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  • 1 month ago | texasmonthly.com | Russell Gold

    We’re standing atop one of the highest hills in Henderson County, but Kyle Bass wants to climb higher still. Be careful, he warns me as we begin our ascent of a fire lookout tower built in the forties. “It’s janky.” Other words that come to mind are “dilapidated” and “dangerous.”I grab hold of the ladder, and it moves a couple of inches, the nuts meant to bind it to the tower’s metal frame having loosened.

  • Mar 24, 2025 | nytimes.com | Russell Gold

    In 2015, the Oklahoma oil magnate Harold Hamm got a glimpse of the future and didn't like what he saw. Renewable energy, he realized, was a threat to the long-term dominance of oil and natural gas. At the time, Oklahoma was facing a budget crisis and lawmakers wanted to increase taxes on oil and gas.

  • Feb 20, 2025 | texasmonthly.com | Russell Gold |Jason Heid

    Meteorologically speaking, it was a bad day for renewable energy. A dense fog enshrouded downtown Austin so completely that the Capitol wasn’t visible from two blocks away. Wind was nonexistent. My expectations were low as I took a short walk to the remote operations center of the second-largest wind-and-solar power producer in the state. But Texas, you may have heard, is big.

  • Jan 30, 2025 | texasmonthly.com | Russell Gold

    I rapped my knuckles on the galvanized aluminum exterior to make sure it wasn’t some sort of desert mirage. It was solid: $400 million worth of concrete, electronics, and steel assembled to rotate a thick rubber belt along roughly 66,000 metal rollers. Something on the order of 13 million tons of sand can be carried the entire length of the machine—42 miles—each year.

  • Jan 30, 2025 | flipboard.com | Russell Gold

    22 hours ago Victims in North Lubbock murder-suicide identified by police LUBBOCK, Texas — The Lubbock Police Department on Wednesday identified the victims involved in a murder-suicide that happened in the 700 block of … 1 day ago El Paso man faces multiple deceptive business practice charges EL PASO, Texas — A 41-year-old man from West El Paso has been arrested on several counts of deceptive business practices and unauthorized use of a … 3 hours ago Smith: Shelters on the Border It’s early...

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John C. Moritz

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Russell Gold @russellgold
11 Jun 25

RT @T1_Energy: The federal government said this week U.S. crude oil output is currently peaking, and could fall by 1.5% by the end of next…

Russell Gold
Russell Gold @russellgold
10 Jun 25

RT @T1_Energy: If we end the growth of renewables "we will lose the AI race, and we will bring this economic expansion in the United States…

Russell Gold
Russell Gold @russellgold
10 Jun 25

A fond farewell to one of the most underappreciated musicians to emerge from the '60s, and while he's associated with San Fran, Sly Stone was a native of Denton, Texas! https://t.co/5TsODVDtFw