Dylan Hirsch-Shell 🧢🔰🗳️

California's jungle primary leads to massive vote splitting between ideologically similar candidates. We could fix this bug with one simple tweak: allow voters to choose all the candidates they approve of. See reply for a link to the fix: a three-word change to the Elections Code

Batteries smash another peak discharge record, meeting 44% of CAISO peak demand at 7 PM on 3/29/26 with 12.3 GW And CAISO is just toying with us, because there are already 15.86 GW installed Gas still down 59.3% in '26 v '23 38 straight & 65/88 (74%) days in '26 with >100% WWS

@McguigganPeter @nicolasfulghum No need for fossil fuels to fill that gap! Use hydro, geothermal, and next-gen nuclear!

@dylanhs @nicolasfulghum No! Once we get to fossils providing <<20% of demand the cost of keeping renewables reliable soars. For example it is calculated that if solar/wind provided 100% of our electricity, the cost would soar toward c£1k/MWh

Another massive battery storage record in California (CAISO) yesterday, March 29 🔋 At 7pm, batteries reached 12.3 GW of output, meeting 42.8% of demand! And it's not just a short peak anymore. Batteries stayed above 20% of grid supply from 5.50pm to 9.35pm, almost four hours.

@FrankLuntz How can we incentivize more Americans to stop dying?

How can we incentivize more Americans to have children?

Analysis: EVs just outsold petrol cars in EU for first time ever - Carbon Brief carbonbrief.org/analysis-evs-j…

Unlike the 1970s oil crises, there are now better alternatives: 🔌 EVs + renewables + heat pumps could cut fossil fuel imports by 70% 🚗 EVs alone: $600bn/year in savings Every country has the potential to be energy independent with electrotech. 🔗ember-energy.org/latest-insight…

✍️ New article: Battery costs have declined by 99% in the last three decades, making electrified transport a reality— Over 20 million electric cars were sold globally in 2025 — some for as little as $10,000. Even just two decades ago, that would have been impossible. The reason it's possible now? Batteries have gotten *much* cheaper. In 1991, lithium-ion battery cells cost around $9,200 per kilowatt-hour. By 2024, that had fallen to just $78 — a decline of more than 99%. You can see this in the chart. To put that in perspective: the battery cells in a standard electric car today cost around $5,000. In 1991, those same cells would have cost nearly $600,000. There was no single breakthrough behind this. Batteries follow a “learning curve”: as cumulative production grows, thousands of small improvements in chemistry, manufacturing, and supply chains drive prices down. Since 1998, every time global cumulative battery production doubled, the price dropped by roughly 19%. Early progress was driven by consumer electronics — phones and laptops — before the technology became viable for cars, buses, and larger energy storage. Energy density has also more than tripled since the 1990s, meaning batteries can now store far more energy for their volume. The half-a-million-dollar battery was never going to transform transport. The $5,000 battery is.

@McguigganPeter @nicolasfulghum Yep, that's why we need to keep adding more wind/solar and battery storage, so our grid eventually doesn't need to use any gas at all!

@dylanhs @nicolasfulghum Yes to all that but our electricity generating system cannot do without it(or nuclear). Our grids would currently collapse for a long time if gas was suddenly not available

Elon Musk promised absolute miracles with DOGE if Donald Trump won the election. None of it came true. The public debt is higher than ever and still climbing. Keep that in mind the next time he tries to tell you how to vote

As seemed clear to me at the time, DOGE was mostly an internal power grab. But even where it was sincere and had the potential for positive change, it failed. Omitting the Department of Defense was another sign that it was a doomed distraction.

Stop pretending that you do not understand the difference between voter ID and a proof of citizenship document, Elon.

This is yet another reason why every state should have a jungle primary with Approval Voting and a top-2 runoff in the general election. Severely limiting ballot access for any candidates who aren't from the two main parties and using plurality invites shenanigans like this.

NEW: CNN found a Nebraska Democratic Senate candidate attended a GOP training event just months before filing for Senate. The Dem state party calls him a GOP plant to "trick voters" — he tells me he's a "free thinker," but admits voting for Trump.

a surprisingly good month for putin. russia making bank on oil, gas. fertilizer. us sanctions suspended. us weapons now prioritized for iran war. russia supporting iran without consequence. and a russian tanker with oil now allowed through to cuba by the americans.

@propublica While @JDVance leads a committee to reduce fraud his boss is giving pardons to his criminal buddies convicted of fraud. It's all a show folks.

@propublica @joncoopertweets

@propublica All it takes is a $trump donation, and all your problems go away. The price starts at $2.5M

@fredcantu @propublica He's only worried about brown skinned fraud, like the supposed Somali daycares. Rich white guy fraud is a-ok with the guy that brought you the Trump coin and Trump phone.

@propublica Just 2 weeks after proudly announcing a new major anti-fraud effort, President Trump pardons someone CONVICTED of $39 MILLION FRAUD.

New: Trump pardoned nursing home owner Joseph Schwartz just 3 months into his sentence for a $39 million fraud scheme. Meanwhile, families who won multimillion-dollar wrongful death suits against Schwartz haven’t collected a cent. propub.li/4di7xXs

@FreemyerGreg Just another 21% to go!

Not sure I expected 42% from BESS in California to ever happen! I was thinking the curve would get wider, not taller. 42% !!!!!