Jeff Manuel

Jeff Manuel @jeffmanuel.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 19:33 UTC

And that yellow blob in the lower Midwest is because the remnants of a hurricane are passing through

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Jeff Manuel @jeffmanuel.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 17:40 UTC

Fun, nuanced article on electric buses. But these stories about the energy transition in rural America should all come with the caveat that the Corn Belt is *already an energy landscape*. About 45% of Nebraska's corn crop is being turned into ethanol. [Gift link]
www.nytimes.com/2024/07/09/c...

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Jeff Manuel @jeffmanuel.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 16:31 UTC

For those of us interested in using history to understand the energy transition and decarbonization, it's heartening to hear that Ford's executive team has been briefed on this history as part of their EV strategy.

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Jeff Manuel @jeffmanuel.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 16:22 UTC

Historians of technology, don't miss this podcast episode. Fascinating stories about fueling gasoline-powered ICE autos from Ford's archivist. 🗃️ 💡🔌

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Jeff Manuel @jeffmanuel.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 02:50 UTC

Is there a Zillow Gone Wild, but for Mississippi River paddle boats?

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Jeff Manuel @jeffmanuel.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 17:33 UTC

Because I'm a very serious scholar who is absolutely 100% not procrastinating on real work, I've written a proposed speech Biden could give comparing himself to a cicada.
jeff-manuel.medium.com/a-proposal-f...

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Jeff Manuel @jeffmanuel.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 19:43 UTC

I think Le Pen is mightier than the sword

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Jeff Manuel @jeffmanuel.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 16:51 UTC

If any environmental historian gets an honorary day at Wrigley, it’s gonna be John McNeill.

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Jeff Manuel @jeffmanuel.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 15:09 UTC

My neighbor is going to a wedding today. It's the fourth marriage for the bride and groom, so they're calling it "fourth on the fourth." God bless America, land of the second (or 3rd or 4th) chance.

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Jeff Manuel @jeffmanuel.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 18:11 UTC

The “Canadian girlfriend” campaign

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Jeff Manuel @jeffmanuel.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 29, 2024 at 19:44 UTC

This made me think that the mainstreaming of “let’s go Brandon” was the ancestor of the zynternet vote

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Jeff Manuel @jeffmanuel.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 17:07 UTC

If you're a federal judge or clerk who needs a quick refresher on the competing ways of measuring lifecycle carbon intensity of indirect land-use change for different biofuels feedstocks, hit me up.

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Jeff Manuel @jeffmanuel.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 16:44 UTC

After a whirlwind day of stressful news, I think my best option is to spend the afternoon by the pool with a big, thick beach read on my kindle.

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Jeff Manuel @jeffmanuel.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 14:11 UTC

Scratch that…I see he wrote the review!

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Jeff Manuel @jeffmanuel.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 14:10 UTC

seems like maybe something up @evanrobertsnz.bsky.social ‘s alley

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Jeff Manuel @jeffmanuel.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 27, 2024 at 15:50 UTC

The Judds on a cassette may have been country music's peak

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Jeff Manuel @jeffmanuel.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 27, 2024 at 15:44 UTC

Midwest in 2030

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Jeff Manuel @jeffmanuel.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 27, 2024 at 14:15 UTC

Midwest is curtailing an hourly average of 800 MW of electricity from wind. Gotta fix transmission, but in the meantime let's charge some big batteries or make green ammonia! 🔌💡
www.eia.gov/todayinenerg...

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Jeff Manuel @jeffmanuel.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 26, 2024 at 17:37 UTC

These technologies have mostly been framed as “climate.” But they’re so revolutionary (energy without burning fuel!!) we should think about embracing the “new Industrial Revolution” framing. It’s accurate and gets out of the climate politics partisanship, IMO.

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Jeff Manuel @jeffmanuel.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 26, 2024 at 14:52 UTC

Thanks for the info. I saw that story about pro-pipeline politicians losing in the SD primaries and figured it was a sign that the state was turning hard against any projects. But good point that the regulatory agency might rule differently.

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Jeff Manuel @jeffmanuel.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 26, 2024 at 13:45 UTC

My sediments exactly

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Jeff Manuel @jeffmanuel.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 25, 2024 at 18:03 UTC

Thanks for covering this (not a lot of biofuels/ag reporters are on Bluesky yet!) I haven't followed every twist and turn, but isn't requiring South Dakota's approval a big hurdle? My understanding was that CO2 pipelines are a no-go in South Dakota at this point.

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Jeff Manuel @jeffmanuel.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 24, 2024 at 18:05 UTC

Few things break my teaching heart like hearing that students paid for a pdf I assigned because they got tripped up by the off campus paywall and assumed they had to pay like $25 to read an article.

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Jeff Manuel @jeffmanuel.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 22, 2024 at 21:12 UTC

Great episode. Like @jasonheppler.org , I’ve recently made the switch to Obsidian for capturing and storing notes. We need a place where historians can share interesting use cases/plugins/etc. since it’s a big ecosystem.

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Jeff Manuel @jeffmanuel.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 22, 2024 at 18:23 UTC

I’ve always thought this is the flip side of Putnam’s thesis—small-group solidarity can easily turn into the lynch mob. In the US case, you see it in things like the 2nd Klan, which was basically an evil fraternal order.

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