My column today is basically a plea for people who care about climate to stop yelling at each other about which solutions are “better” or “cheaper” and start coming to grips with the reality that it’s 2024 and we don’t have time for that shit anymore. latimes.com/environment/ne…

Negativity bias is the biggest bias

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Eshe Nelson The New York Times Amy Harder Federica Di Sario POLITICOEurope Anca Gurzu Dylan Baddour Inside Climate News Amena H. Saiyid آمنہ سیّد Andrew Hayley Reuters .Jarrett Renshaw timothy gardner Reuters covered a US-Japan partnership on nuclear fusion: nt-z.ro/49vrcxf
Catherine Clifford’s take: It's encouraging to see collaboration on fusion because there's ever more need for the game-changing quantities of clean power fusion promises.

To reach net zero by 2050, the US needs to remove a gigaton (1 billion metric tons) of CO2 each year til then, per Rhodium Group.

For context: The US is removing just a few MEGAtons (1 mil metric tons) of CO2 per year. ciphernews.com/articles/us-in… by Catherine Clifford in Cipher News

To reach net zero by 2050, the United States will need to be able to remove a gigaton of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere per year by 2050, according to a new report from Rhodium Group. We've got a long way to go to get there, reports Catherine Clifford. nt-z.ro/3TVkM53

If you care about climate change, you should care about transmission.

If you care about air pollution, we need more transmission.

If you care about reliability, transmission again.

If you care about realizing the economic opportunity of emerging cleantech, more transmission.

Excellent from Catherine Clifford: “Surging power demand spurs smarter electric grid use” 

Like so much in climate, solutions are plentiful…but the will, drive, and commitment to change are lacking.

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.Rhodium Group put out a study on CDR y'day & Cipher News has a look at how current policy will drive more natural CDR now & more DAC later. Also? TLDR: We're going to need exponentially more CDR and we need to invest exponentially more to get there. ciphernews.com/articles/us-in…

📈As the demand for powerful magnets in the clean energy transition surges, Niron Magnetics 'has managed to make good quality magnets without rare earths,' which face major supply constraints.

Read more from BBC on Niron’s innovative breakthroughs: bbc.in/4cO43sN.

Ten straight months of record global temperatures. If that's not an emergency, I don't know what is.

Story by my Los Angeles Times colleague Hayley Smith: latimes.com/environment/st…

Texas hit a new clean-energy milestone last month, when the state’s solar production outpaced coal-fired generation for the first time, Julian Spector reports canarymedia.com/articles/solar…

'Great Scott!'

A+ GIF game EMP at Berkeley Lab. Bravo.

South Australia has too much renewable energy. Officials want to build vastly more, hoping to supply neighboring states with power and crank out clean hydrogen. nt-z.ro/49uvvcf

Over a TERAWATT of new solar, wind and storage capacity has requested interconnection to the US grid since the Inflation Reduction Act became law, roughly doubling the volume in the queue. That's roughly 2x ALL current US generating capacity.

The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) has supercharged clean power and storage development interest. Over 1,100 GW of solar, storage, and wind projects have submitted interconnection requests since the passage of the law. 7/x

Berkeley Lab Clifford Krauss Jennifer Hiller Ivan Penn brad plumer ChristopherMMatthews Evan Halper Maxine Joselow Shannon Osaka Rebecca Smith Jeff Brady 900 gigawatts of new projects entered the queues in 2023, meaning nearly 2,600 GW of generation and storage capacity are now actively seeking grid interconnection. This is 8x higher than in 2010. 2/x

Remember how big the interconnection queue for new generators was last year? Guess what – it’s 30% bigger now! It is now TWICE the capacity of currently operating power plants.

See the annual “Queued Up” report from Berkeley Lab at emp.lbl.gov/queues. Thread!

There are 3 buckets of improvements that we can make to the existing grid infrastructure & operations that will help get more from the grid we have right now: Grid enhancing technologies (GETs), reconductoring and load flexibility. Read in Cipher News: ciphernews.com/articles/surgi…

ALL HAIL the Amtrak quiet car. These are my people.

A better headline for this The Wall Street Journal article would be that voters don’t KNOW, not that they don’t CARE.

I did find this is surprising: A voter says she cares a lot about climate but doesn’t know about the Inflation Reduction Act. Hmmm?

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