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@teresabarnes.bsky.social

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Scientist working on reliable solar for decarbonization. Researcher, mountain biker, lifter, skier, mom, punk. she/her, #energysky All posts my own and not endorsed, accepted, or associated with my mysterious employer. Love solar. Hate fascism.

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Persistent Weak Layer @teresabarnes.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you for the follow up. I am looking forward to your next story on this. Kick ass in Denver tomorrow!

Persistent Weak Layer @teresabarnes.bsky.social · 1d

I can’t find good current info on the delay. It looks like they were already building and had a few options to get around this. Maybe. I can’t believe they got that far without offtake agreements. Any idea if they fell through? It is a tangled web of project finance.

Persistent Weak Layer @teresabarnes.bsky.social · 4d

I’m sorry. That really stinks.

Persistent Weak Layer @teresabarnes.bsky.social · 4d

I broke my sarcasm font.

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Persistent Weak Layer @teresabarnes.bsky.social · 4d

AI is an entropy destroying machine. Better invest before you miss out.

Persistent Weak Layer @teresabarnes.bsky.social · 5d

I talk about them as wannabe as cannibal serial killers who get get busted in a chat room if they get an MBA

Persistent Weak Layer @teresabarnes.bsky.social · 5d

As a fat asthmatic living at altitude, I respect your theory, but find it impractical for everyday use. Can’t hear brain over the breathing.

Persistent Weak Layer @teresabarnes.bsky.social · 5d

Riding bikes and skiing makes brain go off. Have to either max out heart rate or just go too fast for it to keep up. Hiking is kinda meditative, but too much brain whirrrrrr. In other words, I feel this, and we deserve all video trainings on 1.5x as reasonable accommodation.

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Persistent Weak Layer @teresabarnes.bsky.social · 7d

Cheeseburger cheeseburger cheeseburger! C’mon cholesterol.

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L.D. Burnett @ldburnett.bsky.social · 11d

“If you have not experienced the kind of supercharged harassment this environment breeds, count yourself lucky. But don’t count yourself safe.”

Thank you @tressiemcphd.bsky.social for this. Will be assigning it to my students to read and discuss in class TODAY. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/o...

Opinion | Mourn, or Else

www.nytimes.com

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Persistent Weak Layer @teresabarnes.bsky.social · 11d

That is wild. I’ve been in solar/renewables my entire academic career, and we are used to being a political football. Sucks to see it hitting so hard everywhere in the US.
Also instructive to see the US struggle so differently from the rest of the world.

Persistent Weak Layer @teresabarnes.bsky.social · 12d

In theory, I’ll try anything with gnocchi, but can we just call it some new kinda soup?

Persistent Weak Layer @teresabarnes.bsky.social · 12d

Gnocchi and fried eggs slaps

Persistent Weak Layer @teresabarnes.bsky.social · 13d

The whole thing is truly repulsive. A giant mlm scam with a side of engineering and a whole lot of god-complex.

Persistent Weak Layer @teresabarnes.bsky.social · 13d

The sun is woke communist propaganda. We smoke it out instead of falling for it. Or something something…

Persistent Weak Layer @teresabarnes.bsky.social · 13d

Omg. Holy shit. This is genius.

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Persistent Weak Layer @teresabarnes.bsky.social · 19d

I’m sorry this happened to you. Heated is great, so probably not the first or the last time. I hit the roof the first time it happened to me, and I think more people should. Make plagiarism embarrassing again. Upgrading to paid when I get back too.

Persistent Weak Layer @teresabarnes.bsky.social · 19d

Hate mongers are fossil fuel plants. Big oil is so desperate that they pander to the worst instincts of humanity to sell their bullshit.

Emily Atkin @emorwee.bsky.social · 19d

Anyway here's the real article, please share this one and not that one heated.world/p/charlie-ki...

Charlie Kirk was a fossil fuel industry plant

Big Oil's money gave Kirk a larger platform to spread baseless climate conspiracy theories—as well as other extremist views.

heated.world

Persistent Weak Layer @teresabarnes.bsky.social · 23d

I haven’t lived there is a long time. Rockville vs all of C is a tough call.

Persistent Weak Layer @teresabarnes.bsky.social · 25d

Damn. SpaceX makes something people want?

Persistent Weak Layer @teresabarnes.bsky.social · 25d

Everything ever published in PRL basically has a less elegant version of that last line. Someone should figure this shit out…

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Persistent Weak Layer @teresabarnes.bsky.social · 25d

My kid was hiding in a teacher’s office with 38 kids while that psycho shot at them. Kids should not have to have a plan to survive a shooting in every classroom they enter. She is still mad at the media for filming as they got out, but I guess these stories have impact. It’s the guns.

Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 25d

"I've had an escape plan for every classroom I've been in for the last twelve years." Student leaders from Evergreen High School share their candid thoughts with our @marcsallinger.bsky.social following last week's shooting.

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Tom Schaller @schaller67.bsky.social · 25d

Coates fucking kills it, as always:

www.vanityfair.com/news/story/c...

Charlie Kirk, Redeemed: A Political Class Finds Its Lost Cause

By ignoring the rhetoric and actions of the Turning Point USA founder, pundits and politicians are sanitizing his legacy.

www.vanityfair.com

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Persistent Weak Layer @teresabarnes.bsky.social · 27d

What is your kid going to ride on? If mostly sidewalks and bike paths, then a cheaper bike is ok, possibly preferable. We don’t have side walks or bike paths, so even the little kids ride trails up here. Nicer bikes make a big difference with steep climbs and actual downhill. User is the way.

Persistent Weak Layer @teresabarnes.bsky.social · 27d

Any chance there is a kids’ bike club near your? Ours has gear swaps and sales twice a year. It’s the second best place to hunt deals if you aren’t sacrificing yourself to meta.