Kalee Kreider
@kaleekreider
Principal, The Kreider Group Senior Advisor Ridgely|Walsh Priors: @insidenatgeo @algore Tweets are my own.
Sobering data
BREAKING: In its semi-annual report, @IEA revises higher its estimate of global consumption in 2024 to a record high of ~8.79 billion metric tons (from ~8.77 billion previously). IEA also anticipates a new demand all-time high in 2025, before dropping in 2026 | #CoalTwitter
CHART OF THE DAY: America has an electricity problem. Retail power costs in the US are rising very, very quickly (>35% over the last 5 years) — in some part due to expensive grid investment. My @Opinion colleague @liamdenning has the details here: bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…
I’m a hard no
Looking ahead, NWS is seeing indications that this heat wave will likely be a long-duration event. The high pressure ridge causing it will be strengthening into the middle of next week, so it appears excessive heat conditions could worsen after this weekend. Heat indices above…
SCOOP: The US agency responsible for maintaining the nation’s stockpile of nuclear weapons was among those breached by hackers exploiting Microsoft’s SharePoint.
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The mind boggles at the size of China's newest dam project. It alone will be able to produce more electricity than needed to power the UK or Poland. It's such an expensive project that the 2nd largest economy's 30-year bond yield changed on announcement. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Saudi oil giant Aramco has suffered quite a fall of grace. Its stock value fell on Tuesday to a fresh >5-year low. At 23.99 riyals per share, it's trading at its lowest level since March 2020, when Brent was at ~$25 a barrel. Since its IPO, it's down >17% -- worse than BP !!!
An under appreciated point- China’s drive to electrification had a lot to do with national security and their lack of access to O&G. China’s thirst for oil drove global demand for decades. That they have curbed it has geopolitical implications. wsj.com/world/china/ch…
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Being an AI researcher is more lucrative than being a professional athlete right now
A new era of floods has arrived. America isn’t prepared. @sarahkaplan48 and a team of reporters have a thoughtful piece about what we are facing washingtonpost.com/climate-enviro…
Those three flew that rocket to the Moon, and with Mike orbiting, Neil and Buzz walked on the surface 56 years ago today. One of the greatest achievements in all of history, it still inspires the world.
I’m making my way through my summer reading list and read Original Sin in a day. @jaketapper @AlexThomp that was incredibly sobering especially since I know and/or have met or worked with many of the people you write about. I couldn’t put it down.
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“The arc of history is long, and it bends toward” *flips through history book* Oh. Oh no. Oh no no no
It’s amazing that round trip flights on different airlines on the same route cost the exact same thing to the dollar. How does that happen?
BP offloads US onshore wind business as it pivots back to oil on.ft.com/4mlT7XB
With CBS cancelling The Late Show after 33 years, here is that time Chris Farley went to see David Letterman in 1996 with the greatest talk show entrance in the history of talk show entrances.
Inside the Silicon Valley push to breed super-babies. Polygenic scoring is here washingtonpost.com/technology/202…
Difficult to see this last column. What a great run.
With time, a swinging pendulum shapes energy and climate change. Read @AmyAHarder's Harder Line column for our final publication. nt-z.ro/4lvhi5w
BREAKING: Incredibly-rare FIRE TORNADO in Utah officially rated an EF2 vortex by the National Weather Service! 🔥 The FIRE TORNADO had winds up to 122 mph, making it only the third EF2+ tornado to occur in the state of Utah since the year 2000. This was associated with the…
Exercise…imagine that?
New TSMP: EXERCISE AS MIRACLE DRUG Two big studies in the last 12 months: 1. Euan Ashley, the chair of medicine at Stanford, and a team of bioinformatics researchers put rats on treadmills, cut into their tissues, and found that exercise basically improved every measurable…