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Battery have had an up-and-down year. But one startup, Quino Energy, thinks it can break through with an old idea: flow batteries.
Here's @kbrigham.bsky.social on what sets Quino apart and why it's deploying in India:
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Here's @kbrigham.bsky.social on what sets Quino apart and why it's deploying in India:
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Quino Raises $10 Million to Build Flow Batteries in India
The company is betting its unique vanadium-free electrolyte will make it cost-competitive with lithium-ion.
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November 10, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Battery have had an up-and-down year. But one startup, Quino Energy, thinks it can break through with an old idea: flow batteries.
Here's @kbrigham.bsky.social on what sets Quino apart and why it's deploying in India:
heatmap.news/climate-tech...
Here's @kbrigham.bsky.social on what sets Quino apart and why it's deploying in India:
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Great @jael.bsky.social story on the right-left pincer movement against data centers heatmap.news/energy/data-...
The Data Center Backlash Is Swallowing American Politics
Activists on both the left and the right are pushing back against AI development.
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November 7, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Great @jael.bsky.social story on the right-left pincer movement against data centers heatmap.news/energy/data-...
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reposting because I love drama
Zohran's relentless disciplined campaign was truly impressive - he brought every message/issue back to the cost of living and built a model for what bringing attention to a positive affordability message can look like
Proud to have Blue Rose do ad testing for the Zohran IE!
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Proud to have Blue Rose do ad testing for the Zohran IE!
x.com/alimortell/s...
Ali Mortell on X: ".@ZohranKMamdani ran a phenomenal, authentic campaign focused on affordability. Blue Rose Research is proud to have partnered with @MiddleSeatCo on ad testing and to support their work in helping build the momentum for a more affordable New York. LFG 🌹 https://t.co/0HLenkSSrv" / X
.@ZohranKMamdani ran a phenomenal, authentic campaign focused on affordability. Blue Rose Research is proud to have partnered with @MiddleSeatCo on ad testing and to support their work in helping build the momentum for a more affordable New York. LFG 🌹 https://t.co/0HLenkSSrv
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November 5, 2025 at 6:55 PM
reposting because I love drama
always be testing your ads to find out that a relentless focus on cost of living can be effective for progressive candidates
Zohran's relentless disciplined campaign was truly impressive - he brought every message/issue back to the cost of living and built a model for what bringing attention to a positive affordability message can look like
Proud to have Blue Rose do ad testing for the Zohran IE!
x.com/alimortell/s...
Proud to have Blue Rose do ad testing for the Zohran IE!
x.com/alimortell/s...
Ali Mortell on X: ".@ZohranKMamdani ran a phenomenal, authentic campaign focused on affordability. Blue Rose Research is proud to have partnered with @MiddleSeatCo on ad testing and to support their work in helping build the momentum for a more affordable New York. LFG 🌹 https://t.co/0HLenkSSrv" / X
.@ZohranKMamdani ran a phenomenal, authentic campaign focused on affordability. Blue Rose Research is proud to have partnered with @MiddleSeatCo on ad testing and to support their work in helping build the momentum for a more affordable New York. LFG 🌹 https://t.co/0HLenkSSrv
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November 5, 2025 at 7:40 PM
always be testing your ads to find out that a relentless focus on cost of living can be effective for progressive candidates
great @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social piece on zohran: how the "proud ecosocialist" who said we needed to fight trump with renewables clammed up about climate change on the campaign trail heatmap.news/politics/zoh...
Zohran Mamdani’s Muted Climate Politics
The self-described “ecosocialist” ran an ultra-disciplined campaign for New York City mayor. Once he’s in office, the climate issue could become unavoidable.
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November 5, 2025 at 1:53 PM
great @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social piece on zohran: how the "proud ecosocialist" who said we needed to fight trump with renewables clammed up about climate change on the campaign trail heatmap.news/politics/zoh...
How Mikie Sherrill took New Jersey's high and rising electricity prices and turned it to her advantage heatmap.news/politics/mik...
How Mikie Sherrill Won New Jersey’s Electricity Election
The next governor of the Garden State turned a potential liability into an advantage.
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November 5, 2025 at 3:49 AM
How Mikie Sherrill took New Jersey's high and rising electricity prices and turned it to her advantage heatmap.news/politics/mik...
what if texas could build data centers the same way it builds wind, solar, and batteries (ie with permissive interconnection but accepting the risk of curtailment)
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A New Plan for Texas to Treat Data Centers Like Solar Farms
Emerald AI’s Arushi Sharma Frank wants to apply “connect and manage” to AI development.
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November 4, 2025 at 6:36 PM
what if texas could build data centers the same way it builds wind, solar, and batteries (ie with permissive interconnection but accepting the risk of curtailment)
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good morning new york city heatmap.news/ideas/zohran...
Zohran Mamdani Should Embrace Nuclear
The New York mayoral frontrunner has an opportunity to shift the left’s increasingly nonsensical position on a critical carbon-free energy source.
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November 4, 2025 at 2:49 PM
good morning new york city heatmap.news/ideas/zohran...
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Falling down the rabbit hole of online estate sales and folks it is going great over here
October 30, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Falling down the rabbit hole of online estate sales and folks it is going great over here
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In NYC, recess sometimes looks like preschoolers excitedly waiting for the Franklin Avenue Shuttle to pass underneath them.
October 28, 2025 at 4:33 PM
In NYC, recess sometimes looks like preschoolers excitedly waiting for the Franklin Avenue Shuttle to pass underneath them.
dems have been having debates about "social issues" vs "economic issues" and how that interacts with class and education for my entire life, what i think is genuinely new is the prominence of climate change and the priortization gap on climate change between college+ dems and everyone else
October 30, 2025 at 5:06 PM
dems have been having debates about "social issues" vs "economic issues" and how that interacts with class and education for my entire life, what i think is genuinely new is the prominence of climate change and the priortization gap on climate change between college+ dems and everyone else
I talked to an ex FERC chair who helped stiffarm Rick Perry's efforts to get FERC to write the rules he wanted, but now Neil Chatterjee thinks Secretary Wright will have a far easier time of it heatmap.news/energy/chatt...
What an ‘Elegant’ Notice of Proposed Rulemaking Looks Like, According to Neil Chatterjee
The former FERC chair explains why Chris Wright is likely to succeed where Rick Perry failed.
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October 29, 2025 at 7:01 PM
I talked to an ex FERC chair who helped stiffarm Rick Perry's efforts to get FERC to write the rules he wanted, but now Neil Chatterjee thinks Secretary Wright will have a far easier time of it heatmap.news/energy/chatt...
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"Hurricane Melissa has been astonishing to watch — even as someone who studies how these storms are impacted by a warming climate," @andrajgarner.bsky.social told @zeitlin.bsky.social.
Here's more on the storm that is battering Jamaica — and astounding researchers:
Here's more on the storm that is battering Jamaica — and astounding researchers:
How Hurricane Melissa Got So Strong So Fast
The storm currently battering Jamaica is the third Category 5 to form in the Atlantic Ocean this year, matching the previous record.
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October 28, 2025 at 10:04 PM
"Hurricane Melissa has been astonishing to watch — even as someone who studies how these storms are impacted by a warming climate," @andrajgarner.bsky.social told @zeitlin.bsky.social.
Here's more on the storm that is battering Jamaica — and astounding researchers:
Here's more on the storm that is battering Jamaica — and astounding researchers:
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This is funny – the argument against bike lanes used to be that they slow down emergency vehicles. Now that the lanes are wide and clear enough to accommodate them, it’s that the emergency vehicles will use the bike lanes to drive too fast brooklyneagle.com/articles/202...
October 28, 2025 at 1:02 PM
This is funny – the argument against bike lanes used to be that they slow down emergency vehicles. Now that the lanes are wide and clear enough to accommodate them, it’s that the emergency vehicles will use the bike lanes to drive too fast brooklyneagle.com/articles/202...
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Major scoop from @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social:
Stardust Solutions, the Israeli geoengineering startup led by a team of Israeli physicists, just raised $60 million to develop the technology to artificially cool the planet by reflecting sunlight as soon as the 2030s.
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Stardust Solutions, the Israeli geoengineering startup led by a team of Israeli physicists, just raised $60 million to develop the technology to artificially cool the planet by reflecting sunlight as soon as the 2030s.
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Exclusive: Stardust Solutions Raises $60 Million to Build a Solar Geoengineering System by 2030
A U.S. firm led by former Israeli government physicists, Stardust seeks to patent its proprietary sunlight-scattering particle — but it won’t deploy its technology until global governments authorize s...
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October 24, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Major scoop from @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social:
Stardust Solutions, the Israeli geoengineering startup led by a team of Israeli physicists, just raised $60 million to develop the technology to artificially cool the planet by reflecting sunlight as soon as the 2030s.
heatmap.news/climate-tech...
Stardust Solutions, the Israeli geoengineering startup led by a team of Israeli physicists, just raised $60 million to develop the technology to artificially cool the planet by reflecting sunlight as soon as the 2030s.
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Scoop: A court ruling last week quietly derailed battery storage development in more than half of L.A. County after activists successfully sued to kill a 400 megawatt battery in a wildfire risk area
@heatmap.news #greensky #energysky
@heatmap.news #greensky #energysky
How a Tiny Community Blocked Battery Storage in Over Half of Los Angeles County
Much of California’s biggest county is now off limits to energy storage.
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October 23, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Scoop: A court ruling last week quietly derailed battery storage development in more than half of L.A. County after activists successfully sued to kill a 400 megawatt battery in a wildfire risk area
@heatmap.news #greensky #energysky
@heatmap.news #greensky #energysky
lots of young people spent a year or more on the computer during covid and their minds are completely scrambled in all sorts of ways that will pay off strangely and badly for years to come
October 23, 2025 at 4:57 PM
lots of young people spent a year or more on the computer during covid and their minds are completely scrambled in all sorts of ways that will pay off strangely and badly for years to come
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California condor range expanding into the Bay Area and Santa Cruz Mountains, further south into Santa Barbara County too. 🪶 www.mercurynews.com/2025/10/20/f...
October 22, 2025 at 11:07 PM
California condor range expanding into the Bay Area and Santa Cruz Mountains, further south into Santa Barbara County too. 🪶 www.mercurynews.com/2025/10/20/f...
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Google plans to buy most of the power produced by the country’s first commercial carbon-capture natural gas plant in Decatur, Illinois, @zeitlin.bsky.social reports: heatmap.news/climate-tech...
Google Is Backing the First Commercial Carbon Capture Power Plant in the U.S.
That means it’s also buying natural gas — but by storing the emissions, the company says, it can still meet its climate goals.
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October 23, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Google plans to buy most of the power produced by the country’s first commercial carbon-capture natural gas plant in Decatur, Illinois, @zeitlin.bsky.social reports: heatmap.news/climate-tech...
GE Vernova talking about selling smaller, simpler gas turbines to power data centers as a stopgap before grid connection
October 23, 2025 at 2:30 PM
GE Vernova talking about selling smaller, simpler gas turbines to power data centers as a stopgap before grid connection
i'm with zaslav here, anyone can be rich, but only one guy gets to sit behind jack warner's desk
Zaslav turned down an offer to sell Warner Bros to Ellison for $24/share. Until recently, the company was trading at just $12/share. Why is Zaslav resisting? What insiders think is really at play here, via @status.news www.status.news/p/warner-bro...
October 22, 2025 at 1:34 PM
i'm with zaslav here, anyone can be rich, but only one guy gets to sit behind jack warner's desk
yes, the new york times had no idea that trump was being shady in potentially approving settlements for himself and only included this quote out of a sense of false balance
I like how the NYT tried to do a “some experts say” framing, and the expert was like, you do not need an expert opinion to see this is bad.
October 22, 2025 at 3:04 AM
yes, the new york times had no idea that trump was being shady in potentially approving settlements for himself and only included this quote out of a sense of false balance
when it comes to electricity, "new jersey governor" is actually pretty far down the org chart heatmap.news/energy/new-j...
New Jersey’s Next Governor Probably Can’t Do Much About Electricity Prices
Though high costs have become central to the upcoming election, they’re mostly out of the state’s control.
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October 21, 2025 at 9:20 PM
when it comes to electricity, "new jersey governor" is actually pretty far down the org chart heatmap.news/energy/new-j...
one barrier to green energy i've found when talking to
"normal people" is that they find arguments about embedded emissions in wind turbines and solar panels (as well as arguments about harms from mining etc) to be very compelling
"normal people" is that they find arguments about embedded emissions in wind turbines and solar panels (as well as arguments about harms from mining etc) to be very compelling
October 20, 2025 at 9:19 PM
one barrier to green energy i've found when talking to
"normal people" is that they find arguments about embedded emissions in wind turbines and solar panels (as well as arguments about harms from mining etc) to be very compelling
"normal people" is that they find arguments about embedded emissions in wind turbines and solar panels (as well as arguments about harms from mining etc) to be very compelling
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Thanks so much to @emilypont.bsky.social for covering what might be the most underrated climate battlefield there is. As I say in the piece, in the Trump era, there is no clearer opportunity for state and local elected officials to make a tangible difference on climate than saving transit.
3 of America’s Biggest Public Transit Systems Are Teetering on the Brink
Riders in Chicago, Philadelphia, and the San Francisco Bay Area are staring down budget crises, with deep service cuts not far behind.
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October 20, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Thanks so much to @emilypont.bsky.social for covering what might be the most underrated climate battlefield there is. As I say in the piece, in the Trump era, there is no clearer opportunity for state and local elected officials to make a tangible difference on climate than saving transit.