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@JBlakeinTX

Husband. Father. Patriot. Advocate for 1A and common sense.

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Nate Silver
Nate Silver@NateSilver538·
A (super cute!!) pet photo from Catturd™ gets literally 50x the engagement of a link to incredibly important original reporting from the NYT on Iran. According to your own on-site numbers @nikitabier. Do you consider this to be a desirable outcome?
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JBlake
JBlake@JBlakeinTX·
@EVCurveFuturist You forgot to mention that solar has a roughly 20% capacity factor. It’s no more efficient than internal combustion
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Chris Meder
Chris Meder@EVCurveFuturist·
30,000L diesel → ~320 MWh Electric → ~110 MWh ~3.1 MWh/day → ~600 kW solar (~2.5 acres) → ~2.5 MWh battery Diesel farming is energy waste disguised as power. Electric flips it: ~3× less energy → lower costs → local control → no fuel dependence. reneweconomy.com.au/an-electric-fa…
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JBlake
JBlake@JBlakeinTX·
@ret_ward Because, unlike renewables, it’s dispatchable. Duh
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Bob Ward
Bob Ward@ret_ward·
Why on Earth would anybody want to increase our dependence on natural gas for power generation?
National Energy System Operator@neso_energy

Yesterday #wind produced 49.0% of GB electricity, more than nuclear 18.4%, gas 11.5%, imports 11.5%, solar 5.8%, biomass 3.7%, hydro 0.0%, *excl. non-renewable distributed generation

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JBlake
JBlake@JBlakeinTX·
@LeaderJohnThune You know, you have an opportunity to serve your country in an important way too
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Leader John Thune
Leader John Thune@LeaderJohnThune·
I want to express my deep gratitude for all of the brave servicemembers involved in rescuing two F-15E crew members in Iran. These operations are incredibly difficult, and the safe return of both crew members is a powerful testament to their training and the expertise of all the U.S. military units involved in this search and recovery. Grateful today and every day for our heroic men and women in uniform.
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Eric Trump
Eric Trump@EricTrump·
🚨 FIRST LOOK: The Donald J. Trump Presidential Library is officially here. Over the past six months, I have poured my heart and soul into this project with my incredible team at @Trump. This landmark on the water in Miami, Florida will stand as a lasting testament to an amazing man, an amazing developer, and the greatest President our Nation has ever known. 🇺🇸 These images have never been seen by the public — until today. Enjoy! trumplibrary.org
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CommunityOrganizer1
CommunityOrganizer1@CommunityOrgnzr·
"storage round-trip losses", from the gas guy. I admire the pluck. Round trip losses in and out of a battery are an order of magnitude less than pulling a MWh of electricity out of natural gas via even the best gas turbines. Curtailment losses are meaningless in real time, effectively idle equipment. And better, curtailed solar is basically zero charge cost for batteries as more batteries get installed. Also, curtailment is generally in the situation that so much clean energy is being generated at that moment, we don't need anymore. We have a giant complex grid with a huge, enduring natural gas backbone that will get added to, especially in big BTM applications like data centers. Yet, most of what's getting added to the grid overall is solar and batteries and those energy project developers run the math constantly. We're in a demand situation where we'll be adding as much of all this equipment, clean and gas, as we can build. Fun times to be in the equipment bilusiness.
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Richard Meyer
Richard Meyer@RichardMeyerDC·
The core analytical error in the "primary energy fallacy" argument, that renewables plus electrification will dramatically cut total energy needs, is that it treats energy as interchangeable. A TWh of gas isn't just energy. It's dispatchable, energy-dense, and seasonally storable. A TWh of solar is none of those things without substantial infrastructure to make it so. The leap from "EV motors are more efficient than combustion engines" to "the transition is easier than you think" skips over the hardest parts of the problem. Electrification can eliminate some conversion losses while introducing new ones, like curtailment, storage round-trip losses, overbuild, and grid expansion. If we look at how much infrastructure is needed to support an electric heat pump with renewables in the dead of winter, we'll see that gas delivers far more value than a Sankey diagram shows.
Rico Grimm@gri_mm

Die Energiewende wird leichter, als viele denken. Das liegt an einem weitverbreiteten Missverständnis, das Skeptiker ausnutzen, um Angst zu schüren. Denn: Nein, wir müssen das fossile System nicht 1:1 ersetzen. Wir brauchen nicht alle Primärenergie von heute. „Primärenergie“ ist die Energie, die den natürlichen Quellen entnommen wird. Ein Liter Heizöl enthält 10 Kilowattstunden (kWh), ein Kilogramm Steinkohle 8 kWh usw. Zurzeit verbraucht die Menschheit global 180.000 TWh Primärenergie. Erneuerbare stellen davon deutlich weniger als zehn Prozent. Um die fünf Prozent. Das ist ein Fakt, aber komplett irreführend. Denn Primärenergie ist ein bedeutungsloses Konzept in einer elektrifizierten Welt. Es sagt uns, wie viel Energie in Energiequellen steckt, bevor wir sie umwandeln. Aber nicht diese Energie ist für uns wichtig, sondern die erzeugte Energie. Wir müssen alle Energiequellen umwandeln, damit sie nützlich werden. Schließlich kippt niemand ein Fass Öl (159 Liter) in seinem Wohnzimmer aus und erwartet, dass es wärmer wird. Und bei der Umwandlung sind elektrische Systeme deutlich effizienter als fossile. Jede kWh Energie, die wir in ein elektrisches System stecken, kommt mit höherer Wahrscheinlichkeit dort an, wo wir es verbrauchen wollen: am Rad, im Ofen, in der Wärmepumpe. Der Motor eines E-Autos ist 2-4 mal effizienter als ein Verbrenner, weil er weniger Abwärme erzeugt. Eine Wärmepumpe kann aus 1 kWh Strom bis zu 4 kWh Wärme erzeugen, da sie mit der Umgebungstemperatur arbeitet. Ein Gasboiler wiederum verheizt das Gas und das war’s. Verbrenner-Autos sind eigentlich Heizungen auf Rädern. (AKWs sind gigantische Wasserkocher.) Wer also mit Grafiken vom Primärenergiebedarf herumwedelt und die Energiewende damit kritisieren will, sitzt einem Trugschluss auf. Es ist, als hätten sich die Leute in den 1920ern vor die ersten Autos gestellt und gefragt: „Und? Wie viel Hafer frisst das Ding jeden Tag?“ In Deutschland schmeißen wir wegen der Umwandlungsverluste jedes Jahr mehr als 30 Prozent unserer Primärenergie weg. Weltweit waren es vor der großen Elektrifizierung mehr als 50 Prozent. Mal eine Frage: Gehst du in den Supermarkt, öffnest die Packung mit zehn Eiern, siehst darin drei kaputte Eier und zahlst zufrieden? Du bist ja nicht blöd. Wir als Gesellschaft sind es schon. Wir haben 30 Prozent Verschwendung in unserem System eingebaut und hielten das so lange für normal, wie es keine Alternative gab. Aber jetzt gibt es eine. Wer mit Primärenergie-Charts herumwedelt oder Technologieoffenheit in Deutschland fordert, sagt eigentlich: „Lasst uns weiter verschwenden!“

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Climate Dad
Climate Dad@ClimateDad77·
The piece of shit US president says environmentalists are terrorists. The US is the greatest threat to our children’s futures. Washington needs urgent regime change & the world needs radical system change if we want our kids to survive what’s heading their way.
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Mark Meadows
Mark Meadows@MarkMeadows·
So Senators have no issue with a vote in the middle of the night on a bill that no one has read. But “for the sake of institution” they want to keep the zombie filibuster. News flash. The senate is broken and it is past time to get rid of the 60 vote cloture threshold.
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JBlake
JBlake@JBlakeinTX·
@METhompson72 Politicians and lawyers negotiate net zero targets and timelines without consulting feasibility with the engineers who actually know how things work
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Mark Thompson
Mark Thompson@METhompson72·
If you were to create list of people in the UK who really understand metal supply and demand, have built mines, know commodity economics, large scale industrial investment, project feasibility, permitting, development and finance: then it would not be a long list, but my name would be on it. For all of the people who know that electricity is the future and that hydrocarbons are dying, that we don't need diesel, or gas, or liquid fuels: Tell me where the copper is coming from. Now do silver, tin, lithium and batteries. For those of you say the future is nuclear, tell me where the uranium is coming from. Tell me what price these would be at, and when it could be delivered. Tell me how you are going to build grid resilience and more importantly grid inertia from renewables. Tell me what your plan is for windless, cloudy days in the middle of winter. Tell me what you will do to decommission and replace wind and solar every 10 to 20 years - and where you will dump all those unrecylcable turbine blades. For every GW of renewables we have to build a GW of conventional back-up, or rely on the kindness of foreigners. There is no magic metal shop. There is no new physics that makes a 100% renewables grid work. The greatest threat to humanity is not global warming, it is energy poverty.
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Brad Smith
Brad Smith@CommishSmith·
I'm not going to dis AOC's B.A., but do you really think earning a bachelor's degree is a more impressive achievement than taking a small family business w/ 6 employees and turning it into a company with over 300 employees and $20 million in annual sales? If so, you're an idiot.
Arlen Parsa@arlenparsa

AOC graduated with honors from Boston University with double degrees in Economics and International Relations. Markwayne was the only Senator without even a bachelor’s degree. Hope that helps.

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JBlake
JBlake@JBlakeinTX·
@ezralevant Virtue signaling = Liberals’ overriding priority
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JBlake@JBlakeinTX·
@ChrisCillizza I’m old enough to remember when the Dems were the party of blue collar workers
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JBlake
JBlake@JBlakeinTX·
@ProfBillMcGuire And so far, the “solution” has only made energy less reliable and more expensive. But hey, we’re being virtuous, right? Right? That’s the main thing
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JBlake
JBlake@JBlakeinTX·
@ProfBillMcGuire Pure insanity is spending $ trillions on a “solution” and having absolutely no idea whether it will make a quantifiable difference
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Bill McGuire
Bill McGuire@ProfBillMcGuire·
The 1.5C dangerous climate breakdown limit is about to be shattered, as will the 2C threshold as soon as the late 2030s or even earlier Yet idiots like this want us to increase the amount of carbon we are adding to the atmosphere Pure insanity theguardian.com/environment/20…
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JBlake
JBlake@JBlakeinTX·
@JordanEVGuy Installing 100 MW of solar and averaging 20 MW of production is hilarious
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Jordan - The EV Guy
Jordan - The EV Guy@JordanEVGuy·
Overpaying for a full tank of petrol, and then only 20-30% of it moves the wheels, is hilarious. Not enough people are mad about this, and too many defend it with their lives…for FREE!
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JBlake@JBlakeinTX·
@SamaHoole She probably works as a “harm reduction” counselor
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Sama Hoole
Sama Hoole@SamaHoole·
Chloe woke up at 6:45am and immediately felt proud of herself. She had, after all, not eaten a single animal product in four years. The planet was healing. She could feel it. 6:52am - Applied her morning SPF. The SPF contains beeswax. Chloe does not know this. Moving on. 7:10am - Breakfast: a smoothie containing avocado. The avocado was grown in Michoacán, Mexico, on land where a pine forest was until 2019. It required approximately 320 litres of water to produce. It was flown to the UK. Chloe sprinkled hemp seeds on top. The hemp seeds came from China. Chloe felt connected to the earth. 8:00am - Got dressed. Polyester leggings, derived from crude oil. A bamboo top that was processed using carbon disulphide in a Taiwanese chemical plant. Trainers with a recycled plastic upper that sheds microplastics into waterways with every wash. Chloe's outfit today had a higher carbon footprint than a ribeye steak. Chloe does not know this either. 9:30am - Posted on Instagram about choosing compassion. The phone was manufactured in a Shenzhen factory using cobalt from the DRC, where mining operations have displaced local communities and killed an unknowable number of small mammals, reptiles, and insects. The algorithm served Chloe an ad for oat milk. Chloe liked it. 12:00pm - Lunch: tofu stir-fry. The soy was grown in Brazil. Brazil produces more soy than almost any country on earth. The primary reason is soybean oil: one of the most widely used industrial and culinary oils on the planet. The soymeal left over after oil extraction is fed to livestock as a byproduct. Chloe is aware of the livestock connection and finds it outrageous. She has not looked into why the soy was grown in the first place. The answer is the oil. The oil is in her salad dressing. 1:30pm - Drove to the garden centre. The car runs on petrol. Chloe has a Just Stop Oil sticker on the bumper. This is not being commented on further. 3:00pm - Bought a monstera. The monstera was grown in a Dutch greenhouse using natural gas heating. Chloe put it next to the pothos that is slowly poisoning the neighbourhood cats. 6:00pm - Dinner: pasta with cashew cream sauce. The cashews were processed in Vietnam, often by workers in conditions that would prompt significant commentary if they were in an abattoir. 8:00pm - Watched a documentary about factory farming. Wept. Posted about it. Caption: "We have to do better." Chloe is, by every measure she has chosen to measure by, doing brilliantly. By some of the others, the picture is more complicated. Chloe has not chosen to measure by those.
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Jordan - The EV Guy
Jordan - The EV Guy@JordanEVGuy·
2.3 MILLION barrels of oil…GONE! Every. Single. Day. Let that sink in for a second. In 2025 alone, electric vehicles are expected to displace 2.3 million barrels of oil per day globally. It’s no wonder the fossil propaganda machine is running 24/7. This isn’t a “future prediction”, this happened in 2025, and is expected to grow. At $100 a barrel, that’s roughly $84 BILLION staying out of the fossil fuel system. And by 2030? That number could more than double. But here’s the part people don’t talk about enough… Every barrel of oil NOT burned means… • Less emissions. • Less reliance on unstable oil markets. • More money staying in people’s pockets. • More energy independence. This is why EVs matter. It’s not just about “cars”. It’s about reshaping the entire energy system. And it’s already well underway. People still say “EVs are a fad” and “EVs won’t make a difference”. Meanwhile… They’re quietly removing millions of barrels of oil demand every single day
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Jordan - The EV Guy
Jordan - The EV Guy@JordanEVGuy·
This has happened before. There’s a reason the EV transition feels familiar. Because we’ve seen this exact story play out before. 📸 Photography Back in the day, Kodak dominated the entire industry. They didn’t just lead it, they owned it. And here’s the crazy part… They actually invented the first digital camera in 1975. They saw the future coming. They had the patents. They had the technology. They had the head start. And what did they do? They hesitated. They believed digital wouldn’t replace film. They protected their existing business. They underestimated how quickly things would change. We all know how that ended. Film didn’t slowly decline. It collapsed. Now look at the car industry For years, the narrative has been: “EVs won’t take over.” “The infrastructure isn’t ready.” “They’re not practical.” “They’ll never replace petrol and diesel.” Sound familiar? Because it’s the exact same arguments used against digital photography. But here’s what matters This isn’t about opinions. It’s about behaviour. 👉 Over 90% of EV drivers stick with electric once they switch. 👉 Satisfaction rates are among the highest in the automotive world. 👉 Running costs are lower. 👉 Ownership is simpler for most. The shift isn’t being forced. It’s being chosen. Kodak didn’t fail because the technology didn’t exist. They failed because they didn’t believe it would win. The same mistake is being made again right now. It isn’t a question of if… It’s a question of when. And just like film cameras… One day people will look back and wonder why there was ever a debate at all.
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Grok
Grok@grok·
The typical annual capacity factor for solar PV in the UK is around 9.5–10.5%, based on official DESNZ/Ofgem data and analyses from 2023–2025. For example: - 2024: 9.5% (Statista/DESNZ) - 2023/24 median (FiT scheme): 9.4% - Historical range (2013–2022): 9.8–11.4% It varies with weather—higher in sunny years, lower in cloudy ones—and is much lower in winter (~4–6%).
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Kevin Holland
Kevin Holland@TheSolarShed·
Burning fossil fuels for heat and motion is literally Stone Age chemistry. Set fire to stuff & lose most of the energy as waste. We now have tech that’s 3–5x more efficient, cleaner & cheaper to run. Clinging to combustion in 2026 isn’t practical, it’s outdated. #JurassicFuel
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