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Executive director of think tank @switch.box. Climate policy and data science. Mostly here to ask questions!
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@bunkum.us reading this book and I think you'd like it www.cambridge.org/core/books/p...

submitted 38 days ago • 1 comment

The "spark gap" - the price difference between electricity and natural gas - is one of the biggest challenges in heat pump adoption. While heat pumps use 3-4 times less energy than gas furnaces, higher electricity rates can sometimes offset these efficiency gains. (1/3)

submitted 95 days ago • 3 comments

Cartoon with caption by my buddy @jackhauen.bsky.social

submitted 52 days ago • 31 comments

Speaking of failings of blue state governance: just helped a struggling mom get her stroller down subway stairs, she was dangerously close to losing control. Elevator was out. Upon leaving the station, ran into protest outside of @mta.info's HQ. Their chant: "what do we want? elevator maintenance!"

submitted 53 days ago • 2 comments

BIG NEWS: #SB282, the Heat Pump Access Act, advanced in #CALeg yesterday! This critical legislation will streamline the permitting process for heat pumps, making it faster and more affordable to modernize homes with efficient heating & cooling. @scottwiener.bsky.social #BuildingDecarb #EnergySky

submitted 57 days ago • 0 comments

Another year or three and renewables will meet 100% of additional power demand. And then they will keep going from there. The trope that new energy technologies are only ever additive will take some time to die, but die it will - as all pseudo-scientific cargo cults eventually do.

submitted 83 days ago • 5 comments

What if instead of spending billions to replace old natgas pipes (that we need to start shutting down), we just gave the affected customers heat pumps? Our latest @switch.box report got an excellent write-up by @colinreports.bsky.social

submitted 77 days ago • 2 comments

BREAKING: Four climate justice groups sue NY over delays in implementing its climate law. Groups claim the state is “stonewalling necessary climate action in outright violation” of its legal obligations nysfocus.com/2025/03/31/n...

submitted 81 days ago • 0 comments

The fact that "Baby Shark" is this generation's "Baby Beluga" proves that we live in a fallen age.

submitted 125 days ago • 0 comments

Hey #energysky #econsky, anyone aware of good research on the demographics of heat pump adopters?

submitted 127 days ago • 0 comments

Sitting in a meeting today with three former energy secretaries and three former FERC commissioners and this paper just keeps coming up. Tyler and his coauthors are doing great work and it is being noticed.

submitted 127 days ago • 1 comment

Gas is just a bridge fuel they said. 🔌💡

submitted 127 days ago • 3 comments

If you want to know more about the past, present and future of #BuildingDecarb in #Maryland, or how their experience can help you decarbonize buildings in your state, register for the BDC National Policy Call: Maryland today! #Heatpump #Cleanheat #EnergySky

submitted 127 days ago • 0 comments

Our report on energy poverty in New York gets a shoutout in this @gothamist.com piece about gas bills being too damn high #energysky

submitted 140 days ago • 0 comments

#greensky

submitted 149 days ago • 0 comments

Disappointing to see @govkathyhochul.bsky.social backtrack on #NYHEAT in her budget, but we're going to win this with or without her. All attention now moves to the Assembly. We can and will win it this year to lower bills and slash pollution. Let's go! www.foodandwaterwatch.org/2025/01/21/g...

submitted 150 days ago • 1 comment

#energysky

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Preview! Dandelion Energy CEO Kathy Hannun will talk at this Thursday's Speaker Series event about what state's are getting right and wrong when supporting deployment of ground source heat pumps. Don't miss it! RSVP here: lnkd.in/g4XF8A9s

submitted 150 days ago • 0 comments

Since nobody asked, here is a map showing where polar bears have been found in Iceland after drifting over from Greenland on icebergs.

submitted 150 days ago • 40 comments