Andrew McDonnell

Felt it (in Fairbanks)

Glacier Outburst Floods: Mendenhall Glacier Every year since 2011, Juneau, Alaska, has been impacted by a unique type of flood that can only occur near places with glaciers.

If you're a storymap kind of person, here's one that nicely explains what's happening & why with the glacial lake outburst flooding now underway on the Mendenhall River near Juneau. #akwx #ClimateChange #Flood #Glacier @spiraledu.bsky.social @alaska.bsky.social

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Just saw someone call the military occupation of DC a distraction, and that’s it, the it’s a distraction people have lost it. We should wait until the bulldozer is running over your house and all chime in with “isn’t there something else we should be talking about”

After a Pennsylvania coal plant was shut down, emergency room visits for pediatric asthma declined by 40 percent, according to new research.

We are moving in the wrong direction.

If the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) is repealed and rolled back, Alaska could see an average residential energy cost increase of 13% or $530-$680 per year by 2035 in some modeled scenarios. #akleg

Yes, recently got the old one back, but I think it was in a separate delivery.

A great op-ed from Alaska Historical Society calling on the BOR to rescind their motion.

UA board of regents is willfully complicit with a lawless administration www.newsminer.com/opinion/comm...

Banning words is worse than even banning books. Words are the building blocks of ideas and books and protest. Our lives and human knowledge-all the architecture of words.

Ok. So 1000s of federal jobs. The FAA. Energy projects & major grants. Now the USPS. Basically all the interests of the whole state at risk. Let’s play “what will it finally take for AK’s congressional delegation to stop bowing to a fake king & represent us, their constituents, aka their employers?”

Field Performance of South-Facing and East-West Facing Bifacial Modules in the Arctic This paper presents the first systematic comparison between south-facing monofacial and bifacial photovoltaic (PV) modules, as well as between south-facing bifacial and vertical east-west facing bifac...

Vertically mounted bifacial panels do great in snow covered high latitude regions www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/14...

A team from SpaceX is being brought in to overhaul FAA’s air traffic control system Staff shortages are about to get even worse.

Ahhh, i see
1. Richest person on Earth spends $277M to buy an election.
2. In return, gets delegated unconstitutional power to throw Gov't agencies "into wood chipper"
3. Swoops in with his own company in to fill the vacuum of critical gov't services he created.

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District heat networks here in Alaska could provide long term energy security by tapping waste heat and renewables to offset our need for gas, oil, and coal.

A visual representation of global temperature change from 1900 to 2100, illustrating past and projected warming relative to 1850-1900 levels. The timeline includes historical data up to 2020, where temperatures were about 1.1°C warmer than pre-industrial levels. Future temperature changes are depicted under different emissions scenarios: very high, high, intermediate, low, and very low. The color scale ranges from blue (cooler) to dark purple (warmer). Human figures show the expected lifetime temperature exposure for individuals born in 1950, 1980, and 2020, reaching 70 years of age in 2020, 2050, and 2090, respectively. The diagram highlights how future climate conditions depend on present choices regarding climate change mitigation.

No one alive will experience a better climate than today. But young people will experience a much more dangerous and chaotic world in the future, and the extent to which that happens will depend on our choices today. Trump doesn't care because he's old and a sociopath.

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I need people to play attention to this 👇 and to what I said on Thursday

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The destruction of politics is coming for the economy

Firsthand Accounts: Fairbanks has cut 200 jobs, closed 7 schools, eliminated programs, and increased class sizes—yet more cuts loom. The district has done its part. Now it's up to lawmakers to act. Pass HB 69. www.ktoo.org/gavel/video/... #akleg

Where do I find a map of the trail?

Egg prices are soaring again. Here’s why and what to expect Bird flu has killed millions of hens in recent weeks, shrinking the supply of eggs and hiking up prices at grocery stores.

The price of eggs in the US is spiking, mostly due to #H5N1 bird flu. Solving the problem requires urgent, important communications from the CDC & FDA* and rapid development of research by the NIH**

* Currently paused by Executive Order
** Grant reviews now all canceled
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GVEA Encourages Preparedness for Potential Challenges in Energy Supply JANUARY 13, 2025 – Golden Valley Electric Association is reaching out to its members to raise awareness about potential energy supply challenges in the coming months, primarily predicated by the...

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Today in Fairbanks, #Alaska:

1. learned our kids will likely go to a different school next year b/c the district plans to close 5/15 of the elementary schools

2. Power company informed all customers they may have to resort to rolling blackouts this winter due to inadequate power supply.

Great!

A modern home in Pacific Palisades survived the fire while all the homes around it burned. It was luck, but also it was made to withstand a wildfire, and it did.

I spoke with the architect who designed it, plus other architects, about designing for disaster: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

An afternoon visit with Mount Shuksan, North Cascades National Park, with Mount Baker in the background. #landscapephotography #photography #blackandwhitephotography #aerialphotography #mountains

Yep here comes another

Wow, it just landed here at FAI. Wouldnt be be surprised if more do the same

Picking up my New Year's reading again, and thinking about how important resilient infrastructure is to our safety and well being as a society. Its importance and vulnerability in an era of climate change and instability requires new investment in system resillience and capabilities.

KARL Cooperative Housing / Praeger Richter Architekten Completed in 2023 in Bremen, Germany. Images by Antonia Leicht. Cooperative Housing Project - In 2019, the KARL cooperative was awarded the site on Friedrich-Karl-Strasse through a conceptual developm...

KARL - a a mixed use passivhaus coop in bremen by praeger richter featuring deck-access units that double as balconies and community space. units from studios to 3 bedrooms. community garden. bike garage. community room. workshop. roof deck and community kitchen.

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Alaska Reliability Council's working group completed the development of TPL-001. This standard establishes Transmission system planning performance requirements to develop a System that will operate reliably over a broad spectrum of conditions and following a wide range of probable contingencies

Developments Alaska Railbelt Reliability Council (RRC) Developments

This morning Alaska's Railbelt Reliability Council's working group completed the development of BAL-005, a reliability standard that deals with automatic generation control and frequency regulation. The standard will advance to the RRC Board for a vote in February. www.akrrc.org/news-and-upd...

Developments Alaska Railbelt Reliability Council (RRC) Developments

Alaska's electric reliability organization, the Railbelt Reliability Council (RRC) has hired its first CEO, Ed Jenkin. www.akrrc.org/news-and-upd...

Looks like it is actually in Kenai Peninsula Borough (which extends across the Inlet), but not Kenai Peninsula