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Thom Hersbach
@hersbachthom.bsky.social
Electrochemist ⚡, climate nerd 🌄, brewer 🍻☕, baker 🍞, gardener 🌱🐝, lifter 🏋🏻, runner 🏃🏻‍♂️ and seeker of great music 🎶. 🇳🇱 transplant in 🇺🇸 Opinions my own.
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I've received an 'exclusive' invite to try Nature's new 'research assistant', which will burn down a forest to provide a 'summary of the paper' I'm reading and I have SUCH exciting news for them, that's called an 'abstract' and the actual authors already wrote it for me, no forest-burning required.
October 17, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Not only is CCS expensive, it also doesn't solve methane leakage that comprises a big part of gas turbine emissions.

Read about it in our 2-pager, linked below!
We did a policy brief on the use of carbon capture in combined cycle gas turbines. We are skeptical that this technology will meet the use case of backing up renewables for a zero carbon grid. The short answer is low capacity factor makes CCS unattractive.

drive.google.com/file/d/1HZbY...
CEPP_CCS_ Policy Brief_September 2025
drive.google.com
September 4, 2025 at 9:59 PM
"And I see all these solar panels and I see all these wind turbines (...) and now electricity is more expensive."

I think @hankgreen.bsky.social is right on the money here when he expects people to buy into this type of messaging.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=39YO...
Electricity is About to be Like Housing
YouTube video by Hank Green
www.youtube.com
September 4, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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The most ferocious insult you can direct to the abundance agenda is trying to make it a reality
September 1, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Should we be capturing CO2 at natural gas power plants? Michael Mastrandrea, @michaelwara.bsky.social and I explore this question in our latest publication!

Curious? Read the Open Access paper here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
August 14, 2025 at 8:44 PM
I love that these folks made it into Science by writing a paper that's basically: "look at this cool stick I found!"

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
3775-year-old wood burial supports “wood vaulting” as a durable carbon removal method
Six-times more carbon dioxide (CO2) is removed each year by terrestrial photosynthesis than fossil fuel emissions. However, the carbon is mostly returned to the atmosphere by decomposition. We found a...
www.science.org
July 11, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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You should aways come to the happy hours I invite you to. Good things happen!
That fateful climate happy hour is where I met @ruthygourevitch.bsky.social + @aldasky.bsky.social. They work at this nexus of climate and housing solutions and they @cplusc.bsky.social have a NEW REPORT *all about* Vienna's green social housing and its lessons for U.S. You can find it here ⬇️
Green Social Housing: Lessons from Vienna - Climate and Community Institute
Vienna is the global capital of social housing. Over 40 percent of the city’s housing units are social housing, providing homes for the majority of the …
climateandcommunity.org
June 18, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Never thought I'd be vibing to a song about stowaway aquarium snails, but Aesop Rock made it happen somehow. Amazing stuff.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=KI2Z...
Aesop Rock - Snail Zero (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Rhymesayers Entertainment
www.youtube.com
June 2, 2025 at 2:07 AM
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What if I told you that the building the torment nexus is an extremely interesting challenge from an engineering perspective
May 15, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Is it too late to suggest this guy as pope?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEdP...
Party Harders vs The Subs - The Pope Of Dope (official video)
YouTube video by lektroluvrecords
www.youtube.com
May 8, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Going to base my politics around AI entirely on this song by @thegoodnewscrew.bsky.social and probably some Deltron 3030 tracks.

soundcloud.com/delhiero/hum...
human zone
Oakland Raider, Richmond Rap Practitioner. Hieroglyphics / Deltron 3030 / GATE 13 / GOODXLUCK. Keep the FUNK alive.
soundcloud.com
April 26, 2025 at 5:30 AM
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Secretlyyyy…plotting your demise. 🤘🏾😈
April 1, 2025 at 5:49 PM