Energy Mastodon today reminds me of Energy Twitter in 2008/2009. Small group but growing.

We need to consistently contribute quality discussion and it will get better.

For two countries relatively the same size, this disparity is mind boggling.

The US has some of the richest solar resources in the world along with great wind.

The cost and time to get to 90% carbon free would be much lower with better transmission.

July 2021 (and still true today)
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2021/07/america-is-bad-at-building-power-lines-lets-fix-that-transmission-climate/619591/

Hands down, best newsletter and site on Power Pricing and Grid Impacts

https://themeritorder.substack.com/ from @BPBartholomew

Subscribe if you have not; it seems to be free

Subscribe link is on About Page:
https://themeritorder.substack.com/about

Just listened to Ep. 188 of energy transition podcast (link below)

Glad to hear discussion on Cost of capital; huge factor in transition (and often not discussed)

Resiliency, Reliability and affordability is Key (....keep the lights on cost effectively)

We know a lot of what the future looks like; solar + wind + storage + transmission + efficiency

Lets build; we'll never get to 100% renewables if we don't get to 50%, 60%, 70% first

https://xenetwork.org/ets/episodes/episode-188-getting-to-a-100-percent-clean-grid/

We have a 2012 Honda Civic that is used 99% of the time for < 5 mile round trips and 1% of the time for 200 miles trips

Considering replacing it with a PHEV instead of EV (use less lithium, have gas engine for long trips)

Any reason an EV is better than a PHEV in our case?

Anyone can also help contribute financially via OpenCollective:

https://opencollective.com/mastodon

If any devs want to help Mastodon succeed, plenty of issues we can address:

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon

Anyone here helping fundraise for non profits to go solar, use heatpumps, anything "green"?

Would be very interested in helping

Had gas furnace serviced yesterday.

Mentioned to tech (very nice person), in a few years, will be moving to a heat pump.

Tech says big mistake; soon hydrogen will be piped to homes for heating.

Anyone else here this kind of nonsense?

Just became a full member of @TransitionShow (not on Mastodon yet)? @chrisnelder
Looking forward to listening

https://xenetwork.org//become-a-member-ets/