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13.07.2025 18:24
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Downloaded Grok to my Tesla and now I can’t stop it from taking hard right turns
New Pope is from the Midwest so I think his official title is actually the Ope
Much ado about the role of renewable energy (RE) in the Spanish blackout. The investigation into the effective cause is still ongoing, but many pointed to the fact that RE has no ‘inertia’. Is that true? The answer is: yes, but ... 🧵
Spain is going to experience a rarer event than a blackout: a black start. All grids operate at a set frequency (Spain: 50Hz) and that's achieved by spinning turbines in gas, coal, nuclear or hydro power plants. Getting to that stable frequency takes time. More: www.nationalgrid.com/sites/defaul...
New: If you're thinking about putting solar panels on your roof, here's how to navigate the chaos of Trump tariffs, declining state subsidies and the collapse of big national solar companies. With @mchediak.bsky.social. Free link.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Thoroughly convinced that I'm good back-crack away from self-actualization
This is the fuel mix in ERCOT (Texas) for the past week (top) vs same week 4 years ago (bottom). Solar generation is in yellow. Solar barely registered in 2021; today it accounts for roughly 50% of generation during the day in the shoulder months.
data via @gridstatus.io
My favorite thing about IAH is that they couldn’t figure out how to get bags to baggage claim faster so they just built the gates to be as far away as possible, making it take longer to walk to baggage claim and thus feel like you’re waiting for less time.
For the past few months, I’ve been working on a story that was set to reveal this week one of the biggest bottlenecks to our clean, electrified future. Then on Thursday night, it blew up.
Not my story, but the very thing—transformers—I was reporting on. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
Texans — the State Senate voted to make your power more expensive and less reliable by passing SB 388.
Call your State Rep and ask them to vote No!
www.canarymedia.com/articles/ene...
A report from @aceeedc.bsky.social on how to design electricity rates such that switching from a gas boiler to a heat pump in a cold climate does *not* raise costs.
A destructive asteroid hurtling towards the earth with the highest probability of impact ever measured feels a little on the nose, no?
Fairly convinced that marriage is just saying “How is the floor dirty already, I just swept yesterday” back and forth until one of you dies
An important distinction lost in the discourse about TikTok is that they’re being forced to SELL, not shut down.
TikTok leadership & investors could make BILLIONS, but would rather go dark than sell.
That should tell you everything you need to know about their motivations.
Out of the tragedy in LA, I know we'll hear stories of hope. I also know that we'll hear stories about people who were taken advantage of at their lowest.
I hope this guide can help folks navigate the rebuild process to make it any little bit easier.
ft-fy.com/resources
With the angst around growing electricity demand from data centers and AI, if this can actually shave a year off of interconnection timelines, that's huge!
www.canarymedia.com/articles/tra...
I may be late to the party here but tools like Replit are an absolute game changer for entrepreneurship.
With no software engineering experience, I was able to build a fully functional MVP in 3 weeks!
If you’ve got an idea but don’t have a technical cofounder, the barriers are so much lower!
Bluesky algo, do your thing -
I got fed up with Angi and the like selling my contact info, so I’ve built a side project that helps homeowners search and request quotes from contractors of all types automatically.
The project is open for testing at ft-fy.com! Would love testers and feedback!
Our new van with the door slid open, putting the "O" from Octopus in front of the "rgy" of Energy. Oops.
Hello Bluesky 👋👋👋👋🐙👋👋👋👋
A lot of customers have asked us to swim our way over here, so we're dipping our tentacles in.
Give us a follow, we'll be floating around to chat all things green & geeky, make energy fairer, and own up to van printing disasters:
To be fair she does look like a chicken.
It's a massive and growing space! Any area in particular you're interested in?
Tbh, I'm not as well versed on that. My gut says that tidal tech is still in early-ish stages of development, so it's not a near- or even mid-term solution. Geographical constraints may also be limiting. That said, it's an abundant and clean source of energy so I'm excited to see how it evolves!
Exactly! Add in storage for solar ramp hours, maybe some nuclear or geothermal (check out Fervo Energy, they're doing some great things in the space) to have a consistent generation profile and there's absolutely a world in my mind where 100% of load is covered by low-carbon sources.
Dressing up as the scariest thing I can think of this Halloween: a Facebook memory of a status that you posted in 2008
I wish it were the former that was the forcing function to drive adoption for renewables, but I think the latter is going to be the difference maker. Businesses want the lowest cost inputs possible to improve margins and the marginal cost of solar / wind electrons is near zero 🤷🏻♂️
Part of that is existential — we don’t have much choice if we want to keep living on Earth. The other part is more practical. Oil & gas is only going to become a more expensive fuel source. Businesses are pragmatic and will look for cheaper alternatives (a combo of solar/wind + storage and nuclear)
I think that over the coming decades, the % of electricity demand covered by low-carbon production will grow and approach 100.
Super interesting piece on Form Energy and their iron-air batteries. As easy as it is to be pessimistic, there are large pockets of innovation that inspire hope that momentum behind the #EnergyTransition is unstoppable!
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
Being passionate about addressing climate change while being an AI enthusiast is an odd juxtaposition.
The evolution of LLMs (in my mind) will surely shorten enable us to create world-saving tech but the energy required to train/run the models might prevent us from achieving our goals.