Attempting a patriotic pitch for photovoltaics... fightingentropy.blog/why-solar-is...

Everyone wants to debate the cause of the blackouts in Spain and Portugal, but isn't it surprising how quickly they got back up? From zero watts to basically normal in less than 24 hours is not what I was expecting.

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So far this administration has really accomplished nothing, other than create a lot of noise. Much like last time.

Instead of a subsidy for EVs and “energy efficient appliances” could you just do a subsidy on electricity? www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Great read from Ben Thompson on DeepSeek. This final paragraph could also apply to a bunch of climate technologies… stratechery.com/2025/deepsee...

Our team did a water color painting session so I painted a heat pump. 🔌 💡

It’d be funny if Stargate can’t turn on because Trump blocked the wind and solar projects.

Fair point, for scale, NREL says about 4% of utility-scale renewable energy capacity is currently on federal land (wind/solar/geothermal). www.nrel.gov/analysis/ren... Doesn't include proposed projects though. There is a lot of solar potential on federal lands, fwiw. bsky.app/profile/rose...

I don’t buy this “scale is my moat” thing, especially for research and development. As anyone who has worked in a lab knows: ideas are cheap, execution is everything. The real moat IMO is the physical automation that executes research or manufacturing. www.businessinsider.com/openai-starg...

In a world of test time compute, does latency matter anymore? If calculating the response takes 15 seconds, then maybe you can just put the data center somewhere faraway but sunny.

Probably a good time to re-up this evergreen post from @gregor.us. Presidents have lot less influence over energy than we tend to believe. www.coldeye.earth/p/energy-and...

Buy an EV, heat pump, some solar panels, etc. You’ll be happier and they’ll be poorer.

I love it when the LLM makes a mistake and then when I point it out, agrees, but then tries to gaslight me into thinking *I’m* the one who made the mistake.

If Trump puts tariffs on Canadian goods, Canada should retaliate by filling the Great Lakes with wind turbines.

When the Chevron refinery in Richmond caught fire in 2012, about 15k people went to the hospital. That refinery moves 240k barrels of oil per day, or about 17 GW. The Vistra Moss landing battery project evacuated about 1200 people and moves 750 MW. 🔌💡 en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevron...

This is a great example of a project that is not being stopped by NEPA but by “public opposition“. Permitting reform is much bigger than NEPA.

This is a royal edict, whose aim is to banish reality.

I’m reluctant to give Hochul/New York much credit here after failures to handle congestion and housing particularly well…

Late, but three thoughts on this: 1. We know people already developing projects like these. If you want to work with them, DM me. 2. It seems like Bluesky is way less enthusiastic about this than Twitter. Probably because @duncamp.bsky.social has negligible presence here, and…

I bought my first meme coin

Earlier this year @berkeleylab.bsky.social published a study on why wind and solar projects fail. One of the top categories is “community opposition.” Does anyone know what that means in practice? 🔌💡 emp.lbl.gov/publications...

Are “trainloads of batteries” the “truckloads of tape drives” of electricity transmission? Sure the latency is terrible but the bandwidth is still surprisingly good? coloradosun.com/2024/12/05/c...

Along with all the talk about permitting reform I’d love to hear a bit more about interconnection reform. A lot more developers we talk to are worried about their queue position than their environmental permits…

Will we hit peak car before we hit peak oil? Seems counterintuitive but more consistent with current trends in the US. h/t @reillybrennan.com www.sae-detroit.org/wp-content/u...

China seems to be the only country that disproportionately trusts climate scientists? Dang.

The hyper loop is a great example of trying to solve problems that we don’t have. Speed is not the limiting factor for high speed rail! I’m not surprised or disappointed that it failed, but I’m glad there were a few people foolish enough to try.

If we could harness half the energy people put in to optimizing their credit card rewards points, I think we could solve climate change. www.nytimes.com/2023/11/21/o...

DERs are climate adaptation.