John Dodge Hayes

Comet Lemmon: Found it tonight! Photo taken at 7:45pm PDT from the beach in Monterey, CA. 60sec exposure on my Pixel 9 in Night Sight mode.

YouTube video by Mark Z. Jacobson Busting a myth about how much mining is needed for fossil fuels versus renewables

Busting another myth. This one on how much mining is needed for fossil fuels versus renewables.

We will need orders of magnitude fewer mines and orders of magnitude less mined material in a clean, renewable energy world.

www.youtube.com/shorts/8NZ0E...

YouTube video by Mark Z. Jacobson Busting a myth on how much land is needed for the U.S. to run on 100% renewables vs fossil+biofuels

A transition to 100% Wind-Water-Solar across all energy sectors in the U.S. requires only 35% of the land used for energy by fossil fuels and biofuels today.

It is current energy that is hogging land. Renewables reduce land use.

www.youtube.com/shorts/ccu-Q...

Greta Thunberg & Jane Goodall

#JaneGoodall #environment

Everyday should be Earth day.

A bus of Bronx middle schoolers pulled up to the Capitol this morning for a long-planned field trip just a few hours after the government shut down.

All Capitol tours were cancelled as the guides can’t work in shutdown.

So I escorted them in myself and gave them a personal tour. They were great!

And another reminder that a transition of the U.S. to 100% WindWaterSolar across all energy sectors reduces private annual energy costs to Americans by 63% (giving an energy-cost payback time of <6 y) and total social energy costs by 86% (payback time <1 y).

Tropical Storm Mario has formed in the Pacific. No doubt we'll get some Spaghetti models with this one. Letsa Go!! 🤓

On Utopias, Imperial Decline, and Monterey, California Some of our treasured utopias will be washed away with imperial decline. But we can remember what made them magical as we imagine a new, post-imperialist world.

On Utopias, Imperial Decline, and Monterey, California
www.un-diplomatic.com/p/on-utopias...

California on pace to become 100% WindWaterSolar 24/7/365 by 2033

57.5% of all demand in 2025 met by WWS, vs 52.4% in 2024.

2 more >100% WWS days for 176 of 229 (76.9%) in 2025

Gas down 25% v '24 & 43% v '23

Demand down 2.4% v '24 & 2.6% v '23 despite more EVs, heat pumps, AI

Where is the energy emergency requiring more fossils?

U.S. annual-average end-use supply & demand for all power from all fuels and across all sectors: transport, industry, residential, commercial sectors, have been constant (only 3.3% increase) from 2000-2023 (latest data).

Here is how U.S. all-sector end-use power demand & supply would have decreased 1960-2023 if we had gone through the 5 stages of electrification to transition the U.S. to WindWaterSolar.

End result: 56.7% less demand.

Can still do this in the future

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It's mid-August and the California ISO grid is using 25% less fossil gas in 2025 than from Jan 1-Aug 13, 2024 & 42% less than from Jan 1-August 13, 2023.

WWS has supplied 57.5% of all demand in 2025 v 52.4% in 2024 and 48.3% in 2023

At this pace, CAISO will be 100% WWS 24/7/365 by 2033!

21% less fossil gas used in CA so far in 2025 than in 2024 & 40% less than in 2023

Demand also down 0.6% v 2024 & 0.8% v 2023

So much for claims that
1) We need more fossils to meet increase in demand due to AI
2) Grid can't stay stable unless we use unleash more fossils

Is the GOP listening?

Wind+solar 95.7% of new US capacity Jan-Apr 2025

Wind: 2,183 MW-18%
Solar: 9,451-77.7%
Gas 511-4.2%
Oil 11-0.1%

WindWaterSolar now ~33% all US capacity

Wind-11.8%
Water-7.7% hydro; 0.3% geo
Solar-11.0%
Tot: 30.8%+roof PV->~33%

www.windtech-international.com/industry-new...

Happy 17th Anniversary to WALL-E! 🥳🎉

From left to right, a blue ocean wave covered with yellow-white foam crashes toward brown rocks at bottom right. The sky above is blue and the wave trails white spindrift as it rolls toward shore.

Many thanks to the members of California’s congressional delegation and to California’s Governor who stood up for the health of the ocean and California’s future with their opposition to expanded offshore oil and gas leasing along our coast. #ActForTheOcean #FossilFuels #OuterContinentalShelf

2 years ago year to date, fossil gas output on California's main grid was 93% higher than solar output

In 2025, solar output is 32% higher than gas output

Gas output has dropped 41.4% and solar output has risen 50% in 2 years

Battery output has also risen 215%

According to utilities and skeptics in 2009, when this paper came out,

web.stanford.edu/group/efmh/j...

it was impossible to keep the grid stable with more than 20% WindWaterSolar on the grid, let alone 80%.

No blackouts on the California ISO grid despite a huge growth in WindWaterSolar. In fact, no blackout since 2020

Instead, we have had 52 straight and 93 of 125 days of >100% WWS in '25, for an average of 4.3 h/day

To boot, 45% less gas has been used in '25 than in '23 and 24% less than in '24

This is a new image from #JWST.

The bright points with spikes are stars in the Milky Way.

Everything else is a galaxy.

Everything. Else. Is. A. Galaxy.

The President of the United States has chosen to throw the economy into turmoil.

Two golden-brown waffles and two clear plastic containers of syrup sit inside a white polystyrene foam take-out container. They rest on the lap of a person holding the container in the front seat of a car. A black steering wheel is in the background. Photo by David Tran under a creative commons license, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/

We have a big win to celebrate! Thanks to California's bold leadership in enacting #SB54, we can say goodbye to plastic foam takeout food containers. The statewide ban took effect because producers didn't reach a 25 percent recycling rate by Jan. 1. #PlasticPollution #ActOnPlastic #CircularEconomy

The Rapid X-band Polarimetric Radar (RaXPol) from OU'S Advanced Radar Research Center (ARRC) beautifully captured the tornado near Matador, Texas last night 🌪️

At it's fastest rotation rate, RaXPol can complete a 360° spin in just 2 seconds and a full volume scan in as little as 20 seconds! #txwx

California overtakes Japan to become the fourth largest economy in the world

www.newsweek.com/california-o...

But that's not the big news. The big news is the 4th-largest economy in the world is breaking records in and is busting myths about growing huge amounts of WindWaterSolar on its main grid

We press forward with determination, grounded in the values that have made us a trusted and effective advocate for ocean conservation. We lead with hope. The path may not always be straight, but our commitment and belief in humanity’s ability to come together and heal the planet is still unwavering.

This one is for the Earth.

Happy Earth Day!

Graphic showing a stock chart plunging and a man in distress. Text reads Tesla quarterly earnings call happy hour Hosted by the teenagers Pine Box, 1600 Melrose Ave, Seattle Tues April 22 5:30p

Reminder Seattle friends: come celebrate the Tesla quarterly earnings with us tomorrow night at Pine Box and meet more local @troublemakers.bsky.social!

California dreaming weekend

36th/37th straight 100% Wind-Water-Solar days (78 of 110 in '25)

Most WWS as % of demand: 155%
Most solar as % of demand: 132%
Most hours >100% WWS: 9.42

Gas down 45% v '23' 27% v '24
Solar up 54% v '23; 24% v '24
Batteries up 197% v '23; 74% v '24

This picture is concerning. The planet is much closer to us than I thought.

Wow, the Poppy bloom around the new Hilltop Park in the Monterey Dunes is really something! A boatload of chocolate Easter Bunnies to the Peeps who planted and tend to them and the other native plants. Five stars!