Explains quite a lot

It would be cheaper to give every coal miner $5m every year than it is to keep them employed in coal mining. Not even joking; there are maybe 40k coal workers, but annual economic burden of U.S. coal is $200B-$500B (climate change, public health, water & ecosystem damage, dispatch inefficiency).

Having Conservatives attack a Trudeau for not having a national energy plan for Canada to only use its own oil to keep prices down makes my brain explode. Pack it up irony, we're done here. #canpoli #cdnpoli

LANDMAN is ripe for this because it routinely has Billy Bob Thornton go off on wholly-untrue pro-oil rants. His most famous one is about wind turbines not offsetting any carbon over their 20-year life cycle. In reality, they're fully offset within an average of 5.3 months.

ok can someone help me here #canpoli you have Premier Kinew out here saying "ok $30B and we'll build an LNG facility".. whos $30B? it sure isnt MB, and i doubt the feds are funding. so then it needs to be the gas industry, and considering Kitimat is still underway. who is going to fund this?

The effect of renewables on US *wholesale* prices is a bit stronger, but wholesale energy costs are a small component of the much more complex retail prices that voters pay on their monthly bills. Lowering retail electricity bills is possible but a serious technical and regulatory challenge.

Wait. We're already getting setup for the dirty 30s? It's not smoke. It's dust.

What drives me nuts is people LOVE to put words in your mouth. 8 couldn't be a more consistent supporter of carbon taxes and decarbonization. But if I say "we'll, that won't work in this sector" now all of a sudden I don't believe in carbon taxes?

A world without gas infrastructure? If we aggressively electrify the economy, green methanol could cover most of the remaining non-electric demand - without needing large-scale hydrogen or methane networks. New paper in Joule: "A Minimal Methanol Backstop for High Electrification Scenarios"

Yep, thats a federal gov't announcement all right. a) clearly don't want to get into pissing match with provinces on Section 92A. but hey.. lets pretend we can do things by "enabling, supporting, examining, ensuring" etc. basically "we'll help.. but you know.. not more in spirit then anything"

yeah no shock here from Carney on energy. More gas turbines "dont worry we'll allow offsets". I love how everyone is going to "offset". so who is actually going to make the reductions? because it sounds like everyone is banking on everyone else doing the reducing.

So I find international branding very interesting a 🧵. Currently on tiktok, the restaurant Cactus Club has two very different market positions in Can vs US. For Can it's "premium casual" which is essentially a slightly higher menu cost for more diverse food and atmosphere. Dress code? None 1/

Let me teach you something that much like ker ning that once you learn about it. You can't unsee. Let's talk wrong sized shutters. It drives me bonkers. Just either use the correct size or don't use them. Your house doesn't look stately. It just looks wrong. Fix your curb appeal (executiion not $$)

do people not realize that the Crusaders has their ass handed to them time and time again. it was mainly due to perfect storm of history (and pure dumb luck) that the 1st crusade actually worked.. and was the only one that was remotely successful (unless you count them crusading INSIDE Europe)

Real wages are falling.

100%. My book is about exactly this - how building energy systems to be seen rather than hiding them can change their politics. In LA, utilities built political legitimacy by designing their systems to be eye-catching, and by slapping big signs on everything they touched. This stuff works!

can they built transmission? how about advanced geothermal. based on the wording in the full article.. sounds like it would be covered.

*internal screaming intensifies* JUST GET RID OF ETHANOL. ITS JUST A SHITTY CONSTRUCTED DESTRUCTIVE SUBSIDY

Like most modern problems, i blame science. basically we have improved, especially materials science, so fast that people dont understand how things work anymore. Ask people how batteries work. let alone cheap AAs vs new sodium ion or solid state batteries. That gap shows in understanding.

can i get a breakdown between amount of said farmers growing food for human consumption vs corn for biofuels? because i think the 2nd number is a hell of a lot higher then people realize.

Why I refuse to take Christian Conservative Seriously (esp. American) let's all hear about how LGBT and rape victims are "evil" while they actively kill children. But hey, all they had to do was support rapist, pedophiles and abusers. Then again, birds of a feather flock together.

At this point Arbour is just padding her resume. also i will say the Supreme Court of Canada has had some world class female jurists. see Beverly McLachlin, Abella, L'Heureux-Dubé etc.

My preferred AI metaphor is actually Asbestos. - Seemingly magical properties - Developed and experimented with to make endless products - Poisoned countless communities in it's creation - Everything it was used for eventually becomes a toxic hazard to mitigate & it's in the fucking walls now

At >$0.80/l SoH markup, 34.2 MJ/l, and 0.07t CO2/Gj this morning’s equivalent CO2 price is … drumroll… ~$340/t CO2e 🤣

he lives in my neighborhood. hes got this awesome blend of pop culture and traditional indigenous art. hes also super nice guy.

There are easy answers to this. You can put Bluetooth, wifi and cell jammers if you don't think a ban on all tech (including smart glasses) won't work.

The article includes a few of the common discourses of climate delay (and actually specifically calls it delay) including: - whataboutisim/our emissions are too small - emphasize the downsides/cant afford -technological optimism - fossil fuel solutionism www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Using an unmarked crosswalk is not jaywalking. Drivers are required to yield to pedestrians at both marked and unmarked crosswalks. Pedestrians should always try to make eye contact with drivers and wait until a car has come to a complete stop before stepping out to cross the road.

For the life of me I don't understand why leagues don't use the system created by the PWHL

this is pretty apt. its best to think of them as the loser crazy uncle we all have to deal with.

sweet joke. did anyone else know the lead singer of Offspring has a PhD in molecular biology (disseertation on HIV and virus/host interactions)

the new answer to "what if the sun isnt up and the wind doesnt blow?" is "and what happens when the bombs go off and the ships can't sail? what about o&g then?"

The downfall of McDonalds began when the stopped "orange drink" in a cooler that you used to be able to get. That nectar of the gods served in triangle Dixie cups

i dont think #energysky 🔌💡 talks enough about PJM. like you cant have these gigantic supply shortages, an "auction" that can't clear properly, and a functional market. Likewise you cant pass on the entire AI capacity to residential rate payers. you are seeing socio-political forces break a market

China oil stockpile in context: a billion barrels more than the US. Also, Japan oil stockpile in context: bigger than all of OECD Europe. Note: *before* strategic releases in March 2026 www.eia.gov/todayinenerg...

people really need to think about how rationing would work. its just good risk management. Hospitals dont WANT to end up doing emergency triage, but they still plan for it. Governments really need to have robust and detailed plans for the "what if" we have to start rationing kwh, liters of fuel, etc

So then, shall we tax oil and gas companies at 78 per cent, like Norway does, but also allow them to deduct their industrial carbon taxes (which would, at $130 per tonne, average 50 cents per barrel)? Do we have a deal, Mr. Energy Exec? Or are you just complaining for the sake of complaining?

that sound you hear is the distribution system crying out in pain.

i didn't realize that meetings between PMs and Premiers had Ayahuasca. because thats the only way to explain this, frankly, absurd comment: "to start shipping LNG by 2030, would include construction of a new pipeline to Hudson Bay" www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

Btw this exists in the Canadian context. Whistleblower protection in MB pretty much only covers "probably illegal activities". What doesn't it cover? Mismanagement, incompetence etc. Crown CEO wasting millions? Not covered unless fraud. It's detrimental to public interest only good for politicians.

"The rise of extreme wealth is one of the clearest signs of this imbalance. In 1987, billionaires held wealth equal to 3% of global GDP. Today this tiny elite, just 0.0001% of the world population, owns the equivalent of *16%* of world GDP in wealth."

i first read this book in 2009, quillandquire.com/review/why-y..., and Rubin got snagged up by the shale revolution, but the premise i think still makes sense. That globalization needs cheap fuels and little concern for carbon. Without those, you need more localized economies. time for a book redo.

I can grumble about some politicians not knowing any better. But Carney? He knows this is bad economics, he knows this is performative, but he's doing it anyway. That's what pisses me off more.

I think the most useful lesson of economics is just "auctions work really well if you set them up properly". And honestly I try to do auctions as much as possible.

bsky.app/profile/shoe... oh look.

can a journalist ask this question: "as an economist can you please explain this decision? and how lowering the price will reduce demand? Wont the increasing of demand simply raise the price back up?"

So far this government has: - removed EV mandates (and moreover paused rebates to stall the market) - removed carbon tax - removed low carbon electricity policy - removed gasoline tax - removed oil and gas cap when does the Canadian Federal government do climate policy?

1) I want the verbatim AI prompt. 2) if this doesn't get you excommunicated what does? I have played more than enough Paradox games to know the line.

Average GOP Congressman: We err...uhhh...don't uh need uh...oversight of the DoD because uh...we trust the President to decide what's best Donald Trump: I AM JESUS CHRIST RETURNED TO EARTH THE POPE ISN'T MAGA AND HE'S WEAK ON NUCLEAR WEAPONS I AM GOING TO BUILD A HOTEL ON THE MOON