Because we have no desire to spend anymore time than necessary in a car.

Gavin Shoebridge@kiwiev.bsky.social · 5d ago

Crikey it actually worked! Just cooked a potato casserole in the electric Toyota Hilux during a road trip and it's freaking delicious. The oven dinged just as I arrived to the rapid charger. Why aren't we all doing this??!!

Ugh. Carbon zealots poised once again to derail community wind development in BC. Gas peakers do not displace wind development because they produce almost no energy. So, what displaces wind development in British Columbia? We already know the answer. vancouversun.com/opinion/op-e...

Opinion: Don’t Let B.C. Hydro’s gas stopgap become the plan

Push to extend life of two gas plants has reignited debate about how B.C. plans for energy reliability in a period of rapid electrification

vancouversun.com

I rarely criticize journalists, as it’s a thankless job at the best of times. But this article gives away at every possible opportunity that the author has no real sense of truly difficult times. Keep sipping the martinis.

Shannon Proudfoot@sproudfoot.bsky.social · last mo.

New from me: an attempt to unpack the story the PM is telling us about Canada - what it gets us, what advantages it gIves him, and what’s missing from it.

Oil was squeezed out of the electricity mix. But look it took about 20 years to halve and another 20 years to halve again, and two full 25-year service lives to disappear. Applying this logic to fossil cars with 20-year service lives means it would take 40 years from oil shock to all electric.

Felix Hamer • electricfelix@electricfelix.eurosky.social · 2mo ago

"Oil Was Squeezed Out From the Global Electricity Mix" #alwaysbecharging www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

And then they burned the furniture for fuel.

Sense Hofstede@sensehofstede.nl · 3mo ago

The Guardian: EU carmakers pave way for Chinese rivals as balance in market shifts – ‘Europe’s struggling carmakers have also spotted an opportunity to off-load their underused plants, even if it helps the companies eating up their market share.’

Brilliant and essential. Everyone should read @helenlewis.bsky.social's new cover story, out today: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

The Men Who Want Women to Be Quiet

A virulent form of misogyny has become the single most important force holding together the American right.

theatlantic.com

The NYT article mistakes anxiety as the cause of infertility rather than itself an effect of something deeper. What do these have in common? - social media - virtual learning - AI - gender identity - online gaming - Uber Eats Disembodiment. Want lower anxiety? Find peace in your embodiment.

Doug Saunders@dougsaunders.bsky.social · 3mo ago

The NYT has an interesting essay arguing that a big reason for lower fertility is the pernicious myth, popular among both left and right and promoted on social media, that these are times of decline and the future will be terrible. We need to counter this. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/07/o...

This fella just needs to get outside and enjoy the fresh air!

Doug Saunders@dougsaunders.bsky.social · 3mo ago

One form of math that’s beyond my ken is prob-of-precip math. My app says there’s a 65% chance of rain today, based on a single one-hour period, 6 to 7 pm, during which there’s a 35% probability. If there are 4 hours during which there’s a 25% probability, whats the daily? The mean? The mode?

Canadians who care about electrification and decarbonization would do well to start paying attention to the benefits of NOT buying into the high risk, high cost transCanada transmission mantra. Investments in storage, solar, wind, and distribution infrastructure need to be our focus here, too.

Jigar Shah@jigarshahdc.bsky.social · 3mo ago

The grid is not going to be fixed by waiting for transmission. It’s not going to be fixed by another round of utility-scale solar with no storage. It’s going to be fixed by putting intelligent, resilient, dispatchable infrastructure at the facility level so that the grid has demand flexibility

This reads pretty well sixteen months later.

Richard Hendriks@mar-hendriks.bsky.social · 2y ago

When will the British left realize that Starmer garnered fewer votes in the recent election than did Corbin in the prior one? The electorate shifted well right and only vote-splitting delivered power to Labour. Yet, the left is proceeding as though the electorate is with them. This won’t end well.

It’s not a stretch to say that had the nukes remained, fossil fuel share of electricity generation in Germany would be far lower today than 36%. It might even be as low as 6%.

Jan Rosenow@janrosenow.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Germany's electricity mix, 2000 vs 2025: Renewables: 6% → 62% Fossil fuels: 62% → 36% Nuclear: 30% → 0% Nuclear's exit was filled by renewables, not coal or gas. Want more of this content and more detail and links to sources? Subscribe to my new Substack: substack.com/@janrosenow

Many folks living outside of Canada have little notion about how cold our winters are here. The minimum winter temperatures in Oslo are warmer than the maximum winter temperatures in Edmonton. This has large implications for the uptake of affordable EVs in Canada.

Tom Haddon@tomh-analyst.bsky.social · 3mo ago

The fact you have raised the effect of cold climates on the viability of EVs and the effect on the battery under a thread showing the mass take up of EVs in *Norway* is not lost on me.

WOW: The UAE’s decision to quit OPEC looks like one of the biggest crude producers joining the “peak oil demand” camp. Here’s why: 🧵

Carney may be hoping for a nuclear renaissance but the cost to ratepayers may make it feel more like the dark ages.

Adam Radwanski@aradwanski.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I’m not really sure why there’s a need for a nuclear strategy atop an electricity strategy, the latter of which was supposed to be released months ago and has continually been pushed back. www.thestar.com/politics/fed...

The “wrong stuff” in Canada included building new coal in the 2000s, and new large hydro in the 2010s both of which proved economically disastrous. Is the current political push for large-scale interprovincial transmission in the face of rapidly declining storage costs a “fool me thrice” moment?

Simon Evans@drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 3mo ago

There is an "earthquake" going on in the energy system and we are at risk of building the wrong stuff, says Jackson, which would be like "building shopping centres just before Amazon"

Trump is the wrong guy doing the right thing the wrong way. Until American academic institutions return to the pursuit of truth, enable free speech and end cancel culture for good, academic freedom remains at risk. This is Harvard’s free speech ranking from FIRE. Improving but still abysmal.

Michael Clemens@mclem.org · 3mo ago

The United States now has the most government restrictions on academic freedom of any high-income country. www.chemistryworld.com/news/academi... Raw data from @vdeminstitute.bsky.social —> academic-freedom-index.net/research/Aca...

Spoke with Ric Bienstock about her new @CBC documentary "Speechless" for @CANADALAND. Has the progressive left eaten itself? Will we ever be sane again? podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...

Academy of Dunces: A Decade of Campus Censorship

Podcast Episode · CANADALAND · April 20 · 33m

podcasts.apple.com

Depeche Mode weren’t spreading blasphemous rumours. People are people after all. And some just want their own personal Jesus.

Seth Cotlar@sethcotlar.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Now that’s what they call a deus ex machina.

Yet, the more battery storage added, the lower the arbitrage becomes. In a functioning market, the arbitrage is the outcome of the added storage.

Jenny Chase@solarchase.bsky.social · 4mo ago

BNEF estimates the LCOE of a daily cycled utility-scale battery in China at $52/MWh, which means that has to be the arbitrage, which means *you need a working power market with sufficient volatility to give you that arbitrage*.

Ontario’s wind and solar procurement results announced today by the IESO. The province is trying to spin the results as a 73% lower levelized cost than the prior government’s (ill-conceived) feed-in tariff. But an average levelized cost of $87.80 is a bit underwhelming. ieso.ca/-/media/File...

Reading this reminded me of Canada’s flailing electrification efforts, still heavily dependent on 20th century tech (big nukes, big hydro and large transmission interties), while the electrification wars are nimbly won with batteries, solar, wind, and heat pumps. www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

Building Tanks While the Ukrainians Master Drones

Ukrainian drones have made artillery and armored vehicles look obsolete. Why is the world still buying them?

theatlantic.com

I’m reminded of an observation from an older couple I met in my youth who’d come of age during the 1930s. “We learned to treat driving and meat-eating as privileges and not rights. And our lives were so much better as a result.”

Dr. Jonathan Foley@globalecoguy.bsky.social · 4mo ago

This is one of the most important issues with the global food system, yet it is often ignored. Put simply, we don't actually grow much *food* in our farms around the world. Instead, we grow grossly inefficient animal feed and biofuels. drawdown.org/news/only-ha...

Food for thought for those touting expansion of Canadian interprovincial transmission interties for reliability benefits. www.utilitydive.com/news/utiliti...

Utilities lack tools to guard power grid from drone attacks

Power grid asset owners and operators have growing concern around their ability to protect critical assets from drone attacks as the U.S. government warns energy companies to prepare for possible Iran...

utilitydive.com

If you’re driving less than 25000 km/y (15000 miles/y) and you have access to home charging - even at just 120 V - you’ll almost never need or use a public charger. Install a 240 V charger only if it makes you sleep better.

Kevin Williams@gaytonausa.bsky.social · 5mo ago

i am tired of talking about DC fast charging. we should have invested in installing cheap, level 2 AC chargers everywhere where people park their cars. Or, hell — focused on the Euro-style reverse AC chargers (where the car plugs into the outlet, not vice versa) instead we got nothing.

So glad I grew up in a time when most people knew that when a bully bad-mouthed a boy over his masculinity or mannerisms that it was the bully’s behaviour that needed changing and not the boy’s body.

Ben Appel@benappel.bsky.social · 5mo ago

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

I’ve never understood the high levels of dispositional negativity in the climate crowd. Almost all climate mitigating technologies and activities entail cleaner air, less noise, healthier lives and lower costs. If fighting climate change isn’t making you happier seek your joy elsewhere!

UBC IRES@ires.ubc.ca · 6mo ago

☺️🌍 The fight against climate change is often framed as a sacrifice, Jade Radke's study finds presenting environmental action in a proactive light makes people more likely to act. "Clear, actionable alternatives make it easier for people to engage," Radke explains. news.mongabay.com/short-articl...

A friend of my parents used to smoke a pack of cigarettes a day. The day before he finally quit, he smoked two packs!!

Felix Hamer • electricfelix@electricfelix.eurosky.social · 6mo ago

speechless #alwaysbecharging www.reuters.com/business/aut...

This sounds like climate Puritanism. Needlessly advancing the replacement of contingency coal that rarely operates or acts only as reserve capacity makes little economic or ecological sense.

Ember@ember-energy.org · 6mo ago

China’s coal retrofits have helped meet flexibility needs so far but its benefits narrow after 2027. Without a fast scale-up of battery storage, China risks relying on additional emissions-intensive coal capacity that may be rarely used. ember-energy.org/lat...

How odd. The survey forgot to include… “your parents’ generation”.

Aaron Wherry@aaronwherry.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Well here's your problem.

The real echo chamber perspective is that reading widely is making liberals more tolerant. It’s not, a fact known for many years now. www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-swi...

Liberals are more likely to unfriend you over politics — online and off

Conservatives live in a social media echo chamber. But liberals are more likely to block people online.

washingtonpost.com

Doug Saunders@dougsaunders.bsky.social · 6mo ago

There is an echo-chamber problem. But it is only one side of the political spectrum who are climbing into echo chambers. The rest of us consume media for information and to shape our opinions with diverse voices. The right consumes stuff that affirms pre-existing affinities and validates prejudices