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28 Nov, 5 tweets, 2 min read
Oman produces 1M barrels of oil a day. Now it's setting out on a full-bore transition to a hydrogen economy -- hopes to produce 10GW of green hydrogen a year by 2030, 30GW a year by 2040. zawya.com/mena/en/story/…
Interesting note on that story: "as a country, we are anticipating shortfalls in our gas supply (which necessitates an early transition to alternatives)."

I suspect all the agita around natural gas supply/prices recently is going to turbo-charge hydrogen plans.
Green hydrogen will used to make eMethanol, which can be used to power freight ships. That's starting to happen too: liquidwind.se/news/liquidwin…
Even cooler: green hydrogen will be used to decarbonize the operations of a Scottish whiskey distillery. Can't wait to drink some carbon-free whiskey! finance.yahoo.com/news/jericho-e…
Green hydrogen will also be used to melt steel for processing. nelhydrogen.com/press-release/…

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29 Nov
One of the most pernicious aspects of political commentary is how much it relies on polls & surveys that give people a list of options & ask which they care about or believe. It gives the impression that the mass of voters are out there knowing things & worrying over "issues."
In fact, anyone who looks into it closely finds basically the same thing: voters don't know anything. They have all kinds of wacky & weird beliefs. They don't necessarily care about -- can't even necessarily identify -- "issues" as political types think about them.
So, so, so much of political commentary is DC/NYC political obsessives retconning voter behavior to render it a rational, or at least legible, response to actual facts & circumstances. It's like a fun pattern-finding game they all play together.
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25 Nov
OK, last night I watched the latest Bond movie. It was pretty good -- the best one in a while, IMO, with real emotional stakes -- but there was one choice in it that utterly baffled me. Maybe I missed something? Short thread.
When the movie begins, Bond is retired. He gets pulled back in (of course) & in the process meets ... the new 007! She's a young black woman, a total badass, & the highlight of the movie. Lots of zingy banter between her & Bond. Great stuff.
At that point I was thinking, "ah, sweet, they've elegantly solved the problem of who's going to take over for Daniel Craig. It works perfectly in the movie & she's a great choice." (I have not followed Bond discourse at all, obv.)
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23 Nov
Fascinating study. Rather than starting with a temperature target & modeling backward to determine what's needed, this study used multiple IAMs (models) to simply project ahead based on near-term policy & 2 assumptions about how it will evolve.
nature.com/articles/s4155…
Key: "Despite finding a wide range of emissions by 2050, nearly all the scenarios have median warming of less than 3 °C in 2100. However, the most optimistic scenario is still insufficient to limit global warming to 2 °C."
Seems the likeliest climate outcome is that we don't get enough warming to produce the apocalyptic scenarios activists like to conjure ... but also have millions more deaths, billions more in damages, & heaps more human suffering than was necessary.
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23 Nov
In Virginia, Democrats suffered based on an image of progressives ginned up in right-wing media, which they did very little to counter. And they rejected the help of actual progressives. All indications are, they plan to double down on both mistakes.
nytimes.com/2021/11/21/us/… Image
All my life, the same dynamic: the right conjures up a bogeyman left; Dems try to counter it by shitting on the real left. Weirdly, it doesn't work. There was a brief break in this cycle around the election, but it's back with a vengeance.
If I were Dems I would simply build the kind of media & communications apparatus that can bypass the MSM filter & tell positive (& accurate) stories about Dem accomplishments & goals directly to voters, from voices they actually trust & through formats they actually consume.
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21 Nov
If you hire a bunch of people whose jobs & status depend on hyping & demonizing "wokeism," they will never run short of material. It's a giant, diverse country we live in -- you can tell *any* story with anecdotes if you invest enough energy.
Similarly, if every newspaper & cable channel hired reporters whose job was to find & elevate examples of routine racism denying certain people job opportunities or places to live or positions in prestigious professions, they too would have no shortage of material.
People in media hate admitting it, but they are not simply mirrors, documenting events. They make choices; they decide what's worth our attention, what *matters*.

They have decided that "wokeism" matters more than the still-ubiquitous baseline racism & sexism in the US.
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20 Nov
Doom. washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/…
Utter, absolute, multi-dimensional doom. nytimes.com/2021/11/17/opi…
That piece by @Edsall is great, but it's remarkable that, in thousands of words, neither he nor any of his contributors so much as *mention* the giant RW propaganda machine & the Dem lack of same. Like fish in water -- it's become so familiar we don't even note it.
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