There will be a movement on social media towards serif fonts as more and more people named Al get annoyed with their name looking like the acronym AI

On Monday I’ll be starting at Google DeepMind as a Visiting Researcher for my sabbatical (Jan-Dec 2025). Looking forward to contributing to solving challenging problems in the AI+Optimization for power systems space!

Data center power ratings in MW vs MVA is a good point made by @agelston.bsky.social . If ~40% of a data center's energy consumption goes to the cooling system, and a large chunk of the cooling system's consumption is from AC motors, this is a large amount of reactive power. Which raises questions:

This is the only educational baby song I know so if anyone has other recommendations let me hear them

Boom! PJM now forecasts more than 30GW of summer peak load growth by the end of the decade. Summer peak demand: + 6.7GW by 2026 + 17.7GW by 2028 + 31.7GW by 2030

Kyri Georgia and Bridget’s first Christmas together ❤️ Decided to arrange the stockings in order of age with the exception of Bridget and Georgia which we switched

My middle name is danger. First name amperage last name voltage, sr. name fire

#EnergySky Duke Energy is demolishing a coal plant and putting batteries in its place - a great example of faster interconnection of new energy resources by utilizing existing grid assets! 💡🔌 (yes, they are also building a new gas plant nearby, but baby steps...) www.canarymedia.com/articles/bat...

I love all the guesses but the correct answer is that this is an image of cat litter on a basement floor illuminated by the Dyson V15 Detect, the best vacuum I’ve ever owned

Brownie points for whoever correctly identifies what this image is

Hydro-Quebec sometimes uses helicopter to smash power lines with wooden poles to remove ice and/or snow

Ice on power lines can be melted by temporarily overloading the line. High currents = high heat!

If one Amazon AI datacenter consumes around 1 GW, and 1 horsepower is 746 Watts, this means that the datacenter is rated at over a million horsepower That’s a lot of horses And an interesting mental visual

Folks: this is the energy starter pack you were looking for! You don't need any others. Only this one. Thank you @jameshewett.bsky.social for this public service go.bsky.app/6J1B7RK

When does seeing your baby smile and laugh stop feeling like drugs? Makes me cry 😭❤️

To be obnoxious I’m now only describing the power ratings of common household appliances in terms of horsepower rather than Watts (1 HP = 746 Watts) My frozen burrito requires 2 minutes when used with a 1.48 HP microwave

Is it more common for an IOU to own street lighting, or for a municipality to?

Going to invent heat pump hair dryers for those of us who want to multi-task working on our arm strength while styling our hair

recall part of the daylight savings time origin story

What do you do if your baby is only calmed by the gentle hum of transmission lines

The net sum of energy savings from energy efficiency upgrades across the years will certainly be offset from increased computing IMHO. But efficiency upgrades have key benefits at the distribution level - it’s not just about the net sum of demand, it’s about the location (and timing).

Going to make a more active effort to be on energy sky (wait, what did we decide to call it again?) Have just been a bit preoccupied with this little bean (she loves hikes and hates baths. Unclear her opinion about various energy technologies yet)

It arrived!

If you're a student doing research in energy systems, we're working on a grant that would let us support you in developing open data wrangling & software development skills. This short (<10min) survey will help us better understand your needs (ends Fri, Feb 2nd) 🔌💡 forms.gle/3pa9i3Fk5W8W...

One day I hope to meet some Bluesky mutuals, but for now, I’m still meeting people I know from Twitter like @kyrib.bsky.social.

7-year old Kyri’s author bio was really something

So toasty rn! Our new hydrogen fireplace is the bomb

I was in charge of the turkey this year for the first time and it came out looking pretty normal

Who decided that using capital letters meant “yelling”? Like when was the first recorded instance in history of this?

working on the "Current" chapter. What do you think this image represents? 🤨🤔

Reminded of how in the 2017 solar eclipse, Google just asked Nest owners if they were ok turning off their A/C for a bit to account for decreased solar production and people were like “ok” and it cut 700 MW of demand

I don’t like this whole “LMP is comprised of three components” thing. I know it’s to facilitate an intuitive understanding but it’s not 100% mathematically correct. Let’s call it what it is : LMP is the Lagrange multiplier associated with the DC approximation of the power balance constraint at a bus

A very achievable state goal

Watching Only Murders in the Building drop some truth

I made a sno cone by running on a human sized hamster wheel

Circuit Symbols xkcd.com/2818

Ok I’ve started a casual guide targeted towards non-EE’s for understanding power flow. I figure I can use it for my future research group students as well who come in without a power background. This is the start, more to come…: http://kyrib.com/pf_01.pdf

A utility posting “thank you for your resilience at this time” about a big power outage is somehow in my top 5 grim things this week

She fell asleep in her tunnel snuggling her narwhal 🥺

Have any other goods/commodities in history, besides electricity and briefly oil, had negative prices?

Hey energy folks! The EnergySky feed is live! The way it currently works is you must include ‘🔌💡’ in your post for it to show up. https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:upmfcx5muayjhkg5sltj625o/feed/aaachrckxlsh2

Wrote an essay today for the NYT on how utilities are using our money to slow down the clean energy transition, and how we can stop them. Please give it a read and share if you’re able! https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/05/opinion/utility-bills-clean-energy.html

Google project sunroof is estimating a savings of $700 after 20 years if we maxed out solar on our roof, after an investment of $46,000 (post state and federal incentives). Lol. Someone please tell me this tool is highly inaccurate because I really want to justify this

I feel like there should be a feature on here that's the polar opposite of "targeted advertising" Like, you've gathered my data and used some clustering algorithm to show me posts that have characteristics similar to my interests Now give an option to show the most *dissimilar* clusters on my feed

Reminiscent vibes I'm getting from Bluesky so far: - High school computer class "who has extra Gmail invites" fiasco - Early days of Facebook when you'd post on each other's walls and be like "hehe, I'm posting on your wall! Poke!" Simpler times

Independence Day, indeed. 🇺🇸

they’re lighting your posts up over on #energybs

alright gang, we need a new hashtag to replace #energytwitter. #energybluesky sounds like the name of some kind of early-stage carbon capture startup. #energybs has obvious issues. Actually #energybs is kinda funny...