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https://colorado-wildlife.ghost.io; working on local climate resilience and food systems; PhD in archaeological science 🏳️‍🌈🏔️✈️

Climate stripes for Colorado showing it getting much warmer

Software provider and data cruncher Oracle is building Project Jupiter on far southeastern New Mexico’s dry flats near Las Cruces and El Paso, Texas. Oracle has been touting a compromise for new power technology using methane-driven fuel cells instead of burning natural gas to spin electrical turbines. But even with the change, Project Jupiter’s application calls for emitting 10 million tons of carbon dioxide from the fuel cell process each year, for 2,500 MW of power, or 2.5 gigawatts. The power plant would be self-contained for Jupiter alone, not connected to the New Mexico grid. That gives Oracle the right to avoid regulation under New Mexico’s renewable energy targets, which apply only to regulated utilities, Geller said.

To put that further in perspective, 2,500 MW is the equivalent of the power production of New Mexico’s entire existing grid. Ten million tons of carbon dioxide is far more than would be emitted by Xcel’s Pueblo Comanche power plants if they each ran for the full year. New Mexico environmental groups, which admit they don’t have much power to slow down Jupiter, say the data center’s emissions will singlehandedly wipe out any progress New Mexico has made on greenhouse gas emissions in recent years.

map of migratory birds with circle around Colorado/southern Wyoming

meme saying "14th century mentioned"

Photo of cloudy sky from Belmar Park

from feb 15, 2017, the infamous dril tweet that says "issuing correction on a previous post of mine, regarding the terror group ISIL. you do not, under any circumstances, gotta hand it to them"

Photo of purple aurora against blue skies in West Denver

Confirmation email saying "welcome to the Democratic Socialists of America"

a support chatpot utterly failing to do any support whatsoever as it cannot understand that i am getting a technical error from their website

Meme of a chart that vacillates between we're so back and it's so over

Procreate in progress drawing of a rattlesnake

"Back in 2023, a 128-year-old Colorado mountain was renamed based on a false record and fraudulent process," said Michael Fields, president of Advance Colorado. "We have requested that President Trump correct this wrong by restoring the name Mount Evans."

Tiktaalik, thought to be the first animal to crawl into land, gets pushed back into the water with a stick in response to the question "if you had a time machine what would you go back and fix"

Lucille Bluth from Arrested Development saying "it feels so good to laugh again"

Oak Flat — also known as Chi'chil Biłdagoteel — is the Apaches’ Notre Dame Cathedral, or Mecca, or Church of the Holy Sepulchre.

In the mountains 70 miles east of Phoenix, the wildlife and tree-covered jewel covers some 2,400 acres, or roughly two-thirds the size of Sky Harbor Airport. The federally protected site also sits atop a bonanza of copper. On Thursday the federal government announced it will soon take a major step that could result in mining corporations using explosives to turn it into a gaping crater.

Dr. Wendsler Nosie Sr., the leader of Apache Stronghold and a former tribal chairman of the San Carlos Apache Tribe, issued a warning that the U.S. government looks poised to move quickly.

“The U.S. government is rushing to give away our spiritual home before the courts can even rule — just like it’s rushed to erase Native people for generations,” Nosie said in a news release. “This is the same violent pattern we have seen for centuries. We urge the Supreme Court to protect our spiritual lifeblood and give our sacred site the same protection given to the holiest churches, mosques, and synagogues throughout this country.”

Photo looking from A gates at Denver International Airport towards the main terminal on a snowy day with two United aircraft at gates

Doge meme from protest saying fake agency much illegal such Treasury very coup very data breach unelected wow

Photo of Earl's Court district line east platform showing the signage for coming train