TL;DR? It's because of this:

If 90% of your investments are offsetting supply losses, that's not a formula for a future energy resource. If anything, it suggests the final EROI of fossil fuels is likely trending towards the net energy cliff. That's another way of saying that #FossilFuelsAreStrandedAssets 🧪🔌💡☀️💨🌊🔋

#FossilFuelsAreStrandedAssets Make it trend. 🧪🔌💡☀️💨🌊🔋

My personal experience is that these % reductions can be achieved or surpassed. We’ve seasonally cut direct emissions by ~98% & annual emissions by ~80% using 100% renewable electricity & switching to induction cooking & heat pumps for HVAC & domestic hot water from gas. #ClimateSolutionsNow 🧪🔌💡☀️💨🌊🔋

Loki has the high ground today. 🐈‍⬛ #Caturday

Aug. Electrification Update: As a climate scientist, I pay careful attention to the energy that I use at home & have shifted my home seasonally off gas. The addition of the heat pump water heater meant that we used more kWh this Aug, than last despite cooler temperatures. 🧪🔌💡☀️💨🌊🔋

Kia is providing a full range of EVs from compact to full size. Fast charging EVs with no tailpipe emissions and range of 329 miles or better. And the options increase when you add Hyundai’s line. 🧪🔌💡☀️💨🌊🔋 #TheFutureWillBeEletric Make it trend!

Polar Night Energy continues to pump out more & larger thermal sand batteries. They use crushed waste soapstone as the media. This one is 1MW/100MWh in size. They convert power to heat for delivery but are working on power to heat to power versions too. #TheFutureWillBeEletric 🧪🔌💡☀️💨🌊🔋

The future will be electric. Australia surpasses 10 GWh of battery discharge. 🧪🔌💡☀️💨🌊🔋

Aug. Gas Emissions Update- After purchasing a 3-season HVAC Heat Pump & Heat Pump Water Heater (HPWH) we've had 5 months with <=0.1 MCF/month gas use. In fact, we shut off our gas seasonally 4 months ago so gas use dropped to 0.0 MCF/mo. That's cut our annual gas spending by $200 so far. 🧪🔌💡☀️💨🌊🔋

Our Event38 E400 mapping drone had its first flight with the new AgEagle/MicaSense RedEdge-P dual 10-band multispectral camera this past week. Several of my students have FAA Part-107 licenses to fly it. Everything went well. 🧪🌊

The data shows that the future will be electric & renewable ... 🧪🔌💡☀️💨🌊🔋 The global energy transition is underway. And that is good for #Climate #Environment #PublicHealth #Economics interactive.carbonbrief.org/factcheck/so...

The suburban couch panther in its native habitat... #Caturday

There was a hint in 2024 that China's Carbon emissions had peaked due to their massive roll out of renewables, which continues. Now the data from the first half of 2025 confirms that CO2 emissions in China are decreasing. 🧪🔌💡☀️💨🌊🔋

Despite current policy directives at the federal level, the US is still building out renewable power generation capacity and storage as the vast majority of new power infrastructure. 🧪🔌💡☀️💨🌊🔋

In California, batteries allow the sun to shine at night. Solar power stored in batteries now provides ~20% of the evening peak demand. That's power that used to be provided by fossil fuels. The future will be electric. That's good news for climate health, environment, & economics. 🧪🔌💡☀️💨🌊🔋

“… At dawn, look to the east…” www.cbc.ca/news/science...

We are in a global energy transition. 🧪🔌💡☀️💨🌊🔋

Since Jan 2025, installing a heat pump water heater dropped our gas use to zero MCF/day for temperatures >47°F. That's a considerable drop beyond the decrease observed when we installed the HVAC heat pump. 🧪🔌💡☀️💨🌊🔋

Fossil fuels are #StrandedAssets The future will be electric and renewable. 🧪🔌💡☀️💨🌊🔋

Money Saving Energy Tip: The Public Utility Commission of Ohio (PUCO) provides the "Energy Choice Ohio" program allowing consumers to select a generation provider (Competitive Retail Electric Service, CRES) or to buy their electricity from their Standard Service Offer (SSO). A thread 🧵 🧪🔌💡☀️💨🔋

«You can’t hold back progress, but you can get left behind». *chef kiss*

The future will be electric. You can’t hold back progress; But you can get left behind. 🧪🔌💡☀️💨🌊🔋 www.carbonbrief.org/iea-renewabl...

Yup. I just think there probably needs to be a pro-active education campaign to get ahead of any disinformation blasts from the fossil fuel industry.

The Hyundai Ioniq 6 is an excellent BEV. Range of up to 342 miles and charging in ~18 minutes on a DCFC. And high safety standards. 🧪🔌💡☀️💨🌊🔋 electrek.co/2025/08/03/i...

Yesterday's post on home #Electrification generated lots of feedback. Nate the House Whisperer @energysmartwv.bsky.social ask about my total energy consumption before and after installing the HVAC HP and HPWH so I crunched the numbers. Electrifying your home results in less energy usage. 🧪🔌💡☀️💨🌊🔋

Amazing that BlueSky does its thing. I posted this and within minutes had the correct ID! Thanks very much to everyone who posted helpful responses!

This right here. Operating costs between gas and electric are usually very similar. Most projects I see are +/-$100/year or less. YMMV of course, but the fat part of the bell curve shows the costs being very comparable. Comparable is the word to use.

BlueSky #Botanists - Can anyone identify this plant? It’s growing in my yard in NE Ohio and is very invasive. It spreads by vegetative runners. The Seek app thinks it’s common sneezeweed but the leaves flower petals do not seem to match. It grows 4-5 feet tall. 🧪

July Electrification update: My home now has 2 heat pumps, so it's confusing to call this a heat pump update, hence the new header. As a climate scientist, I want to show we can reduce emissions & so I've been electrifying my home in NE Ohio. Here's my monthly update as a long 🧵. 🧪🔌💡☀️💨🌊🔋

Heat pump synergy: I'm waiting for the July electricity bill to arrive so I decided to look at how the heat pump water heater (HPWP) might impact my HVAC heat pump's cooling. During the winter when the heat pump & gas furnace were running, the HPWH had cooled the basement by ~2.5°F. 🧪🔌💡☀️💨🌊🔋

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NEW: As nearly two-thirds of the U.S. sweltered under extreme heat advisories on Tuesday, the U.S. government announced plans to erase the scientific and legal backbone that empowers the EPA to take action against planet-warming pollution. capitalbnews.org/trump-epa-en...

Trains: already (largely) electrified since 2000 - in the rest of the world. California needs to get with the program - we have the technology.

Merz „E-Autos sind noch nicht marktreif“ hat wohl lange nicht mehr in aktuelle Medien oder wissenschaftliche Studien geschaut.

Nothing is inevitable but we have so many tools for decarbonisation now that we didn't have before. Make progress through the horrors. Things can always be less bad.

Lovin’ my solar panels 4over 3 years now as my neighbors bills skyrocket.My tax accountant’s jaw dropped under Biden’s incentive. He immediately installed panels on his business& his home. The following tax season he had a solar info handout for every client that walked in @earthsciinfo.bsky.social

Some people are convinced we need a technological breakthrough (hydrogen, direct air capture, Fusion, etc.) to fight climate change. But they are wrong. The breakthroughs we needed have already happened. Now is the time for implementing them.

A new report on electrification from EMBER documents how the potential for electrification has increased over the past century, replacing fossil fuel uses. Nearly all societal needs can be electrified and provided by renewables, firmed by various types of storage. 🧪🔌💡☀️💨🔋

EVs do not increase PM2.5 pollution. 🧪🔌💡☀️💨🌊🧪

“In major markets that make up 70% of global new passenger car sales, today’s battery electric vehicles (BEVs) are associated with far fewer greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions than internal combustion engine vehicles (ICEVs) over their lifetimes.” 🧪🔌💡☀️💨🔋 theicct.org/why-evs-are-...

Do not feed the trolls. If you Dunk Quote and use profanity, you’re not looking to have a conversation.

U.S. automakers are choosing the path to extinction by sticking with fossil fuels & hybrids. And U.S. policies that prop up internal combustion engines & attempt to discourage EV adoption will hasten their demise. The world is going electric while they cling to bygone days. 🧪🔌💡☀️💨🔋

Improvements in renewables & battery technology are enabling the energy transition. Short-sighted polices in the U.S. & elsewhere are just slowing the inevitable. 🧪🔌💡☀️💨🔋https://rmi.org/the-rise-of-batteries-in-six-charts-and-not-too-many-numbers/

We are still at the demonstration flight phase, but the future of most flight will be electric. 🧪🔌💡☀️💨🔋

Congratulations to Spain, which has crossed the 100% renewable threshold for its national grid. This is an important step towards a full-time 💯 renewable grid. 🧪🔌💡☀️💨🔋🌊 www.pv-magazine.com/2025/04/22/s...

It’s time for major scientific societies such as AAAS, AGU, AMS, and GSA to step up and host these climate reports and data on their websites as mirror sites. 🧪🔌💡🌊☀️💨🔋

The administration’s budget proposal will further cut climate science. This will not make us great and is not helping any of us. 🧪🌊🔌💡 www.cnn.com/2025/07/01/c...

To clarify, while the reconciliation budget has cut US science, the proposed FY26 budget proposes to make the even deeper cuts that I mention in this thread. Speak up for science & our future! 🧪🔌💡☀️💨🔋

June Heat Pump updates. This is our second month with no gas bill, having seasonally shut off our gas in April. Direct emissions from gas was 0 CO2e pounds/day for June. 🧪🔌💡☀️💨🔋