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Writer and climate campaigner; wrote The End of Nature in 1989, founded 350.org and Third Act, and writes The Crucial Years.

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  Rapidly building out cheap solar, wind and battery capacity is currently the one climate action the world knows how to execute at scale.

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  there is actually one thing we do know how to do, and that is build out lots of cheap solar, wind, and batteries.

  Facts on the groundbillmckibben.substack.com

Writer and climate campaigner; wrote The End of Nature in 1989, founded 350.org and Third Act, and writes The Crucial Years.

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  Battery storage is becoming the defining transformative energy technology of the second half of the 2020s, as solar and wind were of the first half.

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  Batteries are the transformative technology for the second half of this decade, as sun and wind were for the first half

  Fun with numbersbillmckibben.substack.com

Software engineer and writer; worked on Mapbox and built Placemark and Simple Statistics, and blogs at macwright.com.

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  Garmin Forerunner 945

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  The watch's battery lasts a long time, it doesn't distract me, I don't have my phone notifications piped into it, I love it.

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Data scientist at Our World in Data and author of Not the End of the World. Writes By the Numbers, working through energy and climate questions with the numbers in front of them, and revising in public when they say something unexpected.

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  Cheap clean energy has broken the old trade-off between raising living standards and cutting environmental harm.

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  The rapid drop in renewable energy costs in the last decade (alongside huge improvements in battery technologies) has started to break this deadlock.

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Founder of Terraform Industries and formerly a physicist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory; writes about energy, space and manufacturing.

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  Seasonal energy storage is a heat problem rather than a battery problem: electricity is hard to store for months and heat is easy.

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  Storing electricity for months is economically difficult, but storing heat is easy.

  Energy Predictions 2025caseyhandmer.wordpress.com

Technology analyst whose weekly email on tech reaches over 150,000 readers. Publishes essays and an annual presentation on where the industry is going.

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  Apple's risk is being reduced to hardware: people keep buying the best phone while everything they do on it comes from someone else's model.

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  But you're still going to buy a smartphone. You're still going to buy the nice one with a good battery and the fast chip to run the models and the good screen and the best camera, which will still be an iPhone because Apple still has the best chip team and a whole bunch of other hardware advantages. But everything you do on it will be from someone else.

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Swedish software developer writing about tooling, working from home and running a software business at seastone.io.

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  Marshall Major III

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  These headphones have a perfectly adequate sound for a decent price. Their long battery time is great for using them wirelessly throughout the day.

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Founder of Terraform Industries and formerly a physicist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory; writes about energy, space and manufacturing.

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  Past a point it is cheaper to overbuild solar than to add batteries, because a battery kept for the rare bad day is barely used.

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  A battery that’s discharging every day gets great utilization, but one that’s only there in case the sun doesn’t come up for two days in a row, barely gets used.

  Solar and batteries for generic use casescaseyhandmer.wordpress.com

Founder of what became Bloomberg New Energy Finance; writes and speaks on clean energy, hydrogen and the economics of the transition, and hosts the Cleaning Up podcast.

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  The comparative cost of hydrogen fuel-cell cars versus battery EVs depends on which infrastructure costs are counted and to whom they are allocated

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  The only way you can make H2FC cars look cheaper than BEVs is to underestimate or ignore the cost of hydrogen production and infrastructure, socialise it, and then load the entire cost of grid build-out onto the marginal BEV.

  Are BEVs more expensive than H2FC cars?liebreich.com

Indian software developer working with React and TypeScript; writes and publishes a newsletter at sreetamdas.com.

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  Safari

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  Safari to make sure whatever I build works across browsers, and when I need to conserve my battery usage (Safari is incredibly battery-efficient)

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Engineer writing about the physical economy — oil and gas, manufacturing, batteries, drones and what it costs to build things.

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  An off-grid data centre can delete its uninterruptible power supplies entirely, because the battery bank outside already is one.

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  Deleting the UPSs could knock off ~$750/kW after considering equipment, installation, and square footage reduction.

  How to Make Off Grid Data Centers Affordableaustinvernon.site

Founder of Terraform Industries and formerly a physicist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory; writes about energy, space and manufacturing.

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  The end state of the grid is not a fifth solar backed by spinning generation, but twice the demand in solar with days of storage behind it.

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  The logical end state of this displacement is not some hybrid grid with around 20% solar backed up by spinning generation, but a much more dynamic, versatile grid with around 200% solar generation and hours to days or weeks of battery storage, fully decoupling time of generation and consumption.

  Radical Energy Abundancecaseyhandmer.wordpress.com

Engineer writing about the physical economy — oil and gas, manufacturing, batteries, drones and what it costs to build things.

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  Cargo ships can be electrified with a cheap, heavy, low-performance battery, because carrying heavy things cheaply is the one thing ships are good at.

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  Ships are great at carrying bulky and heavy stuff with minimal cost and energy usage. We need a battery chemistry that leans into that and sacrifices performance to reduce cost.

  Why Battery Powered Cargo Ships are Compellingaustinvernon.site

Indonesian software engineer, educator and engineering manager at Zero One Group; open-source enthusiast writing at ripandis.com.

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  Keychron K3

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  Mechanical keyboard with Gateron Brown switches that are comfortable for long coding sessions. Long battery life and bluetooth connectivity make it highly flexible.

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  14" MacBook Pro M2 Pro

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  Primary laptop for development. High performance with amazing battery life, and an ecosystem that integrates well with other Apple devices.

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Aeronautical engineer and former fighter pilot; analyses aircraft design and airline economics at Leeham News.

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  Battery-electric airliners do not work even on optimistic assumptions, and the arithmetic said so before anyone built one.

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  Having done the sums before hitting the keys, I was a skeptic. It just didn’t work, even with optimistic assumptions around the parameters for the aircraft and its batteries.

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Technical educator, conference speaker and developer relations engineer based in Ottawa, Canada. Author of the Anubis bot filter and of over 400 articles at xeiaso.net.

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  MacBook Air (M1)

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  This is an amazing laptop. Its battery life is iPad tier. I can run iPad and iPhone apps seamlessly.

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