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Husband, father, dog owner, hiker, climate action advocate, amateur energy nerd, heat pump evangelist, audiobook enthusiast. Chalant, yet gruntled.

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It holds up in a way that Citizen Kane, for example, very much does not.

07.03.2026 03:46 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Back it up with the 16.4B cost of the latest PJM capacity auction, and maybe we will count it.

07.03.2026 01:44 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

So. Weird. Like, you know people can read this, right?

07.03.2026 00:24 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Tyler Cowen

07.03.2026 00:19 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Incredible levels of wish casting

06.03.2026 23:56 ๐Ÿ‘ 6 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The apple car we really need

06.03.2026 23:51 ๐Ÿ‘ 5 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Oh, it could get a lot worse if they, or anyone else, goes after the water infrastructure

06.03.2026 23:44 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Issues with designing the electrochemical cell to have material pulled out and shoved back in, I imagine.

Methanol burns at about 1900, H2 at about 2100.

06.03.2026 23:32 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

They used to be quite common, filters were for high end, because they were quiet. Then filters started moving down the price scale.

06.03.2026 22:28 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

My wife's a mathematician

06.03.2026 21:59 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Dutch startup Rift basically turning hydrogen into solid fuel with Iron as the medium.

What's the RTE and technoeconomics on this vs. say an iron-air battery and a very simple electric boiler, which would involve a lot less material handling?

Or burning the H2. Or making methanol.

06.03.2026 21:52 ๐Ÿ‘ 5 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Ohhhhh, they just WERE stupid!

06.03.2026 21:17 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Really!

If anything, every county should be ready to sign up several thousand acres right away.

06.03.2026 20:09 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Hail seitan

06.03.2026 19:52 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Hmm saving this for my next marital disagreement...

06.03.2026 19:51 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

It is both a deeper cut and more meaningfully relevant!

06.03.2026 18:51 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Enjoy fishing?

06.03.2026 18:36 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Like he could've just come out of the White House every morning like a cuckoo clock, said something outrageous to make his base happy, then went to golf. And people would call him an economic genius because he grew gdp and tamed inflation. But here we are.

06.03.2026 14:37 ๐Ÿ‘ 614 ๐Ÿ” 56 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 11 ๐Ÿ“Œ 3

Apropos of nothing, $25 added to a barrel is a carbon tax of about $58/ton, but in the pocket of the producers left standing rather than the public.

06.03.2026 17:14 ๐Ÿ‘ 17 ๐Ÿ” 3 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Same for me and my brother, age wise, but we did know he got it.

06.03.2026 17:10 ๐Ÿ‘ 5 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Solar-powered Stirling engine - Wikipedia

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Then there are Stirling engines. This approach has been largely abanadoned.

06.03.2026 16:51 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Our Technology โ€“ Tyll Solar

And this isn't steam heat, but it is PV-T

tyllsolar.com/technology/

You can also look at what Fourth Power and Antora are doing using TPV to recover electricity from stored heat.

06.03.2026 16:48 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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RayGen Combines Technologies for Long-Duration Energy Storage - CleanTechnica RayGen has demonstrated the potential of concentrated solar coupled with an ORC generator driven by waste heat to provide LDES.

Check out what Raygen in Australia was developing.

cleantechnica.com/2025/03/27/r...

06.03.2026 16:44 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Geothermal Energy is Poised for a Big Breakout - Eavor Eavor was recently mentioned in an excellent piece from Cloud Clarity 360. โ€œClosed-loop geothermal systems have been around for decades, but a few startups have recently amped them up with technologie...

Yes they are

"Without the parasitic load of a pump, Eavor can make profitable use of relatively low heat, around 150ยฐC, available almost anywhere about a mile and a half down"

eavor.com/blog/geother...

06.03.2026 16:05 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

My interpretation was 50% higher (so in geothermal that means going from like 12% to 18% efficiency) due to their non-water working fluid, and possibly lower parasitic loads from injection, etc.

06.03.2026 15:44 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Well, between the precipitous drop in migration and the full assault on life expectancy, the Trump administration will make 2.8% look ambitious.

06.03.2026 14:23 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Potentially weird outcome where Trump, somewhat like Putin in Ukraine, accelerates the clean energy transition more than anybody, but through the dumbest, most painful way possible.

06.03.2026 14:20 ๐Ÿ‘ 16 ๐Ÿ” 2 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I agree, it's very terrible

06.03.2026 14:18 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Weirdly good for both the oil oligarchs and Elon Musk at the same time

06.03.2026 14:14 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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World War III World War III was the last of Earth's three world wars, lasting from approximately 2026 to 2053. The conflict involved nuclear cataclysm as well as genocide and eco-terrorism. The post-atomic horror i...

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While I have watched several of the movies and a handful of episodes, I am not a huge follower of all the lore. I could be wrong, but yes, I believe it is canon.

06.03.2026 13:55 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0