Renewable Friday on Bluesky
Let’s try mining Bluesky for Global Warming news today. DK doesn’t support embeds with images or videos, and Bluesky doesn’t support bookmarking. So we aren’t going to get what I would call full...
View ArticleRenewable Tuesday: Pakistan
There is some serious good news about EVs in Pakistan, against a staggering backdrop of catastrophe. So I decided to take a deeper dive today, to make the import and impact of the good and bad news...
View ArticleRenewable Friday: Ten Steps Forward, Three Steps Back
We used computational fluid dynamics (like airplane simulations) to calculate body temperatures of sea turtles and showed places they will be in trouble from climate change.Most proud of this because...
View ArticleRenewable Tuesday: Imagine This!
The biggest obstacle to climate action has long been a failure of imagination. Too few have in fact imagined solutions. Some cannot imagine that the problem is as big as it is. Some cannot imagine that...
View ArticleRenewable Friday the 13th is Not Unlucky
We are coming up to the high point on the roller coaster, where the ride really begins. It’s all downhill from there, but with scary ups and downs and ins and outs all along the way. Enjoy.Amtrak’s...
View ArticleRenewable Tuesday: The Sinking Towers of South Florida
Global Warming is coming home to the rich along the Florida coast, where the luxury condos are sinking measurably as the limestone under them breaks up, and ocean water infiltrates it and increasingly...
View ArticleTonight's Government Shutdown
President Elmo The Grinch, the real ultra-billionaire in charge, just cued up a government shutdown tonight at 12:01 AM. I wonder when the Other Guy will discover that he isn’t getting all of the...
View ArticleRenewable Friday News: More Tipping Points More
This is weird. I don’t have any actual bad climate news today. Tipping points are toppling everywhere, with many more to come. And remember, you can fix up your home and take a hand in your community....
View ArticleRenewable Tuesday on Bluesky
Wonderful news! I was just wishing for someone to create Bluesky feeds on renewable energy topics, and here he is! Everybody who reads my Renewables posts should follow Jonathan, and pin whichever...
View ArticleRenewable Friday: Posting to jonathan's Feeds on BlueSky
jonathan renewableenergy.bsky.social has created a dozen feeds on topics related to Global Warming, and provided hashtags for many but not all of them that are supposed to get your posts into his...
View ArticleRenewable Tuesday: More from BlueSky Feeds
I am in a conversation with jonathan renewableenergy.bsky.social about the problems with Bluesky software for feeds that do not allow regular contributions to his dozen renewable energy transition...
View ArticleRenewable Friday: The Decline and Coming Fall of Oil
The Death of Coal is moving right along. Next, oil, which has been going sideways since President Biden broke OPEC’s pricing power with increased US production and a beautifully timed release from the...
View ArticleHouse Speakership Bloviation vs. Plain Truth
I am going to quote two Rs and a D about newly re-elected House Speaker Mike Johnson, with simple emoji markup and a few notes about particularly egregious hypocrisies. I invite you to join me in...
View ArticleRenewable Tuesday: Carter's Truths, Reagan's Lies
No cartel controls the sun. Its energy will not run out. It will not pollute the air; it will not poison our waters.The question is no longer whether solar energy works. We know it works.Jimmy Carter,...
View ArticleRenewable Friday: DK Supports BlueSky Images, and We Ditch X
The DK elves have given us support for embedding BlueSky posts with IMAGES in, and partial support for videos. They show up here with their opening frames as clickable links. Spread the word. Also,...
View ArticleIs Freedom of Religion the Koan?
Far too many among us demand that they have the only Truth, and that they must Lord it over the rest of us benighted, even evil fools. As for myself, I pray often for those who follow some prophet or...
View ArticleCritics blast DEI, Dems, bad forestry, eco-activists for L.A. fires but never...
I lived in Los Angeles for 29 years, most of it amid the ravines half a block from the 282-acre nature preserve of Debs Park in the northeast part of the city. Because of our proximity to this wild...
View ArticleRenewable Tuesday: But What Can *I* Do?
Rule #1, Don’t obey in advance. Rule #2, Don’t be helpless. They are trying everything they know of to teach us all to be helpless before their entitled evil. Rule #3, Look for the helpers. (Mr....
View ArticleRenewable Friday: Peak Child Tipping Point
A critical tipping point on the way to Peak Humanity has toppled: Peak Child. There are still a few outliers, most notably Niger, where the birth rate is still 6.5 children per fertile woman, but we...
View ArticleRenewable Tuesday: Regular Feeds, with Pointing and Laughing
Wesmorgan1 has a solution to the broken feeds on Bluesky that don’t pick up tagged posts. He is writing a Howto about it that we will take up in my next Tuxville post here. We still have the problem of...
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