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I'm embarrassed to admit it, but it's true: I procrastinated on setting up a custom domain for my climate politics newsletter until @elonmusk started censoring substack links.
Welcome to HillHeat.News!
Welcome to HillHeat.News!
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I love all of this
I quit The Atlantic having raised 0 dollars because I felt it was inappropriate to raise money while working for another magazine -- others have made different choices but that was mine.
Emergent Ventures, which is run by Tyler Cowen, exists to empower young people who think they can do big things. Tyler gave me a grant of $100,000 from this fund to build @TheArgumentMag.
I then raised $4 million from an array of investors with various backgrounds and interests to build a liberal magazine where people could debate big questions.
Zach, who has recieved direct or indirect funding from the founder of eBay, Charles Koch, Exxonmobil, Chevron, BP, JP Morgan Chase, AWS, Meta, and Google, is, I suppose, telling on himself about the nature and origin of his views.
Personally, I think Zach came by his flawed viewpoint honestly but if you follow his logic he's an agent of Big Oil and Big Tech.
I find it galling when those who have been funded by tech billionaires and the failsons of the wealthy have the temerity to cast stones at anyone else for trying to make something of themselves despite not having access to institutional wealth.
Perhaps if I had been born the daughter of a billionaire and devoted myself to the cause of making the left historically unpopular, I would have Zach's respect. Alas, I think I'll live without it.
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Must be why the American Petroleum Institute and Oil & Gas Association are so excited
Many people are viewing the permitting deal as: Democrats got major transmission reform for clean energy, Republicans got environmental law reforms, and both sides agreed on things like geothermal.
But in fact, every title of the bill benefits clean energy:
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Much like Roger Pielke Jr
Modeling permitting reform is devilishly hard. Take any models as indicative and uncertain. But the folks at @rff are some of the most careful modelers and honest brokers out there.
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Brad Johnson SUBSCRIBE TO HILLHEAT.NEWS retweeted
@JesseJenkins Isn't it impossible? With all due respect to the folks at RFF, how can they justify any of this?
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Say BOO 👻 to BAAJA! 🎃
It's a ZOMBIE 🧟 MONSTER 🧌 of a bill!
Big Oil and Big Tech VAMPIRES 🧛 are trying to TRICK you into giving them TREATS! 🍫
Send a letter to your reps asking WITCH 🧙♀️ way they'll vote!
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It's a ZOMBIE 🧟 MONSTER 🧌 of a bill!
Big Oil and Big Tech VAMPIRES 🧛 are trying to TRICK you into giving them TREATS! 🍫
Send a letter to your reps asking WITCH 🧙♀️ way they'll vote!
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Brad Johnson SUBSCRIBE TO HILLHEAT.NEWS retweeted
Followers of my account probably know that I'm quite skeptical of a lot of the claimed benefits of interegional transmission because some of the physics are quite hard to support all the claims. Interregional transfer capacity isn't a physical thing it is an administrative number that doesn't map cleanly to any single lines.
In particular the reliability benefit one needs the most challenge to it. The recen analysis by @whgorman looking at aggregate flows during periods of correlated risk or capacity potential in the region is only a first pass imo
No real benefit can be achieved unless the transmission AND generation profile is such that buyers on one side are confident enough to arrange for a firm transmission bilaterals with generation on the other side at the most stressed times, which includes ALL powerflow deliverability considerations.
All those nasty considerations that NRIS and those underlying regional transfer tests makes individual generators subject to but now for a set of gens at the boundary.
Not saying this won't happen but this is the standard it has to be to.
In particular the reliability benefit one needs the most challenge to it. The recen analysis by @whgorman looking at aggregate flows during periods of correlated risk or capacity potential in the region is only a first pass imo
No real benefit can be achieved unless the transmission AND generation profile is such that buyers on one side are confident enough to arrange for a firm transmission bilaterals with generation on the other side at the most stressed times, which includes ALL powerflow deliverability considerations.
All those nasty considerations that NRIS and those underlying regional transfer tests makes individual generators subject to but now for a set of gens at the boundary.
Not saying this won't happen but this is the standard it has to be to.
Might need to be more prescriptive with the cost benefit analysis criteria 😂
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carbon emissions go up
and they're only modeling CO2 pollution from the power sector, WITH FIXED DEMAND
and they're only modeling CO2 pollution from the power sector, WITH FIXED DEMAND
Resources For the Future has released its modeling on the Senate permitting bill.
Top findings:
- Increase transmission capacity by 30% by 2041
- Would facilitate 60GW of clean energy in 2028
- Reduce carbon emissions by 1.8 gigatonnes through 2041
rff.org/publications/i…
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I love the premise that rob isn't an advocate
The BAAJA permitting bill has divided environmental and clean energy advocates.
Which is fascinating, of course. But because reporters love to cover conflict, I suspect we’ve focused too little on the parts of the bill most climate advocates really like.
So for the latest Shift Key, I spoke to @DavidPomerantz about how the bill would remake the power grid and why it represents a historic victory against monopoly utility power: heatmap.news/podcast/shift-…
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breaking his own ceasefire, where have I seen that before
@climatebrad @rff I’ve already reprimanded Tom, but this post is in violation of the BAAJA cease fire. Enjoy the candy and see you on Monday.
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lol at coming to X where people are so braindead they insist 1.64 is smaller than 1.4
don't worry @jaeporeon this is sincerely hilarious to me
don't worry @jaeporeon this is sincerely hilarious to me
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Brad Johnson SUBSCRIBE TO HILLHEAT.NEWS retweeted
He’s correct. The abundance movement is akin to the Koch network in many respects, indeed some of the key abundance groups have received funding from the Koch orgs etc. It’s clearly a movement opposed to traditional environmental and conservation concerns.
Once again for those in the back. The mainstream green groups were never going to be part of the abundance coalition that was going to get serious about building a clean energy future. A lot of people were upset at me when I said this at the first Abundance Conference but pened since has pretty well proved my point, starting with the protest immediately after my speech and culminating with the full court press by the movement to kill permitting reform.
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I worry for anyone who sincerely that @rff blog post is an accurate representation of climate pathways after the passage of BAAJA
The way people are talking about this graph is leading to some dumb conversations. Yes - the line goes up with or without the bill. It goes up less with the bill than with the baseline assumptions.
The bill helps. It may not help as much as you wanted. It’s ok to just say so.
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imagine promoting an AI acceleration bill as good for jobs
The Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act will help deliver cheaper energy for New Mexico homes, more jobs for New Mexico workers, and make sure that our energy growth is both responsible and future-forward. abqjournal.com/opinion/opinio…
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