Tiny North Carolina town takes a big step toward geothermal energy Seed funding will help the rural town of Enfield in its quest to heat and cool homes without fossil fuels while drastically lowering residents’ energy…

Enfield, North Carolina, is getting a neighborhood-scale geothermal heating and cooling system — and hopes it’ll eventually cover all of the town’s 2,000 residents.

NEW RESEARCH: Up to 90% of industrial energy demand could be electrified with existing & emerging tech.

Under high-ambition policy, 51% by 2050 is achievable. 84% under the most enabling assumptions.

The technologies exist. The constraint is policy.

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Who do I know that has bought an electric vehicle? Any recommendations or research that you can share? #EV

The gas price crisis is giving one real-time example of how costs can quickly skyrocket for public schools.

School buses are depreciating assets anyway.

With diesel up 25% that’s an immediate unplanned increase and huge new strain on districts. With other costs growing faster than state spending.

Phil Berger concedes Senate race; state’s most powerful Republican dethroned Phil Berger has conceded. The most powerful politician in North Carolina, after several recounts and election protests, has admitted defeat to his primary challenger, Sheriff Sam Page. Berger has domi...

I believe this is what is referred to as a BFD in the biz.

No living North Carolinian has ever known a General Assembly controlled by the GOP without Phil Berger at the helm.

#ncpol

BREAKING: @SenatorBerger concedes defeat following today's recount. "While this was a close race, the voters have spoken, and I congratulate Sheriff Page on his victory," he said in a news release. Story to come... #ncpol #ncga

Duke Energy agrees to explore a cleaner way to power data centers A settlement deal would commit the North Carolina utility to working with Google on a scheme that lets data centers pay to secure 24/7 clean energy.

In North Carolina, Duke Energy is considering a cleaner way to power data centers — while keeping price hikes off its customers’ backs.

The Energy Supply Shock of the Iran War Changes Everything The effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz and destruction of Gulf fossil fuel assets is already having effects we’ll be dealing with in months and years to come.

“There is no possibility, in my mind, that we do not see an enhanced drive toward energy efficiency, electrification, and other forms of diversification. It’s just the obvious outcome of this.” heatmap.news/energy/energ...

The Oil Shock Is Here. And We’re Just Beginning to Feel It. The closure of the Strait of Hormuz, which 20% of the world’s oil flows through, is sending shockwaves through the global economy. But how big will this disruption actually be? According to a conversa...

This was a cool one!

Got to sit down with @HarvardBiz for a lengthy Q&A on the Iran War and the ongoing, historic energy supply crisis: how it works, how bad it could get, and how decision makers should think about the risk.

Check it out:
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Europe spent years debating whether the energy transition was affordable.

Spain quietly answered the question: gas now sets its electricity price in only 7% of hours.

Strategic autonomy doesn’t arrive via summit communiqués. It’s built in advance — in wind farms, solar parks, and grid investment

Recounts uphold Page’s 23-vote lead over Berger; evidentiary hearings set in high-profile NC race • NC Newsline Ballot recounts in the consequential primary between Rockingham Sheriff Sam Page and Senate leader Phil Berger resulted in no change in the challenger's 23-vote lead over Berger.

Recounts uphold Page’s 23-vote lead over Berger; evidentiary hearings set in high-profile NC race

"Even if the war stopped today, supplies would be disrupted for months. Every week it continues extends the disruption timeline in a nonlinear manner. If it lasts through the spring, we are looking at years of cascading consequences."

Amid Enrollment Declines, Public Schools Reckon With Potential Closures Shrinking enrollment is forcing North Carolina school boards to consider closing schools, even in affluent and growing areas like Chapel Hill-Carrboro.

Amid Enrollment Declines, Public Schools Reckon With Potential Closures

Even districts in the state’s most affluent and growing areas are under pressure. Chapel Hill-Carrboro school leaders now confront an impossible choice.

Phil Berger’s Defeat Would Create a Power Vacuum in the Senate If N.C. Senate leader Phil Berger's 16-year reign comes to an end this year, here’s who could take over as the next president pro tempore.

“There’s not an heir apparent at this point."

#ncpol

The entire Democratic strategy debate — "moderate" or move left? fight or compromise? — is based on a misreading of data. Voters don't think Dems are too progressive; they think Dems are weak. The actual math on what to do about this isn't even close!
New: www.gelliottmorris.com/p/new-poll-d...

How Oregon is building back smarter after wildfire After a destructive fire, residents faced the task of rebuilding. Thanks to state incentives, the new homes are more energy efficient and resilient to…

Wildfires destroyed these Oregon families’ homes. State incentives helped them prioritize disaster resilience and energy efficiency when they rebuilt.

How solar and batteries help keep lights on during Texas winter storms The recent boom in renewables and storage in Texas means its grid is much better prepared for bad weather than it was when Winter Storm Uri hit five years…

Texas has quietly built a massive renewable energy and battery storage fleet. Its impact is clear in three years of winter storm stability, writes Tam Hunt:

Sowing fear of "ICE at the polls!" could do more to suppress votes than any actual ICE at the polls. Here's an explanation of the right's strategy on this, along with my recommendations for what to do instead of playing along.

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Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

ICE is not doing immigration enforcement, they are targeting immigrants to justify an active coup for which they are Trump's army.

- Without immigrants, US government public debt at all levels would be at least 205 percent of gross domestic product (GDP)—nearly twice its 2023 level."

- Over that period, immigrants created a cumulative fiscal surplus of $14.5 trillion in real 2024 US dollars, including $3.9 trillion in savings on interest on the debt.

- For each year from 1994 to 2023, the US immigrant population generated more in taxes than they received in benefits from all levels of government.

"The government first began gathering detailed information on benefits use by citizenship status in 1994. The data show:

Immigrants’ Recent Effects on Government Budgets: 1994–2023 Our analysis in this paper shows that immigrants generated a fiscal surplus of about $14.5 trillion from 1994 to 2023, that the average immigrant is much less costly than the average US-born American,...

The Cato Institute is not a liberal think tank- one of their founders is Charles Koch of Koch Brothers infamy. TL;DR is there is no sound economic argument for ICE's current reign of terror.

N.J. governor wants residents to record ICE agents, upload videos to new state database “If you see an ICE agent in the street, get your phone out," New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill said as the state plans to launch an online portal.

“We are also going to be standing up a portal so people can upload all their cellphone videos and alert people,” Sherrill said. “If you see an ICE agent in the street, get your phone out. We want to know.”

Sherrill also said she would prohibit ICE from operating on state property.

No Kings AND No Occupying Armies - The American Prospect In 1770, the redcoats were a lot more solicitous of Americans’ rights than Trump’s goons are today.

In 1770, after the Boston Massacre, the British "arrested the eight soldiers who’d fired on the crowd and, under public pressure, withdrew the regiments from city streets, though they remained within Boston. The soldiers were tried before a jury of Bostonians; two were found guilty of manslaughter."

Two Republican senators call for Kristi Noem to resign as DHS secretary Sens. Lisa Murkowski and Thom Tillis are the first GOP members of Congress to call for Noem to step down as secretary of the Department of Homeland Security.

BREAKING: Two Republican senators, Thom Tillis and Lisa Murkowski, call for DHS Secretary Kristi Noem to resign.