The latest in a series of battery discharge records occurred on California ISO grid last night.

Battery discharge hit an all time high - 6.5 GW - at 8:40 PM. Note that gas usage at this time was under 2GW.

A separate record was set as discharge reached 28% of load.

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Purple brain, purple brain 🎶 👑🦦

Is that really a purple #seaotter skull 💀💜🤯?! Why, yes it is.

This phenomenon is known as echinochrome staining. It occurs when sea otters consume copious amounts of echinochrome-containing prey items like #seaurchins .

📸: Peter Monteforte & Morro Bay State Parks #funfact

Weather report, pretty nice. #CAwx

Coming home.

Clouds rest on the Sierra.

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This is an interesting human behavior question. If you knew you could extend your electric vehicles range by 30% by driving 20% slower. And save all the associated greenhouse gas emissions. Would you?

Jobs Peak, Sierra Nevada, called Wangikudak by the Northern Paiute.

Grateful for the invitation and hospitality from the University of Nevada at Reno’s Geography Department for this week’s colloquia. Fun fact, the stately elms here were brought in from Virginia and of the few in North America that do not have Dutch Elm disease.

This is the photo you have to take when you visit Redwood Materials from now on. Crouching above the battery stockpile.

Noticed a slow tire leak before heading over the Sierra crest this week, so last minute booked a rental, and the “managers special” was $2 cheaper than economy.. so why not? They rolled out a giant electric truck.⚡️🛻

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Sierra snow pack pretty decent for late April.

Caples Creek and Silver Fork of the American River, big canyon. #CAwx ☃️

Clouds rest on the Sierra.

“Extractivism is the modality through which capitalism is lived in the periphery.”

I’m featured in the new issue of Granta in a wide ranging interview, with sharp questions from Thomas Meaney on the past, present, and possible futures of extraction. granta.com/the-extracted-…