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  RE: https://mastodon.green/@gerrymcgovern/116900154465203316 Weirdly, this was also the case in Sweden even into the early 20th century. Voting power was proportional to wealth, and even corporations got to vote based on how much capital they controlled. In a few districts, one person or company controlled more than half of all the votes due to wealth concentration. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-69864-4_6

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  Whoa this is like a billion dollar sodium ion battery in Abu Dhabi. At $40/kWh. To back up 5.2GW of PV. I remember when $100/kWh was the rallying cry (like, last year?) https://electrek.co/2026/07/10/byd-masdar-11-gwh-rtc-storage-abu-dhabi/

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  Te first US woman to row solo, unsupported from the US mainland to Hawai'i. Beat the fastest man's time by 9 days. Nearly cut the previous women's record in half. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/05/us/rowing-record-pacific-kelsey-pfendler.html?unlocked_article_code=1.wFA.hVSD.-Wfh9S5Ljw4L&smid=url-share

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  Thinking about moving to Portland. Watching drone footage from La Guaira, Venezuela. Thinking about the coming megathrust earthquake that will flatten the whole Pacific Northwest. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1700_Cascadia_earthquake

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  One thing I liked about QTs is it was easy to share things with attribution. Here I find myself copy-and-pasting with no reference to original sources much more frequently.

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  It's bizarre that the US is blocking shipments of fuel, but not solar panels. It's almost like they really don't believe PV works. https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/13/climate/cuba-solar-us-oil-blockade-trump-china

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  Be a problem money can't solve. But. Not like this. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/04/new-orleans-sea-levels-relocation-climate-crisis

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  Just wild how like half of the stories about oil right now don't even mention the electrification of transportation.

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  Whoadang, shit's getting real in open modeling land! Via @nworbmot #OpenSource #EnergyTransition #FOSS

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  Halfway between the Dieselgate scandal in the US and building cars in Nazi Germany with forced labor, Volkswagen was operating a Brazilian beef ranch clearing the Amazon with slaves? https://reporterbrasil.org.br/2025/05/why-is-volkswagen-accused-of-slave-labor-in-the-amazon/

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  "The solar panels imported into Sierra Leone in the last 12 months, if installed, would generate electricity equivalent to 61% of the total reported 2023 electricity generation" #Energy #Solar #Africa https://ember-energy.org/latest-insights/the-first-evidence-of-a-take-off-in-solar-in-africa/

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  Very weird how the guy dismantling the US government is named after the evil megacorp antagonist from The Boys which is itself a play on Ozymandias' company Veidt Enterprises in The Watchmen. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_Vought https://the-boys.fandom.com/wiki/Vought_International https://watchmen.fandom.com/wiki/Veidt_Enterprises

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  The US may be powerful enough to bully anybody. But it's not powerful enough to bully *everybody*

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  Interesting series of posts on the utility political, regulatory, & business model landscape, how & why they're failing to adapt, and how changing economics of DERs interact with the system. From the former CEO of Octopus Energy. https://distributedgrid.substack.com/p/the-utility-business-model-is-built #Energy #Electricity #Utility #Regulation #DER

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  RE: https://mastodon.green/@akshatrathi/116262355484528757 This is a horrific way to accelerate the transition. But it *is* a way to accelerate the transition.

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  CERAWeek is gonna be 🔥 It is going to be so weird to see the O&G dudes *and* the EV folks simultaneously (quietly?) cheering on and benefiting from the same catastrophe.

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  A +2500/-2200 line PR is totally the same as a +300 line PR right?

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  Love me a game where all players do not have the same victory conditions.

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  It's silly but this is fun.

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  Nothing says "mid-21st century" to me like cackling maniacally at 2am while simultaneously wrangling multiple coding agents working on open energy data pipelines, listening to thumping techno, and doomscrolling the Iran war.

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  Amazing chart gallery, looking at the trajectory of transportation electrification across many different countries. It's Happening. This is the last oil crisis. No country in its right mind will allow itself to be vulnerable to this kind of insanity again. https://leraffl.github.io/LeRaffl-Gallery/ #DataViz #EV #Electrification #Energy

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  It would be interesting (derogatory) if it turned out that Mossad is tracking and assassinating the Iranian leadership by hacking into their own repressive surveillance infrastructure.