This is brutal. The broad American public perception is that importers to the US bore the cost of tariffs, when the vast majority of the extra costs were passed on to American consumers and manufacturing firms, who will never see that money again.
My guess is this is all going to happen much faster than our electric utilities are ready for it. Passenger electric vehicles offer a mildly better service, whereas electric trucks can dramatically reduce per tonne costs and could enter really quickly.
Once they are broadly available, BEV freight trucks will save so much money, provide so much value, they will enter the market really fast, adding to already strained generation & transmission. *When* they charge will be the key thing until deeper charging networks are available.
And guess what happens once the Chinese have made enough electric freight trucks for themselves, paying off the cost of the factories? They will export them to the rest of the world at the cost of variable inputs
(materials, energy, labour), i.e., super cheap.
We have an apparent cure for most people with pancreatic cancer—a profoundly swift, deadly cancer—and the position of the U.S. government is that it should be banned. This is real fall-of-empire stuff.
this is so ridiculous as to not warrant a comment.
If tech bros were really interested in improving human potential they could support universal healthcare, universal basic income and universal education.
instead they just want eugenics
Was there no means to challenge that at the time? Isn’t there an army of environmentally oriented legal NGOs in Washington?
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? We literally just watched the US & Israel try to obliterate Iran & were stopped by electronics store drone tech. China has been rewriting the global transport and electricity industries for 5+ years. Pretty soon someone is going to make a stealth sea drone that will make aircraft carriers useless.
Drone footage from the Great Barrier Reef Foundation captures 64,000 green sea turtles near Raine Island in Australia's Great Barrier Reef. #AGoodPlace
Source: www.reddit.com/r/NatureIsFu...
a map from 1918 showing the interurban network sprawling across Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, and Ohio
One side obsession from my research into the 1920s is the extensive network of ELECTRIC trains that used to connect cities and towns across the central Midwest called the Interurban. We had this more than a hundred years ago. The things we had and the things we lost.
Apparently the Germans were on mass stimulants invading France during WWII, not sleeping for days and days - was this the beginning, or does it go back earlier?
The late 1960s is often referred to as the high point of early drug culture, but the more you dig into biographies of major political & artistic figures from WWII on, they were high as kites. de Beauvoir on amphetamines for 14 months while writing The 2nd Sex, Kennedy, Eden during Suez. 1/n
When and if Europe desires new champions, I nominate Sanchez (& Zelensky 😉). Sanchez's speech at Tsinghua U is incredible.
Big batteries have begun reshaping the U.S. power grid. Now, the country has made surprising strides in making those energy storage systems itself, rather than depending on imports from China.
Good news! No pay wall.
Just when Vancouver starts to get to you, it does things like this
I wrote this on the parallels between Suez 1956 and Iran 2026 – and how we should not presume that leaders in the past acted in more sophisticated or dignified ways than leaders today
My general impression is that developing country demand for these technologies is undercounted and underforecast. Existing Chinese "overcapacity" sets the stage for aggressive marketing and pricing, which really helps developing country buyers participate.
Carney is doing a lot of things he can rationally be attacked on, e.g., reducing fuel excise taxes against basic economic logic, but attacking his credentials and knowledge is futile.
With statements like this it’s questionable whether Poilievre actually wants to appeal to a sufficient swathe of society to form government, or just desires the adulation of a segment of society that resents formal education & knowledge. Our system only works if there’s a contest for power.
The journey by the separatists to see the US admin and their engagement is seen as far less intrusive as what de Gaulle did in Québec.
There’s zero perception in Alberta that they may be Brexitizing themselves. Any federal role getting the oil sands off the ground is ignored completely.
I found out some people dear to me are Albertan separatists, some just “to get the leverage Québec bought with its referendums”. The grand bargain the Liberals tried to buy with TMX didn’t stick at all. The resentment towards central 🇨🇦 elites is … palpable. I’m still processing this encounter.
The IEA has been criticized lately both for having a NZ scenario & changing its scenarios under US pressure. This is a symptom of the structure of global governance, which is relatively highly funded by the US. If we want to disengage GG from any one country’s politics, we have to diversify funding.
Ok, who decided to "improve" Bluesky and broke it?
Nerd alert: Canada's GHG Inventory for 2024 just released. It shows that progress has stalled (emissions down 0.3% from 2023 levels).
www.canada.ca/en/environme...
A positive approach to O&G production & climate would be to reduce fugitive methane to low levels (<0.5%), electrify as much of it as we can (compressors, devices, lower heating needs), & apply CCS to blue H2 production for refining & upgrading, all high impact actions with low to moderate costs.
The reality is Canada’s oil and gas community has never been happy with any sort of climate constraint, and is using the opportunity of the Trump crisis to try to destroy as much of it as they can while they can.
I’m glad @maxfawcett.bsky.social has the energy for this. Suffice to say our industrial carbon price was designed to reduce competitiveness impacts, specifically with a US with little climate policy. Emitters only pay the full price on a small portion of their GHGs, and very low average price.
I’m not sure “mad” is the word, profoundly, ignorantly incapable of assigning agency and thought to their adversaries, more likely.
