pjoshwilson.bsky.social
Clean energy nerd, wannabe technocrat, slow AF runner, cattle dog minder, and kidney donor living in Buffalo, NY.
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Who said the goal is to make the GOP honest? I though we were talking winning elections.
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For example, I usually walk to work, but on the coldest days I am much more likely to drive or take the bus.
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This is a tough ask. My BEV loses about 45% of its efficiency in winter, and coldest weather means people need their cars more because walking and biking are more difficult especially when combined with snow and ice. So the natural tendency is much higher BEV energy use on coldest days/weeks.
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Domestic manufacturers will be protected indefinitely within the countries that have them. I don't see the US giving up 4M manufacturing jobs and not sure I'd want it to.
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Spotify's algorithm is easy to avoid by following artists, creating playlists, and pushing in tracks from apps like Shazam. Unlike social media, there are competitors with comparable catalogs, so easy to jump if Spotify ever became heavy handed. This is why Spotify mostly hasn't enshitified.
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I don't recall the details of the NYT piece, but Aviv writes about Andrea Munro and her sisters' evolving understanding of the abuse and their relationship to each other. I thought it was insightful about truth and art and families.
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In the US the challenge is NIMBY and right wing politics. We're entering a political period where renewable incentives will probably be gutted. History (and South Korea) show us that nuke costs go down and speed goes up when construction is scaled. Put together, maybe nuke needs to be on the table.
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In the face of reduced and declining PM 2.5, it's a value-laden decision what is an acceptable impact. Combustion is tied to traditions and comfort for many, and individuals and communities will need to figure this out. So I'm OK with this home being lifted up even though it has secondary wood heat.
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Does that include an assumption for methane capture and flaring by the landfill?
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Being fooled and doing bad journalism is different than 'fake news'.
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Interestingly, none of the ghost job ads were ads to hire hiring managers.
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For a more accurate estimate you need to model weather, electric resistance
heat use, grid emissions, refrigerant losses etc. but you get to around the same place. And of course renewables make HP much more beneficial.
wcec.ucdavis.edu/analysis-of-...
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NG-generated electric, air source heat pump: 3.0 heat pump COP, 0.6 efficiency for CC natural gas plant, 0.8 transmission and distribution losses, so 1.44 total for HP heat versus 0.95 for gas heat. So rough estimate about 30% GHG savings using conservative assumptions.
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It's a good question, and it does, even versus natural gas electric generation which is more GHG efficient than coal or oil. Back of the envelope: NG heating best case is 0.95 efficient ignoring methane losses from residential distribution.
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BTW, speaking as a Buffalo resident where our Main St pedestrian mall failed and is sadly being reverted to cars.
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Yes they are loved, but love isn't enough. Need to make sure we learn from the many failed pedestrian malls of the past, focus on good planning, and tie these to a broader urban program. www.governing.com/assessments/...
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This is an important question. Check out @timothysnyder.bsky.social short book On Tyranny for a practical guide. Here's rule number 1.
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The goal isn't a cut in US emissions, it's a cut in overall emissions. Doesn't more US LNG exports increases overall emissions?
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I could reuse my indirect DHW tank as a storage tank, and add an electric DHW tank and a small circulator. Carbon savings are large given our nuke and hydro electric mix. TLDR: electric resistance hot water could make sense vs NG where electric is clean and time of use rates are cheap.
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Interesting. This might make a good stand alone action here in Buffalo, NY. We have relatively clean electric and I have a Time of Use meter bc of my EV, $0.078/kWh off peak. Switching from NG to electric resistance is only an extra ~12% energy cost and avoids cycling and wearing out my boiler.
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Domestic hot water loads are higher in the winter here in Buffalo NY, while solar resource is ~30% winter versus summer. Our solar abundance issue will happen here, but probably only to serve loads that can be avoided during winter.
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I'm not here for politics, I'm here for knowledge sharing in fields I follow, especially clean energy. And I hate being subjected to bad algorithms and bad repetitive ads.
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Well, they said the Steelers were in a rebuilding year with zero window and they're 8-2. Good organizations figure out how to find success.
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I get the idea there may be better transit investments, but please explain what you mean by saying free fares "runs counter to a lot of elements of good systems."
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No fan of EM or robots, but with the status quo of almost everyone owning a car and being incentived to use it all the time, seems like cheap robot taxi might shake that up and mitigate VMT. Especially by catalyzing ride share.
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In NYS, often owned by the IOU and this can be an obstacle to upgrading to LED. Our PSC has created a path for LGs to purchase and upgrade their streetlights and many have. But, City of Buffalo still hasn't been able to figured out this out and still hasn't upgraded its 30K lights.
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I was a kidney donor in 2022. Check out the FB group called Living Kidney Donor Support Group. Great community of donors and folks considering donation.
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At this rate it will be 100%renewable 20 years before the next nuke plant gets built.
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Hey! Yup still here. We sometimes think about greener places but hard to imagine really leaving.