David R. Baker

LNG export facilities are complicated feats of engineering The expansion in Qatar, the biggest LNG project ever, requires 45,000 workers from 50 countries This marks the world’s final wave of mega LNG projects. But these plants will be exporting LNG for a long time 🧵 complete

Beaming constant solar energy from space to Earth: It's a longtime dream of scientists, but recently researchers have made real progress. bloomberg.com/news/features/… via @climate

Toyota's largest North American import facility gets a new kind of power plant that will produce power, water and hydrogen all at once bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via @climate

Until the devastating fires in Maui, this California town was the site of the deadliest US wildfire in a century. Here's how it has recovered, and what remains lost bloomberg.com/news/features/… via @citylab

As the tragedy’s death toll rose to 99 Monday, Hawaii Governor Josh Green said he had reached out to the state’s attorney general to discuss a moratorium on property sales in the historic seaside town bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via @business

California's biggest fire of the year is burning in one of the only habitats of Joshua Trees, an icon of the American West bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via @climate

Biden’s Climate Law Only Gets US Halfway to Zero, BNEF Finds bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via @climate

The scientists behind last year’s nuclear fusion breakthrough are close to duplicating their historic achievement bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via @climate

We're not just seeing a boom in plants to make batteries in the US -- efforts to recycle them are ramping up as well. Startup Nth Cycle will open its first recycling plant in Ohio. bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via @business

Many electric car charges in the US don't work and ChargePoint's process is geared at fixing it trib.al/XxBJZNG

It says something when even the former CEO of a big EV charging company calls the first few generations of DC fast chargers "complete garbage." bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via @business

The lab that made last year's big fusion energy breakthrough has run five similar experiments since then, none of them achieving ignition. bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via @business

It's not a turbine, or an engine, or a fuel cell. This linear generator is new way to produce clean energy. We take you inside the factory bloomberg.com/news/features/… via @business

Following years of drought, parts of California are seeing colorful "superblooms" or explosions of flowers. But that growth will dry out, transforming plants into fire kindling 🧵 bloom.bg/41gxg9N

@SgtLobsinger Sergeant, will there be an afternoon or evening press conference for updates on the Pelosi-DePape investigation?

In Manhattan, EV-charging sites now outnumber gas stations 10 to 1 bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via @business

@gretakaul Way to go Greta!

Some *personal news*

Snow made modern civilization in the western US possible. Now from the Sierras to the Rockies, mountain snowpacks are shrinking. bloomberg.com/graphics/2022-… via @bbgvisualdata

Biden’s plan for a nationwide EV charging network means putting some stations in remote places and making sure they don’t break bloomberg.com/news/features/… via @business

The key to the green hydrogen economy is a little-known machine with a name out of 1950s sci-fi — the electrolyzer. Here’s how it works bloomberg.com/news/features/… via @business