If you need more evidence that #FossilFuels are #StrandedAssets, look no further. China is the world leader on the #EnergyTransition to address #ClimateChange. 🧪🔌💡☀️💨💧🔋

October Electrification Update- We have now gone 7 mo. without using fossil gas at home. We'll turn the gas back on soon to cover temperatures <20°F, but the 3-season heat pump has managed just fine this year without gas. Here's my monthly update. 🧪💡🔌☀️💨💧🔋

Congratulations to my undergraduate honors student, Leo Wible, who successfully defended his Senior Honors Thesis entitled: "Two Worlds, One Sun: What Hydrothermal Vents can Teach us about Life on Earth and Mars". 🧪 #MARS #CRISM #PlanetaryGeology

Work with Kevin!

October Gas Update: Waiting for the electricity bill to come in, so here's some gas info. We shut off the gas in April & have now gone *7* months without using gas in our home here in NE Ohio. We also conducted a bit of an unplanned experiment last week. 🧪🔌💡☀️💨💧🔋 a 🧵

1st training flight w/ our new, VisionAerial Switchblade Elite tri-copter mapping drone today. It's an impressive, American made rotorcraft with exceptional maneuverability & range. The payload is a Micasense RedEdge-P multispectral camera. Did mention the drone has retractable landing gear? 🧪

VOTE! Wherever you are in the US. Get out there and be heard.

I want to glaze and fire these eight charts as ceramic wall tile accent pieces. They take the trends from the EIA data (2021 - 2025) and extrapolate them to a 100% clean energy grid for Texas by 2035. Seems doable.

Batteries are letting the sun shine at night, deep in the heart of Texas! Renewables are growing fast in ERCOT, and displacing fossil fuels. 🧪🔌💡☀️💨💧⚡🔋 Source: www.eia.gov/todayinenerg...

The headline here is that West Australia is reaching 84% renewables on a near daily basis, but perhaps the real story mentioned in there is that the Australian National Grid is now reaching nearly 79% generation. 🧪🔌💡☀️💨💧🔋 reneweconomy.com.au/death-of-bas...

Help the NUsolar solar car team at Northwestern upgrade their battery box! My daughter has had an amazing time working on this outstanding project! 🧪🔌💡 www.givecampus.com/schools/Nort...

Worth a read (<5 mins) if you’re thinking of replacing your vehicle.

Renewable energy is much more energy efficient than fossil fuels. EMBER-ENERGY has a new report that shows this quite clearly. Here's a 🧵 and the source to start: ember-energy.org/latest-insig... 🧪🔌💡☀️💨💧🔋

Due to their high operating temperature, vibration, the explosive force of internal combustion engines, wear and tear on fossil fuel equipment is high, leading to the need for extensive maintenance. 🧪🔌💡☀️💨💧🔋 🧵

Astonishing

With a current value of $0.001 per ton, it does not look like coal will be making a comeback in the United States. That's the outcome from a recent coal lease bid for *subsidized* coal. They lowered the royalty rate (& cut environmental regulations) to encourage the sale. 🧪🔌💡☀️💨💧🔋 A short 🧵

Sept '25 Electrification Update: It's 23 month since we started to electrify our home and ~5.5 mo. since we turned off the gas seasonally. Our electricity usage in Sept was just 808 kWh, down from last year due to more mild conditions that required less heating or cooling. My monthly 🧵 🧪🔌💡☀️💨💧🔋

Despite the noise, renewables keep rising now generating more electricity than coal. @iea.org halved its US outlook, but raised India’s by 10%, putting it on track as the No. 2 growth market after China. MENA up 23%, driven by Saudi wind and solar.

EMBER-ENERGY's "Global Electricity Mid-Year Insights 2025" report shows that in the H1 2025 renewables (wind and solar) have outpaced global demand, leading to a reduction in fossil fuel emissions. 🧪🔌💡☀️💨💧🔋 Source: ember-energy.org/latest-insig...

👑 Long live the king. The king is dead. From 2013–2024, Tesla reigned supreme in global BEV sales figures—undisputed and unstoppable. But after Q3 2025, BYD now leads by ~400K pure EVs, and the gap keeps widening. The electric throne has shifted east. ⚡🇨🇳 #EV #BYD #Tesla #Disruption #Geely #Xpeng

Ever wonder what it's like to be stuck in Arctic multiyear ice on an icebreaker? Tune in to the latest #AmericaView #SpatialSignals podcast for that and more! 🧪⛴️ 🛰️ 🔌💡☀️💨💧🔋

Electric-powered airplane Alia can take off on a conventional runway or lift off vertically like a helicopter. It can carry four passengers or about 200 cubic feet of cargo and has a maximum range of more than 300 miles. #FossilFree www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/29/b...

Bring it on! #TheFutureWillBeElextric 🧪🔌💡☀️💨💧🔋

Wow. just wow. 🧪🔌💡☀️💨💧🔋

I enjoyed recording this interview for the #AmericaView #SpatialSignals podcast. Learn about my current environmental remote sensing research and how my research interests have evolved over the years! ⛴️ 🛰️ 🧪💡🔌☀️💨💧🔋 "Stuck In The Ice On An Icebreaker with Joe Ortiz" americaview.podbean.com

Globally, the future will be #electric for heavy duty trucking. But in the US, federal policies are doing their best to throttle progress. That is not market savvy and it won't position US manufacturers to compete in the global market. #ClimateChange is real 🧪🔌💡☀️💨🌊🔋 cleantechnica.com/2025/09/23/e...

Fashion can cut emissions & improve working conditions by switching to renewables & electrifying process heat across. New Fashion Revolution report — for which I wrote the foreword — shows how clean power delivers emission reductions and better worker health. carboncopy.info/switch-to-re...

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...