Europeans love drinking water that tastes just slightly of yogurt, Americans love drinking water that tastes just slightly of swimming pool

Wow: Shift Key, the podcast I co-host with Robinson Meyer on the shift away from fossil fuels is now #1 in Apple Podcasts' rankings for US Business News!! If you haven't listened yet, find out why Shift Key is rising to the top of the charts here: heatmap.news/podcast

not just power plants, there's transmission news too! money for a line from idaho to nevada (and thus california), and clearing out regulatory barriers for upgrading existing lines heatmap.news/sparks/biden-p…

The EPA has finalized rules to reduce carbon pollution from the electricity sector. If they go into effect, they’d complicate a planned buildout of new fossil-fuel power plants across the US and reduce emissions by 1.4 billion metric tons through 2047: heatmap.news/climate/epa-po…

The first few years of Foxtrot had one of the greatest VC-funded consumer subsidies I’ve ever experienced. Free drip coffee. $1 espresso drinks. Grilled chicken and other staples that were half the price of any grocery store. Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt

an earthquake: nytimes.com/2024/04/19/bus…

She’s obviously talking about the events of “Middlemarch.” She wants to live amid the thrilling rural ferment that produced the 1832 Reform Act.

Another dystopian day of low unemployment, bipartisan governance, and miracle weight loss drug news

This book was the Bluey S3 of 1994.

drill, baby, drill - a new slogan i just came up with to encourage rapid geothermal adoption

Seems like half of folks say that modern industrial policy won’t create very many jobs because manufacturing is so automated now, and the other half of folks say that US wages are so high compared to our global peers that we’ll have a problem bringing back manufacturing jobs. Hm.

This is an underappreciated point I emphasized w/ Robinson Meyer: excess spend on new peaking & grid capacity for mega-loads could crowd out other important capex necessary to modernize power system. heatmap.news/technology/ai-…

It was great to join Jesse D. Jenkins and Robinson Meyer to take a VERY deep dive into the US 1Q 2024 EV market data. And this is a challenge given that Tesla sales are estimated at the regional level!

Comprehensive pod on how far the US market has to go, but w/ some bright spots