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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.

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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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  The upcoming U.S. elections are the last real chance to shift fast enough from oil and gas to solar and wind to limit global warming.

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  But physics is giving us very little time now, and so the next set of elections in this country will be, I think, our last real chance to make the sea change-replacing oil and gas with sun and wind-that is our best hope for limiting warming.

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Senior space editor at Ars Technica; wrote Liftoff and Reentry on SpaceX, and reports on launch and rocket programmes.

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  SpaceX is retiring the rocket that made cheap launch possible in order to fly its own satellites on a bigger one.

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  The company that is almost exclusively responsible for the dramatic increase in launch availability in the 2020s has signaled that it intends to wind down Falcon 9 operations as quickly as possible in favor of the larger Starship rocket.

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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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  The 'intermittent power' criticism long aimed at solar and wind now applies more truly to other energy sources, including nuclear and natural gas.

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  that charge long leveled at sun and wind-that they provide "intermittent power"-is probably truer now of other energy sources

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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

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Social scientist turned small-scale farmer; wrote A Small Farm Future and argues against the case for feeding the world from factories.

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  Factory-made bacterial protein cannot feed the world, because meeting humanity's protein needs that way would take more electricity than the planet generates from renewables.

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  To meet the global population’s protein needs through factory-produced bacterial protein in 2024 would have used more than the total global electricity generated using renewable (hydro, photovoltaic and wind) energy

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Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals, and creator of Omarchy.

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  AI is welcome as a better search engine and a pair programmer that does not drive, but writing the code itself is not something to hand over to it.

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  I love chiseling my code and the way I use AI is in a separate window. I don't let it drive my code. I've tried that. I've tried the cursors and the wind surfaces and I don't enjoy that way of writing. And one of the reasons I don't enjoy that way of writing is I can literally feel competence draining out of my fingers.

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  I will now start any project I'm starting with. I'm starting agent first and that's a massive shift

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 United Kingdom is the one rich industrial country that cannot run on solar alone, and it has to build wind at scale instead.

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  The only highly populated industrial country unable to trivially meet its electricity and synthetic fuel needs with solar alone is the United Kingdom, due primarily to a high population density and high latitude. The Nordic and Baltic countries are tiny by comparison. Among other problems, the UK needs to decide if it wants the future where energy is cheap and it is rich, or the future where energy is expensive and it is poor. If the former, it is time to get serious about large scale deployment of wind power, using home-grown vertically integrated technology at prices as low as $10/MWh.

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Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals, and creator of Omarchy.

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  AI is welcome as a better search engine and a pair programmer that does not drive, but writing the code itself is not something to hand over to it.

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  I enjoy it even almost like as a sort of pair programmer AI pair programmer who doesn't drive who's just there to give suggestions to know the API to do all these other things but the second it starts wanting to autocomplete my code I'm like yeah I'm out bro

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  I love chiseling my code and the way I use AI is in a separate window. I don't let it drive my code. I've tried that. I've tried the cursors and the wind surfaces and I don't enjoy that way of writing. And one of the reasons I don't enjoy that way of writing is I can literally feel competence draining out of my fingers.

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 failure of wind or solar power to show up has never been the primary cause of a major grid blackout.

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  While renewables are almost always blamed in the aftermath of major power cuts or grid disruption - and the way they have been integrated into the grid has certainly been found to compound problems - the simple failure of wind or solar power to show up has never yet been found to be the primary cause.

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Investigative journalist; wrote Area 51, The Pentagon's Brain and Nuclear War: A Scenario, reconstructing what secret programmes actually did from interviews and declassified records.

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  Nobody becomes STRATCOM commander unless they are the kind of person who follows orders, so the hope that the launch order would be refused is misplaced.

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  You don’t wind up as STRATCOM commander unless you are someone who follows orders. You follow orders.

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