It was a busy year last year but how did I miss Denmark setting out plans to remove all gas from homes by 2030, to be replaced with heat pumps and heat networks? thelocal.dk/20220419/denma…

By my calculations, that's about 1/3 of Mercedes' annual European #steel demand (640k cars*.9t steel/car), great! Now do North America please. #LeadtheCharge #GreenSteel

Heat pumps will be your best friend <3 Love that Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 did a piece singing their praises! noahpinion.blog/p/heat-pumps-h…

Damn, soak up those optimistic vibes + use it to fight off the wildfire smoke anxiety + as fuel to keep pushing for even faster progress 🌞

Existing renewable energy adoption trends put us closer to 1.5C of warming than to 2.5C of warming.

In 2011, the average range of electric cars was just 73 miles. It's now 247 miles. Some are getting more than 500 miles.

Even as we electrify steam & high temp process heat w/companies like AtmosZero & Rondo Energy, we may be able to directly electrify cement production too, w/Sublime Systems. Is industry really "hard to decarbonize" or is it that we just started finally trying hard enough?

Time for a bit of climate hope. Solar power is the fastest growing energy technology in history, and wind is not far behind. This graph shows how rapidly different energy technologies expanded after reaching their first exajoule of energy production, on a logarithmic scale.

China is adding country-sized amounts of solar and wind each year 🇨🇳☀️💨

Amazing! The march toward electrifying buildings continues. Utilities more broadly will get the PSA at some point + start working towards it rather than against it. nrdc.org/bio/claire-lan…

The world is turning away from new coal. "We found that for every $1 in coal project lending that reached financial close in 2022, another $14 earmarked for previously proposed projects was stopped." From Carbon Brief: carbonbrief.org/guest-post-coa…

Wanna decarb homes fast? All one way ACs need to be two way heat pumps. Nice Canary Media article from Jeff St. John today. Seriously, there's no other way to 2050. canarymedia.com/articles/heat-…

60C is 140F.

Good news: Michigan utility DTE Energy said on Wednesday that it plans to retire its last coal plants by 2032 and invest $11 billion over the next 10 years toward clean energy transition. reuters.com/sustainability…

One of the most important findings in the recent IPCC report is that we ultimately determine how much warming will occur. There is likely no warming "in the pipeline" once emissions get to zero. Rather, CO2 concentrations fall and temperatures stabilize carbonbrief.org/explainer-will…

Britain is heading for near-universal heat pumps by 2050. Speaking to the Parliamentary Press Gallery today, Grant Shapps suggested govt had given up on the idea that hydrogen could replace natural gas as the main way of heating homes. Story The i Paper: inews.co.uk/news/politics/…

Shanu Mathew Collin McLelland 🏴‍☠️ Exactly! Also the cost! Quick math: Oxy scope 1, 2 & 3 emissions in 2021 = 228.25 million tons per year x $200-350/ton DAC cost target = ~$46-80 billion per year to offset just Oxy's fossil production. That's gotta be some really valuable energy to be worth that kind of cost.

Reason prevails! UK poised to drop plans to replace home gas boilers with hydrogen alternatives theguardian.com/environment/20…

Oak Park! First midwest city to require 100% electric bldgs. #pollutionfree dailyherald.com/news/20230714/…

Geothermal startup Fervo Energy says it achieved a technology breakthrough at its Nevada project site — one that could help accelerate efforts to tap 24/7, carbon-free energy from deep down in the earth. My latest for Canary Media canarymedia.com/articles/geoth…