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Russell Gold
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PSA: This is twitter, not real journalism. Who am I? Journalist @TexasMonthly, author https://t.co/DAlxdqAWJz, flanuer, husband, father.
May 7 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
Journalism in 2024, a story (in a 🧵) about chutzpah.

Nine months ago, I wrote a story about what I called the Great Sweetwater Blade Boneyard. It was about a company that promised it would recycle wind turbine blades, but … didn’t.

texasmonthly.com/news-politics/… Speaking of promises, the head of Global Fiberglass, the company was paid to collect and recycle these blades (which, again, it didn’t) told me: “If you come back nine months from now, you will not see the material.”

I went back after nine months.
Sep 9, 2022 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
Hi folks (and @DanPatrick),

Did you see the Lt. Gov's press release this morning? That's me he's talking about (and my cobyliner @dansolomon)...

Screen shot below.

1/ His spokesperson says "the campaign emailed and called on Friday, September 2, before the deadline, but Solomon did not respond." That's simply not true.

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Jun 29, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Earlier this year, a leaking oil/gas platform was discovered in the Gulf of Mexico. It took weeks to shut it down. This is the first time it has been reported.

texasmonthly.com/news-politics/… It created a two-mile sheen of condensate, and it leaked a lot of methane. A lot. This is a video of the leaking gas. Take a listen.
Aug 26, 2020 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
On August 14th, California electricity grid had blackouts that lasted for ~75 minutes. In round numbers, the grid was 1 gigawatt short. Thus, the blackouts. But there were lots of gigawatts around and available. Lots.

Thread/ I checked in with the Texas grid. At that moment. It had > 5 gigawatts of surplus capacity. Its prices were about $28/mwh (vs. ~$750 in California.) So, lots of electricity at a very reasonable price.
Aug 20, 2020 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
There is a way to make the power grid more resilient (against cyberattacks or storms) as well as provide cleaner, less expensive power.

The federal government studied it in a groundbreaking, sophisticated study. Then the @DOE buried the findings.

/thread .@pfairley has the stunning story, uncovered with FOIAs, sweat and persistence. Please read it.

theatlantic.com/politics/archi…

/more
Apr 20, 2020 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
What happened today in oil markets?

The monthly oil contract expired. So normally, folks who trade contracts like so many 1s and 0s on a computer screen would offload their contracts to physical buyers.

End of month, someone needs to take physical delivery, right?

1/ Except, the physical buyers were MIA. Makes some sense. No one is buying much refined petroleum products (aka: gasoline, jet fuel) so refineries don't need to buy crude and physical buyers don't want to own barrels.

In a market w/ sellers and no/few buyers, prices fall...

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Sep 16, 2019 • 11 tweets • 13 min read
An important story about the federal government muzzling scientific research and renewable energy.

A thread. I wrote a book about a group of energy developers trying to build giant extension cords (technically, HVDC). It would lower power prices and add *a lot* of new renewables to the grid w/o undermining reliability.

My book --> russellgold.net/superpower

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