AG
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#Semiconductor #ICT #Sustainability | Secondary sources #RareEarth Metals #REEs and #EROI #EROeI. Likes usually read later. Personal.
#EROI still matters!
Another one of the many reasons we need to give up fossil fuels: ageing oil and gas wells deplete quicker when older than when younger.
So the squeeze out the same amount you need spend more time, energy and money. Accelerating self-destruction.
www.eia.gov/todayinenerg...
So the squeeze out the same amount you need spend more time, energy and money. Accelerating self-destruction.
www.eia.gov/todayinenerg...
November 25, 2025 at 9:27 PM
#EROI still matters!
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It may seem disturbing for any Canadian-linked entity to be involved in the operations of a place like Alligator Alcatraz, but it isn't illegal. For Aidan Gilchrist-Blackwood of the Canadian Network on Corporate Accountability, this is part of a bigger problem. thewalrus.ca/the-overlooked-c...
November 25, 2025 at 3:00 PM
It may seem disturbing for any Canadian-linked entity to be involved in the operations of a place like Alligator Alcatraz, but it isn't illegal. For Aidan Gilchrist-Blackwood of the Canadian Network on Corporate Accountability, this is part of a bigger problem. thewalrus.ca/the-overlooked-c...
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"Generative AI is just like calculators and people criticised them too!!!!"
NO
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November 25, 2025 at 8:10 AM
"Generative AI is just like calculators and people criticised them too!!!!"
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Electrification + efficiency — not rolling back climate policy — is the real path to a competitive European industry.
High fossil fuel prices hit industry hardest, not the Green Deal. Undermining clean-energy commitments would only push investment elsewhere.
euobserver.com/green-econom...
High fossil fuel prices hit industry hardest, not the Green Deal. Undermining clean-energy commitments would only push investment elsewhere.
euobserver.com/green-econom...
Why electrification, not repealing green laws, will save Europe's industry
According to Oxford professor of energy Jan Rosenow, rapid electrification of Europe's industry, not rolling back the EU's Green Deal, will save European industry.
euobserver.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Electrification + efficiency — not rolling back climate policy — is the real path to a competitive European industry.
High fossil fuel prices hit industry hardest, not the Green Deal. Undermining clean-energy commitments would only push investment elsewhere.
euobserver.com/green-econom...
High fossil fuel prices hit industry hardest, not the Green Deal. Undermining clean-energy commitments would only push investment elsewhere.
euobserver.com/green-econom...
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so none of this is confirmed (yet), but it looks like Canada is about to make a bunch of stupid decisions on climate -- risky, short-sighted, and economically irresponsible. right on the heels of #COP30.
Carney and Smith to unveil energy deal in Calgary Thursday, source says
B.C. Premier says he spoke with Carney about concerns over potential oil pipeline
www.theglobeandmail.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:10 AM
so none of this is confirmed (yet), but it looks like Canada is about to make a bunch of stupid decisions on climate -- risky, short-sighted, and economically irresponsible. right on the heels of #COP30.
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I’ve been in or around politics for over a half-century now.
I’ve watched as corporations and the super-rich flooded D.C. with campaign cash and ransacked our system.
It won't be easy, but here’s how we break the corporate oligarchy and return power to the people.
I’ve watched as corporations and the super-rich flooded D.C. with campaign cash and ransacked our system.
It won't be easy, but here’s how we break the corporate oligarchy and return power to the people.
The Big Picture: How We Got Into This Mess, And How We Get Out of It | Robert Reich
Robert Reich
youtu.be
November 23, 2025 at 11:01 PM
I’ve been in or around politics for over a half-century now.
I’ve watched as corporations and the super-rich flooded D.C. with campaign cash and ransacked our system.
It won't be easy, but here’s how we break the corporate oligarchy and return power to the people.
I’ve watched as corporations and the super-rich flooded D.C. with campaign cash and ransacked our system.
It won't be easy, but here’s how we break the corporate oligarchy and return power to the people.
I’m afraid a large part of why liberals believe this is poor economic ideology and I find there are many in 💡🔌 #EnergySky guilty of spreading it.
Something this cursed post has revealed is that many liberals believe that cheap renewables have effectively solved climate change, and now it's just a waiting game.
You ever just sit down and realize that the rise of 21st century fascism is capital's answer to climate change?
November 24, 2025 at 5:53 PM
I’m afraid a large part of why liberals believe this is poor economic ideology and I find there are many in 💡🔌 #EnergySky guilty of spreading it.
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“Even if fossil fuel emissions were eliminated immediately, emissions from the global food system alone would make it impossible to limit warming to 1.5°C and difficult even to realize the 2°C target…major changes in how food is produced [and consumed] are needed…”
November 22, 2025 at 2:09 PM
“Even if fossil fuel emissions were eliminated immediately, emissions from the global food system alone would make it impossible to limit warming to 1.5°C and difficult even to realize the 2°C target…major changes in how food is produced [and consumed] are needed…”
I think @brendannyhan.bsky.social is exactly right in this piece, but I’d go one step further here. Elites very explicitly told young people to sit down and shut up. Society punished them for standing up for their beliefs, and targeted and vilified the organizers. Now we need need them.
November 24, 2025 at 3:07 PM
“The wealth you’re counting on—the retirement accounts, the home equity, the “nest egg” that’s supposed to make this all worthwhile—is just as fake as the poverty line. But the humans behind that wealth are real. And they are amazing.”
www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
Part 1: My Life Is a Lie
How a Broken Benchmark Quietly Broke America
www.yesigiveafig.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:32 PM
“The wealth you’re counting on—the retirement accounts, the home equity, the “nest egg” that’s supposed to make this all worthwhile—is just as fake as the poverty line. But the humans behind that wealth are real. And they are amazing.”
www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
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Deepening our dependence on natural gas isn't a solution to the affordability challenge. And it never has been. isonewswire.com/2025/11/18/i...
November 24, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Deepening our dependence on natural gas isn't a solution to the affordability challenge. And it never has been. isonewswire.com/2025/11/18/i...
“The only thing that seems to consistently evade the detectives is the world around that child — the one made by the grown-ups.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/m...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/m...
America’s Children Are Unwell. Are Schools Part of the Problem?
www.nytimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:47 PM
“The only thing that seems to consistently evade the detectives is the world around that child — the one made by the grown-ups.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/m...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/m...
Caution on X’s new “based in” labels: Snowden docs (via @theintercept.com ) describe NSA tools REXKWONDO + HAMMERCORE/STEIN/STONE and SECONDDATE that reroute traffic so it appears from another country. CIA leaks show false-attribution toolkits too (MARBLE, UMBRAGE). Treat location tags skeptically.
November 24, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Caution on X’s new “based in” labels: Snowden docs (via @theintercept.com ) describe NSA tools REXKWONDO + HAMMERCORE/STEIN/STONE and SECONDDATE that reroute traffic so it appears from another country. CIA leaks show false-attribution toolkits too (MARBLE, UMBRAGE). Treat location tags skeptically.
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"The Valley of Death: Why $100,000 Is the New Poor
Once I established that $136,500 is the real break-even point, I ran the numbers on what happens to a family climbing the ladder toward that number"
interesting analysis:
www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
Once I established that $136,500 is the real break-even point, I ran the numbers on what happens to a family climbing the ladder toward that number"
interesting analysis:
www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
Part 1: My Life Is a Lie
How a Broken Benchmark Quietly Broke America
www.yesigiveafig.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:48 AM
"The Valley of Death: Why $100,000 Is the New Poor
Once I established that $136,500 is the real break-even point, I ran the numbers on what happens to a family climbing the ladder toward that number"
interesting analysis:
www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
Once I established that $136,500 is the real break-even point, I ran the numbers on what happens to a family climbing the ladder toward that number"
interesting analysis:
www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
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Study: Bilingual people forget twice as many words after hitting middle age
Study: Bilingual people forget twice as many words after hitting middle age
OTTAWA, ON ― An alarming new study out of the University of Ottawa suggests that years of recommendations to learn a new language in order to stave off cognitive decline may in fact have the opposite ...
www.thebeaverton.com
November 23, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Study: Bilingual people forget twice as many words after hitting middle age
Heads-up: X now shows where accounts are “based in.” Useful, but not proof. Snowden docs (via The Intercept) describe NSA ISP-level traffic-shaping tools—REXKWONDO, HAMMERCORE/STEIN/STONE, SECONDDATE—able to reroute flows so activity appears from another country. Treat location labels carefully.
November 23, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Heads-up: X now shows where accounts are “based in.” Useful, but not proof. Snowden docs (via The Intercept) describe NSA ISP-level traffic-shaping tools—REXKWONDO, HAMMERCORE/STEIN/STONE, SECONDDATE—able to reroute flows so activity appears from another country. Treat location labels carefully.
I share @markhamhislop.bsky.social frustration with Canadian energy propaganda. Never mind that US politics would never let an energy superpower grow in Canada. How naive.
“producing electricity—even vast amounts of it—does not make a country a superpower.”
open.substack.com/pub/markhamh...
“producing electricity—even vast amounts of it—does not make a country a superpower.”
open.substack.com/pub/markhamh...
Mark Carney Is Wrong: Canada Cannot Become an Energy Superpower
Canada can produce more oil, more LNG, and more electricity—but production alone will never make us an energy superpower
open.substack.com
November 23, 2025 at 6:02 PM
I share @markhamhislop.bsky.social frustration with Canadian energy propaganda. Never mind that US politics would never let an energy superpower grow in Canada. How naive.
“producing electricity—even vast amounts of it—does not make a country a superpower.”
open.substack.com/pub/markhamh...
“producing electricity—even vast amounts of it—does not make a country a superpower.”
open.substack.com/pub/markhamh...
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Mark Carney Is Wrong: Canada Cannot Become an Energy Superpower
Canada can produce a lot more oil, LNG, and electricity.
That won't make us an energy superpower.
Ever.
@MarkJCarney @timhodgsonmt @ABDanielleSmith @BrianJeanAB
markhamhislop.substack.com/p/mark-carne...
Canada can produce a lot more oil, LNG, and electricity.
That won't make us an energy superpower.
Ever.
@MarkJCarney @timhodgsonmt @ABDanielleSmith @BrianJeanAB
markhamhislop.substack.com/p/mark-carne...
Mark Carney Is Wrong: Canada Cannot Become an Energy Superpower
Canada can produce more oil, more LNG, and more electricity—but production alone will never make us an energy superpower
markhamhislop.substack.com
November 23, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Mark Carney Is Wrong: Canada Cannot Become an Energy Superpower
Canada can produce a lot more oil, LNG, and electricity.
That won't make us an energy superpower.
Ever.
@MarkJCarney @timhodgsonmt @ABDanielleSmith @BrianJeanAB
markhamhislop.substack.com/p/mark-carne...
Canada can produce a lot more oil, LNG, and electricity.
That won't make us an energy superpower.
Ever.
@MarkJCarney @timhodgsonmt @ABDanielleSmith @BrianJeanAB
markhamhislop.substack.com/p/mark-carne...
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Not clear to me whether these rules are designed by the fossil fuel industry, tech industry, Russia/Saudi Arabia, "Abundance" centrists, DC consultants, or virtually all Republicans & far too many Democrats.
But they are this moment's conventional wisdom.
And they are a doomed, reckless farce.
But they are this moment's conventional wisdom.
And they are a doomed, reckless farce.
1. Do not speak of climate change.
2. Do not antagonize fossil fuels. Embrace fossil fuels via "all of the above" & "technology neutral."
3. Fixate on energy & economics to exclusion of ecology & equity.
4. Speak often of reducing costs. Sometimes emissions.
5. Hobble bedrock environmental laws.
2. Do not antagonize fossil fuels. Embrace fossil fuels via "all of the above" & "technology neutral."
3. Fixate on energy & economics to exclusion of ecology & equity.
4. Speak often of reducing costs. Sometimes emissions.
5. Hobble bedrock environmental laws.
November 23, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Not clear to me whether these rules are designed by the fossil fuel industry, tech industry, Russia/Saudi Arabia, "Abundance" centrists, DC consultants, or virtually all Republicans & far too many Democrats.
But they are this moment's conventional wisdom.
And they are a doomed, reckless farce.
But they are this moment's conventional wisdom.
And they are a doomed, reckless farce.
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Something this cursed post has revealed is that many liberals believe that cheap renewables have effectively solved climate change, and now it's just a waiting game.
You ever just sit down and realize that the rise of 21st century fascism is capital's answer to climate change?
November 22, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Something this cursed post has revealed is that many liberals believe that cheap renewables have effectively solved climate change, and now it's just a waiting game.
Maybe the question isn’t who “wins” AI, but whether leadership comes with public-benefit guarantees. Capability only matters if it’s delivered through modern civic systems—
Serious question for the global AI discourse: why is “the U.S. must win the AI race” treated as an unquestioned good? What exactly is the public-interest theory of benefit?
November 22, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Maybe the question isn’t who “wins” AI, but whether leadership comes with public-benefit guarantees. Capability only matters if it’s delivered through modern civic systems—
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Humans will NEVER colonize another planet. Never.
If we can’t even agree to do the minimum to keep Earth habitable, there’s no way in hell we’ll cooperate to make another planet habitable.
If we can’t even agree to do the minimum to keep Earth habitable, there’s no way in hell we’ll cooperate to make another planet habitable.
November 22, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Humans will NEVER colonize another planet. Never.
If we can’t even agree to do the minimum to keep Earth habitable, there’s no way in hell we’ll cooperate to make another planet habitable.
If we can’t even agree to do the minimum to keep Earth habitable, there’s no way in hell we’ll cooperate to make another planet habitable.