Nobody actually cares about energy prices unless they work on this stuff professionally. They care about *bills*.

Welcome to utilities.

Saying best in class generation is noncarbon is not really true to serve data centers specifically unless they're willing to flex their load a decent amount, which is not really the case. These companies are all building giant behind the meter gas turbines for a reason.

Tired: we need a gigawatt of power for our racks of Nvidia gpus

Wired: we need a gigawatt of power for our stack of Marshalls

(I want the dethklok vs data center episode of metalocalypse)

No sorry that's got to be LeBron James.

The Matrix. Easily.

If the climate/energy, supply-side progressive, abundance, call it whatever you want people want that alliance they need to build credibility on stuff like biodiversity. Because the "other side" is reaching out--you have things like the Audubon transmission whitepaper from '23.

But you *also* care about water, about biodiversity, about public lands, etc. And so when you look at something like a permitting reform package that may make total sense in a ton-for-ton CO2e framework, once you start to add in something like a biodiversity lens the evaluation can change.

This episode really crystalized something for me that's been floating around in my brain for years: a lot of climate/energy people seem to not take non-climate/energy environmental concerns seriously at all. Like if you're a "green group" or whatever, you obviously care about climate.

Team know your airport. If it's consistently fast (shout out IND), don't waste time there. If you don't know err on the side of early.

Eating fries in the car today on my way home from a bike race got me thinking: there really needs to be a better way to hold dipping sauces while driving, for neatness' sake. A caddy for one's ketchup, if you will.

Living in the Sprawl - bioGraphic As housing developments devour open space in the western United States, can local governments stave off habitat loss?

"Across the West, farsighted local governments have begun preserving & connecting habitats through unsexy regulatory tools such as zoning, land-use codes, & comprehensive plans."

For @biographic.bsky.social, I wrote about planning (don't yawn!) for conservation.

www.biographic.com/living-in-th...

Do you remember when word was bond?
A fleeting promise in the light of the dawn
Barren December under a falling sky
The end of days and a reason to die

California is a major agricultural state, what is the framework he develops policy thoughts through on agricultural decarbonization.

Normal sized collars and things of that nature

@thompsonscribe.bsky.social cooking with this one

I don't think any NBA player will have a more interesting post retirement all time ranking/legacy debate than Draymond Green.

‘It’s just madness’: Trump administration to close three-quarters of Forest Service research stations Between funding cuts, facility closures, and the inevitable resignations that will follow, there’s virtually no way for the Forest Service to continue to do research at its current level or quality, w...

My big takeaway from reporting this story is that it's not JUST about the Forest Service.

The closure of these stations threatens to upend a delicate system of mutually beneficial collaboration and resource sharing, and the impacts will ripple out far beyond the Forest Service itself.

Great episode. Jigar only got into it briefly but it really does seem to me (and maybe it's because I'm way deep in IRP/RTO world) that ELCC is a bit of a conceptual skeleton key that a lot of clean energy advocates need to learn a lot more about fast.

Getting primary election day off rules because I can just early vote which I was going to do anyways and then take a vacation during that week.

Like to me EREVs are just PHEVs but better at most things.

It appeals to me on a pretty specific and limited use case (driving to relatively remote areas still lacking in charging infrastructure with bikes on a rack that can hit range decently hard) but most people would probably be better served with a normal BEV

Music was better when the musicians were on acid.

Anyone interested in this topic should really try to find a copy of Powerline by Paul Wellstone and Barry Casper. This kind of industrial sabotage of unwanted energy infrastructure has a long history.

Korpiklaani

In a First for the U.S., Renewables Generate More Power Than Natural Gas In March, for the first time, renewables supplied more power to the U.S. than natural gas, a milestone in the transition to clean power. However, rising power demand is complicating the shift away from fossil fuels by extending the lives of many aging coal power plants.

In a first last month, renewables supplied more power to the U.S. than natural gas, a milestone in the shift to clean energy.

That's just Jeremy Renner with an Australian accent

Just how sensitive are lateral line systems? Like what's the biggest thing they wouldn't pick up?

Tbh helmets are more important for style and aerodynamics than for safety.