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Building Electrification Advocate. Climate-tech curious. Engineering and research at the intersection of hardware and software. Enjoyer of well-designed interfaces between subsystems.
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So the US was supposed to report its greenhouse gas emissions to the UNFCCC yesterday. For the first time since 1997, it didn't. This follows last week's revelation that Trump's EPA is stopping collection of GHG emission from 40 of 41 sectors www.propublica.org/article/trum...

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“If wind is a bad idea, it will fail on its own. It’s not our job to kill an industry,” Rep. Jack Ladyman (R-Jonesboro) said on the House floor Wednesday. “It’s 20 pages of regulation and it’s government overreach!" Arkansas moves to ban wind farms. arktimes.com/arkansas-blo...

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fun fact, about 10% of refrigerator compressors (ie. parts for both replacement use and new manufacturing devices) are imported from china oec.world/en/profile/h...

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Thinking outside the box on building electrification policy! This is a great model by @berkeleyca.gov, and it’ll be interesting to see how it plays out over time and if other cities follow suit.

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@berkeleyca.gov just passed a groundbreaking policy: When a home is sold, it will be modernized—heat pumps, solar, and insulation—to clean up indoor air, slash emissions, and electrify. It is time for other California communities to act to build healthier homes.

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Yes

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That extremely basic climate-readiness proposals — like clearing five-foot safety perimeters around homes in wildfire zones — are still being argued over in even liberal cities tells us a lot about how ready the US is for the rapid worsening of the planetary crisis. www.kqed.org/news/1203586...

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The Trump administration and DOGE are trying to kill the federal government's appliance efficiency standards program by terminating the consulting contract the Department of Energy relies on to develop and enforce the rules: www.propublica.org/article/trum... by @peterelkind.bsky.social 🔌💡

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Everyone in DC seems to agree that China Bad and that the most important thing in the world is to Compete with China. OK, well: China is electrifying its economy faster than any other country in the world. Guess we better get on it!

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Is a heat pump cheaper to run than a gas furnace? As always: it depends. @twyspy.bsky.social does a great job unpacking the messy reality of California energy policy; especially how high electricity prices are slowing down building electrification. 🔌💡 🧵 (1/X)

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If you want to promote manufacturing, you should use industrial policy, not tariffs - @pkrugman.bsky.social

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There are likely effective vaccines for major health concerns like Bird Flu, Lyme Disease, and even multiple forms of cancer - just to name a few - but we just lost funding for further study, our entire vaccine advisory group, most drug approval personnel at FDA, and HHS is overseen by antivaxxers…

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1/4. On the White House’s theory, if they abduct you, get you on a helicopter, get to international waters, shoot you in the head, and drop your corpse into the ocean, that is legal, because it is the conduct of foreign affairs.

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Trump essentially told the Supreme Court to kiss off today. This is, by definition, an autocracy, explicitly illegal. Stand up now or it will be too late.

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Big Journalism is still doing stenography instead of showing the reality of the Trump regime's headlong race into fascism. At TechDirt, @mmasnick shows how journalism could work if it located a spine. www.techdirt.com/202... 1/2

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This was my classmate. He was a student in my ethics class, and we used to sit next to each other. Most dedicated person in the class to legitimate justice for all people. He legitimately cared. I am so horribly heartbroken

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This is terrifying! Trump admin wrongly deports a man to gulag in El Salvador. Supreme Court says admin must effectuate his return. Presidents of El Salvador & USA say they wont do so. If this stands, what's to stop Trump from abducting ANYONE, sending to prison abroad with NO recourse??

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