robertferry.bsky.social
Climate policy, society, and the built environment. Architect, LEED AP BD+C, and Co-founder of @landartgenerator.bsky.social. https://landartgenerator.org
Let's build an equitable world in harmony with nature.
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Cuts to tax credits = RAISING taxes.
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I think Utah is leading in this.
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I’m pretty sure even ChatGPT would refuse to offer a variation like this.
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Right‽ Instead of just letting hard working immigrants lovingly feed us, take care of our kids, etc while contributing to social security through payroll taxes, it somehow makes sense to spend tens of thousands per abducted immigrant to jail them, try them, and fly them to some random other country?
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Also completely ignoring the absolute need to electrify gas appliances, transportation, and industry (note the conceded point that CCS is too expensive), which will vastly increase EGU share of GHG emissions and therefore its “significance.”
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Thank you!
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It’s living but with jazz hands.
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This feels like the scene in the Matrix where Neo dodges bullets.
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Nice design!
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Beautiful! Thanks for sharing.
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Classic gaslighting technique
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I suppose the challenge is to co-locate the use with the generation. Once you rely on transmission to get the power to the end use, you have to oversize the transmission as well.
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Yeah. I thought so too. Back on the old site I got very tired of the green Bitcoin folks using that as an argument that the technology is good actually. Of course we could also desalinate water, pull carbon from the air, or do any number of other more socially useful things with the energy.
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Even when there is enough battery storage to close down nearly every gas power plant, there will still likely be more solar generation than can be used up by charge cycles for many parts of the year. It's not an opportunity that goes away.
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What would Murray Bookchin think about the abundance agenda?
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It’s like an imaginary shortcut for doing the actual hard work of righting the imbalance of power by progressively taxing wealth and income and strengthening organized labor. It may be well intentioned and could do some marginal good, but ultimately it is solving the wrong problem.
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This is especially true for small island communities without freshwater reservoirs and where saltwater is encroaching on water tables and wells as sea levels rise.
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This is the only plausible scenario that could lead to his election as president. He left his name off but we all know what he’s doing here.
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Walnuts are basically protein snowflakes. #thisbeautifulplanet
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Our entire economy now is driven by day traders refreshing social media apps.
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It took just one week for Mountainhead to be overtaken by real world events.
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The focus on lower income households is good here, but the process seems onerous and unless the program pays 100% I wonder how many low income homes are able to cover the difference, which is still thousands of dollars.
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As Western Australia implements US $3,231 per household and zero-interest loans for new battery storage systems, California’s SGIP program is winding down.
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Classic both-sidesism (one is actually true).
“Those shifted costs were estimated to be about $8.5 billion last year, according to the state’s consumer advocate. That’s disputed by the solar industry, which points to research showing rooftop-panel users save other ratepayers $1.5 billion annually.”
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They are not “centrist.” They are right-wing, just not far right, which is where the entire GOP is situated.
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Love this!
Custom color face glass has been around for a while, driven by the building integrated PV cladding industry. You can even do custom graphics. Slightly lower efficiency (darker colors = better) but well worth it to bring solar to more places and increase its popularity as a design medium.
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Has anyone looked at what it would do for the cost of electricity once the new system is operational at 100% capacity? I’d imagine that it will lower the kWh tariff all other things being equal. Great to be able to sell this feature to the voting public.