Kia Norway took a bold marketing move! Interesting

Whatever Trump may claim, renewable electricity does not make electricity systems unreliable. @nathanielbullard.com with the receipts. SAIDI = system average interuption duration index, a measure of the average cumulative electricity service outage per customer (aka how much time the power is out)

We at @planetmoney.bsky.social are constantly reading the work of economists and other social scientists to glean ideas, evidence and insights about the economy, and, more generally, the confusing world around us. Welcome to the inaugural installment of the Planet Money Econ Roundup!

If you add up all the fossil power plants in Germany you get 70 GW. The average energy use is 50 GW. Now know that there is a backlog of battery project seeking approval of over 225 GW! This indeed is a tsunami! And we'd better learn how integrate these batteries into the grid fast!

For those questioning the data, here are some links: www.evfiresafe.training/ev-fire-late... spectrum.ieee.org/lithium-ion-...

Broad, shallow intelligence (BSI) is a much more accurate term for the #AI we have today. Not #AGI /via @garymarcus.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/garymarc...

Nueva traducción de uno de mis artículos mas populares. humantransit.org/el-problema-... (In English: humantransit.org/2020/02/the-...)

This is why you should call it decongestion pricing.

Outside academia, “congestion pricing” sounds like a term coined by the idea’s opponents, because it combines words for 2 unpleasant things, like “death taxes.” The better terms “decongestion pricing” or “congestion relief zone” describe what the price buys for those who pay it.

Brilliant analysis of the global EV market and how innovation is key to the US (both in America and in China). @mliebreich.bsky.social @aukehoekstra.bsky.social youtu.be/SqCmwc1rocM?...

Today's #HydrogenSoufflé comes to you from #Canada. In the world's least unexpected news story, World Energy GH2 is reported to be abandoning plans to export green ammonia from wind power in Newfoundland and Labrador, and looking to create a data centre instead. www.theenergymix.com/renewables-c...

A year ago, I called the idea of using Canadian wind power to make green hydrogen then ammonia, liquefying that for export, regasifying it on arrival, re-extracting the hydrogen and generating electricity, a thermodynamic turd. Ugly language, but accurate. www.halifaxexaminer.ca/economy/busi...

The idea that young people think Elon is cool is beyond parody. Every single person I met on Xitter who sung his praises (thousands of them over the years) was a middle-aged white guy.

Taming Silicon Valley, which warned of the rise of the tech oligarchs and their influence on Washington, was just named one of @politico.com’s The Digital Future Daily books of the year.

'REPUBLICANS CUT CHILD CANCER RESEARCH FROM FUNDING BILL AFTER MUSK’S MEDDLING' If there's just one headline to share far-and-wide today, it's this one. Make sure everybody knows. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Let’s try not to make this place like X. When you disagree with something someone wrote, read the whole thread, do some research on the person first (go to their profile, google, ask chatGPT,…) before assuming they are climate skeptics. Thank you 🙏

11 great tips for how to procrastinate! Thanks, Google Gemini.

Today Google's Gemini asked me if I wanted help with my messages to be a more effective communicator. I clicked on "yes". A button appeared that read "tips for procrastination". Here is what I got... Apparently procrastinating is a great skill to have. Thanks Google!! @garymarcus.bsky.social

I sent this to my brother, who is an engineer who works on HVAC technology. Said it would be nice if this comes out soon, as the industry is currently freaking out about refrigerant phase outs. R32 is not a drop in replacement because of a "slightly flammable" classification.

Not so long ago, we would go to libraries and take out books, and find that someone else had underlined the key passages before us, and feel grateful to inherit some of their efforts. I prefer that to the word association gibberish of the ChatGPT era.

We're less than a week away from our live celebration of 2024 Schneider Award winner @leahstokes.bsky.social! There are still some tickets available, so make sure to snag yours now before we fill up 🎟️

I know Biden is quite unpopular, but my honest view: the man weaponized being exceptionally boring to pass the most progressive set of policies a USA administration has seen in many decades. He got some things wrong, but he also got nowhere near the credit he deserved for what he accomplished.

90% of new US electricity capacity Jan-Sep 2024 from #WindWaterSolar Wind 2,626MW-10.95% Wat 213MW-0.89% Sol 18,635MW-77.7% WWS 89.5% Gas 1387MW-5.78% Bio 6MW-0.025% Nuc 1100MW-4.59% Oil 11MW-0.046% Oth 8MW-0.033% Tot 23986MW) environmentamerica.org/updates/90-o... @neumannjo.bsky.social

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Nearly all new cars now come with automatic emergency braking and other safety features. Researchers say these systems are saving lives, but there's still debate about how to make them better.

ChatGPT at Age Two, an analysis of what has and hasn’t changed and where the field is still stuck. Short holiday read, w Ezra Klein cameo. open.substack.com/pub/garymarc...

Good read here by @garymarcus.bsky.social on 2 years of chatGPT - which has shown little improvement in that time, despite constant hype and billions of $$ open.substack.com/pub/garymarc...

Happy Thanksgiving, fellow X refugees! futurism.com/the-byte/cha...

Circa 2030, replacing an EV battery pack will cost no more than replacing an internal combustion engine insideevs.com/news/742022/...

People over on the site where many of us used to hang out sound a bit jealous, maybe? Personally, I don’t feel the need to return to Elonia.

I have less than a tenth as many followers here as over there. And I am still really glad to be here (and not there).

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When I said in 2022 that LLMs would hit a wall and that scaling laws would not last forever, everyone laughed. Now even Time Magazine sees that the moment of diminishing returns has likely arrived. Can a crash in GenAI valuations be far away? time.com/7178328/is-a...

Satya Nadella and the three stages of scientific truth. A textbook case in how the sociology of science often stands in the way of progress. Short new essay at Marcus on AI: https://open.substack.com/pub/garymarcus/p/satya-nadella-and-the-three-stages?r=8tdk6&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

The thing is @garymarcus.bsky.social was right all along and arrogant blowhards like Altman and Musk and so many others ... were not. open.substack.com/pub/garymarc...

talking AI and China on BBC World, momentarily

Some thoughts on diminishing returns in LLMs and why OpenAI might become the WeWork of AI. www.foxbusiness.com/video/636471...

(1/5) Very excited to announce the publication of Bayesian Models of Cognition: Reverse Engineering the Mind. More than a decade in the making, it's a big (600+ pages) beautiful book covering both the basics and recent work: mitpress.mit.edu/978026204941...

I just joined this place AND we are hiring a climate scientist in my department at Penn: apply.interfolio.com/153721 Please share and apply! We start reviewing November 20, and we are open minded about what constitutes "climate science".

Tenure Track Faculty Opening at Carnegie Mellon in Decarbonization, Climate Change Adaptation, & Related Fields. Please share airb your networks or consider applying. One reason I left a think tank for CMU is because CMU has a lot of folks working on energy & climate. 🔌💡 apply.interfolio.com/154848

First ever post on BlueSky. Very insightful episode of Cleaning Up with @mliebreich.bsky.social Excellent analysis of the issues regarding real projects from house renovations to nuclear plants... www.cleaningup.live/ep128-prof-b...