Tweets for the Week of 2019-01-06 to 2019-01-12

@KateRaworth is this something you look at in your book? I have like 5 books going already which is ridiculous. Cur… https://t.co/VvGx276FIt 15:10:28, 2019-01-12
I recall a similar plot from @VaclavSmil's Energy at the Crossroads. Various quality of life metrics vs. per-capita… https://t.co/sauxbv7hfT in reply to ZaneSelvans 15:06:01, 2019-01-12
@drvox I love gas for cooking (biogas digesters!) but this summer I cooked on an induction stove in Switzerland for… https://t.co/xzdUcXU9T3 in reply to drvox 15:00:46, 2019-01-12
The big discrepancies in the wealth vs. life satisfaction data make it clear there are other reservoirs of satisfac… https://t.co/GP7Ep0wEWW in reply to ZaneSelvans 14:57:31, 2019-01-12
That's not a kind of happiness or life satisfaction that I'm interested in. We need sources of satisfaction that ar… https://t.co/aOrzEsA6KM in reply to ZaneSelvans 14:55:23, 2019-01-12
This is important because *that is not a scalable source of happiness* If you are happy because you're richer than… https://t.co/Hiq9aqryXk in reply to ZaneSelvans 14:52:08, 2019-01-12
Another question these results always bring up for me (more within countries than between them) is, what portion of… https://t.co/OUIgEGFI7i in reply to ZaneSelvans 14:48:09, 2019-01-12
To me, those discrepancies suggest that if we want more people to attain high life satisfaction, there might be mor… https://t.co/Lsk6l5CVZZ in reply to ZaneSelvans 14:45:33, 2019-01-12
Log X axis suggests dramatic diminishing returns of additional wealth as a path to life satisfaction. Why are Mexic… https://t.co/shiITDpr9f 14:42:46, 2019-01-12
@Sci_Hub Works on Tweetdeck in Firefox on Ubuntu in Turkey. in reply to Sci_Hub 14:31:31, 2019-01-12
@drvox A lot of libraries have digital subscriptions that you can use even remotely, if you can figure out how to s… https://t.co/feUl41ec5T in reply to drvox 14:09:57, 2019-01-12
@nikkibot I don't think I'm capable of it. And even if I was, I don't think I would stand for it. But I'm also not… https://t.co/mVmqT6e42k in reply to nikkibot 14:04:51, 2019-01-12
@PaulMMCooper This thread reminds me of David Montgomery's book "Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations." which you mig… https://t.co/oyFP163GxO in reply to PaulMMCooper 13:43:32, 2019-01-12
Nice interview w/ @solar_chase about some of her unpopular solar opinions. Also, she has a book about solar energy… https://t.co/bJd88OU9k2 13:09:24, 2019-01-12
Living alone is weird and depressing. Ordinary household tasks like cooking feel pointless if there's nobody to sha… https://t.co/2NIWx2nyWY 12:14:00, 2019-01-12
@CHThiem @janburtonco I was always frustrated that there were a lot of important on-street connections between vari… https://t.co/xn0ZL33uCC in reply to CHThiem 12:08:59, 2019-01-12
WTAF?! https://t.co/tnLQqawDu1 11:56:15, 2019-01-12
In Antalya, every dump truck is fitted with a GPS, a camera, and a sensor that detects the action of dumping. The c… https://t.co/OfhATuZouV 11:46:28, 2019-01-12
What I really want is protected bike lanes and shared e-bikes in a mid-rise, mixed-use city with lots of trees and… https://t.co/x4gvHxGJeK 11:20:49, 2019-01-12
@jeffgoodell Ask about the time someone tried to film a reality TV show in NBP, and the footage they couldn't use. in reply to jeffgoodell 11:15:08, 2019-01-12
@welcomehomebldr Yes yes you are a Very Good Boy™ in reply to welcomehomebldr 10:59:32, 2019-01-12
High thermal inertia systems have a better signal to noise ratio than the atmosphere.
“2018 is going to be the war… https://t.co/gPVSpKBvVN 09:21:00, 2019-01-12
RT @NuclearAnthro: Good night Twitter.
We built them.
We can take them apart.

God I’m glad I work nuclear weapon issues rather than so… 02:15:07, 2019-01-12
I wonder what it would be like if popular climate media had, from the beginning, been honest about the scale of cha… https://t.co/AvqRAal6dh in reply to ZaneSelvans 02:11:07, 2019-01-12
And then *I'm* the crazy/reviled/boring one for trying to work on changes that can scale up to the point of matteri… https://t.co/1nVxl1W3dt in reply to ZaneSelvans 02:07:13, 2019-01-12
"But how can you work on energy and climate and not obsess about performing trivial daily acts that don't matter."… https://t.co/5aX3gGtCJD in reply to ZaneSelvans 01:51:18, 2019-01-12
But "every little bit…" no it doesn't. It doesn't add up. It is *several orders of magnitude* short of adding up… https://t.co/veM1NJEEMZ in reply to ZaneSelvans 01:48:47, 2019-01-12
I'm pretty tired of being told to turn off the LED/CFL lights by people who drive SUVs and/or fly all over the worl… https://t.co/QPbdy7ESrx 01:42:54, 2019-01-12
@Jamie_Woodward_ https://t.co/eLgERSgZiW 00:49:55, 2019-01-12
The *exact same argument* applies to the refusal of many supposed climate advocates to consider changing our land u… https://t.co/L3ynGGc4lz 00:48:06, 2019-01-12
Creepy/interesting thread about parallels between US & Roman ag systems, Jeffersonian family farms vs. Roman vetera… https://t.co/rjXNnN5cK0 00:17:19, 2019-01-12
RT @PyData: So much to learn about #machinelearning & #artificialintelligence on #pydata videos, including:
"Data versioning in machine le… 00:09:44, 2019-01-12
#ManifestDestiny https://t.co/Sv7oL3CEAo 00:09:20, 2019-01-12
@SarahTaber_bww Are you aware of any good examples of employee owned farms? Have you come across any examples of fa… https://t.co/hKCqDQeKE3 in reply to SarahTaber_bww 00:07:33, 2019-01-12
Remote appearances can already work just fine. But having a good virtual, low-carbon telepresence requires some up… https://t.co/DQj8W9LiNw 00:18:32, 2019-01-11
RT @bryanlbowen: Yessss! I am now a proud patron of Shay Castle on @Patreon, and you should be too: https://t.co/shMLZvJaCC 00:08:16, 2019-01-11
RT @schmangee: We should reject the whole notion that transport "subsidies" — public spending — is bad and imposing huge costs private in… 12:31:49, 2019-01-10
RT @schmangee: Seattle's $50 billion transit measure will cost the typical adult $14 a month. MUCH cheaper than a car payment/insurance etc… 12:31:35, 2019-01-10
For some reason, our politics only seem to consider costs imposed by the public sector, while ignoring outrageous p… https://t.co/C87pT0Ojuz 09:21:00, 2019-01-10
This post is a testament to the power of visualization. What would it look like to add 25% more homes to California… https://t.co/CjX0zTlqdP 01:27:44, 2019-01-10
RT @cathcam: Yessss! I am now a proud patron of @shayshinecastle on @Patreon, and you should be too: https://t.co/1e4WQ3BcpO 13:59:31, 2019-01-09
RT @CHThiem: Can community-supported reporting work in Boulder? My money is on @shayshinecastle: https://t.co/VwrnXOPpRg 13:59:22, 2019-01-09
@AlexSteffen For example… Columbia Gas in Pennsylvania — just one medium sized gas utility, in a single state –… https://t.co/fKkxDnajPh in reply to AlexSteffen 13:39:38, 2019-01-09
The burnout piece makes me feel like an honorary millennial. I'm not sure how I feel about that. Am I younger than… https://t.co/HHib5yUWhK 12:14:01, 2019-01-09
Are there 1000 people in Boulder who primarily subscribe to the Camera for coverage of local politics, and are will… https://t.co/zbpi97smAC 10:28:35, 2019-01-09
@JesseJenkins @SpenceEnergyUT @colinmeehan @joshdr83 @goodgridac @mclott @atx_markstover @RobertFares… https://t.co/kSTgkhFJdW in reply to JesseJenkins 10:21:54, 2019-01-09
A post inspired by my reading of Sascha von Meier's book Electric Power Systems. We still live with a Steampunk Gri… https://t.co/ctZb30fZzb 09:21:03, 2019-01-09
Please support @shayshinecastle's continued irreverent & entertaining independent coverage of #BoulderCouncil https://t.co/iywRkFWHyy 00:16:05, 2019-01-09
@shayshinecastle @SarahdawnH is all about this… in reply to shayshinecastle 00:09:07, 2019-01-09
@shayshinecastle As with the GOP, I think appeals to norms (aka process) here are usually tactical, performative. W… https://t.co/8CwBHnT00y in reply to shayshinecastle 00:07:28, 2019-01-09
@Sammy_Roth @EnergyInnovLLC Another interesting related thing to check out, folks at UC Berkeley (Alexandra von Mei… https://t.co/MCvKhhbh0g in reply to ZaneSelvans 09:41:33, 2019-01-08
@Sammy_Roth @EnergyInnovLLC I think advocacy around gas infrastructure abandonment and mass electrification of dome… https://t.co/MSDSCXfv2q in reply to Sammy_Roth 09:31:49, 2019-01-08
Endless imam reverb across the city after sundown as the synchronized recorded calls to prayer echo to the horizon. 09:27:47, 2019-01-08
RT @Penalosa_G: What happened when Uber & Lyft simply exited Austin Texas leaving city without any rideshare at all? Drivers formed a co-o… 07:02:19, 2019-01-08
RT @drvox: My new post: There are 8 utility-scale coal-fired power plants in Colorado, providing about 40% of the state’s electricity. New… 06:53:14, 2019-01-08
@Sammy_Roth @EnergyInnovLLC has some white papers about various securitization of stranded assets and capital recyc… https://t.co/dmm6ZuBbyd in reply to ZaneSelvans 03:36:33, 2019-01-08
@Sammy_Roth Separating the gas & electric businesses would also allow for direct and vicious competition to replace… https://t.co/WjLdDydgDk in reply to ZaneSelvans 03:32:53, 2019-01-08
@Sammy_Roth PG&E certainly knows this, and getting rid of the soon-to-be-stranded gas assets now, for cash-in-hand,… https://t.co/9sZMd0G2IC in reply to ZaneSelvans 03:31:12, 2019-01-08
@Sammy_Roth This strikes me as an opportunistic move by PG&E. Given California's consistent political will on clima… https://t.co/hYboijx8Jw in reply to Sammy_Roth 03:29:48, 2019-01-08
@jack_kelly @CatalystCoop @cmgosnell @CostaSamaras Folks working on big, near real-time data systems monitoring dis… https://t.co/KHO2AjPaik in reply to ZaneSelvans 14:09:15, 2019-01-07
@jack_kelly @CatalystCoop @cmgosnell OpenMod and OPSD are open source / open data projects in the EU worth getting… https://t.co/wf5eWPHIRZ in reply to ZaneSelvans 14:05:57, 2019-01-07
@jack_kelly I bailed on academia & NASA after a PhD in planetary geophysics to work on climate policy and it's led… https://t.co/rY436VEooM in reply to jack_kelly 14:01:00, 2019-01-07
@shayshinecastle <3 in reply to shayshinecastle 13:38:08, 2019-01-07
@RahoolAtHome @joshdr83 If you have any math and physics background, I'd also add Nuclear Energy by David Bodansky… https://t.co/ZBlJOWMfON in reply to ZaneSelvans 07:58:50, 2019-01-07
@RahoolAtHome @joshdr83 Of that collection, I can *highly* recommend The Prize, Energy at the Crossroads, The Makin… https://t.co/ejs1GIqi9o in reply to RahoolAtHome 07:56:26, 2019-01-07
The Sahara ~10 million km^2. Every km^2 is ~10MW (average electricity output). Covered completely, that's 100TW of… https://t.co/F16twirC7F 05:09:47, 2019-01-07
@drvox Though, one failure mode in choosing to exercise regulatory powers is regulating the growth away w/ exclusiv… https://t.co/8VuiCRl0G6 in reply to drvox 00:15:05, 2019-01-07
@brucenilles @drvox @nathanschumer This is like the distributed generation of fossil fuels, and it needs to be stra… https://t.co/oNZJdUwlZg in reply to brucenilles 23:59:06, 2019-01-06
RT @AoDespair: Union, union, union.
The Twentieth Century will have to be fought all over again. But globally. https://t.co/OruGoCbLAf 13:04:08, 2019-01-06
@ericmbudd @welcomehomebldr @AaronBrockett12 Some other resources. But yes, I think Boulder was too small to warran… https://t.co/XC3zPB0hUI in reply to ericmbudd 13:03:31, 2019-01-06
@ericmbudd @AaronBrockett12 @welcomehomebldr https://t.co/94oqPi5TKA in reply to ericmbudd 12:55:14, 2019-01-06
Oooh, I'd love to see a global map depicting where it makes economic sense to have grids, and where it makes sense… https://t.co/I5AdwjI5L4 12:11:34, 2019-01-06
RT @CHThiem: First try at a longer opinion piece. Minneapolis is taking big steps towards a more sustainable, equitable urbanism, and we sh… 11:40:53, 2019-01-06

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