Sparkplug Power

Sparkplug Power is an energy storage project development group deploying electric Storage as a Service & working out of @Greentownlabs.

[Sparkplug Power @SparkplugPower]

Well that happened fast....

[Sparkplug Power @SparkplugPower]

Who has oil/WTI hitting $100/bbl by the end of March? #OOTT

[Luke Arcaini @ArcainiLuke]

I don’t know if I’ve ever seen somebody get a standing ovation for allowing a run.

Cristopher Sanchez smiles as his streak ends. What a moment for the lefty. He’s in baseball history forever.

[Scott Braddock @scottbraddock]

The screwworm has shaken Texas agriculture previously. Those who lived through it in the 1950s say it was commonplace for ranchers to "scoop handfuls of worms from cattle" and other livestock. Herds decimated. Beef prices could soar, markets rattled. Buckle up, #TxLege

[Sammi🦋 @StoriesBySammi]

The federal government just banned bison from public land in Montana.

Not cattle.

Bison.

Interior Secretary Burgum revoked grazing permits for 950 bison
on 63,000 acres of federal land in northeastern Montana.

The reason?

Bison raised for conservation don't count as livestock
under a 1934 law.

Bison raised for meat and milk? Fine.

Bison raised to restore a native species to its native land? Get out.

Meanwhile, cattle ranchers across the West keep grazing on your land.

For $1.69 a month.

One cow. One calf. Thirty days. $1.69.

On land that belongs to every American.

The Cheyenne River Sioux. The Coalition of Large Tribes —
50+ Native nations. Defenders of Wildlife.

They all filed formal protests.

They called it exactly what it is.

"DEI for cows."

The bison have until September 30 to be gone.

Who decided cattle belong on public land more than bison do?

#DemsUnited

[Grace Yarrow @YarrowGrace]

NEWS: Screwworm has been detected in Texas, USDA confirmed - marking a serious threat to US cattle and other animals

Larvae of the parasite were found in the umbilical cord of a 3 week old calf

Screwworm was eradicated from the US in 1966

[FactPost @factpostnews]

Dolly Parton on her Imagination Library program that Republicans defunded:

"[My daddy] was the smartest man I have ever known, but I knew [...] his inability to read probably kept him from seeing all of his dreams come true. Inspiring kids to love to read became my mission."

[Assaad Razzouk @AssaadRazzouk]

India's coal power is going into a structural decline because: batteries
>Cumulative tendered energy storage capacity skyrocketed to 90GW
>Monster 3.37 GWh battery array in Gujarat was just operationalized, making it world’s largest single-location battery storage deployment outside of China, with plans to hit 10 GWh next year and an incredible 50 GWh by 2031
>State-owned utility NTPC just issued an EPC tender for a monster 7.8 GWh battery installation in Rajasthan, a size unprecedented in global BESS procurement history
>From right now until 2027, a massive deployment of 2-hour, 2-cycle battery configurations is underway across major solar hubs (like Gujarat and Rajasthan) to aggressively crush morning and evening peak demand windows
>As India charges 500GW clean energy by 2030, it's on track to deploy 61 GW / 218 GWh of grid-scale storage

The entire growth in India’s electricity demand through 2030 will be completely absorbed by renewables and storage, and total coal generation in 2030 will drop below 2020 levels: India is rapidly moving to substitute 27GW of planned "zombie" coal plants with clean capacity and battery storage to save the Indian power system $6b/year in reduced costs

When a single country has over 60 GWh of projects in active execution and another 80 GWh under tendering, the "baseload coal" argument is dead on arrival

Wires are chewing pipelines

[Shashank Joshi @shashj]

Very sorry to see that Sir Alex Younger has died of cancer, aged just 62. Younger's wife 'was shocked that he had never told his mother he was a spy, and so he did. “Yes, darling, so was I,” his mother replied.' https://t.co/6sfVIqBqpF

[Mark Z. Jacobson @mzjacobson]

Despite ~400,000 new EVs and ~200,000 new heat pumps in California during the past year and the 3rd-most data centers in the U.S., demand has hardly changed since 2025 and decreased 1.3% versus 2023, largely due to the growth in roof PV.

Roof PV reduces grid demand for electricity.

At the same time WindWaterSolar has supplied 56.4% of demand this year and >100% of demand for parts of 129 of 153 days, including 63 straight.

Gas is down 61% vs 2023, yet California's main grid is the most reliable in the US based on the lowest wholesale electricity prices in the past year.

[𝖓𝖎𝖓𝖊 🕯 @atlanticesque]

There was an economics paper that showed (something along the lines) that the 2008 economics crisis could be 100% explained by energy shocks, not anything to do with the housing market, and the result was so incredible even the author was like “uh I probably messed something up”

Does anyone have it

[Jonathan Berk @berkie1]

99% of Boston’s residential parcels do not conform to zoning.

This triple-decker in Dorchester, nearly identical to neighboring triple-deckers, required multiple zoning variances to be built.

When the housing that defines a neighborhood is illegal, the rules are the problem.

[Jason, @jasonc_nc]

“Last year the U.S. experienced something that hasn’t definitively occurred since the Great Depression: More people moved out than moved in.”

For the first time ever there is consistent net out-migration, which has been steadily trending for several years. Last year, more Americans moved to Germany than Germans moved to America. The same was true in Ireland. There are now more natural-born Americans living in Norway than Norwegian-born residents in the U.S.

[Colin Grabow @cpgrabow]

New @DOTMARAD Jones Act waiver data is out. Excluding renewable diesel, more clean product has now been moved by tanker/barge from the Gulf Coast to the West Coast in 77 days under the waiver than in the last 13 years (2013-25):

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

The same World Cup seat is $700 on FIFA's official site and $200 on SeatGeek right now. That gap is not a glitch.

Dynamic pricing solved the upside for FIFA. Demand climbs, the price climbs, $60 group seats turn into $700 matchups, the US opener hit $1,940 at face. The downside is where the system breaks. The second FIFA cuts an official price below what someone already paid, it invites refund demands, chargebacks, and a consumer-protection fight across three host countries.

So the official number cannot fall. It is a published price attached to thousands of fans who bought higher, which turns every markdown into a liability.

Read it as economics instead of conspiracy and it sharpens. FIFA overpriced, then built a channel where lowering the real price is legally radioactive. The secondary market is the only place left to discover what the seats actually clear at.

Those contiguous blocks landing on SeatGeek at $198, $228, $230 are FIFA's true demand curve leaking out where the official site can keep pretending it doesn't exist.

The elegant part: FIFA's own resale marketplace takes 15% from the buyer and 15% from the seller. So even as inventory clears below face, FIFA collects a toll on the way down. They earn on the markdown they can't announce.

Saudi Arabia vs Cape Verde settling near $200 while the official page holds the line tells you the market-clearing price was set months ago. FIFA just can't be the one to say it out loud.

[Dr Paul Dorfman @dorfman_p]

Seven states sue US for paying $1bn to make TotalEnergies exit wind power. New York leads lawsuit challenging Trump administration’s effort to make French company reinvest in fossil fuels. A coalition of Northeastern states argues the March deal, in which the company gives up its two offshore wind leases in exchange for a full refund of their $928mn cost and a pledge to redirect the money to fossil fuel investments, is “blatantly unlawful” and should be struck down by the courts. Led by New York, the coalition includes Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Rhode Island and Vermont. The lawsuit marks the latest pushback by states and pension funds against the Trump administration’s payments designed to curtail wind power.

FT 2nd June 2026
https://t.co/JNeJ6zdD1e

[Mike Eckel @Mike_Eckel]

Bonkers video from earlier today in St. Petersburg, where Russian police try to shoot down a Ukrainian drone, while bystanders casually video the effort (and the burning oil terminal in the background).

[John Raymond Hanger  @johnrhanger]

Good morning with good news: The cost of adding 1 GW of solar fell from $3 billion in 2015 to $0.7 billion in 2025 reports the IEA!

The 80% fall in capital cost required to add 1 GW of solar led to a near ten-fold rise in annual capacity additions!
https://t.co/tEBeU7wH03

[gCaptain @gCaptain]

U.S. Begins Dismantling Major Ocean Observation Network https://t.co/bErbMeUoK9

[aziz gilani @TexasVC]

Houston freeways are so wide they're creating their own microclimates

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

For most of the 20th century, the Pacific yew was called a 'trash tree.' Then researchers found something in its bark.

Pacific yew is slow-growing, scraggly looking, and considered commercially worthless. When loggers cleared the old-growth forests of the Pacific Northwest for Douglas fir, they shoved the yews into slash piles and burned them.

Then researchers found the compound paclitaxel in its bark. Paclitaxel stopped cancer cells from dividing. Sold as Taxol, it became one of the most important chemotherapy drugs ever developed, eventually standard treatment for ovarian, breast, and lung cancers. The FDA approved it in 1992.

But there was a catch. The drug came from the bark, and stripping the bark kills the tree. A single course of treatment took the bark of several mature yews, and a mature Pacific yew can be a century or two old.

Chemistry eventually solved this problem. Scientists learned to build the drug from a compound in the needles of common ornamental yews, which regrow. The wild trees were spared, and the medicine kept coming.

A tree nobody valued was carrying one of the answers the whole time. We almost burned all of them first.

[paris martineau @parismartineau]

the current director of national intelligence is a guy who two years ago received a trophy declaring he “Fucks Only The Young” at an (oddly dildo focused) event he organized dedicated to the conspiracy that Bed Bath and Beyond never actually went bankrupt