Bill White

Old-time climate hawk; Twitter's #1 fan of high voltage transmission.🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈

[Earvin Magic Johnson @MagicJohnson]

Happy Juneteenth! Today we celebrate freedom, resilience, and the strength of people who never stopped fighting for what was theirs. Let’s all take time to reflect, celebrate with family, and honor the past by committing to build a future where everyone can experience true freedom!

[Bill White @BillNWhite]

@HistoryBoomer The Spurs, and especially Wemby, ran out of gas in the 4th quarter of every game. Their players have youth on their side, but building the mental & physical toughness needed for an 82-game season and a deep playoff run takes years. They’re not close.

[Mark Z. Jacobson @mzjacobson]

Survey of 1,994 business leaders across 18 countries:

90% believe "transitioning to a renewables-based electricity system in their country is likely to boost economic growth"

88% believe "electrifying their operations will make their business more competitive."

90% expect to electrify operations by 2035, 73% by 2030.

A landmark global survey of business executives across 18 countries shows overwhelming support for a rapid transition to electrified economies run predominantly on renewables-based electricity.

https://t.co/VKb3wiqqyY

[John Raymond Hanger  @johnrhanger]

Good morning with good news: Biggest solar cell factory in US history starts making solar cells and every major piece of a solar panel!

Qcells will annually make in Georgia 8.6 GW of modules and 3.3 GW of cells, ingots & wafers.

It will employ 4,000!
https://t.co/f8yZHABdM5

[John Raymond Hanger  @johnrhanger]

Hooray!

Trump’s DOJ gives up on defending the president’s wind permitting moratorium.

DOJ filed a motion to dismiss its appeal of a federal court’s December decision vacating the order to halt wind energy approvals.

16 Blue states sued & won!
https://t.co/MS5YDnZswh

[Simon Mahan @SimonMahan]

New study: Blocking wind/solar increases electric prices, increases natural gas use/cost, causes reliability risks. Stopping renewables is a tax on households, businesses https://t.co/a1JUCDQ4OR

[Wendell Pierce @WendellPierce]

PBS Sets Premiere for ‘Declarations: Black Americans and the Revolutionary War’ https://t.co/vTzmkkn22E

[Bill White @BillNWhite]

Of course there’s no way to disrupt fossil fuel supply chains. Impossible.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Burgum on wind turbines: We have a report from Hegseth that it’s a national security threat. You could launch an attack on the US in with a bunch of drones coming through a wind tower field, it would undetectable until it was came through because the radar interference

[Tom Nichols @RadioFreeTom]

This is an echo of the terrible smear that became a pop culture trope about Vietnam veterans: that they came back as walking time bombs. Whether you are pro or con Platner, he chose to go to war, and America's veterans are not "broken" people.

[Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @Noahpinion]

We should give China credit for producing solar so cheaply that it enabled every poor country to electrify without fossil fuels.

[John Harwood @JohnJHarwood]

Our degenerate president is right now using the awesome power of his office to seriously damage America and the world.

Platner is running for one of 100 seats in the Senate.

they're not remotely comparable in significance (or in the level of their degeneracy)

[John Harwood @JohnJHarwood]

Maine voters have to decide what's more important:

keeping Platner and his flaws out of the Senate, or putting him there and limiting damage the madman in the Oval Office can do to America and the world over the next two years.

[Bill White @BillNWhite]

@AndrewSolender The waterfront says Gary, Indiana to me.

[Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @Noahpinion]

Ok that's interesting

[Mark Z. Jacobson @mzjacobson]

"This flight, for about an hour, will cost us about $8 in energy"

"The electric plane can charge in about 50 minutes"

"the aircraft can travel more than 300 miles on a single charge"

"Plus, as the plane descends, the force of going down actually recharges the battery."

"two versions of its aircraft, one that can lift off and land vertically like a helicopter and another that takes off on a traditional runway"

https://t.co/TThF8F7Pfq @BETA_aircraft

[Bill White @BillNWhite]

Justifying Platner’s candidacy by claiming Republicans are worse is a really bad argument.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

What’s funny here is the implication that Susan Collins isn’t a ‘pathological liar’.

[Bill White @BillNWhite]

I respect Platner’s military service. I’ll assume his disability pension is legit. But what I can’t fathom is how he & his campaign crafted his “independent, hardworking regular dude” image without addressing such glaring inconsistencies with his life story. Incompetence.

[Richard Hanania @RichardHanania]

Josh Barro on Platner:

“Graham Platner doesn’t work for a living. As The New York Times reports, the bulk of his income comes from a military disability pension of approximately $60,000 a year. The pension doesn’t mean he’s too disabled to work — he is, after all, currently seeking the job of U.S. Senator — but his recent non-campaign endeavors seem more like hobbies than a career. He runs an oyster farm that principally sells oysters to his mother’s restaurant. He earned a small stipend as his town’s harbor master: $3,000 last year. He lives in a $205,000 house that he bought with a $200,000 loan from his father.”

What a resume.

[Bill White @BillNWhite]

@Noahpinion Awful.

[Bill White @BillNWhite]

@Noahpinion @NickKristof I think pumping these videos into Russia might end Putin’s regime. Does Ukraine have drones that can project them onto buildings?