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chrisnelder.bsky.social
Creator and Host of the Energy Transition Show @TransitionShow.bsky.social and energy futurist/analyst/writer/speaker. Peripatetic podcaster. More often on Mastodon at @chrisnelder.mastodon.energy.ap.brid.gy
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The best part of throwing the climate under the bus for AI is knowing the justification: Because it will allow us to enfeeble ourselves while willingly co-creating a vast surveillance state. bsky.app/profile/keit...

submitted 12 hours ago • 1 comment

Another day, another pitch to cover a report about how to provide energy for AI data centers with zero mention of carbon. The whole energy/tech/media complex has completely thrown climate under the bus without a second thought in order to chase the shiny object of AI. 🤮

submitted 21 hours ago • 2 comments

“Fewer,” Chicago Trib. The word you’re looking for is “fewer.” #IWillDieOnThisHill

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Hat tip to John Kemp for admitting that he was wrong to blame Spain's blackout on excessive reliance on inverter-based renewables and insufficient inertia, and 👏 for his very decent explainer on what actually happened. jkempenergy.com/2025/06/19/s...

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

It sounds geeky -- and it is. But I believe every elected official in the world, from the national level down to the local town/council level, needs to get their heads around this, asap.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

It was great fun to be a guest on John's show after a decade of listening to it!

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Got a funny little quote into this EV article in NYT. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/12/b...

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

Man, imagine if Sen. Joseph McCarthy could have doled out memecoins to anyone willing to rat out their neighbors!

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

I once helped Jamie Lee Curtis find the epoisses in a large cheese case at a European deli in Malibu.

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

@davidhogg.bsky.social Please repost your Xitter thread today here.

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

i’m so fucking fed up with this shit. when journalism outlets can’t even accurately and honestly say what’s happening to journalists—that they’re being attacked by cops and federal jackboots—then we are really and truly cooked. under scrutiny!!!!! i can’t. i can’t.

submitted 16 days ago • 77 comments

Silence = Death #EndClimateSilence www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 16 days ago • 7 comments

Amazing how this thin-skinned coward continues to avoid being exposed to anyone who might disagree with him through careful stage management. Golden Dome, indeed.

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

In Ep. 240 we speculated about how Energy UK would allocate its budget of £8.3 billion over five years. A fraction of the hundreds of billions needed! So I am incredibly disappointed (but not surprised) to see them allocating a quarter of it to… SMRs. 🙄 What a waste www.politico.eu/article/grea...

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

£14bn that will turn into £30bn and deliver a couple GW a decade late, after 50+ GWof renewables are built at far lesser cost. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

Well, Trump finally found a way bail out FirstEnergy, a part owner of Signal Peak Energy’s coal operation, eight years after the utility company doled out $5 million to a Trump dark money group and hired Corey Lewandowski as it’s secret lobbyist energyandpolicy.org/firstenergy-...

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

We saved the best for last in our Australia mini-series. South Australia Power Networks is at the cutting edge of the energy transition globally, and what they're doing is going to show the rest of the world how it's done. Don't miss this one!

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

(Reuters) - FEMA staff left baffled after the disaster agency's head said during a briefing that he hadn't been aware the US has a hurricane season. https://www.reuters.com/world/us/fema-staff-confused-after-head-said-he-was-unaware-us-hurricane-season-sources-2025-06-02/

submitted 25 days ago • 257 comments

And that is why we're in such a dangerous time. Donald's extremism has been sanewashed by media. There's an inherent imbalance in how Donald is covered by media vs. how media approaches other politicians. Donald has bullied media into softening their stance.

submitted 27 days ago • 25 comments

via @akshatrathi.bsky.social I discovered this website about carbon removal projects that ranks them by commitments and captured carbon and in short, only 94 of 189 have actually captured anything www.cdr.fyi/leaderboards

submitted 36 days ago • 7 comments

Remarkably candid interview with Elon Musk at the Qatar Economic Forum by the formidable and tenacious Mishal Husain. So now we know how he really sees DOGE: as a “cleanser.” www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...

submitted 38 days ago • 1 comment

In Ep. 250, Thane Gustafson rejoins us to discuss Russia’s failed opening to the West, how the sanctions against Russia have succeeded and failed, what Putin’s motivations in Ukraine are, and Russia's future as global energy transition efforts accelerate. xenetwork.org/ets/episodes...

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

Remarkably candid interview with Elon Musk at the Qatar Economic Forum by the formidable and tenacious Mishal Husain. So now we know how he really sees DOGE: as a “cleanser.” www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...

submitted 38 days ago • 1 comment