Hmm. I recognize the shape of that chart, and of Dave's EV chart further in the thread. Unbelievable that the @IEA is still doing this.

NEW: ProPublica examined months of Fox News’ coverage and reviewed over 700 videos posted on social media. The network used five-year-old footage, mislabeled other dates and implied footage from elsewhere was in Portland.

Our foreign policy, if that is still the right concept, has three pillars: alienate allies, encourage enemies, and take bribes.

Today on Volts: markets for distributed energy resources (DERs) are usually fragmented & opaque, making it difficult to scale up. A UK startup called Piclo is setting up a marketplace where buyers & sellers of grid flexibility can meet, compare terms, & sign contracts. Much needed, long overdue!

"Much as granaries and refrigeration transformed food markets, storage will turn electricity from perishable to persistent, unlocking a new era of energy abundance."

The most horrifying AI slop of ICE raids you can possibly imagine is wildly viral on Facebook, collectively totaling tens of millions of views from a single account. First spotted by @chadloder.bsky.social www.404media.co/ai-generated...

This is really quite scandalous... the key assumption that means rising oil demand is that EV sales share will be the same in 2050 as in 2024 in EVERY COUNTRY IN THE WORLD (except China+EU) 🤷‍♂️

The administration is deliberately starving poor people so that Dems will agree to radically slash the healthcare available to poor people. Do not let its familiarity dull your outrage. This is monstrous, unforgivable shit.

Claims of felling 250 year-old trees + shipping them thousands of miles to burn in a power station, releasing fine particulate pollution linked to breathing + heart conditions. Perhaps, instead of subsidising this, our tax money could go to treating people with those conditions? 🧵 1/2

Holy shit. This company claims it has developed an air-source heat pump with a COP of *7* (3-5 is considered good). For you non-nerds, that basically means it produces 7 units of heat for every unit of electricity it consumes. How are they doing it? You're not gonna like this answer, but: it's AI.

"Far from a peak, China's gasoline demand is estimated to have fallen 9% in October on the year to 12.5 million tons, with average daily use roughly flat with September..." China's oil demand is entering structural decline.

Yet more science showing that regenerative grazing is overblown as a climate solution. A better path? Cut back on beef production altogether, and return grazing lands to nature. iffs.earth/living-repor...

Illinois: $1 billion in battery investment will save consumers $13 billion in capacity costs. This is what @jigarshahdc.bsky.social and I have been talking about the past years. As capacity costs rise while battery costs plummet, we will see more of this. pv-magazine-usa.com/2025/11/05/i...

The world's biggest meatpacker, JBS, claimed in its adverts: "Bacon, chicken wings and steak with net-zero emissions. It’s possible." But it never seemed to have a plan to make this happen. So now it's paying $1.1 million to settle a false advertising case newrepublic.com/article/2028...

It is nuts that recusal policies for the Supreme Court are so weak and self-determined that justices with oil industry holdings & even familial oil industry ties could participate in cases involving the oil industry. Our friends at @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social explain: prospect.org/2025/11/07/e...

Hundreds of thousands of people, dead because of a decision made by the world's richest man

It's important to note that the main goal of increasing Tesla's market capitalization is one that Musk is already fundamentally incentivized to achieve, given that he's the largest shareholder. Some of these operational goals are going to be almost impossible to hit, but others much less so.

Quite a headline.

I will say, contrary to how progressives are often portrayed, they have made extraordinarily good faith efforts to engage with the critiques of them by the Abundance movement. For which, no doubt, they will receive no fucking credit whatsoever. Same as it ever was. Same as it ever was.

In "We Were The Lucky Ones" (true story of a Jewish family in Poland in WW2) the daughter learns her father has been detained. She puts on her most respectable dress to speak to camp guards, so they'll tell her the truth about if he's there. Look at this man, in his suit. How is this happening.

I'm thankful for Sci-Hub, even though I have access to most journals through multiple institutions.

I can still remember when being antisemitic meant you discriminated jews and denied the Holocaust. Now, it mostly means you oppose genocide. But it's not working anymore. The game is up. And I predict Paramount is going to regret this.

Trump announcing he lowered drugs for weight loss "1200% ... Nobody could have done it, but me I say modestly." Then, someone steals his spotlight by falling unconscious behind him. Trump gets up. Looks at the commotion. And zones out until it's about him again. So typical.

A motor of 59 kW/kg! 750 horsepowers with a weight of just 12.7 kg! That's the type of motor that can drive all but the fastest sportscars in a ludicrously small package. electriccarsreport.com/2025/11/yasa...

Irish Times has a point: although the biggest immigration hater lost in the Dutch election, the total number of haters stayed the same and it's getting increasingly normalized. www.irishtimes.com/world/europe...

This graph never fails to be shocking: "The US has experienced the earliest and greatest slowdown in life expectancy improvements among higher-income countries, reported Eileen Crimmins. “We have horrible life expectancy—and it’s getting worse and worse”" www.prb.org/resources/se...

We are absolutely seeing the same patterns of violence — the systemic, ethnic-based violence — today in El-Fasher as we saw two years ago against the Massalit community in West Darfur, and also 20 years ago in the Darfur genocide,”

So Kim Kardashian thinks the moon landing was fake. The levels of irony…

"Slave owners mortaged their human property ... sometimes even basing loans on the estimated wordth of children as yet unborn to enslaved women. Thomas Jefferson mortgaged 150 of the bondspeople he owned to build his iconic residence at Monticello."

This is so good from Cory Doctorow on all the tricks Amazon uses to get both consumers to pay more, and how businesses on the platform end up paying it 45-51 cents on every dollar. Plus he rightly calls for regulatory change, not just individual consumer action www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

The fundamental problem being that the people in power in Israel today want to destroy the Palestinians. They say so themselves.

Fully electric dike construction project in the Netherlands. Pretty cool! www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIFa...

Bill Gates hasn’t made sense on Climate since he teamed up with Bjorn Lomberg in 2009. This is just a restating of Bjorn’s book from this year about how we have a finite amount of money and we shouldn’t use it for climate. What they get wrong is that climate solutions are now fully profitable.

Judge Ellis is serious. Officers really can't keep teargassing people for protesting, and they must really show their identification. All violent incidents are to be reported, and bodycams are to prove warning was given and violence was necessary. They are to report to her daily. 👏👏👏

Bats are our allies, not enemies.

Podcast on Cement Industry Transition Trends and Potential for Carbon Capture and Utilisation youtu.be/Z_kPgtrtzmM for this article from 2019 doi.org/10.1016/j.jc... @lut.fi

This new reconstruction of global whale biomass shows that countries can successfully tackle environmental problems when they come together But it's a story with an under-recognised hero 🧵 1/

The worst possible scenario for Jamaica came true: climate-fueled hurricane #Melissa just made landfall at its strongest. Maximum sustained winds of 295 km/h (185 mph) and an estimated minimum central pressure of 892 mb (26.34 inches). Devastating.

Articles on grid problems with solar and wind increasingly fall into two categories: 1) Those that prophesy doom, talk about inertia, and ignore or misunderstand batteries and inverters. 2) Those that show you get a more resilient system with solar, wind, batteries, and grid forming inverters.

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There should be a mandatory retirement age for people in public office.

Three times in the past two weeks, editorials at the 'Washington Post' failed to disclose that they focused on matters in which owner Jeff Bezos had a material interest.

Enten: "Canada is far more popular than Donald Trump is here in the United States. The net popularity of Canada is +49. Trump is -10. We're talking about Canada coming out nearly 60 points ahead on the net popularity ratings versus Donald Trump here in the US"

#Ultraprocessed food is a very heterogeneous category, including products with varying ingredients & #nutrition profiles. Plant-based #milk & #meat differ a lot from their animal-based counterparts and may offer better cardiometabolic outcomes: doi.org/10.1007/s136... #plantbased #UPF #NOVA #health

Two big opposing rallies in Hungary today. Orban’s pro-Russia one got fewer than 30k. His rival Peter Magyar got more than 200K.

Reagan's approach to the world prominently featured two things: 1) Russian aggression bad, Western democratic alliance good 2) Free trade good, tariffs and other barriers to trade bad Pretending it's the opposite is the sort of reality inversion only someone who rejects truth itself could buy.

I've translated Dutch politics to the American equivalent: Trump is losing. I wouldn't be surprised if Peter Buttigieg, Mit Romney, and Elizabeth Warren end up forming a coalition (~42%) coupled with some pragmatic lefties (~16%) or Marco Rubio (~11%).

Are you kidding me? US military is now being funded by oligarchs? The last thing standing between them and completely taking over? And this is not frontpage news? (It's only ~1 day of pay, but that's not what this is about.) www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

DE REVOLUTIE VAN HET ENERGIESYSTEEM START HIER! Onder die kop organiseren we nog twee "masterclasses". In 1 dag leggen we (gratis!) uit hoe het nieuwe bottom-up energiesysteem gaat werken. holons.energy/community/ma...

In the Netherlands we switched from voting machines back to pen and paper when some white hat hackers showed how easily voting machines could be manipulated. Not having open source with hash verification should be disqualifying. The US is making itself extremely vulnerable to massive voter fraud.