Alexander C. Kaufman

U.S. natural gas production didn't grow last year. https://t.co/dIoIjWqGIb

Pope Francis had complicated views on nuclear power. In his famed 2015 Laudato si’ encyclical letter on climate change, he recognized the utility of atomic energy to give those with the ability to harness it “an impressive dominance over the whole of humanity and the entire https://t.co/tWgUaBeE2t

Shortly after Chinese EV giant BYD announced five minute charging technology, the battery behemoth CATL says it has already bested the record. These potential breakthroughs come as the U.S. bans Chinese EVs and House Republicans are going after CATL, which has been building a https://t.co/DSjFyvyS4F

The sheer extent of China’s control over the so-called heavy rare earths such as gadolinium and terbium is staggering. The U.S. produces some light rare earths at the Mountain Pass mine in California. But Trump slapped major tariffs on Vietnam, the one country with at least https://t.co/Lg7SJ55xcp

Reminder that rare earths aren’t rare. Processing capacity is rare. https://t.co/Cjh84pHcDM

Good example here of solar as energy security: Nigeria cut off electricity exports to Niger and only restored about 60% of shipments. In the meantime, Niger’s junta imported a lot of cheap Chinese solar panels that are now bringing power to places that previously had none and https://t.co/86F1UAdX4s

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Amid ongoing power cuts and reduced electricity from Nigeria, Niger is turning to solar. In sunny Niamey, homes and businesses are rapidly adopting affordable solar panels, reshaping the country’s energy landscape from the ground up. https://t.co/8B8MjajLr0

Low-carbon sources now make up 73% of Europe’s power generation. https://t.co/acuEWLCK8C

The U.S. already had a disappointing pistachio harvest last year. Then the Dubai chocolate craze hit, sending global demand for the nuts soaring. Now there’s a worldwide shortage. https://t.co/uq2OzwS8TO

RT @Waksman84: Alternative reading: Ruthless dictatorships like China make all decisions through one man and thus are more prone to falling…

Forecasts of how much more electricity American data centers are going to need over the next five years are all over the place. But they all go in one direction. https://t.co/nHLvVoNMOH

spent like 15 minutes trying to figure out if this was parody.

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Jabba the Hutt’s son Rotta will be a gladiator with massive biceps in ‘THE MANDALORIAN & GROGU’ Played by Jeremy Allen White. https://t.co/OzrngGAVet

RT @ThomasHochman: Great piece from @hamandcheese today in the New York Times. Among other things, Sam points out that the LPO is the clos…

RT @JigarShahDC: Energy dominance, what energy dominance. Over the first 100 days this administration has pissed off oil&gas, LNG, nuclear,…

Canada’s Conservatives are the most pro-nuclear, Bloc Québécois is the least. The Liberals, Conservatives and the Quebec nationalists love hydroelectricity the most. The left-wing New Democratic Party prefers solar and wind. Everyone opposes fracking except the Conservatives. https://t.co/KYPDpaLjjV

RT @isabelleboemeke: “For one thing, it makes the biggest problem in nuclear even worse: it drives non-standardization. We have seen coun…

While the U.S. dithers or pumps money into hyped fusion technologies, China is running laps around us in the other long-sought nuclear holy grail: thorium reactors. https://t.co/j18KFgU7lT

RT @fredstaffordcs: Progressives aligned with solar industry and solar NGOs like Vote Solar in their ideas about public power should read t…