Dale Sopocy

Creative Solution Seeker / ex-Tech & Energy Exec / Consultant / Democracy & Climate Advocate / NU ChE / Musician / Foodie / Mensan / NU & Chicago Sports Fan

[Dale Sopocy @dsopocy]

Decades of flooding the zone with misinformation evidently isn’t enough for the fossil fuel industry, now they’re attacking our system of checks and balances by influencing judges via “educational” seminars. https://t.co/sMhOG9mf9F

[Michael McFaul @McFaul]

Trump’s comments last night about “Obama’s Iran deal” were simply wrong. It wasn’t perfect, but it capped uranium enrichment at 3.67%. Since Trump scrapped it, Iran has enriched to 60%—much closer to weapons-grade. And that stockpile still hasn’t been eliminated.

[Jerome Foster II @JeromeFosterII]

Since the end of the last ice age 10,000 years ago, the world has lost one-third of its forests. Two billion hectares of forest land, an area twice the size of the United States, has been cleared.

We cannot lose another acre.

[Sawyer Merritt @SawyerMerritt]

BREAKING: The U.S. Government has officially announced that @Tesla and LG ​Energy have signed an agreement to ‌build a $4.3 billion lithium iron phosphate (LFP) prismatic battery cell manufacturing factory in Lansing, Michigan, with a 2027 start of production.

"American-made cells will power Tesla's Megapack 3 energy storage systems produced in Houston, creating a robust domestic battery supply chain," the U.S. Department of the Interior said in a statement.

Here's everything you need to know about Tesla's new Megablock, the latest in the company's industrial storage product lineup, which includes the new Megapack version 3:

Megablock:
• 23% faster to install with up to 40% lower construction costs
• Plug and play platform (hardware, software and services) delivered as one all from Tesla. It's a pre-engineered medium-voltage block that integrates next-gen Megapack 3
• Eliminated above ground cabling between the transformer and the megapacks using new flexible busbar assembly
• 91% MV round trip efficiency
• 20 MWh of usable AC energy
• Operates in temps of -40°C (-40°F) to 60°C (140°F)
• 248 MWh per acre
• 25-year life & >10,000 cycles
• With Megablock, Tesla is targeting to commission 1GWh in 20 business days, equivalent to bringing power to 400,000 homes in less than month

Megapack 3:
• Will be manufactured in Tesla's upcoming Houston Megafactory starting in late 2026. 50 GWh annual manufacturing capacity when fully ramped.
• 5 MWh of usable AC energy
• Weight: 86,000 lbs
• 28 foot long enclosure that can be shipped globally
• Optimized for up to 8-hour applications
• New drastically simplified thermal bay. Uses Model Y heat pump, but on steroids. 78% fewer connections, which minimizes failure points
• Larger battery module and larger battery cell
• 2.8 liter battery cell, co-engineered with Tesla's cell team
• LFP battery
• Operates in -40°C to 60°
• Went from 24 cable connections in Megapack version 2XL, down to 3 simple busbar connections
• 75% of the mass of Megapack 3 is battery cells.
• A single module in it weighs as much as a Cybertruck
• Tesla has enabled easier front access service, so there are no roof penetrations
• Drastically simplified bussing system

[Ben See @ClimateBen]

Scientists project global warming of 1.51 to 1.83°C for the years 2024-29 implying tropical forests and tropical corals are now in a fatal collapse phase. Media? Silent.

[Rupa Subramanya @rupasubramanya]

Remarkable speech from @MarkJCarney, urging allies to stop playing along with great-power intimidation. Compliance won’t buy safety, he warns. Stop appeasing bullies. Carney draws applause.

Citing Václav Havel, he says it’s "time for companies and countries to take their signs down." Under communism, ordinary people displayed slogans like "Workers of the world, unite!" even when they didn’t believe them, rituals of compliance meant to avoid trouble. Coercion, Havel argued, wasn’t always enforced through violence, but through quiet, everyday participation in a lie.

Carney receives a standing ovation at the end of his speech.

Extraordinary to see Canada asserting this kind of moral and strategic leadership, something we haven’t witnessed on the world stage in decades, especially at a moment when we have so much to lose if Trump chooses retaliation.

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

🚨HOLY SHIT: China just bitch-slapped Trump over his rant that that he needs Greenland due to Chinese threats:

“We urge the United States to stop using the so-called threat from China as a pretext to pursue its own selfish interests.”
Humiliating.

[Julian Hinz @julianhinz]

A lot has been said about the Greenland tariffs in the past couple of days. We've been looking at the broader picture: who actually pays the tariffs?

We analyzed 25 million shipments worth nearly $4 trillion.

The answer: Americans pay 96%. Foreign exporters absorb just 4%.

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[Tom Nichols @RadioFreeTom]

An astonishing and permanent stain on America’s honor that our allies had to even compose this letter

[Dale Sopocy @dsopocy]

Exactly!

[Zeke Hausfather @hausfath]

It’s almost like something dramatically changed after the Industrial Revolution! (figure via Ed Hawkins)

[Zeke Hausfather @hausfath]

It’s almost like something dramatically changed after the Industrial Revolution! (figure via Ed Hawkins)

[𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖_𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @SundaeDivine]

RFK Jr's first job was selling cocaine at Harvard.

[Peter D Carter @PCarterClimate]

ABRUPT, TIPPING POINTS, CASCADING IMPACTS ON THE EARTH SYSTEM
One of the few papers to address all (most) of the industrial massive impacts on the biosphere as a whole. Headed for biosphere collapse, but ignored.
file:///Users/admin/Downloads/Brovkinetal_2021.pdf
#climatechange #tippingpoint #globalwarming

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Maybe Tesla should make this

[Jeff Berardelli @WeatherProf]

A big talking point of climate change skeptics is “…but the 1930s were hot!”
It’s true. They are right. 1930s summers were super hot in the US!
But zoom out, and most of the globe was not.
Top image: 1930s global temp anomalies, compared to…
Bottom image: the last 10 years with warm orange colors everywhere.
While the 1930s were indeed a relatively warm decade, they are no comparison to recent times, as the pace of human driven climate heating has far surpassed the pace of natural cycles - actually it’s about 10X faster than natural due to greenhouse heating from fossil fuel burning, land use changes, and variations in air pollution, plus climate feedbacks.
A note about the 1930s in the US. It was the Dust Bowl… a phenomenon caused by the intersection of a natural dry cycle in the US Plains and also horrible farming practices with the mass plowing of native Prairie grass. This resulted in incredibly hot summers in which many US heat records still stand today. Contrary to denial talking points, the 1930s in the US are further proof that us humans, even in the small numbers of the 1930s Plains, can have a profound impact on the climate.

[Alex Cole @acnewsitics]

In the UK they are getting ready for Trump's visit by putting up pictures of him with Epstein everywhere.

I salute the Brits for their commitment to trolling Trump

[Four Seasons Total Landscaping @TotalSeasons]

That’s so tacky we wouldn’t even hold this in our lot. And think about what we’ve had before.

[Jeff Berardelli @WeatherProf]

Today's Berardelli Bonus... Earth's CO2 hit a new milestone in May - 430 parts per million. Our best science tells us it's the highest in 14 million yrs & the rate of growth is ~100X natural. For the past 10K years CO2 was steady at 280ppm, but our Goldilocks climate is now done

[Carbon Brief @CarbonBrief]

Factcheck: 21 misleading myths about electric vehicles | @DrSimEvans #CBarchive

Read here: https://t.co/GXU4nn2mzr