Like so many serious films of the past couple decades, Tár was great until it decided to go for the head-scratcher ending. I cannot abide setting up intriguing happenings and then dropping them completely. I am a normie and I like stories that resolve.
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Really interesting look at the troublesome issue of, well, whether recycling really works on a significant scale. By Psyched to be debuting this Bloomberg Originals series starring !
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Not an article I wanted to write.
The deadly H5N1 bird flu is spreading widely, including to mammals.
For the first time, it's now likely spreading mammal-to-mammal, among minks which are exceptionally well-suited conduits to humans.
We must act now.
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Interesting slide from Siemens Gamesa, the 2nd world's largest manufacturer of wind turbines.
It reports that onshore turbine orders dropped 46.3% y-on-y in the last quarter. And the cost of those turbines (€ per MWh) went up 25% y-on-y | #EnergyCrisis #Windturbines
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We are now Bloomberg Originals! youtube.com/@business
Our Emmy-nominated video team is aiming for bigger and better things this year. Excited to share some of our best work yet.
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Yes, China is building solar at a blistering pace. But how is it really performing? bloomberg.com/opinion/articl ht
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It's critical to understand just how much renewable technologies are coming down in cost. Here's one example.
A Tesla car battery which now costs $12,000 would have cost almost $1m in the 1990s...
The more we deploy clean tech, the cheaper it gets.
hannahritchie.substack.com/p/ev-battery-c
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Your best source of climate information is climate scientists. Second best is the opposite of whatever Tucker is saying
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Pretending to care about WHALES to shit on a more timely environmentalist symbol. Next week: Tucker is suddenly very concerned about the spotted owl
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Earlier this month, Tucker Carlson claimed that offshore wind farms are killing whales.
The only problem? Ocean scientists say there's zero evidence for this claim.
For his segment, Carlson also chose to interview someone being bankrolled by the fossil fuel industry.
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Pretty amazing
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In fact, wind and solar overtook gas AND nuclear last year, to become the EU's biggest combined source of generation in 2022...
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Hopefully the new methane-spotting satellites can help put a dent in methane leaks. IPCC has said methane is responsible for more than a quarter of all human-caused warming.
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#NewMexico is investigating a #methane cloud spotted by 
that appears to show the powerful #GHG spewing from an APA Corp facility in the #Permian last month.
A on the latest @climate article tracking the world's hidden #polluters: bloomberg.com/news/articles/
that appears to show the powerful #GHG spewing from an APA Corp facility in the #Permian last month.
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god damn right it is
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The line of windmills topping the mountain ridges of WV is majestic and bold.
And will also say continuing opposition to nuclear by greens seems counterproductive to the goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
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Like, Fukushima also hurt the nuclear industry, was that bc of environmentalism or just really widespread (overblown) public fear of nuclear?
Fwiw I think more nuclear seems like a very good idea, just not sure the obstacles are so simple
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Seeing a lot of nuclear boosters saying that environmentalists are responsible for halting a wholesale worldwide transition to nuclear power in the ‘80s. Imputes a lot of power to granola types imo. Would love to see an evidence based analysis of what stymied the industry.
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Your frequent reminder that the world could have defeated climate change in the 1980s if all industrialized nations had followed France's lead.
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Some great advise on how to find a meaningful job helping solve the climate crisis from my colleague .
Redesigning the global energy system and moving away from fossil fuels will be one of the major undertakings of the 21st century; lots of ways to get involved!
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“I’m a [product manager, lawyer, engineer, etc.] and I want to transition to climate work. Where should I look?”
I get a version of this question a lot. This note summarizes how I usually answer it in case it’s useful for others asking a similar question:
nanransohoff.substack.com/p/finding-a-jo
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What the inside of an LNG tanker looks like
The spherical vessels inside the tanker are used to contain the liquified natural gas. Sphere vessels are used because they contain no sharp edges, uniformly distributing pressure stress across the vessel
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U.S. domestic nuclear capacity has the potential to scale from ~100 GW in 2023 to ~300 GW by 2050. Every scenario of system decarbonization modeling suggests that we will need additional clean firm capacity to reach net-zero; nuclear power needs to be viable at scale.
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Social media seems to be incentivizing everyone to become a sort of petit guru, vomiting out life advice regardless of whether they have any knowledge or expertise. Hopefully this trend becomes passé soon.
Towards a new environmentalism for the 21st century
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Walking to the bar is BroforDecarb:
No DUIs
No emissions
Burn off some booze on a fun adventure home
You still make it to the bar
Sometimes politicians try to sound folksy -- this is a kind of riff on like, "putting food on the table," "kitchen table issues" etc -- and just end up making no sense
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Thinking about this insane tweet again. Gas stove is the last thing that would leave his house. The LAST thing! Like you don't have a piano or a nice dining table or a favorite chair or a prized book collection or anything? Your FAVORITE thing in your house is little blue flames?
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This is a recipe for disaster. The federal government has no business telling American families how to cook their dinner. I can tell you the last thing that would ever leave my house is the gas stove that we cook on. bloomberg.com/news/articles/
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No, the cure for fossil fuels is not worse than the disease.
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We see a lot of concern today that renewables and other clean electricity will require too much materials, and producing those will break our remaining carbon budget.
We have a new paper out today we find that these concerns are overblown. sciencedirect.com/science/articl
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"Something great happened here but it's over with, and that's the way February is" ☠️
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happy feb who wanna hunker over a bowl of chili
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Throw your seed oils and USB-C hub adapters in the garbage
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I guess it's nice that the M1 Macbook is fast, but I'm mainly excited about getting physical F keys and an HDMI port back. This is the return to tradition our civilization needs
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Appalling error by , and thanks to for calling it out. corrected chart they got wrong by 3 ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE, but have not corrected breathless, overheated tone of story itself. No, mining 483,000 tons of lithium will not cause "havoc."
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"EVs will ruin the climate" is the message of this new @Guardian clickbait piece, focussing on how electric vehicle batteries need lithium, while mining is bad for the planet.
I think this crusade is unhelpful and the number for lithium mining presented 1000x too high.
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Some men will pursue the most rigorous diet, exercise, and self-evaluation regimen in human history instead of going to therapy (idk he probably does some kind of superdupertherapy too)
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Let the Rejuvenation Olympics begin! bloomberg.com/news/features/
What happens when you build the damn things:
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The share of Texas electricity coming from carbon-free resources doubled over the last decade, from a fifth of the power mix in 2012 to over 40% in 2022.
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. moving forward with blistering speed. Cheap, massive energy storage could be a game changer for renewables, especially once we have enough panels/turbines to save up for dunkelflautes.
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Iron-air battery, 10 times cheaper than current Li-ion cells, to start production in 2024.
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“The poster boy for having better things to do, tweeting himself into a fugue state” sometimes a good Sam Harris zinger just gives you life
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Sam Harris finally breaks his silence on @elonmusk — a man “completely misusing his opportunity to live a fulfilling life.”
Don’t miss the full episode, in which @joshzepps draws out Sam’s deepest-ever criticisms of former allies:
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Contrary to popular opinion it is possible to be pro nuclear power and not be an asshole about it
Just realized that My Dinner With Andre is the first galaxy-brain podcast, with Wallace Shawn in the Joe Rogan role
argh. not good
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China plans to accelerate construction of coal- and natural gas-fired power plants this year, even as massive investment in renewables means clean power will dominate generation capacity trib.al/Zb4cS0w
In 2006 when I moved from Germany to the UK carbon intensity of electricity in both countries was the same (🇩🇪 513g CO2/kWh vs 🇬🇧 512g).
Fast forward to 2022: 🇬🇧 reduced carbon intensity by 55%. 🇩🇪 managed just 26% (380g vs 229g).
The main reason: 🇬🇧 phased out coal. 🇩🇪 didn’t.
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Yeah, “abolish everything but solar” is not going to work
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I want to know how these people think they will survive if we stop using energy altogether
