Carbon removal, photography, science communication. Check out the book Championing Science by Amy Aines and me. Most of my birds live in Livermore, California.
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Here comes another illuminating report from @ember-energy.org, this one on "Electric Asia." That gap between "the electric fast track" and "the fossil detour" in the graph on the left is turning out to be a crucial choice between energy security and chaotic dependency
Wow.
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Roger Aines
It is hard to transmit progress to general audiences. I love this plot from Ember showing that global electricity generation growth in 2025 was entirely met by clean energy. Fossil had no growth. Globally. Entirely.
I will be using this a lot.
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Yesterday it was not all that surprising that renewables were meeting California's needs and charging the batteries and being exported. But at 10 pm the gas plants were still not providing much, with 6 GW batteries and 3 GW of SunZia NM wind (in the imports). Data from CAISO.com
#EnergySky
And I love that our large hydro is now a dispatchable resource, only used at night!
Gas spent 20 years owning the evening peak. Batteries took a year to crash the party.
That's disruption. Not gradual, but a rapid shift in who supplies grid's most valuable hours.
The battle was never about total generation. It was about the peak & batteries are winning it. #Bettrification #BESS
Extreme heat kills more than half a million people every year, roughly one person a minute. It kills more than any other extreme weather event. Many of these deaths could be prevented, which is why reporting during heat advisories is so important for public safety.
As we kick off the 2026 midterm election season, we're resharing our guide to Handling Political Harassment & Legal Intimidation. Read about the legal risks scientists face from politically-motivated attacks, & how to defend against them: www.csldf.org/resource/poc...
One of the biggest challenges in climate action is imagining what a better future could actually look like: especially when solutions are so often framed as sacrifices that require loss, instead of opportunities to benefit from. This week's good news and what-to-do takes those on directly!
