My latest for @CanaryMediaInc:.

This plus the “epidemic of loneliness” thing suggests to me the widely lauded news about Americans’ alcohol consumption dropping to record lows is not the resoundingly positive social development it’s presented to be.

RT @nukebarbarian: Pritzker now wants to lift the moratorium on new nuclear. This is good news. Here’s a pic of me and Alan Medsker in Sp….

Very interesting: a US Army official proposes buying the Commander Islands from Russia to reunify the Aleutian Islands under one flag and enhance America’s capacity to guard against Chinese submarines. Feels like this taps the sweet spot of 19th century expansionist glory and

RT @RyanAlimento: In MISO, ISO-NE, PJM, and SPP, interconnecting power plants don't get to choose how they finance grid upgrades--utilities….

RT @bswud: The life expectancy of someone hit with 2,250 millisieverts of radiation in Hiroshima or Nagasaki was longer than the average Br….

The Treasury guidance on Trump’s executive order limiting renewables’ access to tax credits is due out next week. Big question is whether public campaigning like this is a sign that backchanneling has so far failed to prevent a guidance that effectively bans wind and solar or

This morning’s edition of my @heatmap_news newsletter:.

On a drive through Utah today, I passed a Grumman missile test site and felt the explosion. Then I passed the start of a wildfire. Can you tell which is which?

75-megawatt Rocky Mountain Power solar farm near the North Fork of the Great Salt Lake. Just recently went up.

Surely just a ploy by an agent of Norway to force the EU to buy more hydropower electrons.

RT @70sBachchan: Trump's 2 innovations in State Capitalism should get far more attention(imagine if left wing US govt did it!) .1 MP Materi….

RT @robinsonmeyer: NEW SHIFT KEY. A beginner’s guide to electricity markets. Most power in the US moves through an electricity market. How….

Trump's attempt to force through deep-sea mining by threatening to go it alone, Iraq War-style, on licensing appears to be backfiring. When countries gathered for a global summit last month, everyone ganged up on the U.S. and started publicly siding with China.

I may have wrongly assumed this was straightforward to fix!

Jellyfish keeping dying, getting mashed into gel and slipping into the screens to clog the cooling water intake systems at France’s nuclear plants on the North Sea. Perhaps a growing problem as jellyfish proliferate in warming waters, but probably not that big of an engineering

RT @UnoMasReactor: $LEU. Centrus Announces Proposed Private Offering of $650 Million of Convertible Senior Notes due 2032 .

RT @Dr_A_Stein: This is coming from Duke, the country’s second largest nuclear energy operator. Utilities avoiding all project risk is unte….

This pro-Trump account suggests there could be a potential push for nuclear power on Puerto Rico. This is a very interesting idea, which I explored on a reporting trip there last summer:

RT @Mottel: There's an explicitly Antisemitic group that meets near my house every Tuesday. It's called "crownheightsbitesback". They're ac….