Ramez Naam

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Climate and clean energy investor. Author of 5 books. Energy & Environment co-chair @SingularityU. Trying to build a better world.

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1	Jun 18, '25	It's unacceptable for policing to look like this in America. This should both frighten and outrage anyone who wants the US to remain a free society.	755×	8.2M	26k	4.9k	1.1k
2	Aug 9, '25	I had the chance to get to know Savor (the startup below) early in their journey. What they're making actually is butter - the same molecules. And of all the alt-animal food tech	521×	5.7M	27k	975	3.4k
3	Oct 11, '25	Harboring Anne Frank was illegal too.	193×	2.1M	77k	7.8k	1.3k
4	Jun 18, '25	More EVs are now sold every year in China than cars - of all sorts - are sold in the US. This trend isn't stopping. EVs are all of the growth in the global auto market since 2017.	166×	1.8M	4.8k	837	250
5	Sep 6, '25	The first terawatt of solar was the hardest.	145×	1.6M	5.5k	871	499
6	Jul 19, '25	The most bizarre sort of fantasy. The markets don't want this. Utilities don't want this. Frackers certainly don't want this. No one who breaths air wants this. Drill baby drill, w	105×	1.1M	20k	976	906
7	Jul 10, '25	Grok 4 decides what it thinks about Israel/Palestine by searching for Elon's thoughts. Not a confidence booster in "maximally truth seeking" behavior. h/t @catehall. Screenshots ar	65.7×	718k	1.5k	229	225
8	Mar 13, '22	This is an incredible analysis of how Putin's invasion of the world will re-order the global world, largely for the better. By a leading Chinese policy thinker, in Shanghai, origin	42.6×	0	17k	5.9k	5.3k
9	Aug 9, '25	Never leaving this website, @tszzl	31.9×	349k	9.8k	158	442
10	Jun 4, '25	This is not acceptable in a free society.	22.3×	243k	705	115	30
11	Mar 10, '25	China burning its fleet (the largest in the world) in 1525 or so, under the Yongle Emperor. Retreating from the world and into itself. 400 years of falling further and further behi	17.9×	196k	3.5k	381	358
12	Jul 29, '25	Important life wisdom.	16.1×	176k	4.3k	256	350
13	Oct 11, '24	The Tesla event last night was pure vaporware. There's little evidence they can achieve what they claim. Meanwhile, you can get a ride in an autonomous Waymo today.	14.4×	157k	606	53	17
14	Nov 14, '24	Despite this election, I remain an optimist about America and the world. Humanity will continue to produce new ideas and new innovations to improve our lives. Good people will cont	14.3×	156k	327	21	35
15	Sep 23, '25	Talking to a senior South Korean government official. "We no longer consider the US a North American country. It's clearly Central American in governance."	13.5×	148k	933	136	89
16	Jul 20, '25	Responses on this survey don't at all reflect actual consumer behavior.	11.6×	127k	3k	26	34
17	Sep 3, '25	81% of NVIDIA's revenue comes from 6 customers. More than a third comes from just two customers.	11.3×	124k	934	94	162
18	May 14, '20	THREAD: Solar is plunging in cost faster than anyone, including me, predicted. Today I'm publishing an update of my solar cost forecasts from 2015, with more data & improved me	11×	0	4.7k	2.1k	516
19	Sep 8, '25	Canada. Mexico. Most of Europe. India. Now S. Korea. Burning down all those alliances.	10.9×	119k	683	110	60
20	Nov 16, '25	@Rich_Cooper Real men find intelligence sexy.	10.1×	110k	2.8k	27	13
21	Nov 7, '23	Biden is a remarkably under-rated President. He inherited a bloody mess both at home and overseas. His legislative accomplishments, the strength of the US economy vs all others, an	9.3×	102k	1.2k	119	11
22	Jul 31, '25	She is the past.	9.3×	102k	4.5k	274	84
23	Aug 10, '25	@pysolin Nope, I'm not an investor in them.	8.8×	96k	866	0	3
24	Aug 10, '25	@CalculatedNtry Arguably agriculture is the biggest environmental harm humans cause, because of deforestation and other conversion of wild land to pasture or crop land. And most of	7.6×	83k	3.6k	23	55
25	Feb 9, '19	Hey, it's Friday night. How about a twitter thread of unpopular opinions about climate policy generally, and the #GreenNewDeal specifically. Ready? Here we go. 1/	6.9×	0	2.5k	1.1k	392
26	Jun 18, '25	@Gundo_OG Very much agree on targeting or threatening officers' families. Don't agree on doxxing. If we give a group of people a legal monopoly on violence, the least we deserve is	6.8×	74k	2.7k	42	18
27	Sep 8, '25	I spent the last two weeks in India. The anger with Trump and the sense that he has insulted and betrayed India is hard to miss. I can only imagine how a face-oriented culture like	6.2×	68k	739	115	61
28	Mar 13, '22	The whole thing is incredible, and very clearly argued. Read the whole thing here in the English translation. It's not more than a 10 minute read.	5.9×	0	3.1k	667	594
29	Jun 27, '25	Nope.	5.8×	63k	865	80	38
30	Sep 7, '25	Great thread. @JDVance is actually quite intelligent. He's just completely unprincipled and willing to compromise the truth and much more in exchange for power.	5.4×	59k	1.2k	126	102
31	Jul 19, '25	Hell, Secretary of Energy Chris Wright himself (in the photo), a fracker for 30 years, who's sat on the board of a nuclear startup, doesn't even want this. Just the weirdist shit.	5.2×	56k	1.6k	32	26
32	Sep 7, '25	Two vital defense technologies for the US: 1. Batteries (for drones) 2. Ships (we're far behind China) So sure, let's chain up workers building a domestic battery plant! That come	5.0×	54k	1.2k	182	49
33	Apr 13, '22	1. A thread on climate hope: There is an extremely important and hope-filled climate paper out in Nature today. It finds that, if all the countries of the world fulfilled their cli	4.7×	0	2.2k	773	356
34	Feb 28, '22	Biden should propose a US energy bill as a pro-Ukraine, anti-Russia measure. Take the energy components of Build Back Better. They reduce US demand for both oil and natural gas, wh	4.6×	0	3.5k	409	33
35	Nov 6, '24	@WalshFreedom Not about what's right. Only about what your fellow Americans would vote for. Thanks for standing up for the right thing.	4.5×	49k	748	7	2
36	Sep 2, '25	This is, of course, complete nonsense.	4.4×	48k	2k	102	17
37	Mar 13, '22	He closes by saying that China has 1-2 WEEKS in which to make a choice. And basically says that China should choose the West, and use its influence over Putin to end the war and br	4.3×	0	3.2k	462	53
38	Aug 25, '22	This is an incredibly exciting time to be in climate tech and clean energy. I don't think most of the public have any idea how much is happening. The momentum is remarkable, in tec	4.3×	0	3k	404	123
39	Jun 18, '25	@hayburner49 If the mission is terrorizing people and spreading fear, yeah.	3.6×	40k	1.4k	9	7
40	Aug 8, '25	@krishnanrohit Log-linear scaling laws.	3.6×	39k	737	1	41
41	Dec 27, '14	Here's what De Blasio said to his son. Both respectful of police and true.	3.5×	0	1k	1.2k	0
42	Jun 28, '25	This makes the law firms that caved to Trump look even worse.	3.3×	36k	752	115	13
43	Jul 20, '25	@Gundo_OG There are no rare earths coming from that coal mine.	3.1×	34k	791	1	3
44	Mar 17, '20	Ventilator manufacturers can ramp up production. But they need assurance their products will be bought. Here's a perfect place for the US government to step in: Order the ventilato	3.1×	0	1.6k	631	40
45	Aug 22, '15	"Dystopian fiction is what happens when you take what happens to marginalized people and apply it to everyone" - @leeflower	3.1×	0	1.1k	1k	3
46	Mar 28, '18	Saudi Arabia planning 200GW solar development with Softbank. That's more solar than the entire world had installed until 2014. Insane.	3.0×	0	1.4k	629	17
47	Jun 1, '25	So Ukraine, once expected to fold in days, has sunk a quarter of Russia's Black Sea fleet and destroyed a third of Russia's irreplaceable strategic bombers. Gotta love and admire t	2.9×	31k	992	115	25
48	Mar 8, '17	MIT Media Lab is offering a $250k Disobedience Award for courageous disobedience in the service of society:	2.8×	0	1k	744	0
49	Nov 15, '15	How Arabs view ISIS.	2.8×	0	728	1k	0
50	Mar 13, '20	People are still saying coronavirus is no big deal. Italy, with less than 1/5th the US population, just reported 250 deaths in one day. And still rising. Scale that to the US (5.5x	2.6×	0	1.4k	505	21
51	Jun 13, '18	1. Solar just hit a stunning new record low price in the US. At these prices, solar kills coal and steals substantial share from Natural Gas. A brief thread.	2.6×	0	1.2k	564	31
52	Jan 8, '20	Okay. Here's a THREAD about divestment (and why it's driven mostly by economics, not good citizenship), theories of change in climate / energy, and the power of tapping into self-i	2.6×	0	907	468	185
53	Apr 2, '19	Solar, wind, and batteries are about to enter their third, most disruptive phase yet. There's reason to believe their growth will accelerate, not slow. & that we'll phase out f	2.5×	0	972	503	88
54	Sep 17, '25	Cancel culture is worse than back. It's no longer being driven by everypersons. Now cancel culture is coming directly from the White House and the DOJ. Ludicrously dangerous and un	2.5×	27k	851	57	18
55	Nov 19, '22	Confession: I just don't understand the obsession with induction cooking as a climate priority. The bulk of natural gas use, even in residential homes, is space heating and water h	2.4×	0	1.4k	102	84
56	Oct 12, '25	@TheL0wner No, she wasn't. Neither of Germany nor of the Netherlands	2.4×	26k	896	5	4
57	Sep 22, '16	I was wrong about solar. It's getting cheaper waaaay faster than I expected.	2.3×	0	852	668	0
58	Jun 18, '25	@ThisLadyloves7 Good one. I think I recall Jesus saying that in the gospels.	2.3×	25k	906	2	3
59	Aug 10, '25	@CalculatedNtry It surprises a lot of people to hear that. But almost all species loss caused by humans to date has been either from converting wild land to ag land (again, mostly	2.3×	25k	1k	3	20
60	Jan 12, '20	@KHayhoe @elonmusk I also published the math on how much land it would take to power the US entirely with solar. It's here, with references:	2.3×	0	1.6k	217	78
61	Dec 4, '14	Police are not soldiers. Their job is not to kill some 'enemy'. They're civil servants. Their job is to preserve our safety. And the peace.	2.2×	0	672	783	0
62	Mar 15, '20	O'Hare, DFW. I suspect this is happening at other airports. We mandates screening for inbound international travelers, but didn't have the resources prepared. So now these are infe	2.2×	0	960	528	9
63	Jul 8, '22	China has consistently deployed more solar and wind than it has promised, beating its clean energy targets. It may be on path to peak its carbon emissions sooner than its pledge of	2.2×	0	1.2k	342	78
64	Apr 29, '20	Solar in sunny places is just mind-bogglingly cheap now. The latest world record: 1.35 cents / kwh in Abu Dhabi. That compares to ~5 cent / kwh from the cheapest coal & gas pla	2.2×	0	1.2k	430	39
65	Dec 3, '14	Those who hold a legal monopoly on violence should be held to the highest standards for its use, not the lowest. #Accountability	2.2×	0	538	828	0
66	May 28, '17	India canceled 14GW of new coal plants this month, as solar prices plunge:	2.1×	0	876	521	0
67	Jan 6, '20	THREAD. These articles about climate impact of Google, FB, Netflix , etc are largely BS. Electricity is the sector that's going clean the fastest. And digital tech is rapidly using	2.0×	0	1.1k	345	53
68	Feb 9, '19	Why do carbon taxes fall short? Here's a quick tweet thread on their limitations. For context, I am a carbon tax advocate, was on the board of WA's 2016 revenue-neutral carbon tax	1.9×	0	677	267	194
69	Jun 12, '22	For anyone who's impressed by the Google AI engineer claim that their chatbots are sentient: What he's presenting is a highly edited transcript pieced together & re-ordered fro	1.8×	0	1.1k	250	69
70	Feb 11, '19	Electric buses are already responsible for several times more fossil fuel reduction than electric passenger cars. Few know this, but it's true. A remarkably fast-growing market.	1.7×	0	1k	323	13
71	Sep 22, '17	Since 2013, battery prices dropped 3x as fast as optimists expected. 20x faster than EIA forecast. (For @paolobacigalupi @AlexSteffen )	1.7×	0	607	463	2
72	Nov 8, '19	What Bill Gates actually said: - Taxes should be more progressive. - Doubling his tax rate sounds reasonable to him. - Tax capital gains like income. - Make it harder for the rich	1.6×	0	1.1k	238	32
73	Jun 18, '25	@Gundo_OG I do believe we need the ability for police to go undercover. It should be the exception, authorized for a limited set of cases where it's needed, rather than a norm.	1.6×	18k	624	8	4
74	Jun 18, '25	@LoveMyGrands8 I don't recall those kids kidnapping people off the streets. Maybe I missed that part.	1.6×	17k	1.1k	12	4
75	Jun 23, '21	We're entering the third, most disruptive, phase of clean energy. We've gone from: 1) Subsidy-dependent; to 2) Competitive for new power; to 3) Cheaper to build new solar & win	1.6×	0	884	275	35
76	Mar 13, '22	He writes that Putin's invasion of Ukraine will lead to: 1. Possibly an escalation of the war beyond Ukraine. 2. Certainly Putin's degeat. 3. The United States regaining leadership	1.5×	0	1.2k	136	18
77	Mar 13, '22	6. Further isolation of China, as the US, Europe, and also Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and Australia turn against China. "China will not only be encircled militarily ... but also c	1.5×	0	1.2k	135	10
78	Jun 9, '20	Hundreds of videos of police brutality, from @greg_doucette's Twitter thread, collected on one page here:	1.5×	0	562	323	104
79	Aug 9, '25	@Hamatsa50 "Without animals" is their key selling point.	1.4×	16k	1.2k	0	3
80	Feb 5, '22	MIT researchers create a material that's as light as plastics, but twice the strength of steel. 2D polymer sheets. Very cool.	1.4×	0	800	159	88
81	Feb 9, '19	We do NOT have momentum in reducing carbon emissions of agriculture or manufacturing. In agriculture, livestock methane emissions + deforestation to graze livestock are biggest pro	1.3×	0	666	239	19
82	Mar 13, '22	4. A new "Iron Curtain" falling globally, this time dividing democracies from authoritarian regimes, and extending into Asia. 4/	1.3×	0	1k	106	10
83	Mar 13, '22	The original Chinese text is on the same page (link at the bottom). Remember, this is written by a senior Chinese policy thinker in Shanghai. It's incredible. /fin	1.3×	0	1.1k	82	8
84	Sep 12, '22	Biden was right on Ukraine the whole time. While such a broad range of people, from Kissinger to Carlson, to Chomsky and the NYT editorial board, were wrong. I wish Biden had been	1.3×	0	1.1k	71	9
85	Nov 29, '19	This is the paradox. Do we want houses to be a form of investment? Or do we want housing to become ever more affordable? We can't have it both ways, America. I vote for the latter.	1.2×	0	789	161	20
86	Nov 23, '19	The #1 thing most climate activists & fossil fuel folks don't understand is the learning rate of clean energy. Every watt of solar, wind, batteries, & EVs deployed lowers f	1.2×	0	561	225	44
87	Feb 9, '19	The most effective climate policy of all time, for my mind, is Germany's early subsidy for solar and wind. These policies had impact not because of the emissions avoided in Germany	1.2×	0	761	177	7
88	May 14, '20	Solar costs are now decades ahead of what most forecasts predicted. Solar prices are now: - 7-10 years ahead of my 2015 forecast. - 10-15 years ahead of my 2011 forecast. - 30-40 y	1.2×	0	574	254	27
89	Nov 9, '16	Everything has really gone to shit since David Bowie died.	1.2×	0	582	289	0
90	Mar 13, '22	Postscript: 1. The original article by Hu Wei has been censored inside of China. 2. Another Chinese policy thinker has published a rebuttal. () Put together, these suggest that Xi	1.2×	0	721	134	40
91	Jun 14, '20	The US was once a magnet, drawing in many of the most talented people around the world. Now we've reversed that, pushing them away. It's such a self-inflicted wound. Such an unforc	1.1×	0	640	224	19
92	Mar 13, '22	5. Growth in the power of the West, in both military strength and the strength and importance of western institutions. Greater hard power and soft. 5/	1.1×	0	951	84	6
93	Aug 3, '20	This is massive. I've been a skeptic of vertical farming, as it's mostly used for niche produce. But if this is true & costs can be reduced, the potential to feed more people o	1.1×	0	616	149	63
94	Nov 22, '19	Climate change forecasts do not predict societal collapse or the extinction of humanity. People saying so are not adhering to climate science. And are not helping us get climate or	1.0×	0	596	172	13
95	May 3, '20	Okay, energy twitter. Solar costs are coming down faster than just about anyone, including me, forecast. So I'm committing to publishing an update of my solar cost forecast this co	1.0×	0	693	93	52
96	Jun 28, '20	Fracking, overall, has been an incredible money loser for the companies doing it. Meanwhile, the companies deploying solar and wind have made steady, predictable returns.	1.0×	0	571	187	22
97	Jun 15, '22	"During the last decade Houston has moved > 25,000 homeless people directly into apartments and houses. The overwhelming majority of them have remained housed after two years. T	1.0×	0	557	132	52
98	Dec 6, '19	We should keep every nuclear plant on earth operating for as long as safely possible. Even if you're hugely bullish on renewables (as I am) and skeptical on economics of new nuclea	1.0×	0	656	133	4
99	Mar 13, '22	Hu Wei is the vice-chairman of the Public Policy Research Center of the Counselor’s Office of the State Council, the chairman of Shanghai Public Policy Research Association, the ch	1.0×	0	774	84	6
100	Mar 13, '22	Naturally I found one typo and one error in use of words in this thread right after posting it. Grrr, @Twitter, when will you let me fix these? <ironically raised fist>	1.0×	0	854	27	5
101	Feb 9, '19	Solar & wind are now cheaper in many parts of the world than new coal or gas. That happened because Germany subsidized them when they were young and expensive. And because Ch	0.9×	0	571	130	6

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