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Zane Selvans
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Data Liberation Engineer @catalyst.coop. Climate, energy, bikes, cities, co-ops, and the strangeness of Our Modern Age. A former space explorer, now lost in the misty highlands of Mexico.

https://amateurearthling.org

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Ooh @greenprofgreen.bsky.social's book Existential Politics, about the unavoidable conflicts between fossil, climate vulnerable, and green asset holders, is finally out.
@drilledmedia.bsky.social interviewed her, audio and transcript here:

drilled.media/news/drillin...
Why We Need More Confrontation at COP
In ‘Existential Politics,’ Jessica F. Green argues that head-on conflict with fossil fuel interests is a prerequisite for real progress.
drilled.media
November 17, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Man I'm out of popcorn and want to go get some but also I feel like I might have developed a popcorn habit. Is this a healthy snack or just junk food you can make at home? 🍿
November 17, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Reposted by Zane Selvans
When I showed this slide to my wife, who is a software engineer for a power company who has written environmental impact statements for the DoD, she simply started screaming
November 14, 2025 at 6:17 PM
A look at the weird limbo of weed's legalization in Mexico. It's been decriminalized, but the government has so far refused to actually write the promised regulations. Se llama "ghosting institucionál" 🤣

www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrSX...
Marihuana en México: así se fuma en el limbo de la legalización
YouTube video by Florencia Guerra
www.youtube.com
November 15, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Reposted by Zane Selvans
Temperatures have warmed across the contiguous United States over the last five decades or so during the months of December through February (a rapidly warming season)...

Check out @climatecentral.org's winter package for more information and graphics: www.climatecentral.org/climate-matt... ❄️🥵
November 15, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Lol, the AI is trying to trick us into building more nuclear power plants so it can grow.

www.404media.co/power-compan...
Power Companies Are Using AI To Build Nuclear Power Plants
Tech companies are betting big on nuclear energy to meet AIs massive power demands and they're using that AI to speed up the construction of new nuclear power plants.
www.404media.co
November 15, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Reading about the Mexican Revolution I was reminded that there's really no upper limit on the number of times allies can turn on each other and become enemies after they win. Especially when all they care about is power.
November 15, 2025 at 5:23 AM
I should probably go for a walk.
November 14, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Reposted by Zane Selvans
A new quarterly release of PUDL is available, v2025.11.0. Lots of final 2024 data from EIA, quarterly updates for EIA-930, EPA CEMS and other continuously updated sources. Plus the first EIA-176 natural gas tables, thanks to contributions from @switch.box #EnergySky

github.com/orgs/catalys...
PUDL v2025.11.0 is available · catalyst-cooperative · Discussion #4767
Overview The November, 2025 release of PUDL is out! This is a quarterly PUDL data release, and includes final 2024 data for a number of annually reported EIA forms, as well as quarterly updates to ...
github.com
November 14, 2025 at 8:07 PM
This has to happen pretty much every year for the rest of my life.

ember-energy.org/latest-insig...
November 14, 2025 at 6:47 AM
How did it take me half a century to discover eating popcorn with chopsticks. 🍿🥢
November 14, 2025 at 4:27 AM
started / going
November 13, 2025 at 11:06 PM
All The Single Ladies say...
Record numbers of younger women want to leave the U.S.

news.gallup.com/poll/697382/...
November 13, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Just a little pilot project. Collect some data. Though to be statistically significant the experiment might have to run for a while.
hear me out, maybe it’s time to stop making men the president for awhile
November 13, 2025 at 5:57 AM
I remember going to some hearings about building affordable housing on the Hogan-Pancost property.

bouldercolorado.gov/projects/eas...
November 13, 2025 at 5:50 AM
November 13, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Of course this kind of market *should* exist, but aren't there a bunch of lucrative monopoly rate base capex opportunities that it will displace? Will utilities just stand by and let it happen? Is there a reason why they no longer have a choice? #EnergySky

www.volts.wtf/p/how-to-mak...
How to make a market for distributed energy flexibility
Piclo has created a marketplace where buyers of grid flexibility can find sellers.
www.volts.wtf
November 13, 2025 at 1:15 AM
It's got those old school "They call it pollution, we call it life." vibes.
Former Virginia governor Terry McAuliffe is the latest prominent Democrat to join Natural Allies for a Clean Energy Future, a fossil fuel industry front group that seeks to influence liberals to embrace methane gas as clean, climate-friendly energy
Former Gov. McAuliffe joins pro-natural gas group as national co-chair • Virginia Mercury
Terry McAuliffe to promote natural gas as a route to long-term energy reliability as renewable energy sources are built out.
virginiamercury.com
November 13, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Reposted by Zane Selvans
KATIE WILSON LEADS BY 1,346!
November 12, 2025 at 12:02 AM
I feel like insurance companies have 3 departments:

1. The department of lying to you about how great their insurance is.
2. The department of investing your premiums.
3. The department of figuring out how not to pay you when you make a claim.
New York Times investigation finds home insurance companies have exploited loopholes in California wildfire regulations to avoid high-risk areas while still charging higher rates: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/01/u...
California Promised Insurance Relief, But Delivered Loopholes
www.nytimes.com
November 11, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Guinea Bissau you have three minutes!
In college I was in Model UN but like bad at it (you should do things you enjoy but are bad at). And one conference I was like Libya or something and rather than engage in actual geopolitics I decided to embody the "vibe" of Libya and the chair kept calling on me just cause I was funny.
November 11, 2025 at 4:41 AM
Reposted by Zane Selvans
It's a terrible idea to hire Captain Ahab! He's clearly nuts!
November 11, 2025 at 2:21 AM
omg this is real. I thought it was a parody.

www.planning.org/zoningpracti...
November 11, 2025 at 2:45 AM
¡Bienvenidos a México!
You know who's the real winner in all of this?

Medical tourism.
November 11, 2025 at 2:21 AM