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Here to nerd out on energy policy. Occasional commentary on parenting and politics.
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CalSSA helped tank rooftop solar in California. Why pick them as byline for PR? I get a lot of questions from blue states on NEM 3. CALSSA could have managed the transition and outcome much better, w/ being professional and constructive as core tenant. newsismybusiness.com/insight-gov-...

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Heat pumps offer vast energy efficiency gains. They are 4x more efficient than gas boilers.

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submitted 132 days ago • 2 comments

Liberal tea party…barf

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(Bloomberg) - Microsoft Corp. has begun canceling leases for a substantial amount of datacenter capacity in the US, a move that may reflect concerns about whether it’s building more AI computing than it will need over the long term, TD Cowen said in a report. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

submitted 10 days ago • 83 comments

If the People’s Republic of Cambridge can build housing, you can too, Needham

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In a blistering statement, the American Bar Association describes "attacks on constitutionally protected birthright citizenship, the dismantling of USAID and the attempts to criminalize" diversity initiatives as "wide-scale affronts to the rule of law itself." https://buff.ly/4bb7dqp

submitted 24 days ago • 90 comments

Climate change communication in the real world — Science Moms has an ad during the Super Bowl this year! Our research shows that 70% of adults in the United States believe global warming will harm future generations. Watch the ad here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYwP...

submitted 25 days ago • 6 comments

No responses reminds me I have like 2 followers here

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The heat pump threads this weekend have me thinking about this washer- HP dryer set we bought a year ago. I nearly did a resistance dryer but glad I didn’t. This thing is A BEAST. We do an insane amount of laundry. I am not good about maintainence and it doesn’t care. Runs great, sips electricity.

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

This and offshore wind has reinforced two things: 1) don’t bank on meeting your goals through a few mega projects; 2) don’t bank on monopoly utilties. Many modular projects done by many parties limits the risk of failure.

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FBI Uncovers Al-Qaeda Plot To Just Sit Back And Enjoy Collapse Of United States

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Big EV News out of GM this morning. “Aside from its financial results, GM said it expects to continue rolling out new products to assist its sales and earnings. That includes electric vehicles, which the company said reached a targeted profitability on a production basis during the fourth quarter.”

submitted 37 days ago • 5 comments

Sanders somehow only gets worse

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As not evidenced by them for 20 years. Some can’t even meet obligation to serve new loads

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Whether or not you “believe” in climate change your insurance is getting more expensive… or it’s canceled. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

submitted 78 days ago • 10 comments

All I want for Christmas is a cost-based TOU rate, @massgov.bsky.social ‘s DPU

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I find it wild that people want to end institutions that reflect a time when the US was a far bigger part of the world economy, was flush with cash, and used it to advance its interests around the world. Were over repped in the UN. Like do we just want to be a ha-been in a multipolar world?

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I was over at my sisters. They are customers of a municipal utility. They went on the whole home TOU rate - 50 cent on peak (4-8PM) and 5 cents all other hours. And here I am on all this “connected solutions” business with National Grid. Give me a cost based TOU rate and you can keep the VPP!

submitted 101 days ago • 1 comment

When I was in grad school “reception cheese and crackers” was a meal

submitted 102 days ago • 1 comment

There’s a narrative that Gaetz was a deliberate head-fake — a distraction to boost the real candidate — but I am always suspicious of narratives that attribute four-dimensional chess to trump as opposed to knocking over the table and eating the checkers.

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