Or a good week…
Gonna be wild
Worlds are colliding. I'm not sure if I've listened to more hours of podcasts from @petersagal.bsky.social or @volts.wtf over the years, both definitely in my top 5. This is a team up that must have an exceptionally narrow but exceptionally interested set of followers.
This morning I successfully tested #BalconySolar at my home so I can understand what policies are needed to provide clean energy, local power, and lower costs, while keeping people and our grid safe and secure.
Chart and story from @michael-thomas.bsky.social
www.distilled.earth/p/balcony-so...
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#Electrify #Solar
Sooooooo dumb
Congrats on saving yourself ~3 hour (with intro, response) by doing literally anything else.
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 👍
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.
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.
@jortsthecat.bsky.social
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.
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.
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.
