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Emily Grubert @gruberte.bsky.social · 1d

In any case I’d rather see the prioritization done separately from making individuals opt in to incentives, especially bc poorer people respond more to incentives and are likely taking higher risks. But understand you might view my view of regulatory solutions as a form of DSM!

Emily Grubert @gruberte.bsky.social · 1d

The thermostat thing in particular I think is too often divorced from the context that when heat / cooling is running flat out it might very well not be keeping up with the set point

Emily Grubert @gruberte.bsky.social · 1d

There are edge cases obviously but the absolute peak loads the grid needs to be built for tend to coincide with periods when demand is pretty inelastic in a fully electrified system. The third very hot day and night in a row, the third very cold day and night in a row, that kind of thing

Emily Grubert @gruberte.bsky.social · 1d

I really need these headlines to stop being like IT’S ILLEGAL TO REGULATE GHGS NOW instead of what’s actually going on, which is that we’re no longer required to consider them in scope of a 56 year old law that didn’t contemplate climate change as an issue

Emily Grubert @gruberte.bsky.social · 1d

I get that — many different focuses turn out to be too urgent!

Emily Grubert @gruberte.bsky.social · 1d

I think what I’m concerned about is whether this remains true under full electrification, and whether the concessions needed to allow for residential DSM are worth it in the long run case where the emissions and use profiles are very different

Emily Grubert @gruberte.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah like in practice we know that the times the grid is actually stressed are the times people can’t do DSM safely

Emily Grubert @gruberte.bsky.social · 1d

Genuinely if the next big politics push we have on climate is just overturning this and continuing to do nothing rather than, I don’t know, passing a law I‘m going to need to take some time off

Emily Pontecorvo @emilypont.bsky.social · 1d

How did EPA ultimately justify its decision to reverse course on greenhouse gas emissions?

The agency's 3 arguments will define the inevitable court battle over this move. Here's what they are. heatmap.news/climate/epa-...

The 3 Arguments Trump Used to Gut Greenhouse Gas Regulations

Whether any of them will hold up in court is now the big question.

heatmap.news

Emily Grubert @gruberte.bsky.social · 1d

Another banger of a thread from isaac

Perhaps we could realize that for the most part people aren't actively going out of their way to blow through massive amounts of electricity and simply...have efficiency requirements and give people the energy we use?

isaac @sevier.io · 1d

There has been about a 15(?) year push for the "smart grid, the grid of the future, grid 2.0" and this is the reality of all that; all the assumptions about "virtual power plants" enter this arena.

Most of what people assume is the inexorable destiny of the grid is going to be fiercely contested.

Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 2d

From Flock cameras to fusion centers, “free” surveillance equipment funded by tech vendors, federal grants, and private donors locks cities into recurring costs and long-term data‑sharing, including with ICE. The end result is an erosion of our civil liberties. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Emily Grubert @gruberte.bsky.social · 1d

it is so infuriating how long this has been obvious and how poeple just refuse to see it. the number of NSF grant reviews (lol) that I have written that are like "this project is deeply unethical and probably actively dangerous to its participants" is way too fucking high.

Emily Pontecorvo @emilypont.bsky.social · 1d

How did EPA ultimately justify its decision to reverse course on greenhouse gas emissions?

The agency's 3 arguments will define the inevitable court battle over this move. Here's what they are. heatmap.news/climate/epa-...

The 3 Arguments Trump Used to Gut Greenhouse Gas Regulations

Whether any of them will hold up in court is now the big question.

heatmap.news

isaac @sevier.io · 1d

It has been my nonwhite and queer friends who are the only ones who think about this with me. Everyone else has said this line of thinking is an overreaction.

More people of conscience who work on the grid have to join in, now that the stakes are so obvious.

isaac @sevier.io · 1d

There has been about a 15(?) year push for the "smart grid, the grid of the future, grid 2.0" and this is the reality of all that; all the assumptions about "virtual power plants" enter this arena.

Most of what people assume is the inexorable destiny of the grid is going to be fiercely contested.

Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 2d

From Flock cameras to fusion centers, “free” surveillance equipment funded by tech vendors, federal grants, and private donors locks cities into recurring costs and long-term data‑sharing, including with ICE. The end result is an erosion of our civil liberties. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

“Free” Surveillance Tech Still Comes at a High and Dangerous Cost

Surveillance technology vendors, federal agencies, and wealthy private donors have long helped provide local law enforcement “free” access to surveillance equipment that bypasses local oversight. The

www.eff.org

Emily Grubert @gruberte.bsky.social · 1d

yuuuup

Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 1d

You can see in this image nicely how the gas plant is situated across the state line for weaker environmental protections

Absolutely unmitigated cruelty to this community - and all to power software designed to be corrosive and cruel itself

floodlightnews.org/thermal-dron...

Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 1d

New drone footage from @floodlightnews.org - the fossil methane power plant Musk built specifically to create abusive and racist material on his social media website is still wildly breaching EPA regulations even after a ruling against using them -->>>

floodlightnews.org/thermal-dron...

Emily Grubert @gruberte.bsky.social · 3d

I need to get out there some time…do lmk if you’re ever up near SB

Emily Grubert @gruberte.bsky.social · 3d

Cc @kevinjkircher.com for this party

Emily Grubert @gruberte.bsky.social · 3d

Cranky indianans near huge data centers meetup when??

Emily Grubert @gruberte.bsky.social · 3d

I'm a die hard 8.5'er mostly because i'm a civil engineer and like -- I want to make sure I'm covered in bad case scenarios!

Madison Condon @madisoncondon.bsky.social · 3d

for 1 its not really that controversial for modeling localized impacts (if your scenario choice is dominating your uncertainty bars for local impacts in the not super distant future you are doing something wrong) but more importantly the OG dont use RCP 8.5 ppl are now like oops its really hot

Emily Grubert @gruberte.bsky.social · 3d

yeah exactly. it's a great case study of how to avoid really challenging gas investments tbh -- and ofc China doesn't have the "advantage" the US has of really old coal plants

Emily Grubert @gruberte.bsky.social · 3d

So you end up accepting the very bad public and environmental health consequences for a little longer in exchange for a lot more certainty that the transition will happen, rather than accelerating coal closure and opening up a bunch of new gas w/o amortization & those coalitions, w severe GHG impact

Emily Grubert @gruberte.bsky.social · 3d

An argument I'm not totally comfortable with but find kind of interesting is that with coal, the very clear multivariate reasons to close them (incl the air pollution) make it easier to build coalitions that are actually committed to closure, vs sth like gas

Emily Grubert @gruberte.bsky.social · 3d

I'd argue +/- on community support -- coal facilities tend to be big and in one place for a long time, vs a bunch of little wells all over the place that have shortish lifespans, so you can end up with generational commitments to the resource but also a really clear place to intervene w support

Emily Grubert @gruberte.bsky.social · 3d

Yeah, from a logistics perspective I agree coal is the easy case (I wrote about the potential for stockpiling and decoupling mine and plant closures here, actually: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...). Harder from a generator perspective (gas CTs are way easier to use for grid support) and (1/