TIL medical sutures are often made from cow or sheep intestines. This is horrible and my heart goes out to all those affected. For those who understand the climate impacts of a red meat heavy diet it might seem as if nature is fighting back by unleashing a molecule that makes us all allergic to it.

Battery is such a game-changer, and nowhere is that more obvious than in California: 2019: daytime solar☀️ 2025: dispatchable solar☀️☀️☀️

Direct air carbon capture is the kind of thing (like going to the moon in the 1960s) that is perfectly suited to be a public, government funded science initiative. There is no sustainable market for these services in 2026 but we need to be doing the research nonetheless.

I’m at an energy industry conference in the Pacific Islands this week. Nearly every speaker—including a cabinet minister—committed to more rapidly advancing decarbonization as a way to avoid future geopolitical price shocks, with explicit reference to the irrational foreign policy of the U.S.

The spokesperson for Total is quoted saying the company had already decided not to go ahead with the project. In that case they would have simply forfeited the lease payment. So why did we just pay them $1 billion if they weren't going to build it anyway? I just don't get it. What am I missing?

Battery packs fall below $100/kWh threshold for EV cost parity, as oil jumped to $100/barrel. "The dominant lithium-iron-phosphate variety now costs $81 per kilowatt-hour, against $97 the previous year and $120/kWh at the end of 2021." EV is way out! www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti... #energysky

Correct. On the vast majority of the world's land, solar would produce 100x or more the useable energy per hectare vs. bioenergy. Meaning 1 hectare for energy, 99 hectares left over for food. (Also, solar farms don't necessarily need to be put on farmland, but crops do.)

New class of super-emitter. The top ranked individual token user consumed 8.5 million kWh in a month using A.I. to code (assuming .000004 kWh per token).

Bonkers. 🙃 “A dislocation in global energy supplies means that even as buyers in some parts of the world are desperate to secure gas [methane], there’s so much extra production in Texas that producers are burning it off as quickly as they’re allowed.”

It is remarkable that this week’s heatwave anomalies are happening at the tail end of a La Niña climate period. What is in store for us over the next two years as a very strong El Niño sweeps in? This photo might be a good metaphor.

Of course there are sustainable alternatives to almost all of these, but even if you take the claim at face value it is really just an argument to stop burning up all the limited resources that are required to make them.

"German utilities expressed many of the same concerns nearly a decade ago when plug-in solar started to become popular in Germany. But with more than a million systems installed, no safety incidents have been reported for customers who used the panels as instructed"

The IEA has published a useful degrowth handbook, more professionally known as demand-side optimization for households and businesses.

Palentir’s project Maven is built on a stack of machine learning tools integrated with GIS—the latest in a long military history of automating targeting. Every iteration of these tools has resulted in more innocent lives lost because the time allotted for human deliberation is reduced by design.

Gas only sets Spain's electricity price 15% of the time. When gas costs spike it barely registers on the electricity bill. In countries like Italy and the UK gas sets the price 90% of the time. The difference is enormous. I spoke to @politico.com about this. www.politico.eu/article/spai...

One of the reasons that I'm confident that agrivoltaics is going to take off without the need for subsidies is because as they begin to electrify their farm equipment, they'll want to produce their own power for it. linttas.com

When Cuba finally shifts to 100% clean energy it will not only have a more resilient system; It will also save around $4 billion USD every year by not needing to pay to import fossil fuels because their energy will come for free from the sun.

Good news: Texas set a new record generating 33 GW from solar power and 8.3 from wind at around 11 am on Saturday. Bad news: Texas was still generating more than 11 GW from coal and gas at that same moment. At midday under ideal conditions, BIG solar states should be running 100% clean.

Offshore wind saves customers money. "The agency has estimated the project could save New England customers as much as $500 million by 2028." If the president had his way, the project would have been tripped at the finish line and customers would have been on the hook with much higher prices.

The history of Danish wind power is rooted in cooperative ownership. That is why it was so successful. Locals had an ownership stake and benefitted. Thus there was little resistance. Why did that paradigm not continue into solar? www.greeneconomycoalition.org/news-and-res...

Going back to sails as the cost of oil keeps going up.

Get them while they last!

autos.yahoo.com/ev-and-futur... Delivering an improved user experience to people who drive ALL THE TIME is going to be a huge market advantage for electric trucks.

From just a couple of percentage points to nearly 1/5 of electricity generation. The story of the next 20 years will be how we go from 17% to 71% with nuclear, hydro, and other clean firm making up nearly all the balance.

The final report on last April's Spain/Portugal blackout is out. A few takeaways: - Lack of "inertia" due to too few fossil/nuclear generators - the thing anti-renewable pundits immediately blamed without evidence, then reporters breathlessly endlessly repeated - played essentially no role.

We could solve so much if only there were a national televised debate between Stephen Miller and David Bier (from the conservative Cato Institute) on the subject of immigration. Great episode.

You can appreciate that the model is parroting back to him exactly what he wants to hear in the remixed words of others AND also appreciate the argument being made through this performance is valid, based on an accurate analysis, and demands immediate political action.

hey if "the economy" is completely decoupled from the welfare of the people, WHAT IS THE FUCKING POINT OF THE ECONOMY

The transition movement just doesn’t have a big enough 📢 and getting people opposed to things is harder than getting them to favor things. It took less than a year for a negative impression of solar power to form based on strained associations with data centers. But…

All this time we could have been putting real coffee grounds in tea bags instead of using instant?

Time to put on our Jimmy Carter sweaters!

If you wanted to cause stagflation—rising prices and a weakening economy—bombing Iran and shutting down the Strait of Hormuz would be maybe the most effective way to do it.

Flights are getting canceled now. “Jet fuel is often the first refined oil product to run short, in part because it is held to stricter quality standards than other fuels. It must be stored in specialized tanks, making large reserves costly, and it cannot sit for long periods without degrading.“

This article is infuriating. The answer is YES. It is true. But then the Times feels obligated to point out that Spain does still import oil and gas. Nowhere are battery storage systems mentioned, which are central to moving further away from fossil dependence and electrification of transport.

Penn Environment is collecting signatures on a petition to support solar legislation in Pennsylvania.

“That’s because, if courts uphold the repeal, the E.P.A. would have no legal authority to regulate greenhouse gases and future presidents would not be able to restore limits on them through the federal rule-making process.” Could a future administration start the rule making process over again?

We used to hear all about the “green premium” for clean energy. Well now that solar and wind are so inexpensive, we have a “grey premium” for dirty energy projects. And for some reason developers are willing to pay it. It’s like there is some perverse value in the vice signaling.

There are no shortcuts or after-the-fact fixes. The only solution is to stop burning fossil fuels by electrifying everything as soon as possible while we decarbonize the grid.

As we all compare what $200 billion could build instead of funding senseless death and destruction—from high speed rail to solar energy independence—an easy to visualize comparison is that you could build at least *100* copies of the world’s tallest building. 100 Burj Khalifas. One hundred.

These smaller scale off-grid gas systems need “to burn more gas to generate the same amount of electricity” as larger power plants. They also emit more air pollutants per MWh. While they may not immediately increase rates, “higher gas demand could drive up fuel prices over time.”

New capacitor technology holds four times the energy and operates at 2.5 times the peak design temperature.

200B could also house the homeless, raise teacher pay, extend healthcare subsidies, and improve our lives in countless ways…How is it that just 15 years after the disastrous war in Iraq we are once letting a better future be stolen from us in exchange for death, destruction, and war profiteering?

Here’s another way someone could leverage a $10 billion climate fund: That much money as a 30% grant for utility scale battery energy storage projects could more than double existing capacity and greatly expand our ability to deploy variable renewables on the grid. bsky.app/profile/jrfh...

We ARE making progress, and if everyone of us were on board instead of half of us still kicking our feet—with denial, naysaying, ulterior motives, and obfuscation—we could be all the way through this transition within 20 years and living together in a much better, healthier world.

Stage 2 of the LAGI Fiji design competition is wrapping up with a prototype review next week. Soon we’ll know which project will be constructed at full scale with Marou Village, providing reliable, clean power and drinking water to the community. What would a solar powered Fiji look like?

Is the algae and CCS greenwashing era finally over because that was exhausting. “Oil companies retreated from the message that they were “partners” in the “energy transition” and began backtracking on their climate promises in 2023.“

It is the population centers of Asia that will be most impacted by the collapse of the Thwaites glacier.

“In Asia, L.N.G. has long been called a bridge fuel — less polluting than coal, more reliable than renewables…” Time to finally finish crossing that old rusting LNG bridge and arrive securely in solar, wind, and storage land.

Nice. You really don’t need to read any of this. Just the last paragraph maybe. “We won…But does winning just turn us into every other asset class? Is the industry becoming everything it hated—“ Yes. Except other asset classes reflect some underlying value in the world.

CURTAIL TO COMPUTE" Siting Data Centers to Leverage California’s Stranded Renewable Energy The absolute lowest hanging fruit. Use otherwise curtailed renewable energy to supply data centers. This only works with sufficient battery storage that can decouple computation from instantaneous generation.