Why I’m running for Congress: www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2026...

Tracks the (very) recent trend. 33% of planned data centers are BTM projects, most powered by gas.

This is a super insightful graph from @kingsmillbond.bsky.social illustrating how countries like India that are experiencing economic development later are skipping over some (not all) fossil dependency. ember-energy.org/latest-insig...

A lot of discussion about "long-duration storage" is problematic and confused and stems from the fact that most discussion about it (even "long-duration storage"!) uses terms and metrics that frame a weakness of the technology as a feature. The main feature of LDS feature is super low cost.

Tip for the youth: anyone over ~35 is constitutionally incapable of seeing Youtube personalities as celebrities. It is simply not built into the architecture of our brains. Even if we watch Youtube, the names and faces of the hosts don't get filed away like they would for famous actors or musicians.

Early/mid-career energy modeling folks - great opportunity here with some of the smartest people in the modeling community: www.sylvan.energy/careers

Where do Loki and I apply for our natural gas demand response credit?

We are hiring at the 2035 Initiative at UC Santa Barbara! We are looking for a Senior Energy Analyst to take on analysis, research, and project management tasks, with a particular focus on energy systems modeling and analysis. Check out the job posting here: www.2035initiative.com/jobs

Basically "Kurt Vonnegut was correct about everything."

What are your politics im starting a think tank

Fervo Energy Bedrock Program applications are open! 2 years, 4 rotations, 1 unique career-making opportunity. Special opportunity for those just getting started on their energy career. Super competitive, apply today! www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/43...

“One mile on a bike is a $.42 economic gain to society, one mile driving is a $.20 loss.” “Which means that Copenhagen, a city of 1.2 million people, saves $357 million a year on health costs because something like 80% of its population commutes by bike.” #CityMakingMath Some costs aren’t costs.

Extremely true

On Twitter, the algorithm would directly feed you the "news of the day" tweet, but on here you have to infer a general subject matter (bus?) and then snoop around to find the original story. A little mystery for you to figure out, as a treat.

Renewables grew from 33% to 42% in Chile, curtailment only grew 8%. Same in California this year, China as well I’m sure. ‘If not for BESS…curtailment would’ve had 43% increase from 2024…renewable energy to the grid would’ve reached 49.4% instead of 42.4%’ www.energy-storage.news/energy-stora...

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I'm posting this for no other reason than goats Well, solar's a pretty good reason, too And also, solar is the GOAT

Here is a funded PhD position with an awesome energy transition researcher at RIT.

We accidentally won two gingerbread houses from a charity auction. Whoops!

It’s a good thing Congress isn’t alive to see this

Just got halfway through reviewing a research article to realize that it was an AI copy of a recent (legitimate) article. Finding reviewers is hard these days, and I'll tell you that wasting an hour trying to carefully respond to AI slop is a huge disincentive.

If you want a picture of the future, imagine a man accidentally kicking himself in the balls with a robot he is controlling—forever.

Terrifying headline if you don’t realize they are sports teams.

Not sure who needs to hear this, but: the plot of Zootopia 2 revolves around the inventor of the industry-scale heat pumps that make their society possible.

Christmas came early for me, with delivery of my new @airspool.bsky.social heat pump. The driving force behind me getting this thing was that it promised to be easy to install, and boy was it ever! Read on to see how I got it on the night it was delivered without drilling a big hole through my wall.

....and battery storage!

Move over, AI. @science.org's Breakthrough of the Year: Renewables!

Automated Traffic Enforcement cameras managed by civil government. Put them on buses to enforce bike lane violations. Sped the money on bike/ped/transit infrastructure.

I consider it a great victory when I can get ~80-90% of my Energy Policy students to say "energy" when they mean "energy" and "electricity" when they mean "electricity". The clarity is important!

Read this as an American woman and then go break something.

My friends Emeric and Chris are mad lads of the highest caliber. Look at what they did to try to save a nuclear plant

Our town's philosophy in a nutshell (spotted at Brighton High School)

After becoming a congressional leader, a politician’s stock portfolio beats out those of peers by 47 (!!!) percentage points a year through trades timed around bills and firms that later get government contracts www.nber.org/papers/w34524 via @florianederer.bsky.social

Online survey research is screwed. LLM-enabled agents can take surveys just like humans. Here's a video I made where the Comet browser agent takes a simple survey and gets around nearly all my bot detection checks. The crisis is here already...more in this 🧵 www.youtube.com/watch?v=05Je...

That isn't me any more - the two primary generations in our Thanksgiving crew was 12 people, then gen2 spouses brought it to around 20, then all of the gen3 kids made it collapse under its own weight like a black hole. We do try to all meet up, but without a meal - no table could hold us.

Shout out to those 30+ yr olds who are still awkwardly at the kids table, but it does mean that you are lucky enough to have most of the older generation still around, so who's to say what is a blessing and what is comedy.

High voltage = high bounces

All of my life choices are validated in this moment

My MS advisor was Swiss and told us that being in the lab nights and weekends was a sign that we were not good at managing time. Don't do it much - it makes both of us look bad.

What's from Chicago, hates Illinois Nazis, and is holy as fuck? It's the Pope in 1982.

I wish it were better understood that this is an act of mass murder akin to firing into a large crowd. Impossible to say specifically who will die as a result of this action, but certainty that it will be many.

I'm such a nerd for energy data, I probably should have gotten a L2 charger (with this data reporting) sooner. I'm sure I'll figure out something fun to do with this data...

Those complaining about the high rate of electricity in California, are sort of out of touch with reality. High rates *DONT* mean high bills. Normal people - i.e. not #energysky - don't care about the RATE they pay, but the BILL at the end of the month. Californians pay less than 40 states.

Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.