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Dej Knuckey
@climatefuturist.bsky.social
Climate and energy writer, Aussie born, Antarctic obsessed, California dreaming. Journalist freelancing about renewables, green building, electric transportation, climate novel in progress. LEED-AP. My fiction handle: @dejknuckey.bsky.social
#california #voters, take note.

Election interference??
WARNING CA VOTERS. A unofficial group is sending texts purporting to be official, with false information about your ballot. I checked with the county election team and confirmed these are FAKE and the link does not go to official sites.

@sfgate.com @sfchronicle.com @latimes.com
October 30, 2025 at 12:18 AM
There is so much rooftop solar in South Australia that at times it supplies the whole state's needs. It's time the U.S. cut red tape so distributed energy can proliferate.

Thanks @mzjacobson.bsky.social for the inspiration for today's column. #greensky 🔌💡 #solar

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October 28, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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Curious about our better #batteries? Check out this #podcast where I show Octet Scientific's CEO & CCO how we are scaling this #zinc technology to make powerful, safe and fully recyclable batteries... building them in existing factories.

🔌💡🔋 #energystorage #greensky
www.octetsci.com/aqueous-ener...
🎥 Watch: Enzinc Scales Storage for the U.S. Navy...and for Fast Golf Carts - Octet Scientific
Learn how Enzinc's tackles fast R&D-to-manufacturing, and works on the cutting edge of applications from military grid storage to urban mobility.
www.octetsci.com
October 21, 2025 at 4:28 PM
TFW you discover that two of the four backyard faucets attached to drip systems are attached to the HOT WATER line - after 12 YEARS living here. Wonder how much of my power bill was inflated by that...

#greensky 🔌💡 #homelife #regrets
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October 10, 2025 at 2:47 PM
What would you ask the future if you had a chance? I had a great time at #ClimateWeek doing just that.

A short reflection on asking hard questions to AI bots from 2050, 2075, 2100 and 2125....

#greensky 🔌💡 #NYCW #AI 🤖

www.linkedin.com/pulse/i-talk...
I talked to the future in an AI-powered phone booth... and found some hope
I struggle with climate pessimism. But last week, I had a chance to talk to the future, and, well, it’s not as bad as I thought.
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October 3, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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Startups curious about public #financing and #grants? Join our CEO and other experts at this event at Climate Week NYC. Please register soon to ensure you have a space.

Link for registration: luma.com/kjkkqg5o?tk=...

#NYCW #ClimateWeek #growth #entrepreneurs
September 17, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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A pleasure hosting Dr. Halle Cheeseman, Program Director at ARPA-E, at our Richmond and Oakland facilities. We showed how Enzinc is avoiding “me too” chemistries while building safe, powerful batteries. Grateful for his insights and perspective.

#energystorage #greensky 🔌💡#batteries
August 26, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Great to see the Enzinc team tapping such deep expertise.
Energy resilience is mission-critical. ⚡️

That’s why we’re excited to welcome Rear Admiral Wyman Howard (ret.), former Commander of Naval Special Warfare, to our Senior Advisory Team. We're innovating for defense, grid, and mobility.

#Innovation #leadership #veterans 🔌💡🪖

enzinc.com/former-naval...
August 20, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Any #greensky 🔌💡 folks know of events worth attending at #nyclimateweek #NYCW? Thanks.
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August 18, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Huge congrats @enzinc.bsky.social - the good news keeps coming. Can't wait to see what's next.
August 13, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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Big news: Enzinc has joined the Third Derivative climate tech accelerator cohort. 🌍⚡ Perfect timing as we ink agreements and scale manufacturing of our safe, sustainable #energystorage.

Meet the cohort: www.third-derivative.org/portfolio/ta...

#ClimateTech #CleanEnergy #Innovation #greensky 🔌💡
Startup Portfolio | Cohort 25-3
Cohort 25-3 | Tackling global billion-dollar markets and hard-to-abate sectors, our climate tech startups are addressing the emissions challenges that will make or break this decisive decade.
www.third-derivative.org
August 13, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Great to see #California is still investing in its #energy future.

#Greensky 🔌💡 #energystorage #batteries
⚡ Big news! We've been awarded $1.62M from the California Energy Commission to advance our safe, scalable zinc battery tech.

This helps us bring energy storage powered by earth-abundant materials to the grid.
#EnergyStorage #Zinc #Batteries #GridReliability #CleanTech 🔌💡

enzinc.com/zinc-battery...
July 16, 2025 at 3:09 PM
I moved to Kaiser Permanente because its one-stop model sounded easier, but so far, it hasn't been: prescriptions are almost 3X the price at @costplusdrugs.com, and the pricing of appointments is unclear esp. what's "preventative" (critical when you're on a high-deductible plan). :-(
#healthcare
July 1, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Today in #Antarctic news...

A crumb for the conspiracy theorists out there - strange signals and they're coming from inside the house! Neutrinos gone wild? Buried spaceships? Only time (and more #science) will tell...

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#iceicebaby 🐧🇦🇶 #radio #mystery
Scientists Discover Bizarre Signals Coming From Ice in Antarctica
Some strange radio signals are broadcasting out of Antarctica's ice, and the researchers who found them don't know why.
futurism.com
June 16, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Today in #Antarctic news...

Giant squid? Oooh! Three feet long? Wha???

Nat Geo shared video of 2024's accidental but beautiful video. Not big enough to down a whaling ship, but still a find.

#iceicebaby 🐧🇦🇶

www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNWE...
First live sighting of massive Antarctic squid caught on camera by Nat Geo
YouTube video by Good Morning America
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June 11, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Thank goodness the Swiss Government didn’t gut its scientific team so the town could be warned and largely evacuated before this disaster. Science saves lives.

#scisky #science #blatten 🇨🇭

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
Swiss village almost entirely destroyed after collapse of glacier buries it in mud
One person missing and Blatten devastated after huge cloud of ice and rubble inundates evacuated town
www.theguardian.com
May 29, 2025 at 5:48 AM
It's so satisfying to show the leaps and bounds the company has taken to someone who knew it at its infancy. Hard to believe the move from that tiny test oven to the huge oven at the back. #batteries #manufacturing #energystorage #greensky 🔌💡
We were thrilled to host Matthew Moy, our first intern, at #Enzinc Manf Tech Center. When he joined in 2020 the anodes were 1cm & made in the tube furnace on the table. Now, commercial-size 16cm is made in the production furnace behind us. He is working on his PhD at #MIT & we are very proud of him.
May 22, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Today in #Antarctic news...

Just like there's a six-pack hiding beneath my layers of tummy fat, there's a mountain range hiding beneath the ice. Yeah, right.

Meet the Gamburtsev Subglacial Mountain at @astrobiology.bsky.social

astrobiology.com/2025/05/ice-...

#iceicebaby 🐧🇦🇶 #science #geography
Ice Planet Recon: Antarctica Has A Huge, Completely Hidden Mountain Range - Astrobiology
Have you ever imagined what Antarctica looks like beneath its thick blanket of ice? Hidden below are rugged mountains, valleys, hills and plains.
astrobiology.com
May 15, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Today in #Antarctic news...

Stop, thief! Ice theft underway (better pun where ice = crystal m3th). New study in The #Cryosphere. "We didn’t know ice streams could ‘steal’ ice from each other over such a short period."

#iceicebaby 🐧🇦🇶 #science #glaciology

www.discovermagazine.com/environment/...
Glacier in Antarctica Caught Committing Ice Piracy From Its Neighbor
Learn how and why a glacier is committing “ice piracy” in Antarctica, and what it could mean for rising sea levels.
www.discovermagazine.com
May 9, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Today in #Antarctic news...

Why a duck? Fowl news from the frozen end of the earth. "The ancestor of modern ducks, geese, and other waterfowl ...survived the mass extinction that ended its nonavian cousins." @nature.com

#iceicebaby 🐧🇦🇶 #science #palentology #fossils

www.science.org/content/arti...
An ancestor of ducks and geese paddled and dove alongside dinosaurs in Antarctica
Exquisite, fossilized skull sheds light on the evolutionary origins of waterfowl
www.science.org
February 7, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Fortunately, the decision tree allows them to take context into account (note the AND) - not defending any of the crap they are doing, but if the context is not DEIA, it won't be flagged - just noted as to why it is not flagged under the Exec Order. But all of this is awful and bigoted.

#science
February 4, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Can the police arrest Elon and his team for trespassing? Can SOMETHING be done to stop them from accessing systems that they have no right to access? Feds, DC, SOMEONE has to have authority to stop this blatant data theft.

@rephuffman.bsky.social @schiff.senate.gov @padilla.senate.gov #DOSOMETHING
February 3, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Today in #Antarctic news...

First, a question: has anyone heard what freezing of grants will do to NSF and other U.S. Antarctic programs?

Now, news: As if we need something else to worry about.

#iceicebaby 🐧🇦🇶 #science #volcano

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Antarctic Ice Melt May Fuel Eruptions of Hidden Volcanoes - Eos
More than 100 volcanoes lurk beneath the surface in Antarctica. Ice sheet melt could set them off.
eos.org
February 3, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Hey #greensky - #heatpump question for someone... are we best to leave the heat pump at a constant temp? Some sites say so and this is what daily power use now looks, but we like cooler home at night and when away. I just got the heat pump installed, and total power bill went up by >$100/month.

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January 31, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Today in #Antarctic news...

What's under the ice? UNSW's Centre for #Ecosystem #Science has made a high-resolution map: 9 Major Environment Units + 33 Habitat Complexes + 269 Bioregional Ecosystem Types = unprecedented level of detail.
phys.org/news/2025-01...

#iceicebaby 🐧🇦🇶 #geography #Climate
Mapping Antarctica's hidden ice-free lands: A blueprint for conservation
Antarctica, often regarded as the planet's last true wilderness, harbors unique ecosystems that support extraordinary biodiversity and contribute to global diversity and environmental stability. These...
phys.org
January 30, 2025 at 5:16 PM