🇨🇦 Peter 🌏 Fairley 🇺🇸
@peter.fairley.ca
Fan of power grids, democracy & protected bike lanes. NYU SERPie covering energy+climate globally for way too long. Bylines= NYT TheTyee Sierra TheAtlantic IEEESpectrum... Awards = SEJ, Covering Climate Now, SPJ... Portfolio: http://fairley.ca
Most of you have probably never seen what a modern power grid looks like in action. For a snapshot, check out this chart showing California's power supply yesterday. I'm happy to answer questions. (Ht Nicolas Fulghum @ember-energy.org via X)
October 13, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Most of you have probably never seen what a modern power grid looks like in action. For a snapshot, check out this chart showing California's power supply yesterday. I'm happy to answer questions. (Ht Nicolas Fulghum @ember-energy.org via X)
UK Guardian special report: The deadly toll on journalists in the Gaza war
"With foreign media barred, Palestinians have reported alone, facing the ‘most deliberate effort to kill and silence’ them"
www.theguardian.com/global-devel... via @theguardian.com
A partial list of the dead:
"With foreign media barred, Palestinians have reported alone, facing the ‘most deliberate effort to kill and silence’ them"
www.theguardian.com/global-devel... via @theguardian.com
A partial list of the dead:
September 1, 2025 at 5:13 PM
UK Guardian special report: The deadly toll on journalists in the Gaza war
"With foreign media barred, Palestinians have reported alone, facing the ‘most deliberate effort to kill and silence’ them"
www.theguardian.com/global-devel... via @theguardian.com
A partial list of the dead:
"With foreign media barred, Palestinians have reported alone, facing the ‘most deliberate effort to kill and silence’ them"
www.theguardian.com/global-devel... via @theguardian.com
A partial list of the dead:
Activists radicalized by indecency, spreading vibes of resistance on a California highway. Roughly 1 in 25 drivers honking in solidarity, and many raised fists and 👍s from motorcyclists. Not bad for 75mph.
August 23, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Activists radicalized by indecency, spreading vibes of resistance on a California highway. Roughly 1 in 25 drivers honking in solidarity, and many raised fists and 👍s from motorcyclists. Not bad for 75mph.
June 14, 2025 at 10:54 PM
The idea that grid underinvestment 'caused' Spain's recent blackout recalls a theory I profiled years ago for @discovermag.bsky.social and @spectrum.ieee.org. It's a cycle:
1 Blackouts spur grid investment
2 Lack of blackouts stops grid spend
3 Allowing a blackout
4 That restarts grid investment...
1 Blackouts spur grid investment
2 Lack of blackouts stops grid spend
3 Allowing a blackout
4 That restarts grid investment...
May 9, 2025 at 5:35 PM
The idea that grid underinvestment 'caused' Spain's recent blackout recalls a theory I profiled years ago for @discovermag.bsky.social and @spectrum.ieee.org. It's a cycle:
1 Blackouts spur grid investment
2 Lack of blackouts stops grid spend
3 Allowing a blackout
4 That restarts grid investment...
1 Blackouts spur grid investment
2 Lack of blackouts stops grid spend
3 Allowing a blackout
4 That restarts grid investment...
#HandsOff brought out young and old in Santa Cruz, and sent a message around the world: Democracy and rights and freedoms are inalienable, and not for sale.
April 5, 2025 at 10:14 PM
#HandsOff brought out young and old in Santa Cruz, and sent a message around the world: Democracy and rights and freedoms are inalienable, and not for sale.
🎵 "A three hour tour" 🎵
Mike Waltz and his wife Julia Nesheiwat joined JD and Usha Vance to stand on the ice in #Greenland for 3 hours
Now, returning to our previous-scheduled program: #SignalGate www.cnn.com/2025/03/29/e...
Mike Waltz and his wife Julia Nesheiwat joined JD and Usha Vance to stand on the ice in #Greenland for 3 hours
Now, returning to our previous-scheduled program: #SignalGate www.cnn.com/2025/03/29/e...
March 30, 2025 at 5:13 PM
🎵 "A three hour tour" 🎵
Mike Waltz and his wife Julia Nesheiwat joined JD and Usha Vance to stand on the ice in #Greenland for 3 hours
Now, returning to our previous-scheduled program: #SignalGate www.cnn.com/2025/03/29/e...
Mike Waltz and his wife Julia Nesheiwat joined JD and Usha Vance to stand on the ice in #Greenland for 3 hours
Now, returning to our previous-scheduled program: #SignalGate www.cnn.com/2025/03/29/e...
That sounds awful. I'm so sorry. I too am suffering. One thing that's helped restore my sense of agency is a book by @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social: Hope in the Dark. From another time, but still relevant. Solnit reminders us that activism can deliver progressive change when it's least expected.
March 30, 2025 at 3:46 AM
That sounds awful. I'm so sorry. I too am suffering. One thing that's helped restore my sense of agency is a book by @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social: Hope in the Dark. From another time, but still relevant. Solnit reminders us that activism can deliver progressive change when it's least expected.
I check the @umaine.bsky.social climate reanalyzer regularly, hoping for a sign that Earth's fever is breaking. Alas, 2025's daily temperatures remain off the charts. What's worse: climate scientists didn't see this coming.
We are poking a very big bear. climatereanalyzer.org/clim/t2_dail...
We are poking a very big bear. climatereanalyzer.org/clim/t2_dail...
March 28, 2025 at 5:11 PM
I check the @umaine.bsky.social climate reanalyzer regularly, hoping for a sign that Earth's fever is breaking. Alas, 2025's daily temperatures remain off the charts. What's worse: climate scientists didn't see this coming.
We are poking a very big bear. climatereanalyzer.org/clim/t2_dail...
We are poking a very big bear. climatereanalyzer.org/clim/t2_dail...
You can see Ira's deleted Pentagon page courtesy of @waybackmachine.bsky.social's incredible Web Archive: web.archive.org/web/20250223....
President Harry Truman thanking Ira Hayes at the White House in 1945:
President Harry Truman thanking Ira Hayes at the White House in 1945:
March 18, 2025 at 4:26 PM
You can see Ira's deleted Pentagon page courtesy of @waybackmachine.bsky.social's incredible Web Archive: web.archive.org/web/20250223....
President Harry Truman thanking Ira Hayes at the White House in 1945:
President Harry Truman thanking Ira Hayes at the White House in 1945:
Shit's just getting weirder. Check out what American nerves are getting tweaked on YouTube...
March 10, 2025 at 3:56 AM
Shit's just getting weirder. Check out what American nerves are getting tweaked on YouTube...
Je me trouve entre l'enfer et le printemps
March 10, 2025 at 3:40 AM
Je me trouve entre l'enfer et le printemps
His name was Gennady. The power engineer was 56. According to 🇺🇦 utility DTEK a Russian shell hit Gennady's crane as his emergency crew arrived to repair a damaged power facility.
Yet another of Putin's war crimes.
Grids keep us alive. They should never be targeted. www.nytimes.com/2024/04/15/o...
Yet another of Putin's war crimes.
Grids keep us alive. They should never be targeted. www.nytimes.com/2024/04/15/o...
February 22, 2025 at 5:26 PM
His name was Gennady. The power engineer was 56. According to 🇺🇦 utility DTEK a Russian shell hit Gennady's crane as his emergency crew arrived to repair a damaged power facility.
Yet another of Putin's war crimes.
Grids keep us alive. They should never be targeted. www.nytimes.com/2024/04/15/o...
Yet another of Putin's war crimes.
Grids keep us alive. They should never be targeted. www.nytimes.com/2024/04/15/o...
@sfpublicpress.bsky.social has a photo essay by Jason Winshell from Monday's No Kings On Presidents Day rally at the #Tesla dealership on Van Ness: www.sfpublicpress.org/tesla-become... #50501 #Elon #Musk
My favourite is a good fit with today's Nazi salute du jour delivered by Steve Bannon...
My favourite is a good fit with today's Nazi salute du jour delivered by Steve Bannon...
February 21, 2025 at 10:59 PM
@sfpublicpress.bsky.social has a photo essay by Jason Winshell from Monday's No Kings On Presidents Day rally at the #Tesla dealership on Van Ness: www.sfpublicpress.org/tesla-become... #50501 #Elon #Musk
My favourite is a good fit with today's Nazi salute du jour delivered by Steve Bannon...
My favourite is a good fit with today's Nazi salute du jour delivered by Steve Bannon...
apparently hell Is freezing over
(photo by Jon Cherry/Getty Images, care of WaPo)
(photo by Jon Cherry/Getty Images, care of WaPo)
February 11, 2025 at 5:05 PM
apparently hell Is freezing over
(photo by Jon Cherry/Getty Images, care of WaPo)
(photo by Jon Cherry/Getty Images, care of WaPo)
In other words, jets beat flapping Monarch wings on energy efficiency.
Note that some of evolution's best do beat engineered flight. Such as the Wandering Albatross, which manages a whooping 2.2 kg-meters of travel per joule of energy expended.
Note that some of evolution's best do beat engineered flight. Such as the Wandering Albatross, which manages a whooping 2.2 kg-meters of travel per joule of energy expended.
December 25, 2024 at 9:33 PM
In other words, jets beat flapping Monarch wings on energy efficiency.
Note that some of evolution's best do beat engineered flight. Such as the Wandering Albatross, which manages a whooping 2.2 kg-meters of travel per joule of energy expended.
Note that some of evolution's best do beat engineered flight. Such as the Wandering Albatross, which manages a whooping 2.2 kg-meters of travel per joule of energy expended.
The setting sun was gorgeous. And witnessing the year's final monarchs to depart Santa Cruz for points north was poignant,with the Fed's recent proposal to list them as endangered.
But my favourite sighting was these little guys...
But my favourite sighting was these little guys...
December 24, 2024 at 1:45 PM
The setting sun was gorgeous. And witnessing the year's final monarchs to depart Santa Cruz for points north was poignant,with the Fed's recent proposal to list them as endangered.
But my favourite sighting was these little guys...
But my favourite sighting was these little guys...
And did it ever set!
December 24, 2024 at 1:35 PM
And did it ever set!
Always nice to be in print. Better still, on the cover.
And it feels good to be giving beautiful and beleaguered #Taiwan some attention. @ieeespectrum.bsky.social spectrum.ieee.org/magazine/202...
And it feels good to be giving beautiful and beleaguered #Taiwan some attention. @ieeespectrum.bsky.social spectrum.ieee.org/magazine/202...
October 17, 2024 at 4:20 AM
Always nice to be in print. Better still, on the cover.
And it feels good to be giving beautiful and beleaguered #Taiwan some attention. @ieeespectrum.bsky.social spectrum.ieee.org/magazine/202...
And it feels good to be giving beautiful and beleaguered #Taiwan some attention. @ieeespectrum.bsky.social spectrum.ieee.org/magazine/202...
Sounds like you're a neighbour!
I imagine PG&E originally ran that gas main up Highway 1 to serve the newer school built across the street from Hawkins, and subsequently shuttered ...
I imagine PG&E originally ran that gas main up Highway 1 to serve the newer school built across the street from Hawkins, and subsequently shuttered ...
September 9, 2024 at 10:03 PM
Sounds like you're a neighbour!
I imagine PG&E originally ran that gas main up Highway 1 to serve the newer school built across the street from Hawkins, and subsequently shuttered ...
I imagine PG&E originally ran that gas main up Highway 1 to serve the newer school built across the street from Hawkins, and subsequently shuttered ...
Thank you Tsjisse Talsma for the trippy visual take on a potentially wonky topic !
www.instagram.com/tsjissetalsma/
www.instagram.com/tsjissetalsma/
September 9, 2024 at 5:37 PM
Thank you Tsjisse Talsma for the trippy visual take on a potentially wonky topic !
www.instagram.com/tsjissetalsma/
www.instagram.com/tsjissetalsma/
Putin declared "the LGBTQ movement" terrorists 3 days before Friday's attack. @nytimes.com
March 24, 2024 at 1:39 PM
Putin declared "the LGBTQ movement" terrorists 3 days before Friday's attack. @nytimes.com
Been wondering what the anchor for a floating turbine looks like ? See below.
Wondering why you should care? Read here: spectrum.ieee.org/floating-off...
Wondering why you should care? Read here: spectrum.ieee.org/floating-off...
October 5, 2023 at 2:30 AM
Been wondering what the anchor for a floating turbine looks like ? See below.
Wondering why you should care? Read here: spectrum.ieee.org/floating-off...
Wondering why you should care? Read here: spectrum.ieee.org/floating-off...