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Over the next year we will be working with our local partners in Fiji to realize this community solar + water minigrid. The winner of last year's LAGI design competition, The O by Alberto Roncelli will generate 150 MWh of electricity and 1.2 million liters of filtered water each year.

Online betting was already illegal until the Supreme Court said that PASPA was unconstitutional in 2018. This whole rotten industry sprung up in less than a decade on a technicality. I think it could be a winning platform but it will invite a flood of opposition spending against proponents.

tl;dr Bill Maher is a pothead goofball and the ballroom and Karoline Leavitt are amazing. If you make it to the end you should get something more than the standard TYFYATTM.

Lula’s win is the first good news for the planet in a while! I bet it shaves a tenth of a degree off how hot our earth eventually gets, which will save millions of lives Thank you Brazil!

Cool innovation coming out of Australia where apartments can share one rooftop solar system using a device that automatically assigns electricity to each unit based on their share in the system. allumeenergy.com/en-au/solshare

Wherein Sam D’Amico answers the biggest riddle of our time: Has the tech community in silicon valley completely given up on climate mitigation as they feed the data center boom with mostly methane? The answer: They are all counting on geoengineering to work.

Fascinating history of the origins of prediction markets, the dark web, gambling on the future, insider trading, and tech bro anarcho-crypto-white-nationalism. I’m going to check out the original Harper’s piece.

The future of mining will be electric. The giant, 264 short ton Fortescue T264E haul truck can charge its 3.2MWh battery in 30 minutes using a 6MW charger system deployed by repurposed automobile building robots. 🧪💡🔌 ☀️💨💧🔋 electrek.co/2026/10/22/f...

My fellow citizens voted for this. For the most part they were tricked, their attention and blame were misdirected—toward poor immigrants and fabricated culture wars. Let us please learn some hard lessons from the last couple of years and never repeat this history.

There is an important distinction to be made on “we” who are “still using oil and gas” and I think it comes down to the difference between the nations who export fossil fuels and the ones who import them. The latter will electrify first and in so doing will crush the economies of the former.

“Water shortages [from loss of snowpack] could mean that the number of acres that farmers irrigate could decline dramatically, including by up to 40 percent in the San Joaquin Valley, a major agricultural hub.”

When do we get to see a bunch of counties enact golf course moratoriums like they did solar moratoriums?

Humanity's destiny is to regain our place within a balanced and sustainable biosphere, to stop our destruction, pollution, and extraction, and to finally become effective caretakers of the unique and complex interrelated systems that make life in this vast, cold universe possible.

Collusion took egg. “On the Monday before Christmas, representatives from the two companies — and a third, Iowa-based collaborative Versova — joined what had become a weekly conference call in which they worked on “bidding up” prices, in the words of a Cal-Maine executive quoted in court records.”

Deep sea mining is not necessary. We have all the metals we need on land surfaces. The only reason people want to do this is that it might be cheaper to indiscriminately scrape the sea floor rather than responsibly mine and later restore terrestrial landscapes.

“…firms that appointed managers with business degrees cut wages and reduced labor’s share of income…these companies didn’t become more productive…What registers as managerial acumen turns out to be wealth transfer—value moved away from workers and toward profits, shareholders and executives.”

Thomas More’s Utopia was about a patriarchal settler colonial island where the indigenous people were enslaved. Much like our ruling class who misunderstood the moral lessons of 20th century sci-fi, British readers of More in the 16th century also set out to uncritically accomplish his narrative.

Keynes famously said that “markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.” Well, it looks like the irrationality may be finally starting to break but it remains to be seen how steep and far the decline will be before irrationality kicks back in.

Democracies should do what the people want. One way to start would be by requiring all data centers to have on site 24 hours of energy storage to cover 100% of their loads before they can get an interconnection to the grid (and make BYOE off-grid operations illegal).

1. Designed to avert evil. We need more apotropaicism in the 21st century.

Agrivoltaics requires thoughtful design tailored to the crop and the landscape. This is a promising case study for cranberries that you should think about the next time you enjoy a Cape Codder.

Videos from @climatetown.bsky.social are always great, but this one on electricity bills and utilities is really fantastic. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fDG...

“The situation in American meatpacking plants could soon get worse, for the Trump administration proposed raising the maximum normal speed of chicken slaughter lines from 140 birds per minute to 175 per minute.”

Most US electricity distribution grids have headroom between winter demand peaks and grid capacity. Adding heat pumps to these grids could increase energy throughput without requiring new infrastructure. More energy sales, same grid costs --> lower energy prices for all. New RMI report:

Climate change-driven warming causes the Colorado River to lose approximately 1.7 million acre-feet of water annually, so maybe Arizona should be suing the big oil companies?

Just do it. Go EV. Hybrids and plug-in hybrids are wolves in sheep’s clothing and there is no good reason for them now when EVs can go up to 300 miles and take less time to charge on road trips than you need in the bathroom.

This is the heart of the present political asymmetry: “Currently, only the extreme right is willing to say yes, something is broken, and a different present and future is possible,” Weber says. “We can’t leave an alternative to this dystopia to them.”

There were these folks we used to call experts. They spent their lives searching for hard evidence on specific topics using data, analysis, research, and study. We used to look to them for policy guidance. Now we all get to have opinions based on stories and feelings and we can’t make good policy.

55 yrs ago today - October 15, 1971 – “Man’s Impact on the Climate” published allouryesterdays.info/2023/10/14/o...