John Balbach

#ClimateSolutions #Father #Musician

[John Balbach @JohnBalbach]

Join us this Thursday evening at The Modernist of San Francisco. Hope to see you. Feel free to circulate to senior executives. 🙏

https://t.co/pbDFDIlArl

[Mark Z. Jacobson @mzjacobson]

Half (65 MW) of the U.S.' first large offshore wind farm is now online after 23 months of construction.

https://t.co/jHWkB9mxKu @SiemensGamesa

[Mark Z. Jacobson @mzjacobson]

A huge battery (185 MW/565 MWh) has replaced Hawaii's last coal plant

https://t.co/AhOZtlLyoT @CanaryMediaInc @RoaldMarth

[Prof Michael E. Mann @MichaelEMann]

Speaks for itself

[Alex Brogan @alexbrogan]

Charlie Munger spent a lifetime studying why humans make horrible decisions.

The result?

A list of 25 of the most powerful psychological tendencies known to man.

If you want to avoid bad decisions, here are 25 nuggets worth your time 🧵

[Mark Warner @MarkWarner]

Putin thinks he can wait us out.

Refusing to renew our support for Ukraine would play right into his plan.

We can’t give him that win.

[FORTUNE @FortuneMagazine]

.@xprize has launched a $101 million competition for innovations that combat aging and restore a decade of life. https://t.co/YVdxKxBzI8

[Vinod Khosla @vkhosla]

To be clear, the right wing has it's own mental health problem. They are so parochial anything beyond their nose threatens them. They cannot look at people as people. They just want their tribe and no one else. The MAGA disease is the worst thing that has happened to America in the 50yrs. Tribalism is an ancient artifact and MAGA folks live in the 18th century.

[Mark Z. Jacobson @mzjacobson]

Oil+gas industry "needs to let go of the “illusion” that carbon capture technology is a solution to climate change, according to the @IEA" @fbirol

https://t.co/7Ne7EIwzcG

In fact, CCS+DAC increase CO2, pollution, & mining
https://t.co/UDXvhmjVi3

https://t.co/uhbNHTfXGM

[John Balbach @JohnBalbach]

Join me in supporting Josh Becker 2024 via @actblue https://t.co/p5jlrcmsfx

[Gavin Newsom @GavinNewsom]

California and China are two of the world’s largest economies. The reality is, we cannot solve the climate crisis without working together.

Despite our major differences, California is committed to stopping the greatest existential threat our planet has ever known.

[John Balbach @JohnBalbach]

Technology and efficient markets are the engines to solve climate change. Join us at The Modernist of San Francisco on Thursday, October 26 for a fire-side chat as we look to scale global carbon markets to their $1 trillion/year potential.
Register: https://t.co/el7y2mYHF2

[John Balbach @JohnBalbach]

Join us in creating a $1 trillion carbon market: https://t.co/EhrVjRzZsm

[John Balbach @JohnBalbach]

Join us this Thursday evening at The Modernist of San Francisco. Hope to see you. Feel free to circulate to senior executives. 🙏

https://t.co/pbDFDIlArl

[Josh Becker @JoshBeckerSV]

With my deepest compassion in this extraordinary time of grief I offer up these two organizations to donate to as they consistently come up. Please suggest others as well.

IsraAid
https://t.co/FOa8FsvkLt

Palestine Children’s Relief Fund
https://t.co/VPNg98ucNF

[Aimée Christensen @AimeeGlobal]

Insulation pays! And source insulation from @hempitecture, not only do you improve comfort and efficiency, but you decarbonize buildings with @USDA certified bio-based materials that are healthier for you and safer for installers! #biobased #decarbonize #greenbuilding #leed #hemp

[Mark Z. Jacobson @mzjacobson]

Getting closer!!

California's "main grid ran on more than 97% renewable energy at 3:39 p.m. on Sunday April 3, breaking a previous record of 96.4% that was set just a week earlier the @California_ISO said Thursday in a statement."

https://t.co/CjrHmydDRz @business

[John Balbach @JohnBalbach]

Are you a Climate Optimist or Doomsdayer? Clear and insightful piece today highlights: (1) we have most of the tools to address climate change; (2) time is short to act decisively and at very large scale; (3) policy and public investments are primary. https://t.co/Nuq5QhkmGT

[Dr. Robert Rohde @RARohde]

Half of the population of the world lives inside this circle.

[John Balbach @JohnBalbach]

#shibainu are happiest at near vertical. @elonmusk and #FLOKI hit the mountain trails with Luna and us.

[Susan Su @susanfsu]

10 years ago, the top 5 infrastructure projects in the US by $ volume were:
1) transit
2) roads
3) LNG
4) coal
5) wind in a distant 5th

In 2020, they were:
1) solar
2) wind
3) transit
4) hydro in a distant 4th
5) gas in a distant 5th

Times are changing.