Bobby McGee
@justanotherwordfor.bsky.social
Energy and the Energy Transition - solar, batteries, semiconductors, biofuels, O&G, refining, mining. Love to repost awesome charts.
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Natural gas use for electricity generation is down 17% in California this year, even as overall generation has increased. Solar is eating natural gas' lunch.
Natural gas use for electricity in California falls as solar generation rises - U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA)
www.eia.gov
November 25, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Natural gas use for electricity generation is down 17% in California this year, even as overall generation has increased. Solar is eating natural gas' lunch.
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someone here recently suggested the renewable energy industry should be doing Landman-style TV influence campaigns and the idea of some actor just standing there blurting out completely made-up brain-rot boomer facebook memes but about fossil fuels is INTENSELY FUNNY to me
November 25, 2025 at 11:38 AM
someone here recently suggested the renewable energy industry should be doing Landman-style TV influence campaigns and the idea of some actor just standing there blurting out completely made-up brain-rot boomer facebook memes but about fossil fuels is INTENSELY FUNNY to me
Update: Curse broken
Any play involving Rashee Rice just stinks. He's cursed rn.
November 23, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Update: Curse broken
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It is a sobering thought to realize that we're watching the leaders of American universities determine whether critical thinking-- and by extension, the #humanities --are still worthwhile investments.
Who invests in critical thinking and who invests in an AI chatbot to help you think will be really telling.
November 23, 2025 at 8:45 PM
It is a sobering thought to realize that we're watching the leaders of American universities determine whether critical thinking-- and by extension, the #humanities --are still worthwhile investments.
Any play involving Rashee Rice just stinks. He's cursed rn.
November 23, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Any play involving Rashee Rice just stinks. He's cursed rn.
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I think the only reason I kept my Twitter account up was to save my leadership thread. I wrote it while still in the Army and was one of my favorite tweets. May be time to deactivate the account, so am going to rewrite the thread here.
January 23, 2025 at 11:11 AM
I think the only reason I kept my Twitter account up was to save my leadership thread. I wrote it while still in the Army and was one of my favorite tweets. May be time to deactivate the account, so am going to rewrite the thread here.
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Study after study shows that using LLMs is bad for cognition, bad for learning, bad for understanding, bad for mental health. So why are our schools and universities still relentlessly pushing them?
Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.
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November 21, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Study after study shows that using LLMs is bad for cognition, bad for learning, bad for understanding, bad for mental health. So why are our schools and universities still relentlessly pushing them?
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Clean Energy accounted for all electricity growth this year. Gas/Coal were basically a wash and will be for years to come for electricity generation.
We need to ramp up batteries because they are 90% cheaper than distribution grid upgrades which is the main reason we have rate increases.
We need to ramp up batteries because they are 90% cheaper than distribution grid upgrades which is the main reason we have rate increases.
November 14, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Clean Energy accounted for all electricity growth this year. Gas/Coal were basically a wash and will be for years to come for electricity generation.
We need to ramp up batteries because they are 90% cheaper than distribution grid upgrades which is the main reason we have rate increases.
We need to ramp up batteries because they are 90% cheaper than distribution grid upgrades which is the main reason we have rate increases.
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I will never be on the side of the "We're going to impose policies to try to make you live in the city by deliberately making life outside of the city miserable" people, any more than I'll be on the side of the "We're going to try to make you bike by deliberately making driving miserable" people.
November 19, 2025 at 10:44 AM
I will never be on the side of the "We're going to impose policies to try to make you live in the city by deliberately making life outside of the city miserable" people, any more than I'll be on the side of the "We're going to try to make you bike by deliberately making driving miserable" people.
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It's not a foolproof plan but every political debate from now on should be a Normal Guy competition. Ask them to describe grocery shopping in detail. Talk about what it's like to have a friend
November 19, 2025 at 2:13 AM
It's not a foolproof plan but every political debate from now on should be a Normal Guy competition. Ask them to describe grocery shopping in detail. Talk about what it's like to have a friend
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Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity
Australia's extensive solar power penetration makes so much energy that the government wants to offer free electricity at peak hours.
electrek.co
November 6, 2025 at 4:58 AM
Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
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Remember Woodward & Bernstein? Exposed a massive scandal, got a president impeached?
Bernstein's kid wrote this wretched piece of shit. I don't know where you can find a better symbol of American media's decline. Just nauseating.
Bernstein's kid wrote this wretched piece of shit. I don't know where you can find a better symbol of American media's decline. Just nauseating.
November 14, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Remember Woodward & Bernstein? Exposed a massive scandal, got a president impeached?
Bernstein's kid wrote this wretched piece of shit. I don't know where you can find a better symbol of American media's decline. Just nauseating.
Bernstein's kid wrote this wretched piece of shit. I don't know where you can find a better symbol of American media's decline. Just nauseating.
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how did i go so long not knowing we were literally teaching people to read wrong. i knew something wasn't right but jesus christ www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...
How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers
For decades, schools have taught children the strategies of struggling readers, using a theory about reading that cognitive scientists have repeatedly debunked. And many teachers and parents don't kno...
www.apmreports.org
November 11, 2025 at 6:18 PM
how did i go so long not knowing we were literally teaching people to read wrong. i knew something wasn't right but jesus christ www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...
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ever since I learned about three-cueing I've developed infinitely more patience for replies on social media. mfers literally do not know how to read. people are walking around conjuring random meanings into words they don't know, and they don't know a lot of words. it's crazy
November 11, 2025 at 6:15 PM
ever since I learned about three-cueing I've developed infinitely more patience for replies on social media. mfers literally do not know how to read. people are walking around conjuring random meanings into words they don't know, and they don't know a lot of words. it's crazy
I joined the R&D group of an oil company right around the time of this dashed line. If id stood up in front of leaders and said this is my prediction of the future I would've been laughed out the room then fired.
There were many who stood up though, to say all the reasons the bars wouldn't go up.
There were many who stood up though, to say all the reasons the bars wouldn't go up.
There's an army of people out there telling us change is impossible.
Only that it is not.
10 years ago electric vehicles plaid almost no role in global car sales.
Today one in five cars sold worldwide is electric.
Only that it is not.
10 years ago electric vehicles plaid almost no role in global car sales.
Today one in five cars sold worldwide is electric.
November 11, 2025 at 1:44 PM
I joined the R&D group of an oil company right around the time of this dashed line. If id stood up in front of leaders and said this is my prediction of the future I would've been laughed out the room then fired.
There were many who stood up though, to say all the reasons the bars wouldn't go up.
There were many who stood up though, to say all the reasons the bars wouldn't go up.
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"We're _that_ confident, investors!"
November 5, 2025 at 10:46 PM
"We're _that_ confident, investors!"
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I keep writing about the trump white house versus portland because of this. trumpism has never lived in the real world and in the second presidency this shadow unreality is sustained by Posting and the churn of content creation
November 5, 2025 at 2:48 PM
I keep writing about the trump white house versus portland because of this. trumpism has never lived in the real world and in the second presidency this shadow unreality is sustained by Posting and the churn of content creation
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much is made of mamdani's digital strategy, but all of that Posting went to proving that he lived in the real world, appealing to real people about real issues. this dynamic is something to watch as GOP (and center libs tbh) drift into the Posting ether of the X filter bubble
November 5, 2025 at 2:44 PM
much is made of mamdani's digital strategy, but all of that Posting went to proving that he lived in the real world, appealing to real people about real issues. this dynamic is something to watch as GOP (and center libs tbh) drift into the Posting ether of the X filter bubble
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The party has a ton of money. Set up child care, food banks, clinics, parties and hoedowns and shrimp boils and fish frys.
November 5, 2025 at 12:56 PM
The party has a ton of money. Set up child care, food banks, clinics, parties and hoedowns and shrimp boils and fish frys.
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Cool that renewables have become the cheapest source of energy in the world just as a bunch of reactionary-centrist US pundits have taken up the right-wing "climate vs. cheap energy" framing.
November 1, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Cool that renewables have become the cheapest source of energy in the world just as a bunch of reactionary-centrist US pundits have taken up the right-wing "climate vs. cheap energy" framing.
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What they describe is performative discourse, where speech is rewarded for emotional impact rather than truth. Calm, reasoned discussion disappears because it does not perform well in the feed.
November 3, 2025 at 8:58 AM
What they describe is performative discourse, where speech is rewarded for emotional impact rather than truth. Calm, reasoned discussion disappears because it does not perform well in the feed.
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This never stops being true, but I’m not sure Ds have ever, at least in my lifetime, learned to apply it for good. *Creating* public opinion either never occurs to them, or if it does, offends their sensibilities? It’s exasperating
November 3, 2025 at 2:44 AM
This never stops being true, but I’m not sure Ds have ever, at least in my lifetime, learned to apply it for good. *Creating* public opinion either never occurs to them, or if it does, offends their sensibilities? It’s exasperating
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Demand for main petrochemicals, measured in ethylene equivalent, grew 8% - surging plastics and chemical production continues, with lots of new capacity coming online at the end of the five-year plan. Import substitution plays a part but cannot account for most of the growth.
November 3, 2025 at 7:05 AM
Demand for main petrochemicals, measured in ethylene equivalent, grew 8% - surging plastics and chemical production continues, with lots of new capacity coming online at the end of the five-year plan. Import substitution plays a part but cannot account for most of the growth.
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Quarterly results of China's and the world's largest oil refiner Sinopec: China's consumption of transport fuels (gasoline, diesel and kerosene) fell 4% year-on-year in Jan-Sep, due to the impact of "alternative energy" i.e. EVs, speeding up from 3.6% drop in H1.
November 3, 2025 at 7:05 AM
Quarterly results of China's and the world's largest oil refiner Sinopec: China's consumption of transport fuels (gasoline, diesel and kerosene) fell 4% year-on-year in Jan-Sep, due to the impact of "alternative energy" i.e. EVs, speeding up from 3.6% drop in H1.
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A wild-eyed Christopher Lloyd explaining that the only way to close the inter-dimensional wormhole from the Cubs winning the World Series is to play another World Series in the "null hour" when clocks are turned back.
November 2, 2025 at 3:32 AM
A wild-eyed Christopher Lloyd explaining that the only way to close the inter-dimensional wormhole from the Cubs winning the World Series is to play another World Series in the "null hour" when clocks are turned back.