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@tkovach

Climate dad to E, J, and C. Working on decarbonization and environmental justice in Cleveland. Founded the Cleveland Refugee Bike Project. Supports Juventus & Eintracht. Opinions my own and probably wrong.

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How would the Iran crisis play out in a world powered by renewables not fossil fuels? This conflict exposes the fragility of the global fossil fuel economy and how renewables create resilience.

"Decarbonisation is often framed as a climate necessity. It will also lead to a redistribution of geopolitical power, probably towards greater stability."

06.03.2026 17:09 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

One thing that we haven't mentioned is that a major justification for them rolling back fuel economy standards and repealing the Endangerment Finding is that the US is energy independent and buffered from global energy markets.

Oops

06.03.2026 14:03 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Never fight a land acknowledgement war in Asia

06.03.2026 13:14 πŸ‘ 184 πŸ” 9 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 2
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Britain used as much coal last year as it did in 1600 The use of coal last year fell by 9 million tonnes and helped drive down Britain’s greenhouse gas emissions by 2.4 per cent

Coal use in the UK during 2025 was as low as it's been since Elizabeth I was Queen

06.03.2026 13:10 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Allied Powers -> All DEI Powers

06.03.2026 13:04 πŸ‘ 54 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I remember when we ended WWII by dropping a shadow ban on Hiroshima

06.03.2026 12:44 πŸ‘ 69 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0
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Good morning with good news: Combined solar and battery plant's global average cost is 44% LOWER than the cost of combined-cycle gas turbine plant!

Solar & battery: $57/MWh
Gas plant: $102/MWh
Solar: $39/MWh
Land wind: $40/MWh
Offshore wind: $100/MWh

WOW!
about.bnef.com/insights/cle... #energysky

06.03.2026 12:33 πŸ‘ 84 πŸ” 32 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 3

If only there was some sort of form of transportation that didn't run on gasoline. If only.

06.03.2026 12:21 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
Do It For Her from The Simpsons 

But now it says Do It For Tim and it has a bunch of pictures of Tim, an older white guy with glasses smirking

Do It For Her from The Simpsons But now it says Do It For Tim and it has a bunch of pictures of Tim, an older white guy with glasses smirking

06.03.2026 12:18 πŸ‘ 15 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
06.03.2026 11:59 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Technically it's still energy dominance if the energy is dominating us

06.03.2026 11:48 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Die Adler πŸ¦…

06.03.2026 01:26 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

If Arsenal wins the league and Spurs get relegated your Gunner friends are going to orgasm to death

05.03.2026 22:07 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Tillerson was on the toilet when he got fired. Not sure if this is better or worse than that.

05.03.2026 19:47 πŸ‘ 58 πŸ” 9 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1

An early start to #CrocusWatch2026

05.03.2026 19:43 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Insights series 2018 - Saving Oil in a Hurry – Analysis - IEA Saving Oil in a Hurry - Analysis and key findings. A report by the International Energy Agency.

I shared this a lot after Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, but the IEA drafted a report in 2005 (updated in 2018) called "Saving Oil in a Hurry" which outlines steps to rapidly cut oil demand in the face of a supply shock.

05.03.2026 17:22 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Can you stick a candle in it for my son's birthday next week

05.03.2026 16:06 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Harrison Barnes missed a game because of woke

04.03.2026 22:21 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

That's assuming utility scale for $2/watt. Residential rooftop is roughly double that. So if we assume an average 5 kW system, we could put panels on 50,000 houses a day.

04.03.2026 21:01 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

We could provide solar power to more than 60,000 households per day for that.

04.03.2026 20:56 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0
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EPA delays greenhouse gas reporting as it moves to shut down program Covered entities for the Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program will not be required to submit 2025 emissions data until October. By then, the agency may have repealed the requirement.

"Covered entities for the Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program will not be required to submit 2025 emissions data until October. By then, the agency may have repealed the requirement."

04.03.2026 19:11 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

No that's definitely Mexico. His pelvis is the US and torso is Canada.

04.03.2026 13:36 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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U.S. Automakers Risk Being Reduced to Niche Producers of Gas Vehicles

β€œIt’s not impossible that in 10 years we wake up and see that we actually don’t have a domestic industry in the sense of something that does significant research and development."

03.03.2026 22:43 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Turning electricity juice into slurp juice

03.03.2026 21:59 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

The largest electricity user on this list, a Bitcoin miner in Rockdale, Texas, uses 3.74 TWh of electricity. The 554,500 households in Cuyahoga County used 4.04 TWh in 2022. So 93%.

03.03.2026 21:52 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Thinking again about how a single data center that mines Bitcoin in Akron uses 1/4 the electricity as all households in Cuyahoga County combined

03.03.2026 21:44 πŸ‘ 80 πŸ” 40 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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As Iran Crisis Upends Oil and Gas, Clean Energy Gets Complicated Higher fossil fuel prices could make green alternatives more attractive, but harder to deploy.

Rising oil prices may make clean energy more attractive, but higher inflation and interest would make it less competitive

03.03.2026 14:16 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Arendt argues that antisemitism laid the foundation for the rise of totalitarianism. History may not repeat. But it does rhyme.

02.03.2026 20:06 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Surviving on Trump's Dangerous Planet Yet another war, and yet another argument for an end to oil

"We have a few humble but powerful toolsβ€”the solar panel, the windmill, the batteryβ€”that make it easier to imagine something other than our current nightmare."

01.03.2026 13:48 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

β€œThe children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.”

James Baldwin

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