8 Things We Learned From Fervo’s IPO Filing The enhanced geothermal darling is spending big on capex, but its shares will be structured more like a software company’s.

we have a look inside what a startup hard tech company is like, and it involves spending a lot of money heatmap.news/energy/fervo...

Life as a clean energy journalist in an age of madness Robinson Meyer and I discuss why the traditional climate movement struggles to build infrastructure and how a global oil shock is scrambling US energy politics.

Today on Volts: There sure is a lot going on! Instead of a nerdy deep dive, today I go broad, talking current events with @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social of @heatmap.news: the Iran War, its effects on Trump's energy policy, the lessons of the IRA, the Dem pivot to "affordability," and lots more.

The Six Weeks That Changed the Global Energy Economy How China emerged the victor of the war with Iran.

How China won the Iran War heatmap.news/energy/iran-...

in my youth i had more patience for analysis of fandoms and what not, and while there are better and worse analyses (this one is better) i think we can mostly say these people are deranged and keep it moving

The Six Weeks That Changed the Global Energy Economy How China emerged the victor of the war with Iran.

how china won the iran war heatmap.news/energy/iran-...

New Documents Add to Doubt Over Trump’s Deal With TotalEnergies The administration is attempting to buy back the multinational energy company’s U.S. offshore wind leases.

@emilypont.bsky.social digs into the machination around the trump administration total deal to trade offshore wind for natural gas development for a cool billion dollars heatmap.news/energy/total...

What the U.S. Naval Blockade Reveals About the Iran War’s Next Phase Big questions about naval strategy and the oil economy with Cornell University’s Nicolas Mulder.

I spoke with Nicholas Mulder, the leading historian of blockades, about 19th century pacific blockades, the U.S.'s history as a blockade evader, and why the Cuba-Venezuela model may not work with Iran heatmap.news/energy/iran-...

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China Is the Big Winner of the Iran Ceasefire The losers are myriad and most definitely include Gulf oil producers.

China is the big winner of the Iran ceasefire, @zeitlin.bsky.social writes.

Read all about the other winners — and a few losers, too — in his story below:

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China Is the Big Winner of the Iran Ceasefire The losers are myriad and most definitely include Gulf oil producers.

We'll see what happens in two weeks and beyond but i think so far it's fair to say

the big winners are:

CHINA

NUCLEAR

COAL

SHALE

and the big losers are

LNG

GULF OIL PRODUCERS

THE WEST COAST AND HAWAII

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Most Americans Won’t See Electricity Prices Rise Because of Iran. This State Will. Residents of Hawaii may see their bill grow by as much as 30%.

hawaii uniquely among US states relies on oil for electricity. now electricity rates are going up 20% to 30%.

heatmap.news/energy/hawai...

The World Is Responding to Iran by Becoming More Like China That means more electrification, more stockpiling, and more coal.

I’m not saying you’re going to try to implement China’s energy policy, I’m saying that you’re going to implement an energy policy and it’s going to be Chinese heatmap.news/energy/iran-...

What Americans Really Pay For Electricity Introducing the Electricity Price Hub, a partnership between Heatmap News and MIT in collaboration with CleanEcon designed to bring much-needed clarity to the conversation around energy affordability.

We hear so much about electricity prices, but what do people actually pay on their BILLS????

Heatmap and MIT have teamed up to answer the question!

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the influence of james burnham by way of marc andreessen is very important here

Totally agree. The three big drivers of Chinese energy policy are (1) local air pollution, (2) energy security, and (3) desire to be at technological frontier. The issue is that you can make a lot of progress on (1) and maintain (3) while still using coal with modern emissions controls for (2).

Opinion | They Feel Bugs Inside Them. Doctors Don’t Know Why.

And the New York Times on how a bug researcher became a last resort for people who can't see what's wrong with them www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/o...

She Was Training to Be a Doctor. Her Cancer Still Went Undiagnosed. In her new book, The Elusive Body, New York Times editor Alexandra Sifferlin tells the story of a physician who experienced a debilitating diagnostic error.

Elle on a medical student's devastating misdiagnosis www.elle.com/culture/book...

The Making of a Diagnostic Mind “To me, the concept of the master diagnostician is that you’re never good enough,” one doctor said.

The Atlantic on America's "master diagnostician" www.theatlantic.com/health/2026/...

America needs more clinics of last resort for patients who can’t get answers “They never gave us false hope, but they promised to try everything”: an excerpt from “The Elusive Body” by Alexandra Sifferlin.

You can read excerpts!

Stat on the NIH clinic that's a model for diagnosis
www.statnews.com/2026/03/31/u...

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Today is the day to buy THE ELUSIVE BODY by @acsifferlin. Years of reporting with doctors, patients, and researchers about why America gets it wrong in explaining why we're sick.

Why the Real Oil Crisis Hasn’t Started Yet If the Strait of Hormuz remains closed much longer, things will get really bad, really fast.

The oil market bought a month reprieve thanks to strategic reserves, sanctioned oil, and the actual time it takes for tankers to reach their destinations. Now the shortages (and high prices) may really begin.

heatmap.news/energy/hormu...

How the Iran War Is Fueling a Coal Comeback The Strait of Hormuz disruption is “gravy” to producers of the world’s dirtiest fuel.

across asia, coal is coming back, but will it disrupt the overall trajectory of the black rock? heatmap.news/energy/iran-...

US bond market shows signs of strain as Iran war sparks Treasury tumult Ease of trading in world’s most important debt has worsened in recent weeks, banks and investors say

Three bad auctions this week, deteriorating market depth, dealers turning off autoquotes on Monday www.ft.com/content/2e01...

Trump Is Using the Iran War to Justify Everything He Already Wanted to Do The entire global energy economy has shifted — and yet somehow the administration’s agenda remains exactly the same, just more urgent.

The Trump administration's "now more than ever" response to the biggest energy crisis in 50 years heatmap.news/energy/now-m...

reading up on uk electricity markets...yikes!

Join Heatmap Deputy Editor @goodjillian.bsky.social and Correspondent @zeitlin.bsky.social this Thursday for a briefing on what the war in Iran means for the global energy system.

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