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I think we're all failing to appreciate the full implications of this. A more electrified economy is not only cleaner, but cheaper (gen/stor tech), smarter (2-way dynamic mgmt), and can grow much faster (cheaper multi-scale infrastructure). China energy propulsion just kicking in.

submitted 45 days ago • 0 comments

💯. As a participant in the @davidenergy.bsky.social VPP in Texas, it's a clear no-brainer value add to anyone with solar + batteries. In 1st 5 months, I am netting ~$68/mo for 100% net negative power bills compared to 2 years when I was just selling power back to the grid at moments of excess.

submitted 48 days ago • 0 comments

A metaphor from high school physics is on my mind today: if you polarize light both ways, no light gets through. Hope we can get past this polarized light phase of society, and back to the wonders of broad-spectrum illumination of every topic including and respecting every color and shadow.

submitted 57 days ago • 0 comments

Is this a good time to point out that this is faster than ERCOT in Texas during Uri, and Centerpoint in Houston after Beryl? Still curious to read honest after-action reviews, but kudos to the teams who pulled off the repowering of Spain & Portugal last night. www.bbc.com/news/article...

submitted 58 days ago • 0 comments

Glad/sad that others are coming to the same conclusion...

submitted 59 days ago • 0 comments

100% agree. Not the time to be investing in better sails! That this is where we would be heading with better tech has been clear to me for >20 years. We turn back to nothing but our own loss.

submitted 66 days ago • 0 comments

Great thread on wide opposition to Texas Senate Bill 819 that threatens our energy transition leadership. Focus is on rural economic development and property rights. Hope politicians got the idea that sunshine and wind are energy resources as compelling today as oil and gas have been to our past.

submitted 73 days ago • 1 comment

Profoundly insightful, and in the end, darkly hopeful. Not a mea-culpa at all as the headline suggests. Proposes a recovery following post-Jacksonian analogy involving the rise of neo-Whigs as a cultural, civic and political force. Do read this: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

submitted 80 days ago • 0 comments

Most important new idea to throw in the mental hopper for watching current events unfold in the coming days. TL;DR: disagreement about remedies to a financial crisis amongst previously supportive elites is the likely trigger of authoritarian regime collapse.

submitted 80 days ago • 1 comment

my parents were born in a Great Depression and it looks like I may grow old and die in one

submitted 81 days ago • 2 comments