jpv.switch.box
Executive director of think tank @switch.box. Climate policy and data science. Mostly here to ask questions!
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from the beating heart of Western Civilization?
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but almost nobody actually gets off the grid, and rooftop solar folks without storage use the grid all the time
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So if your house has higher heat loss, you'll be generally less comfortable and the unit will switch over the resistance backup heat more readily?
(Planning on reading through Home Comfort book!)
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How much sealing/insulation is needed to electrify the typical (old) single family detached home in New England and the Upper Midwest, and why?
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Thunderbolts* is good actually
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Intellectuals can have a lil essentialism, as a treat
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The better was better in Milwaukee
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Fucking _maintenance_. Not "build elevators in 2/3rds of #nymta stations that lack them," but maintenance... bc 10% of existing one don't work on any given day.
Shameful. There are no excuses. Do better
@mta.info!
(And thank you to @riseandresist.bsky.social for mobilizing on this absurd issue.)
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No, the bit in West Africa that uses Fahrenheit!
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Is that Liberia?
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I agree with OP so I will apply confirmation bias to dismiss @zoltannagy.bsky.social's point about familiarity bias
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ok i actually lol'd at this one
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plus ça change..
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TIL your child is an orthodox Marxist—revolutions aren't made, they happen, necessarily
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building the labor movement was much more glamorous in 1925
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welfare-state-via-tax-code is not very pro-natal, arguably
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It's pretty late in the day for this kind of thing to still be so commonplace
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Have you tried asking?
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I definitely had to google that... which outs me as being only middlingly online.
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Cool! Tell us more =)
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paging @christaggart.bsky.social @mikeebloomberg.bsky.social @sarabaldwin.bsky.social @bslotterback.bsky.social @vladgutman.bsky.social @emilypont.bsky.social @costasamaras.com @lissaharris.bsky.social @buildingdecarb.org @shreyassudhakar.com @kevinjkircher.com @jeffstjohn.bsky.social
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I honestly can't tell if this is satire
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not my wonkiest quote
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Amazing thanks!
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Fairly sure in absolute terms, not at all sure in per-GDP terms
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paging @kevinjkircher.com
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I think it really depends on what compute workloads predominate the data center. Batch workloads like training AI models should be pretty interruptible.
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The more accurate takes I've seen is that China is investing the most—by far—in clean energy and EVs. This is true.
It's also true, at the same time, that they're still building a bunch of fossil fuel plants.
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This is wild.
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