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
I lived in Puerto Rico during one of the most devastating hurricanes that hit the island - until Maria broke records and the grid. I love that yesterday's halftime show shone a light on the failed promises re: the grid. A perfect place to show #resilience in action - fix their grid now.
🇵🇷 🔌💡🔋 #grid
🇵🇷 🔌💡🔋 #grid
a crowd of people holding up a flag that says puerto rico
Alt: a crowd of people holding up a flag that says puerto rico
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February 9, 2026 at 3:35 PM
I lived in Puerto Rico during one of the most devastating hurricanes that hit the island - until Maria broke records and the grid. I love that yesterday's halftime show shone a light on the failed promises re: the grid. A perfect place to show #resilience in action - fix their grid now.
🇵🇷 🔌💡🔋 #grid
🇵🇷 🔌💡🔋 #grid
After five articles on extreme climate events impacting the grid, I looked at how the complex polycrisis facing generators, utilities, grid operators, and policy makers requires a multisolving mindset.
#utilities #grid #multisolving #polycrisis #IPCC 🔌💡🔋🌍🌎🌏💚
LINK:
www.rtoinsider.com/124639-leade...
#utilities #grid #multisolving #polycrisis #IPCC 🔌💡🔋🌍🌎🌏💚
LINK:
www.rtoinsider.com/124639-leade...
February 3, 2026 at 5:56 PM
After five articles on extreme climate events impacting the grid, I looked at how the complex polycrisis facing generators, utilities, grid operators, and policy makers requires a multisolving mindset.
#utilities #grid #multisolving #polycrisis #IPCC 🔌💡🔋🌍🌎🌏💚
LINK:
www.rtoinsider.com/124639-leade...
#utilities #grid #multisolving #polycrisis #IPCC 🔌💡🔋🌍🌎🌏💚
LINK:
www.rtoinsider.com/124639-leade...
Earlier this year, I coined “political intermittency” in a column for RTO Insider to describe how the developers are being treated by the administration. Thought things had settled down, but now this…
#wind #renewables #energy #greensky 💡🔌🔋💨
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
#wind #renewables #energy #greensky 💡🔌🔋💨
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Trump officials halt offshore wind-farm projects over ‘national security risks’
Interior department move affects five projects under construction in latest blow to industry targeted by Trump
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December 22, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Earlier this year, I coined “political intermittency” in a column for RTO Insider to describe how the developers are being treated by the administration. Thought things had settled down, but now this…
#wind #renewables #energy #greensky 💡🔌🔋💨
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
#wind #renewables #energy #greensky 💡🔌🔋💨
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
When Canary Media reports about exactly what they were named for. May all coal retire so we can breathe in peace...
Indiana may get cleaner by closing two coal plants this month, but the operators expect the Trump administration may stop them from shutting down, as has been done to a plant in Michigan.
www.canarymedia.com/articles/cle...
www.canarymedia.com/articles/cle...
Indiana says it’s retiring two coal plants, but is it making other…
The Trump administration has already ordered a Michigan coal plant to run past its retirement date. Two polluting, inefficient plants in Indiana may be…
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December 15, 2025 at 3:35 PM
When Canary Media reports about exactly what they were named for. May all coal retire so we can breathe in peace...
It's coming from inside the house...
If you need a reason to consider switching to induction, this is your wake-up call. The gas industry's "cooking with gas" campaign is literally gaslighting.
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If you need a reason to consider switching to induction, this is your wake-up call. The gas industry's "cooking with gas" campaign is literally gaslighting.
insideclimatenews.org/news/1012202...
Gas Stoves Account For More Than Half of Some Americans’ Exposure to a Known Toxin, New Research Concludes - Inside Climate News
The common kitchen appliance plays an outsized role in exposure to nitrogen dioxide, a toxic air pollutant.
insideclimatenews.org
December 15, 2025 at 3:31 PM
It's coming from inside the house...
If you need a reason to consider switching to induction, this is your wake-up call. The gas industry's "cooking with gas" campaign is literally gaslighting.
insideclimatenews.org/news/1012202...
If you need a reason to consider switching to induction, this is your wake-up call. The gas industry's "cooking with gas" campaign is literally gaslighting.
insideclimatenews.org/news/1012202...
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TechLink, which helps bring technology developed by the U.S. military labs to market by supporting tech transfer agreements, featured how it's worked with Enzinc in its latest article:
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#greensky #military 🔌💡🔋 #batteries #innovation #techtransfer #energystorage
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#greensky #military 🔌💡🔋 #batteries #innovation #techtransfer #energystorage
December 1, 2025 at 6:38 PM
TechLink, which helps bring technology developed by the U.S. military labs to market by supporting tech transfer agreements, featured how it's worked with Enzinc in its latest article:
techlinkcenter.org/news/navy-pa...
#greensky #military 🔌💡🔋 #batteries #innovation #techtransfer #energystorage
techlinkcenter.org/news/navy-pa...
#greensky #military 🔌💡🔋 #batteries #innovation #techtransfer #energystorage
The new report by First Street on #climate #resilience looks at why some of the climate-vulnerable cities in the world are still economically strong while others are in decline... and why investment in adaptation is critical. I wrote about if for RTO Insider:
www.linkedin.com/posts/dknuck...
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#climatevulnerabilityindex | Dej K.
I find First Street's reports endlessly fascinating; they're compelling reading for a analytical-meets-apocalyptical climate writer. The latest, looking at "resilience spread," is no exception, which ...
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December 1, 2025 at 4:23 PM
The new report by First Street on #climate #resilience looks at why some of the climate-vulnerable cities in the world are still economically strong while others are in decline... and why investment in adaptation is critical. I wrote about if for RTO Insider:
www.linkedin.com/posts/dknuck...
www.linkedin.com/posts/dknuck...
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
www.rtoinsider.com/118104-power...
Thanks @mzjacobson.bsky.social for the inspiration for today's column. #greensky 🔌💡 #solar
www.rtoinsider.com/118104-power...
October 28, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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
www.rtoinsider.com/118104-power...
Thanks @mzjacobson.bsky.social for the inspiration for today's column. #greensky 🔌💡 #solar
www.rtoinsider.com/118104-power...
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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...
🔌💡🔋 #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
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...
🔌💡🔋 #energystorage #greensky
www.octetsci.com/aqueous-ener...
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
#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 🤖
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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
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...
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...
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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
Link for registration: luma.com/kjkkqg5o?tk=...
#NYCW #ClimateWeek #growth #entrepreneurs
September 17, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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
Link for registration: luma.com/kjkkqg5o?tk=...
#NYCW #ClimateWeek #growth #entrepreneurs
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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
#energystorage #greensky 🔌💡#batteries
August 26, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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
#energystorage #greensky 🔌💡#batteries
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...
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
Great to see the Enzinc team tapping such deep expertise.
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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.
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 🔌💡
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 3:51 PM
Huge congrats @enzinc.bsky.social - the good news keeps coming. Can't wait to see what's next.
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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 🔌💡
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
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 🔌💡
Meet the cohort: www.third-derivative.org/portfolio/ta...
#ClimateTech #CleanEnergy #Innovation #greensky 🔌💡
Great to see #California is still investing in its #energy future.
#Greensky 🔌💡 #energystorage #batteries
#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...
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
Great to see #California is still investing in its #energy future.
#Greensky 🔌💡 #energystorage #batteries
#Greensky 🔌💡 #energystorage #batteries
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
#healthcare
July 1, 2025 at 7:52 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
#healthcare
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...
futurism.com/bizarre-ice-...
#iceicebaby 🐧🇦🇶 #radio #mystery
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...
futurism.com/bizarre-ice-...
#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...
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...
futurism.com/bizarre-ice-...
#iceicebaby 🐧🇦🇶 #radio #mystery
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...
futurism.com/bizarre-ice-...
#iceicebaby 🐧🇦🇶 #radio #mystery
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...
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
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...
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...
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...
#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
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...
#scisky #science #blatten 🇨🇭
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
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
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 🔌💡
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
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...
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
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