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Costa Samaras

@CostaSamaras

Climate, energy, emerging tech, resilience & policy professor. CMU Institute for Energy Innovation Director. Former White House OSTP Chief Energy Policy Advisor

Pittsburgh, PA Beigetreten Kasım 2008
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Costa Samaras
Costa Samaras@CostaSamaras·
@jeffhauser @JesseJenkins I have known Jesse for nearly 20 years, and in that entire time both in his public scholarship and his private conversations, he has conducted himself with the highest integrity and a commitment to urgently addressing climate change. His work has had tremendous impact, for good.
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Jeff Hauser@jeffhauser·
@JesseJenkins This is such an obvious conflict of interest! Is your academic salary inadequate for your family's needs?
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Costa Samaras@CostaSamaras·
A sleeper political issue of the next few years is the rising costs of electricity. AI & data centers are driving up demand & the Trump Administration is making it harder to add clean energy supply. I joined @chrislhayes on #WITHpod to talk about it: open.spotify.com/episode/32psKq…
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Costa Samaras@CostaSamaras·
@AndreasenJack @chrislhayes @CostaSamaras46 Thanks for the very kind words Jack, right back at you. I don't have access to my White House 46 official twitter account after I left, so I'm back to my using regular account on here.
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Costa Samaras@CostaSamaras·
Also, when we enable more mobility to economic, education, & leisure opportunities by public transit & active transport, we reduce the risks to consumers & businesses during an oil price spike. As an important bonus, diversifying transport energy cleans & the air & cuts GHGs. Thx
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Costa Samaras@CostaSamaras·
The price of oil is set globally, & the high concentration of oil powering US transport puts us at risk during a price spike no matter how much oil we produce. Since we use almost no oil to make electricity, when we power transport by clean electricity, we reduce these risks.
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Costa Samaras@CostaSamaras·
@SG_SEIA - Steel, Cement, Materials, and Science Act - Bipartisan Clean Agriculture Law - National Electrification Administration - Climate SAFETEA-LU - Electric Omninbus` - National Decarb Authorization Act - Nature-based WOTUS
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Sean Gallagher
Sean Gallagher@SG_SEIA·
@CostaSamaras Folks, we’re going to need Industrial Policy 2.0. What should it include?
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Costa Samaras@CostaSamaras·
Turned my tweets about what should go into the next Inflation Reduction Act into slides for my Energy Week keynote @CMUenergy part 2:
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Costa Samaras@CostaSamaras·
Turned my tweets on needs for the Inflation Reduction Act 2 into slides for my @CMUenergy keynote at CMU Energy Week.
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David Roberts
David Roberts@drvolts·
Kinda wild how great replacement theory is just parading around right out in the open now, huh?
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Seva@SevaUT·
@CostaSamaras I lived under the Celsius regime in Russia, then Fahrenheit in the US, now Celsius again in Canada. Fahrenheit is just so much better, apologies
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Seva@SevaUT·
i've been taking my B12 and am ready to start posting again, whats going on
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Costa Samaras
Costa Samaras@CostaSamaras·
@jdbau Fair. Given there's already a DPA declaration, and that there are additional authorities to ensure supply of critical components that DPA provides, as a DPA obsessive I think DPA is preferred option, with other options also good, and the "no action" option is a very bad option.
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Jeremiah Baumann
Jeremiah Baumann@jdbau·
@CostaSamaras If Congress is going to appropriate money to invest in transformer manufacturing, there’s no particular reason to make it DPA vs the way they appropriated manufacturing funds in IIJA […ducks to avoid incoming from the DPA-obsessed]
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Costa Samaras@CostaSamaras·
Here’s a thread about transformers and some info on the Defense Production Act. Title VII of the DPA can be used to enable agreements and understand the industrial base. Although supply crunch is severe so Title I and Title III should be considered and funded.
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Title I of the DPA allows the govt to prioritize contracts & allocate equipment Title III allows purchase commitments & loan guarantees, which could be used to ramp up transformers But don’t ignore Title VII for transformers: voluntary agreements & industrial base assessments

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Alexander C. Kaufman
Alexander C. Kaufman@AlexCKaufman·
NEW: The gas industry has pulled off an 11th hour win in the big climate fight over building codes. The @IntlCodeCouncil's board went against its own staff experts to side with fossil fuel firms and gut pro-electrification measures from the latest codes. huffpost.com/entry/icc-iecc…
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Costa Samaras@CostaSamaras·
@weakinstrument @Rory_Johnston Rory when the you look at the weather forecast on your phone at the first day in spring when you see the temperature will be something unexpectedly warm, 70° hits different than 21.1°. It just does.
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