this was bill gates' idea to address email spam in the 90s

This is my favourite graphic.

It's incredible how far DAYTIME solar has already come with almost no batteries.

Just think how this will change with batteries, when instead of daytime solar, we get DISPATCHABLE solar.

The solar boom is only just starting...

🧂🔋📈

Climate Change Concern Near Its High Point in U.S. The 44% of U.S. adults who currently worry "a great deal" about climate change or global warming is near its 46% high point from 2020.

US elites decided, like a school of fish, that climate concern is old, boring, "woke," square, not hip & popular any more. As usual, it was based almost entirely on internal elite dynamics. It had nothing to do with the actual public, which is more concerned than ever.

I know this is true. I've known it for a while. I still have trouble believing it each time I see it because it is so mind boggling.

This is the fourth largest economy in the world.

"Fossil gas down 60% in 2026 v 2023."

I bet I could round up some software engineers to build this app for free for the city

It's the Dril tweet, but water and alfalfa instead of money and candles

you should think of modern agriculture like the oil industry: hugely necessary for modern civilization, massively damaging extractive industry, run by and empowering some of the worst people imaginable

cool! is there a Skill available?

it's easier to avoid breaking the egg than to unbreak an egg
-2nd law of thermodynamics

narrative somehow still hasn't broken through, and people are going to pretend to be really confused later this year or next why everything changed "all at once"

Why do they like biofuels? Because it keeps the "we must burn things" crew in business.

It's great for refineries which are owned by the oil industry.

They love their tax subsidized biofuels for burning.

In the era of EVs, it's one more way to keep the US in the past.

"As a result, the report forecasts that global oil demand will contract by 80,000 barrels per day this year. This contrasts with our earlier forecast, before the outbreak of hostilities, that global demand would grow by 850,000." - IEA monthly Oil Market Report

You guys ever think about how big the sun is?

First Conference on Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels Colombia and the Netherlands will host the First Conference on Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels. The Conference is designed as a space for countries, subnational governments and other stakeholders...

Next weekend's First International Conference on Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels is a significant moment. Long overdue, but a real step forward aimed at phasing out supply. This is a coalition of the willing representing about a third of the global economy. transitionawayconference.com

you're doing something right

Cheap Batteries Are Taking Over the World’s Power Grids Falling costs, rising electricity demand and the Iran War are nurturing a boom in energy storage.

"We’ve now crossed into a point where anytime anyone is looking at investing in the power system, batteries are one of the most attractive options,” said Brent Wanner, head of the power sector unit at the International Energy Agency.

www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

I'm gon a have to make my own bluesky feed to make this place tolerable, huh?

swords into plowshares

hell yeah

portland pizza week is coming

great chatting!

have we done "blaming ddos attacks on vibe coding is victim blaming" discourse yet?

i was on tumblr in 2008, there's levels some folks here aren't ready for

Want to ride an electric ferry? Here's where they're at across Canada | CBC News Electric ferries around the world are getting bigger and travelling longer distances than ever. They're also quietly arriving at quays across Canada. Here's where they're at across the country.

look, they have BOATS and the boats have BATTERIES www.cbc.ca/news/science...

BATTERIES

first weekend with the new EV

(a Tern HSD)

first goslings of the year, this is a good weekend

cc @drmitchpdx.bsky.social

The actual divide on this website, much like real life, is between people who are curious about the world and want to understand how it works and people who are very mad that the world doesn’t work the way they want it to

We will never subsidize our way out of a supply crisis without building more homes