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Engineer. Energy storage thinker. Old. Blog at

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The citizens are enraged, and in the next election the Mayor is voted out, and they vote in the greedy person as the new Mayor.

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How we work on the climate crisis in the age of global capitalism:

Suppose you identify something that can be done that will help everyone in your neighborhood. It will cost a dollar.

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To cover the cost of doing the Good Thing in many neighborhoods (by paying for a marketing campaign to get people to buy more Good Thing-branded snack products), the Mayor proposes a small tax increase.

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Twitter rewards people who support their audience's priors with strongly stated statements lacking nuance, but expressing certainty.

Decisiveness and divisiveness wins clicks.

That can be helpful for getting problems on the agenda, but may be less helpful for solving problems.

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@cole_baty @michaelianblack They're a New Orleans band made up of members of the Dirty Dozen Brass Band after they broke up.

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@drvolts Another great article, David, and thanks for highlighting those opportunities. BUT, next, I want you to write a big think piece about how misunderstanding Moore's Law has deluded us all into believing that everything can keep getting exponentially better, forever. You can do it.

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I was about to start that DEM code to compute cubic meters of earth to be moved to excavate a given reservoir, when I remembered all the smart people I follow who might have tweeted something urgently important in the last hour. Priorities corrected! Thanks, Twitter!

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@KetanJ0 Excellent article, similar dynamic applies to hydro projects in USA. Once the distrust bit has been flipped, memories are long.

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@EarthAccounting engery -> energy

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@PaulDJohnston @martindaniel4 @jjacobs22 Yes to all of the above. One person can prototype an app, but not a grid energy storage system. And no market for preventing emissions, society places negative $ value on that (aka fossil subsidies). And don't know who to pitch to.

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@WillWorth @Privatecarfree Never mind then.

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@WillWorth @Privatecarfree Exactly. This is the link between boardroom behavior and individually envying your neighbor's car. They're driven by the same need to feel like a winner in one's tribe, which is very powerful.

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@CD_Newton @AnthonyOxon I don't see it as either/or, I use PyCharm with Conda daily. PyCharm is a great IDE and Conda is the easy way to get all the Numpy/Pandas/etc stuff installed in one go.

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@AnthonyOxon A friendly editor is important when starting out. I suggest installing PyCharm (free). You'll never outgrow it.