How are we going to keep carbon in the ground? I love carbon-free energy sources. Nuclear, wind, solar, geothermal. Efficiency is a virtual version. But how do we make it so those sources aren’t “yes, and” on top of fossil fuels?

Hey I’m in there somewhere! I love Sparky (our iX). We enrolled in BMW’s charging time shifting program

Congratulations @timlatimer.bsky.social ! Onward and upward (or deep underground)!

Christina England, senior attorney in the DOE, says to treat the NRC like a design principal. And to request more NRC staff if you want it. And ask for NRC SMEs for your meetings with them. Basically, communicate, collaborate!

At the SMR conference in Austin. Listening to panel discussions. Most of what’s being said sounds like common sense, or conventional wisdom. I’d like to know what to listen for that’s meaningful, new, educational

At the SMR conference in Austin. LIS presentation, showing the fuel manufacturing steps and how much they’d have to grow in the USA to become self-sufficient for the 2050 projected demand

<taps the sign> Manufactured goods deflate. (Labor inflates.) Academically, SMR has a chance, if the focus is on the manufacturing.

What will it take for, say, Vanguard, to incorporate global warming financial impacts into their shareholder voting plans?

Trust is the foundation of all relationships

Copernicus is super cool. It’s amazing to be able to get recent imagery at decent resolution from home in your pajamas for free. Real “sci-fi is actually here” stuff.

Interesting framing. Why spend capex on 2 forms of energy delivery to new homes when you can do everything - and more! - with just 1 Next step is BESS included at subdivision’s edge, and the homes in a VPP on day 1

I'm skeptical about the reported heat-island effect, in part because the first (and only I've read) paper on this topic was weak. Just for fun I figured the final power density across the 750-acre Crusoe Abilene development: ~31 W/sf. Annual avg solar insolation there is ~27 W/sf.

Most people didn’t know that most of the announced data centers were speculative and fishing/competing for tenants. No tenant = no financing = not released for construction. This headline is normal, the expected outcome.

The biggest challenge we face in educating the public about the risks of LNG, natural gas and methane is not the science. It's not the economics. It's getting the facts into the media. Like this video. We capture methane emissions from the new LNG terminal. No one in the media reports.

These papers look amazing

List illustrating the amazing things NCAR could do

This is really cool. I wonder how many other opportunities there are out there like this.

How can we improve the action rate? What will it take?

Which are the right firms to take on this challenge? What will it take for them to do it? How do we go from listing opportunities, to converting them into wins?

This was a great excuse to play with SciPy for the first time. scipy.ndimage makes it trivial. I almost feel bad for making it so easy but I'm glad I got to play with a powerful new library. I just completed "Printing Department"- Day 4 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2025/day/4

This one I kinda brute-forced, and after looking at the progress output, I realized you can just calculate the high and low IDs, and simply figure the sum as count*(high+low)/2 I just completed "Gift Shop" - Day 2 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2025/day/2

I just completed "Secret Entrance" - Day 1 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2025/day/1 round 2 took a while, I kept thinking there must be an elegant way of doing it

"The IRA’s survival was premised on the logic that a loose alignment of corporations would support climate policies in exchange for subsidies and convince Republicans to get on their side. That didn’t work" Top @katearonoff.bsky.social piece in @newrepublic.com -->>>

#qgis plugins site is giving Cloudflare bad gateway error. known issue?

I figure insurance companies will have more accurate forecasting of the impacts of global warming than most, because 1) they have high quality trend data, and 2) they have skin in the game.

Update on OpenAI Stargate Shackelford (Vantage): Vantage started turning dirt August 7 and are humming right along. Here's the site as of this week. red = transmission blue = gas pipeline black dot = oil/gas well Credit: Copernicus, OpenStreetMap contributors, Bing

We’ve unpacked the research, gathered the data, and synthesized the results in a new white paper reviewing Climate TRACE findings from the #emissions reduction roadmap tool. Read it here: media.climatetrace.org/Climate_TRAC...

Looks like they’re using some pretty significant waste heat to pre-heat their refrigerant - and they’re using H2O as the refrigerant 🤔 I hadn’t seen H2O as a refrigerant before

Skyven Technologies’ industrial heat pump is cheaper to run than a gas boiler. Here’s how the company is easing customers into making the switch.

My first thought is, how did they get the data needed to do this analysis? Because I want to do this analysis I’ll read the paper tomorrow

Well researched. I’m impressed.

2/3rds of primary energy usage is wasted - just straight dissipated as heat to the environment. 2023 data from LLNL. flowcharts.llnl.gov/commodities/...

What a great chart. The numbers are dated since it's from 2012, but the concept stands: electrical energy is far more efficiently turned into useful work than thermal.

we have *got* to get methane emissions under control

I was curious about the Vantage datacenter in Shackelford that OpenAI announced was going to be one of their Stargate sites. Bit of an interesting site. At 32.536631, -99.545748 1/

How much water will #Stargate #Abilene use? Public photos show all air-cooled chillers, which consume (evaporate) zero water(*). Oracle CEO publicly stated the cooling system won't consume any water. BUT 1/

interesting way of looking at it. I wonder how much things would change if you compared urban-to-urban and rural-to-rural.

Getting 504 Gateway Timeout on FEMA's NFHL map server. I sure hope this is temporary. #fema #nfhl

I'm developing ERCOT generation reporting, and stumbled across the Trigo Solar Project, which was planned for La Salle County. It's canceled now, but it looks like they had an approach to #agrivoltaics that I hadn't seen before: rainwater catchment for irrigation. www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAcz...