A moving stairway leading to an airplane door in Trondheim, Norway. The stairway walls are covered with solar PV panels.
Solar is cheap, exhibit 3,141,592,653.
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A moving stairway leading to an airplane door in Trondheim, Norway. The stairway walls are covered with solar PV panels.
Solar is cheap, exhibit 3,141,592,653.
As a rare climate scientist working in Silicon Valley, I've been drinking from the AI firehose a lot more than my peers. I thought it would be helpful to lay out my experiences of both the promise and pitfalls of using AI to accelerate scientific research:
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Here here. Great piece from @iandunt.bsky.social on a really terrible set of reforms. The whole โdeliveryโ boilerplate doesnโt hold water here either as basically none of this was in the manifesto. I really do hope the government bin these immigration changes and go back to the drawing board.
Of course, there's a version of this that goes way too far and can end up outsourcing thinking completely. But when it comes to sharpening/reframing existing thinking, or identifying relevant concepts/methods I was circling without necessarily realising, there's some pretty nice use cases.
Have seen a lot of takes about how Claude is great for coding, and this is certainly true. But I think an underrated research application is using it as a sort of endlessly patient co-author to bounce ideas off and test arguments with, especially when working through thorny conceptual issues.
Such a good piece today from @jburnmurdoch.ft.com which shows that the declining graduate premium is very much a UK problem rather than a general (or inevevitable) consequence of more people going to uni www.ft.com/content/649d...
New series of the Virtual Seminar on Climate Economics begins this Thursday at 8am Pacific Time. A great lineup of speakers for the spring series. Register here for the zoom link:
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Ha! Excellent headline. No notes.
Please share with potential solid candidates for this postdoc (academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/31576). We start reviewing application next week!
A data-savvy economist or data scientist with interest in agriculture and environment would be a good fit.
Kind of wild that in the same year China installed 10x this amount. Puts US and European efforts in perspective. Nevertheless, encouraging to see the US is still adding lots of new clean capacity.
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Had the exact same reaction when I saw this nytimes post go live the other day
BREAKING: UK govt auction secures 4.9GW new solar at ยฃ65/MWh and 1.3GW new onshore wind at ยฃ72/MWh, 13% and 21% below the price cap respectively.
All due online by 2029.
One of the most important statistical packages made in Econ in the last decade
Donโt forget to submit your paper by this Sunday!
I have now wasted many hours trying to get a revision submitted due to Editorial Manager's absurd latex compilation setup. Garbage service from a publication industry that offloads all the work onto authors and pockets some ridiculous profit margins. Hate that we are trapped in this bad equilibrium.
Can confirm Iโve had the experience of saying I live in London and getting a concerned/worried response, almost certainly due to all the online nonsense out there. Donโt believe the lies!
Editorial Manager is the absolute worst. That is all.
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A readerโs letter in the times which reads as follows: Old adversaries Sir, Your obituary (Jan 19) of Mr Justice Blofeld rightly referred to his fine sense of humour. When he first sat in Winchester a barrister called Richard Bond stood up to open the first case. Mr Justice Blofeld began to stroke the white ermine on the sleeve of his High Court judge's robes as if stroking a cat. He then said with a smile: "We meet at last, Mr Bond." Sir John Royce Clifton, Bristol
This was posted by @mambarlife.bsky.social in the Other Place and itโs too good not to share it.
I find that while power/electricity units can be complicated they are at least moderately consistent/logical. The gas stuff is really just ๐
To make matters worse, the capitalisation conventions are all over the place, and which prefixes are used for metric units of gas like cubic meters (cm) or tonnes of LNG per annum (tpa) can depend on whether you are in Europe or the US?!
Gas decides inexplicably to mess around with the "M" prefix:
M = thousand (1 Mcf = 10^3 cfs)
MM = million (1 MMcf = 10^6 cfs)
B = billion (1 Bcf = 10^9 cfs)
etc.
Applies to cubic feet (cf) or British thermal units (Btus).
Plus Btus has its own special increments at 10^5 (therms) and 10^15 (Quads).
Electricity uses standard prefixes to denote different orders of magnitude:
Kilo = thousand (1 KWh = 10^3 Whs)
Mega = million (1 MWh = 10^6 Whs)
Giga = billion (1 GWh = 10^9 Whs)
etc.
Applies to Watt-hours (Wh), but also Watts (W), Joules (J), Volts (V), and so on.
Working with energy units for gas is the worst. It's like they really spent some time thinking "but how else could we make it confusing..."
(just wasted a bunch of time relearning this after seeing "mcf" in some code and worrying I had done a unit conversion wrong)
Madness!
