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ivanurlaub.bsky.social
Energy, carbon tech strategist, analyst, ideation, systems; regulation, policy, economics, investment, conservative gov transitions; energy equity solutions; nuclear, data centers; consultant, baseball coach, live my values, family.
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I can only think of beneficial economic reasons to maintain the EPA Energy Star program. Not the least of which is making the cost of appliance ownership more transparent and lower. So, logically, I should have guessed Energy Star will be going up on the chopping block.

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Read or heard some version of this five times today in business media and NY Times as pros try to say quotable things for their paycheck: ‘We may have reached peak policy/investment uncertainty’ I have a suspicion we haven’t experienced uncertainty yet.

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This might be the fastest a President has ever burned through their honeymoon period of high approval ratings. Let’s see what happens when in the same day people get laid off / defunded, they can’t get Medical coverage, and their kid(s) comes home hungry due to no school lunch.

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here is a link to the list of all programs impacted by the federal funding freeze, first reported by budget rockstar @jennifershutt.bsky.social and the folks at @statesnewsroom.com www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

submitted 101 days ago • 4 comments

Pew -- Percentage of State Revenue by Source, FY 2022 www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-...

submitted 101 days ago • 0 comments

www.mlb.com/video/tony-g... great memories, my two favorite players growing up playing little league. I pushed the envelope stealing bases trying to run like Rickey and trying to hit with the discipline of Tony. Grateful to have been in the stands for many of their milestones. May they rest in peace

submitted 139 days ago • 0 comments

Electric vehicles aren’t just for getting around—they can power our future. Our latest blog explores Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) technology and its potential to stabilize the grid, cut costs, and reduce emissions. Read more about the challenges and solutions shaping this exciting innovation bit.ly/4g2be1Z

submitted 151 days ago • 0 comments

Fun starter pack for Building Electrification people by @shreyassudhakar.com. Featuring people like @costasamaras.com @energymorgan.bsky.social @cleanenergyworks.bsky.social and others. go.bsky.app/B5U2AgS

submitted 154 days ago • 2 comments

Anyone know how local policy commonly addresses excessively loud cars on public roads? There are 2 sometimes 3 different cars that drive by my house most nights between 11p to 1am, wake up my son, and then he comes into our room to sleep. They’ve been waking him up for the past 3 years.

submitted 148 days ago • 1 comment

Great College Cup championship game so far! Thomas’ shot was fire

submitted 151 days ago • 0 comments

Started this starter pack with energy justice & climate justice folks. Let me know who I should add to it. go.bsky.app/HXiuKJ5 (P.S. yes this is my way of finding my friends that migrated to bluer skies) @costasamaras.com @menrywy.bsky.social @leahstokes.bsky.social @sidersadapts.bsky.social

submitted 169 days ago • 91 comments

Reminder that DOE has a map of the status of applications for their Home Energy rebates. Might want to nudge some folks. www.energy.gov/save/rebates

submitted 178 days ago • 1 comment

FYI - I learned from my first thread on bsky that if you are long-winded like me and write the maximum thread length, the last 3 posts in your thread will not appear to a user unless they click on the 4th to last post in the thread. So don't bury the lead!

submitted 174 days ago • 0 comments

I’m in the market for an induction range. Consumer Reports says “80 percent of the induction ranges currently in our ratings perform well enough for us to recommend them compared with less than half of the gas ranges we’ve evaluated.” What induction range would you recommend and why?

submitted 174 days ago • 2 comments

The 2024 Global Carbon Budget was just released! Unfortunately despite hopes emissions might peak, both fossil CO2 and total CO2 emissions reached new record highs. I cover details w/ Pierre Friedlingstein (@PFriedling) at Carbon Brief: www.carbonbrief.org/...

submitted 178 days ago • 15 comments

I learned a lot from the National Academy of Sciences "Implications of AI-Related Data Center Electricity Use and Emissions" workshop this week. Here's some observations and an attempt to describe the challenge for regulators & policymakers to power AI's future. What do folks think? please add/argue

submitted 177 days ago • 2 comments

I’ve made a Women in Econ starter pack (s/o @vinisingh.bsky.social for sparking the idea!). Share, follow, and comment below if you’d like to be added! go.bsky.app/LqBPkQZ

submitted 179 days ago • 168 comments

Buckle up or get in the pilots chair! Goldman Sachs predicts computing will be 8% to 11% of U.S. power demand by 2030. Could require 40GW to 240GW of new generation depending on power supply mix, high end is wind + solar only (per Andrew Chen's NAS ppt today). go.bsky.app/AsSqsfJ

submitted 178 days ago • 1 comment

8 energy-climate starter packs: 1)Power bsky.app/starter-pack... 2)Media go.bsky.app/2TNd1Ya 3)Solutions go.bsky.app/Aa1sErQ 4)Legal go.bsky.app/R4ZUdPE 5)Women go.bsky.app/AGCURBf 6)Nuclear go.bsky.app/5EJY58V 7)EVs go.bsky.app/R4ZUdPE 8)Southeast go.bsky.app/AZ6Xw1U Thx to @tnorris.bsky.social!

submitted 178 days ago • 1 comment