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Jon Shell

@jonshell.mastodon.energy.ap.brid.gy

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Clean energy enthusiast. Rehabilitator of spaces. Lover of nature. Believer in social justice. 🌉 bridged from ⁂ mastodon.energy/@jonshell, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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Jon Shell @jonshell.mastodon.energy.ap.brid.gy · 9h

If you’ve been in public transport any time in the last few years, you’ve probably experienced the phenomenon of a person loudly playing their phone on speaker. While this is unquestionably rude, let’s take a step back. Apple dropped the 3.5mm Jack in 2016. For a while your only choice from the […]

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Jon Shell @jonshell.mastodon.energy.ap.brid.gy · 17h

@waltbaldwin does a great job of running Mastodon.energy. This is a top quality site and just like the work of @chrisnelder , is worth paying actual money for. If you’re a regular, please chip in. It’s a small amount and the value is disproportionately great.

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Jon Shell @jonshell.mastodon.energy.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

Struggling with an iOS update. Phone has ~15 of 64Gb free. Update needs 18Gb. No easy way to free another 3Gb, apart from removing music, for which I use Doppler, which is excellent. #doppler If my photos are mirrored to the "cloud" then why can't I have my app data mirrored? (rhetorical). If […]

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Jon Shell @jonshell.mastodon.energy.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

RE: tutoteket.no/@forteller/11729102023… Great work over at crowdsupply.com on an open source/repairable printer. An obviously useful device, simple and maintainable. When you look at the design, you can see how hard incumbent printer manufacturers have been working at lock-in […]

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Børge @forteller.tutoteket.no.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

For the first time in my life I'm actually interested in a printer! I still don't need one, so I can't imagine buying it, but if you need a printer, then this open source, DRM-free, repairable printer should be on the top of your list […]

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Jon Shell @jonshell.mastodon.energy.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

I have a new Windows 11 laptop. (Long story, no choice, long time Fedora user have dozens of Linux machines, decades of sysadmin experience) I find myself needing to create a number of directories. I search various search engines for the shortcut key. All results are garbage. I ask ChatGPT […]

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Michael Burchert @michaelburchert.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

More here: bsky.app/profile/mich...

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Michael Burchert @michaelburchert.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

"The global building stock is set to roughly double by 2060. The materials we choose now, across millions of buildings, will determine whether the built environment becomes a part of the climate solution or continues to be one of its largest contributors. " 2

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Dan Fixes Coin-Ops @ifixcoinops.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/04/2026

I got 8 solar panels today, gonna go back for the others tomorrow. The panels were in the woods. Just, like, big piles of them in the woods. Full of rain and leaves and twigs and creatures. I mean I guess it makes sense and I don't know what I expected, these machines are weatherproof […]

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Michael Burchert @michaelburchert.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

shall we try to share this, let's see what happens

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Chris Nelder 🤘 @chrisnelder.mastodon.energy.ap.brid.gy · 08/08/2026

RE: mastodon.green/@JustinGerdes/117061… Excellent curation here of the many recent successful efforts to stymie Trump's war on the energy transition. If you don't already subscribe to Justin's newsletter, you should!

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Michael Burchert @michaelburchert.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

My favorite product at the moment. An agricultural by-product is transformed in Europe into a high-performance insulation material using a simple mattress sewing machine from China. Fossil, linear economy hates this trick.

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Michael Burchert @michaelburchert.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

... bsky.app/profile/mich...

Jon Shell @jonshell.mastodon.energy.ap.brid.gy · 01/08/2026

Regretfully i have had to switch to requiring follow requests. Some new followers have been using my open follow setting to flood my timeline. If you’re a like-minded soul, you’ll have no problem with this I feel.

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drs1969 (David Smith) 🇬🇧 @drs1969.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/07/2026

@jonshell amen. Prebuild the houses in factories and assemble them on site... faster with better QC and less snagging etc. Built to a better spec. New houses should be assembled like cars are. As a principle anyway.

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drs1969 (David Smith) 🇬🇧 @drs1969.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/07/2026

@EarthOrgUK Agree. I am struggling with the framing of the conversation as it pertains to the technology. I'd love the govt to turn around to the house builders and say "you want planning permission? Full roof solar; properly sized and installed heat pump climate control; battery storage AND […]

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Jon Shell @jonshell.mastodon.energy.ap.brid.gy · 28/07/2026

For those of you critiquing my basic mathematics skills by claiming that the outage time was in fact 14.44 - (12.00-11.55), which is 3.00 hours, I should point out I was using the Non-Euclidean Temporal Displacement formula, which better captures the subjective truth of how it feels to be […]

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Jon Shell @jonshell.mastodon.energy.ap.brid.gy · 27/07/2026

There has been a lot of chirping from the peanut gallery recently about Algebra being of no use in everyday life. I'm here to show you otherwise. Take today's power outage for example. To calculate the length of the power outage, we write a simple equation in x: x = current_time - […]

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Jon Shell @jonshell.mastodon.energy.ap.brid.gy · 27/07/2026

Power outage today. Came back from walking Chico the dog at noon. House was strangely quiet. Thinking nothing of it I go to get the dog’s lunch out of the fridge. Turn on the light … nothing. Check the microwave clock - blank. Open the fridge - dark. Slowly realize no power. Power comes back […]

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Elf Burgerman @elfburgerman.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/05/2026

@stefano The problem is that people don't realise that that cloud being owned by a private company is a problem. We need our digital infrastructure to be a common (just like our physical infrastructure, education and journalism, healthcare, and security guard). We need our society to be social.

Jon Shell @jonshell.mastodon.energy.ap.brid.gy · 24/07/2026

Just wanted to put in a good word for the folks at Oglaf, who write some of the smartest comic social commentary I've ever seen. Grown-up stuff though, so if you're a prude maybe just keep strolling. But so, so clever. Be sure to read the tooltips. www.oglaf.com

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Michael Burchert @michaelburchert.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Quick reminder that airtight, insulated buildings – which are often fitted with filtration systems – offer protection against smoke from forest fires fuelled by the burning of fossil fuels. The old world isn’t coming back. This can be retrofitted together with a heat pump, windows and insulation.

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Michael Burchert @michaelburchert.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

We can make building great again, it's all here right now.

jumbo straw bales on a truck in harvest season

Jon Shell @jonshell.mastodon.energy.ap.brid.gy · 18/07/2026

Amongst the many challenges with the deterioration of traditional web search is the problem of loss of access to usable references. Where we were once able to collect a useful sampling of data and with that, do analysis and synthesis, today we're presented with garbage. In the past, the […]

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Jon Shell @jonshell.mastodon.energy.ap.brid.gy · 14/07/2026

Dogonometry

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Michael Burchert @michaelburchert.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Yet another school #strawhouse in France. Where #strawbuilding seems to be the new norm for public buildings in this typology. (Because it's about building better.) www.linkedin.com/posts/botted...

#bottedepaille #contructionbois #boismassif #isère | WILD ARCHITECTURE

PONT DE CHERUY - PREMIERE BOTTE DE PAILLE !! C’est les vacances scolaires, mais c'est également le lancement officielle du chantier de la nouvelle école de Pont de Cheruy qui permettra l’ouverture d...

Jon Shell @jonshell.mastodon.energy.ap.brid.gy · 04/07/2026

@chrisnelder Just finished the #TransitionShow South Africa mini series. Phenomenal job of unraveling the chaos to craft a coherent narrative. You nailed it with “when you scratch the surface you realize how complex basically any issue in SA is” and you correctly saw that everything is warped […]

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James Gifford @giffordjames.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 27/06/2026

Well, this is big news!!! "We have completely virtually unwrapped and read PHerc. 1667 — the scroll the Vesuvius Challenge community knows as Scroll 4 — without ever touching its pages. It is the first Herculaneum papyrus to be digitally unrolled and read in full, end to end" […]

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Michael Burchert @michaelburchert.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

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Jon Shell @jonshell.mastodon.energy.ap.brid.gy · 26/06/2026

OMG the goose meme is killing me. Great work everyone!

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Jon Shell @jonshell.mastodon.energy.ap.brid.gy · 02/06/2026

AI-generated images questions for FediFolks for two scenarios: 1. Using images from sites like rawpixel and 2. Using generated images that only use public domain images as inputs For (1) is it acceptable to use images from sites like rawpixel that have clearly been generated by AI? The CO2 has […]

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Michael Burchert @michaelburchert.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Insulate from this.

Compressed straw module from ecococom. Straw drywall resting on top of mass timber wall cross section. All of these materials help vs heat and cold.

Jon Shell @jonshell.mastodon.energy.ap.brid.gy · 12/05/2026

The deli counter model works great in a classic producer/consumer idiom -- take a number, wait for someone to call you over. If you get bored and go to get some ice cream while you were waiting and they call your number and you aren't there, well you go to the back of the queue. Charger vendors […]

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Jon Shell @jonshell.mastodon.energy.ap.brid.gy · 12/05/2026

If you thought people watching video on their cell phones without earplugs was bad, wait until you have to negotiate a place in line at a busy fast charger. Back in early 2025 I wrote up my experiences renting EVs from Hertz. At the time, one of my observations was that queuing at busy […]

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Michael Burchert @michaelburchert.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

It's happening. #Strawhouse #Strawbuilding in Denmark. Why? Because it is superior + the government agreed to set science based limits on whole life carbon emissions. Including #embodiedcarbon. Foto: tegnestuen lokal www.tegnestuenlokal.dk/faelledby-bi...

Red timber straw panel housing in Denmark

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Michael Burchert @michaelburchert.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

2026: Not knowing PV? Unthinkable! Yet the building transition has that massive blind spot. Straw & clay construction are still "unknowns." Absurd, since climate goals fail without eco-materials. We need a material revolution now—as standard as solar panels on every roof! #strawbuilding #strawhouse

Ecococon prefabricated straw module exhibition model with plaster layers, earth plaster, inside.

Jon Shell @jonshell.mastodon.energy.ap.brid.gy · 24/04/2026

The Iranian crisis has uncovered some surprising data lurking under the surface of global petro-politics. China appears to have been running its solar production at half capacity. Until March this year, China's solar industry, it seems, has had an extra gear in reserve, waiting for the moment […]

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Michael Burchert @michaelburchert.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

3 strawbale construction teams participated: HALM Prefabrication, the small carpentry firm Hartböhner Zimmerleute, and experienced traveling straw builders. All teams produced a passive house-grade component for rapid, healthy, easy construction/retrofitting without harming the climate.

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Chris Nelder 🤘 @chrisnelder.mastodon.energy.ap.brid.gy · 19/04/2026

We did a miniseries about the UK’s transition at @TransitionShow for those who want to see what a functional government that actually intends to do something about global warming looks like […]

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Dan Fixes Coin-Ops @ifixcoinops.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/04/2026

I buy peppermint tea from Aldi. It's not very convenient because every single individual tea bag is wrapped in paper for some reason but I can at least just go and buy them from a shop with cash normally. At least until 2024, when they started wrapping each? individual?? teabag???? in […]

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Jon Shell @jonshell.mastodon.energy.ap.brid.gy · 15/04/2026

Observing the Canadian Fuel Tax Holiday, I'm struck by the numbers. For years, Clean Energy enthusiasts have been railing at the fossil subsidies buried in the energy system, asking that clean technologies be measured fairly against fossil technologies. To do a fair comparison, one must factor […]

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Jon Shell @jonshell.mastodon.energy.ap.brid.gy · 10/04/2026

Watching Amazon abandon older Kindles, it reminds me that we need consumer protection laws to prevent companies from turning their no-longer-profitable older products into e-waste. The solution is simple: when putting a product on the market that has some service component that is provided by […]

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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/04/2026

Good morning from Saskatchewan! I think my light pollution article with @hannorein theconversation.com/a-million-new-s… must have just gotten picked up by some bigger publication […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

A fluffy white dog sitting on snow, looking up at the camera. She's ridiculously cute, and a very good dog.

A large fuzzy brown llama looking directly at the camera from inside a farm building with a large door open to the morning sun, with a large yellow dog blissfully laying on hay at his feet, and a bunch of black, white, and brown goats happily eating from a hay bale behind them.

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Chad :mstdn: @chad.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 05/04/2026

It's no secret that I've been struggling, and my therapist said I need to find things to keep me busy, so I created the @cdnspace Artemis II dashboard. I reverse-engineered the Unity Engine powering the NASA AROW visualization and found an absolute treasure trove of data to display. Little did […]

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Jon Shell @jonshell.mastodon.energy.ap.brid.gy · 05/04/2026

Sure, grid-scale batteries are reshaping our power landscape, but let's not overlook the possibilities for local revolutions. Appliance designers would do well to watch this space. The induction/battery hybrids are only the forerunners of a new world. h/t to @CelloMomOnCars for the link to the […]

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Jon Shell @jonshell.mastodon.energy.ap.brid.gy · 05/04/2026

Consider a house where the clothes washer battery, fully charged, supports the microwave's inrush surge, as the magnetron warms up. Later, the refrigerator's compressor kicks on, and the dishwasher's battery helps out with a little extra supply. The grid sees nothing of these hyper-local […]

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Jon Shell @jonshell.mastodon.energy.ap.brid.gy · 05/04/2026

This idea of battery backed GPU clusters is novel, but not outrageous. It extends a hypothesis I framed some years ago when the first battery-boosted induction ranges surfaced: At some point, most or all major appliances will come with their own battery support. In a world of dynamic energy […]

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Jon Shell @jonshell.mastodon.energy.ap.brid.gy · 05/04/2026

Buried in a recent article from the people at Renew Economy Australia is an interesting nugget -- NVidia is talking about supporting high density GPU clusters with, wait for it, batteries. The batteries provide local power supply buffering to smooth and condition grid supply. No word on the […]

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