This is what crowd out looks like.

no doubt

permitting bonanza continues! i weigh in on the climate tech industries/companies that stand to benefit most from the senate's new permitting bill

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

it's a good day for good news. last summer i wrote about how plug-in balcony solar is starting to catch on domestically. and lo, just a few mins ago california officially jumped on the bandwagon, clearing the way for residents to install these small-scale systems

Katie’s referring to us (laudatory)

hi energy freaks, as you surely know, the senate has a permitting deal! heatmap explains!

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.

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.

leaving aside the broader debate about whether it would be a useful or terrible intervention, this is a good piece on the true cost of solar geoengineering and its potential impact on CDR market

great @emilypont.bsky.social story about a new initiative to quantify the energy intensity and emissions of proprietary AI models from Google, Anthropic, and OpenAI

we had a big day!! hap NY climate week to all ✌️