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Posting about electricity and how we can care for one other. Building @publicgrids.org. SF. they.

Latest: “To fight oligarchy, build local democracy"
https://www.isaacsevier.com/notes/to-fight-oligarchy-build-local-democracy/
Balcony solar could essentially trick circuit breakers in US and overheat home circuits. The highest limit with best case scenario assumptions about home wiring quality and wear from this paper is 420W of plug in solar, far far below the 800-1000W I keep seeing used.

www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/18...
January 10, 2026 at 12:39 AM
January 9, 2026 at 7:50 PM
one of the most absurd things - magical, whimsical, insane - about san francisco has got to be letting people build houses on Harry Street. imagine living in a little cottage off this rickety set of wooden stairs for the cool price of $1.4 million.

www.zillow.com/homedetails/...
January 8, 2026 at 4:36 AM
Magnolia blooms are here
January 7, 2026 at 10:45 PM
Looks cool
January 7, 2026 at 12:26 AM
We made hotpot for a NYE party and while shopping in Chinatown I made possibly one of the best discoveries of my life. 10/10 recommend these insanely good, chewy, wide instant noodles.
January 6, 2026 at 6:53 PM
Goodbye Mendocino coast ✌️
January 4, 2026 at 8:58 PM
Corporations like PG&E have run the grid for over a hundred years and today every blackout, every wildfire they spark, every pole that falls over when a light breeze blows, is because they are designed to do one thing: control the public so their shareholders win above everybody else.
December 23, 2025 at 2:35 AM
December 18, 2025 at 5:17 PM
The set up for blowtorching your sense of taste
December 13, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Making a new recipe where one step is to just do this 🤤
December 13, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Austerity for everything but the lighting budget I guess
December 13, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Hey
December 12, 2025 at 2:06 AM
One way of thinking about why people feel the issue of energy bills so much-- it's the money they would have spent on having fun, clothes, shoes, and most Americans most sacred possessions, cars.
December 11, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Here's the newspaper on the last day of the session in which the Georgia legislature established the railroad commission in 1907 (which would include the electricity system later bc the railway companies were the electric light companies)

Source: gahistoricnewspapers.galileo.usg.edu/lccn/sn89053...
December 11, 2025 at 1:37 AM
well obviously
December 6, 2025 at 1:38 AM
This is basically the endpoint of all of this discussion about flex loads -- so it's pretty funny to me that rather than an extremely decisive "yes this is a great idea, do it now!" conclusion, the actual end state makes "further analysis required" because the models used can't do it.
December 6, 2025 at 12:55 AM
The results being publicly available is expected, of course. But why should anyone believe a model (1) from a non-grid operator (2) about really detailed technical aspects of running the grid hour by hour (3) funded by the industry player demanding the change the report recommends?
December 5, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Sleepy and indignant
December 4, 2025 at 5:04 AM
"Of the 473 commissioners for whom Heern could find information on what they did after they left utility regulation, 50% of them went to work for one of the industries they regulated, or in an industry-adjacent role such as consulting."

Here's Sammy Roth in 2023: archive.is/1TIJR#select...
December 3, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Some 4,000 munis were ever created.
November 15, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Look what came in the mail you guys
November 13, 2025 at 11:56 PM
lololol
November 12, 2025 at 4:02 AM
considering moving to NYC for many reasons today but not least of which would be to come to this event next week with @triofrancos.bsky.social and @dwallacewells.bsky.social

www.mcnallyjackson.com/event/thea-r...
November 5, 2025 at 10:03 PM
We made this screen for our movement last month.

Public power is the future and our timeline just sped up!!!
November 5, 2025 at 4:53 AM