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Oh dang. This is an excellent analogy.

I might be able to get behind this!

Time for the world to install a gigawatt of solar power capacity 2004: A year 2010: ~ a month 2015: ~ a week Now: < A day ourworldindata.org/data-insight... 🧪

Why are we allowing our president to make America look dumb and Xi look like the more reasonable party?

Good job Vietnam! Maybe you can inspire the US...

Addressing e-waste...

Please be true. Please be true.

I think @joshtpm.bsky.social has written the best account of why universities have to stand up to Trump. If you've been given great privilege, the implicit bargain is that when the chips are down you'll behave with honor and courage talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/power...

For perspective, phone and laptop batteries have ~300-500 cycles before they drop to 80%. EV cars ~1500-2000. These 10,000 cycles before dropping even 1% (to 99%). Battery tech keeps getting better (if we invest in science).

Smarter planning

I'm not anti grid, but I am anti monopoly and anti homogenization. More local energy please!

I wish Chevy all the luck in their EV endeavors...

Europe kicking ass in solar.

Go Minnesota!

More good news (and China is leading. Will the west catch up?)

This is amazing.

Yes please

Keep celebrating the good/hopeful things.

And another nod to hope.

Conservation increases sustainability.

I'm not giving up yet.

The US is so far behind China.

Hoping this continues despite efforts to shut it off. www.pv-magazine.com/2025/02/20/s...

I hope we can keep this trend going in the US. ourworldindata.org/data-insight...

Not all is bad.

Most cities should be 15-minute cities.

"In Spain, getting rural communities to accept visual burdens in their backyard for the sake of national climate goals is proving to be a hard sell." — I don't understand the "visual burden" of windmills. I wonder how they feel about agrivoltaics.

Well how 'bout that. arstechnica.com/ai/2025/02/a...

“Thermogalvanic technology is on its way to our lives, either in the form of clean electricity or low-power cooling, and both research and commercial communities should be paying attention,” scitechdaily.com/refrigeratio...

I'd like to think this goes without saying, but I recognize the urge is very strong.

I missed this in September. Transparent solar (for clear windows). www.pv-magazine.com/2024/09/16/k...

Heat pumps are getting better. www.cnet.com/home/energy-...

FYI: "Simple Sabotage Field Manual" by US Office of Strategic Services was written during the early 1940s, amid World War II. It's a guide for ordinary civilians to conduct simple acts of sabotage against enemy operations without specialized training or equipment. www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26184

Stefan Bauschard is one of my top "go-to" thinkers regarding AI in Education. Here's how he sees it stack up against other challenges. stefanbauschard.substack.com/p/10-extreme...

We need to decarbonize faster.

Go heat pumps!

Somehow I missed this. Doesn't take up land and lowers evaporation. Brilliant. azmirror.com/2024/07/08/t...

“The mood inside the FDA is uneasy, sources told STAT, as staffers try to make sense of what is considered a “DEI” program and what is not.” From @lizzylawrence.bsky.social & @matthewherper.bsky.social 🧪🔬 #medsky www.statnews.com/2025/01/23/f...

I'm no longer looking to the US to lead, at least not for the next several years, but I am still optimistic about the future. www.livescience.com/planet-earth...

Big brain moves. Look for a loyalist rebuild (tributes must be paid).

More Microgrids!

Meanwhile, the US isn't even in the competition.

Whoa! compared to other activities AI's energy and water use is a distraction. Go car-free or SKIP ONE PLANE RIDE before you complain about the environmental impacts of ChatGPT. andymasley.substack.com/p/individual...

Regarding AI energy and water costs. Let's Zoom and talk about it. ai-impact-risk.com/ai_energy_wa...

4° outside seems like a good time to start sealing your rim joists.

Curious to see how this continues in 2025 as political motivation shifts from ecological to economical. I suspect it will keep rising.

Tomorrow, we get a Building Science analysis of our house. It's a very solid 1957 brick ranch, and compared to our previous 1925 makeshift I expect good things. But I'm expecting all sorts of opportunities to seal and insulate...

"Never has human society been so dependent on, and intermeshed with, the fruits of science. Billions of people would be dead without it. And yet, somehow, trust in science as an institution is falling. ... Why? Well…just because." bigthink.com/13-8/the-str...

Pete's a good guy.