Tweets for the Week of 2020-01-05 to 2020-01-11

RT @PeterBrannen1: TFW CO2 is 1,000 ppm https://t.co/rtebVj4qwV 16:48:01, 2020-01-11
@thebmbennett Socialist! in reply to thebmbennett 11:21:28, 2020-01-11
Wow this is… not nothing. https://t.co/PADtYSwmns 11:15:09, 2020-01-11
@KHayhoe for some reason @tracemetalclean whom I came across in your climate scientist list, has been identified as… https://t.co/HV7FZv8zZA 11:12:05, 2020-01-11
@ericmbudd Mmmm, "natural." in reply to ericmbudd 11:02:07, 2020-01-11
@ericmbudd Hey I have an idea for an experiment, let's spread tropical diseases into the mid-latitudes and see if U… https://t.co/qK9NRL268n in reply to ericmbudd 10:09:37, 2020-01-11
It seems like it would be a huge bummer to build out cities for the 2nd half of humanity poorly, and also in circum… https://t.co/UWsomE7kHp in reply to ZaneSelvans 09:53:03, 2020-01-11
Which goes along with something I heard Paul Romer say about cities — that the cities we build this century are…… https://t.co/QiUCxrMPuE in reply to ZaneSelvans 09:49:46, 2020-01-11
So I wonder if we'll have the same opportunities to replace these (or maybe, the next generation of) young building… https://t.co/hdKSOY3LTA in reply to ZaneSelvans 09:47:22, 2020-01-11
But I think we may be in for something weird soon. In a lot of the world over the last few decades, we've created a… https://t.co/umm79QgYGE in reply to ZaneSelvans 09:44:54, 2020-01-11
So if most buildings have always been junk, and only the beautiful / durable ones survive for the long term, then d… https://t.co/hOp5Yvz1XL in reply to ZaneSelvans 09:40:38, 2020-01-11
And thinking about building stock in kind of "demographic" terms, I wonder if this survivorship bias might be stron… https://t.co/rtHO3WNQIm in reply to ZaneSelvans 09:38:24, 2020-01-11
At the same time, I've also suspected that maybe this feeling is just a survivorship bias — that we only see the n… https://t.co/NpteWq2mtu in reply to ZaneSelvans 09:35:56, 2020-01-11
For a long time it's felt to me like something fundamental changed ~100 years ago in the way we build buildings. So… https://t.co/I3dca8I77h 09:33:55, 2020-01-11
At some point the centrist bias becomes… untenable. https://t.co/C2XO6Vgd7k 17:23:53, 2020-01-10
@joshdr83 We got legislation passed that would allow IOU coal plants to be securitized with some of the savings nec… https://t.co/E52K2rU6oI in reply to ZaneSelvans 17:20:02, 2020-01-10
@joshdr83 In some of the counties in CO with coal plants, IIRC, they account for an absolute majority of the overal… https://t.co/ZlH8BLwzWJ in reply to joshdr83 17:17:39, 2020-01-10
Given the economics of modern global logistics, and the relative costs of raw materials and labor, it blows my mind… https://t.co/udvOieFhEq 12:39:06, 2020-01-10
RT @SarahTaber_bww: You know, as someone from an industry where shady bosses use ICE to scare workers into submission during/after successf… 12:30:26, 2020-01-10
RT @HeidiSloanForTX: Poverty is the draft. https://t.co/RpgLxOYwqq 11:17:55, 2020-01-10
Ignorance Is Strength! https://t.co/vDyxsM5Wt1 11:15:00, 2020-01-10
Even traditional biofuel usage today is at close to record (absolute) levels. My morning empanada de mole amarillo… https://t.co/yNii9nR3Ra 10:15:17, 2020-01-10
Certainly seems like the main strategy behind retail investment products — mutual funds, ETFs, etc. But I didn't r… https://t.co/EhlhlkdUDo 07:20:35, 2020-01-10
Welp, there goes the neighborhood. https://t.co/sq5GQC1zs1 07:08:51, 2020-01-10
@bryanlbowen @CHThiem Hopefully you've learned enough to dismantle it. in reply to bryanlbowen 22:22:56, 2020-01-09
And then I was like "Huh, it's like behind-the-meter battery storage. They probably need way less centralized water… https://t.co/4tnwwjBjKa in reply to ZaneSelvans 21:18:11, 2020-01-09
TIL municipal water distribution here is in shifts. If I understood correctly, every 2 weeks we get a day with wate… https://t.co/idjH254yCJ 21:15:00, 2020-01-09
@sharethecities At first I was like "Are these like, lockers for unhoused folks? I'm surprised she would advocate against them." in reply to sharethecities 21:10:16, 2020-01-09
@bryanlbowen @CHThiem Then you can start rakin' in the *big* bucks. in reply to bryanlbowen 21:08:26, 2020-01-09
@ericmbudd Billionaires be delusional, man. in reply to ericmbudd 20:48:20, 2020-01-09
RT @CatalystCoop: There's a whole lotta latent change baked into the US electricity system now, just waiting for the right policy and finan… 20:19:33, 2020-01-09
Instead of terraforming Mars, I realized I needed to work on *not* xenoforming Earth. in reply to ZaneSelvans 20:07:33, 2020-01-09
Reading this book at the same time as Richard B. Alley's "The Two Mile Time Machine" (about paleoclimate volatility… https://t.co/N3sUTuf0K3 20:06:23, 2020-01-09
RT @ewarren: I've got a plan to create 10.6 million green jobs, and @rgunns—one of the architects of the #GreenNewDeal—is here to answer yo… 19:52:58, 2020-01-09
RT @evanlweber: ?@SunriseMvmtCO needs our help!
22 Sunrisers were arrested w/o warning @ CO statehouse today. They were complying with pol… 17:51:59, 2020-01-09
Hmm, I think mostly I know the wrong kind of attorneys for this but… do any of y'all have suggestions? @jwpcPBC… https://t.co/qumzmjDOhz 17:50:53, 2020-01-09
Maybe I'm just jaded, but I'm finding it hard to imagine the US identifying so wholeheartedly with its immigrants,… https://t.co/e0OAtVFXpj 14:50:14, 2020-01-09
@ClaraJeffery 10 in reply to ClaraJeffery 12:06:50, 2020-01-09
@drvox https://t.co/H1bKYWri8U in reply to drvox 12:05:58, 2020-01-09
@ericmbudd @storm80303 @AnalyzeBoulder I randomly met a Canadian data engineer who works for @Clirrenewables at… https://t.co/L7wP2rimvj in reply to ericmbudd 11:44:05, 2020-01-09
Financially, getting public power / co-op fossil assets out of the way is harder than IOUs, b/c they're often alrea… https://t.co/96xkF7fDAi 11:15:38, 2020-01-09
@Thatmushroom At the same time that hardware (as well as small to medium scale energy storage and distributed gener… https://t.co/jLq7cDaSlu in reply to ZaneSelvans 11:03:38, 2020-01-09
@Thatmushroom Creating neutral distribution system operators and installing the hardware for bidirectional flow of… https://t.co/s0I2C9PmhQ in reply to ZaneSelvans 11:01:30, 2020-01-09
@Thatmushroom I think both are good and are in no way in conflict with each other. Long-distance transmission capac… https://t.co/Sk6ixTGU98 in reply to Thatmushroom 10:59:12, 2020-01-09
Also, if we allowed electricity transmission to be built under the same rules as pipelines, and really took cumulat… https://t.co/JDLTo23qyh in reply to ZaneSelvans 10:06:45, 2020-01-09
What can I say? Lying to the public works. At scales ranging all the way from #BoulderCouncil up to the federal gov… https://t.co/hHO7Mywq33 in reply to ZaneSelvans 09:58:24, 2020-01-09
And come *on* with the whole "They've been advocating for carbon prices for more than a decade." line.
Yes publicl… https://t.co/JghWFw505M in reply to ZaneSelvans 09:55:15, 2020-01-09
"The [energy] majors cannot — and should not — abandon their core oil and gas business overnight."
What a steaming… https://t.co/OdAMBIvNcH 09:51:44, 2020-01-09
@plutokiller Yeah Death, Despair & Poverty didn't seem like a very good desert attraction. in reply to plutokiller 07:59:23, 2020-01-09
New pipelines that will need to be written off as stranded assets well before the end of their useful lives. Who wi… https://t.co/ZBuPKf2gPm 07:54:29, 2020-01-09
@Thatmushroom Ah physics, making new building prohibitively risky, costly, and complex. If only we could get rid of… https://t.co/65ZIG6KGQU in reply to Thatmushroom 21:24:13, 2020-01-08
At half a billion light years away, this seems likely. I wonder if it would feel different than them being extant,… https://t.co/vJYU0a2IPi 21:18:13, 2020-01-08
RT @archillect: https://t.co/B0JGJ2YD0d 20:32:36, 2020-01-08
h/t @CHThiem in reply to ZaneSelvans 20:12:16, 2020-01-08
RT @ICONOCLASTIAE: The story here is not only that they are surveilling sex workers.
It’s that they’re enforcing a set of Arbitrary behavi… 20:08:43, 2020-01-08
RT @dmtrubman: Here's a pretty good example of how a lot of pedestrian infrastructure is really auto infrastructure. https://t.co/N0K3LRgkHL 20:06:21, 2020-01-08
“Edited:
I removed two paragraphs about an extreme solution to the housing crisis I heard proposed at a Neighborho… https://t.co/Sgu7UACVMp 20:04:00, 2020-01-08
*awkward* https://t.co/cWFlrqvEUC 20:03:33, 2020-01-08
A flipside of this is that lowering interest rates on and increasing supply of clean energy financing probably has… https://t.co/0ziFISxovg 20:02:30, 2020-01-08
Like tunneling through some kind of capital cost activation energy. https://t.co/RYMjC5lzE8 19:49:40, 2020-01-08
RT @CHThiem: Apropos #Boulder: “It sounds extreme, but a nonzero number of very nice liberal neighbors have suggested, usually in a hushed… 18:43:17, 2020-01-08
@CHThiem Hah, did they edit out that sentence because it seemed so outlandish? in reply to CHThiem 18:10:16, 2020-01-08
RT @andrew_leach: Oh, I know how this ends. The balloon council will come out as an early supporter of balloon release pricing only to piv… 17:59:35, 2020-01-08
Unless you think global oil price spikes are *upside* risks. https://t.co/ItDxYph2JF 10:01:00, 2020-01-08
Interesting in relation to @CHThiem's piece on the Boulder Valley Comp Plan and "carrying capacity": ~8x the curren… https://t.co/YZHF8TboEV 09:57:24, 2020-01-08
RT @NBedera: In the wake of the #MeToo movement, there are a lot of academics starting to study sexual violence for the first time. (Welcom… 07:41:30, 2020-01-08
I mean that totally sincerely, and that creeps me out. I remember posting it last time and feeling like it was some… https://t.co/pg7kV8roBk in reply to ZaneSelvans 00:36:03, 2020-01-08
The War Prayer, by Mark Twain. Remembering remembering the last war. Written in 1905. It felt less cliché last time… https://t.co/Kf9vSOBfSr 00:26:32, 2020-01-08
Pasé mi juventud en el Valley Central de California. Hasta hace 3 años, nunca habia escuchado nada de esta historia… https://t.co/ntbTn0biYT 23:52:24, 2020-01-07
RT @matthew_d_green: Past absence of cyberattack implies that industrial control systems are not blindly trusting software running on a Win… 23:44:28, 2020-01-07
27. Saddam was behind 9/11. Colin Powell said Saddam had WMDs. Decapitation strike. Greeted as liberators. Mission… https://t.co/wIBgIqGLq5 23:41:05, 2020-01-07
Is this… algorithmically generated clickbait? Or are we maybe just living in a simulation after all. https://t.co/ziWOW9xDQn 23:23:54, 2020-01-07
@thebmbennett Tobacco Power! Innovation! in reply to thebmbennett 23:20:17, 2020-01-07
I guess "Invite-only" is just one part a continuum including "Open, but with massive, shared blocklists." and "Plen… https://t.co/twWRLqLWqa 23:11:44, 2020-01-07
@thebmbennett I wonder what kind of historic site it will become some day? in reply to thebmbennett 23:06:41, 2020-01-07
Sutter's Mill and the Northern CA gold country. https://t.co/qJnFMeSImV 23:03:57, 2020-01-07
@CHThiem Exactly. in reply to CHThiem 23:01:42, 2020-01-07
It's like, *literally* warming your hands with a blowtorch. That's over there. In the other room. https://t.co/8fUgYNjFL1 23:00:57, 2020-01-07
@ZLabe I really like the slightly more dynamic and narrative visualizations. More story, more engaging, but just as… https://t.co/YtzgDWjuyN in reply to ZLabe 22:44:46, 2020-01-07
@ZLabe My god Zack you lazy bastard where have you been.
(Thank you so much for making all these visual!) in reply to ZLabe 22:41:02, 2020-01-07
All the Bayesian feels. https://t.co/zTz4rKUrPy 22:34:33, 2020-01-07
I'm with her. https://t.co/y4T8QTZbZG 22:31:16, 2020-01-07
Wait doesn't everyone like to talk about oligopsony at city council meetings? https://t.co/Sfu5zondXc 22:28:43, 2020-01-07
RT @TheTweetOfGod: Attention: Will the owners of a blue planet with plate tectonics please attend to your vehicle. It is overheating. 22:26:40, 2020-01-07
As much as the Universe, we are trapped inside a giant cooperative game under incomplete information. https://t.co/fNm57EMdQi 22:23:44, 2020-01-07
@CHThiem Who knows maybe that's better! in reply to CHThiem 22:19:30, 2020-01-07
If there are coral reefs on Earth in 50 years, it will be because humans did something.
And if there aren't coral… https://t.co/fVxuGFLISX 22:08:14, 2020-01-07
@ericmbudd My god is he *still* predicting this? Is he alright in the head? in reply to ericmbudd 17:27:01, 2020-01-07
@CHThiem ohhh noooes, did you find a surrogate device for your column? in reply to CHThiem 17:26:17, 2020-01-07
RT @blkahn: Australia is using helicopters to kill 10,000 feral camels because they're coming in conflict with humans over dwindling water… 14:29:17, 2020-01-07
RT @JoshuaPotash: Happening now, in Mitch McConnell’s office:
Protesters are reciting Article II, Section 4 of the Constitution.

Which ou… 14:28:52, 2020-01-07
RT @MaryHeglar: He ran as a hypocrite. How is that complicated? https://t.co/3UhdumBc6o 11:21:55, 2020-01-07
Little known fact: Pompeo is actually Dr. Manhattan. https://t.co/iPaOynGCOK 11:20:53, 2020-01-07
Coal and gas plants, coal mines, oil & gas wells, gathering, transmission, and distribution pipelines, as well as m… https://t.co/KVLL9wyl3Z in reply to ZaneSelvans 11:15:10, 2020-01-07
For both climate mitigation and adaptation, it's imperative that we develop policy and financial mechanisms not onl… https://t.co/t0Df1Wt4P5 11:11:02, 2020-01-07
But hey, 1 out of 5 is… not that great. https://t.co/hBQJ1xLSX7 11:04:48, 2020-01-07
@shwinnebego @chitrans_plant @CatalystCoop @cmgosnell A bunch of folks at @bochaneighbors & @bhccoops who actually… https://t.co/NoihWISXg9 in reply to ZaneSelvans 10:56:13, 2020-01-07
@shwinnebego @chitrans_plant We got really bored of scraping PDFs and spreadsheets by hand to understand what coal… https://t.co/rNvDaIy2i0 in reply to shwinnebego 10:52:27, 2020-01-07
@casualhexes @strommen @PassiveHouseBB There are higher heating/cooling loads, as well as more energy in pumping wa… https://t.co/RQOYSGraMt in reply to casualhexes 10:47:21, 2020-01-07
Regarding the plots of the UK's rapid phase out of coal, which have been circulating lately as evidence that a rapi… https://t.co/jZsxrEHW3W 07:46:46, 2020-01-07
@BHN_cn They're from the paper which I linked to. in reply to BHN_cn 07:34:12, 2020-01-07
RT @alexbaca: iso hallucinogenics to cope with this https://t.co/HAvXSFQOQe 22:38:25, 2020-01-06
Finalmente logré encontrar un refrigerador de segundo uso y lo trajé a mi casita, y lo hace frio, pero no mucho. Me… https://t.co/9wTtKCo6vH 21:41:10, 2020-01-06
@rgunns "Thank you for coming to my Ted talk." in reply to rgunns 20:47:24, 2020-01-06
@MaryHeglar @electronecon Bike touring through eastern Europe in the early 1990s I accidentally bought a whole kilo… https://t.co/cu4cAxKqgj in reply to MaryHeglar 19:28:07, 2020-01-06
RT @CostaSamaras: Since oil is a globally traded commodity, & our transport & freight system is 92% oil-powered, when there’s a price spike… 19:24:39, 2020-01-06
@ericmbudd Should feel familiar to the orange menace. in reply to ericmbudd 17:34:11, 2020-01-06
Oh dang I meant to point @erinoverturf your way as well. in reply to ZaneSelvans 17:19:53, 2020-01-06
@ericmbudd Like, they'll have to choose between NIMBY + Muni candidates, or YIMBY + Anti-Muni, or run their own can… https://t.co/VK8DNY9A7q in reply to ericmbudd 15:01:44, 2020-01-06
@ericmbudd Oooh, they may face a tough choice at the ballot. Vote splitting opportunity! in reply to ericmbudd 14:41:40, 2020-01-06
@markgelband @ericmbudd Yeah well, when it takes 15 years to get anything built you have to start early… in reply to markgelband 13:58:24, 2020-01-06
@NanaimoCommons The EPA's "Boiling it down to BTUs" report is kind of dated, and doesn't look at a very aggressive… https://t.co/vNEKTG1x77 in reply to NanaimoCommons 12:41:29, 2020-01-06
@ericmbudd Time for TVAP Phase 2! in reply to ericmbudd 12:25:42, 2020-01-06
@thebmbennett ☝️ Cc: @CostaSamaras @ShellyMBoulder @PauliJllo @noelinjm @lilscientista @kirstie_j @hausfath… https://t.co/CfThCW4U11 in reply to ZaneSelvans 12:21:26, 2020-01-06
A great reason to build dense housing *not* right along ginormous arterials… but a couple hundred meters away. C… https://t.co/cMOzJojA0b 11:27:05, 2020-01-06
It's kind of like saying white noise is contains a lot of information because it can't be compressed. https://t.co/jU7WhmgOsw 11:22:11, 2020-01-06
Yo #EnergyTwitter if you actually want to see your dream sustainable energy systems built in this lifetime, I encou… https://t.co/c3lw9iLKNe 11:17:50, 2020-01-06
I re-watched Jarhead this weekend. A Marine sniper's 1st person account of the futility of the 1990 Gulf War, which… https://t.co/Fhwa0zAdNr 11:14:01, 2020-01-06
@gschivley @priyald17 @hausfath @zicokolter @JesseJenkins @jfdecarolis @openclimatedata @openmod @reshmigh I imagin… https://t.co/buvn1k4zcO in reply to gschivley 11:12:39, 2020-01-06
These articles are annoying.
Also, it's wild that I can spin up a cloud compute cluster that uses 100kW of power w… https://t.co/po9jzOqkbW 09:22:57, 2020-01-06
No es de extrañar que México se siente similar a mi pueblo de nacimiento en el Valle Central de California. https://t.co/qejQFlILRz 09:12:07, 2020-01-06
@thebmbennett @sunrisemvmt Also congratulations! It sounds like it would be an *awesome* job. in reply to ZaneSelvans 09:03:32, 2020-01-06
@thebmbennett @sunrisemvmt What does experimentation mean in this role? Like A/B testing on messaging? in reply to thebmbennett 09:02:38, 2020-01-06
RT @thebmbennett: Today I start my dream job as the Data Director of the @sunrisemvmt. I get to run the experimentation and analysis to bui… 09:00:48, 2020-01-06
I do wish they'd included more samples between 4 stories and 16 stories though — especially with new mass timber t… https://t.co/v5BjAhuVxf in reply to ZaneSelvans 08:46:53, 2020-01-06
Not a new result, but traditional mid-rise buildings have the lowest embodied & operational energy per unit of hous… https://t.co/thHWJWxf0U 08:21:04, 2020-01-06
RT @WhoresofYore: This hero has managed to raise $500,000 for groups fighting the wild fires in Australia by sending one nude for proof of… 16:50:44, 2020-01-05

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