Costa Samaras
@costasamaras.com
Climate, energy, emerging tech, resilience, & policy professor. Carnegie Mellon Univ. Institute for Energy Innovation Director. Former Biden-Harris White House OSTP Chief Advisor for the Clean Energy Transition. Personal account. He/Him. costasamaras.com
This week CMU's Scott Institute for Energy Innovation hosted a summit on the future of AI & energy research at CMU. After remarks from CMU's President & VP for Research, lots of students, staff, & faculty gathered to discuss opportunities for interdisciplinary AI, energy, & environmental work. #Ad
November 16, 2025 at 3:22 PM
This week CMU's Scott Institute for Energy Innovation hosted a summit on the future of AI & energy research at CMU. After remarks from CMU's President & VP for Research, lots of students, staff, & faculty gathered to discuss opportunities for interdisciplinary AI, energy, & environmental work. #Ad
Alien (1979, Directed by Ridley Scott)
November 16, 2025 at 5:46 AM
Alien (1979, Directed by Ridley Scott)
sorry, northern lights are not available, best we can do is Aurora Savalas
November 13, 2025 at 1:36 AM
sorry, northern lights are not available, best we can do is Aurora Savalas
GliderHeads do not reply
November 9, 2025 at 1:07 AM
GliderHeads do not reply
them: you're on bluesky? what do you post about?
me: policy ideas, mostly
me: policy ideas, mostly
November 8, 2025 at 9:55 PM
them: you're on bluesky? what do you post about?
me: policy ideas, mostly
me: policy ideas, mostly
We need to build more clean electricity than most folks realize just to handle electric vehicles & buildings. The Administration is making clean electricity more expensive & harder to build, all while AI is spiking power demand. At my talk at MIT this week, I said when demand up & supply down: bad.
November 8, 2025 at 4:06 PM
We need to build more clean electricity than most folks realize just to handle electric vehicles & buildings. The Administration is making clean electricity more expensive & harder to build, all while AI is spiking power demand. At my talk at MIT this week, I said when demand up & supply down: bad.
how about this idea: we win
November 5, 2025 at 11:54 PM
how about this idea: we win
Manufacturing factory construction investment DOUBLED from 2021-2024. The IRA made clean energy cheaper to make, cheaper to use, and cheaper to build in America. Much of it now rolled back, energy will be more expensive for everyone for the next 10 years. It’s a crisis.
November 1, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Manufacturing factory construction investment DOUBLED from 2021-2024. The IRA made clean energy cheaper to make, cheaper to use, and cheaper to build in America. Much of it now rolled back, energy will be more expensive for everyone for the next 10 years. It’s a crisis.
buying giant skeletons this weekend
November 1, 2025 at 4:14 AM
buying giant skeletons this weekend
I mean, who specifically is saying this? How many State Dinners even happen in a year? A couple? (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of.... Maybe you can add on some other events, how many are we talking? We tore down a third of the White House to build a hotel ballroom for a handful of events per year?
October 26, 2025 at 3:17 AM
I mean, who specifically is saying this? How many State Dinners even happen in a year? A couple? (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of.... Maybe you can add on some other events, how many are we talking? We tore down a third of the White House to build a hotel ballroom for a handful of events per year?
I reminded the engineers of several canons of the code of ethics for civil engineers. Many actions of the Administration are in direct opposition to these.
October 23, 2025 at 2:14 AM
I reminded the engineers of several canons of the code of ethics for civil engineers. Many actions of the Administration are in direct opposition to these.
I gave a public talk today about the engineering profession's responsibility to the public. I showed this picture and said, "the Administration is demolishing an entire wing of the White House today."
October 22, 2025 at 9:59 PM
I gave a public talk today about the engineering profession's responsibility to the public. I showed this picture and said, "the Administration is demolishing an entire wing of the White House today."
also, this is a concrete truck (or concrete mixer truck) not a cement truck. Cement is the dust you put in the mixer with rocks, water, and sand to make glorious concrete
October 21, 2025 at 9:36 PM
also, this is a concrete truck (or concrete mixer truck) not a cement truck. Cement is the dust you put in the mixer with rocks, water, and sand to make glorious concrete
just one more thing, where’s the money coming from for all of this, cause I coulda swore you can’t use private money to build on public lands without a PPP, so this must be from an appropriation somewheres? See because if it wasn’t that would be a violation of the anti deficiency act, which is bad
October 20, 2025 at 9:06 PM
just one more thing, where’s the money coming from for all of this, cause I coulda swore you can’t use private money to build on public lands without a PPP, so this must be from an appropriation somewheres? See because if it wasn’t that would be a violation of the anti deficiency act, which is bad
The classic quote by @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social captures today’s mood well
![Simpsons line meme but happy
WHAT'S THE LINE PROF. TÁIWO?
I DO NOT REGRET TO INFORM YOU THAT WE ARE GOING TO WIN
[class cheers]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:xjnxcxe2pn5lwp6z2gxapbrl/bafkreicpvtkfurjns4cu3xk47aknlgo4klaxmp4t3dwertkx7avukc4diy@jpeg)
October 19, 2025 at 12:41 AM
The classic quote by @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social captures today’s mood well
We went to #NoKings with my mother-in-law. Her father was in a Nazi prison camp as a resister, & survived. She & her husband escaped Czechoslovakia in the 1960s, traveled by ship from Germany to NY as refugees. Arrived in NY harbor in the morning fog, which lifted to reveal, the Statue of Liberty. 🇺🇸
October 19, 2025 at 12:24 AM
We went to #NoKings with my mother-in-law. Her father was in a Nazi prison camp as a resister, & survived. She & her husband escaped Czechoslovakia in the 1960s, traveled by ship from Germany to NY as refugees. Arrived in NY harbor in the morning fog, which lifted to reveal, the Statue of Liberty. 🇺🇸
