — a basic foundation of activity to maintain cognitive fitness.” www.nytimes.com/2026/03/27/o...

Opinion | There’s a Good Reason You Can’t Concentrate

nytimes.com

Sean Duffy should resign.

LaGuardia pilots raised safety alarms months before deadly runway crash

Nasa reports show repeated warnings of close calls before crash that killed two pilots and injured 41 others

theguardian.com

Oh I know this one! Trump has always wanted his name attached to stuff right?

That men reading in public is vilified as "performative" is idiotic. Books are good y'all.

Ned Resnikoff@resnikoff.bsky.social · 5mo ago

New piece for The Nation on the ubiquity of "performative" and "virtue signalling" as terms of derision. "Citizenship ... is inherently performative and that abandoning the performance of democratic life means courting democratic collapse." www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Kier Starmer: "What gives us control is renewables. Our own home-grown energy which is then more secure and more independent. That’s why I think we should go further and faster on renewables. Let’s get control of our own energy…so we don’t have to keep worrying that our bills are going to go up"

Electricity markets suffer from a missing market problem that is hindering decarbonization but remains poorly understood. So it's good to see this good non-academic read on the topic, and Australia is a good case study for understanding it better. inflectionpoints.work/articles/rew...

Rewiring Incentives | Inflection Points

Australia’s National Electricity Market is a marvel of moment-to-moment operation. But it lacks the tools required to spur long-term energy growth.

inflectionpoints.work

Americans didn't ask for this.

As EU lawmakers are looking to soften the continent's CO2 price, it's worth remembering that policy makers can overcome political constraints by complementing CO2 pricing with subsidies without sacrificing much economic efficiency, as I and @knittelmit.bsky.social show here: doi.org/10.1016/j.en...

"Our president will start a war with Iran because he has absolutely no ability to negotiate. He's weak and he's ineffective." -- Donald J. Trump (Nov. 2011) www.youtube.com/shorts/siIXY...

Resurfaced clip shows Trump accusing Obama of wanting a war with Iran

YouTube video by The Independent

youtube.com

Solar is cheap, exhibit 3,141,592,653.

Reason for hope: “The 2024 elections weren’t a tectonic social and cultural shift. They were not about rejecting the Enlightenment; they were a complaint about the cost of ground beef. Voters were not embracing patriarchal dictatorship“. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/o...

Opinion | The Great Capitulation Is Over. What Will Take Its Place?

nytimes.com