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Josh Lappen
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energy historian | postdoc at Notre Dame | infrastructure, decarbonization, and landscapes | always on the lookout for a good fun fact
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When you're august enough you can pull it off any month of the year

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pessimisms of all kinds seem performatively self defeating to me in a peculiar way - it's not so much that I can't imagine being convinced of some version of "good things aren't possible (through the state / in general)", but I can't imagine doing theory about it

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in typical Oxford fashion, I may not actually get a doctoral ceremony for another year. Luckily, the august Dr. @ghgpolicy.org has provided me with the true sigils of my new rank. These elbow patches are coming soon to a tweed jacket near you!

two fresh elbow patches, ready for deployment
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The Climate and Energy Policy Program has a webinar coming up tomorrow - Wednesday, October 2nd at 12PM PDT - on our work on competition between gas and electric utilities. If you are curious, take a look here to learn more, read the paper, and register: woods.stanford.edu/news/getting...

Getting to zero emissions: a call for unified energy planning
Getting to zero emissions: a call for unified energy planning

To help speed decarbonization, state regulators should plan around a unified energy sector, according to a new Stanford-led report. Without coordinated action, the energy transition could become slowe...

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California is beginning to shift course. A new law signed last week makes some progress, but the gas utilities won 5 more years of delay. Any capable engineering firm could absolutely have pilot programs for zonal decarb up at the end of 2025, not 2030. www.smartcitiesdive.com/news/neighbo...

Neighborhood decarbonization pilot programs can start in California
Neighborhood decarbonization pilot programs can start in California

A new law allows natural gas utilities to electrify a neighborhood instead of replacing old gas pipelines under certain conditions.

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JMjmijin.bsky.social

We should celebrate the end of coal in the UK. AND remember that the miners and mining communities did not have a just transition and the impacts of that continue to today. We cannot let that happen again #JustTransitionwww.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

End of an era as Britain’s last coal-fired power plant shuts down
End of an era as Britain’s last coal-fired power plant shuts down

UK’s 142-year history of coal-fired electricity ends as turbines at Ratcliffe-on-Soar plant in Nottinghamshire stop for good

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‼️Announcement‼️ Im on the job market. I defend my dissertation Spring 2025. Specialties: Borderlands, #PublicHistory#DigitalHumanities, & environmental. I’m trained in Am.Indian and MexAm studies. I would like to stay in Tx or the U.S. SW/W but trying to stay flexible.

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it’s really, really dangerous when otherwise well-meaning people assume that things are already pretty much as bad as they can get

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The paper itself is out now as well - give it a read! woods.stanford.edu/sites/woods/...

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Josh Lappen
@jlappen1.bsky.social
energy historian | postdoc at Notre Dame | infrastructure, decarbonization, and landscapes | always on the lookout for a good fun fact
994 followers397 following519 posts