A Siegel
@asiegel.bsky.social
Passionate about fostering a prosperous, climate-friendly future for all.
Thoughts on climate, clean energy and related issues at GetEnergySmartNow.com
Thoughts on climate, clean energy and related issues at GetEnergySmartNow.com
Better twofer: behind dams as power destruction system works, dam can act as storage, reduce evaporation, AND add clean power
November 28, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Better twofer: behind dams as power destruction system works, dam can act as storage, reduce evaporation, AND add clean power
Totally in agreement that it “shouldn’t have been a hard assignment…”
November 28, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Totally in agreement that it “shouldn’t have been a hard assignment…”
This is sparked by an IRA discussion. Go look at polling from 2024 and how little Americans knew about it.
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November 28, 2025 at 10:09 PM
This is sparked by an IRA discussion. Go look at polling from 2024 and how little Americans knew about it.
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VHS is a good analogy.
What a hypocrite Carney is.
What a hypocrite Carney is.
Actual footage of Canadian policymakers as they grapple with the challenge of global climate change.
Here in Europe, where I live, there's a serious effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. In Canada, they're rushing to build new pipelines. What an embarrassment.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Here in Europe, where I live, there's a serious effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. In Canada, they're rushing to build new pipelines. What an embarrassment.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
November 28, 2025 at 10:32 AM
VHS is a good analogy.
What a hypocrite Carney is.
What a hypocrite Carney is.
Of course idiocy as (1) shouldn’t be either/or but both regs & pricing and (2) at least keep regs in place until carbon pricing enacted and put into force.
November 28, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Of course idiocy as (1) shouldn’t be either/or but both regs & pricing and (2) at least keep regs in place until carbon pricing enacted and put into force.
1. IRA gave too much credence to the hypdogen hype which has bubbled (popped) for a reason.
2. Landmark policy that has been eviscerated
2. Landmark policy that has been eviscerated
November 28, 2025 at 6:07 PM
1. IRA gave too much credence to the hypdogen hype which has bubbled (popped) for a reason.
2. Landmark policy that has been eviscerated
2. Landmark policy that has been eviscerated
Re comms, having “inflation” in the title automatically dug the home deeper as it reminded people of INFLATION rather than having keep affirmative words/framing.
November 28, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Re comms, having “inflation” in the title automatically dug the home deeper as it reminded people of INFLATION rather than having keep affirmative words/framing.
November 28, 2025 at 5:59 PM
PS: Another excellent discussion of Enshittification which makes clear how it reaches far beyond "internet" along with highlighting some of the very many serious risks beyond just annoyance and frustration it creats.
www.volts.wtf/p/can-we-avo...
www.volts.wtf/p/can-we-avo...
Can we avoid the enshittification of clean-energy tech?
Cory Doctorow describes how software platform technologies go wrong and what it might look like when our homes and vehicles are on those platforms.
www.volts.wtf
November 28, 2025 at 3:21 PM
PS: Another excellent discussion of Enshittification which makes clear how it reaches far beyond "internet" along with highlighting some of the very many serious risks beyond just annoyance and frustration it creats.
www.volts.wtf/p/can-we-avo...
www.volts.wtf/p/can-we-avo...
Perhaps my favorite French expression:
Petite kiki (little wee wee / penis)
Typically used as derogatory term for a man compensating for, well, shortfalls in life.
Thus, the ballroom is (yet) a(nother) Trump petite kiki.
Petite kiki (little wee wee / penis)
Typically used as derogatory term for a man compensating for, well, shortfalls in life.
Thus, the ballroom is (yet) a(nother) Trump petite kiki.
November 28, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Perhaps my favorite French expression:
Petite kiki (little wee wee / penis)
Typically used as derogatory term for a man compensating for, well, shortfalls in life.
Thus, the ballroom is (yet) a(nother) Trump petite kiki.
Petite kiki (little wee wee / penis)
Typically used as derogatory term for a man compensating for, well, shortfalls in life.
Thus, the ballroom is (yet) a(nother) Trump petite kiki.
1. The utter serial incompetence of "D" messaging and comms can't be understated.
2. The other broken leg of the premise of IRA survival is that overbalancing benefits into Red states / districts would create irreversible momentum.
bsky.app/profile/asie...
2. The other broken leg of the premise of IRA survival is that overbalancing benefits into Red states / districts would create irreversible momentum.
bsky.app/profile/asie...
The other key delusion: "thought it might prove more durable, not least because many of its provisions stood to benefit red states".
Wrong to
- think economics would override ideology & identity
- structure so much of it, consciously, to favor "Red" states over Blue states/communities
Wrong to
- think economics would override ideology & identity
- structure so much of it, consciously, to favor "Red" states over Blue states/communities
November 28, 2025 at 3:07 PM
1. The utter serial incompetence of "D" messaging and comms can't be understated.
2. The other broken leg of the premise of IRA survival is that overbalancing benefits into Red states / districts would create irreversible momentum.
bsky.app/profile/asie...
2. The other broken leg of the premise of IRA survival is that overbalancing benefits into Red states / districts would create irreversible momentum.
bsky.app/profile/asie...
As the execs, all too often, put their personal tax returns before the interest of their Corporations and shareholders -- let alone something called the public interest.
November 28, 2025 at 3:04 PM
As the execs, all too often, put their personal tax returns before the interest of their Corporations and shareholders -- let alone something called the public interest.
The other key delusion: "thought it might prove more durable, not least because many of its provisions stood to benefit red states".
Wrong to
- think economics would override ideology & identity
- structure so much of it, consciously, to favor "Red" states over Blue states/communities
Wrong to
- think economics would override ideology & identity
- structure so much of it, consciously, to favor "Red" states over Blue states/communities
November 28, 2025 at 3:03 PM
The other key delusion: "thought it might prove more durable, not least because many of its provisions stood to benefit red states".
Wrong to
- think economics would override ideology & identity
- structure so much of it, consciously, to favor "Red" states over Blue states/communities
Wrong to
- think economics would override ideology & identity
- structure so much of it, consciously, to favor "Red" states over Blue states/communities
Sadly, how many "should be" sensible policies, regulations, standards are there in 'our' world (climate, energy, urban planning, ...) that simply don't survive / occur due to so many other factors (entrenched interests, complicated systems, ...)?
AI taxis are going down the Waymo congestion route
AI taxis are going down the Waymo congestion route
Waymo privatized another public street:
Chanel approaching 4th, San Francisco
Possibly queued for a Billie Eilish show at Chase Center ~half mile away.
The light rail train on 4th seen passing in front of this roboherd has more passenger capacity than all of them combined.
OP: .tiktok.renaspam18
Chanel approaching 4th, San Francisco
Possibly queued for a Billie Eilish show at Chase Center ~half mile away.
The light rail train on 4th seen passing in front of this roboherd has more passenger capacity than all of them combined.
OP: .tiktok.renaspam18
November 28, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Sadly, how many "should be" sensible policies, regulations, standards are there in 'our' world (climate, energy, urban planning, ...) that simply don't survive / occur due to so many other factors (entrenched interests, complicated systems, ...)?
AI taxis are going down the Waymo congestion route
AI taxis are going down the Waymo congestion route