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Alexander C. Kaufman
@alexckaufman.bsky.social
Reporter. I write about energy, climate, and geopolitics. I'm especially into nuclear power, minerals, geothermal, the grid, and Puerto Rico. Contact: www.alexanderckaufman.com | kaufman.nyc | Signal: Kaufman.11
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NEW in Heatmap AM:

🌎 COP 30 kicks off in Brazil –– without a U.S. delegation
✅ New York regulators approve a much-debated new 37-mile gas pipeline
💸 Pine Gate Renewables declares bankruptcy, cites repeal of IRA tax credits

Read more from @alexckaufman.bsky.social:

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UN Climate Talks Begin in Brazil
On New York’s gas, Southwest power lines, and a solar bankruptcy
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November 10, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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1/3 Let's take another look at future copper demand with PV Magazine and Wood MacKenzie.
"Wood Mackenzie says this growth trajectory seems “certain"" And adds this factoid “Each electric vehicle contains up to four times more copper than a conventional car.”
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Copper demand to rise 24% by 2035, says Wood Mackenzie
Demand for copper, often considered as one of the most valuable alternatives to silver in solar manufacturing, is expected to increase by almost a quarter globally by the middle of next decade. Wood M...
pv-magazine-usa.com
November 9, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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Mamdani "inherits a world-leading experiment in retrofitting buildings to slash emissions, open questions about how to transition to cleaner power sources, and a patchwork of adaptation efforts," writes @alexckaufman.bsky.social: www.canarymedia.com/articles/pol... 🔌💡
NYC’s next mayor Zohran Mamdani has a big climate policy to-do list
The mayor-elect did not talk a lot about climate change on the campaign trail. But the city has major electrification plans that he can help accelerate.
www.canarymedia.com
November 8, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Oh hey let’s see what the billionaire Blackwater guy has to say about the Minneapolis elec—
November 8, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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In today’s AM Newsletter:

⚡ Ford considers discontinuing its electric F-150 Lightning
🪨 Coal is now a critical mineral, says the Trump administration
💰 Michigan approves higher electricity rates for data centers

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Ford May Ditch its Electric F-150
On ‘critical’ coal, data center costs, and recycled metals
heatmap.news
November 7, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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Did you know a former White House climate advisor flipped a GOP stronghold in Virginia by running entirely on putting a stop to more AI data centers?

For @heatmap.news I profiled John McAuliff and a campaign that will be a roadmap for all future anti-AI politicians moving forward.
This Virginia Election Was a Warning for Data Centers
John McAuliff ran his campaign almost entirely on data centers — and won.
heatmap.news
November 7, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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Great piece by @alexckaufman.bsky.social on @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social, NYC, and climate policy

but it does miss that the important carbon footprint of NYC is as the financial center of the global fossil-fuel industry.

For years, petrobillionaire David Koch was NYC's wealthiest resident
NYC’s next mayor Zohran Mamdani has a big climate policy to-do list
The mayor-elect did not talk a lot about climate change on the campaign trail. But the city has major electrification plans that he can help accelerate.
www.canarymedia.com
November 7, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Spotted on Staten Island
November 7, 2025 at 3:38 AM
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The COP30 Leaders' Summit starts today featuring 143 delegations — but not, of course, the U.S. The conference formally kicks off Monday, so watch this space for more updates.

Read more in this morning's AM newsletter by @alexckaufman.bsky.social:

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The COP30 Climate Summit Kicks Off
On geoengineering consent, Taiwan’s nuclear hopes, and a spider ‘megacity’
heatmap.news
November 6, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Looks like Nippon Steel has some regrets over its acquisition of U.S. Steel:

www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...
November 6, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Hard to think of anything in media that regularly brings me as much pure joy anymore as the headline in The New York Times' Trilobites section.
November 6, 2025 at 12:46 PM
The two Democrats who surged to surprise victories on Tuesday and flipped seats on Georgia's Public Service Commission are already having material effects on the state's monopoly utility.

Both Jefferies *and* Goldman Sachs just downgraded Southern Company on regulatory concerns. 👀
November 6, 2025 at 12:38 PM
A few years ago, Republicans were talking about turning Puerto Rico into a fossil fuel playground. But reconstruction has failed so badly that it's instead become a testing ground for distributed solar, which has become one of the few bright spots. Remarkable.

www.canarymedia.com/articles/dis...
November 6, 2025 at 12:22 PM
How do those who think Mamdani’s victory is a blueprint for Democrats to win nationwide explain Omar Fateh losing pretty handily to Jacob Frey in the Minneapolis mayoral race last night?
November 6, 2025 at 6:35 AM
The climate movement’s strategy is demonstrably failing, so Bill Gates — probably the single biggest climate philanthropist and clean energy investor on Earth — suggested a new, more pragmatic approach. It seems some activists prefer to smear Gates as a climate denier than question their own dogma.
November 6, 2025 at 2:26 AM
a perfect meme
November 5, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Half of Jordan’s vehicle imports are now electric, and a whole industry of self-taught mechanics is finding ways to recondition Tesla batteries. www.climatechangenews.com/2025/11/03/s...
November 4, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Really good op-ed by @fredstaffordcs.bsky.social on why Zohran Mamdani should embrace nuclear power.

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Zohran Mamdani Should Embrace Nuclear
The New York mayoral frontrunner has an opportunity to shift the left’s increasingly nonsensical position on a critical carbon-free energy source.
heatmap.news
November 4, 2025 at 1:34 PM
This is such a useful chart showing how far ahead Asia and Latin America are with actually building geothermal, but how quickly the U.S. is racing ahead with new projects, thanks largely to the next-generation technologies taking off.
November 4, 2025 at 12:50 PM
wrote a piece for the new magazine one of my favorite geopolitics YouTubers, Simon Whistler, just launched.

It's a look why Taiwan is regretting shutting down its last nuclear reactor this year.

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Why Taiwan May Reverse its Nuclear Phase-Out - Fronts.co
May was a month of miracles in Taiwan. For opponents of atomic energy, that came in the form of a […]
fronts.co
November 3, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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Georgia Power's rising utility rates and $15.7B gas-heavy power plant plan are on the ballot next week. Two Democratic challengers to the state's all-Republican Public Service Commission say that solar power, not fossil gas, is the key to lower costs:
www.canarymedia.com/articles/uti...
#energysky
Energy bills are rising nationwide. In Georgia, they’re on the ballot.
Critics claim the state's utility regulator is too passive. Two Democratic challengers say they’ll change that — and push for more cheap, clean energy.
www.canarymedia.com
October 31, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Really good @emilypont.bsky.social dispatch from Alberta, examining how Canada was charging ahead on direct air capture even when the Biden administration's incentives were still in place heatmap.news/carbon-remov...
October 31, 2025 at 12:40 PM
October 31, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Hidden Spheres - Waiting
YouTube video by ColdCuts // HotWax
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October 31, 2025 at 1:33 AM
The big Bloomberg piece on Oklo seems more mild than it was rumored to be before it was published, but has some interesting details about the remarkable timing Chris Wright -- now the U.S. Energy Secretary, then a fracking exec -- had when he invested in the nuclear startup.
October 30, 2025 at 10:01 PM