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RE: https://climatejustice.social/@XRCoastToCoast/116110729234552597
He's right.
I especially like how:
- He's not selling anything
- He's not putting #solar panels on his roof
- He lives in #Michigan and heats his house with #NaturalGas
- His 2010 #Nissan #Cube has a stick
- He makes apples to apples comparisons.
"You are being misled about #renewable #energy #technology." This #video is good to #share. It's even better for a #watchparty.
"If you're not sure why people are excited (and also angry) about #renewableEnergy, this video will hopefully explain."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zgxb8I1nk2I
He cites his sources.
"For all the talk of Russia’s “weaponisation” of gas supplies, history tells a different story. For decades, first the Soviet Union and later Russia continued supplying energy to Germany and the rest of Europe through multiple geopolitical crises, including during the height of the Cold War. More recently, even after the delivery of German weapons to Ukraine, and then the attack on Nord Stream, Moscow repeatedly stated that it was up to Berlin whether to resume gas supplies or not.
The United States, by contrast, has a long and well-documented history of weaponising energy — using it as leverage to extract economic and geopolitical concessions. And under Donald Trump, this has become explicit policy. The US National Security Strategy, published in November 2025, designates “American energy dominance” across oil, gas, coal and nuclear power as a top strategic priority, explicitly framing the expansion of American energy exports as a means to “project power”. This is not mere rhetoric. The Trump administration has repeatedly demonstrated its willingness to intervene aggressively in domestic and global markets, upend established policies and exert pressure not only on adversaries but also on long-standing allies.
By the time Trump returned to office, Europe’s dependence on US energy was already a fait accompli, following the EU’s decision to cut itself off from Russian gas and the sabotage of Nord Stream. Since then, Trump has only actively sought to deepen that dependence. In April 2025, for instance, his administration used the so-called “Liberation Day” tariffs to pressure Germany and other EU states to refrain from importing any Russian energy."
"Natural gas prices soared Tuesday, as heating demand is expected to spike due to a blast of frigid weather across the U.S.
Prices surged about 26%, or 80 cents, to $3.91 per million British thermal units. Natural gas is used primarily for heating and electricity generation."
~ Spencer Kimball
#Trump #economy #affordability #NaturalGas #EconomicElites
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https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/20/natural-gas-prices-soar-as-cold-snap-blasts-across-the-us-.html
There were a lot of interesting talks, and the program is worth a skim. I was in panel 6. I identified a hypothetical risk that the recent rush to deploy generative AI, with its associated pressure on the electric power and water distribution systems, brings with it. Roughly, with the rise of so-called "industry 4.0" (think smart toaster, but for factories), our critical infrastructure systems are becoming tightly woven together. Besides the increasing dependence on the electric grid there is a growing dependence across sectors on data centers and the internet driven to a large degree by generative AI. What this means riskwise is that faults and failures in one of these systems can "percolate" much more quickly to other infrastructure systems--essentially there are more paths a failure can follow. What in the past might have been a localized failure of one or a few components in one system can become a region-wide multi-sector cascading failure. So for instance a local power failure at a substation might take down a data center that runs the SCADA system used to control a compressor station in the natural gas distribution system, which then might go sideways or fail and cause a natural gas shortage at a natural gas fueled power generator, and so on and so on. Obviously it was always possible for faults and failures in one system to cause faults and failures in another. What's new is that the growing set of new pathways increases the probability that such a jump occurs. What I called out in the talk is that as this interweaving trend continues, we will eventually cross a percolation threshold, after which the faults in these infrastructure systems will take on a different (and in my view much more dangerous) character.
#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #PowerSector #NaturalGas #electricity #risk
Nevertheless, I think there needs to be a space to talk about systemic risk, because it's quite real and has predictable consequences. Folks like to call the latter "black swan events", but if you've chosen not to be aware of a set of issues and then one comes to pass, was it really unpredictable?
Anyway, I'm grateful to Mar Hicks (@histoftech@mastodon.social
mastodon.social) for co-organizing this event and making space for these kinds of conversations. The attendees and other speakers were very thoughtful and engaged and it was a great experience.
#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #PowerSector #NaturalGas #electricity #risk