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Kevin Pranis
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Kevin Pranis
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Creating family-supporting jobs and building a better future w/@LIUNAMinnesota. Skilled Laborers build safely and well, plus we're smart - don't sleep on us!
St. Paul, MN Katılım Ekim 2015
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NEW: For the first time, ProPublica has been able to quantify how many U.S. citizen children have been directly affected by Trump’s immigration crackdown: more than 11,000 kids had a parent detained — and that’s an undercount. 1/ 🧵
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@TheStalwart The Islamic Republic believes all dip buyers should get a second bite at the apple
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@RyanAlimento Beyond need to modernize aging infra and high cost of inputs (public + private sector, energy and non-), "central driver" of energy cost spikes has been *overreliance* on wholesale power markets where demand exceeds supply while regulated monopoly customers are *better* protected
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Markets don't incentivize innovation any better. No new energy tech can compete in markets when solar regularly creates negative prices. And no sane IPP would risk it to find out.
Joshua Basseches (joshuabasseches.bsky.social)@JoshuaBasseches
"No single policy will bring immediate relief. But one central driver of rising bills is a regulatory model that protects monopolies, limits customer choice, and rewards overspending while deterring innovation." Great piece by @Maceyjoshua. fortune.com/2026/03/17/ele…
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@xiaowang1984 Texas will always be a bad example b/c their energy economics are juiced by burning investor $$$ and more recently tax credits in a way no other state can replicate.
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ERCOT would be around where Chile is with 15c ish and 35%?
Zaid Jilani@ZaidJilani
Counterpoint: Texas
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“We’re sending ICE to airports, but they can’t actually do any of the TSA work to speed up the lines and we don’t want them to scare the normies who hate the image of masked government thugs milling about uselessly looking for people to roust. So uh no masks please!”
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@xiaowang1984 I love that he doesn’t bother trying to show states that pursued his deregulatory approach decades ago are better off as a result, but instead pitches it as a brand new idea
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So the best option is to have resources that are already inefficient per dollar be even more inefficient because of the rent seeking middlemen in the process. As if this is a free market as opposed to a midwit regulator imposed one. 😂
Mission:data@mission_data
"If a utility owns transmission and distribution, it should not be allowed to own generation." Similarly, when distribution utilities own DERs, they engage in harmful self-preferencing and data blocking, depriving customers of choice.
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Showing up at a city planning meeting in futuristic sunglasses and saying I'm a XIMBY and not explaining what that means
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@xiaowang1984 Why pay anything when you can get your light and heat directly from the sun for free?
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I mean why would anyone ever pay 58c a kwh to DC fast charge when you can do it at home for 15c. Amirite
Alex@alex_avoigt
For anyone who still hasn't grasped why nuclear power plants are the stupidest idea imaginable: New nuclear power plants cost up to 49 cents per kilowatt-hour in Europe. Solar power costs between 3 and 6 cents. Thats 16 times more expensive electricity For those now dreaming of small power plants (SMR): SMRs produce five to 30 times more nuclear waste than large reactors, and nuclear waste is a massive cost driver. Professor Dr. Lesch calls the idea of using old nuclear waste as fuel "a wonderful fairy tale that has yet to come true anywhere in the world." For all now claiming storage is no cost driver take a look what Germany had to pay and all other countries with nuclear energy generation must pay for decommissioning and storing nuclear facilities and waste in the future:
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@xiaowang1984 Someone should figure out how much the folks who took down Kinder Morgan's proposed pipeline cost ratepayers in New England and the net emissions (GHG and other) that resulted from burning oil instead of gas.
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Kinda funny they make an assertion about the economic case for a pipeline without looking at market prices and the economic effect of the constraints. Did we not have the most expensive winter ever in ISO-NE. They would just keep loving to burn that oil.
Joshua Basseches (joshuabasseches.bsky.social)@JoshuaBasseches
"The economic case for a (gas) pipeline has never been weaker ... To relieve winter energy constraints, the region needs to diversify generation, build out grid connections and storage and invest in efficiency and demand flexibility." masslive.com/opinion/2026/0…
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I don’t think this is an “Americans want contradictory things” poll, I think they’re hoping for the best outcome in a war they didn’t want started in the first place, but that’s not the same as approving the war or wanting it to escalate
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My synthesis is: Americans don’t agree with the decision to go to war, don’t really get why it was launched, don’t want to sacrifice anything for it, but might consider it a success on its own terms if it was short and the regime fell (which is not looking great)
Jennifer Jacobs@JenniferJJacobs
CBS News/YouGov poll was conducted with a nationally representative sample of 3,335 U.S. adults between March 17-20, 2026. @CBSNews @SalvantoCBS
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@xiaowang1984 Don’t know why the rental company is mad about me off-roading with their Prius
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Depends. Did you blast the snow machine onto the roof and at all times could control how much snow could go on it? If so then maybe the analogy would be more apt.
Christoph Maurer@maurerchr
To blame renewables for this blackout seems to me like blaming the weather if a roof with faulty construction breaks under the snow load
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there's a lot of sloppy thinking about this stuff: you have people who think being a net exporter insulates you from supply shocks (wrong), and then you have people who think there's no benefit to being a net exporter because you're not insulated from supply shocks (also wrong)
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I need people to stop and think for a moment about what they're saying: "300 uses of a computer in a data center, that heats up the computer so it needs to be cooled a bit with water flowing in its vicinity, consume as much water as all the food and water it takes to grow a cow divided by the number of burgers the cow produces."
That just intuitively seems insane to me. It's not true.
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@AndyMasley Also like 660 gallons is a lot of bigger than the GPU and the queries happen pretty fast .
Like I imagine a big water tank instantly vaporizing after being in contact with a rack of gpu for a few seconds and that seems already pretty wild.
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The conventional wisdom in the 2010s was that energy independence would reduce US military involvement in the Middle East. In practice, high domestic production lowered the economic risks of disruption, making actions like a strike on Iran viable.
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@bloisolson @NickAFrentz @LisaDemuthMN @Jamiemlong Our own @DarrickMoe speaks in the rotunda at Minnesota Nuclear Energy Education Day as part of our Day on the Hill. Joined by over 60 organizations, we're working to lift Minnesota's moratorium on new nuclear energy! #mnleg #nuclear
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