Robinson Meyer
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I’m the executive editor of Heatmap News, cohost of the Shift Key podcast, and a contributing Opinion writer for The New York Times.
New York, NY
Joined March 2007
Dig 10 feet underground, anywhere on Earth, and the ground temperature will be a balmy 50 to 60° Fahrenheit (10-15° C). When you tap that ambient heat and hook it up to a heat pump, it becomes the world’s most efficient form of heating and cooling. It’s efficient — but
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Rob and Jesse hang with Dig Energy co-founder and CEO Dulcie Madden.
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In the long run, this may be the day's most important news story. Proponents of "solar radiation management" argued that it is inevitably coming. For better or worse, this story may be evidence that these people are correct.
NEW: The startup Stardust Solutions has raised $60 million to develop the “technological building blocks” of solar geoengineering by 2030. It is among the first — and certainly the best-funded — for-profit geoengineering firms ever. My exclusive story: https://t.co/pdsMjErb3R
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A major scoop from @robinsonmeyer this morning: Stardust Solutions, the Israeli geoengineering startup led by a team of Israeli physicists, just raised $60 million to develop the technology to artificially cool the planet by reflecting sunlight away from the Earth by the 2030s.
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NEW: The startup Stardust Solutions has raised $60 million to develop the “technological building blocks” of solar geoengineering by 2030. It is among the first — and certainly the best-funded — for-profit geoengineering firms ever. My exclusive story: https://t.co/pdsMjErb3R
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A U.S. firm led by former Israeli government physicists, Stardust seeks to patent its proprietary sunlight-scattering particle — but it won’t deploy its technology until global governments authorize...
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MODERATOR: Are you willing to commit to NOT raise the sales tax? MIKIE SHERRILL: I'm not going to commit to anything right now. On Nov. 4, vote NO on Mikie Sherrill. ❌
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Great @nytimes article gets to the heart of why China keeps end running the west - they have mastered the “soft general purpose technology” of building big, complicated things on time and on budget.
And China is dominating another technology class, one that was supposed to have inherent western advantages . Open link to source article https://t.co/lsbKOzzaLr
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If Platner had been a former bartender at Dew Drop Inn, none of this would’ve happened. Can promise you that much.
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Sen MURKOWSKI on the east wing being destroyed for the new ballroom: "The optics are bad, it looks like, you know, people are saying, 'Oh, the government's being destroyed.' Well, now it looks like the White House is physically being destroyed. The optics are not good."
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In Germany, a standard 7kW rooftop solar system costs $10,000. In Australia, it costs $4,000. In the US, the same system costs about $28,000 — thanks partly to a mess of state, local, and HOA rules, per a new analysis shared with @AlexCKaufman:
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A new analysis by Permit Power calculates the cumulative benefits of cheap rooftop solar over the lifetime of a typical rig.
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Google plans to buy most of the power produced by the country’s first commercial carbon-capture natural gas plant in Decatur, Illinois, @MattZeitlin reports: - Aims to get it up and running by “early 2030” - Part of $GOOG’s commitment to buy 24/7 zero-carbon electricity in the
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That means it’s also buying natural gas — but by storing the emissions, the company says, it can still meet its climate goals.
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SCOOP: Zohran Mamdani intends to ask Jessica Tisch to stay on as the police commissioner if he is elected NYC mayor in November, according to two senior campaign aides + two others briefed. https://t.co/0L6YvAF3W2
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Zohran Mamdani’s intention to retain Jessica Tisch is likely to placate powerful New Yorkers who have lobbied Mr. Mamdani to keep her.
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One thing about working for a long time in journalism, politics, and other posting-adjacent industries is that sometimes you’ll see someone on here and think, “What a basket case! How do they get through the day?” And then later you meet them in person and realize they don’t.
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Breaking News: President Trump wants $230 million from the Justice Department for investigating him, people familiar with the matter say. Any settlement might ultimately be approved by senior department officials who defended him or those in his orbit.
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lower electricity prices in new jersey? fuggedaboudit!
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Though high costs have become central to the upcoming election, they’re mostly out of the state’s control.
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Vermont is actually an interesting case of flood politics that not a lot of people know about. It pits rural romanticism against the realities of climate change and pragmatism about risk and public finances. Short thread. 1/10
The flood insurance system is so perverse, the rest of the country is subsidizing homes in flood prone areas and they hate it
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People say honor, dignity, chivalry and other such virtues are no longer in fashion, but the ongoing AWS outage has sort of broken the core Amazon retail site all morning and they still haven’t fixed it
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The Mamdani campaign is half a successful effort to run a DSA candidate as a local Democrat and half a canny deployment of old-school urban ethnic politics, both are innovative/important but the former understandably gets 95% of the national media attention
Amazing shadow war between Zohran and Tisch over who loves Muslim cops the most, how can you not be romantic about democracy?
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Foliage going all out, high 60s with a warm breeze. Basically as good a New York weather day as it gets.
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“Wants to reindustrialize America, HATES building new electricity infrastructure” is a pretty good bit
Cindy O’Laughlin - state politician - told me to stop asking questions about data centers & higher electricity rates. Not a chance. These data centers are massive electricity hogs. That’s why Silicon Valley wants more transmission lines, solar farms and windmills. Somebody has
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