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Today on Volts: sodium-ion batteries! They are lower in energy density than lithium-ion, but cheaper, safer, & made from abundant domestic materials. What are they good for? Peak Energy is using them for grid-scale energy storage. I dive into the business case with CEO Landon Mossburg.
What's the deal with sodium-ion batteries?
Landon Mossburg on beating lithium-ion on cost and safety with a grid storage system that has no moving parts.
www.volts.wtf
September 3, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Today on Volts: sodium-ion batteries! They are lower in energy density than lithium-ion, but cheaper, safer, & made from abundant domestic materials. What are they good for? Peak Energy is using them for grid-scale energy storage. I dive into the business case with CEO Landon Mossburg.
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Wow. What a sign that criminal case against Abrego Garcia may be politically cooked up.
"Schrader’s resignation was prompted by concerns that the case was being pursued for political reasons"
Schrader spent 15 years in the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Nashville and was chief of the criminal division
"Schrader’s resignation was prompted by concerns that the case was being pursued for political reasons"
Schrader spent 15 years in the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Nashville and was chief of the criminal division
Abrego Garcia indictment led top federal prosecutor in Tennessee to resign: Sources
abcnews.go.com
June 6, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Wow. What a sign that criminal case against Abrego Garcia may be politically cooked up.
"Schrader’s resignation was prompted by concerns that the case was being pursued for political reasons"
Schrader spent 15 years in the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Nashville and was chief of the criminal division
"Schrader’s resignation was prompted by concerns that the case was being pursued for political reasons"
Schrader spent 15 years in the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Nashville and was chief of the criminal division
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NYT, Page One:
“Within hours, he had an email from China, offering to move his lab to ‘any city, any university I want,’ he said, with a guarantee of funding for the next 20 years.”
@nytimes.com
“Within hours, he had an email from China, offering to move his lab to ‘any city, any university I want,’ he said, with a guarantee of funding for the next 20 years.”
@nytimes.com
June 4, 2025 at 9:51 AM
NYT, Page One:
“Within hours, he had an email from China, offering to move his lab to ‘any city, any university I want,’ he said, with a guarantee of funding for the next 20 years.”
@nytimes.com
“Within hours, he had an email from China, offering to move his lab to ‘any city, any university I want,’ he said, with a guarantee of funding for the next 20 years.”
@nytimes.com
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In Florida no less! Kudos!! We all need to be calling pur representatives!!
A Florida weatherman telling his viewers he can no longer be confident in his forecasts due to cuts to atmospheric science is the kind of resistance content I’m here for.
Kudos, Sir.🌦️
Kudos, Sir.🌦️
June 3, 2025 at 11:06 PM
In Florida no less! Kudos!! We all need to be calling pur representatives!!
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I agree with this. I will also add that usually well-informed non-academic progressive voters I talk to have absolutely no idea what is going on in higher education and research and the long-term repercussions+
I've seen folks talk about how "in four years" they'll be able to get back to their planned projects and I really don't think that's going to work out. People & projects losing funding now will not be able to hit pause and come back once funding is restored. Hard-won progress & capacity will be lost
I worry that not enough of a big deal is being made about how long-term the devastation of these budget cuts to our scientific and health agencies will be, beyond the absolute ruin they will cause in the acute period.
June 3, 2025 at 11:22 PM
I agree with this. I will also add that usually well-informed non-academic progressive voters I talk to have absolutely no idea what is going on in higher education and research and the long-term repercussions+
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Colbert: Mike Johnson and Russ Vought have said no one is going to lose their Medicaid. Is that something you would describe as true?
NC Gov. Josh Stein: Untrue. I would use true, but I would add "un" in front of it. You cannot take $700 billion out of the system without people losing coverage.
NC Gov. Josh Stein: Untrue. I would use true, but I would add "un" in front of it. You cannot take $700 billion out of the system without people losing coverage.
June 3, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Colbert: Mike Johnson and Russ Vought have said no one is going to lose their Medicaid. Is that something you would describe as true?
NC Gov. Josh Stein: Untrue. I would use true, but I would add "un" in front of it. You cannot take $700 billion out of the system without people losing coverage.
NC Gov. Josh Stein: Untrue. I would use true, but I would add "un" in front of it. You cannot take $700 billion out of the system without people losing coverage.
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A very timely offering from the Faraday Institute for Science and Religion, which I serve as an international advisor for. It's a broad cross-section of discussants and topics!
Faraday Institute Summer Course 2025: Science, Religion and Justice | Faraday
www.faraday.cam.ac.uk
April 15, 2025 at 7:57 PM
A very timely offering from the Faraday Institute for Science and Religion, which I serve as an international advisor for. It's a broad cross-section of discussants and topics!
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Training shows climate justice a moral imperative for churches
More: www.oikoumene.org/news/trai...
#ClimateAction
Training shows climate justice a moral imperative for churches
More: www.oikoumene.org/news/trai...
#ClimateAction
Training shows climate justice a moral imperative for churches
Exploring how churches can do more for climate justice, the World Council of Churches (WCC), in cooperation with the National Council of Churches in Bangladesh, organized a climate litigation training in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on 11 April.
www.oikoumene.org
April 15, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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Training shows climate justice a moral imperative for churches
More: www.oikoumene.org/news/trai...
#ClimateAction
Training shows climate justice a moral imperative for churches
More: www.oikoumene.org/news/trai...
#ClimateAction
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This is important.
At Law Dork, I wrote about that Oval Office visit — and what it means:
Trump told us the horrifying reason why Kilmar Abrego Garcia is not back in the U.S.
The Trump administration wants to send Americans to foreign prisons. Keeping Abrego Garcia in El Salvador is key to that lawless plan.
www.lawdork.com
April 15, 2025 at 1:57 AM
This is important.
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Act now in a few clicks at resist.bot/petitions/PT....
#50501movement #PeoplesMovement #FiftyFiftyOne #ImpeachTrump #SAVEAct @polrev.bsky.social
#50501movement #PeoplesMovement #FiftyFiftyOne #ImpeachTrump #SAVEAct @polrev.bsky.social
April 10, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Act now in a few clicks at resist.bot/petitions/PT....
#50501movement #PeoplesMovement #FiftyFiftyOne #ImpeachTrump #SAVEAct @polrev.bsky.social
#50501movement #PeoplesMovement #FiftyFiftyOne #ImpeachTrump #SAVEAct @polrev.bsky.social
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The rationale for this cancellation is climate denial.
There is no dressing it up, there is no tiptoeing around it.
Yet climate change doesn’t care if we believe it. It will destroy our homes, multiply insurance rates, wreak economic havoc and more — regardless of our opinions or voting record.
There is no dressing it up, there is no tiptoeing around it.
Yet climate change doesn’t care if we believe it. It will destroy our homes, multiply insurance rates, wreak economic havoc and more — regardless of our opinions or voting record.
April 9, 2025 at 12:56 AM
The rationale for this cancellation is climate denial.
There is no dressing it up, there is no tiptoeing around it.
Yet climate change doesn’t care if we believe it. It will destroy our homes, multiply insurance rates, wreak economic havoc and more — regardless of our opinions or voting record.
There is no dressing it up, there is no tiptoeing around it.
Yet climate change doesn’t care if we believe it. It will destroy our homes, multiply insurance rates, wreak economic havoc and more — regardless of our opinions or voting record.
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Today's US EO orders the Attorney General to identify + take expeditious action to stop enforcement of "all State & local laws... purporting to address “climate change” or involving “environmental, social, and governance” initiatives, “environmental justice,” carbon or “greenhouse gas” emissions."
This executive order confirms that. They are attacking all "state laws" that address climate change, ESG, environmental justice and/or greenhouse gases.
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
April 9, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Today's US EO orders the Attorney General to identify + take expeditious action to stop enforcement of "all State & local laws... purporting to address “climate change” or involving “environmental, social, and governance” initiatives, “environmental justice,” carbon or “greenhouse gas” emissions."
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We are seeing a very clear pattern of banning things that make Trumpists and their kids feel bad:
- Books about colonialism, slavery and segregation
- Challenging ideas about gender
- Protests against genocide
- Science generally
It's a blanket ban on hard feelings. They called us snowflakes.
- Books about colonialism, slavery and segregation
- Challenging ideas about gender
- Protests against genocide
- Science generally
It's a blanket ban on hard feelings. They called us snowflakes.
April 9, 2025 at 3:12 AM
We are seeing a very clear pattern of banning things that make Trumpists and their kids feel bad:
- Books about colonialism, slavery and segregation
- Challenging ideas about gender
- Protests against genocide
- Science generally
It's a blanket ban on hard feelings. They called us snowflakes.
- Books about colonialism, slavery and segregation
- Challenging ideas about gender
- Protests against genocide
- Science generally
It's a blanket ban on hard feelings. They called us snowflakes.
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Get this: Commerce is slashing $ to Princeton's world-renowned climate research b/c modeling changes to Earth systems is "contributing to a phenomenon known as 'climate anxiety,' which has increased significantly among America’s youth."
No research, no problem! www.commerce.gov/news/press-r...
No research, no problem! www.commerce.gov/news/press-r...
Ending Cooperative Agreements’ Funding to Princeton University
On Tuesday, April 8, 2025, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick announced that nearly $4 million in funding is ending to Princeton University after a detailed, careful, and thorough review of the...
www.commerce.gov
April 9, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Get this: Commerce is slashing $ to Princeton's world-renowned climate research b/c modeling changes to Earth systems is "contributing to a phenomenon known as 'climate anxiety,' which has increased significantly among America’s youth."
No research, no problem! www.commerce.gov/news/press-r...
No research, no problem! www.commerce.gov/news/press-r...
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I had no idea about this! (I was born in Edmonton and then also went to university there) such a cool project and it was delightful to hear the accents, too. ❤️
Today on Volts: I talk with a developer & an architect about Blatchford, a sustainable community being planned & built by the city of Edmonton. Two light-rail stops, walk & bike paths, narrow streets, dense housing, a district energy system ... all minutes from downtown, in the heart of oil country!
Canada's largest sustainable community takes shape
How a former municipal airport in oil-rich Alberta is becoming a carbon-neutral neighborhood for 30,000 people.
www.volts.wtf
April 9, 2025 at 2:11 AM
I had no idea about this! (I was born in Edmonton and then also went to university there) such a cool project and it was delightful to hear the accents, too. ❤️
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To the world:
We are fighting back. Our movement has been silenced by the media here—but we are not backing down. This is what our streets looked like across multiple cities. Tomorrow, there will be more of us! Raise a glass to freedom.
—With love,
Your American allies.
We are fighting back. Our movement has been silenced by the media here—but we are not backing down. This is what our streets looked like across multiple cities. Tomorrow, there will be more of us! Raise a glass to freedom.
—With love,
Your American allies.
April 5, 2025 at 10:03 PM
To the world:
We are fighting back. Our movement has been silenced by the media here—but we are not backing down. This is what our streets looked like across multiple cities. Tomorrow, there will be more of us! Raise a glass to freedom.
—With love,
Your American allies.
We are fighting back. Our movement has been silenced by the media here—but we are not backing down. This is what our streets looked like across multiple cities. Tomorrow, there will be more of us! Raise a glass to freedom.
—With love,
Your American allies.
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WOW: Thousands are currently protesting in Boston. This is just one of more than 1200 'Hands Off' protests underway today across the nation as people rise up against the Trump-Musk regime. (via Rob Way)
April 5, 2025 at 4:06 PM
WOW: Thousands are currently protesting in Boston. This is just one of more than 1200 'Hands Off' protests underway today across the nation as people rise up against the Trump-Musk regime. (via Rob Way)
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I asked the one high ranking policeman I saw on 5th Ave why there were so few police. He said “We did not expect anything like this. Don’t tell anyone but I’ve only got 44 officers out here — and it’s a great crowd, great event, no incidents.”
I have never seen anything like this in NYC. 5th Ave covered from 42nd St well to the 20s. Nobody prepared for this volume. Volunteers are holding the traffic on all the side streets. No police in sight. #handsoff
April 5, 2025 at 8:24 PM
I asked the one high ranking policeman I saw on 5th Ave why there were so few police. He said “We did not expect anything like this. Don’t tell anyone but I’ve only got 44 officers out here — and it’s a great crowd, great event, no incidents.”
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BREAKING: We're suing the National Institutes of Health over their politically-motivated purge of research grants.
This is an unlawful attack on scientific progress that puts lives at risk.
This is an unlawful attack on scientific progress that puts lives at risk.
April 2, 2025 at 8:03 PM
BREAKING: We're suing the National Institutes of Health over their politically-motivated purge of research grants.
This is an unlawful attack on scientific progress that puts lives at risk.
This is an unlawful attack on scientific progress that puts lives at risk.
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Dark Pence is back.
April 2, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Dark Pence is back.
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“We must dissent because America can do better.” Good to hear Wisconsin Judge Susan Crawford quote Justice Thurgood Marshall in her victory speech tonight.
April 2, 2025 at 2:50 AM
“We must dissent because America can do better.” Good to hear Wisconsin Judge Susan Crawford quote Justice Thurgood Marshall in her victory speech tonight.
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"I don't want a Disney vacation of our history! I don't a whitewashed history, I don't want a homogenized history. Tell me the wretched truth about America, because that speaks to our greatness" -- 20 hours into his speech, Cory Booker is spitting absolute 🔥
April 1, 2025 at 7:47 PM
"I don't want a Disney vacation of our history! I don't a whitewashed history, I don't want a homogenized history. Tell me the wretched truth about America, because that speaks to our greatness" -- 20 hours into his speech, Cory Booker is spitting absolute 🔥
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Yale must save climate science
This is not the time for doomscrolling and despair.
Find out more: yaledailynews.com/blog/2025...
#ClimateAction
Yale must save climate science
This is not the time for doomscrolling and despair.
Find out more: yaledailynews.com/blog/2025...
#ClimateAction
HIGONNET: Yale must save climate science
What will our grandchildren say to us about this pivotal moment in history, when Yale had the chance to help save global climate science in the middle of a climate crisis that threatened humanity?
yaledailynews.com
March 29, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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Yale must save climate science
This is not the time for doomscrolling and despair.
Find out more: yaledailynews.com/blog/2025...
#ClimateAction
Yale must save climate science
This is not the time for doomscrolling and despair.
Find out more: yaledailynews.com/blog/2025...
#ClimateAction
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We are currently living in The Age of Incompetent Hypocrites.
March 29, 2025 at 6:03 PM
We are currently living in The Age of Incompetent Hypocrites.
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Renewables accounted for 93% of global power capacity growth in 2024
Wind, solar, geothermal, hydro and other renewable technologies now comprise 46% of world-wide power generating capacity, up from less than 30% in 2015.
theprogressplaybook.com/2025/03/26/r...
Wind, solar, geothermal, hydro and other renewable technologies now comprise 46% of world-wide power generating capacity, up from less than 30% in 2015.
theprogressplaybook.com/2025/03/26/r...
Renewables accounted for 93% of global power capacity growth in 2024
Renewable technologies now comprise 46% of world-wide power generating capacity, up from less than 30% in 2015.
theprogressplaybook.com
March 26, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Renewables accounted for 93% of global power capacity growth in 2024
Wind, solar, geothermal, hydro and other renewable technologies now comprise 46% of world-wide power generating capacity, up from less than 30% in 2015.
theprogressplaybook.com/2025/03/26/r...
Wind, solar, geothermal, hydro and other renewable technologies now comprise 46% of world-wide power generating capacity, up from less than 30% in 2015.
theprogressplaybook.com/2025/03/26/r...