I know this is true. I've known it for a while. I still have trouble believing it each time I see it because it is so mind boggling. This is the fourth largest economy in the world. "Fossil gas down 60% in 2026 v 2023."

It's the Dril tweet, but water and alfalfa instead of money and candles

you should think of modern agriculture like the oil industry: hugely necessary for modern civilization, massively damaging extractive industry, run by and empowering some of the worst people imaginable

it's easier to avoid breaking the egg than to unbreak an egg -2nd law of thermodynamics

Why do they like biofuels? Because it keeps the "we must burn things" crew in business. It's great for refineries which are owned by the oil industry. They love their tax subsidized biofuels for burning. In the era of EVs, it's one more way to keep the US in the past.

"As a result, the report forecasts that global oil demand will contract by 80,000 barrels per day this year. This contrasts with our earlier forecast, before the outbreak of hostilities, that global demand would grow by 850,000." - IEA monthly Oil Market Report

You guys ever think about how big the sun is?

Next weekend's First International Conference on Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels is a significant moment. Long overdue, but a real step forward aimed at phasing out supply. This is a coalition of the willing representing about a third of the global economy. transitionawayconference.com

I'm gon a have to make my own bluesky feed to make this place tolerable, huh?

swords into plowshares

portland pizza week is coming

have we done "blaming ddos attacks on vibe coding is victim blaming" discourse yet? i was on tumblr in 2008, there's levels some folks here aren't ready for

BATTERIES

first weekend with the new EV (a Tern HSD)

first goslings of the year, this is a good weekend

cc @drmitchpdx.bsky.social

The actual divide on this website, much like real life, is between people who are curious about the world and want to understand how it works and people who are very mad that the world doesn’t work the way they want it to

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Oil & gas started the war but batteries are going to be the victors.

some people think i'm a technological determinist, but they're wrong: i'm a thermodynamic determinist

“My commute is 90 minutes”: a real and concrete harm for you and others that public policy should attempt to adress and rectify. “I don’t like the new businesses in the area instead of the old dive bar I liked”: then don’t shop at them. are you twelve years old?

holy shit. doubling in a decade off an already historically large base. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Portland climate leaders *must* stop putting good money after bad. "Biofuels" prop up the CEI Hub tank farms. RFS is neither affordable, nor possible to scale, nor desireable. Not one more dime of public money should be spent on this greenwashing corporate giveaway to fossil fuel companies.

this is maddening, because beef isn't even good. really like C-tier meat. chewy, tough as hell, no flavor. struggle food.

ay, i hope the bsky infra engineers are getting some much needed rest tonight. #hugops

the dignity in work is in service to others, not about gettin' yours and to hell with 'em all

this timeline is wild, chicago pope takes it all

flour floors &

b a t t e r i e s

Asia was supposed to be an enormous growth market for LNG. Not anymore. Shortages, spiking prices, massive uncertainty. Asia is moving to renewables instead www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

This post in my neighborhood listserv fills me w/ delight: "I would literally love to see more MF across the street from me. Cities should change & grow, they are interesting places to be because they are dynamic. I think more folks should be able to join us in our wonderful neighborhood."

There's no path to housing affordability without keeping up with housing supply. Cities grow, that's what they do. We've artificially suppressed growth by policy for the last 50 years- no wonder prices are skyrocketing and people at the bottom are getting squeezed. hoodline.com/2026/04/port...

Midstream sites are often overlooked and they are some of the biggest emitters I see. It doesn't matter if operators like Exxon's XTO tries to stop #methane escaping at the wellhead when the gas goes from there to a midstream site like this one. #oilfield

3. “Load growth at the state level has tended to depress retail electricity prices in recent years, by spreading fixed costs over greater load.”

2. “Market-based utility-scale wind and solar deployment do not appear related to recent increases in retail prices; instead, some evidence of price reduction.”

Why are your electric bills rising? Because there's still too much gas on the grid.

Internal combustion engines in their natural habitat - a museum.

First power delivered from USA's largest offshore wind farm--2.6 GW off Virginia. Trump's tariffs and order to stop construction raised costs by $808 million! Federal courts threw out the illegal order, but it caused months of delay. www.rivieramm.com/news-content... #energysky

🚨 #Türkiye’s wind installations blew a new RECORD in 2025, while solar continued its strong growth for the third year in a row 💨🌞 Despite these record installations, 🇹🇷 still needs to TRIPLE current capacity by 2035 to reach its target 🎯 ember-energy.org/lat...

Load growth = opportunity to lower the $ of energy. We don’t need to build more centralized generation. We just need to better utilize what we have. Q: Utilities make money by building more stuff but why can’t the definition of “stuff” be expanded to include home batteries, smart distribution etc?

Huge news: Portland City Council Unanimously Advances Resolution to Build More Homes in Inner Eastside. Thanks so, so much to everyone who testified, to all who showed up at our rally, and our champions on the city council. portlandneighborswelcome.org/ie4a-resolut...

Update: So far, developers have applied to use this tool for more than 600 units of new housing!

i worked in the corporate social media mines. i can 100% guarantee you that using social media is worse than using creative tools

"will to persist" as a state measure also rapidly erodes if you are sleepy, if someone says something mean to you, and if you are distracted by social media The "first causal evidence" part of this is completely baffling in a moment when hundreds of lab manipulation tasks are being published

With each grid scale battery storage we lower the amount of Gas we need to use for electricity generation. While these grid scale battery deployments were planned years in advance of the US/Israeli war against Iran and subsequent Fossil fuel energy crisis, but directly reduce the impact of it.

batteries.

🌐 NEW | Analysis: Global fossil power generation fell in March after Hormuz closure due to solar & wind growth ⚠️ Fall in gas-fired generation offset by large increases in solar & wind power, not coal w/CREA's @laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social energyandcleanair.org/fossil-power...

"Solar output in Europe’s largest power market will average about 16.5GW from April to September, up roughly 31% from a year earlier... That will reduce gas demand for power generation by about 29% over the same period — the equivalent of about nine LNG cargoes" www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

How do upzonings impact housing supply? In brand-new research published today @urbaninstitute.bsky.social, we show that big upzonings in New York City & Philadelphia had large, statistically significant effects on supply & permitting with several years of reforms. www.urban.org/research/pub...

did you know that so-called progressive Portland tapwater doesn't even have flouride? shocking. that's a massive burden on dental health and heart disease shifted onto residents for no good reason. it's anti-science and harms the most vulnerable.