new post on the rationality of resistance in the context of the appalachian “hydrogen hub” phases.substack.com/p/decarboniz...
Decarbonization is not its design
On the rationality of resistance to the (now-beleaguered) Appalachian Regional Clean Hydrogen Hub project
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🚨 The fracking boom has transformed the US onshore oil and gas industry — but not in the way proponents promised. Our new briefing explores these shifting frontiers of fossil capital. 🖊️ @arneness.bsky.social www.common-wealth.org/publications...
New Frontiers of Fossil Capital: Oil and Gas Labor, Global Energy Markets, and Decarbonization after Fracking
For a decarbonization policy framework to be effective, it must face the tenacity of fossil capital head-on.
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one of the most baffling industry events i have ever attended phases.substack.com/p/a-progress...
A Progress Report on the March of the Intellect
Or an Evening at a Data Center Town Hall in Southwestern Pennsylvania
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phases.substack.com/p/the-price-... part 2 mostly just reading labban on OCC and uneven value transfer, with particular attention to what he calls the 'negative territoriality' of extractive industries/primary production
The Price-Value Discrepancy in Marx's Capital and Its Relevance for Understanding Oil, Part II
The Result of Variations in the Organic Composition of Capital on the Transfer of Value through Exchange
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phases.substack.com/p/the-price-... Part 1 of 3 posts on price, value, and oil. this part is just about getting the transformation problem out of the way
The Price-Value Discrepancy in Marx's Capital and Its Relevance for Understanding Oil, Part I
Notes on The Transformation Problem
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tooze is technically wrong but spiritually correct re: wind/solar/batteries. conversely his opps are technically deceptive (at best) and spiritually dead
phases.substack.com/p/ai-data-ce... some head-clearing on our dismal situation in Appalachia
AI Data Center Development in Frackland
By Way of a Brief History of Failed Attempts to Regionalize the Natural Gas Commodity Chain
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it’s just kind of insane to me to be in the midst of the fed govt clawing back green subsidies, remanding renewables permits, and ofc the AI Menace and be like soying over a marginal increases in solar power on the texas grid lol. like brother what is going on in your brain rn
phases.substack.com/p/copy-price... i'm still doing this bullshit if you even care
Prices, Value, and Oil - Revisiting the Negative WTI Price Crash
Or, what is a Yuányóu Bǎo?
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bluesky update: some thoughts on fressoz's new book, which offers a thesis i have identified with for a long time now. hearing someone else say it provides a generative opportunity for critique/self-critique phases.substack.com/p/symbiosis-...
Symbiosis and Conflict
Summarizing and commenting on Jean-Baptiste Fressoz's More and More and More: An All-Consuming History of Energy (2024)
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i get liking teams and rooting for them but having a sports team you like lose ruin your day or really caring about a rivalry to the point that it makes you actually angry is soooo soy
business idea: gas station where they treat you like a race car driver and have like five guys run out to you. one guy would fill up your tank obviously but not sure what the other 4 would do yet
sometimes thanksgiving day convo gets so counterrevolutionary you just gotta hit unc with the fluoride stare 😶😂
great to see all the yimby cretins slither over here and frame things like cumulative impact assessments and community engagement as cumbersome red tape. the irony is these things DO streamline development by providing public pressure with a formal release valve to delegitimize any further dissent
i regularly attend oil and gas industry events and they always roll out a guy from EPA or one of its state-level equivalents to talk about 'permitting reform'. PA's DEP is already working on outsourcing all air quality permit review to a pool of """"3rd-party"""" industry consultants
interconnection queue backlog is not primarily a regulatory problem it is a problem of profitability and of leasing. loosening permit reqs is not going to disincentivize behind-the-meter generation distributed via long-term power purchase agreements, which is the major driver of renewable buildout
But yeah on the permitting reform front specifically—I’d really encourage people to adopt a “profit maximizing” vs “cost minimizing” lens before making claims that ceding a bunch of power to fossil interests is “worth it,” even if you don’t care about the many, many other issues
the best part of going home is not seeing my family it is getting veg kimchi broth ramen from the place near my mom’s house
don’t trust anyone who immediately identifies my left-handed eating
i encourage all of you to listen to this every single day until christmas open.spotify.com/track/6dbadH...
Cold White Christmas
Casiotone For The Painfully Alone · Etiquette · Song · 2007
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tried to watch megalopolis but the illegal streaming site kept failing. i took that as a sign
restraightened all my rebar just to have my new building collapse 😕
i’m the model blue sky dweller i just blindly follow all on every starter pack and block all in every block list
