There has to be some type of French philosophy term when your kid calls you for help deciphering an Albert Camus quote!?

I find articles like these confounding… It’s not overtly biased but essentially feeds into plastic industry ethos (effectively becoming propaganda) by reducing a global wicked problem into a grade school “would you rather.” Ask better questions! www.seattletimes.com/nation-world...

I will for evermore referr to @chrisnelder.bsky.social as “the Taylor Swift of energy nerds”

Voting ease and good customer (voter) support alive and well in King County Washington. Here is the text received message for my municipal primary election ballot sent out and received back by mail. #vote!

Change! Irony in this story includes some old streetcar tracks that are slowing a new bus lane project. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Love me a good #salmonhabitat restoration! www.seattletimes.com/life/outdoor...

It has been interesting to see this former strip-mall masquerading as a city find itself turning into an actual place in my 25 years here in Washington. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

#evs don’t do this

𝗜𝗳 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗼𝗿 𝘀𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗸𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝗶𝘀 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝘁𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗼𝗿 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗼, 𝘄𝗮𝘁𝗰𝗵 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀. ✊🏻

This engineer goes grocery shopping and manages to take all of this home on a scooter. Watch to the end! Obviously there should be a tram or a bus for his route, but in the USA those are not as abundant as they should be.

“There is a lot going on” takes on new meaning when I saw this guy cruisin’ around my picnic table. Made me realize I’m missing quite a bit, and my near site without my glasses is not as good as it used to be!

Yard work day!

Enjoyed this podcast on parking reform which was actually about housing, daycare and small business in my home states of WA and MT!? Too much bipartisan, counter cyclical hope in one episode @volts.wtf! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/v...

A thoughtful piece with lessons well beyond the title topics. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/o...

Not a good news story. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

www.nytimes.com/interactive/... great quote! "...Dying, it’s funny. Everybody is afraid to die because it’s the unknown. But my mother died. My father died. My brother died. My sister died. My uncle died. My grandmother died. They’re all great people. If they can die then why can’t I die?... "

A responsive government story. More please. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

What does it look like to drill a 600 ft deep hole to push and pull energy out of the ground? Today I got to see the results of my excel spreadsheet and hand waving in real life! Catawba College, Salisbury, NC, USA

A guy from Seattle went to a bar in North Carolina… (that would be me.) He chatted with a local, white male republican who said his pick for president in 2028 is AOC. Interesting times!

This news makes me excited to visit a hometown hot spot again! www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Florida Sheriff hits child with his car in order to arrest him for riding his bike in the street www.sun-sentinel.com/2025/04/01/v...

No lack of disturbing things going on right now but this one hit me extra hard today. Not okay!https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/us/ice-tufts-student-detained-rumeysa-ozturk.html

A hard but important read. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

In most of the world, incinerators are industrial buildings surrounded by chain link fences; in Copenhagen, you can climb up and ski down an architectural marvel by Bjarke Ingels. But journalist Tim Smedley claims it has, in “under a decade since opening, gone from green icon to bête noire.”

“Things which don’t shift and grow are dead things” - Silko podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/v...

Rewrite this Headline: Trump's humiliation in the White House. Vance's humiliation in the White House. The United State's humiliation in the White House. Trump & Putin pursue oil, gas & power. Not peace. Zelenskyy is the only person who acted accordingly and should feel humiliated about nothing.

@costasamaras.com I thought you would appreciate that I decided that I will enjoy my eggs 4x more to keep my normal $/enjoyment ratio constant.

Three months of Bluesky has opened my brain in unexpected ways… deeper appreciation for mushrooms 🍄‍🟫 , space 🔭photography and birds 🦅 … a rethinking of pedestrian-focused design🚶🏽‍♂️, bicycle 🚲 infrastructure and trains 🚆 . Strangely, no nuclear ☢️ debates (feature not 🐞 !) what’s next?

[my 16-yr old hears 1st 2 mins of @volts.wtf latest podcast on YIMBYs] “that guy talks fancy” [pause] “but it’s good fancy!”

Appreciate King county (WA) elections going the extra mile to let me know my vote counts.

I have decided to blame all future woes on Biden DEI. My chapped lips, Biden DEI. My broken towel rack? Biden DEI. Hangnail? Biden DEI. I am sure this will be a direct path to my own peace and prosperity.

I'm excited to share this episode we recorded just before the holidays. Natasha was a bunch of fun to try to keep up with. If you need some positive counterpoint to an AI, robot-led Armageddon, this is a good start.

At first blush… pro this! www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Hey #energy and #datacenter wonks... trying to understand the physics driving cooling for high-performance compute. My loose understanding of the law of entropy is all energy eventually gets lost as heat. In a car friction -> heat in air & ground. What's the equivalent for computation?

Energy policy is foreign policy. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/01/w...

Fascinating and unsettling. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

I changed my last will and testament to lower my future emissions impact. No foot print involved. Proud of King Country, Wa for leading the way! www.seattletimes.com/pacific-nw-m...

A future Volts episode @volts.wtf? www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Beautiful skies over the cascades.

Well written article on a vexing issue! www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

On The Climate Brink: Stop emissions, stop warming: A climate reality check This is a crucial point because it determines how much warming is already "locked in" and effectively unavoidable. The answer is very little warming is locked in. Also, this is our 100th post! www.theclimatebrink....

Lefse!

I took the EV6 six up skiing today for the first time. It drove just like the old Subaru without the nasty oil burning oil smell even through the 7 inches of fresh snow! ⛷️+ ⚡️🚘=😃 #cleanrecreation

That which exists is possible!

If all Building decarbonization is capital planning, is all heavy duty truck decarb residual value financing? Enjoyed the latest podcast by @volts.wtf which prompted this line of thinking. www.freightwaves.com/news/behind-...

I have started trying to include the rejection of heat energy from chilled water systems in my sankey like diagrams

My dog only sings in f minor

Realizing my 16-year-old doesn’t really know how to buy gas!

There is always a way forward. Everywhere. Together. If you need a bit of climate hope, watch this video that just went live at COP29. youtu.be/qjDLp8raebk