Rules are rules, amirite?

There's something seriously wrong with Katie Miller. She and Stephen are clearly soulmates. But that begs an important question: how can people without souls be soulmates? slate.com/news-and-pol...

Today Elon Musk said he doesn't care about the $1 trillion payday. He just wants 25% control of Tesla so no one can take away the robot army he plans to build. Unreported was how much ketamine he took before the conference call. electrek.co/2025/10/22/e...

Anyone who has criticized No Kings as "cringe" has surrendered the privilege of having their opinions taken seriously. Everyone else, please act accordingly.

Apparently, notwithstanding what the NYT thinks, high voltage DC transmission is fine. The NYT still does some real journalism, but one has to sort out what is real from what is serving a right wing agenda. cleantechnica.com/2025/10/12/c...

Yay! New England gen is still about 50% fossil, but the vast majority is CCGT gen running on natural gas, which is by far the cleanest & most efficient fossil gen available. NE has an exit plan for natural gas that is led by offshore wind and hydro from Quebec, but Trump is screwing with it.

Banality of evil and all that. Bullshit - coal mine operators already know how to do methane monitoring . It's not even that expensive, esp against the risk of blown up houses and dead people. Probably know they'll find gas everywhere if they start looking. insideclimatenews.org/news/0310202...

After decades, radioactive brine from oil and gas wells is still being used as road de-icer in PA. And the GOP position is that it's fine. If this material was produced in any other way, it would require secure disposal. insideclimatenews.org/news/0110202...

Everyone is afraid to talk about how beef production is an important driver of global warming. Although fossil fuels are a bigger problem, animal ag in general and beef/dairy in particular are big emitters of greenhouse gases. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

"Look, we live in an era of dueling realities where little is certain, but when you complain your life was threatened by a stopped escalator, one thing you are definitionally not is a strongman." www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

Yeah, motherf*ckin' wind farms. youtu.be/3uEpdIKzspA?...

IANAL, but you didn't need to be one to predict this outcome. “the height of arbitrary and capricious government conduct.” Everyone with the resources to fight should be fighting in court. Trump admin can be pushed to the wall with legal challenges. electrek.co/2025/09/22/i...

It's a bit of a cliche now, but again Trump is acting in a way indistinguishable from a Russian agent that somehow became president. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

This is potentially catastrophic and not something that we can just adapt to. Whether the probability is currently estimated to be high or low, the potential result is so bad that we must work to avoid it.

Elements of the US far left are toxic and this article explains why the far left is an utter failure in US politics except to help elect Repubs. There are some good people in the DSA and it could be a force for positive good, but it isn't right now. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Fucking sue them, Orsted. You will win. Force the govt to burn resources defending the indefensible. Make them look like idiots. www.offshorewind.biz/2025/08/23/b...

So much of right wing culture shit is just imaginary. No one on the left is offended by sororities making dance videos. We're also not looking down on white right wingers for living in small towns or listening to country music. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

If you needed proof that Tesla is a malign actor, well, here it is. electrek.co/2025/08/04/t...

Another great explainer piece that people in the Gaza protest movement really should read. www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

Should be required reading for people in the Gaza protest movement. www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

Right wingers are getting a little overwrought right now

Now Republicans want to waste $1.5B selling off brand new EV delivery trucks, just because they're EVs. BTW, the bidding process for these EV trucks occurred under the direction of Trump-appointed Postmaster DeJoy. electrek.co/2025/06/24/r...

Republicans in Congress and Trump have have dropped a dead-on-arrival "law" to signal how they want to make US air dirtier. electrek.co/2025/06/12/r...

Nothing to see here. Just China using its leverage to punish the US over Trump's tariffs. cleantechnica.com/2025/06/06/a...

If he hasn't done it already, this would be a really good time for Musk to plan a long vacation in a country without an extradition treaty with the US. Or maybe he should just get on his private jet now even without a plan. 🤔

Who knew there's a dark-roof lobby? How the little-known ‘dark roof’ lobby may be making US cities hotter www.theguardian.com/environment/...

It's weird that it isn't a bigger story that Trump's financial corruption as president is probably greater than all previous presidents combined. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

I also worked in factories during my college years and it is not something to romanticize. Reshoring manufacturing just for the sake of creating manufacturing jobs is not good policy, because it will create a lot of bad jobs and not very many good ones. slate.com/life/2025/05...

This story appears to be underreported (and it's admittedly baby steps), but this *should* be a stake through the heart of Tesla's stock valuation. The idea that competitors Hyundai and Boston Dyn will in 2025 have bipedal robots working in an auto... interestingengineering.com/innovation/h...

You know that trade war Trump started? China has already won it. We have never had a stupider president. cleantechnica.com/2025/04/05/c...

Since the 1980s, every new EPA reg has needed a rigorous cost-benefit analysis, and it's well known that EPA errs on the side of overestimating compliance costs and underestimating benefits to help stand up to industry challenges. So benefits are likely even greater and costs lower than presented.

It feels like beef industry climate denialism as been at least as effective as fossil denialism. You can see this in the comments of clean energy sites. People who oppose fossil fuels turn into beef deniers when the subject is agricultural methane. insideclimatenews.org/news/1403202...

Example 159,835,239 of "privatize the profits and socialize the costs." insideclimatenews.org/news/1403202...

Tesla now below its price on election day! Next goals: - below $213.65 (6-month low) - below $142.05 (1-year low)

US gasoline consumption in 2024 was the same as in 2004, despite a record number of miles driven last year. Growth of EV sales and better gas mileage for ICE vehicles are cutting gasoline demand! Peak year was 2018. wolfstreet.com/2025/03/04/u...

Countdown continues to Tesla stock losing all its post-election gain. Tesla went on a tear after 11/4, despite the only news being negative. People were already predicting falling YOY sales and profits, and Trump ran on policies bad for Tesla. The run-up made no sense, but the fall sure does.

Interesting EV vehicle-to-grid pilot is being launched in MA. electrek.co/2025/02/28/m...

Waste PV panels and old turbine blades will never rival coal ash for waste tonnage or env harm, but it's still great to see innovation in the recycling space. A cool thing is that this unit can be brought to the panel site to reduce truck traffic. And the recovered glass can substitute for cement.

10 new EV battery plants are scheduled to come on line this year in the US, bringing US capacity to 421.5 GWh/yr. That's enough to build over 5 million BEVs per yr, which would cover about 1/3 of the new car market! arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

We still have a long way to go, but in solar generation we are seeing the fastest global deployment of a generation technology in history.

We need to make progress in many sectors in order to prevent global warming. Rice farming is a significant source of methane emissions (though much less than beef production), so this is big news. And better than average yields can help feed more people on less land.

Massachusetts does have a pretty impressive amount of solar for a small, densely populated state. But the administrative burden of permitting is higher than it needs to be, delays projects, and adds substantially to system costs.

We can't count on the US govt to protect the climate now, so those of us who care are largely on our own. Here's a reminder that beef is, by far, the worst common food for greenhouse gas emissions. Tofu is the best choice for complete protein, but dairy and other meats are much better than beef.

Kids of the early 2000s (and their parents) might remember the Perry the Platypus Inaction Figure. Tagline "It does nothing." I think we might need a version for R congresscritters. 🙄 phineasandferb.fandom.com/wiki/Perry_t...

If enhanced geothermal proves out, it will be an important part of reaching net zero emissions. It would also mostly close the door on building new nuclear power capacity in the western US. For all the nuclear industry, the time is nigh to shit or get off the pot.

New England has a pretty remarkable amount of installed solar and solar production given (let's face it) mediocre solar insolation in the region. If it can work here, it can work nearly everywhere.

New law in Massachusetts streamlines permitting and appeals for renewable energy and will hopefully accelerate progress towards a state goal to get 40% of electricity from renewables by 2030. cleantechnica.com/2024/11/26/m...