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Getting clean energy procurement right is a key requirement for making energy-intensive carbon removal approaches (like DAC) credible. Today, Frontier has published a set of buyer principles for responsible clean energy procurement (link in following tweet).

On my way back from an anniversary trip celebrating 20 years (!!) of best friendship with Rebecca Lissner and Sarah Sherman. Love these two with my whole heart ♥️ (Some of my favorite photos of us over the years are the ones where we're laughing too hard to pose for a proper

Exciting update: Open Philanthropy is doubling down on our YIMBY, innovation, and metascience success by launching a >$120m Abundance & Growth Fund to accelerate economic growth and boost scientific & technological progress. Funding from Good Ventures, Patrick Collison, + others. Why now? 🧵

New analysis from SEIA supports a key point from our AI datacenters paper: solar is faster to deploy vs alternatives

Good piece in the The Wall Street Journal about our latest offtake with Celsio in Norway: wsj.com/articles/the-n…

💫 We’re launching the Centre for British Progress Our founding essay: Rediscovering British Progress is a case for growth that drives shared progress, rooted in Britain's values and industrial heritage. It all starts with a postcard from 1870 👇 britishprogress.org/articles/redis…

Was just looking for a photo from a recent trip to Paris, and it appears I seem to have spent most of the trip photographing beautiful ceilings? Anyways, we should really bring those back..

Is Romanticism making a comeback in SF? Lately I’ve been wondering if SF is in the early stages of a ‘Romantic Revival’ of sorts. Curious to hear from folks who spend time in the bay if this feels directionally correct: nanransohoff.substack.com/p/is-romantici…

we made a map! gap-map.org is a tool we built to help you explore the landscape of R&D gaps holding back science - and the bridge-scale fundamental development efforts that might allow humanity to solve them, across almost two dozen fields

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This weekend I got to see the new David Hockney exhibit and was sort of..awestruck, so wrote down a few reflections. IMO very much worth going if you're nearby! nanransohoff.com/Some-reflectio…

well I asked claude what historical figures he’d set me up with and I.. have never felt so seen? anyway, I’ll be hosting a feynman lookalike party later this year ✌🏼

Elon Musk 1 hour of Earth's sunlight contains as much energy as humanity uses in a year. 2 days is more than we've used since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. No other energy source can even compare.

New piece with Rafael Dib applying prioritisation frameworks to science funding. How should a grantmaker aiming at health impact pick areas to fund, when science is so hard to predict? We argue you can get pretty far, because today's spending is weird: blog.jacobtrefethen.com/vaccines/

🚨New ARIA opportunity space: engineering the innate immune system is an untapped frontier that could be key to tackling everything from chronic disease to pandemics & cancer. Learn more & help shape our approach at http:// aria . org . uk / opportunity-spaces

New podcast* from two of the greats—Saloni and Jacob Trefethen—just dropped! *at nearly 5 hours, it's really more of an audiobook than a podcast (luckily for us)

Planetary just delivered the world's first verified carbon removal tons via ocean alkalinity enhancement (OAE). We think OAE is hugely promising. Part of what's made it tricky is the measurement/verification piece. Planetary's delivery represents some big strides forward here:

This is a great step forward. Ocean alkalinity enhancement is one of the more promising and less invested in areas of carbon removal.