Great time for people to find safe ways to observe what future sea level rise will look like.

I'd love to know in what year this weekend's exceptional tides will be a normal high tide (defined maybe as the highest tides that aren't king tides).

Standard "Live In A Cave" argument:

1. If you don't live in a cave, then you're unserious about your environmental arguments, and your environmental arguments somehow are also unserious.

2. If you do live in a cave, you're a weirdo, and your arguments somehow are also unserious.

I should've said 45% drop, not 40% drop.

To parse this out if you haven't read the article, the 40% drop to $70/kWh is for stationary source batteries, while the 8% drop to $108/kWh is for all battery storage (weighted average).

Note the article also says prices in N. America and Europe are significantly higher. Still, great news!

An interesting counter-balance to how AVs can make low-carbon urban living more attractive by eliminating the need for personal vehicles and converting parking into housing.

Fantastic visibility for the driver to spot a child or animal in the street in front of them. The exact opposite of giant SUVs that have driven up pedestrian deaths in the US, the only developed country to have that happen.

Thanks for the links! This one is primarily focused on prospective future reductions. I'd love to see current reductions.

2028 isn't far away though, so in a few years we can check their predictions.

Voter initiative, maybe?

Very unfortunate. We'll have to keep working on these.

It would be helpful to see the progress in Vermont, although that law is presumably tied up in litigation.

....possibly because modelling compared new heat pumps to new gas equipment, whereas in the real world people are replacing older, less efficient gas equipment with heat pumps.

Study is here: library.peninsulacleanenergy.com/m/24e2e90876...

This tracks the outcome of a 2025 real-world study of nine whole-home electrifications in San Mateo County, California. The study found residents saved money, even though they had access to and used air-conditioning for the first time.

Real-world savings outperformed modeling, we've heard....

.....higher percentage of EVs than the cohort of old vehicles (which had few EVs) that are taken off the road in 2026.

We're still making progress. Not nearly as much as we need to, so we need to do more, but we're not being stopped.

Both toasters and microwaves take a surprising amount of power.

Well, you've still got the $50 induction hob option instead of polluting stovetop gas range, you'd have to test though if it can run with the toaster or microwave at the same time. Maybe borrow one?

....3. buy one or two induction cooktops, stop using the gas stovetop, use the gas oven only when you need to (maybe use a toaster oven when possible).

But maybe your house wiring needs upgrades, regardless....

People rarely need panel upgrades for electrification, that's a myth sent out by the methane gas industry. Your choices:

1. run 240 volt conduit to a new induction oven - will cost something but unlikely to be $5k
2. get induction oven running on 120 volt (but it's expensive)....