Eric Williams

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#Electrify #Solar

Sooooooo dumb

Congrats on saving yourself ~3 hour (with intro, response) by doing literally anything else.

Metal disc which says, "Gold Medallion Home - Live Better Electrically"

Solar panels on the roof of a home

Induction stove just after being installed

Electric heat pump water heater used to replace a gas water heater

As the #Olympics wrap up, I'm celebrating our Gold Medallion Home, "Live Better Electrically"

Solar - 2014
EV - 2015
Heat Pump Water Heater - 2023
Whole home battery - 2024
Induction Stove - 2025

One step left for Total Electric Award, replace the furnace.

Cheaper, Cleaner, Better - Together

Glad you got that backward hand/thumb condition fixed 👍

Solar panels on the roof of a house with snow, the bottom has been cleared and exposed using a "roof rake"

The roof a house with snow melting away after being cleared by a "roof rake"

Solar energy monitoring software showing sharp increases when snow slides off the solar panels

Even with snow as deep as the 6" we got last night, by exposing the bottom to heat from the sun, the #solar panels warm and the snow will melt and slide off. You can see where I used a "roof rake" this morning. Monitoring software is tracking blobs of snow sliding away in the afternoon sun.

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"They should be supported and prioritized over full EVs based on how much less gas they *COULD* use, they have great potential savings"

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This is fossil fuel backed slow-walking 101

Someone played Universal Paperclips and was like, “yep that went great, i’ll do that.”

Is it nearly everything?

I'm guessing it's nearly everything.

President Trump and Administrator Zeldin Deliver Single Largest Deregulatory Action in U.S. History | US EPA Alongside the President, EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin announced the single largest deregulatory action in U.S. history.

Maybe if we just don't talk about fossil fuels causing damage to the stable and habitable environment, it will just go away. #DontLookUp

Yes, it will.

www.epa.gov/newsreleases...

#DontLookUp

I accidentally started doing this with the small/cheap flat bamboo spoon-thing that came with my rice cooker. I use it to scrap stuck things from my cast iron because it removes food but doesn't damage the seasoning.

Coal: 18th century technology, today!

Looking forward to vigorous opposition from all of the extremely principled “We shouldn’t pick winners and losers” crowd.

And now back to our regularly scheduled evening.

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It is halftime, tell all your friends!

@jortsthecat.bsky.social

Can you post to let us know?

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Don’t threaten me with a good time

You can watch live,

Platte River Near Fremont

www.platteloupriverwatch.com/camera-feeds

Rapid warming melts the frozen river, causing ice chunks to flow downstream, with the possibility that they will get stuck and lead to ice jam flooding.

As soon as that starts happening, any local control or decision making about energy policy is invalidated. Utilities can say they “want to close a plant”, wait to get hit with section 202(c), and then gouge customers for dirty energy outside of the regulatory process.

The biggest risk as I see it, is that utilities who agreed to shut down plants because they were uneconomic are now going to seek financial recovery approval from FERC. If that is awarded, it’s the federal government intentionally paying MORE for unnecessary, dirtier energy.

Trump administration issues third order to keep west Michigan coal plant running Consumers Energy planned to shut down the J.H. Campbell coal power plant on Lake Michigan in May. Successive orders from the Trump administration have required the company to keep it running.

I think Michigan was getting close to court action as well. I believe that was the first FPA Sect 202(c) order, re-issued twice more since. Another deadline will come up in a couple weeks.

www.michiganpublic.org/environment-...

As far as I know, none of the other mandated-coal-plant-operations have yet made their way two or through the judicial process to establish any precedent.

Coal plant owners say DOE ‘emergency’ order to run it violates Constitution By mandating the generator’s availability to operate, the order “constitutes both a physical taking and a regulatory taking” of property by the government without just compensation or due process, the...

Seems like the court(s) will have a say on the legality of this type of order very soon.

One recent relevant example,

www.utilitydive.com/news/doe-eme...

No, economic development doesn’t “need fossil fuels.” Projections about future demand for oil, gas, and coal that misunderstand or ignore the clean energy transition must not be used to justify investments in future-sunk-cost infrastructure.

We need this discussion on stage at #DERvos 2026

I’ve often heard that number as 300x but still… more than *2 orders of magnitude*

Difficult to think of other technological improvements available today, with no new breakthroughs, that are that much better… but which we intentionally DON’T use.

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The climate change denial science from this administration was illegally bad and wrong. This type of nonsense has no business in policy making at the federal, state, or local level.