Zane Selvans

ZaneSelvans@social.coop

I'm a data liberation engineer at Catalyst <a href="https://social.coop/tags/Coop" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Coop</a>. We use <a href="https://social.coop/tags/Python" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Python</a> to support <a href="https://social.coop/tags/climate" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#climate</a> activists, policymakers, and researchers accelerating the <a href="https://social.coop/tags/EnergyTransition" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#EnergyTransition</a>.I grew up in rural spanglish California, explored Mars & Europa with robots, & fought for bright green cities in Colorado. Now I'm a wandering cybermonkey lost in the misty highlands of southern Mexico.I ❤️ bikes, car-free cit

Posts

Post #3877417
RE: https://mastodon.green/@gerrymcgovern/116900154465203316 Weirdly, this was also the case in Sweden even into the early 20th century. Voting power was proportional to wealth, and even corporations got to vote based on how much capital they controlled. In a few districts, one person or company controlled more than half of all the votes due to wealth concentration. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-69864-4_6
Post #3762757
Whoa this is like a billion dollar sodium ion battery in Abu Dhabi. At $40/kWh. To back up 5.2GW of PV. I remember when $100/kWh was the rallying cry (like, last year?) https://electrek.co/2026/07/10/byd-masdar-11-gwh-rtc-storage-abu-dhabi/
Post #3684423
Te first US woman to row solo, unsupported from the US mainland to Hawai'i. Beat the fastest man's time by 9 days. Nearly cut the previous women's record in half. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/05/us/rowing-record-pacific-kelsey-pfendler.html?unlocked_article_code=1.wFA.hVSD.-Wfh9S5Ljw4L&smid=url-share
Post #3462832
Thinking about moving to Portland. Watching drone footage from La Guaira, Venezuela. Thinking about the coming megathrust earthquake that will flatten the whole Pacific Northwest. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1700_Cascadia_earthquake
Post #2550297
One thing I liked about QTs is it was easy to share things with attribution. Here I find myself copy-and-pasting with no reference to original sources much more frequently.
Post #2516972
It&#39;s bizarre that the US is blocking shipments of fuel, but not solar panels. It&#39;s almost like they really don&#39;t believe PV works. https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/13/climate/cuba-solar-us-oil-blockade-trump-china
Post #2399681
Be a problem money can&#39;t solve. But. Not like this. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/04/new-orleans-sea-levels-relocation-climate-crisis
Post #2399367
Just wild how like half of the stories about oil right now don&#39;t even mention the electrification of transportation.
Post #2354348
Post #1242001
Whoadang, shit&#39;s getting real in open modeling land! Via @nworbmot #OpenSource #EnergyTransition #FOSS
Post #1156492
Halfway between the Dieselgate scandal in the US and building cars in Nazi Germany with forced labor, Volkswagen was operating a Brazilian beef ranch clearing the Amazon with slaves? https://reporterbrasil.org.br/2025/05/why-is-volkswagen-accused-of-slave-labor-in-the-amazon/
Post #1156485
&quot;The solar panels imported into Sierra Leone in the last 12 months, if installed, would generate electricity equivalent to 61% of the total reported 2023 electricity generation&quot; #Energy #Solar #Africa https://ember-energy.org/latest-insights/the-first-evidence-of-a-take-off-in-solar-in-africa/
Post #829573
Very weird how the guy dismantling the US government is named after the evil megacorp antagonist from The Boys which is itself a play on Ozymandias&#39; company Veidt Enterprises in The Watchmen. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_Vought https://the-boys.fandom.com/wiki/Vought_International https://watchmen.fandom.com/wiki/Veidt_Enterprises
Post #829572
The US may be powerful enough to bully anybody. But it&#39;s not powerful enough to bully *everybody*
Post #829570
Interesting series of posts on the utility political, regulatory, &amp; business model landscape, how &amp; why they&#39;re failing to adapt, and how changing economics of DERs interact with the system. From the former CEO of Octopus Energy. https://distributedgrid.substack.com/p/the-utility-business-model-is-built #Energy #Electricity #Utility #Regulation #DER
Post #829569
RE: https://mastodon.green/@akshatrathi/116262355484528757 This is a horrific way to accelerate the transition. But it *is* a way to accelerate the transition.
Post #829568
CERAWeek is gonna be 🔥 It is going to be so weird to see the O&amp;G dudes *and* the EV folks simultaneously (quietly?) cheering on and benefiting from the same catastrophe.
Post #829567
A +2500/-2200 line PR is totally the same as a +300 line PR right?
Post #829566
Love me a game where all players do not have the same victory conditions.
Post #829565
It&#39;s silly but this is fun.
Post #829564
Nothing says &quot;mid-21st century&quot; to me like cackling maniacally at 2am while simultaneously wrangling multiple coding agents working on open energy data pipelines, listening to thumping techno, and doomscrolling the Iran war.
Post #829562
Amazing chart gallery, looking at the trajectory of transportation electrification across many different countries. It&#39;s Happening. This is the last oil crisis. No country in its right mind will allow itself to be vulnerable to this kind of insanity again. https://leraffl.github.io/LeRaffl-Gallery/ #DataViz #EV #Electrification #Energy
Post #729662
It would be interesting (derogatory) if it turned out that Mossad is tracking and assassinating the Iranian leadership by hacking into their own repressive surveillance infrastructure.