Michael Powers, founding partner of Oceanside-based Stellar Solar, said lower midday pricing will give ratepayers some much-needed flexibility to shift their electricity usage away from the 4 to 9 p.m. block. 🔌💡
www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2026/04/20/d...
Dont get me started haha our electricity bills have basically 3-4x'd since 2020 (and we switched from socal Edison to sdge but pretty similar rates)
This segment went up quickly and is already generating electricity across a wide span of canal. It also includes enough vertical clearance to accommodate a small backhoe, as requested by the canal maintenance team.
#SolarCanals💧☀️🔌💡
I have great great news. My utility is doing super off peak daytime rates. My personal renewables strategy now makes economic sense. bsky.app/profile/terr...
We’re excited to launch our new podcast on the History of Hydrology! 🎙️
This series brings together expert interviews to explore how hydrological science has evolved over time— & how past insights continue to shape today’s water challenges and solutions.
blogs.egu.eu/divisions/hs...
NYC has fewer pedestrian deaths than LA not just on a per capita basis, but in aggregate.
In 2025,
NYC: 111 deaths
LA: >150 deaths
Excited to attend the ribbon-cutting for the next segment of California’s solar canal initiative later this month in Hickman. Imagine generating solar power over 4,000 miles or so canals across the state. A lot of Sierra and Colorado River water to save via avoided evaporation.
Having a web form built is literally the example exercise in a "how to use agentic AI" LinkedIn course I glanced over!
Also used it to a script that gets a Google form for event submission that generates an email yes/no approval and adds events to a gcal!
If it's public facing or accessible to the Internet you need to be careful with DB attacks (not an expert here just know that's a thing).
BUT - you can totally get a web form built or a script to process an existing form into your DB. Claude very good for prototyping.
NGL this is great use case to try Claude code to setup a test DB in sqlite not anything else + give examples of how to access it. You should talk to a professional about cyber security concerns with DB access.
Story from 2017 but largely unchanged - BECCS (and indeed most "negative emissions") are largely a model fudge factor to hit emissions targets that are increasingly in the rear view mirror.
Cheap and easy to put CO2 in the atmosphere, hard and expensive to pull it out.
Does anybody know of a chart of refrigerant legality/phase-out timelines in the various major markets (U.S., EU, Asian markets)?
EV sales surged everywhere apart from the US, rising more than 20% globally in 2025
* EVs were half of Chinese sales and electric truck sales in China tripled
* EV sales outside CN/Eu/US grew 80% (!)
10/10
THREAD: The IEA global energy review 2026
* CO2 record high, but growth nearly ground to halt
* Clean energy shaved 3bn tonnes off CO2
* Fossil-fuel power pushed into reverse
* Age of Electricity "confirmed"
* "Extraordinary" solar growth
* Batteries up 40%
* EVs up 20%
1/10
🔥🛢️BREAKING: The Russian oil refinery in Tuapse was hit hard overnight, footage shows widespread fires raging across the site, with a lot of separate fire outbreaks visible.
There's a book on here called Earthquake and the Invention of America The Making of Elsewhere Catastrophe. Something for the #climaterisk folks.
global.oup.com/academic/pro...
Yep!!!
One of the poasters is talking about #climaterisk
Global Sustainable Insurance Summit 2026 Virtual Series
Implementing the Ceres 10-Point Plan for Climate Action
#climaterisk
events.ceres.org/gsis-2026
Yep. Totally agreed. Once individual entities would begin to realize there's this (relatively complex) unlimited funding tax credit mechanism to upgrade their infrastructure they'd be extremely excited.
Ah. But everything else I mentioned would've counted! Not sure on how good medium/heavy duty EVs are yet but would've also been a big big upgrade (obviously gone) especially with onsite solar.
And sugar!
One of the biggest adult kitchen learning steps has been to stop buying jarred pasta sauce and just buy canned crushed tomatoes or blanched tomatoes and make a sauce. So much better and so easy
There's giant blowers which pump air into the aeration tanks all day. They have big electricity loads! Did IRA credits cover replacement or repairs on those? Really feels like an underadvertised to segment that could've used it.
Fundamentally though people didn't know! If they knew they would've adjusted some of their CIP's to work in a basically free electricity project or front loaded CHP/digester projects which I think also benefited.
My wife works at a civil firm mostly doing wastewater, also some stormwater/infra work. How many ww plants could've benefited? She told me about a local plant who got floating solar for one tank and now generates so much they want to install onsite EV chargers to give employees free charging
