Anne Thrall-Nash

I was an evangelical teenager and it was women that didn’t shame me or call me an idiot, but quietly gave me access to the other parts of life that helped me find my way out. I am eternally grateful to Susan, Ginger, and Pat for ignoring the hateful parts of me and nourishing the curious parts.

All these fascists bound to lose

Couch Street

Alas, no. I was as April’s meeting which was really informative. Have a great time!

CREPC-WIRAB?

For the love of everything, why??? And if it is as simple as generating false demand, whose actual money pays for what’s supplied for that demand?

Agree that it is so hard to be concise when talking about electricity regulations and markets, particularly in WECC outside of CAISO. Just so many layers of intersecting jurisdictions
and non-jurisdictional entities. There are no easy solutions either, which is what people want.

Ok here is something that my brain won’t stop thinking about: does the 6% energy burden metric need to be reevaluated given that the externalities of fossil fuels means most electricity was too cheap at the meter when the metric was developed?

It’s not just large projects that reach EFSEC that are opposed in OR on “save the farmland” grounds. A small 10-acre battery project is being opposed in the Hillsboro area right now because “oh my god it ruins the agricultural character of the area”.

I feel like you should be accustomed to this cycle by now

Trying to imagine what would have happened if Dems in OR had tried this when Senate Republicans returned from fleeing to avoid a cap-and-trade law passing several years ago.

Boo

I think all of this is great, but in my experience living in the Bay Area for 16 years the rental buildings, both apartments and homes, were mostly old, with terrible windows and almost no insulation. Is there any effort to change that as well to really reap the benefits of heat pumps?

My Saturday afternoon spent swimming in the Willamette River was facilitated by a massive infrastructure project that was only undertaken because of a lawsuit under the Clean Water Act. The rollback of environmental laws will have long-reaching effects in ways that most people will never understand

If I have to explain to you why it's a bad idea to use a machine that makes shit up 15-80% of the time AND destroys the environment AND contributes to rising fascism and genocide AND puts brilliant skillful creatives out of work by stealing their work, then we're already speaking different languages

I am having trouble reconciling the DOE I was a Fellow for a mere 5 months ago with the DOE as it exists now. It’s so disorienting.

Global emissions from heating are about 4x those from cooling.

Air conditioning is an important and lifesaving adaptation to climate change.

Decarbonize the grid.

The concept of energy burden needs to be talked about in terms of total household expenditures, i.e. housing+transportation, to be able to illustrate that displacing total fossil fuel use is beneficial. I mostly see them discussed separately.

Shoutout to the person that organized finding 900+ people to sign this document. Hope your name ends up in history as well.

I love the Rivers of London series and the St. Mary’s Chronicles series for good English humor and offbeat mystery+ some sci-fi/fantasy aspects.

For a great primer on this phenomenon see Heather Mcghee’s The Sum of Us

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These GOP Congress people have never sat in a diner at 1am contemplating a family member’s new diagnosis and it shows.

if you’ve ever wondered why “escaping small scale subsistence farming” has been humanity’s primary group project for the majority of our known existence, it’s because small scale subsistence farming sucks real bad

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

As the wife of a naturalized citizen, this is crazy. It cannot be the case that Congress people call for denaturalization proceedings based on political differences.

I am the daughter and sister of T1 diabetics and this made me tear up. This is why we need to fund scientific research consistently with no political agenda. If the stem cell debates of my youth had gone the other way this would not be possible l.

Thank you for sharing, the idea that people will not have to go through the death by inches of T1D is so good

My entire adult life has involved Republican presidents running up enormous debts by cutting taxes and starting unnecessary wars and then bleating about fiscal responsibility and I am so sick of it.

Far away from infrastructure in fire zones! What could go wrong!?