This is the fight that matters. We're going to win. Let's tell DC developers to BeYONCE: Bring Your Own New Clean Energy 💃 www.sltrib.com/news/environ...

🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

turns out the 20th century scholars focused on script and description made some pretty good points

batteries

“Solar and batteries will comprise 80% of grid capacity additions this year”. Keep this in mind. The White House may not support the lowest cost sources of energy but energy investors still do. www.pv-magazine.com/2026/04/28/s...

“The case for cargo bikes is no longer theoretical. They are already delivering measurable savings and reshaping how some families move through cities. What remains uncertain is how quickly infrastructure and policy will catch up.”

There is an "earthquake" going on in the energy system and we are at risk of building the wrong stuff, says Jackson, which would be like "building shopping centres just before Amazon"

the energy flowing through a system organizes that system. yimby is necessary but not sufficient: you need to make it easier to build, but then you need people to come along and actually build. (left nimby is neither necessary nor sufficient, it's pure id)

oh no, why do i feel like i've joined a cult

It's officially been confirmed that Tuvalu, along with other Pacific Small Islands Developing States, will host the 2nd conference on transitioning away from fossil fuels in 2027🇹🇻 Tuvalu is also calling for a "binding international instrument to manage fossil fuel supply and demand"

i won't go so far as to say "waymo is good, actually" but i will definitely say it's not in my top 10 list of things to care about locally, nationally, or globally

"If we continue and accelerate on the path of electrification, this conversation will soon be over," EU #climate commissioner @wopkehoekstra.ec.europa.eu told journos at the Santa Marta summit on transitioning away from #fossilfuels "I hope this is the beginning of a process we will continue."

born to explore, forced to exploit

Chile and Australia are in the next phase of solar growth ☀️🔋 Battery deployment is now so high that new solar generation doesn't add to the midday peak, but grows in shoulder hours, morning and evening. 50% storage to solar ratio is enough to shave off the entire peak.

Good morning with good news: Sodium-Ion-battery Age truly begins with CATL providing a massive 60 GWh for grid storage! Sodium is ~1000 times more abundant than lithium. CATL battery has NO cobalt & nickel. Its cost advantages could be 30%-40%! electrek.co/2026/04/27/c... #energysky

*grabs mic* BATTERIES

This week, scientists & advocates are meeting in Santa Marta, Colombia, to discuss how the world can transition away from fossil fuels, the primary source of the emissions driving global climate change. On her blog, Dr. Delta Merner outlines a roadmap to ensure this transition leaves no one behind.

This is the same move Pamplin pulled with Ross Island Sand and Gravel. It's the same move the CEI Hub operators are hoping to pull.

I doubt Exxon and the other oil companies like the little people talking like this but it is the industry business model in action. Sell the old wells to people like this who have no intention of ever paying to plug or clean up the wells. “We’re not financially able to plug a bunch of oil wells."

Pollution levels in Paris after 10 years of advancing sustainable transport.

🤝 A high-ambition coalition of Global South nations call for Santa Marta Conference to recognize need for a new legal instrument for a fair phase out of fossil fuels.

interesting investment opportunity, what's the IRR?

“Solar growth was 18x gas growth” “This isn't a transition. It's a hostile takeover by superior economics. Betting on fossil fuels today is exactly like betting on whale oil while Edison was turning on the lightbulb “ “Source and more reading: buff.ly/U5zDX6C%E2%8... - Aassad Razouk

Has anyone made a general-purpose atproto client that lets me subscribe ir unsubscribe to specific discursive topics? "feeds" and the mute keyword or account functionality is not the right unit of control to make this site usable

Colombia released a roadmap to get off fossil fuels, said to deliver a 90% reduction in primary fossil fuel demand relative to 2026. Here it is: eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/id/eprint/24...

History is made by those who show up, and that is exactly what's happening in Santa Marta. There are 60 countries here, academics from all over the world, Indigenous people, civil society, all here to do one thing: figure out how to phase out fossil fuels. www.forbes.com/sites/we-don...

"...periods of ultra-cheap—and sometimes effectively free—electricity have become a regular feature of life in parts of the region." Can't do that with fossil fuels.

rolling stone (still exists?) - the mainstream is breaking through

modest budget proposal: replace the PPB with a few red light cameras. make the streets safer AND save a while bunch on pensions.

This Day in #History 1954 Bell Labs announces the first solar battery made from silicon with about 6% efficiency.

PPB policy on this must change. Impunity for bad drivers begets more deadly drivers.

00:22 on Friday April 24th, over the North Pacific Ocean

The Hidden Majority: Americans Are More Ready to Go Car-Free Than You Think. momentummag.com/the-hidden-m...

"Can tech save the world?" is the wrong question. The right question is "what kind of world do we want to build?", and then the tech can help us get there. It's the re-invented worldview that the tech gives you access to that matters. The tech needs to support that worldview, not dictate it.

what i'm finding out is that The Verge editorial position is to really like cheap TVs and gadgets but not so much the material culture improvements that technology enables, like food abundance and modern medicine

better things are necessary, possible, and desirable. let's get to work.

Jesse Peltan: "Electric vehicles are an extremely powerful tool for reducing oil demand. This is so obvious when you use the same units. There is a ton of chemical energy in the oil we burn to move cars, but you only need a small fraction in electrical energy for EVs to do the same job."

Important also to translate this into costs of gas power in LNG-dependent markets. At $10/mmbtu, pretty much the minimum that LNG can be had for in the best times, a high-utilization plant will need $100/MWh electricity to cover its costs. That’s about 25% above solar with a 4hr battery nowadays.

Solar panels and batteries are spreading across the Amazon rainforest, bringing 24/7 power to off-grid communities.

batteries enable 24/7 cheap and reliable solar energy to power everything in our lives

10:58 on Thursday April 23rd, over Niger

the reality affirmer has logged on

so if you REALLY care about the negative consequences of AI job zero is leaving behind ALL the fuck-brained rhetoric parrots, bubbles, hype, sneering at "boosters" and engaging deeply with what this technology ACTUALLY FUCKING DOES, so you can mount an actual opposition for it

the LLM fundamentally alters the ability for the capitalist to surveil the worker the Hyper-Taylorism enabled by LLMs is nauseating in scale and scope but even entering that branch of analysis is impossible if you're wedded to the prior "an LLM can never work, is always lying, and can't be useful"

It's amazing what the Residential Infill Project did for affordability of new construction in Portland. Here are the single-unit properties for sale in the city completed this year; these price points were rare prior to RIP.

i will simply never treat anyone complaining about sound seriously unless they are vocally campaigning against internal combustion engines in vehicles and landscaping equipment

the insane fake health concerns about solar energy are a great example for why the cult of “community engagement” where we treat every crank’s insane ravings as sacred is doomed to failure

without new technology (specifically massive amounts of clean energy) we keep using existing old technology (fossil fuels) and drive ourselves off a cliff. magical thinking is reactionary, harmful, and vicious.

Reposting this explainer from Santa Marta as we get ready for the first conference on on just transition away from fossil fuels drilled.media/news/santa-m...

The conference will focus on real solutions and strategies for the transition - because fossil fuel production is so structurally embedded in global markets, financial systems, and geopolitics, no State or government can manage the transition to clean energy alone 🌎 2/3