Mastodawn

@ElleGray when I was young my mom handed me a fork with bent prongs and pointed me to the nearest outlet

We are on a precipice. Solar is the new and plenty of it. Where we build solar is becoming a heated debate ( that is unintentional pun but it is quite apt)
Maniatoto is now facing that challenge too. A large landscape of open country. Ideal you might think for 660 hectares of solar panels.
Oddly enough, one of its small towns, Naseby, just became our latest Dark Sky Community. It also is home to an ice curling rink. Which both need no sun. It's a popular tourist town because of those features.
The McKenzie country will soon face a similar delema. Other parts of the country are and have already.
Electricity generation has a cost and infrastructure to power the insatiable need for energy we demand.

Maniatoto is about to join the rest I fear.

#solar
#electricty

https://www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/360855722/solar-wars-heating-rural-new-zealand

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ƧƿѦςɛ♏ѦਹѤʞ Sep 15, 2025

@davidbody
Yeah, I think Maxwell was pretty cock-a-hoop about it too.
:-)
#light #electricty

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iMAL Brussels Sep 8, 2025

If you already visited our exhibition or recently passed in front of iMAL, you've seen the microbial fuel cells of Sunjoo Lee's Electric Garden.

In a workshop she'll lead with Anna Pastor, you'll be invited to create an experimental installation powered or triggered by the activity of bacteria living in mud!

🔗 https://www.instagram.com/annaouanna/
🔗 https://sunjoolee.com/

The workshop takes place on 19 & 20.09, and you'll get to present the result of the workshop on Sunday 21st!

🌱 https://www.imal.org/en/events/c25sunjooanna

The workshop is filling up quickly already, so be sure to book your ticket soon! We offer a discounted price for students, teachers, citizens of Molenbeek, unemployed people, 65+ and members of our Fablab!

#workshop #brussels #energy #electricty #bioelectricity

ResearchBuzz: Firehose Apr 2, 2025

Tom’s Hardware: Open-source tool designed to throttle PC and server performance based on electricity pricing — lightweight CLI will automatically limit clocks during peak hours. “A robotics and machine learning engineer has developed a command-line interface tool that monitors power use from a smart plug and then tunes system performance based on electricity pricing. The simple program, […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/02/toms-hardware-open-source-tool-designed-to-throttle-pc-and-server-performance-based-on-electricity-pricing-lightweight-cli-will-automatically-limit-clocks-during-peak-hours/

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💧🌏 Greg Cocks Apr 2, 2025

Systemic Drivers of Electric-Grid-Caused Catastrophic Wildfires - Implications for Resilience in the United States
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https://doi.org/10.3390/challe16010013 <-- shared paper
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#wildfire #electricgrid #ignitioncauses #wildfireprevention #mapping #spatial #spatialanalysis #risk #hazard #fire #wildfire #climatechange #Anthropocene #humanimpacts #infrastructure #massmovement #debrisflow #engineeringgeology #denudation #environment #ecosystems #ecology #loss #cost #economics #residential #waterquality #water #hydrology #electricty #energy #LahainaFire #CampFire #MarshallFire #SmokehouseCreek #fires #bushfire #vegetation #wind #weather #landuse #humanimpacts #utilitycompanies #utilities #resiliency

Jericho Jameston Mar 10, 2025

Breaking #news: #Ontario, #Canada to impose a 25% #tax on #electricty imported to the #US amid #trade #war & #tariffs: #economy #politics https://apnews.com/article/canada-ontario-us-trump-tariffs-electricity-834dc3d9defd314923912f9bd8540e31

Ontario slaps 25% tax increase on electricity exports to US in response to Trump's trade war

Ontario’s premier, the leader of Canada’s most populous province, is now charging 25% more for electricity shipped to 1.5 million American homes and businesses in response to U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariff plan. Ontario provides electricity to Minnesota, New York and Michigan. Ontario Premier Doug Ford says Ontario’s tariff would remain in place despite the one-month reprieve from Trump, noting a one-month pause is just more uncertainty. Ford estimated the new tariff will add about $69 a month to the bills of each American affected.

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Ev Delen Mar 10, 2025

So, when we're selling electricity at negative values (that is to say we're paying for the American's to take it off of our hands) does the 25% apply and we top them up out of our treasury?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qlg18Oct_c

#onpoli #electricty #trumptariffs #dougford #idiot #WorstPresidentEver