Tweets for the Week of 2018-11-25 to 2018-12-01

Holy crap, Spain is going to try and ban cars from the downtown of any city with more than 50,000 residents. Pollin… https://t.co/iYygNCbgzm 12:14:04, 2018-12-01
"Los personajes incluidos son símbolos, y no tienen género."
Pero… creo que puedes adivinar qué género tienen. https://t.co/zkuyLC0dds 10:00:43, 2018-12-01
An awesome zoomable map of population density in the EU, including every 1km grid square with a population of > 10,… https://t.co/QKkmNj6M6w 09:21:00, 2018-12-01
Tengo curiosidad de cómo AMLO reconciliará el esfuerzo por aumentar la producción de petróleo con sus ambiciones de… https://t.co/cPzVUQrYNj 08:41:14, 2018-12-01
Pero la cantidad de luz que puede ser generado por una sistema como este es *muchisimo* pequeñito. Desde una bicicl… https://t.co/wirwEeJWGT 07:00:42, 2018-12-01
I had no idea! In 2008 the IAU named a minor asteroid after her. She also graduated cum laude from Boston Universi… https://t.co/GGKc8tDfOu 03:04:09, 2018-12-01
RT @eveewing: someone sent me a picture of a burning cross.
because I have the audacity to try to tell an imaginative story about a black… 11:55:02, 2018-11-30
RT @schmangee: That would build a shitton of affordable housing. And if it were properly located, it would reduce the need for the highways… 09:16:19, 2018-11-30
"Cars: an insane neoliberal plot to rob working people of their wages" https://t.co/VgQ2HaG5gG 09:16:05, 2018-11-30
RT @mtsw: Locking working Americans into car dependence isn't freeing them. It's chaining them to an extremely expensive consumer platform… 09:14:53, 2018-11-30
This is a great thread. I have literally (literally) bashed my head against the countertop arguing that perpetuatin… https://t.co/5AZnxgwIw4 09:13:58, 2018-11-30
Morning view across the Bay of Antalya. Rainy weather clearing up for a few days. https://t.co/UcpvQ6Pele 01:13:34, 2018-11-30
This is definitely tea, not coffee, country. https://t.co/7MDM2bsHD1 22:29:52, 2018-11-29
It's almost like after the War on Coal ended then there was a Flue Pandemic.
Coal plant closings double in Trump's… https://t.co/RlrKoFadRn 12:14:01, 2018-11-29
RT @joshdr83: 2018 US coal plant retirements to be double that of 2017.
https://t.co/7H23EPuV6B 11:22:56, 2018-11-29
I'm reading not quite a textbook about how the grid works. I'd forgotten how much electricity and magnetism are lik… https://t.co/HNjNTcu9eC 11:21:11, 2018-11-29
Anybody else interested in meeting fellow data practitioners working in environmental economics to talk about metho… https://t.co/3mv9ubPgkV 06:57:16, 2018-11-29
@drvox Them's the golden hours tbh in reply to drvox 03:23:57, 2018-11-29
I'm not sure how I feel about this. Honestly I kind of agree, but that also makes me sad. https://t.co/9E5xuVlJuE 01:49:42, 2018-11-29
@LauraLoeSeattle @drvox I have been reading Electric Power Systems: A Conceptual Introduction during the non-painfu… https://t.co/vt3EZeU3ka in reply to LauraLoeSeattle 22:22:53, 2018-11-28
RT @IDoTheThinking: This isn't mandating everyone subscribe to an "-ism" that's supposedly equitable. Its not about labels, its policy.
If… 14:07:29, 2018-11-28
@Noahpinion Oooh, interesting. I've kind of lumped market power and geographic inequity together in my head. Land c… https://t.co/2xBz9iQqtD in reply to Noahpinion 10:36:47, 2018-11-28
I think Jesse may not have attended many #BoulderCouncil meetings. https://t.co/nVQbCYKUDs 08:53:34, 2018-11-28
@KateRaworth @romankrznaric Some faves: Into Eternity by Michael Madsen; Dirt: the erosion of civilization by David… https://t.co/XODGGK16tp in reply to KateRaworth 02:18:35, 2018-11-28
@BoulderCRC https://t.co/o1vGglGlAr 02:11:52, 2018-11-28
@vb_jens Ha, I thought at first you meant the pyramid scheme that is academics vying for a small number of tenure t… https://t.co/CZx0hjDlO7 in reply to vb_jens 23:58:58, 2018-11-27
Positive externalities ftw! https://t.co/Xwj0xRfWsm 22:30:28, 2018-11-27
@lifesizedcity @seblbu But in the meantime I'll keep working on the VPN… in reply to lifesizedcity 21:49:04, 2018-11-27
@joshdr83 @MichaelEWebber He's like a stream of consciousness poet on some very bad drugs. in reply to joshdr83 15:54:38, 2018-11-27
Interesting piece on the complex relationships between oil, gas, and wind prices from @joshdr83. I continue to be a… https://t.co/GsZKSIeF8C 15:45:22, 2018-11-27
@drvox ¿Bipartisanship? in reply to drvox 13:54:54, 2018-11-27
¡Menos cajones, más ciudad!
¿Cómo se dice "swoon" en español?

Con ganas de conocerte, #CDMX. https://t.co/mqLfQFMqOR 13:51:03, 2018-11-27
@ericmbudd ¡Bueno! in reply to ericmbudd 13:45:51, 2018-11-27
@nikkibot It sounds like there are great things happening generally — they seem pointed in the right direction. I'… https://t.co/5jqGBFqAIC in reply to nikkibot 13:17:38, 2018-11-27
When I tell people I'm going to move to #CDMX for a while they're like "OMG danger drug cartels!" but this is what… https://t.co/KDgLzPSGlM 09:22:02, 2018-11-27
@nils_gilman Hmm, who do you see as the bystanders? You mean people who do not opt-in? Or the GMO kiddos?
Repair v… https://t.co/oiFzEvXOSD in reply to nils_gilman 06:27:08, 2018-11-27
@electronecon @drvox Seems totally reasonable. I just have no idea whether there's reason to think there might be s… https://t.co/hwCwm6lQ6f in reply to electronecon 06:14:37, 2018-11-27
@nils_gilman So what happens to the "illegal" kids? Outside of the haven, a school nurse runs their DNA and sees an… https://t.co/COYrffq1zD in reply to nils_gilman 06:06:26, 2018-11-27
@electronecon @drvox Our experience has been that even more of the gas costs are excluded, unfortunately. And S&P h… https://t.co/StI6wD5HXb in reply to electronecon 05:45:06, 2018-11-27
If we outlaw genetic enhancement, only outlaws will be genetically enhanced.
Or we'll have gene editing havens, li… https://t.co/P4V2puofs8 03:31:06, 2018-11-27
@electronecon @drvox Do you have any sense of how S&P estimates merchant generator fuel costs? There are so many mi… https://t.co/Rq9irarNpx in reply to ZaneSelvans 03:21:35, 2018-11-27
@electronecon @drvox It looked like you got the LMP from S&P (along w/ merchant fuel price estimates). Curious what… https://t.co/bfauQny4t6 in reply to ZaneSelvans 03:18:46, 2018-11-27
Interesting research from @electronecon on uneconomic dispatch of regulated coal plants into "competitive" markets.… https://t.co/vO1u3SCSwl 03:14:50, 2018-11-27
@copenhagenize @lifesizedcity Is there a way to stream @lifesizedcity from outside Canada? I'm getting geo-blocked… https://t.co/ggjHQpEM5X in reply to copenhagenize 02:30:06, 2018-11-27
@SarahTaber_bww you may find this entertaining https://t.co/tg95oAdngl 00:38:11, 2018-11-27
@darkolina ¡Tan muchos barrios! 🙂 Grácias. Voy a explorarlos por el google mañana. in reply to darkolina 15:18:33, 2018-11-26
(Pero ahorita voy a dormir, porque aqui esta despues de la medianoche. Hasta mañana!) in reply to ZaneSelvans 15:14:03, 2018-11-26
@darkolina Y Tabmbien, a quien pienses debo seguir aquí para conocer la cuidad un poco antes de llegando? ¿Conoces… https://t.co/10y0c2tFmc in reply to ZaneSelvans 15:10:22, 2018-11-26
A mis tuiteros en #CDMX (y @darkolina) estoy pensando en mudarse allí en algunas meses, para conocer el pais, y mej… https://t.co/KClVyzMaZR 15:06:56, 2018-11-26
RT @electronecon: @ZaneSelvans Half of all coal in "competitive" markets is owned by a COS utility. (~1/3 coal is merchant and in competiti… 14:05:57, 2018-11-26
@electronecon Wow, did not realize there was that much COS in competitive markets. So they're trying to have it bot… https://t.co/94tb4NZ7rz in reply to electronecon 14:05:29, 2018-11-26
@joshdr83 @ElephantEating @JesseJenkins Yeah, I guess that's kind of analogous. A loss (or just not quite as profit… https://t.co/LSEFBk1oe5 in reply to joshdr83 13:46:44, 2018-11-26
@joshdr83 @ElephantEating @JesseJenkins And maybe that could even be good strategic business, if it opens up space… https://t.co/Utq4e7c3fD in reply to ZaneSelvans 13:36:04, 2018-11-26
@joshdr83 @ElephantEating @JesseJenkins I'm wondering if someone who values avoided emissions at more than $0 could… https://t.co/WTG8vLOy7r in reply to ZaneSelvans 13:34:49, 2018-11-26
@joshdr83 @ElephantEating @JesseJenkins Is there any requirement that someone who wants to connect their wind/solar… https://t.co/oZzZysHcFL in reply to joshdr83 13:32:15, 2018-11-26
@beaucronin Email is good: zane.selvans@catalyst.coop Note that I'm currently 11 hours ahead of California. in reply to beaucronin 13:22:52, 2018-11-26
@beaucronin Right now we're trying to package up the compiled output as well formed machine readable data packages… https://t.co/1CXuxpLNMo in reply to ZaneSelvans 13:20:04, 2018-11-26
@beaucronin We've certainly talked about it, but it's not a kind of thing any of us have done before, and we're try… https://t.co/A6uDyG4xaN in reply to beaucronin 13:15:09, 2018-11-26
@ElephantEating @JesseJenkins @joshdr83 I.e. could there be a big lump of emissions that's avoided only when a plan… https://t.co/GNo2GQmpi5 in reply to ZaneSelvans 13:13:18, 2018-11-26
@ElephantEating @JesseJenkins @joshdr83 Could there be a difference between trying to maximize near term marginal e… https://t.co/QteHBlPYCk in reply to ElephantEating 13:11:56, 2018-11-26
RT @emptywheel: One insight from Michael Lewis' The Fifth Risk is that Nasa is permitted to boast about its achievements, and so people lov… 13:09:57, 2018-11-26
RT @Oatmeal: ? https://t.co/eVYtPTEKFr 13:09:47, 2018-11-26
RT @elakdawalla: https://t.co/zqDbaEJesO 13:09:05, 2018-11-26
@joshdr83 @JesseJenkins If the difference in profitability wasn't big between the two options maybe someone else co… https://t.co/HLU4Y9nBWN in reply to joshdr83 12:26:18, 2018-11-26
And this is apparently true not just in the vertically integrated regulated cost-of-service markets, but also in th… https://t.co/oyTWu6oOjw 10:34:49, 2018-11-26
@electronecon Oooh, which data sources did you use for your analysis? in reply to electronecon 10:33:00, 2018-11-26
@joshdr83 @JesseJenkins Might there be cases where the new renewables/DSM are similarly valuable/profitable in mult… https://t.co/j5vMD52qRI in reply to joshdr83 10:31:33, 2018-11-26
@KenCaldeira Oooh… I bet this could be automated pretty easily. @GovTrack @SunFoundation? in reply to KenCaldeira 10:28:47, 2018-11-26
@electronecon @joshdr83 @JesseJenkins @Earthjustice @ELPCenter @NRDC @UCSUSA @selc_org In the regulated markets you… https://t.co/4UJZVm8dHy in reply to electronecon 10:14:30, 2018-11-26
@joshdr83 @JesseJenkins I.e. how do we force the cheap gas offline long before its planned retirement dates? in reply to ZaneSelvans 10:06:14, 2018-11-26
@joshdr83 @JesseJenkins In the monopoly markets you have to go convince the commission that an existing resource is… https://t.co/CoF4ZO0SRp in reply to ZaneSelvans 10:03:28, 2018-11-26
@joshdr83 @JesseJenkins I guess I'm wondering whether the price impacts of putting zero marginal cost resources onl… https://t.co/6j91JDeM53 in reply to joshdr83 10:00:26, 2018-11-26
@joshdr83 @JesseJenkins
Is this a ridiculous idea? Has anyone worked on it already? https://t.co/pIRO0GhLKV 07:22:02, 2018-11-26
A new post: Adversarial Electricity Portfolios. What if we actively optimized new zero-carbon additions to the grid… https://t.co/yvesODty1p 07:09:26, 2018-11-26
First attempts at CRISPR germ line engineering in China, meant to induce HIV immunity in children of HIV positive p… https://t.co/uwHJa5SQuj 02:42:13, 2018-11-26
Carbon budgets may or may not be a good framing for inspiring action or sensible policymaking… but ultimately all… https://t.co/G0HCQERPu9 02:15:48, 2018-11-26
Another aspect of the seething, scintillating, self-aware thing that the grid is in the process of becoming. https://t.co/YxBhR1XB76 22:03:07, 2018-11-25
I can't tell which parts of this thread are supposed to be unpopular. Seems pretty reasonable to me! https://t.co/qVlScmdW5V 13:21:42, 2018-11-25
Hopeless thread. https://t.co/tWdr1NaHGi 13:07:28, 2018-11-25
RT @drvox: Climate denial will be defeated by political force. Or not. It will not be changed through argument or evidence. I realize this… 13:00:36, 2018-11-25
This is exactly the same story as hard rock mining in Montana last century, and "self-bonded" reclamation commitmen… https://t.co/7M7fTRAXfH 01:49:08, 2018-11-25

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