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Ramez Naam

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Ramez Naam

@ramez

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

Seattle

Joined May 2007

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Ramez Naam
@ramez
Nov 14, 2024
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 continue to come together to improve the world. And the political tide will turn. We'll make it so.
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Ramez Naam
@ramez
Oct 11, 2025
Harboring Anne Frank was illegal too.
Bill Melugin
@BillMelugin_
Oct 11, 2025
Regardless of how one feels about immigration policy, according to U.S. law, this is a felony. Harboring of aliens. 8 USC 1324.
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Ramez Naam
@ramez
Aug 9, 2025
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 I've seen, this has the best path I've seen to get full cost parity w/ the animal product.
Shadow of Ezra
@ShadowofEzra
Aug 9, 2025
A Bill Gates backed company is now producing butter with no animals, no plants, and no oils — it’s made from carbon. The company is working with restaurants, bakeries, and food suppliers to incorporate their carbon-made butter. Mainstream media reports it has the “blessing and
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Ramez Naam
@ramez
Jun 18, 2025
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.
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Ramez Naam
@ramez
Jul 19, 2025
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, while vacuous, at least nods to commodities in demand.
U.S. Department of Energy
@ENERGY
Jul 19, 2025
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Ramez Naam
@ramez
Mar 13, 2022
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, originally written in Chinese. Brief thread, but read the whole thing. uscnpm.org/2022/03/12/hu-… 1/
uscnpm.org
Possible Outcomes of the Russo-Ukrainian War and China's Choice - U.S.-China Perception Monitor
Hu Wei is the vice-chairman of the Public Policy Research Center of the Counselor's Office of the State Council.
Ramez Naam
@ramez
Aug 9, 2025
Never leaving this website, @tszzl
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Ramez Naam
@ramez
Sep 6, 2025
The first terawatt of solar was the hardest.
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Ramez Naam
@ramez
May 14, 2020
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 methods. Tl;dr: Solar is on path to become insanely, world-changingly cheap. rameznaam.com/2020/05/14/sol… 1/20
Solar’s Future is Insanely Cheap (2020)
From rameznaam.com
Ramez Naam
@ramez
Jun 18, 2025
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. via @electricfelix
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Ramez Naam
@ramez
Jul 31, 2025
She is the past.
U.S. Department of Energy
@ENERGY
Jul 31, 2025
She's an icon She's a legend And she is the moment✨
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Ramez Naam
@ramez
Jul 29, 2025
Important life wisdom.
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Ramez Naam
@ramez
Feb 28, 2022
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, which hurts Putin. Add support for further LNG exports. Balance it over 10 years for Manchin. Go.
Ramez Naam
@ramez
Mar 13, 2022
Replying to @ramez
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 bring him to heel. It says that China is the only nation that can. I don't disagree. 7/