Mark Jaffe

A story oft repeated. I used Twitter as a reporting tool to connect on environmental and energy issues and to folo other journalists, but my feed is now filled with a lot of bull. I am heading over to bluesky

@credenzaclear2 I wouldn't start with Hegel. His mother must have been scared by a peiod, he rarely uses them. His sentence (difficult in the first place) run on. Go with Aristotle's Nichomachean Ethis, the first section is on what is happiness and how to achieve it.

thinking about getting into philosophy does anyone know if this is any good

This is insane. Denialism in its highest form. “The concerns about overtopping are not just hypothetical,” said the former deput director of the LSU Hurricane Center washingtonpost.com/climate-enviro…

@williamloving @Sammy_Roth It is a question of whether utilities take advantage of the transition to pad their bottom line and shortchange communities caught in the transition. In Colorado regulators have already knocked out some of Xcel’s more lavish proposals

@Sammy_Roth @ByMarkJaffe Whoever said the transition from fossil fuels was going to be cheap? Of course it’s going to be expensive, in the short run.

Colorado utility giant Xcel Energy has a $440 million plan to transition homes and businesses from fossil gas to electricity -- but critics worry it will lead to higher utility bills overall, and higher profits for Xcel: coloradosun.com/2024/06/12/nat… via @ByMarkJaffe

@drvolts I just used Microsoft CoPilot to sum-up a 96-page Colorado PUC decision. I had read the decision before finding CoPilot so I could see how effective it was. I'd put it into the 70-80% range. The one thing it did not do it find the coments by the commission ripping Xcel Energy

The one use of AI I've always thought would be genuinely helpful: read & summarize this long PDF for me. Is such a service available?

The data center boom and its demand for energy and water is creeping into Colorado. coloradosun.com/2024/03/25/as-…

@mboothdenver Okay, Theil come up with a libertarian vision that appeals to people and doesn't involve buying an island and creating your own country

I’ll take Hyper-environmentalism for $600 Alex

Colo oil and gas regulators face a dilemma. The greatest risk of orphan wells is from small producers, but they have less cash to put up for new finanacial guarantees. Going easy on them may leave the state with less orphan well money. coloradosun.com/2024/02/20/oil…

Colo oil and gas regulators nix one drilling plan near suburban homes and one in the middle of pronghorn high priority habitat. One local official said it looks like the commission is getting more comfrtable saying no. We'll see. coloradosun.com/2024/02/01/oil…

@mboothdenver Don't forget: universal health care, hardly any gun violence, liveable, walkable cities and university educations that don't cost a zillion dollars. It's a hellscape.

Does this mean we'll have trains going everywhere and good chocolate

@mboothdenver @jimmyjohns I guess you weren't in the Post newroom the day an order of JJ sandwiches allowed the staff to share the experience of food poisoning

Very upset about this. There are so many nights I could absolutely murder a Jimmy John's instead of getting dinner together. And yes @jimmyjohns I would take free sandwiches theonion.com/nation-settles…

Goodbye, Colorado. Storied ranching family in need of 10,000 to 500,000 acres. coloradosun.com/2024/01/21/chi…

Colo is set to adopt pipeline safety rules (an audit found the state inspection program in shambles), leading the fight for tighter regs are a couple of corn and sugar beet farmers coloradosun.com/2024/01/16/col…

Xcel Energy is closing a 950-MW coal-fired power plant in Pueblo, Colo. A committee of local heavy hitters wants the unit replaced with a nuclear plant saying when it comes to jobs and taxes it is the only thing to "make Pueblo whole." coloradosun.com/2024/01/08/pue…

The U.S. 🇺🇸 power sector by the numbers in 2023: 🌞 148TWh, up 16% on the year 🌬️ 419TWh down 4% ⛏️⛰️ 386 million tons, lowest utility consumption since Nixon administration 🏭 1,659 TWh, up 8%, 41% of US power gen 🔋5GW new installs thru Nov, a record subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eenews…

Geothermal heat pumps are more efficient that air-source ones, but drilling the bore holes to tap into subsurface heat is pricey. One or two wells for many heat pumps could be a solution. coloradosun.com/2023/12/05/geo…

@mboothdenver That guy unfortunately isn't a tech bro but the new president of Argentina. "The greatest injustice is social justice." Don't cry for me Argentina, I'll cry for you

Haven't we had about enough of the tech bros as philosophers about life in general? Their own lives are a mess

@drvolts Would be nice if Austin, Tx had mass transit, which they don't. Getting rid of parking metters will make the curbs safe to cars.

I missed the news that Austin, TX, killed parking minimums. Go Austin! texastribune.org/2023/11/02/aus…

@CPRMarkus As incovenient as the 16th St. Mall construction is at least it is taking a relly long time to complete

The 16th St Mall construction sucks right now. There’s no way to get around some of this without walking two blocks over or walking in the middle of the street.