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Apr 6, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
Not gonna lie, didn't expect "illustrators" to be one of the first human jobs that artificial intelligence completely displaces but here we are Image
Between OpenAI's DALL·E and Google's 540B language model, it's been a very big week for AI development news
Mind-blowing stuff from the OpenAI team
Lmao @proof_steve Image
Good thread on what might actually happen to professional illustrators

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Apr 28
The “litigation doom loop” is a huge problem for clean energy deployment.

Solar projects that receive the strictest level of NEPA environmental review have the highest litigation rate:

64%

By contrast, fossil fuel projects only have a 32% litigation rate. Image
.@ArnabDatta321 and @EnergyLawProf have an important piece in @mattyglesias’s Slow Boring today looking at how clean energy projects can get stuck in an indefinite cycle of environmental review, judicial injunction, and then remand for more review.

slowboring.com/p/we-must-end-…
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@ArnabDatta321 @EnergyLawProf @mattyglesias It's so perverse that the strictest level of environmental review disproportionately slows down clean energy projects.

From 2012-2018:

60% of all environmental impact statements for energy projects were for transmission/solar/wind/hydro/etc

Only 24% were for fossil fuels. Image
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Jan 31
.@NatBullard's annual presentation (200+ slides this year!) on decarbonization is always a must-read for energy nerds who love charts.

Here are my 10 favorites:

1. Solar modular prices dropped by 50% last year — and the panels keep getting more efficient, too. Image
2. Batteries also returned to their long-run trend of decreasing in price — falling more than 10% last year. Image
3. The US has been a net energy exporter since 2019, which is a huge geopolitical advantage. Image
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Sep 8, 2023
New report from the Center for American Progress claims that "NEPA functions as a critical climate action & environmental justice tool requiring agencies to consider the environmental & public health impacts of projects."

But NEPA is actually delaying pro-climate projects... Image
1/ The most stringent level of environmental review under NEPA is used way more often for clean energy projects than for fossil fuel projects.

Many fossil fuel projects are “categorically excluded” from NEPA even though similar scale clean energy projects aren't.


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2/ Offshore wind is especially vulnerable to permitting delays: Image
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Sep 4, 2023
Hard to believe that these two countries are on the same island... Image
"As recently as 1960, the two countries had similar standards of living. Today, the D.R., by some measures, is eight times as rich as Haiti, while Haiti’s standard of living hasn’t advanced at all since 1950." @Noahpinion

noahpinion.blog/p/haiti-vs-the…
Obligatory South Korea vs. North Korea nocturnal luminosity photo: Image
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May 28, 2023
How it started / How it’s going ImageImage
This is not permitting reform, not even close.

Still lots of work to be done to make a bipartisan deal happen later this year — let’s get back to it.
Also, be sure to follow @SiegelScribe — he’s been the best reporter on the permitting reform beat for a while now.
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May 16, 2023
This is probably just a negotiating position from Republican leadership, but seems like a great way to kill a bipartisan deal.

Democrats in both the House and Senate have been consistently clear that permitting reform must include transmission. ImageImage
The NYT editorial board had a very good article last week explaining why transmission is critical to accelerating clean energy deployment: nytimes.com/2023/05/04/opi…
Senator King is right.

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