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Nigel Protter 🇨🇦 @nigelprotter.bsky.social · 20d

Minutes from now probably.

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Dustin Mulvaney @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social · 28d

Here we have the CEO of the largest solar and wind developer in the United States NextEra, calling renewables the bridge to natural gas.
www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

AI-Driven Demand for Gas Turbines Risks a New Energy Crunch

Orders for turbines to power natural gas plants are vastly outpacing supply, threatening the world’s ability to keep pace with rising electricity demand.

www.bloomberg.com

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Nigel Protter 🇨🇦 @nigelprotter.bsky.social · Sep 10

What’s a red line anymore?

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🇨🇦🇨🇦 Proud Canadian 🇨🇦🇨🇦 @beppil007.bsky.social · Aug 27

www.bbc.com/news/article...
US citizens have been conducting covert operations in Greenland
aim is to infiltrate Greenland's society & promote its secession from Denmark to the US
Danish intelligence warned Greenland was being targeted by influence campaigns
This is happening in Canada too #ElbowsUp

Greenland: Denmark summons top US diplomat over alleged influence operation

The aim was reportedly to infiltrate Greenland's society and promote its secession from Denmark.

www.bbc.com

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Nigel Protter 🇨🇦 @nigelprotter.bsky.social · Jun 17

To win it’s neither, it’s to under and set a new course accordingly.

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Mike Eliason @holz-bau.bsky.social · May 26

your holiday am ☕️ and urbanism thread:

how seattle's land use code and massive, banal buildings impede bike abundance

Mike Eliason @holz-bau.bsky.social · May 25

does single stair make biking more possible?

maybe.

is it a coincidence that
many cities with the highest uptake in bicycling also have courtyards where bikes can be stored with level access to the street/bike path?

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Gavril Ducu 🇷🇴 🇩🇪 🇺🇸 🇳🇱 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @ducugavril.nafoforum.org · May 21

What if a TV debate actually makes you less certain?

That possibility gets ruled out by design.

Many persuasion models assume something called Monotone Treatment Response — which means no backlash.

Here’s why that matters.

#PersuasionTactics2

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Amy Diehl, Ph.D. @amydiehl.bsky.social · May 18

Study begun pre-COVID finds remote work increased sleep by 1/2 hr/night, decreased commute by 4.5 hr/week replaced with work, family & leisure and led to healthier eating. Remote and hybrid employees report higher job satisfaction and well-being. farmingdale-observer.com/2025/05/16/s...

Scientists have been studying remote work for four years and have reached a very clear conclusion: "Working from home makes us happier."

An Australian study, conducted over four years and starting before the pandemic, has come up with some enlightening conclusions about the impact of working from home. The researchers are unequivocal: ...

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Nigel Protter 🇨🇦 @nigelprotter.bsky.social · May 2

I would support this kind of model for Canada

NOELREPORTS @noelreports.com · May 2

🚨 NATO chief Rutte proposes raising defense spending to 5% of GDP — up from the current 2%. His plan: 3.5% for direct defense, 1.5% for related infrastructure like cyber and transport. A move to bridge U.S. demands and European realities.

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Nigel Protter 🇨🇦 @nigelprotter.bsky.social · Apr 23

Alarmists or good judges of character? The framing here is corrosive to people with even moderate discernment of character, as if Trump’s sociopathy wasn’t excruciatingly evident all along.

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Nigel Protter 🇨🇦 @nigelprotter.bsky.social · Apr 20

The decline of America came slowly, slowly, then all at once in a perfect shit-storm of entitled, grievous dumb-assery.

https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/04/19/2339227/us-chipmakers-fear-ceding-chinas-ai-market-to-huawei-after-new-trump-restrictions

Nigel Protter 🇨🇦 @nigelprotter.bsky.social · Apr 11

Ban them from Canadian waters

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Nigel Protter 🇨🇦 @nigelprotter.bsky.social · Apr 9

Risks and Uncertainties Facing New LNG Projects On The U.S. Gulf And East Coasts | Energy Central

https://energycentral.com/c/ec/risks-and-uncertainties-facing-new-lng-projects-us-gulf-and-east-coasts

Nigel Protter 🇨🇦 @nigelprotter.bsky.social · Apr 9

Migration pressure is one way that climate change will affect us all:

https://www.resilience.org/stories/2025-04-08/when-water-dries-up-violence-thrives-the-link-between-climate-conflict-and-migration-in-africa/

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ProPublica @propublica.org · Apr 7

Much of the cardboard and paper goods strewn about our homes are sold by a single private company, with its name, Uline, stamped on the bottom.

Few Americans know that a multibillion-dollar fortune made on those ubiquitous products fuels far-right candidates across the country.

(Published 2022)

That Cardboard Box in Your Home Is Fueling Election Denial

A previously unreported boom in profits for the shipping supply giant Uline has provided the funds for a deeply conservative Midwestern family to bankroll anti-democracy causes around the country.

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Nigel Protter 🇨🇦 @nigelprotter.bsky.social · Apr 4

All I can say is, it’s an opportunity for Canada

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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · Mar 25

I traded my U.S. medical career for life in Canada. Here’s how the two health systems stack up. canadahealthwatch.ca/2025/03/25/i... @codeblackamerica.bsky.social

𝗚𝗲𝘁 𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗸𝗹𝘆 𝘂𝗽𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀: CanadaHealthwatch.ca/newsletter 🍁

I traded my U.S. medical career for life in Canada. Here’s how the…

The differences hit me immediately, and are profound.

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Nigel Protter 🇨🇦 @nigelprotter.bsky.social · Apr 3

He smoked the Kool-Aid

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Nigel Protter 🇨🇦 @nigelprotter.bsky.social · Apr 2

After 30 years I stopped paying to read The Economist 5 years ago and I’m alright now.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · Apr 2

Why mocking Trump is good politics, from @brianbeutler.bsky.social:

"Mockery underscores his failure to elicit fear, which is his first objective. It also turns the discussion around in a way that makes him seem weak rather than dominant."

www.offmessage.net/p/trump-thir...

How To Respond To Trump's Third-Term Taunt (And Other Taunts)

Tl;dr: A blend of mockery, steeliness, and foresight.

www.offmessage.net

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Ioneras @ioneras.com · Mar 31

This paper introduces an AC frequency and battery power consensus control strategy for stand-alone modular PV-battery microgrids using virtual synchronous generators (VSG), enhancing stability and efficiency in ...

AC frequency/battery power consensus control for stand-alone modular PV-battery microgrid based on VSG

Publication date: 15 May 2025Source: Journal of Energy Storage, Volume 118Author(s): Weixue Wang, Xianyong Zhang, Zilong Chen, Xiaoshun Zhang, Zhaoliang Li, Li Li

www.sciencedirect.com

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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · Mar 29

It is absolutely right that we do not need Greenland (or Canada) for natsec reasons because they are already close NATO allies. So the only rationale to turn the US into an aggressor in our own hemisphere is if you don’t plan on NATO being a US alliance in the future.

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Nigel Protter 🇨🇦 @nigelprotter.bsky.social · Mar 28

https://cleantechnica.com/2025/03/27/in-midst-of-trade-wars-rivian-spins-off-new-micromobility-venture/

Nigel Protter 🇨🇦 @nigelprotter.bsky.social · Mar 28

What a huge waste of time and resources. It’s been proven time and again that the grid-associated hydrogen economy cannot be economic today given today’s gas and solar PV prices. There’s just no way.

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