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Emily Grubert @gruberte.bsky.social · 2h

This is an extremely based cold calling approach, incredible

I also love that one could check the SSA data for the year the students were born to tailor it

Emily Grubert @gruberte.bsky.social · 2d

That’s a neat idea — basically a bracket that would let you pass the linesets through the window?

Emily Grubert @gruberte.bsky.social · 2d

Intriguing! Still need to be able to access an outdoor horizontal surface for this one though, right?

Acknowledging my gradient was cheap ($2k) it remains a very neat solution for my weird use case. Glad to see more options for more use cases!

Lew Daly @lewdaly.bsky.social · 3d

Larger point: 45Q is arguably the most perverse energy subsidy from a climate pespective. Govt paying corporations to capture and store CO2, instead of actually reducing emissions, means incentivizing more extraction and combustion of fossil fuels because more emissions means more public $.

Emily Grubert @gruberte.bsky.social · 4d

Honestly facts

I was thinking more popular media on that front but yes lol

Emily Grubert @gruberte.bsky.social · 4d

The “AI will revolutionize academia because it can summarize articles” argument is so funny because this is what an abstract is for??

What it is good at is circumventing paywalls

David Weiskopf believes in you @dave.bzky.team · 5d

If you are working towards a vision of shared prosperity in a clean energy future and your principal adversaries are unions, environmentalists, and community-based justice orgs, consider if just maybe it might be possible that you haven't unlocked secret knowledge they are all too dumb to understand

Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 6d

2. What he says about climate is patently false (more on that later) but to the extent he's saying "politicians shouldn't do the right thing unless it's popular", I'd note only that that is a toddlers view of leadership. If the popular kids are mean, should you be mean?

New York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · 8d

“The mind-set shift needed here is to acknowledge that while climate change is real and harmful, the utility of fossil fuels is not something the oil and gas industry tricked the public into,” Matthew Yglesias writes.

Opinion | Obama Supported It. The Left in Canada and Norway Do. Why Don’t Democrats?

Liberals should reconcile with America’s oil and gas industry.

nyti.ms

Emily Grubert @gruberte.bsky.social · 9d

But markets!!!

(All this is making my survey of people who live by many of the plants affected by this trend into more of an experiment than I’d expected…)

Joel B. Eisen @joeleisen.bsky.social · 9d

States' rights? States are in charge of deciding what power plants we have on the grid - until the GOP in Congress decides they're not. All to prop up the losing hand of coal.

E&E News: House approves bill to keep coal plants on the grid

The legislation would give federal regulators new authority to delay power plant retirements in the name of grid reliability.

subscriber.politicopro.com

Joel B. Eisen @joeleisen.bsky.social · 9d

States' rights? States are in charge of deciding what power plants we have on the grid - until the GOP in Congress decides they're not. All to prop up the losing hand of coal.

E&E News: House approves bill to keep coal plants on the grid

The legislation would give federal regulators new authority to delay power plant retirements in the name of grid reliability.

subscriber.politicopro.com

Emily Grubert @gruberte.bsky.social · 9d

and notably this is not the same argument as "carbon taxes are regressive," which is also true but easier to design away

Emily Grubert @gruberte.bsky.social · 9d

i'm regularly surprised by the pushback i get on the idea that a carbon tax isn't useful for full decarbonization. like it seems on its face obvious that taxes become less effective at changing behavior as wealth gets bigger, so you push out non-luxury stuff way before luxury stuff.

Emily Grubert @gruberte.bsky.social · 10d

it's not actually funny but it's kind of funny that I wrote a thing for my school paper (if I remember correctly) about larry summers being shitty...

... WHEN I WAS IN HIGH SCHOOL

None of this was unclear! Social media didn't even exist, I wasn't a radio person, and I *still* knew that!!

Emily Grubert @gruberte.bsky.social · 12d

No love lost for Nature as a publisher (independent of this work) but omg how is this not in Nature Italy (yes that’s a thing)

Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 12d

Volcanic activity may have worsened the spread of the Black Death in medieval Europe. A study in Communications Earth & Environment suggests that climatic cooling and famine prompted Italian city-states to import grain from the Black Sea, potentially carrying the plague bacterium. 🏺 ⚒️ 🧪

Climate-driven changes in Mediterranean grain trade mitigated famine but introduced the Black Death to medieval Europe - Communications Earth & Environment

Post-volcanic climate downtown in southern Europe around 1345–1347 CE caused widespread famine, leading to Italian maritime republics importing grain from the Black Sea region and introducing fleas carrying the plague bacterium that caused the Black Death, according to tree ring analysis and documentary sources.

go.nature.com

Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 12d

Volcanic activity may have worsened the spread of the Black Death in medieval Europe. A study in Communications Earth & Environment suggests that climatic cooling and famine prompted Italian city-states to import grain from the Black Sea, potentially carrying the plague bacterium. 🏺 ⚒️ 🧪

Climate-driven changes in Mediterranean grain trade mitigated famine but introduced the Black Death to medieval Europe - Communications Earth & Environment

Post-volcanic climate downtown in southern Europe around 1345–1347 CE caused widespread famine, leading to Italian maritime republics importing grain from the Black Sea region and introducing fleas carrying the plague bacterium that caused the Black Death, according to tree ring analysis and documentary sources.

go.nature.com

Emily Grubert @gruberte.bsky.social · 13d

coming soon, I hope -- hoping to submit this by EOY.

Yeah, the support for "0" is actually based on, like, stock prices and recent sales, for the US PRB. Calculating based on the SCC and similar makes it comically negative.

Emily Grubert @gruberte.bsky.social · 13d

I'm running a not-especially-heavy model on Excel that keeps crashing, and my only conclusion is that I must have discovered forbidden knowledge.

(The forbidden knowledge is that US coal isn't worth anything. I knew that, but I guess Excel didn't.)

Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 14d

Look around you. Do you see policies being implemented at scale? Do you see the end of investment into new fossil energy? Do you see phasing out of existing fossil infrastructure? Do you see massive renewables deployment and the lowering of demand for energy and materials?

You do not.

3/n

Kevin J. Kircher @kevinjkircher.com · 15d

Energy efficiency and demand flexibility can avoid costly power grid buildout, but utilities rarely invest in them because utities profit by putting steel in the ground. This is a main barrier to lowering your power bills. Utility regulators have had decades to fix this but few have done anything.

Emily Grubert @gruberte.bsky.social · 17d

Honestly I know that life hahaha

Emily Grubert @gruberte.bsky.social · 17d

can I punch my midwestern card yet

I forgot my coat and have about 45 minutes of nondiscretionary outside time today and was like eh, it’s 32, whatever (the feels like is 15) (I’m pretty cold)

Adrian Hiel @adrianhiel.bsky.social · 20d

Geothermal energy for heat (for greenhouses, district heating, industrial processes) is going to grow in the EU a lot in the next few years (Munich, for example, is drilling like crazy at the moment). Geothermal electricity generation is still much more of an open question. Good reporting here.

molly taft @mollytaft.com · 22d

NEW from me: i talked to the founders of a geothermal startup that is working on a simple (but surprisingly difficult) solution to find more geothermal energy: seek out systems deep underground that we can use for power. it's harder than you think!

A Startup Says It Has Found a Hidden Source of Geothermal Energy

Zanskar uses AI to identify hidden geothermal systems—and claims it has found one that could fuel a power plant, the first such discovery by industry in decades.

www.wired.com

isaac @sevier.io · 20d

So even small lies about data, about papers and their conclusions matters a lot. Super dismaying to see electricity people keep saying grid load growth brings down residential prices when it has not and there's a sleight of hand happening with "all retail prices" and "residential retail prices."

Emily Grubert @gruberte.bsky.social · 22d

ah, thanks. I was pretty sure that must be a wrong value but my reaction still stands that writers in the paper of record can present that tiny number as “significant” and not catch the outrageousness of the scale!