"I am never leaving Seattle"

One of the best fun web projects I’ve seen in years. I want a mini CRT in my house that can run this on a loop. weatherstar.netbymatt.com?_bhlid=108f9...

Much ado about the role of renewable energy (RE) in the Spanish blackout. The investigation into the effective cause is still ongoing, but many pointed to the fact that RE has no ‘inertia’. Is that true? The answer is: yes, but ... 🧵

Clean firm data center projects I've encountered require advancements in controls and software. It's easy to imagine the broader innovations needed to fulfill their promise, helping nascent technology scale + making it viable for lower-revenue applications.

While data center load growth presents new challenges for climate goals, we're already seeing the data center boom could be a major driver of early demand for nascent clean firm power technologies, buying down costs for others. This figure from the ADP24 captures the scale of the opportunity.

The ADP24 was published today with some very interesting updates on timely topics like data center load growth, next-gen geothermal potential, implications of a future geologic hydrogen breakthrough, and others. Take a look at the results here: www.evolved.energy/us-adp-2024

In all US net zero scenarios, installed capacity of “firm” generation sources remains in line with current levels with ~500-1,000GW (vs. ~875GW today), even "100% RE." Chart from @davidpaolella.bsky.social This issue is very similar to Tx in 2015. Let's not make the same mistakes and get to work...

Nobel (Memorial) Prize for Meme Science

Pause for a moment and admire the incredible success we’ve had. www.cnn.com/2024/11/15/c...

We just released an executive summary of this year's Annual Decarbonization Perspective, in collaboration with Evolved Energy Research. We lay out ten takeaways including implications of recent policy on US pathways to net zero. 🧵 breakthroughenergy.org/news/annual-...