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@Seahawks Sam Darnold, you are good enough for Seattle.

A moment our QB will never forget.

Very important to consider once the dust clears on the election: Why cleantech is booming in GOP-led states - Cipher Cleantech will either need to convince national GOP to follow the states or national Ds to move blue states to unlock investment. ciphernews.com/articles/why-c…

Are we just not defending the outside flat ever? @cmikespinmove @mattyfbrown #seahawks

Kicking off the Bloomberg Green Festival on such a glorious day in Seattle! @climate @BloombergLive #climate #Seattle #BBGGreenFestival

Senator Hickenlooper is spot on here: We need to be building transmission lines faster than ever and yet we’re getting slower each year. Have to fix this with permitting reform ASAP.

@GrantSlatton My daydream is that Seattle would use the opportunity of vacant buildings Downtown and in other neighborhoods to tear them down and make micro-streets like this with the zoning/permitting ability to locate small shops/restaurants in them. More Post Alleys

After visiting Taipei, I've become a road-width extremist I used to be fully anti-car, but now I think if you simply make most roads barely 1 car wide and get rid of on-street parking, it gets you 95% of what you want Taipei has a grid of major 6-8 lane roads through the city, but most inner roads are ~1.5 cars wide and cars go slow and yield to pedestrians on them Having two different road types provides a nice clarity: the big roads are for cars, but cars are guests on the small roads Here's a satellite view of near where we were staying. You can see the grid of major roads, but also the tiny interior neighborhood streets This effect is kind of what Barcelona is trying to retrofit with their superblock project. Like most US cities, Barcelona is filled with lots of medium-large roads as the default. These are just large enough to be uncomfortable for pedestrians. But if you can funnel most traffic onto a grid of "major" roads, you can designate the roads within the grid blocks as minor and pedestrian-first. Since US cities are already built, adopting the Barcelona model is probably the best path forward, but newly-built developments should consider the Taipei model.

Hundreds of the nation’s coal plants could be a good fit for advanced reactors – opening up new job opportunities for communities across the country.  Here are 8 things you should know: bit.ly/49Q6ZTA

“The issue is simple — the only way to stop burning carbon is to build new clean energy projects at an unprecedented scale and scope in every corner of Washington.” seattletimes.com/opinion/reeval…

Spot on from the Washington Post editorial board: Environmental review is being exploited to block clean energy projects. “Nearly two-thirds of solar energy projects were litigated, as were 31 percent of transmission lines and 38 percent of wind energy projects.”

The American nuclear industry illustrates negative learning: the costs of plants have increased over time. But this is not nuclear's fault. Almost everywhere else, the learning rate is positive: costs decline as the industry gains experience building! 🧵 Consider France:

"Taken together, the growing demand for electricity is eclipsing some of the climate benefits of the recent impressive growth in renewables..." ciphernews.com/articles/power…

"...the primary challenge in scaling advanced solutions over the next decade does not lie in their technological feasibility. Rather, it lies in confidence in these solutions." weforum.org/agenda/2024/03…