Matthew Smith

I do not believe that is possible to be honest while pushing the lie that switching to a heat pump, which provides heat two to four times more efficiently than burning fossil fuels is not cleaner than burning fossil fuels.

I don't know if you are incapable at mathematics or if you are dishonest.

The best way to oligarch-proof your information ecosystem is to follow this starter pack I made of news outlets that actively avoid Generative AI Slop

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Yes burning oil is bad. But what % of the ISO’s total generation is oil over the last 30/60/90 days? Over the last year? Is oil even above 1% for 2025 total generation?

I’m genuinely curious, I don’t know. While it’s crazy to burn oil at all, we should put that fact in context.

Is there a time stamp for that graph? My understanding is the use of oil for generation these last few weeks in ISONE has been the exception. I don’t know when the last time oil made up an appreciable percentage for more than a day or two, and for that, only in the middle of winter.

PB+J = bread + (soup + soup). I don’t what’s so hard about this.

Peanut butter is soup

If sodium ion supply chains and be established and demand maintained to achieve economies of scale, their lower cost (despite relatively modest energy density) should mean a lot more cheap grid-scale batteries … right?

Sodium-ion battery shipments are expected to grow 100x in four years? <spit take>

In Passumpsic, a Long-Lost Love Letter Is Found Under an Attic Floor At four pages long, the 1879 letter strikes a range of emotions, with mentions of “sweet kisses,” his-and-hers pillowcases, illness, and untimely death.

This @sevendaysvt.bsky.social story is so beautiful. The great human drama of an entire life unspools from a single letter. Please read to the end. www.sevendaysvt.com/arts-culture...

Thinking about lying Climate denial taught our leaders shamelessness

“Where the GOP learned to lie as a matter of course is an interesting question, and I’m afraid I’ve had a front row seat. I think it’s the climate fight, more than anything else, that taught them to regard reality as optional.”

Read @billmckibben.bsky.social on how we reached this moment

Bugs and Daffy standing by a tree, sign reads DUCK SEASON, then RABBIT SEASON then ELMER SEASON, and they both glare ominously off camera

classic Loony Tunes have much to teach us about class solidarity

This is a terrific and rich discussion on critical minerals. Key point for me is that if you want minerals ot batteries for drones or for other military applications, demand pull from EV sector was the way to create sufficient commercial market for them. Very difficult to get without EV demand pull.

In his defense, his work has given us the phrase “Gladwellian bullshit”—a useful term to describe oversimplified pablum that sounds nice but is usually wrong

Accountability for ICE and CBP However bad you think the corruption and misconduct at ICE and CBP is — the reality is far far worse.

I testified Friday before Gov. Pritzker's commission studying abuses of ICE and CBP and tried to explain how the agencies went so far off track. It's actually way worse than I ever realized. Please read and share my testimony as Congress considers reform: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/accountabi...

According to the EIA's short-term outlook, the cost of natural gas fuel to generate electricity is going to increase in price 73% by 2027. So, we should use less gas as soon as possible to save people money.

How to Film ICE Filming federal agents in public is legal, but avoiding a dangerous—even deadly—confrontation isn’t guaranteed. Here’s how to record ICE and CBP agents as safely as possible and have an impact.

NEW: The @wired.com Security desk put together a comprehensive guide to filming ICE—with tips for reducing risk at the forefront. No paywall, but please consider subscribing to help find these kinds of resources. And stay safe out there. www.wired.com/story/how-to...

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At least one is Brett Ratner.

‘The LED of heating’: cheap geothermal energy system makes US comeback Minnesota housing project to draw energy from water stored deep underground, 45 years on from city’s initial research

“Groundwater from wells across half of 45-ha development will be drawn by high-efficiency electric heat pumps, powered in part by solar panels, to provide low-cost heating and cooling with little GHG emissions for 850 homes and several light-industrial buildings” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Want to change energy policy where you live, but not sure how? This episode will get you started!

@esaagar.bsky.social Florida’s plan moves north.

"Global investment in the energy transition grew by 8% to a record $2.3 trillion last year..."

Asia Pacific region — led by China, India and Japan — was ~50% of global clean energy spending in 2025.

EU: $455 billion, up 18%.

US: $378 billion, up 3.5%
www.bloomberg.com/news/article... #energysky

Balmy 5F in coastal downeast Maine this morning. Checking to be sure the sump pump outflow isn’t frozen. I also checked the heat pump. Still kind of grumpy the defrost mode takes so long to kick in. This is not efficient. But we’re still happy with our heat pumps. #heatpumps #energysky #greensky

I've now had AI bots impersonate high-profile people I know and engage me in a DM chat that was initially passable on both Bluesky and Mastodon. Be careful out there folks. And if the account is new with few followers, that's a big tell.

Nazi in a bunker, you say? First good news I’ve heard all month.

The technical term is hobgoblin.

This mid-afternoon Alex Pretti vigil at the Portland VA was not heavily promoted. But the crowd probably stretches a quarter mile or more. Americans are galvanized and grieving.

Underneath the name Charlie Hebdo is a pile of bloodied dead bodies representing US citizens killed by ICE. The pile of bodies are collected in one corner to represent the stars of the US flag and the streaks of blood caused by them being dragged across the ground form the red and white stripes. In the foreground an armed skinhead officer with an ICE vest is dragging his latest victim with multiple gunshots to join the pile. The world is watching in horror.

Wow.

The front page of tomorrow’s Charlie Hebdo magazine in France.

It’s pronounced “Shawn Bawn.”

It's not fashionable to talk about consuming less as a climate solution because our economy is based on selling us crap that no one needs.

"ICE 101" — How Trump changed ICE and CBP into a fascist secret police ICE and CBP are fatally flawed products of the post-9/11 War on Terror — now Trump has weaponized those very flaws to occupy America.

Curious why ICE and CBP agents are so brutal? Here's a useful explainer I wrote last week, before Saturday's outrageous murder, about how uniquely unsuited ICE and CBP are for this moment—and why they were so corruptible into Trump's own fascist secret police: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/ice-101-ho...