- @seanlinsley I'm sure it shifts the car's overall balance toward embodied energy and away from being so dominated b… https://t.co/ekgvazSaln in reply to seanlinsley 15:22:15, 2019-09-28
- 100GJ of energy embodied in a car, at retail energy prices, would be like $3000… which would be a pretty big chun… https://t.co/EA6UOG48TX in reply to ZaneSelvans 15:20:52, 2019-09-28
- The 1GJ of energy in a phone, even at retail electricity rates or in terms of petroleum prices, would only cost abo… https://t.co/HOUqOXOz4h in reply to ZaneSelvans 15:18:02, 2019-09-28
- But of course, cars and phones also *use* energy throughout their lives. A phone will only use about 30MJ in 2 year… https://t.co/HDecoftBDP in reply to ZaneSelvans 15:13:29, 2019-09-28
- @VaclavSmil Phones only last ~2 years, but cars last 10-15, and *way* more people have phones than cars. The result… https://t.co/Bcwd3M5inx in reply to ZaneSelvans 15:09:54, 2019-09-28
- More amazing tidbits from @VaclavSmil's Energy and Civilization: A phone contains about 1GJ of embodied energy. A c… https://t.co/QSWt8DqFr0 15:06:21, 2019-09-28
- @ericmbudd @IngramCoop Whoah, y'all got fancy with the furniture! Glad the cheesepuff abides. in reply to ericmbudd 14:19:59, 2019-09-28
- RT @disco_socialist: Black Mirror is entirely superfluous. https://t.co/9AVFXwxo35 16:50:40, 2019-09-27
- RT @Caltech: Today Stewart and Lynda Resnick, owners of @Wonderful, announced a $750M gift to fund environmental sustainability research an… 19:31:22, 2019-09-26
- RT @MineralCup: Round 3 Match 1. Welcome to the Quarter Finals! It is the heavyweights #IceMin vs #Plagioclase who will emerge victorious?… 19:26:54, 2019-09-26
- @madalsas Definitely an interesting combo. in reply to madalsas 19:25:22, 2019-09-26
- Also interesting to note: even in California, agriculture only accounts for ~2% of the entire economy (as measured by gross state product). in reply to ZaneSelvans 16:45:03, 2019-09-26
- A stark demonstration of both wealth inequality and where most water gets used: a single California family in uses… https://t.co/dpeewohSW5 16:43:46, 2019-09-26
- Does anyone know what this distribution looks like globally? I've read that only about 1 in 5 people alive today ha… https://t.co/ctDDrxUCzr 14:29:50, 2019-09-26
- @MattZeitlin Does anyone know what the distribution is for the global population? in reply to MattZeitlin 14:27:40, 2019-09-26
- And even without nuclear powered flying crowbars that can zoom around the world at Mach 5 for months or years carry… https://t.co/ReALLkJwPw in reply to ZaneSelvans 11:23:43, 2019-09-26
- Doomsday machines are a bad idea. 36 years ago today, Stanislav Petrov likely prevented the ~2 billion casualties w… https://t.co/cvxWnZVeHf 11:18:51, 2019-09-26
- (from @VaclavSmil's Energy and Civilization: A History) in reply to ZaneSelvans 10:47:25, 2019-09-26
- All liquid biofuels produced globally (including 40% of the US corn crop, using 16 million hectares of arable land,… https://t.co/gw8Hn6bar8 10:46:09, 2019-09-26
- While the US tries to slide backwards, Mexico moves forward. Oaxaca also legalized gay marriage earlier this year. https://t.co/KtSD6lBcRH 15:43:23, 2019-09-25
- RT @CatalystCoop: Both the value and the cost of solar have declined as market penetration has increased. Research from Patrick Brown at @m… 10:31:55, 2019-09-24
- @ericmbudd Wow, it's a million to 1. Our eyeballs are amazeballs. in reply to ZaneSelvans 21:40:47, 2019-09-22
- @ericmbudd Without Googling, imma say: no. IIRC it's less than 1% the flux of the sun. in reply to ericmbudd 21:39:31, 2019-09-22
- @ericmbudd Then they become lunar panels. in reply to ericmbudd 21:00:49, 2019-09-22
- @unicorn @ericmbudd Hopefully. in reply to unicorn 15:55:17, 2019-09-22
- I want to do an adaptation of @WithoutHotAir that uses the @ProjectJupyter Book platform, with more interactive cal… https://t.co/PutdbP7ERH 15:54:53, 2019-09-22
- RT @wilbanks: Calling data oil literally sets us up for extractive, property-centered mental models of data. How about analogizing it to ai… 15:36:19, 2019-09-22
- @ericmbudd Have you been added to Mike Marsh' binder of shame? in reply to ericmbudd 15:35:10, 2019-09-22
- @drvox Upstate New York? in reply to drvox 15:30:14, 2019-09-22
- @ericmbudd @IngramCoop A yes, the "single serving size" spices. in reply to ericmbudd 12:38:52, 2019-09-22
- @ericmbudd @IngramCoop What every co-op spice rack I've ever seen eventually looks like. in reply to ericmbudd 12:31:54, 2019-09-22
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