Michael Thomas
@curious_founder
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Founder of @CleanviewEnergy and Distilled. I make and post a lot of charts to try to better understand the world around me. Subscribe to my newsletter below:
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Pretty crazy how much clean energy China is building.
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"79% of Americans say housing costs are 'too high.' But only 24% think building more housing in their community would lower costs." https://t.co/OscfiWs4Gl
nytimes.com
If we want more places for people to live, we’re going to have to get more creative.
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A longer take on this here:
nytimes.com
If we want more places for people to live, we’re going to have to get more creative.
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Only 3 in 10 Veterans know about 0% down home loans. Join our mission to help veterans find their way home.
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Or we could just build a clean, flexible electric grid that could support all kinds of new demand.
To prevent skyrocketing electric bills, every state has to follow the Texas example: each data center must have its own "behind the meter" onsite power generation. “We believe data centers should pay for the full cost of their power,” Dominion Energy spokesperson Aaron Ruby
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This factory will boost the local economy's GDP by 4.4%.
First Solar just opened a $1.1 billion integrated solar PV manufacturing plant in Louisiana capable of producing 3.5 gigawatts of panels each year. The plant will employ >700 people
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distilled.earth
Visual, data-driven stories about how to build a better world. Click to read Distilled, by Michael Thomas, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.
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3/ Wind turbines are made from coal! Uhh, a tiny bit that can then displace 606x as much through the electricity it produces. https://t.co/ZHgwlWrq1R
distilled.earth
Wind opponents say it takes more energy and coal to make turbines than they can ever offset. Is that true?
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2/ Wind turbines are killing all the birds! Again, these guys have never bothered to check how many birds fossil fuel power plants kill. https://t.co/mjqnPWlmXc
distilled.earth
Here's what the data says on how many birds are killed by wind turbines each year and how it compares to other power sources
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I've written a lot of posts about clean energy misinformation over the years. Here are some myths I've debunked: 1/ The solar waste myth https://t.co/4q5q0IdvJV
distilled.earth
A data-driven analysis of solar's waste problem compared to other energy sources
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This dude posted the same dumb viral tweet last month. So I repeat: It's weird how quiet these guys are about the millions of acres of land that look like this due to coal mining.
This is not “saving the planet”. This is countryside vandalism for corporate greed.
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*taps the chart*
Climate myth: Solar and wind are taking over the world No New report from International Energy Agency shows that solar and wind will cover 12-16% of global energy by 2050 Yet, The Guardian claims new report shows renewable “transition ‘inevitable’, despite Trump”
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We need both technology *and* supportive policy. Solar prices wouldn't have fallen if not for the demand pulls of early policy in Japan/Germany + constant innovation. EVs wouldn't be where they are without early subsidies that got manufacturers on the learning curve.
False. Technology is the ONLY thing that can save us from climate change — austerity will never work. Never has. Anyone know an editor at Foreign Policy? I want to write a counter-argument...
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I wrote more about some of these giga-scale data centers on my newsletter here:
distilled.earth
Gigawatt-sized data centers are becoming the new normal
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This map is from a new Grid Strategies report that uses Cleanview's data center tracker. Cleanview --> https://t.co/3BnvcsEvUk Report -->
cleanview.co
Cleanview is a software platform that helps visualize clean energy data.
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America is building a lot of very large data centers.
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