As a former crystallography student, it gives me great pleasure to see Wegmans experimenting with more dense packing layouts for bottled water. When I was a student, we had a homework assignment about the most efficient packing method for soda cans!

I've created a calculator that gives you the right answer 80% of the time and I believe it will change the world

Put it on the front page: Regular person buys electric vehicle, goes on day-long road trip, no issues

Wife just took the new-ish EV (ID4) for the 6 hr trip to DC. I have to admit that I'm a bit nervous about her charging experience... (she is a normie, not a clean energy sicko)

Should I say "less" or "fewer" here? Galaxy Brain:

Folks, it is the year 2025 and Word's grammar checker is suggesting that I should change "fewer" to "less few".

“It’s the same picture”

Last week, the Indiana University administration asked their student newspaper not to print any news stories in the Homecoming edition. When the faculty advisor refused, IU fired him and ended paper printing. So students at the Purdue paper printed the IU edition and drove it down to Bloomington!

The average age at the #nokings protest in suburban Brighton, NY must be 40-50 years old. Also, lots of veterans and they're letting you know.

Narrative violation: Load growth has tended to depress retail electricity prices in recent years, according to a new LBNL study. A key caveat is that this relationship need not always exist. Higher growth can increase prices if new supply/delivery infrastructure is constrained and costly.

kids teacher just sent this home as part of an assignment he's doing and i want to smash every computer at the school

"Humans aren’t very efficient movers—until you put us on a bicycle, when we become some of the most energy-efficient land travelers in the animal kingdom." www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-hu...

Data extraction is entirely solar powered - even a low ambient light is sufficient!

They've lost the 9yos

And I'm finally going to upgrade from a Level 1 to a Level 2 charger since we now have 2 EVs and one as a pure EV. But the L1 charger was perfectly fine for the last 4 years!

Well friends, I'm sad to report that after 17 years of being a 1-car family, we have now purchased a 2nd car. When we left DC in 2008, we sold off one car and just had the (infrequently-used) Prius. We kept that workhorse of a vehicle until we moved to France in 2019.

Well friends, I'm sad to report that after 17 years of being a 1-car family, we have now purchased a 2nd car. When we left DC in 2008, we sold off one car and just had the (infrequently-used) Prius. We kept that workhorse of a vehicle until we moved to France in 2019.

Einstein said that the most powerful force in the universe was "compound interest", but I'd like to nominate "technological progress" as a strong competitor.

1) New paper! Replacing US fossil-fueled vehicles & appliances with electric versions could improve health & climate outcomes, but could cost up to $790 billion in distribution grid reinforcement. Strategic demand-side management could cut 2/3 of those costs.🔌💡 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🚨 New working paper alert 🚨 Missing summer — and the Tour de France? Don’t worry, we got you covered. 🚴‍♂️🚴‍♂️🚴‍♂️ In this paper, we show that being on the route of Tour de France reduces far-right voting. osf.io/preprints/so...

Absolutely bananas that if you open a file directly from Outlook and edit it then save and close the file, that the file gets deleted from your computer. I understand that it was a temporary file that I was supposed to save to a different location, but what a crazy design choice...

Calling law students 🎙️ 🏛️ Are you interested in #environmental law, #energy law, environmental justice, or regulatory #policy? We’re hiring for several research assistant positions that start this fall semester. ⚡🏛️ 🌎 Apply now! policyintegrity.org/about/jobs

Not sure who needs to hear this, but: watching Inglorious Basterds is an act of resistance.

The drunk drivers have weaved back into our lane... #EnergySky

We're hiring! 🏛️ 📝 Policy Integrity is hiring an attorney or senior attorney with a primary focus on emerging administrative law issues. This position may be based in New York City or Washington, DC. Applications due October 1! policyintegrity.org/about/jobs/a...

For those keeping score at home, the 2016 Chevy Volt, which I bought for $15k back in 2020, continues to be a very good electric car.

So far, the main businesses that have been financially benefited from AI have been the producers of blue books www.wsj.com/business/cha...

Electricity prices in California's investor-owned utilities (IOUs) and community choice aggregator (CCA) territories have more than doubled in a decade, after accounting for inflation. What are these power providers spending the increased revenues on? www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

China calls them the "New Three" -- solar panels, EVs, and batteries -- a set of technologies the country dominates. But once, the US had a headstart. New from me and @naemas.bsky.social on how the US lost its lead in clean energy -- and how China took over. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

Welcome to EnergyTwitter, circa 2016

The kids are alright

Are young people actually listening to Nirvana, or is it just a cool t-shirt style thing? No judgment if the latter, but I honestly don't know (and maybe I'm not even supposed to ask...)

This is an insane thing to write about game development. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/a...

Efteling has this nice European garden-design green/solar roof on their flagship ride, just for the benefit of those looking down from the flying pagoda.

McDonald's macarons...

So who loves that classic NY cookie style? I always make sure to get a slice when I'm in NYC... (Seen in Lille, France)

Hi all, I just registered for the 2025 US Association for Energy Economics conference and I hope to see some #energysky folks there. I'll be presenting some research there about how changing behavior (telework, online shopping) is shifting energy use trends. usaeeconference.org

💡🔌I am excited to announce that Congresswoman Teresa Leger Fernández has introduced the Weather-Safe Energy Act of 2025. I had the privilege of leading the drafting of this legislation as part of my AAAS Congressional Fellowship! fernandez.house.gov/news/documen... 🧵

Have pity on the old - drink a beer! (The fine print describes a tax on alcohol that goes to social support programs)

This was already solved. The Michaelson-Morley Experiment proved that Case Western Reserve University is at the center of the universe. yahoo.co search.app/59eed

Where am I?

(At a Mediterranean place with ~8 plates of different food on the table) Me, trying to get kid2 to eat something: Is there *anything* on the table that you want to eat? Kid2: I only want the lemon and salt. Me: What are you.... a battery?

“Climate change will manifest as a series of disasters viewed through phones with footage that gets closer and closer to where you live until you're the one filming it.”

When you're from Louisiana

The system of #AcademicPublishing is definitely being pushed to the brink and I think we're at the point where we need to imagine the future from the ground up. What would you want to include in a new system of #PeerReview and publishing? 🧪 #SciPub

As a reviewer who gets ~15 review requests/week, an editor that has to send 50 requests to find 2 reviewers, and a co-author that watches really good papers get desk rejected, it sure feels like the academic journal system is broken. I have some thoughts on what a better system would look like.