Brendan McEwen

This is especially true when one considers that 40% of cars in North America are households’ 2nd vehicles…

problem is sharing the road with F350s being used domestically by sociopaths/bozos, and police depts are deciding not to enforce traffic laws… it’s scary on an ebike and a Kei Car too…

Colocating solar with Washington’s most valuable crop When designed right, colocating apple orchards and solar installations can be not only economically beneficial for the landowner, but produce a higher rate of marketable apples.

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Apple agrivoltaics reduces sunburn more than it reduces yields, resulting in more marketable fruit overall.

Other research with lettuce indicates land use efficiencies of 1.7 to 1.9 (i.e. 1 acre of solar+lettuce yields as much as 1.7 acres with them solo)

It isn’t designed to “know” when it is right or wrong.

Outrageous… I am so sorry for the people of USA… especially the communities being persecuted. Heartbreaking & terrifying.

Like have I lost my innate bloodlust?? I just don’t see why use cognizant animals, with all the ecological destruction of beef, for that kind of experience… I really believe it’s indistinguishable, folks

I’m an “economic vegetarian” - don’t create any demand for meat, but would eat if going to waste. A friend insisted I try a bite of their Jamaican pattie… so what the hell… no discernible difference… it’s like meh, ok

For at least 90% of the use cases of ground beef, using Beyond/Impossible will taste equivalent or better.

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure...

Which, come to think of it, means the cure is worth much more money per unit... which might (partially) explain why the right-wing kleptocratic media machine has been pushing vaccine fear...

New rule… we have to house all the people of Earth before using public money for some weirdos go off to live in moon rock igloos

Brilliant article!

Really makes you question the sagacity of propping up the anaerobic digestion practices through massive "low carbon fuel credits", as opposed to regulating/funding dairies/feedlots to achieve 80%+ emissions reductions.

bullshit accounting, literally...

I really appreciated Dr. Volts pressing these guys to explain the rationale for any sort of tariff regime on clean energy tech from China. And I wasn't fully satisfied w answers.

E.g. The energy security concerns are so much less for imports of batteries vs. oil. Batteries is capital, oil fuel.

If you have a theory that explains everything, it explains nothing.

could you say more about how in the oil industry not investing in exploration will "retrench fossil dependence"?

I think you're super smart, but confess I don't see how that follows...

oil majors know their industry is in structural decline in the coming decades...

Pay dividends, buy back shares. That's sound business judgment for developers of expensive oil (ie oil majors as opposed to OPEC) in a world with cheap EVs. And this isn't recent. This is the past decade. This is forever ago and a permanent shift in strategy.

OpenAI Offers ChatGPT To US Federal Agencies for $1 a Year - Slashdot OpenAI will provide ChatGPT access to US federal agencies for $1 annually through the General Services Administration's new AI marketplace that also includes Google and Anthropic as approved vendors. ...

Is there a more obvious trap?

OpenAI Offers ChatGPT To US Federal Agencies for $1 a Year
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300x per unit of mobility (miles per acre)…

Time for Canada to take advantage of all that low cost solar that Germany and the Netherlands helped create 15 years ago…

PLEASE take the goose and report back....

I wonder if he read the midtransition paper with @gruberte.bsky.social

We're close to a huge moment in the UK car market:

Chinese EV firm BYD is about to overtake Tesla

Former Israeli leadership ask Donald Trump to end Gaza war | The Jerusalem Post Over 600 former senior security officials asked the US president to compel Netanyahu to end the war in Gaza.

Over 600 Israeli former senior security officials, including Mossad and Shin Bet chiefs, asked the US president to compel Netanyahu to end the war in Gaza.
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That’s how I know I’m not a robot, at any rate

I don’t think a robot could be as incoherent and oblique as I usually am 🤣😭

Journalism didn’t “fall through”… appetite for his (generally excellent) writing. He apparently has some sort of chronic pain thing that makes sustained writing difficult.

His tweets can be rather bleak… I stopped following them for that reason. Writing & interviews v good though!

By failing to sanction Israel, EU leaders are complicit in its crimes. They must act now | Josep Borrell Europe’s silence has allowed the genocide of Palestinians to continue unchecked – undermining all it stands for, says Josep Borrell, a former EU high representative

From the high representative of the EU for foreign affairs and security policy from 2019 to 2024
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Lawyers, Guns and Money Warren Zevon · Excitable Boy · Song · 1978

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Peace Train - Remastered 2021 Yusuf / Cat Stevens · Teaser And The Firecat (Remastered 2021) · Song · 1971

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