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Playing around with some numbers from Canada’s GHG inventory report. My back of the napkin math is that If we electrified our road transport and had an oil export ban (like the US used to), we would cut our emissions in half and be Paris agreement compliant.
November 6, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Playing around with some numbers from Canada’s GHG inventory report. My back of the napkin math is that If we electrified our road transport and had an oil export ban (like the US used to), we would cut our emissions in half and be Paris agreement compliant.
In northern lights county Alberta, which is 20,000 sq km, they had a plebiscite to see how people felt about building a nuclear power plant there, 101 supported, 111 opposed currently but a majority say they would like more information. www.msn.com/en-ca/news/o...
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October 27, 2025 at 12:12 PM
In northern lights county Alberta, which is 20,000 sq km, they had a plebiscite to see how people felt about building a nuclear power plant there, 101 supported, 111 opposed currently but a majority say they would like more information. www.msn.com/en-ca/news/o...
The second best thing about using a CPAP machine is the ability to completely cover my head with blankets while sleeping
July 6, 2025 at 11:39 PM
The second best thing about using a CPAP machine is the ability to completely cover my head with blankets while sleeping
@ayanaeliza.bsky.social thank you so much for doing a “how to save a planet” reunion episode, it was one of my favourite podcasts and it ended so abruptly and I couldn’t find any info as to why, I’m so glad that you and Alex are doing well.
June 20, 2025 at 4:02 PM
@ayanaeliza.bsky.social thank you so much for doing a “how to save a planet” reunion episode, it was one of my favourite podcasts and it ended so abruptly and I couldn’t find any info as to why, I’m so glad that you and Alex are doing well.
There were fewer cows in Canada in 2024 than in 1961
June 3, 2025 at 1:01 PM
There were fewer cows in Canada in 2024 than in 1961
The number of internal combustion vehicles sold annually is lower in 2024 than it was in 2010 when there were 1 billion fewer people on the planet.
May 14, 2025 at 5:14 PM
The number of internal combustion vehicles sold annually is lower in 2024 than it was in 2010 when there were 1 billion fewer people on the planet.
I have quite the sense of accomplishment for having actually finished off an 8 lb bag of lentils. I recommend putting them in your pasta sauce.
April 28, 2025 at 11:46 PM
I have quite the sense of accomplishment for having actually finished off an 8 lb bag of lentils. I recommend putting them in your pasta sauce.
This is the first time I’ve seen Alberta’s electricity emissions intensity go below 300gCO2/kwh. Combination of lower demand season (less heating/cooling demand) and big wind production
April 11, 2025 at 12:19 PM
This is the first time I’ve seen Alberta’s electricity emissions intensity go below 300gCO2/kwh. Combination of lower demand season (less heating/cooling demand) and big wind production
I don’t think I’ve ever heard a scientist say that repeating the same thing and expecting different results is insanity, people who say that have no experience with either experimental research or insane people.
March 29, 2025 at 3:51 PM
I don’t think I’ve ever heard a scientist say that repeating the same thing and expecting different results is insanity, people who say that have no experience with either experimental research or insane people.
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Mark Carney's first move as prime minister is simultaneously a tax break for the rich and the removal of a benefit that was being paid to working-class people.
Carney kills consumer carbon tax in first move as prime minister | CBC News
Prime Minister Mark Carney wasted little time in removing a potent point of attack for the Conservatives in recent years: the consumer carbon tax.
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March 14, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Mark Carney's first move as prime minister is simultaneously a tax break for the rich and the removal of a benefit that was being paid to working-class people.
Every time I hear a Mumford and Sons song I think about the 2011 Grammy for Best New Artist and I think it was cool that Esperanza Spalding won
March 10, 2025 at 3:49 AM
Every time I hear a Mumford and Sons song I think about the 2011 Grammy for Best New Artist and I think it was cool that Esperanza Spalding won
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It would be helpful if more people understood renewable energy is actually an extremely disruptive technology and the reason monied interests are trying to make folks hate it is that they are the ones which will be disrupted.
March 5, 2025 at 6:09 PM
It would be helpful if more people understood renewable energy is actually an extremely disruptive technology and the reason monied interests are trying to make folks hate it is that they are the ones which will be disrupted.
Now that the trade war is a go, I theorize that it’s now the patriotic duty of Americans to increase domestic demand for soybeans, maybe trump will be the catalyst that gets American vegetarianism to thrive through sheer economics.
March 4, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Now that the trade war is a go, I theorize that it’s now the patriotic duty of Americans to increase domestic demand for soybeans, maybe trump will be the catalyst that gets American vegetarianism to thrive through sheer economics.
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Data center buildouts take 3-6 years, especially with high megawatt/gigawatt projects. Microsoft - the largest purchaser of NVIDIA GPUs in 2024 - appears to be cutting data center expansion at a time when generative AI is meant to be the future. This is concerning.
www.wheresyoured.at/power-cut/
www.wheresyoured.at/power-cut/
![These numbers heavily suggest that Microsoft — the biggest purchaser of NVIDIA's GPUs and, according to TD Cowen, "the most active [data center] lessee of capacity in 2023 and 1H24" — does not believe there is future growth in generative AI, nor does it have faith in (nor does it want responsibility for) the future of OpenAI.
Data center buildouts take about three to six years to complete, and the largest hyperscale facilities can easily cost several billion dollars, meaning that these moves are extremely forward-looking. You don’t build a data center for the demand you have now, but for the demand you expect further down the line. This suggests that Microsoft believes its current infrastructure (and its likely scaled-back plans for expansion) will be sufficient for a movement that CEO Satya Nadella called a "golden age for systems" less than a year ago.
To quote TD Cowen again:
"...the magnitude of both potential data center capacity [Microsoft] walked away from and the decision to pullback on land acquisition (which supports core long term capacity growth) in our view indicates the loss of a major demand signal that Microsoft was originally responding to and that we believed the shift in their appetite for capacity is tied to OpenAI."
To explain here, TD Cowen is effectively saying that Microsoft is responding to a "major demand signal" and said "major demand signal" is saying "you do not need more data centers." Said demand signal that Microsoft was responding to, in TD Cowen's words, is its "appetite for capacity" to provide servers to OpenAI, and it seems that said appetite is waning, and Microsoft no longer wants to build out data centers for OpenAI.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qc6xzgctorfsm35w6i3vdebx/bafkreia3bfdtqrg2nbyf3pyshcuzglejyz65qr2tcgfbdfpg5jaid37grq@jpeg)
![As an aside: What I am not saying is that Microsoft has “stopped building data centers.” I’ve said it a few times, but these projects take three to six years to complete and are planned far in advance, and Microsoft does have a few big projects in the works. One planned 324MW Microsoft data center in Atlanta is expected to cost $1.8bn and as far as I know, this deal is still in flight.
However (and this was cited separately by TD Cowen), Microsoft has recently paused construction on parts of its $3.3 billion data center campus in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin. While Microsoft has tried to reassure locals that the first phase of the project was on course to be completed on time, its justification for delaying the rest was to give Microsoft an opportunity to evaluate “[the project’s scope] scope and recent changes in technology and consider how this might impact the design of [its] facilities."
The same Register article adds that “the review process may include the need to negotiate some building permits, potentially placing another hurdle in the way of the project.” The Register did add that Microsoft said it still expected to complete “one hyperscale data center in Mount Pleasant as originally planned,” though its capacity wasn’t available.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qc6xzgctorfsm35w6i3vdebx/bafkreicclq5ipabuymtvnyidf3r3nocqg7pm37lcg2icuky5tr4gw5yivm@jpeg)
March 3, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Data center buildouts take 3-6 years, especially with high megawatt/gigawatt projects. Microsoft - the largest purchaser of NVIDIA GPUs in 2024 - appears to be cutting data center expansion at a time when generative AI is meant to be the future. This is concerning.
www.wheresyoured.at/power-cut/
www.wheresyoured.at/power-cut/
I don’t know what the most efficacious use looks like, but part of me thinks that if announcing pronouns starts falling out of fashion we could just start using titles like Mr Ms and Mx, if we can understand a whole separate title for married women we can probably handle some expansion in this area.
February 17, 2025 at 6:19 PM
I don’t know what the most efficacious use looks like, but part of me thinks that if announcing pronouns starts falling out of fashion we could just start using titles like Mr Ms and Mx, if we can understand a whole separate title for married women we can probably handle some expansion in this area.
I finally got to ride one of Edmonton Transit’s Electric buses!
February 12, 2025 at 7:12 PM
I finally got to ride one of Edmonton Transit’s Electric buses!
We’ve been without polyethylene bags at grocery stores that I forget that other places haven’t banned them yet.
February 11, 2025 at 6:56 AM
We’ve been without polyethylene bags at grocery stores that I forget that other places haven’t banned them yet.
The UCP is raising my childcare expenses by $114/month.
February 8, 2025 at 8:20 AM
The UCP is raising my childcare expenses by $114/month.
A minor quibble, but for 10 years whenever the federal government has run an ad it ends in “a message from the government of Canada” instead of “the [PM’s name] government” and that’s been nice.
February 8, 2025 at 2:41 AM
A minor quibble, but for 10 years whenever the federal government has run an ad it ends in “a message from the government of Canada” instead of “the [PM’s name] government” and that’s been nice.
In general, soup is underrated.
January 31, 2025 at 12:23 AM
In general, soup is underrated.
This is your casual reminder to use Ecosia as your browser/search engine if you can.
January 26, 2025 at 10:33 PM
This is your casual reminder to use Ecosia as your browser/search engine if you can.
I just finished Bren Smith’s book “eat like a fish” so I got super excited when I saw Dulse Seaweed at the grocery store but I saw that it was $10 for 40g and I was like O_o
January 23, 2025 at 3:33 AM
I just finished Bren Smith’s book “eat like a fish” so I got super excited when I saw Dulse Seaweed at the grocery store but I saw that it was $10 for 40g and I was like O_o
The “alt-right wing” is now just “the right wing”
January 22, 2025 at 1:32 AM
The “alt-right wing” is now just “the right wing”
If Alberta was a country, at 63 tons of CO2eq/year per person, we would be number 1 in the world for annual emissions per capita, that’s mostly attributable to the staggering energy demand of our oil and gas sector
January 3, 2025 at 10:36 AM
If Alberta was a country, at 63 tons of CO2eq/year per person, we would be number 1 in the world for annual emissions per capita, that’s mostly attributable to the staggering energy demand of our oil and gas sector
Windy day in the UK today. The UK has less than half of the landmass of Alberta and fifteen times the population but they are currently generating enough wind electricity to power Alberta’s entire grid two times over and only using 1.8 GW of gas powered electricity compared to our 9 GW.
January 1, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Windy day in the UK today. The UK has less than half of the landmass of Alberta and fifteen times the population but they are currently generating enough wind electricity to power Alberta’s entire grid two times over and only using 1.8 GW of gas powered electricity compared to our 9 GW.