Can’t prove climate change is real is there’s no data proving it, ammirite

On a fascinating call. Broadly, the impact of a mass roll-out of heat pumps on the French grid is negligible once you factor in gas -> heat pumps, renovations, rebound effects, direct electric -> heat pumps. Annual consumption goes up or down with each factor but largely cancel each other out.

New report says that replacing fossil fuel-fired "peaker plants" can help Mass. meet climate goals. Advocates say that these power plants are the "worst offenders with the dirtiest per unit of energy produced." More from @bhaamatib.bsky.social

An updated look (through 2024) at how much faster the land is warming (where we live) - this point can be obscured in the standard global mean temperature plots... 🧪⚒️ + Data from NASA GISTEMPv4: data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/ + Download graphic at: zacklabe.com/climate-chan...

a great idea for a province that is shutting down coal plants in the next few years. #nspoli #novasky #halisky #energysky #energytwitter www.canarymedia.com/articles/bat...

Thank you @DFarber (maybe not on BlueSky yet?) for giving us hope that climate laws may not be easy to get rid of. legal-planet.org/2024/12/02/y...

Grateful for the rain this week That put down a forest fire in the Berkshires, which was one of many active burns popping up lately in the region But the Northeast US’s 40 million acres of forest has issues that can create catastrophic fires, NYer reports

At the public hearings for this atrocity, it was even pointed out by a hydrogen researcher that hydrogen is not going to be the answer ... and this #peaker got built anyway. It also wasn't made clear when the old existing #peaker would be shut down. So far, no movement on that.

@massgovernor.bsky.social we need to speed up our "transformation" off fossil gas as well! @nofrackedgasinmass.bsky.social www.theenergymix.com/quebec-to-ba...

It looks like this North American porcupine was trying to take advantage of free tuition at Berkshire Community College. youtu.be/5Wd1lS6gqrc

"Battery storage capacity in the United States has surged from almost nothing in 2010 to 20.7 gigawatts in July 2024, equivalent to the output of about 20 nuclear reactors." www.theenergymix.com/u-s-battery-...

Corn is a Shitty Solar Panel: 160x more energy from an acre of solar than an acre of corn ethanol #energy #solar #biofuel #climate leahy.substack.com/p/how-solar-...

How much carbon are humans currently producing, how has this changed over the last year, where are our emissions going, and what do we expect in the future? You do not want to miss this thread by the leader of the global carbon budget project ⬇️

Better than installing separate battery storage - make use of all the EV batteries! School buses are perfect. Usually sitting around at mid-day and then peak, they could soak up the sun and release back to the grid. www.utilitydive.com/spons/naviga...

Sunny day. Just think if the grid could use storage to soak up that power and provide it back at the evening peak.

Why are investor-owned utilities so slow to adopt these mechanisms? www.utilitydive.com/spons/unleas...

With the fossil fuel industry crossing its fingers for a Trump win in November, the American Exploration and Production Council has crafted a detailed plan for reversing environmental policies enacted under the Biden administration. By Evan Halper and Josh Dawsey...

2023 saw planet-heating pollutants in atmosphere hit record levels (yet again) - Carbon dioxide concentration has increased by more than 10% in just two decades, reports World Meteorological Organization #ClimateCrisis www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Having an all-electric building means not having to worry about being killed by combustion gases, but here we are still required to have carbon monoxide detectors anyway.

In the Berkshires, we need our investor-owned utilities to welcome battery storage to participate in the grid with vehicle-to-grid and home battery-to-grid options. Instead, they pretend only vehicle charging is possible. www.axios.com/2024/10/22/s...

Carbon offsets used by corporations around the world to lower their reportable greenhouse gas emissions are “ineffectual” and “hindering the energy transition”, according to more than 60 leading climate change scientists.

Great book. We talked with Ben for the podcast last year and learned so much! thewaroncars.org/2023/12/19/1...

Oil & gas mining is killing biodiversity - "Conkouati-Douli national park is one of the most biodiverse protected areas in the Republic of the Congo – yet more than 65% of the park is covered by oil and gas concessions, according to a new report by Earth Insight." www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I like watching Form Energy expand. Multi-day, non-toxic battery storage. www.utilitydive.com/news/iron-ai...

"The nuclear power industry has accumulated nearly 100,000 metric tons of radioactive waste that need to be deposited in a place that could be safe for millions of years." So let's create more waste that we have no solution for? redgreenandblue.org/2024/10/22/s...

From the fuel companies' perspective, the big problem with electricity is that anyone can make it and anyone can store it. That makes it hard to make money selling stuff. Instead, you become a service company - not something fuel companies appear to embrace. www.theenergymix.com/hydrogen-pro...

Because keep in mind that almost none of that load growth is to handle smart meters, smart thermostats, or IoT appliances. Almost all of it is for a convenience (chatbot style LLMs) that none of us even knew we needed less than two years ago.

REALLY wild graphic buried in the back of this paper examining why CCS is so slow The light bars are what was planned for CCS, and the dark bars are **what actually became operational** Close to a 100% failure rate, for most applications (!!!!!!) subscriber.politicopro.com/eenews/f/een...

Another sun-filled autumn day, and ISO New England is forecasting that electricity demand during the middle of the day will be a full 2 GW below what it was in the middle of the night. 😎 🔌💡

New to BlueSky. BEAT's mission is to protect the environment for wildlife in support of the natural world that supports us all. Reducing climate disruption is a key focus. Will miss the #EnergyTwitter gang. Hoping to find lots of energy transition and wildlife folk on BlueSky.