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Josh Lappen

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energy historian | infrastructure, decarbonization, and landscapes | always on the lookout for a good fun fact

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the future is now !

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Michael Hobbes's avatar Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social
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Sticking with Biden or running Harris would be *far* less risky than dedicating two of the next four months to Democrat infighting, followed by an unprecedented delegate voting process and dubious chances of even getting on the ballot. Knowing this shit is supposed to be these people's job

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Can't wait to get my copy!

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Heritage Foundation president celebrates Supreme Court presidential immunity ruling: "We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be" www.mediamatters.org/project-2025...

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The thing about the end of Chevron for environmental and natural-resource regulations is, every env policy person has a personal rage list of half a dozen regs that bend over backwards to accommodate polluters. With agency deference gone, it's time to sue for strict interpretation of env law.

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I think it's high time we make a rule that says that in order to be paid as a national political pundit you must spend one (1) week canvassing door-to-door in a place you do not live.

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It's hard to explain how widespread the repercussions of overturning Chevron deference will be. Even if you narrow the scope down to tech policy, you're left wrangling a super-explainer on a friday afternoon www.theverge.com/24188365/che...

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OK enviro/energy/EJ brain trust, in your judgment, which regs and other statutory interpretations are most vulnerable to attack by the right-wing extremists that we need to be strategizing to defend?

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This route is also entirely within the territory of three municipal power agencies with a century of experience building joint projects together.

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The mound test has never failed me yet

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Thank you! I'll only be in-person some of the time, but please do!

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Well, I love the gist of it! Definitely the outcome we're rooting for. I'd love to hear more if talking through it ever sounds helpful

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I've got the new email address, so it's official: I'm joining @gruberte.bsky.social at Notre Dame! I'll be bringing my historical work to bear on questions of energy-network shrinkage and just managed transitions. Feeling excited and lucky to keep learning from a climate thinker I admire so much

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down with wifi, up with high-bandwidth NPS volunteers

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David Weiskopf's avatar David Weiskopf @weiskopf.bsky.social
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Like 5 people in California understood how a a comet was headed straight for us and now the comet has been stopped and like 5 people are having an awesome day feeling incredible relief and no one else will ever know the shitshow that was just avoided.

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Given their Olympic track record, I'm sure the fine folks at Stanford will take the title back soon!

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But I've now spent longer seeking payment on my last contracting gig than I did doing the work that I billed for. I know this is a bog standard complaint, but that pisses me off more, not less

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It's a hotly-contested title, but I think "coalbed methane" -> "sustainable aviation fuel" might be Lightweight Champ of the Greenwashing World Cup.

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I am once again asking you to consider that an entire information ecosystem established as the primary form of communication over a hundred years and allegedly regulated by the federal government was destroyed by scammers virtually overnight and we just don’t, like, ever talk about it

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Californians for Electric Rail's avatar Californians for Electric Rail @calelectricrail.bsky.social
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CARB continues to treat catenary as an afterthought. An on-paper analysis of zero emissions freight did not explicitly study catenary, even though wired trains are the only mature ZE freight rail tech and ideal for high-traction conditions like the Cajon pass. www.trains.com/trn/news-rev...

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Can anyone recommend favorite free OCR software? Today's scan of a mimeograph of a cheaply-typewritten report is fuzzy enough that my go-tos won't cut it.

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I'm back in the archives, so GIVE A YOUNG MAN A CHANCE the start of a sixty-year political dynasty

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This really stresses how brief a window we have to patch state+federal reclamation obligations before stranded oil infrastructure becomes a public liability. We're talking a few legislative sessions before those efforts get swamped by cries to subsidize critical oil infrastructure.

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Thank you! It's definitely a privilege to spend time in such a absurdly bucolic archive...

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Thank you! haha the picture looks like adrenaline to me!

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Belatedly: I'm Dr. Lappen now! If you're ailing, I'm available to prescribe subjectivity and context, or to historicize your woes. I've passed my viva (Oxford defense) and am headed to the Huntington Library in LA for a summer of archival work on energy systems. Please say hi if you're around!

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Quinta Jurecic's avatar Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social
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Bring back the Office of Technology Assessment

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J. Mijin Cha's avatar J. Mijin Cha @jmijin.bsky.social
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Like many others point out, this is why we need to tax them now while they’re profitable. Feels also like we could learn from coal- companies will still profit but regularly file for bankruptcy, which screws over workers, communities, and the land.

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I've handed in my doctoral dissertation! I'm all out of words, so I'll see you nerds in a few weeks

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Who coined the term "fenceline community"?

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We export enough that I've been wondering whether the bridge collapse will noticeably accelerate clean steel

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Though I bear the banana slug no ill will, I regretfully must announce my opposition to this legislation. I know my choice may stoke the fires of division, but I can do no other. Long live Navanax inermis (the California aglaja)!

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The next eight years are going to be absolutely insufferable on this front...

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I've been wondering (when not feeling cynical) when an established company would back strong H2 standards for business reasons. Given the flood of new entrants, established H2 producers can gain a huge competitive advantage by restricting access to subsidies.

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