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John Wolthuis
@thuddwhirr
Climate. Housing. Effective Government. Co-founder, . Figuring out my next thing.
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Science & TechnologySan Francisco, CAJoined May 2008
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Lithium & transmission get a lot of attention as constraints on renewables growth. Less discussed, but more pressing, are tax equity capacity, interconnection agreements, & reg agency staffing shortages. Path to decarbonization is much easier to model than execute in real world.
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“Governor Gavin Newsom says he expects to collaborate with lawmakers this year on reforms to the state’s environmental review law, which has been used repeatedly by opponents of development to block construction.”
#CALeg
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Ah this is disappointing
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Gas industry has hired Dems to help brand methane as "cheap" & "clean." Both false, but sound familiar? In 2007 the coal industry used similar tactics for the now infamous “clean coal” campaign.
Great reporting by @maxinejoselow
washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/
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Twitter taking an increasingly expansive view of Eventual Consistency
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The chubby deer or Michigan. You’re welcome.
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If anyone thinks I'm spending a dime on a Dem senate primary in CA, they're out of their minds.
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Every 4th tweet is promoted this morning. All garbage.
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'But, Toad,' cried Frog, 'you will miss all the fun!'
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Goodbye
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Michigan's PSC found that an investor-owned utility can't make its customers pay for energy from a pricey coal plant it happens to own. PSC disallowed over $1M(!) in costs.
mi-psc.force.com/sfc/servlet.sh
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Last three days of Democratic Party fundraising spam have dropped adding the deceptive STOP2END message and are instead not prompting (or honoring) any stop words at all.
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Shameless replug of the first post in our new Newsroom series on transmission.
It lays out why transmission is so important for future clean energy hubs:
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🤦♂️ It's a team sport, people.
Low-carbon power is low carbon power.
Having some nuclear/hydro/geothermal will lower system costs by reducing the need to overbuild wind/solar/batteries/transmission. And a grid with some wind/solar will be cheaper than all-nuclear. Team effort! twitter.com/LionHirth/stat
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Someone at Verizon just flushed a stuck queue and I got a days worth of SMS and voicemail all at once just now.
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Also, holy hell does it get hot fast
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Incremental electrification ftw
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It's hard to keep reading stories like this and not conclude that avoided emission credits are a catastrophe.
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It'd be great if we just approved as much housing as it took to reduce prices rather than focusing on pseudoscientific estimates of "housing need." If we fail? "Oh no, lots of new higher-quality homes and more people living in our most productive and sustainable cities!! 😱😭"
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Why is my feed full of people arguing that the *literal* free rider problem is good actually
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It’s a bigger red flag when someone self-describes as:
- A polymath44.2%
- A futurist55.8%
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Polyculture > polycrisis
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A polyculture of wheat grown with walnut trees produces ~ 40% higher yields.
1 hectare of wheat/walnut mix yields the same as 1.4 hectares of each crop grown separately.
This is an example of overyielding.
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California winter sunsets remain solid
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I am apparently “a strong iced coffee on an empty stomach will ruin the rest of your day” years old
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Life hack. Two months of unread email is a decent replacement for about an hour of twitter scrolling.
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Am I crazy or is there not a default PDF client on iPhone?
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My essay in Sunday's argues that CEQA reform depends on leadership from & courts and gives examples of what they can do.
Some folks have asked what I'd prioritize on the legislative front. Here's a short 🧵 in response. 1/12
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So the rule is: if you know the number of oxygen atoms, you spell it out, but if you don’t, you pronounce it like a baseball team?
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How do you pronounce NOx?
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NEPA & state-level "baby NEPA" equivalents are not environmental laws!
They are preservation procedure laws!
NEPA's goal is to conserve the world **exactly** as it was in the 1970s--even when that entails skeptical review of any changes to the character of historic pollutants twitter.com/DavidZahniser/
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Our house has produced two Canada Reads longlisters in as many years, but do you think our children care! No! They only want to read The Very Hungry Caterpillar and eat goldfish crackers
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How do you pronounce NOx?
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- N. O. X.13.6%
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Burning Man going to extraordinary lengths to try to block an important renewable energy project. twitter.com/Sammy_Roth/sta
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Reminder for whenever you hear the term “personal carbon footprint”
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👀📷 Check out this awesome picture of the Phantom Falls in the North Table Mountain Ecological Reserve north of Oroville, CA! All the rain over the last week has led to these normally dry creeks becoming waterfalls. #CAwx
Photo Credit: Mike Manzone
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Calm before the storm
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It's 2023, let's work on cutting the 10-year timeline to plan and permit an interregional transmission line:
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