So Chris Wright isn't wrong about the history of coal.
But, um, either he didn't check the numbers in the scenario **he lobbied for inclusion in the @iea.org's reports**, or he's got a condition he's not telling us about.
A little checking-the-numbers video on Chris Wright's Final Destination:
H.R. 1897 is moving fast in the House and could hit the floor for a full vote as soon as tomorrow. This bill would gut the Endangered Species Act forcing economic impact considerations into listing decisions, limiting your ability to challenge bad science in court,
impressive, great work!
yeah it seemed like it was encrypted I guess I was curious why skyking is a known nuclear force call out. Seems like that would be on some secret channel that others can’t listen in on. aviation comms aren’t my specialty so I appreciate the clarity.
why are they broadcast in the clear?
To be fair, I’d be drinking excessively if I was part of the Trump admin.
While a good statement I can’t help but view religion as anything other than a bubble factory. Religion has convinced a lot of people to live and shelter their kids in this very bubble. So what do you expect to happen?
God this report is so good. Thank you, National Labs.
Factors Influencing Recent Trends in Retail
Electricity Prices in the United States
What do we know? Where are the gaps?
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I think they would have more carbon impact to buy wood fiber insulation for anyone that can use it properly.
Increased exposure to air pollution, such as particulates from fossil fuel combustion, correlates with increased rates of suicide.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Wow, and wow again.
Clean energy candidates have beaten a concerted campaign by Turning Point USA and captured a board majority at the Salt River Project, Arizona's 2nd-largest utility
Lots of us pitched in on this fight, not knowing if a win was possible. It was!
www.ariseia.org/news/clean-e...
SRP board goes to the clean energy candidates! Double win as that also means TPUSA lost. As an SRP customer I'm greatly relieved.
My midlife crisis is learning about brooms. When to use the right one, how to avoid kicking up dust and when it is finally acceptable to vacuum it up. Also leaf blowers have a special place in hell.
I'm curious what remediation for this looks like. If anyone knows details, I'd love to learn.
But it'll come back to the tax payer as the us gov will just bail these companies out of whatever.
Trump doing any and everything for oil profits.
We should also move away from using R-Value to using Thermal Diffusivity metrics for insulation--that's the other missing piece to the fire puzzle, otherwise you end up with rockwool, glassfiber or spray foam passivehaus buildings that will more quickly transfer combustion level heat to the interior
Cutino’s hot sauce all day everyday here.
this screams pfas membrane to me
Price of Crude Oil WTI (USD/Bbl) over a five-year period, spanning from 2021 to early 2026. The chart shows a significant price peak in 2022 reaching over $120, followed by a general downward trend with various fluctuations, eventually hitting a low near $55 in late 2025 before a sharp vertical spike to the current price of 90.900. This recent surge represents an increase of +23.880 (+35.63%), highlighted in green text above the blue line graph.
The real insanity isn’t how much oil prices have spiked, it’s that we’re still burning oil for energy.
Give away wood fiber insulation, we’ll sequester it in our buildings for hundreds of years.
stress eating has finally become mainstream
So, I'm trying to figure out a way to help participate in how we can grow this system. It seems we both want improved air tightness AND ventilation especially while using materials that sequester carbon.
We consult on a lot of buildings and good builders struggle to do the minimum on this front 😑
As a former software engineer, frameworks can make or break app success. Frameworks can offer performance benefits, but the most successful ones help engineers get into a flow state and know how to build something. This largely includes knowing where to take the product and how to design it.
The current system of building in the US (especially the Phoenix area) is particularly bad. What we've found is everyone wants to defer liability and that drives business practices.
Prefab seems to bring in a good dose of confidence on the liability front.
I do see building industry moving away from ad-hoc building towards more engineered solutions. Everything should have a home and purpose, it should be easy to assemble and easy-ish to disassemble for reuse.
Craftsmanship is about developing systems that they can use to iterate and grow or improve
I guess I’m not sure how prefab lends itself to helping develop more craftsmanship and such Which is something many cultures struggle with in terms of accessibility to building healthy with materials they have access to at a lower price point.
I’d love to have a discussion about off-site panel fabrication vs built in-situ
One isn't better than the other, but the upfront cost of building and managing a factory is quite large. We are positioned to maybe have a small production facility, but I like the idea of pieces being human movable.
