Katherine Derbyshire

@kewms
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Renewable energy. Climate science. Semiconductor manufacturing. Also @kewms at the bird site.
Carbon Zerohttps://tocarbonzero.tumblr.com/
Semiconductor Engineeringhttps://semiengineering.com/author/katherine/
Katherine DerbyshireJan 11, 2025
emptywheelJan 10, 2025
I'm wondering if there's a way to point out that the GOP has gotten everyone terrified about 3,000 Trans kids as a way to distract everyone from the damage done by 800 billionaires in the US. www.npr.org/sections/sho...

'A very, very small number' of...
Katherine DerbyshireDec 6, 2024
https://bittersoutherner.com/feature/2024/black-earth-north-carolina-farmer
#ClimateJustice #SustainableAgriculture
Black Earth — THE BITTER SOUTHERNER

In North Carolina, a Black farmer purchased the plantation where his ancestors were enslaved— and is reclaiming his family’s story, his community’s health, and the soil beneath his feet.

THE BITTER SOUTHERNER
Katherine DerbyshireNov 24, 2024
I wrote a (short) thing. #GridResilience #Climate https://tocarbonzero.tumblr.com/post/767868168370896896/freezing-in-the-dark
Freezing in the dark

There's nothing like a power outage to make you appreciate fossil fuels. The Pacific Northwest encountered a bomb cyclone this week, smashing a lot of trees and leaving hundreds of thousands of people...

Tumblr
Katherine DerbyshireNov 19, 2024
Marc AbrahamsNov 19, 2024
Nature magazine interviewed Ig Nobel Prize winners about how winning the prize has affected them. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-03756-w
How a silly science prize changed my career

A levitating frog, a necrophiliac duck, taxi drivers’ brains — the Ig Nobel prizes have shined a spotlight on offbeat work. Here’s an inside look at how winners feel about this sometimes unwanted ‘honour’.

Katherine DerbyshireNov 19, 2024
Climate News NowNov 18, 2024

A $60 Billion-a-Year Climate Solution Is Sitting in Our Junk Drawers.

In rich nations, just a fraction of trashed electronics is mined for critical metals. We’re going to have to up our game. #ClimateChange

https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2024/11/demand-critical-metals-e-waste-recycling-clean-energy-climate-vince-beiser-book-power-metal/

A $60 billion-a-year climate solution is sitting in our junk drawers

In rich nations, just a fraction of e-waste is mined for critical metals. We’re going to have to up our game.

Mother Jones
Katherine DerbyshireNov 17, 2024
“If you bury your hands into the soil, will it know you?
Fingertips whispering, unspooling;
Invisible twine, reaching for the land.”
— Monica Perez Vega
“Bury My Songs”
It’s Freezing in LA!
May 2024
#WritingCommunity #PoetsOfMastodon
Katherine DerbyshireNov 14, 2024
Show threadsadele2Nov 13, 2024

@GottaLaff

“Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots & fools whose lack of intelligence & creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty”

- Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism

(via benhammerhead on Bsky who added: "To save time, I’ll just repost this with every position choice announcement from the Trump camp. Why? Because it fucking fits.")

Katherine DerbyshireNov 12, 2024
Dr. Elizabeth Sawin✨Nov 11, 2024
The clean energy transition is happening as part of a web. There are global forces, there are local partnerships. And as I told Matt Simon for this piece, you can cut out part of a web but other parts remain. https://grist.org/economics/hell-try-but-trump-cant-stop-the-clean-energy-revolution/
He’ll try, but Trump can’t stop the clean energy revolution

The cost of renewables is plummeting, heat pumps are selling like crazy, and red states are raking in cash from the IRA. There's no stopping the inevitable.

Grist
Katherine DerbyshireAug 3, 2024
Kevin BeachusAug 2, 2024

Silicon plus perovskite solar reaches 34 percent efficiency
https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/08/continued-progress-with-dual-layer-solar-cells/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Climate Change & alternative power @climate-change-alternative-power-kevinbeachus9

Silicon plus perovskite solar reaches 34 percent efficiency

There are still longevity problems, but things continue to get better.

Ars Technica
Katherine DerbyshireJun 12, 2024
I wrote a thing. https://salishmagazine.org/edmonds-marsh/ #ecology #estuaries
Edmonds Marsh

In addition to exploring the ecology of this estuary, a very diverse ecosystem, it tells the tale of the destruction and rebirth of the marsh over the last 150 years.

Salish Magazine