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This is sadly not a new thing. If we define terrorism as "threatened or actual violence by a non-state actor to achieve political ends", there is no close second to

It's been a while, #energytwitter, but it's time for another nerd rant. This time on the difference between being pro-market and pro-business, and how that has distorted US energy policy.

In our recent debate, my opponent raised the "Great Barrington Declaration". It is a massively dangerous and deadly idea that will lead to millions of dead Americans. We need to

The fact that there isn't a single elected @GOP figure of note who has abandoned Trump yet means they are either too cowardly to stand up to him or too

There is a very dangerous conversation going on suggesting that the path to beating COVID is through herd immunity. This is massively dangerous, and will lead to the death of

The party that couldn't find the courage to stand up to Gingrich's anti-intellectual nihilism got captured by the Tea Party. The party that couldn't find the courage to stand up

OK everyone. Take a breath. It's time to fight like everything you have for democracy, because that's what's on the damned ballot. Are you with me to fight like hell

This week's #energytwitter nerd thread: Are capacity markets useful? (You can tell we're close to an election when I pick such a popular topic that is driving the national zeitgeist.)

This week's energy wonk-thread: Why discussions about "when renewables will reach cost parity?" and levelized cost of electricity (LCOE) calculations are nothing but - per Antonin Scalia - "interpretive jiggery-pokery&quo

What do you do when you see a bully on the street, beating up on the less fortunate? You take on the bully.Today's bully is the NRA, and the

Well, I promised to do one of these a week. And my mother raised me never to lie to Twitter. Or something like that.Today's energy nerd thread: Green Jobs. What's

OK, so I need to do a brief rant on something hugely important that almost no one cares about. Humor me. To wit: in the absence of an as-yet unidentified