Unfortunately, a stunned Paris is how they all got into this whole mess to begin with
Pop Crave@popcrave.com · 4w ago‘The Odyssey’ women Zendaya, Anne Hathaway, Lupita Nyong'o, and Charlize Theron stun in Paris.
Colin Meehan
@colinme.bsky.social
@WWF always looking for ways to accelerate the transition to clean energy. Former DOE/Texan now near Baltimore. Sometimes technical analyses, often advocacy. Every once in a while parenting/biking/music/mental health/adventures in a blended family.
Pop Crave@popcrave.com · 4w ago
New report finds that electrifying US industry could produce enormous GDP & job growth.
Powering American Industry: The Economic Opportunity of Industrial Electrification - Renewable Thermal Collaborative
Industrial electrification represents a major opportunity to strengthen American manufacturing, support economic growth, and reduce manufacturers’ exposure to volatile fuel costs. A new report from th...
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The price of gas is OVER $4.00. Here's how state and local lawmakers can step up to cut costs: 🔌 Speed up electric vehicle sales 🚲 Promote safe biking and walking 🚌 Fight for affordable, reliable transportation 🏘️ Legalize multi-family homes and ADUs climatecabineteducation.org/transportati...
Transportation 101 Policy Guides - Climate Cabinet Education
Transportation 101 Policy Guides by Climate Cabinet Education: practical, accessible guides on transit planning, active mobility & multimodal policy for climate action.
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Translation: carbon dioxide emissions from electricity generation in Germany fell 58% between 1990 and 2025.
Leonhard Gandhi@energy-charts.bsky.social · 4mo agoDie Kohlendioxidemissionen aus der Stromerzeugung in Deutschland sind zwischen 1990 und 2025 um 58 Prozent gesunken. www.energy-charts.info/downloads/St...
"Gotta compete with China!" they say ... about everything but this.
Canary Media Inc.@canarymedia.com · 5mo agoSolar, batteries, wind, and EVs are all surging around the globe. Here’s where all that tech is made:
The Biden Admin directed hundreds of billions to clean energy/manufacturing. Did these investments shift public opinion? We find that these projects are visible but not traceable: People notice nearby investments, but connect them to Governors, not Biden. Thread 👇 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Just a few weeks ago, the administration cancelled all remaining department of energy grid resilience projects in Puerto Rico. All of them. www.latitudemedia.com/news/the-end...
The end of DOE’s grid work in Puerto Rico
The Trump administration has canceled all eight of the remaining awards devoted to distributed energy on the island.
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The Abundance movement often points to environmental groups as the obstacles to building. But who actually files the lawsuits blocking projects? It’s not environmental groups. It’s been lawyered-up HOAs protecting property values all along. Regulation by litigation is the problem.
Of all the sins of AI, this is an unexpected and deeply annoying one
Ash G.@kilomonster.bsky.social · 8mo agoFunny animal videos no longer being trustworthy just fucking sucks all around. I love the wonder of animal behavior and what it says about the experience of being alive. It's because it happened in reality that it's so fun. It's not fun if it was just made up. There's no wonder there.
This is your annual reminder that if you are in the US and have FSA funds that you won't use, Menstrual products are covered by FSA funds and can be donated to food pantries and shelters.
Billionaire philanthropist MacKenzie Scott donated $7.2 billion this year in her biggest ever giving announcement. The gifts bring her total philanthropy to $26 billion over the past half decade. bloom.bg/3KHQfHc 📷: Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images
People used to say, with great confidence, that variable renewables could never safely provide more than 5% of grid power. That estimate has crept up ever since, though the "great confidence" part never wavers. Anyway, about China ...
SPP (the Southwest Power Pool, serving the central Great Plains states) approved a new regional transmission plan with $8.6 billion in projects, including ~950 miles of ultra-high voltage 765 kV lines, and with estimated benefits 18X the costs www.spp.org/documents/75... More of this please! 🔌💡
Sweeping energy-related legislation that backs the use of big batteries to help make wind and solar power more effective cleared the Senate Thursday night and is headed to Gov. JB Pritzker, who signaled he would sign the measure into law.
Gov. JB Pritzker set to approve energy bill boosting battery storage for renewables despite debate over costs
Democrats said moves would eventually lower electric bills in Illinois, while Republicans noted a surcharge on consumer bills would partly back battery installations.
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Scoop: A court ruling last week quietly derailed battery storage development in more than half of L.A. County after activists successfully sued to kill a 400 megawatt battery in a wildfire risk area @heatmap.news #greensky #energysky
How a Tiny Community Blocked Battery Storage in Over Half of Los Angeles County
Much of California’s biggest county is now off limits to energy storage.
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There are nearly 23 gigawatts of thermal plants offline for maintenance as Texas continues to have way above average heat. To pick up the slack, batteries are deploying for longer periods; they discharged over 3,000 megawatts for 2+ hours Tuesday evening. 1/2
This is our work! Nice to see it getting picked up
road.cc@roadcc.bsky.social · 10mo agoProtected cycle lanes =/= Painted lines
60. There is enough land for lots of solar (most studies suggest 1-2% of land would be required to generate all the solar most countries can use). There’s also loads and loads of roofs, so let’s see those who oppose ground-mounted solar support higher-cost roof-mounted solar.
14. Low power prices may be great for consumers but they are very bad if you're trying to build more clean power plants. Without demand-side flexibility measures, the energy transition will fail before fully pushing fossil fuel out of the mix. Which is what we must do.
If I had explain American history in one sentence, I could do worse than "John Brown was hung for treason, but Robert E. Lee was not."
Jacobin@jacobinmag.bsky.social · 10mo agoJohn Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry began on this day in 1859.
It’s been almost six years for me, and much of this resonates if a little more blurred, especially as we prepare to leave for Austin where she is buried. I’m lucky my son and I have a close relationship to my wife’s family but the grief, the rhythms, the blurring are very much a part of my life.
Data Bear 🏳️🌈@dataandpolitics.net · 10mo agoThree years after my husband died, I’m still trying to prove our life together was worth losing his family. What I live with isn’t forgetting — it’s the blurring of memory. On the third anniversary, I wrote about grief, memory, and continuing without answers. www.dataandpolitics.net/the-blurring/
The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And nearly 20 children, two of whom have cancer www.propublica.org/article/immi...
More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.
The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...
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When the power went out in Spain this spring, many people immediately pointed the finger at the country's solar and wind power as the cause. That wasn't the trigger, but a new survey finds that all that misinformation? It had an impact. Read more here, only on @npr.org 🎧⬇️
After Spain's blackout, critics blamed renewable energy. It's part of a bigger attack
When millions lost power in Spain and Portugal this spring, some were quick to blame too much solar and wind power. That wasn't the cause, but the misinformation had an impact.
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Lots of people think Dems are forcing these dirty coal plants to “retire” with policies and regs. It’s simply not true! Coal plants are incredibly inefficient to run compared to gas and renewables. This New England plant didn’t “retire” — the company closed it because it was too expensive!
Canary Media Inc.@canarymedia.com · 10mo agoNew England has said its final goodbye to coal power. Here’s how a transition to gas — and now renewables — helped shut its last plant down early.
China and the US going in opposite directions now when it comes to energy. And it looks like China is poised to win… www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
China Is Beating the US in the Battle for Energy Export Dominance
China’s exports of clean energy technology hit a record in August, with $20 billion shipped globally.
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