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The Grain Belt Express has been in limbo for 15 years now, despite backing from Invenergy. It has recently taken hits from President Trump, Senator Hawley, and Missouri's AG. https…

The tax on fuel has not been able to keep up with expenditures for the Highway Trust Fund for two decades; now a third of the money comes from the General Fund. https://t4america.o…

It says in the linked article that they only have support for 9 cities so far, and they list them as: Spokane, WA Syracuse, NY South Bend, IN Bellingham, WA Morgantown, WV Cincinna…

Nooo... we have a bunch of metrics and logs reporting systems at my company. Some of them are in UTC, some of them display my local time, some of them display China Time, and I'm t…

Zephyr Teachout wrote an early article critiquing Abundance , the book by Derek Thompson and Ezra Klein. She appeared on Ezra's podcast and (IMHO) did not appear to have thought ve…

I remember in 2015 watching this great tsunami video at a harbor. It was about 11 minutes long. At the start, there's just a white line at the horizon. Then the fishing boats in th…

If China is manufacturing solar panels for us, that doesn't give them control of our energy supply. It's not like being dependent on Saudi Arabia to supply oil. If China cuts us of…

And Pfizer is an investor in his company.

https://indyweek.com/news/opinions/op-ed-the-purpose-of-zoni... https://www.whitehouse.gov/cea/written-materials/2021/06/17/... Some of the housing regulations were legitimately pu…

The energy efficiency initiatives of the 1970s significantly reduced the energy cost of economic activity. (Ironically, this helped kill nuclear, by undercutting the expected incre…

Okay, sure, if you look at geologic timescales then eventually Africa will move and the region of northern Africa will cease to be desert. Within a human timescale, I think "never"…

The goal is to eliminate trash in the environment. Thin plastic bags get discarded carelessly, then catch in the wind and get strewn around a wide area. Plastic bag bans have been …

The cost of solar dropped by 90% between 2010 and 2020, and the cost of panels fell by 14% last year. Batteries were just straight up not a thing until 2019: California's grid-scal…

Based on the past 30 years, I think the safe assumption is that there will not be much nuclear built in the US+Europe in the next 15 years.

If China stops selling us solar panels, the ones we already have will keep producing power and we'll be just fine. I feel like you're making an analogy here to 1973 when Saudi Arab…

Quite right old chap! Surely no reasonable consumer would interpret terms like "Autopilot" or "Full Self Driving" to mean that the car autonomously drives itself!

I love to bike around the city and listen to the frogs in the Stormwater Ponds.

It has become popular to refer to it as "fossil gas".

The article referenced mentions of goitre in Switzerland from Victor Hugo in 1839, Mark Twain in 1880, a medical survey in 1883, and Roman authors like Vitrivius and Pliny the Elde…

There is no excuse to be using MyISAM instead of InnoDB in 2023. It was a scarcely forgivable mistake in 2013. The read performance advantages of MyISAM are solved better by using …

24/7 companionship, with owners that don't leave all day for work...

Construction of the lithium mine at Thacker Pass began in June, and it is expected to start producing lithium by 2026. There is a (super nutty ) environmentalist group and some Nat…

The Texas grid has been buckling because of extreme weather events and rapidly increasing load. Texas broke electricity demand records 11 times last summer [2022] and 9 times this …

There is a wind farm by the highway east of Seattle. I enjoy looking at them when I drive through that area. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_Horse_Wind_Farm

A cobalt mine recently opened in Idaho, but apparently is idle because cobalt from Nigeria is priced too low for the Idaho mine to be competitive. https://www.eenews.net/articles/b…