Tyler McCormick

Distance between NYC and Miami is around 1200 miles. The trip on Amtrak's Silver Meteor takes 28.5 hours and costs $170 one-way.

I see more people walking and biking year round for transportation yearly and no infrastructure.

We fail people but celebrate vehicles.

Solar is powering renewables growth worldwide ☀️

Solar PV alone is set to account for 80% of new renewable capacity added globally between now & 2030

This comes from new large power plants & rooftop solar panel installations by households & businesses 👉 https://iea.li/3Bo7AAl

I did this a few months back mostly because I got a chuckle comparing it to the gas tax gas can stunts pulled before the carbon tax increase (but this actually does save some $).
While I do believe we should adjust the registration fees so that EV drivers pay a fair share this isn’t a fair way 1/

Sask. has no plans to follow federal clean energy regulations despite shared 2050 goal Saskatchewan says the feds have no jurisdiction to regulate electricity generation but a court challenge likely won't be that clear cut.

“As the federal government [moves] its target for a countrywide renewable energy grid…from 2035 to 2050, the province of Saskatchewan still refuses to comply.
“That’s despite…that 2050 was….the Saskatchewan government’s own target for net-zero power generation.” 1/
leaderpost.com/news/politic...

@tythiessen.bsky.social

*very narrator voice* yes, yes it was...

Can Support for Clean Energy Withstand Changing Political Winds? With billions in investment flowing to GOP districts, Donald Trump’s plans to repeal clean energy tax credits face Republican resistance. In an e360 interview, political scientist Leah Stokes, who hel...

I spoke with the great @leahstokes.bsky.social about what Trump 2.0 means for clean energy: e360.yale.edu/features/lea...

#Renewables supplied 55% of electricity used in Germany in 2024

> #coal use down significantly
> almost no change for #natgas
> 1st full yr w/o #nuclear
> net power importer

www.cleanenergywire.org/factsheets/g... @janrosenow.bsky.social @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org @simone-peter.bsky.social

Also Insurance companies are going to be charging and building it into their billing as they cut coverage due to climate change.

We just won't know how much more we're paying.

One chart, many stories. Predicted renewable energy deployment vs actual deployment.

Advanced geothermal. Watch this technology.

One of the most important and overlooked trends of 2024:

Enhanced geothermal costs have fallen 50%.

This technology could provide 24/7 clean power all around the world. It could be one of the most important technologies of the 21st century.

But still completely overlooked.

#skpoli

Trudeau government’s carbon price has had ‘minimal’ effect on inflation and food costs, study concludes Carbon pricing had a small impact on the rate of inflation over the past five years, when the climate policy was responsible for a "small fraction" of the surge in

What do you think?

After electing the guy who is going to axe the tax, which will result in exactly nothing as far as saving us all money, the people who fell prey to this misinformation will:
a - demand an explanation or
b - shrug and move on

A lot of people still don’t realize that dramatic cost reductions in geothermal is something happening *right now*, not theoretically in the future.

Here is a look at the cost numbers published by NREL every year for Deep Enhanced Geothermal. A 50% improvement in 2024 with a lot more to come.

#skpoli

Sign the Petition Impose Limits on Out-of-Province, Corporate, and Union Political Donations in Saskatchewan

100 signatures in 24 hours! Amazing!

Please share this far and wide. And sign if you haven’t yet done so 😊

I’d love to see a few hundred signatures when I bring it to the attention of those in power 😃

www.change.org/Saskatchewan...

YouTube video by Charlie Angus Charlie Angus on State of Democracy In a Beavis/Butthead Parliament

Democracy around the world is an unprecedented crisis.
Canada's Parliament is becoming an increasingly dumbed down and vicious place.
This is my speech on the failure of leaders to step up at this time.
It has become a Beavis&Butthead Parliament.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHPL...

Baseload power generators not needed to guarantee supply, say science and engineering academies Group of science and engineering academies agree that baseload power plants not required to support a renewables dominated grid, and are likely to make it more expensive.

Well, well, well.

Seems not everyone agrees we must have methane-gas "firm" generation in our grids.

reneweconomy.com.au/baseload-pow...

If you know a city councillor, feel free to share my 5 Tips For How To Make Council Not A Grueling, Pointless Slog. #yqrcc

I’d agree with you but we live next to Danielle Smith.

I think it’s an human education problem.

The use of gas will decline dramatically as part of the transition to net zero.

If fewer people use gas, how is decline of the system managed and who pays for it?

Register for my talk at @ox.ac.uk @oxfordenergy.bsky.social tonight: talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/d22...

Your neighbourhood gas station could be making you sick Any level of benzene exposure can cause adverse health effects — and in 2023, Health Canada examined the problem of gas stations and concluded gas station benzene emissions can be harmful to people li...

www.nationalobserver.com/2024/12/03/i...
Gas stations going away can't come soon enough.

Nope. Solar panels and net metering.

Now this is how you do a highway glow up!

Oslo, Norway 🇳🇴

2009 ➡️ 2024

The renewable energy transition is dominated by solar.

Look at the @iea.org modelling for renewable electricity capacity addition.

And yes, I know capacity is not generation!

How giant ‘batteries’ in the Earth could slash your electricity bills We're wasting too much of the clean energy we generate. Reservoirs and caverns can store excess solar and wind power.

How giant ‘batteries’ in the Earth could slash your electricity bills #Climate