Dan 🌎

Can confirm bagels etc are easily the best

For the first time the world is generating more electricity from nuclear fusion than fission! Now we just need nuclear (both direct and indirect) to surpass fossil fuels.

This is really an incredible article. Both nuanced and blunt at the same time.

@dcurbanist.bsky.social I feel like you would appreciate this haha

It was so much fun to be here!

America’s Right-Wing Propaganda Problem Might Be Terminal | Dame Magazine America’s descent into mass delusion isn’t happenstance. The demise of courageous journalism isn’t a happy accident. Its replacement with engagement-chasing infotainment and propaganda isn’t an error....

One under-appreciated, under-discussed explanation for Trump winning is simply that the people who voted for him believed a wide array of false things. The mainstream commentariat's refusal to center information rot has led to much confusion.

Highly recommend this piece from @karlbode.com:

I've legitimately thought the smell of cilantro matched that of stinkbugs for over a decade now, this is so validating

I've legitimately thought the smell of cilantro matched that of stinkbugs for over a decade now, this is so validating

It's not what you look like when you're doing what you're doing, it's what you're doing when you're doing what you look like you're doing

The movie still holds up really well but low key the funniest part of it was when the most devastating thing George learned if he had never been born was that his wife was an unmarried librarian

Watching It's A Wonderful Life last night and all I could think about was how this rural town in middle America had such a beautiful walkable downtown

We really need affordable clean firm power asap. Or go build data centers in the desert with a bunch of colocated solar + storage

I've been a long time consumer of your work. Would love to buy you a drink sometime while you're here!

a rainbow and a star with the words " i know you know " ALT: a rainbow and a star with the words " i know you know "

Renewables were 82% of new US generating capacity in September and 90% in first three-quarters of 2024.

Solar was 76% of new US capacity in September and 78% during the first nine months of 2024.

Solar plus wind are now more than 21% of US generating capacity; all renewables combined are 30%.

It certainly won't happen over the next four years, but some sort of tax credit or incentive to make solar cost competitive to build on US parking lots should be a no brainer

One stipulation is maybe not for parking lots in dense urban areas, where it would prevent them from being turned into housing

It certainly won't happen over the next four years, but some sort of tax credit or incentive to make solar cost competitive to build on US parking lots should be a no brainer

We should want review processes that are
1. Centralized (one big yes/no decision, not dozens);
2. Participatory/engaged (a real chance for views, concerns, ideas to be heard); and
3. Fast (clear time limits on decision; limited, fast appeal).
This is the way forward for energy infrastructure IMO

Outdoor streeteries was the best thing to happen from the pandemic, and cities tearing them down now is a travesty

First post... Is this thing on?