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Emily Grubert@gruberte.bsky.social |
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civil engineer / environmental sociologist. energy, water, climate, buildings, justice. fossil phaseout / universal programs. she / her. bunnies.
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Kevin Elliott
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It's such a wild coincidence that the court legalized bribing public officials a few days ago and today says that every activity the US government regulates now goes through them
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NPR
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BREAKING NEWS: The Supreme Court just undid decades of regulatory law, making it far more difficult for federal agencies to issue rules and regulations that carry out broad mandates enacted by Congress.
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Emily Grubert
@gruberte.bsky.social
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“agencies have no special competence in resolving statutory ambiguities. Courts do” MF good luck with resolving issues where lawmakers who don’t entirely understand a technical issue define the same term 3 different ways in the law Bleck. Not a surprise but doing things is now ++ irritating
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emily thai
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basically if you believe AI/crypto should be regulated/banned for energy use reasons... stop being a coward. just go all the way and nationalize the grid
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Emily Grubert
@gruberte.bsky.social
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Just submitted my 100th peer review report for ERL (working on my numbers for ERIS and EREN :) ). Peer review is labor, and I'm glad to give mine to a nonprofit society publisher that invests in its own people and in the community!
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Emily Grubert
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The guy doing my town's Monday night park concert was billed as "the Elvis experience" and I am genuinely thrilled to announce that this means he is covering other bands AS ELVIS. If you didn't know you needed an Elvis cover of "Bridge Over Troubled Waters," now you do. (Thank you, thankyouvermuch)
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Emily Grubert
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Ugh this was us a few days ago…honestly thrilled the humidity broke a little. Stay safe!!
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isaac
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What do you think of an energy system that has resulted in 49 million households unable to pay their energy bills? It feels like 103ºF today in Pennsylvania and 27% of Pennsylvanians couldn't pay their energy bill, before the heat wave.
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Emily Grubert
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Constantine is fully hiding under a bedside table 😭 they’re doing ok tho — they have the window heat pump so it’s low 80s for them
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Emily Grubert
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Still hot AMA
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Emily Grubert
@gruberte.bsky.social
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Lolol my robot vacuum texts to “empty the wastewater in time” and it’s so hilariously ominous
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Emily Grubert
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So excited to have you!!
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Josh Lappen
@jlappen1.bsky.social
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I've got the new email address, so it's official: I'm joining @gruberte.bsky.social at Notre Dame! I'll be bringing my historical work to bear on questions of energy-network shrinkage and just managed transitions. Feeling excited and lucky to keep learning from a climate thinker I admire so much
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Emily Grubert
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“If we don’t do it, someone else will,” cried the only few institutions willing to consider doing the thing
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Emily Grubert
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Glad it’s in your rota! I learned a ton from that crew and I’m glad some of the most 🤨 stuff is in the lit
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Emily Grubert
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Yep, was on that project with Barbara and grateful to this day to have a strong grounding in offsets nonsense
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis
@kendrawrites.bsky.social
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It's wild how many climate solutions are reduced individual consumption through collective consumption.
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isaac
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As climate work becomes harder and more all-encompassing as we aim to successfully transition *everything* all of these ideas, behaviors, and norms that were accepted as long as they were only enforced on poor people will become the du jour of all climate policy practice.
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Emily Grubert
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A little known contributor to the Director’s Cup dominance
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Emily Grubert
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The general acceptance that /of course/ the capturable methane would otherwise simply race into the atmosphere continues to astonish me
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Emily Grubert
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Can I set my out of office to “it’s 86* inside my house and still warmer outside at 10p due in part to decades of policy failure; I will resume answering emails around 75*”
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Emily Grubert
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I just found out tuna can swim so fast that they develop lesions from cavitation
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Emily Grubert
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Some days it's more obvious than others that my research agenda is basically "figure out what might happen in the future that would be most enraging and then check to see if we're actively encouraging that thing to happen"
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Emily Grubert
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UGH the unspoken implication that “EJ” is a set of vague and unwarranted concerns that people hold because they are uneducated (and maybe just not very intelligent) is such an aggressive and bigoted erasure of decades of correct daylighting of bad project decisions
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Sylvia Chi 齐思涵
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I'm real tired of this narrative about environmental justice communities being "worried". They have serious and legitimate concerns about the climate, air quality, health, safety, and water impacts of building out hydrogen energy, none of which are being addressed by decision makers.
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Emily Grubert
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Big ups to this storm for putting like 150 gallons of water into my cistern in an hour (If I were better at fitting metric to standard pipes it would probably be a lot more) (Thanks Australia for selling me special rainwater pipes even tho they don't fit the PVC I can buy here)
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Emily Grubert
@gruberte.bsky.social
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This, from @amywestervelt.bsky.social, is so spot on:
drilled.ghost.io/why-do-ameri...
A particular way I think this manifests is "our" (American, white, elite, etc.) entitlement to having other people join if "we" bothered to invite "them." Whose table should everyone have a seat at?
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isaac
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In other news, the Department of Energy is now using the phrase "energy democracy" to describe community meetings about carbon capture and sequestration infrastructure buildout in the Gulf South so energy democracy's new definition is "whatever fossil fuel companies want".
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Emily Grubert
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By far my most strenuous argument against the (on its face reasonable!) suggestion that CDR is pollution control and so we should let it be pollution control is that *CDR is a very limited resource*. It's kind of like if we only had enough catalytic converters for 10% of cars. Useful but not enough.
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Emily Grubert
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I have still not solved the significant figure issue, fair warning 😂
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Emily Grubert
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Oh by the way, the ethanol-equivalent gallon is defined statutorily as a number of btu that is not the same number of btu in a gallon of ethanol
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Emily Grubert
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I teach a pretty broad mix at this point! Lots of engineers but I'm in Global Affairs so get a decent number of people from pretty different backgrounds. We do a *lot* of practice, in and out of class -- I feel you!
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Emily Grubert
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my students: y u make us do so many unit conversions my summer: how many ethanol-equivalent gallons of methane does this wastewater treatment plant produce
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Emily Grubert
@gruberte.bsky.social
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My basic summary of climate policy at the moment is that everything says ZERO EMISSIONS in big letters and then defines “zero” as “net” (not) zero in very very small ones
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Emily Grubert
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Hahaha yessss
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Emily Grubert
@gruberte.bsky.social
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Since I’m cranky, let me yell again about how avoidance offsets 1) don’t work in a zero emissions paradigm and 2) pose an intractable justice problem by allowing the rich to appropriate “cheap” mitigation from groups that will eventually need to secure mitigation themselves
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Amy Westervelt
@amywestervelt.bsky.social
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Forget stopping a genocide, we've got an election to win for the planet is a really good encapsulation of why U.S. climate folks have failed to build a broad coalition for decades.
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Emily Grubert
@gruberte.bsky.social
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Always remember: even the best possible offsets* you can imagine are incapable of delivering (net) zero emissions *here referring to avoidance rather than removal offsetting
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Moira Birss
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The Biden Admin is out today with "principles" for voluntary carbon markets. I'm seeing misleading language in coverage on this so want to make sure we're all clear: "principles" are not the same as "guidelines" or "rules" when issued by the US federal government. Principles are mere suggestions.
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Emily Grubert
@gruberte.bsky.social
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Deeply grim how much space for future wars my town left on the new war dead memorial
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Emily Grubert
@gruberte.bsky.social
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We made it through most of the USS and cliffs YouTube channels tonight 😂
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Emily Grubert
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Watching American steel producer propaganda videos and correctly called which kind of crane they were using for a big project — so, a normal Friday night
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J. Mijin Cha
@jmijin.bsky.social
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On a personal level, it really highlighted that climate change is deliberately an exclusive movement. There's nothing inherently difficult or specialized about it. These men did not spend their days studying climate change but they all understood- and resonated- with the idea of justice. 4/
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Emily Grubert
@gruberte.bsky.social
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Truly the degree to which technologism passes for inspirational is so depressing. Hearing that we need to focus on flying cars and space solar is the only way to inspire civil engineering students is worse than the sea level rise sessions
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Emily Grubert
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I never want to hear about how we don’t have flying cars again. They’re called Cessnas.
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Emily Grubert
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in this case I mean "not immediate specialists in the same technical area" -- but we also need to be able to talk to ourselves!
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Emily Grubert
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I’m not sure how to solve the issue where technical folks are told we need to learn to communicate to the broader public (true in many cases) and we end up practicing on each other in ways that make it harder to get into the weeds in contexts where that’s ok
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Emily Grubert
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no shade to the 9 year olds! but maybe we should pay them lol
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Emily Grubert
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My ongoing lolsob is that a lot of city parks / green stormwater projects vastly underestimate how much stuff costs because it turns out they like, have the local 4th grade class do the plantings for free. Looked out my window this morning and a bunch of 9 year olds are planting our park 😂
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Emily Grubert
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2040 Energy
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