Dan 🌎

Interested in energy/climate policy, ultimate frisbee, music, and Philly sports

[Dan 🌎 @SlesinskiDan]

@AdamsMorganNews Hey that's my house!

[Chris Hayes @chrislhayes]

I understand why people feel a kind of inescpable sense of pervasive doom about the world, but as someone who has covered climate for 20 years, these past two years have been more promising than anything we've ever seen. There actually is some light where there wasn't before.

[Dan 🌎 @SlesinskiDan]

@Andercot You should subscribe to @TangleNews by @Ike_Saul, they literally do exactly this every week day

[Dan 🌎 @SlesinskiDan]

@TruckStopUlti come get ya mans

[Dan 🌎 @SlesinskiDan]

@being_ulti @PhilAdelphosUlt @cwultimate Represent ✊

[Dan 🌎 @SlesinskiDan]

@DCUrbanist Agreed I mean I hardly see anyone there... Must be that no one can get there bc there's no parking

[Dan 🌎 @SlesinskiDan]

@ScottCHsu @ENERGY Hey Scott! Will the amount of the $46M each company received be made public as well?

[Dan 🌎 @SlesinskiDan]

@AddisonKStark @Joule_CP Either way, the potential for much more rapid progress in fusion development is way higher today than in 1978

[Dan 🌎 @SlesinskiDan]

@AddisonKStark @Joule_CP Fair, though it all varies both by fusion method and by subsystem within a potential power plant. For example a stellarator fuson power core might be TRL 5-6, but a lithium blanket would be TRL 3

[Dan 🌎 @SlesinskiDan]

@AddisonKStark @Joule_CP Idk, I think fusion now is in a much better place than 1978... Looking past some of the recent milestones (which the article mentions), the advancement of enabling technologies such as HTS magnets, computation/optimization, and additive manufacturing will be huge for the industry

[Dan 🌎 @SlesinskiDan]

@DCUrbanist Lol well at least you can't get physically hurt studying urban planning... only mentally

[Dan 🌎 @SlesinskiDan]

@DCUrbanist Nice

[Patrick S. Tomlinson @stealthygeek]

Thread. Something happened this week for the first time in all of human history and nobody seems to have noticed.

Humanity passed through a Filter.

Let me explain. Among astronomers and associated science nerds, there's something called the Fermi Paradox. 1/

[Dan 🌎 @SlesinskiDan]

@DavidZipper @DCUrbanist you'd definitely appreciate this

[Ramez Naam @ramez]

This is an incredibly exciting time to be in climate tech and clean energy. I don't think most of the public have any idea how much is happening. The momentum is remarkable, in technology, in policy, in consumer sentiment, in business decisions. On every continent.

[Dan 🌎 @SlesinskiDan]

@DCUrbanist 😢

[Jesse D. Jenkins @JesseJenkins]

SCOTUS decision on WV v EPA is out. Im actually breathing a sigh of relief. In what may be best of plausible outcomes, a radical SCOTUS that has been tearing up precedent all term left EPA’s authority to regulate climate-warming gases intact, though more narrowly constrained.

[Nat Bullard @NatBullard]

A bit of a milestone:
After 130 years or so of growth, the global fleet of cars with only an internal combustion engine will probably peak in 2022. EVs are already the auto industry's sales growth driver. Soon they will be the fleet growth driver too. https://t.co/C2GeXoIKnZ

[Dan 🌎 @SlesinskiDan]

@ramez @JesseJenkins @duncancampbell @BooshCarron We wrote a paper with ARPA-E looking at what cost fusion would need to come down to in order to be competitive in various markets. A lot of it can be applied to fission as well, but I agree fusion should have lower regulatory costs https://t.co/crdZv6j2li