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IEEPA, creepa, where'd you get those tariffs.

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China’s political system has learned to harness market forces, Ma Tianjie explains in his book, "In Search of Green China". The state has adopted policies which have kicked off a virtuous circle of technology learning, cost reduction and market penetration. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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China’s path to becoming greener wasn’t driven by environmental litigation or citizen pressure, but by centralized, top-down governance. And while that model may be hard to transplant to other countries, the journey itself holds lessons. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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On September 2nd Bolsonaro and seven of his closest associates will stand trial on charges that they tried to orchestrate a coup. If convicted, several of them face up to 43 years in prison. www.economist.com/1843/2025/08...

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Trump has the reverse Midas touch - where he treads chaos follows.

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Sacramento, Yolo and Solano Counties should go to "Hot California" and Del Norte should be part of "Cool California".

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He donated $10 million on Aug. 21 to the campaign. Right Path California says it is concerned about progress to elect women and people of color to Congress.

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Charles Munger Jr. contributed $10 million on Aug. 21, the day the redistricting measure was approved in the California state Legislature

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Charles T. Munger, Jr. is the main contributor to the group that paid for ads flooding mailboxes in California. Munger is the son of the late billionaire Charles Munger, former vice chairman of Berkshire Hathaway. laist.com/news/politic...

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Yesterday I received in the mail a flyer paid by a group called Right Path California with the headline "Gerrymandering is Wrong - NO MATTER WHO DOES IT". The campaign in California on who controls Congress has begun.

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There is a political mandate to secure the southern border and deport dangerous immigrants. There is not a mandate to militarize an anonymous ICE police force to perform cruel and dehumanizing attacks on law-abiding immigrants day after day.

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The Treasury guidance on how wind and solar projects can still capture the federal tax credits could result in a surge of projects that will be completed before 2029 and 2030. Building these projects will provide an affordability windfall to consumers in states that take advantage of the tax rules.

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I read Richard Rhodes book "Energy" which traces energy technologies back to the days of Shakespeare. Rhodes accuses English economist Thomas Malthus and Paul Ehrlich, author of the Population Bomb, as misanthropes. His argument fails when he tries to connect them to opponents of nuclear power.

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This is a big deal.

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If he is going to nationalize private companies he should provide us with a 5-year plan.

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The growing competitiveness of Chinese EVs in many parts of the world is only just beginning. www.cnbc.com/2025/08/28/a...

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Witkoff has a bizarre understanding of good faith.

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Wishful thinking.

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Hopefully Witkoff will be advised by people who understand what security guarantees are.

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"The last 12 months saw a big rise in Africa’s solar panel imports. Imports from China rose 60% in the last 12 months to 15,032 MW. The rise happened across Africa. Twenty countries set a new record for the imports of solar panels in the 12 months to June 2025." - Ember

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The press should find out who at DOGE did this and reveal their full names.

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After midnight, we're going to let it all hang down After midnight, we're going to chug-a-lug and shout We're going to stimulate some action We're going to get some satisfaction We're going to find out what it is all about

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Renewable energy accounted for almost 40% of total power generation in China in the first half of 2025. New solar and wind generation covered the total growth in electricity demand. China had installed 212 gigawatts of new solar capacity in the first half of the year.

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Financing provided to oil, gas and coal projects by Wall Street’s top six banks fell 25% to $73 billion this year through Aug. 1 from the same period in 2024, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.

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Cruelty is the message.

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Too damn hot for data centers, even small ones.

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The Energy Information Administrations forecasts electricity demand will grow at an annual rate of over 2% in 2025 and 2026. Until 2020, demand was relatively flat. Electricity demand growth will be higher in areas with plans for large data centers, such as in Texas and in Northern Virginia.

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For years, cities like Miami and Austin have tried billing themselves as up-and-coming tech hubs. As the A.I. boom takes over the tech industry, companies and entrepreneurs have once again chosen California as their home. In the process, Silicon Valley, too, has changed. - NYTimes

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Over the past decade, China’s CO2 emissions have risen by nearly a fifth, with ups and downs along the way. More recently, there are signs that China’s CO2 emissions could be reaching a peak. The latest data shows that China’s CO2 emissions have now been stable or falling for more than a year,

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Wrong turn to Mars.

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When all else fails, fire the statisticians.

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Greenhushing, where corporations downplay their climate efforts, has spread in the US and Europe with companies trying to avoid accusations of greenwashing and political attacks.

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The most expensive single human-built object on Earth is the Itaipu Dam on the Paraná River between Paraguay and Brazil. Itaipu has is an installed electricity producing capacity of 14,000 megawatts.

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Last year, Texas generated 124,934 gigawatt hours of wind energy, enough to power 11.6 million homes and nearly three times the amount of the second-largest wind-producing state.

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One potential bipartisan measure after the midterms would be to make new transmission projects eligible for the investment tax credit. Also the federal government could begin procurement of long-lead components like high voltage transformers and circuit breakers.

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The LA arrests by masked agents at car washes and taco trucks were cruel performances followed by misleading press releases promoting Kristi Noem. It was a test of what the public would tolerate.

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The US has over 50 years of experience with pressurized water nuclear reactors. Most are now operating safely and at high capacity factors. Why not build more? They are too expensive. Vinod Khosla is deceiving himself by arguing that the main obstacle to abundant nuclear is over regulation.

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For decades, the nuclear industry argued for larger reactors driven by the principle of economies of scale. Many fixed costs (like security, complex control systems, and regulatory overhead) don't scale linearly. SMRs, by definition, lose some economies of scale due to their smaller size.

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Perhaps the Pentagon should move up the value chain and invest not just in mining but in manufacturing. Long-duration batteries would be very valuable for the military.

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AI data center developers probably suffer from some hubris about the magnitude of energy that they will need over the next decade. The 2% annual growth for electricity across the US seems reasonable but it may be more back loaded, with a slower roll-out of the electrification of everything.

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There is a policy logic in providing higher levels of tax credits to emerging zero-carbon technologies like deep geothermal and fusion as well as to electric system enabling technologies like longer duration batteries, other forms of energy storage and advanced conductors.

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Solar and wind are the lowest cost new sources of electricity for most of the planet. They will be installed in increasing amounts in Asia, Africa and Latin America this decade. The solar panels will be made in China. An open question is whether the U.S. will develop new non-silicon solar.

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These are still early days in the possible alignment of AI data centers and clean tech developers. Many of the AI elite are interested in deep geothermal and nuclear fusion. But if they want something to build by 2030 it will be wind, solar and batteries.

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How do you say TACO in Portuguese?

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Trump thinks he cut a good trade deal with Japan. The U.S. will lower its tariff on Japanese autos from 25% to 15% and Japan will have a 0% tariff on American manufactured autos. How many right-hand drive F-150s will Japan import now?

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They should be paid the real-time clearing price if they participate in the markets which requires the submission of bids in the day-ahead energy market. Many DERs cannot directly in the wholesale power markets because the power is not deliverable beyond the distribution system.

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Electricity prices in wholesale markets fluctuate throughout the day and night due to varying supply and demand. Prices are lower during off-peak hours when demand is low and renewable generation (solar) is abundant. Batteries are profitably charged and discharged during these time periods.

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Hypostatization refers to treating an abstract concept, idea, or quality as if it were a real, concrete thing with its own independent existence. It's the mental habit of ascribing as real something that is not inherently material.

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This setback provides more reason to be skeptical of the hyper-projections for the scale of new power demand expected in the next decade from AI development

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This was a great webinar. Sammy Roth is right that developers of clean power should not fool themselves that they can message their projects in a way that wins support from the Trump administration.

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Khosla's complaint that NIMBYs are the main reason nuclear power is not thriving in the United States is verifiably wrong. It is the inability of projects developers to build power plants on schedule and on budget. He is wiser to put his VC into fusion and advanced geothermal.

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Republican Senators do not want answers. They are the majority for now.

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One-third of workers in the construction industry crossed the border illegally to come to America to work. ICE has not yet start rounding up the million or so undocumented workers building highways, hospitals, data centres, schools, etc.

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This is not the end of the story.

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Five years of stirring the poop pot creates a lot of stink.

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Next come the smears on Truth Social and X.

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A recent Harvard/University of Pennsylvania found that new homebuilding in sunbelt metro areas such as Atlanta, Dallas, Miami and Phoenix has dramatically slowed, leading to higher prices. It looks like red states’ cheap-housing advantage are shrinking. - As reported in the Economist Magazine

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Will Trump pardon Ghislaine Maxwell? He could claim the jury pool was contaminated by the bad publicity she received from Comey and other leftists.

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Firing Powell will lead to higher unemployment and destabilize prices.

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President Obama applied the woke mind virus to Trump 1.0 to make him appoint Jerome Powell. Now Trump wants zero interest rates for the next three years which will trash employment and raise prices.

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Mr. Trump, if you want to undermine maximum employment and price stability, then fire Jerome Powell.

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Mr. Trump, if you want to undermine maximum employment and price stability then fire Jerome Powell.

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Maximum employment and price stability.

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TACO before it is irreversible.

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Obama made him do it.

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TACO

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TACO

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The AI economy is intensively concentrated on the West Coast, The Bay Area will remain the central AI hub well into the future. Seattle and Los Angeles will also be important AI hubs.

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Electric vehicle sales are on track to outpace gasoline car sales in China this year. Battery-electric, plug-in hybrid, and extended-range electric cars a are projected to top 16 million by the end of the year December — slightly more than their combustion-powered competitors.

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Drill, baby, drill will be a long forgotten meme this fall. World oil consumption is expected to grow at the slowest pace in the last 16 years outside of the 2020 pandemic slump. Demand contractions are occurring in countries targeted for high tariffs, including China, Japan, and Korea.

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Solar electricity is expected to account for 7% of total U.S. power generated in 2025 and 8% in 2026 according to the Energy Information Administration

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Russia saw the Qing Dynasty’s decline as an opportunity to dismember the Chinese Empire and reattach its ‘central dominions’ with Russia. Turnaround is fair play now that Russia is weak and China strong.

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What a big loser.

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The Fourth Amendment protects individuals from unreasonable searches and seizures. It mandates that no warrants shall be issued unless supported by probable cause, a specific oath or affirmation, and a particular description of the place to be searched and the persons or things to be seized.

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The video of the failed actress Kristi Noem wandering around a Huntington Park neighborhood watching armed ICE agents search a home with a pregnant mother and four children should go viral to show the cinematic cruelty of the Trump administration

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No invasion, no rebellion. Just provocation and spectacle from Trump, Hegseth, Bondi and Noem. The federal government spent a lot of money trying to intimidate Angelenos with little to show for its effort.

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HHS Secretary Kristi Noem asked DOD Secretary Hegseth to use the military to arrest LA citizens to protect ICE agents according to a letter she sent to Hegseth. She needs to be questioned about her views on her authority under oath.

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Is this supposed to be an intimidating photo? It is just another selfie from a narcissist who likes to dress up in expensive clothes.

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Speaker Johnson is nothing more than an apologist for whatever the Trump administration wants to do.

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The 36 page ruling by Federal District Court Judge Charles Breyer is worth reading. He uses Trump's social media posts to rebut the arguments put forward by DOJ attorneys that the National Guard would only be used to guard federal properties.

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Kristi Noem and DHS are out of control. It is not the job of DHS to “liberate the city (of Los Angeles) from the socialists and the burdensome leadership that the governor and the mayor have placed on this country.”

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Trump and Stephen Miller are failing to meet their "round-up" quotas by invading car washes, restaurants, Home Deport parking lots and farms. Instead, they are creating a spectacle.

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Over 850 people had been arrested in the Los Angeles area by Wednesday by various law enforcement agencies, including the LAPD, the California Highway Patrol, and the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department. Zero were arrested by the National Guard or Marine Corps.

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Trump wrote on social media that he had directed cabinet officials to “take any actions necessary to ‘liberate Los Angeles from the Migrant Invasion,’” and said, “we’re going to have troops everywhere,” which undermines the limited role for the National Guard DOJ professed in its opposition brief.

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Trump wrote on social media that he had directed cabinet officials to “take any actions necessary to ‘liberate Los Angeles from the Migrant Invasion,’” and said, “we’re going to have troops everywhere,” which undermines the limited role for the National Guard DOJ professed in its opposition brief.

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DOGE was nothing more than attempt to intimidate federal employees. Musk and his minions did not understand or care to understand what the word "efficiency" meant. wapo.st/4kumlCM

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Russia is spending approximately 40% of its GDP on the military and weapons industry.

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Trump has power but not competence. Musk is smart and shows he can be competent but his disinhibition undermines his competence.

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And Trump was que sera, sera.

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Tesla bulls argued that the Musk-Trump alliance would streamline the federal process allowing Tesla to secure a weakly supervised autonomy license nationally. That prospect is now highly unlikely,

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Where would Musk go - Germany? The European Space Agency launches from the Guiana Space Centre located in Kourou, French Guiana. This location is strategically positioned near the equator.

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Steve Bannon wants to throw the kitchen sink at Musk.

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Fossil fuel spending to fall for first time since pandemic https://www.ft.com/content/35edc55a-3860-4d6e-9963-fc7067516b80

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Why not call it a victory? That way he can move on and forget about all the Xweeting and Chainsaw waving.

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He is leaving but not before securing a significant contract with Saudi Arabia for SpaceX's Starlink service. The agreement involves Saudi Arabia paying for the use of Starlink by maritime and aviation companies within the country.

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En inglés el acrónimo TACO quiere decir "Trump siempre se acobarda".

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Musk must be embarrassed that Congress was willing to consider only the smallest recision of allocated funds that DOGE recommended for cutting.

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It is a pocketbook emergency. Consumers pay the tariffs and the Trump family gets the deals to make them go away,

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No more TACOs at the White House.

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Musk has pushed pause on his manic tweeting that almost 24/7 during the DOGE days. It also looks like he has hired a PR firm to brush up his image from the chainsaw wielding theatrics. But still...