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📍DC, but moving to Portland, OR in February '23

#energytwitter, climate change, fixing stuff, #bikedc, beers, Battlestar Galactica

We should all be feminists https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hg3umXU_qWc

pronounshe/they
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remarkable that the balance of opinion of the NYT on trans issues is to the right of like 2/3rds of the country https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2022/06/28/americans-complex-views-on-gender-identity-and-transgender-issues/
Americans’ Complex Views on Gender Identity and Transgender Issues

Most favor protecting trans people from discrimination, but fewer support policies related to medical care for gender transitions; many are uneasy with the pace of change on trans issues.

Pew Research Center

Good bit re: wind

"Wind also performed well in this storm. At one point wind supplied a third of the generation needs in ERCOT, and wind was 20 percent of the generation in MISO. In fact, [...] if an inter-regional transmission line had been built in the region it would have brought in 4 GW of power from wind-rich Oklahoma into TVA. That would have been enough to power 1.1 million homes and keep those holiday lights burning!"

Nice article covering the benefits of transmission projects. I really love the tone and positioning around resiliency/helping out your neighbor; wish we saw it more often in energy reporting.

https://www.renewableenergyworld.com/solar/how-the-american-heartland-saved-christmas/

Efforts to avoid the pain and uncertainty of this moment sets up the dominant society for more pain and uncertainty in the future. It slows reaction time while the momentum of exponential growth pushes us further beyond ecological limits.

Imagine if you couldn't feel pain of your hand on a hot stove, how much worse your burn would be.

In living systems pain is information that activates a response.

Helping each other take in the evidence and respond to it is adaptive.

@peter a Spanish colleague walked a bunch of us through making paella a few months back. The saffron featured prominently as a key, expensive ingredient.

Fed raising rates won't do anything to solve this. Gotta switch to renewables, with their predictable, steady costs.

RT @[email protected]

“By one estimate, fossil fuel price increases drove 41 percent of inflation in the United States.” https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/25/opinion/gas-prices-crisis-climate-change.html

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/dwallacewells/status/1607051504808075264

Opinion | This Year Was the Beginning of a Green Transition

Switching off fossil fuels is going to be a bumpy ride — an energy disruption.

@lamasoo so much respect for you, Jessy 🫡

Hacking on the Mastodon source to add a Hard Mode setting.

- No backspace in toot box.
- Toots automatically submit on close.
- "Delete" resets your joined date.

RT @[email protected]

If you let any story cut through all the Twitter noise today, please let it be this:

At least six local news websites across Alabama and Florida have been secretly taking payments from power companies to run stories attacking clean energy + other policies
https://www.npr.org/2022/12/19/1143753129/power-companies-florida-alabama-media-investigation-consulting-firm

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/emorwee/status/1604866859018473474

In the Southeast, power company money flows to news sites that attack their critics

Alabama Power and Florida Power & Light hired the consulting firm Matrix to help shape their fortunes. Matrix funded six sites that covered politics, filling a void left by the decline of local news.

NPR
Hey #bikeDC #bikeMD #bikeVA people who miss being able to cross the Potomac using White's Ferry: there's a rally and fundraiser being held Thursday, Dec 29, at the White's Ferry Grill. Free coffee and cocoa for rally attendees! It's been two years since the crossing stopped - let's bring it back! #bikeToot