Jhon Martin

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Oh dang. This is an excellent analogy.

I might be able to get behind this!

Line chart showing that there's been a rapid escalation in how quickly the world installs a gigawatt of solar power capacity.

Time for the world to install a gigawatt of solar power capacity
2004: A year
2010: ~ a month
2015: ~ a week
Now: < A day
ourworldindata.org/data-insight... 🧪

Why are we allowing our president to make America look dumb and Xi look like the more reasonable party?

Good job Vietnam! Maybe you can inspire the US...

Addressing e-waste...

Please be true. Please be true.

Power, Obligation and the Universities In the mid-80s when I was a teenager I had a brief...

I think @joshtpm.bsky.social has written the best account of why universities have to stand up to Trump. If you've been given great privilege, the implicit bargain is that when the chips are down you'll behave with honor and courage
talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/power...

For perspective, phone and laptop batteries have ~300-500 cycles before they drop to 80%. EV cars ~1500-2000. These 10,000 cycles before dropping even 1% (to 99%). Battery tech keeps getting better (if we invest in science).

Smarter planning

I'm not anti grid, but I am anti monopoly and anti homogenization. More local energy please!

I wish Chevy all the luck in their EV endeavors...

Europe kicking ass in solar.

Go Minnesota!

More good news (and China is leading. Will the west catch up?)

This is amazing.

Here we go...

Yes please

Keep celebrating the good/hopeful things.

And another nod to hope.

Conservation increases sustainability.

I'm not giving up yet.

The US is so far behind China.

Solar generation grew by 30% in 2024, says IEA The International Energy Agency’s latest market analysis says global solar generation surpassed the 2,000 TWh mark in 2024. It grew by 30% year-on-year for its highest growth rate since 2017, adding 4...

Hoping this continues despite efforts to shut it off. www.pv-magazine.com/2025/02/20/s...

In 2004, it took the world a year to add a gigawatt of solar power — now it takes a day To mitigate the negative impacts of climate change, the world needs to quickly transition from fossil fuels to low-carbon energy sources such as solar power.

I hope we can keep this trend going in the US. ourworldindata.org/data-insight...

Not all is bad.

Most cities should be 15-minute cities.

"In Spain, getting rural communities to accept visual burdens in their backyard for the sake of national climate goals is proving to be a hard sell." — I don't understand the "visual burden" of windmills. I wonder how they feel about agrivoltaics.

long live the academic research paper!