Actually I have a better answer: favorite accessory is the bell that hides an AirTag. It’s how we recovered our stolen bike once. Also, be sure to register it officially with your local police.

Check your insurance policy. Found out the hard way that e bikes are often not counted as bikes, but instead “motorized land vehicles”. Even filing a claim that gets denied then raises your insurance

Not an accessory per se, but the gates belt drive. Definitely loving the decreased maintenance need.

Actual accessory: I actually like this silly small basket in the front. Came with it and I wouldn’t have guessed it would be so handy.

1/x 🧵 🔌💡 #Greensky. Hey climate peeps! Here’s a local victory to celebrate, and some lessons from it. Last night, the Town of Poughkeepsie, NY, voted to overturn its 18-month moratorium (6 months, renewed twice) on grid-scale battery energy storage systems (BESS).

After 7 Decades of Measurements From a Peak in Hawaii, Trump’s Budget Would End Them

Trump is closing all four climate observatory stations in Alaska, Hawaii, American Samoa, and Antartica. Because you can't have high CO2 levels if you don't *measure* CO2 levels.

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Pretty sure this is 100% fake - the cover and the quote.

Conservatives say Trump won their megabill votes by promising crackdown on renewable energy credits "We believe we're going to get 90-plus percent of all future projects terminated," Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) said.

Does anyone know the percent of renewable energy projects that need any level of federal permitting, not just NEPA?

Wondering how far this promise to deny projects basic permits goes (www.politico.com/live-updates...)

The energy provisions in the Republicans' One Big Horrible Bill are truly so bad! Who wants this? The country's automakers don't want it. Electric utilities don't want it. Data center developers don't want it. Manufacturers in energy intensive industries don't want it. 🔌💡

New study shows cloud loss contributing to record-breaking temperatures NASA-led study shows Earth’s cloud cover is shrinking, amplifying warming. Fewer clouds mean more heat absorbed and record temperatures worldwide.

Earth is losing clouds — fast.
Storm zones have shrunk by up to 3% per decade.
That’s helping drive record-breaking heat.

New NASA-led research featuring @Weather21C shows how less cloud = more warming.

Read more: 21centuryweather.org.au/new-study-sh...

#ClimateScience #GlobalWarming #CloudCover

That was top notch. I have a new favorite pundit now.

Entire Staff Is Fired at LIHEAP The move threatens to paralyze the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program, which helps to offset high utility bills for roughly 6.2 million people nationwide.

The Trump administration abruptly laid off the entire staff running a $4.1 billion program to help low-income households across the U.S. pay their heating and cooling bills.

What about just don’t use the word? Numerous publications not even using the quotes and it’s driving me bananas too

Ohhhh okay yeah sure of course

Proud to be a co-author on this one!

And you thought there were interconnection delays before!

A birdie told me that NREL tools (REEDS, DGEN, REV, etc) and datasets (wind toolkit, ATB, etc) are soon to disappear. Download and clone. EIA data might be next.

I like the sentiment but “will” is a bit strong. “Projected to”?

Another reason to avoid that other platform. A while back a graphic video of a murder popped up on my feed. Today I needed something for work, ended up on the feed, and voila a disturbing porn-like video. Pls less professional content posted there so we can all avoid it. Wish our orgs all switched.

"Historians have a word for Germans who joined the Nazi party, not because they hated Jews, but out of a hope for restored patriotism, or a sense of economic anxiety, or a hope to preserve their religious values, or dislike of their opponents, or raw political opportunism, or convenience, or ignorance, or greed. That word is "Nazi." Nobody cares about their motives anymore. They joined what they joined. They lent their support and their moral approval. And, in so doing, they bound themselves to everything that came after. Who cares any more what particular knot they used in the binding?" A.R. Moxon

saw this circulating on Instagram the other day and I can’t stop thinking about it. “Who cares anymore what particular knot they used in the binding?” is such a perfectly expressed repudiation of the “economic anxiety” framing

A graph of atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations at the Mauna Loa observatory, Hawaii, from 1958 to 4th February 2025. It shows carbon dioxide levels rising at an accelerating rate over the decades. This is known to be due to emissions of carbon dioxide from human activity, mainly fossil fuel burning but also deforestation. The first CO2 concentration value in March 1958 was 315 parts per million (ppm). The latest daily value is 426 ppm. The graph also shows a seasonal cycle of a few ppm within each year, which is known to be linked to the growing season in the northern hemisphere causing a temporary uptake of carbon in spring and summer and release in autumn. The graph is produced routinely by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego.

Although NOAA's page on atmospheric CO2 levels has vanished, you can still get this vital information from Ralph Keeling's team at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego keelingcurve.ucsd.edu

Please follow bsky.app/profile/keel... for updates and share

Don't let science be hidden

Not a critique, just an observation

Thanks for this! Captures some more recent joiners too!

Texas’ capacity addition growth rate is maybe caught up to California’s now

#EnergySky RMI's Order 1920 fact sheet has now been updated with information on Order 1920-A! Check it out at the link below ⤵️

rmi.org/insight/unde...

Unfortunately that’s not a success story for wind. It’s a dolled up reminder of blade recyclability issues. Thankfully the industry is taking on the challenge very seriously, including ventures like joint polymer research.

Great answer. Balances systemic change w/ personal action.

One more I’d love to see make lists like this: Productively engage on local decisions for wind, solar, storage, and transmission lines in your community. Shape project outcomes and support getting things built! …I need to work on my pitch.

The vibes… no but seriously the concept of “ambient information” solidifies a phenomenon I was trying to articulate.

More people are riding Amtrak than ever before, and improvements are on the way | CNN Amtrak welcomed 32.8 million passengers on the passenger rail system, a 15% increase from the previous year. Customers can look forward to rail service improvements in 2025 with billions in investment...

Amtrak welcomed 32.8 million passengers on the passenger rail system, a 15% increase from the previous year. Customers can look forward to rail service improvements in 2025 with billions in investments.

Ex-insider here, it is truly being considering as a serious solution for many years now. I can say that because it’s largely stated publicly. There are pros and cons. Some call them Airships though.

What articles? Link to anything in the past 5 years.