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Climate activist, husband, & painting contractor. Clean energy geek, philosophy & religion BA, VP of New England Electric Association, member of CCL, cyclist.

Climate activists disrupting flights at Frankfurt airport.

Oh wait, I’m told it’s a flood.

13. That’s usually a metaphor, conflating the horrors of war with the much lower-stakes lives that most of us are fortunate enough to lead. But today, the entire @HouseGOP@twitter told us - both literally and metaphorically - that they don’t give a damn about the rest of the unit. /fin
@davidho @drmikepj at least they haven't resorted to imaginary numbers.
@owasow Is that what he's after? It's gotten really hard to tell what his endgame is. Does he think Twitter is a necessity or a distraction to us? Does he measure his success at Twitter by profits, overall impact on society, or something else? Does he know anymore?
@markdurham Does he think he's really promoting a constructive global square with Twitter, or just out to "own the libs?" Is he capable of looking himself in the mirror and judging his own long term impact on society? He says he is most inspired by participating in a brotherhood organized around cause, but I've lost track of which cause he's championing at Twitter. Has he?

One of the most consequential climate decisions is playing out at...the IRS.

The IRA includes generous, uncapped clean hydrogen tax credits: 45V.

Done right, these $100s of billions in tax credits could be the biggest boon for the U.S. hydrogen industry and for clean electricity ever.

Done wrong, they could be a boondoggle larger than corn ethanol, driving emissions up, not down.

My latest for #WaPo, with Danny Cullenward https://wapo.st/3LbYfMW [free to read]
#climate #IRA #efuels #45V

Get tax right or clean hydrogen will be bigger boondoggle than biofuels

Weak standards for subsidies could drive emissions up, not down.

The Washington Post
@davidho Imagine how clean the air could be without chimneys anywhere.

"A group of European nations wanted the report to say that solar and wind electricity “is now cheaper than energy from fossil fuels in many regions”.

Saudi Arabia “strongly opposed inclusion of the sentence”.

The Bahamas’ representative called for the report to say specifically that #CCS technology, unlike wind and solar, is not getting cheaper.

But Saudi Arabia pushed back, saying that CCS and #CDR are “in fact unavoidable”. "

#IPCC
https://www.climatechangenews.com/2023/03/23/governments-battle-over-carbon-removal-and-renewables-in-ipcc-report/

Governments battle over carbon removal and renewables in IPCC report

While the Saudis pushed carbon capture and storage technology, Europeans fought for wind and solar to be talked up in the report.

Climate Home News
@lauravivanco @slowe Anti-monopoly rules work nicely. Google should take note.

@drvolts Wow, looks really cheap and easy to implement. What could go wrong.

Who owns the tunnels?