High Sierra
@highsierra6100.bsky.social
Native Californian. Hiking. Biking. Golf. Weather. Climate. Former Silicon Valley tech now retired in the Sierra.
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"And then the temperature started going down like a rock."
December 10, 2025 at 6:00 AM
"And then the temperature started going down like a rock."
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This piece is well worth your time, and it intersects very strongly with
- The whole thing of non-fossil resources serving new data centre load instead of cutting down on fossil generation (eg, the Google deals etc)
- The way fossil fuel companies use traditional predictive machine learning to dig
- The whole thing of non-fossil resources serving new data centre load instead of cutting down on fossil generation (eg, the Google deals etc)
- The way fossil fuel companies use traditional predictive machine learning to dig
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
December 5, 2025 at 9:16 PM
This piece is well worth your time, and it intersects very strongly with
- The whole thing of non-fossil resources serving new data centre load instead of cutting down on fossil generation (eg, the Google deals etc)
- The way fossil fuel companies use traditional predictive machine learning to dig
- The whole thing of non-fossil resources serving new data centre load instead of cutting down on fossil generation (eg, the Google deals etc)
- The way fossil fuel companies use traditional predictive machine learning to dig
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If anyone cares at all, EV battery recycling is now hitting 99% recovery for important metals
Please remind me again what the recycle rate for fossil fuels is
interestingengineering.com/energy/recyc...
Please remind me again what the recycle rate for fossil fuels is
interestingengineering.com/energy/recyc...
New recycling tech recovers nearly pure nickel and cobalt from old EV batteries
Researchers have developed an eco-friendly recycling tech that extracts 99 percent pure nickel and cobalt from waste batteries.
interestingengineering.com
December 5, 2025 at 12:17 AM
If anyone cares at all, EV battery recycling is now hitting 99% recovery for important metals
Please remind me again what the recycle rate for fossil fuels is
interestingengineering.com/energy/recyc...
Please remind me again what the recycle rate for fossil fuels is
interestingengineering.com/energy/recyc...
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I rarely go to X, but had to check this out, and look:
November 23, 2025 at 4:24 PM
I rarely go to X, but had to check this out, and look:
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Trump is under the mistaken impression that the Epstein scandal is about Democrats vs Republicans. Actually, it’s about pedophiles vs people who want pedophiles to spend the rest of their lives in prison
November 14, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Trump is under the mistaken impression that the Epstein scandal is about Democrats vs Republicans. Actually, it’s about pedophiles vs people who want pedophiles to spend the rest of their lives in prison
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“I have met some very bad people, none as bad as Donald Trump. Not one decent cell in his body.” -Jeffrey Epstein email in 2017
November 13, 2025 at 5:34 PM
“I have met some very bad people, none as bad as Donald Trump. Not one decent cell in his body.” -Jeffrey Epstein email in 2017
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Responding to a 2017 message that Trump was 'so gross', Jeffrey Epstein said Trump was "worse in real life and upclose."
November 12, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Responding to a 2017 message that Trump was 'so gross', Jeffrey Epstein said Trump was "worse in real life and upclose."
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You have got to check out this item in today's Morning Shots in which we demonstrated that Truth Social's own AI widget actually tells the truth about Donald Trump and his policies www.thebulwark.com/p/pardon-the...
November 11, 2025 at 2:55 PM
You have got to check out this item in today's Morning Shots in which we demonstrated that Truth Social's own AI widget actually tells the truth about Donald Trump and his policies www.thebulwark.com/p/pardon-the...
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This is the food-distribution line at Nellis Air Force Base. Active-duty U.S.
service members waiting for basic assistance because Trump gutted
SNAP support for military families.
Trump's predatory regime refuse to offer these military families the financial relief they deserve.
(🎥hatteri621)
service members waiting for basic assistance because Trump gutted
SNAP support for military families.
Trump's predatory regime refuse to offer these military families the financial relief they deserve.
(🎥hatteri621)
November 9, 2025 at 2:49 PM
This is the food-distribution line at Nellis Air Force Base. Active-duty U.S.
service members waiting for basic assistance because Trump gutted
SNAP support for military families.
Trump's predatory regime refuse to offer these military families the financial relief they deserve.
(🎥hatteri621)
service members waiting for basic assistance because Trump gutted
SNAP support for military families.
Trump's predatory regime refuse to offer these military families the financial relief they deserve.
(🎥hatteri621)
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Breaking News!
Code Yikes!
Another month, another new record for the 36-month running average for Total Column Precipitable Water in the Northern mid-latitudes.
The Climate 8-ball says: "For the rain it raineth every day."
Code Yikes!
Another month, another new record for the 36-month running average for Total Column Precipitable Water in the Northern mid-latitudes.
The Climate 8-ball says: "For the rain it raineth every day."
November 8, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Breaking News!
Code Yikes!
Another month, another new record for the 36-month running average for Total Column Precipitable Water in the Northern mid-latitudes.
The Climate 8-ball says: "For the rain it raineth every day."
Code Yikes!
Another month, another new record for the 36-month running average for Total Column Precipitable Water in the Northern mid-latitudes.
The Climate 8-ball says: "For the rain it raineth every day."
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This a million times. Denial never really changes, just shifts to update its language with new discoveries and new terminology. We see the same with evolution and HIV denial. Plus, people were sick of antivaxxers even in the late 1800s.
November 4, 2025 at 11:48 AM
This a million times. Denial never really changes, just shifts to update its language with new discoveries and new terminology. We see the same with evolution and HIV denial. Plus, people were sick of antivaxxers even in the late 1800s.
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Thank you Congressman Neguse for laying it plain.
October 31, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Thank you Congressman Neguse for laying it plain.
Get ready for some extreme weather this winter.
Some perspective on this year's sea surface temperatures and recent warming across the North Pacific... 🌊
This graph shows the average for a band across the midlatitudes for every average January-September period from 1854-2025 using ERSSTv5 data.
This graph shows the average for a band across the midlatitudes for every average January-September period from 1854-2025 using ERSSTv5 data.
October 26, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Get ready for some extreme weather this winter.
I wish I could say that I am surprised by this
Dutch intelligence suspends sharing arrangements with the US after concluding that high level intel was routinely being shared by the White House with their friends in the Kremlin. www.volkskrant.nl/binnenland/n...
Nederlandse diensten delen minder informatie met de VS: ‘Soms vertellen we dingen niet meer’
Het aantal dreigingen dat op Nederland afkomt is groot, zien de hoofden van de AIVD en de MIVD elke dag: niet alleen Russische agressie, maar ook de opmars van China als digitale macht en binnenlands ...
www.volkskrant.nl
October 19, 2025 at 6:21 PM
I wish I could say that I am surprised by this
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“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”
Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943
Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943
October 4, 2025 at 8:17 PM
“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”
Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943
Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943
I am retired. When will y’all be over to deal with my sexy septic system?
I’m an epidemiologist. Sewage systems are sexy.
I’m an engineer. Sewage systems are sexy.
October 1, 2025 at 4:40 AM
I am retired. When will y’all be over to deal with my sexy septic system?
It will take generations, if ever, to recover from this profoundly stupid, morally rudderless, convicted felon’s revenge tour.
Modi is, however, meeting this week with Putin, Xi, and Kim Song-Un. I think the US just lost its biggest ally in South Asia, thanks to Trump
www.newsweek.com/donald-trump...
www.newsweek.com/donald-trump...
Donald Trump to skip India trip amid cooled relationship with Modi—Report
Trump and his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi have reportedly not spoken since a heated phone call in June.
www.newsweek.com
September 1, 2025 at 2:16 AM
It will take generations, if ever, to recover from this profoundly stupid, morally rudderless, convicted felon’s revenge tour.
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Yet another wake up call to those still in denial of what is happening to this country. Must read.
Dr. Demetre resigned as the director of the division of respiratory viruses at the CDC this evening. He posted his resignation letter on various social media channels. It is worth taking the time to read it.
x.com/dr_demetre/s...
x.com/dr_demetre/s...
DrDemetre on X: "My resignation letter from CDC. Dear Dr. Houry, I am writing to formally resign from my position as Director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), effective August 28, 2025, close of business." / X
My resignation letter from CDC. Dear Dr. Houry, I am writing to formally resign from my position as Director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), effective August 28, 2025, close of business.
x.com
August 28, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Yet another wake up call to those still in denial of what is happening to this country. Must read.
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My lab's been attacked by an anti-wind group and their lawyers. They threatened the science funding of my whole university, to shut me and my undergraduate research assistants up.
NYT just covered it. 1/n
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...
NYT just covered it. 1/n
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...
Law Firm Pressures Brown University to Erase Research on Anti-Wind Groups
www.nytimes.com
August 25, 2025 at 11:32 AM
My lab's been attacked by an anti-wind group and their lawyers. They threatened the science funding of my whole university, to shut me and my undergraduate research assistants up.
NYT just covered it. 1/n
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...
NYT just covered it. 1/n
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...
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The ear bandage!
August 21, 2025 at 3:18 AM
The ear bandage!
But they were cheap!
We are trapped in such an exhausting, rabid and insane timeline that a recall on radioactive shrimp feels like a completely normal headline.
abcnews.go.com/US/fda-warns...
abcnews.go.com/US/fda-warns...
FDA warns public not to eat possibly radioactive shrimp sold at Walmart
The FDA is warning the public not to eat, sell or serve certain Great Value raw frozen shrimp sold at Walmart due to possible contamination with Cesium-137.
abcnews.go.com
August 20, 2025 at 2:24 AM
But they were cheap!