Tom Ptak

Repositioning energy geographies in a time of crisis: Arguments from a subdiscipline on the margins of geography - Thomas Ptak, Ryan Stock, Siddharth Sareen, Ankit Kumar, 2025 While a range of rapidly proliferating crises shaped by anthropogenic climate change is profound and generating a raft of spatially-centred energy research, ene...

Written in response to this insightful and timely paper by @tomptak.bsky.social @ryanjstock.bsky.social @ankitkumar.bsky.social @sidsareen.bsky.social in @dialogueshg.bsky.social doi.org/10.1177/2043...

Hahahaha indeed

My gas util does this also, their letters make great paper planes for my kids…

Important paper that offers an evaluation and critique regarding the current state of energy geographies before outlining a few pathways that the authors think can help "move the needle" and advance the subdiscipline. How do you think we can move the subdiscipline forward?
doi.org/10.1177/2043...

A real pleasure collaborating with three titans of Energy Geographies. Contact me if you’re interested in the article but without institutional access.

I left twitter, it was morally indefensible to stay on the platform as the owner is truly horrible human. Beyond that, it’s full of ads, disinformation and hate speech…

I’m show you mine if you show me yours 🤔

What Causes California Fires? Power Lines Can Be a Contributor. Officials are probing whether electrical equipment sparked the Los Angeles fires. Such infrastructure has ignited vast destruction in recent years.

Many of CA’s most destructive fire (along with those in Texas and Hawaii) were ignited by power lines. While under grounding lines is expensive, so are fires. How will utilities navigate this and other challenges moving forward?

Woo hooooo a massive milestone achieved today on Bluesky. After four posts someone finally liked one. @nickhedley.bsky.social Thank you for your service!

In turbulent, challenging and sometimes downright bleak times it’s never been more important to focus on positive developments.

Google unveils 'mind-boggling' quantum computing chip It solves in five minutes a problem computers now would need 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 years to work out, Google says.

Ok supercomputer, solve climate change please…

2) Maximize efficiency (no need to build massive amounts of anything before improving largely inefficient incumbent systems)