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Jigar Shah @jigarshahdc.bsky.social · 1d

The electricity system is the largest commodity supply chain in the world that doesn’t feature storage. Every technology benefits from storage (esp Solar/Nuclear).

Top 1% of peak hours are 8% of your bill. Top 10% of hours are 40% of your bill
Batteries provide more tools to flatten out peaks.

Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 1d

Grid scale batteries are changing our electricity system. Excellent new visual story on batteries in FT today shows just how far this technology has evolved.

Fasten your seatbelts, this is just the beginning.

ig.ft.com/mega-batteri...

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hawthorne00 @hawthorne00.bsky.social · 1d

A “dynamic list” - at first arbitrary, then capricious as panic sets in?

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2d

a key thing about vought — and all of these guys — is that they have a totally top down and hierarchical vision of the world. they believe that the cultural changes they hate can be turned off by destroying the federal government because they can’t imagine that they emerged bottom-up in society

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 2d

What he’s railing against is a profound shift in culture, status… He’s obsessed with the idea that America is controlled by a leftist “ruling elite” - but “elite” isn’t defined socio-economically or by political power, it means something like: Getting to define “real America” and who gets to belong.

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hawthorne00 @hawthorne00.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah, they hugely overestimate the power of government and authority in general.

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hawthorne00 @hawthorne00.bsky.social · 2d

Heh, immediately brings a wicket.

hawthorne00 @hawthorne00.bsky.social · 2d

Dangerously early in this #INDvsAUS chase but it looks like they wanted a real hit.

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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 4d

First, they ignore you. Then, they laugh at you. Next, they jack up prices to be you. Then you win.

The Birds The Turtles and The Beast @turtlebee.bsky.social · 4d

The Frog Costume has gone from $25 to almost $40 on amazon over the last week. There's an army brewing.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 3d

Somehow, the Trump administration just brazenly and breezily burning renewable energy projects to the ground still isn't enough to stop the Abundance Agenda guys from blaming too many regulations

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The largest solar project in North America - 6.2 GW Esmeralda 7 project in NV - has been cancelled.

It takes >2 pages just to list the laws, regulations, & policies it had to comply with to be permitted.

Our permitting system is too complex with *far* too many veto points.

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hawthorne00 @hawthorne00.bsky.social · 3d

From the first image: "The younger cohorts, meanwhile, are not drifting rightward with age as previous generations did. They are staying put and with Gen Z, moving further left." As Poss says, this has been known for some time.

hawthorne00 @hawthorne00.bsky.social · 4d

"Free rider" - climate change is still a large numbers public good problem.

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hawthorne00 @hawthorne00.bsky.social · 4d

I assume this is a troll.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 6d

The opponents of wind and solar and climate action in general sure do love permitting reform

www.eenews.net/articles/mik...

Lee hasn’t met with House Natural Resources Chair Bruce Westerman (R-Ark.), who has been helping lead the push for a permitting overhaul and amending the Endangered Species Act.

A lot of Lee’s time has gone to helping craft the Republicans’ party-line budget bill, which is expected to include provisions to promote fossil fuel production and roll back Biden-era regulations.

Lee has deemed the idea of expanding renewable energy sources like solar and wind power at the expense of gas and coal “very disturbing.”

This weekend Lee made clear he also supports the sale of some public land to build housing. He called Democratic attempts to thwart such efforts “disgraceful.”

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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 6d

Perhaps not the main point but I always hate it when people view it as a sign of failure when poorer countries grow faster. There is absolutely no intrinsic reason why Poland should have lower income than the UK or any other EU country forever, and that means it will have to grow faster sometimes

Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 6d

"15 years ago, Polish workers came here to find opportunity. Now Poland is growing twice as fast as we are," says Kemi Badenoch.

Any ideas what may have happened in the interim?

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hawthorne00 @hawthorne00.bsky.social · 8d

They say it’s something in the water.

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 10d

"The fights for trans rights and Palestinians are over and we lost" is something I'm seeing over and over from cis white progressives. And I'm seeing variations of this popping up about racial justice, marriage equality, and disability rights too.

Sorry, but fuck that.

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hawthorne00 @hawthorne00.bsky.social · 11d

This story is a credibility buster for your newspaper. How could this crap get through your editorial processes?

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hypotheticalgrog @hypocriticaldog.bsky.social · 15d

"Heathrow, it's me, I'm Cathay"

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hawthorne00 @hawthorne00.bsky.social · 15d

Not always - but sometimes - from the same people. It goes back further than COVID - the legitimacy of “the deal” in much of the West broke in 2008.

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CAMERON WILSON @cameronwilson.bsky.social · 16d

one of the fascinating political consequences of the COVID-19 era is that populations generally seem to expect more from their state (welfare, protection of industries etc) at the same time as there's a growing opposition to government policies like Digital ID/public health orders