Chris McKee

Make Solar & Wind permitting easy. Up-Zone Boulevards for more Apartments. Build better Police Academies. Reform Immigration. Reduce Gun ownership. Vote Blue 🌊

[Chris McKee @Ragcha]

Some of my suggestions for solving homelessness & lowering rents in Los Angeles. Please reply & share!

@MayorOfLA @mhdcd8 @KatyForLA @nithyavraman @adrin_nazarian @TraciParkforLA @CurrenDPriceJr @CD6LosAngeles @MRodCD7 @CW_HeatherHutt @CD12LA
https://t.co/pJN0F1obLZ

[Ted Lieu @tedlieu]

WAGE GROWTH IN MAY WAS THE LOWEST IN 5 YEARS.

Americans are working harder but getting less spending power from their paychecks because of anemic wage growth and rising inflation.

The trump economy sucks.

November is coming.

[Chris McKee @Ragcha]

@leRaffl @ProfRayWills @johnrhanger I love the team work!

I hope the world starts watching soon! 🙏🏼

[Mike Hudema @MikeHudema]

IKEA has installed 935,000+ solar panels and is on track for 100% renewable electricity.

This isn’t a future idea. It’s already happening.

We have the solutions. Implement them.

#ActOnClimate #climate #energy #renewables

[John Raymond Hanger  @johnrhanger]

Good morning with good news: India's Morena solar & 1-hour storage project's power will be $29/MWh.

In places with good solar/wind, RE & storage costs $54-$82/MWh that will operate 95% of time.

Capex cost of large solar fell from $1.91 in 2015 to $0.50/watt in 2025!

[Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @AdamKinzinger]

I’m glad there were 18 republicans. Should have been more. But thank you Don. History will record your name well in this

Who was the dem no vote?

[Chris McKee @Ragcha]

@johnrhanger Alas, the article doesn’t state what BEV sales were in Oz a year ago.

@leRaffl should get those numbers out in the next couple of weeks, though…

[🌻 Dumfounded 🤯 @j2dumfounded]

@ChristineFische @CNN @Ragcha @laurapaddison @afreedma Because the administration are climate deniers.

If you don’t have climate data, you can’t show that the climate is changing. In this case, we don’t know what’s going to happen to the oscillations or to a lot of fisheries which face challenges.

Same reason NOAA is being cut.

[🌻 Dumfounded 🤯 @j2dumfounded]

@onlyloveone0711 @judy72400929111 @CNN @Ragcha @laurapaddison @afreedma Because when Trump is not serving his Kremlin masters, he is serving his oil and gas industry masters.

In fact, it’s all one convergence if you look at the fact that the way the Koch family made their seed money was working for Stalin.

[Governor Newsom Press Office @GovPressOffice]

There is a lot of misinformation floating around about California’s election — including from the President.

This explainer is worth a watch.

And yes, for the record: we wish the votes were counted faster, too.

[Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @Noahpinion]

The U.S. is almost matching China in battery investment!

[Chris McKee @Ragcha]

Lebanon needs to declare all-out war on Hezbollah, and go room by room through their cities, pushing all of their operatives south into Israeli forces. https://t.co/vLXpgzCTRL

[Chris McKee @Ragcha]

Any day now we should see if the city managed to reduce homelessness for a third year in a row.

I absolutely agree with you that we need to move faster.

LA County is responsible for mental health. It should be building mental hospitals right and left.

Part of the problem is that the way the city is chartered, the mayor doesn’t have very much power. And the county is responsible for some of these problems.

My sense is that the mayor can replace heads of departments in permitting and at LADWP. Speeding up construction in LA would add more units to the market and lower rents, which would stop the flow of new homeless people.

But also NIMBYs need to stop electing NIMBY city council members. And we need to reform our city zoning process, so people are more aware of it when it is happening.

I think it should happen for one year, city-wide, after the census every 10 years. And then whatever the city decides on, with lots of public input, sticks for 10 years, so developers don’t face unpredictable delays and lawsuits while they’re trying to build.

@KatyForLA @mhdcd8 @EunissesH @CD13LosAngeles @LindseyPHorvath @HildaSolis

[Chris McKee @Ragcha]

I love @KarenBassLA, but this is why I voted for @nithyavraman. I wanted to make sure we had all the best ideas on the table being debated, so we can move forward.

And Raman is great. I hope she runs for LA County Executive in two years. We need more mental hospitals for homeless people ASAP to get them off the street. https://t.co/k0xVC57MQg

[Chris McKee @Ragcha]

This is happening in California too.

Let’s add another 25GW of utility batteries now that they are cheap @CaliforniaISO and stop using gas entirely.

@SenBlakespear @sencabaldon @CASenCaballero @Cervantes4CA
@SenatorChoi @SenDaveCortese @SenMariaEDurazo @TimGraysonCA

[Chris Meder @EVCurveFuturist]

Gas spent 20 years owning the evening peak. Batteries took a year to crash the party.

That's disruption. Not gradual, but a rapid shift in who supplies grid's most valuable hours.

The battle was never about total generation. It was about the peak & batteries are winning it.

[Codie Sanchez @Codie_Sanchez]

How plumbers sleep during the AI revolution…

[Chris McKee @Ragcha]

Important to recognize far more workers would benefit from this than would suffer. https://t.co/WE2Va6jyLP

[Kurt Andersen @KBAndersen]

A+ questioning by @tedlieu. Pivot-to-video perfection.

[The Kyiv Independent @KyivIndependent]

⚡️ Update: All EU states back opening formal accession talks with Ukraine after Hungary deal.

All 27 EU member states have given the green light to open the first cluster of accession negotiations with Ukraine and Moldova, Prime Minister Yuliia Svyrydenko said on June 4 after an agreement between Kyiv and Budapest cleared the key hurdle.
https://t.co/NAj2n7P67J

[The Kyiv Independent @KyivIndependent]

Following a Ukrainian drone strike that set fire to an oil terminal in Leningrad Oblast ahead of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum on June 3, local residents and pro-Russian military bloggers have increasingly voiced doubts over whether even Russia's largest cities can still be considered safe.

https://t.co/ekXwgcmaLj

[Chris McKee @Ragcha]

California should stop subsidizing the fossil fuel industry.

Our grid is closer than most countries to running on 100% clean energy. We would likely get to 95% if we installed the same number of utility batteries Texas is for a couple of years (12GW per year).

Next up is making it easier to own an EV with 10X more supermarket parking lot chargers. Mandate and rebate those investments on their taxes. Same with getting 220V outlets in renter parking spots.

Every municipal vehicle in California should already be an EV: we would be saving on fuel and repairs costs. Let’s get this done next year! Put it on the state’s credit card. We can pay it off with the cost savings.

And finally we need every gas appliance swapped out. Give union workers jobs cleaning out the old infrastructure, capping wells and digging holes for geothermal power plants.

How are we doing getting enough chargers for electric trucks in the @PortofLA @portoflongbeach @PortofOakland @portofsandiego?

@XavierBecerra @CASpeakerRivas @ilike_mike @CaliforniaISO @UrbanEnviroCA @SouthCoastAQMD @IAmPoliticsGirl @BuffyWicks @Lola_Smallwood @Scott_Wiener @TomSteyer

[Mark Z. Jacobson @mzjacobson]

Moving the world to clean, renewable energy costs less than world fossil-fuel subsidies

Worldwide subsidies to the fossil-fuel industry exceed the annual cost of transitioning the world to 100% clean, renewable energy for all energy purposes. This means that eliminating fossil-fuel subsidies more than pays for an energy transition. Let’s look at the numbers. Transitioning the world to renewables costs $6.8 trillion dollars per year. According to the International Monetary Fund, fossil-fuel subsidies alone cost $7.4 trillion dollars per year, or 6.4% of world GDP. These subsidies include $730 billion per year in explicit subsidies and $6.7 trillion per year in tax-code benefits, unpaid air pollution damage, unpaid climate damage, and other unpaid environmental and road damage. So, if we want to eliminate the over 7 million air pollution deaths per year from energy, the growing climate damage from energy, and energy insecurity arising from fossil fuels, one sure-fired way is to stop subsidizing the fossil-fuel industry.

Cost of subsidies
https://t.co/v8c1fFoPM8

Cost of transitioning world
https://t.co/c3RjxqKhcO

Video
https://t.co/d434yPOtA5