arne ness @arneness.bsky.social · 29/09/2026oh i know it anecdotally but gotta figure it’s been a discernible macroeconomic trend over the past few years 000
arne ness @arneness.bsky.social · 28/09/2026has someone written systematically about the blue/green hydrogen to data center pipeline? 130
arne ness @arneness.bsky.social · 20/07/2026new post on the rationality of resistance in the context of the appalachian “hydrogen hub” phases.substack.com/p/decarboniz...phases.substack.comDecarbonization is not its designOn the rationality of resistance to the (now-beleaguered) Appalachian Regional Clean Hydrogen Hub project 0124
Reposted by arne nessCommon Wealth @cmmonwealth.bsky.social · 24/06/2026🚨 The fracking boom has transformed the US onshore oil and gas industry — but not in the way proponents promised. Our new briefing explores these shifting frontiers of fossil capital. 🖊️ @arneness.bsky.social www.common-wealth.org/publications...common-wealth.orgNew Frontiers of Fossil Capital: Oil and Gas Labor, Global Energy Markets, and Decarbonization after FrackingFor a decarbonization policy framework to be effective, it must face the tenacity of fossil capital head-on. 154
arne ness @arneness.bsky.social · 08/05/2026one of the most baffling industry events i have ever attended phases.substack.com/p/a-progress...phases.substack.comA Progress Report on the March of the IntellectOr an Evening at a Data Center Town Hall in Southwestern Pennsylvania 042
arne ness @arneness.bsky.social · 25/03/2026phases.substack.com/p/abstractin... i put up some bullshit ‼️phases.substack.comAbstracting the EarthNotes on oilfields, exploration geophysics, and abstraction in the mid-20th century 0176
arne ness @arneness.bsky.social · 12/01/2026phases.substack.com/p/the-price-... part 2 mostly just reading labban on OCC and uneven value transfer, with particular attention to what he calls the 'negative territoriality' of extractive industries/primary productionphases.substack.comThe Price-Value Discrepancy in Marx's Capital and Its Relevance for Understanding Oil, Part IIThe Result of Variations in the Organic Composition of Capital on the Transfer of Value through Exchange 0102
arne ness @arneness.bsky.social · 06/01/2026phases.substack.com/p/the-price-... Part 1 of 3 posts on price, value, and oil. this part is just about getting the transformation problem out of the wayphases.substack.comThe Price-Value Discrepancy in Marx's Capital and Its Relevance for Understanding Oil, Part INotes on The Transformation Problem 0174
arne ness @arneness.bsky.social · 31/12/2025god forbid we act purposively and make real decisions about which technological pathways we ought to pursue, rather than let every harebrained VC wet his beak bullshitting some $5 billion DAC scam in texas 0101
arne ness @arneness.bsky.social · 31/12/2025tooze is technically wrong but spiritually correct re: wind/solar/batteries. conversely his opps are technically deceptive (at best) and spiritually dead 2140
arne ness @arneness.bsky.social · 30/12/2025phases.substack.com/p/ai-data-ce... some head-clearing on our dismal situation in Appalachiaphases.substack.comAI Data Center Development in FracklandBy Way of a Brief History of Failed Attempts to Regionalize the Natural Gas Commodity Chain 092
arne ness @arneness.bsky.social · 29/10/2025it’s just kind of insane to me to be in the midst of the fed govt clawing back green subsidies, remanding renewables permits, and ofc the AI Menace and be like soying over a marginal increases in solar power on the texas grid lol. like brother what is going on in your brain rn 0121
arne ness @arneness.bsky.social · 28/10/2025phases.substack.com/p/note-on-th... also a brief thing on the industrialization of animal metabolisms from marx’s POVphases.substack.comNote on the Industrialization of Animal MetabolismsOr the primacy of human labor in the critique of political economy 061
arne ness @arneness.bsky.social · 28/10/2025sorry a repost i know but im also writing a brief thing about the infrastructural geography and associated constraints of Appalachian gas that prospective AI development is now trying to exploit. up soon 180
arne ness @arneness.bsky.social · 28/10/2025phases.substack.com/p/copy-price... i'm still doing this bullshit if you even carephases.substack.comPrices, Value, and Oil - Revisiting the Negative WTI Price CrashOr, what is a Yuányóu Bǎo? 1133
arne ness @arneness.bsky.social · 27/02/2025i think it’s a result of his training/reference points, but yea. he wants to say this is a problem of capitalism, attributes the “transitionist narrative” as the ideology of 21st c capitalism, and explicitly wants to write an economic history, but all limited bc he is over-committed to symbiosis 010
arne ness @arneness.bsky.social · 25/02/2025that's a very good point! i'm not sure where it is coming from re: fressoz, as his primary influences seem to be historians of tech. but i think 'metabolism' is likewise plagued with the same sort of static reading inherited from early sociology 020
arne ness @arneness.bsky.social · 25/02/2025bluesky update: some thoughts on fressoz's new book, which offers a thesis i have identified with for a long time now. hearing someone else say it provides a generative opportunity for critique/self-critique phases.substack.com/p/symbiosis-...phases.substack.comSymbiosis and ConflictSummarizing and commenting on Jean-Baptiste Fressoz's More and More and More: An All-Consuming History of Energy (2024) 3194
arne ness @arneness.bsky.social · 01/12/2024i get liking teams and rooting for them but having a sports team you like lose ruin your day or really caring about a rivalry to the point that it makes you actually angry is soooo soy 1120
arne ness @arneness.bsky.social · 01/12/2024forgot to take the trash out before i left town #stinky 060
arne ness @arneness.bsky.social · 30/11/2024business idea: gas station where they treat you like a race car driver and have like five guys run out to you. one guy would fill up your tank obviously but not sure what the other 4 would do yet 3161
arne ness @arneness.bsky.social · 29/11/2024thanksgiving food sucks ass i wish i was eating MAPO TOFU 0252
arne ness @arneness.bsky.social · 28/11/2024sometimes thanksgiving day convo gets so counterrevolutionary you just gotta hit unc with the fluoride stare 😶😂 0110
arne ness @arneness.bsky.social · 28/11/2024this year i’m thankful for bluesky! 🦃 who’s with me? 0100
arne ness @arneness.bsky.social · 26/11/2024great to see all the yimby cretins slither over here and frame things like cumulative impact assessments and community engagement as cumbersome red tape. the irony is these things DO streamline development by providing public pressure with a formal release valve to delegitimize any further dissent 1130
arne ness @arneness.bsky.social · 26/11/2024whoops correction water obstruction/encroachment permits (chapter 105) 020
arne ness @arneness.bsky.social · 26/11/2024i regularly attend oil and gas industry events and they always roll out a guy from EPA or one of its state-level equivalents to talk about 'permitting reform'. PA's DEP is already working on outsourcing all air quality permit review to a pool of """"3rd-party"""" industry consultants 180
arne ness @arneness.bsky.social · 26/11/2024again & again, the energy sector demonstrates how irrational the private property regime is as basis for efficient utility-scale land-based projects and w/o fail we have industry plants and other dimwits misidentifying the impasse. if you want a transition, it's gotta be a public work. no other way 1112
arne ness @arneness.bsky.social · 26/11/2024interconnection queue backlog is not primarily a regulatory problem it is a problem of profitability and of leasing. loosening permit reqs is not going to disincentivize behind-the-meter generation distributed via long-term power purchase agreements, which is the major driver of renewable buildout 190
Reposted by arne nessEmily Grubert @gruberte.bsky.social · 26/11/2024But yeah on the permitting reform front specifically—I’d really encourage people to adopt a “profit maximizing” vs “cost minimizing” lens before making claims that ceding a bunch of power to fossil interests is “worth it,” even if you don’t care about the many, many other issues 4458
arne ness @arneness.bsky.social · 26/11/2024i usually don't like fried tofu in ramen but theirs is really good 110
arne ness @arneness.bsky.social · 26/11/2024the best part of going home is not seeing my family it is getting veg kimchi broth ramen from the place near my mom’s house 190
arne ness @arneness.bsky.social · 26/11/2024don’t trust anyone who immediately identifies my left-handed eating 040
arne ness @arneness.bsky.social · 25/11/2024i encourage all of you to listen to this every single day until christmas open.spotify.com/track/6dbadH...open.spotify.comCold White ChristmasCasiotone For The Painfully Alone · Etiquette · Song · 2007 030
arne ness @arneness.bsky.social · 24/11/2024i'm getting word that Degrowth Buddy is now in US custody 081
arne ness @arneness.bsky.social · 24/11/2024tried to watch megalopolis but the illegal streaming site kept failing. i took that as a sign 1110
arne ness @arneness.bsky.social · 24/11/2024restraightened all my rebar just to have my new building collapse 😕 0140
arne ness @arneness.bsky.social · 21/11/2024i’m the model blue sky dweller i just blindly follow all on every starter pack and block all in every block list 050
arne ness @arneness.bsky.social · 21/11/2024starter pack? what’s next, booster packs? promotional cards? limited editions? i mean seriously 2220
arne ness @arneness.bsky.social · 21/11/2024watching cocomelon for the rest of the evening ✌️ gn bluesky 0110
arne ness @arneness.bsky.social · 20/11/2024well self-loathing in that he wants to repress german idealism in his move toward the very american tradition of cybernetics but he ends up just repeating the former from within the latter, i think. still one of the most interesting figures in that realm ofc 130
arne ness @arneness.bsky.social · 20/11/2024i tend to think of luhmann as a deeply self-loathing german 120
arne ness @arneness.bsky.social · 19/11/2024still trying to properly diagnose the ailment that is bluesky culture. it's a hybridization of linkedin and tumblr as has been discussed by many but there's also like an uncanniness or impersonalness to it that is hard to describe, as if every tweet has deep-fried in chatgpt before being posted 6393
