Repeatedly building GW-scale reactors (the way we made nuclear cheap the first time) is a much better path than SMRs. Economies of scale are real, and you need both reactor size and production volume to get there.

Life expectancy: 🇨🇭84.2 🇯🇵84.1 🇸🇪83.4 🇦🇺83.1 🇫🇷83.1 🇧🇪82.5 🇳🇱82 🇨🇦81.7 🇦🇹81.6 🇬🇧81.1 🇩🇪80.6 🇺🇸78.4 There is no reason why the richest country in the history of the world should have a lower life expectancy than every other major country on earth. Medicare for All now.

61% of Hoosiers oppose redistricting-including nearly 30% of Republicans. In contrast, Micah Beckwith has an 8% approval rating across the state, and only a 16% approval rating amongst Republicans. More Republicans oppose redistricting than approve of Micah Beckwith

September 2025 was the third warmest on record in the Berkeley Earth dataset. But this downplays how anomalous it was; without 2023 and 2024 this year would have been well above any prior records and well above the long-term trend:

@factpostnews When the Pentagon kicks out reporters from NYT, WaPo, and Reuters… and brings in Gateway Pundit and LindellTV. It’s not a shift in media policy. It’s a shift toward authoritarianism.

China’s NEV share hit 57.2% in Sept — a new record. Fossil car sales keep collapsing as EVs surge past half the market. Betting on oil at this juncture is like doubling down on horses in 1910. The curve’s turned. Follow electrons, not barrels. #EV #Lithium #LFP tx @electricfelix

Diego and Rokita made this absurd claim that we had 600,000 illegal immigrants voting in Indiana elections. Anyone with a modicum of intelligence would know that 20% of our voters were not illegal immigrants.

Lawmakers said if they return for a special session, it should focus on strengthening schools, addressing housing concerns or utility costs rather than redrawing congressional maps.

Good morning with good news: Wind & solar generated 50% or more of 9 nations electricity in September 2025. The 9 & W&S %: UK 50.4% Germany 50.3% Portugal 57.7% Greece 51.6% Netherlands 56.5% Denmark 80.5% Lithuania 71% Estonia 61.3% Luxemburg 70% Denmark leads!

Trump: "Don't forget I can use the Insurrection Act. 50% of the presidents almost have used that. And that's unquestioned power."

#Spain's blackout. New report from expert panel of European grid operators finds voltage surge caused the massive outage. "Contradicts the numerous claims that overreliance on #renewables was the cause. That is clearly not true." https://t.co/JYGGdMfptp

This is easily fixed. Make sure you have enough energy storage and/or use grid forming inverters. That is, it's a matter of poor planning and design rather than what type of generation you use. When I see somebody like Bjorn making comments about renewable energy generation,

This is crazy! Over 2500 peaceful NO KINGS protests are planned across America tomorrow. Several million people are expected to show up and protest against Trump's authoritarianism. Are you going to a protest tomorrow?

Wind & solar generated 58.2% of Germany's electricity in June 2025. Germany is the world's THIRD largest economy! Germany's June W&S share 2025: 58.2% 2024: 48.1% 2023: 44.9% 2020: 32.3% 2015: 23.7% W&S generated 44.2% for all of 2024! It was 18.5% in 2015.

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On The Climate Brink, I cross posted a post from Andy Revkin's Sustain What substack, written by one of the giants of Atmospheric Sciences, Mike Wallace. In it, he describes his evolution about climate change from initial doubt to grave concern.

"China Has Overtaken America--And Trump’s policies guarantee that we will never catch up" by @paulkrugman: https://t.co/tDlqivUww9

“Reverse Sputnik” is dopey af… and they think they’re brilliant??

Today’s bulletin from the World Meteorological Organization: “From 2023 to 2024, CO2 in the global surface atmosphere increased by 3.5 ppm, the largest one-year increase since modern measurements began in 1957. This increase was driven by continued fossil CO2 emissions, enhanced

As Trump gives Charlie Kirk the Medal of Freedom, remember that Kirk paid for 80 busses to bring rabid Trump supporters to what became the terrorist attack on the Capitol.