mastodon 4.5.18I'm a data liberation engineer at Catalyst #Coop. We use #Python to support #climate activists, policymakers, and researchers accelerating the #EnergyTransition.
I grew up in rural spanglish California, explored Mars & Europa with robots, & fought for bright green cities in Colorado. Now I'm a wandering cybermonkey lost in the misty highlands of southern Mexico.
I ❤️ bikes, car-free cities, street food, & steward ownership. There is such a thing as enough.
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It's bizarre that the US is blocking shipments of fuel, but not solar panels. It's almost like they really don't believe PV works.
https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/13/climate/cuba-solar-us-oil-blockade-trump-china
The US may be powerful enough to bully anybody.
But it's not powerful enough to bully *everybody*
Just wild how like half of the stories about oil right now don't even mention the electrification of transportation.
Amazing chart gallery, looking at the trajectory of transportation electrification across many different countries. It's Happening. This is the last oil crisis. No country in its right mind will allow itself to be vulnerable to this kind of insanity again.
"The solar panels imported into Sierra Leone in the last 12 months, if installed, would generate electricity equivalent to 61% of the total reported 2023 electricity generation" #Energy #Solar #Africa
https://ember-energy.org/latest-insights/the-first-evidence-of-a-take-off-in-solar-in-africa/
Be a problem money can't solve. But. Not like this.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/04/new-orleans-sea-levels-relocation-climate-crisis
RE: @akshatrathi@mastodon.green
This is a horrific way to accelerate the transition. But it *is* a way to accelerate the transition.
Nothing says "mid-21st century" to me like cackling maniacally at 2am while simultaneously wrangling multiple coding agents working on open energy data pipelines, listening to thumping techno, and doomscrolling the Iran war.
Love me a game where all players do not have the same victory conditions.
Whoadang, shit's getting real in open modeling land!
It would be interesting (derogatory) if it turned out that Mossad is tracking and assassinating the Iranian leadership by hacking into their own repressive surveillance infrastructure.
Interesting series of posts on the utility political, regulatory, & business model landscape, how & why they're failing to adapt, and how changing economics of DERs interact with the system. From the former CEO of Octopus Energy.
https://distributedgrid.substack.com/p/the-utility-business-model-is-built
It's silly but this is fun.
A +2500/-2200 line PR is totally the same as a +300 line PR right?
CERAWeek is gonna be 🔥
It is going to be so weird to see the O&G dudes *and* the EV folks simultaneously (quietly?) cheering on and benefiting from the same catastrophe.
Very weird how the guy dismantling the US government is named after the evil megacorp antagonist from The Boys which is itself a play on Ozymandias' company Veidt Enterprises in The Watchmen.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_Vought
One thing I liked about QTs is it was easy to share things with attribution. Here I find myself copy-and-pasting with no reference to original sources much more frequently.
Halfway between the Dieselgate scandal in the US and building cars in Nazi Germany with forced labor, Volkswagen was operating a Brazilian beef ranch clearing the Amazon with slaves?
https://reporterbrasil.org.br/2025/05/why-is-volkswagen-accused-of-slave-labor-in-the-amazon/
