Firebrick storage powered by WindWaterSolar electricity has huge potential to replace fossil furnaces at low cost
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A Scotland distillery claims a world first - it produces & stores 1,200C heat with low and 0 carbon electricity, not fossils
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A Scottish distillery is to use otherwise wasted wind power to heat its stills in a 'world-first' decarbonised heat project 👇
Also worth understanding why we aren’t building wind (it’s not cost effective because of how the merit dispatch order works and price canibalization). Solar will not avoid this fate despite everyone’s excitement.
The pricing system is not set up to support a 100% renewable future.
Many residential heat pump evangelists are supporting hybrid systems and we really need to get the C&I community on board.
Yeah. For the time being a hybrid natural gas + electric system is required for practicality and going to have lower system emissions during super cold operations.
And you get to start arbitraging on price and avoid huge peak capacity upgrades.
AtmosZero is primarily air source but can take other heat sources such as waste heat from cooling processes.
Taking heat from condensate return wouldn’t really make sense unless you were dumping the condensate, which you’d want to avoid.
New Belgium beers in Colorado and yes!
The French government has announced the measures of its plan to accelerate electrification:
- a ban on gas boilers in new houses from the end of 2026
- increased support for replacing old heating with heat pumps
- 100 regions will pilot comprehensive heat transition plans to phase out gas by 2030
Heat batteries are a game changer for decarbonising heat.
Polar Night Energy and Lahti Energia Oy have partnered to construct what is expected to become the world’s largest sand-based thermal energy storage system, to be built in Vääksy, Finland.
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I am also incredulous
Truly this was a super stressful way to get to OT
The Bois tweet
We are here now
I am not one of those who believes that history repeats, but consider the following from Herodotus: the Oracle at Delphi told the fabulously wealthy King Croesus that if he invaded Persia he would "destroy a great empire." Croesus invaded and lost--the empire he destroyed was his own.
The military must not follow any orders to destroy "a whole civilization." Sane members of Congress should say this loudly now.
So good. Really a great episode broadly.
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The annual totals?
Important update about Congressional efforts to prevent the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) from being dismantled. Last week the White House threatened to veto any appropriations bill that protects NCAR. Despite this attempt at intimidation ... (1/ )
Woah. I haven’t fully analyzed ERCOT and MISO but it seems like load was higher in 2025 than 2024, surprising to see CAISO come in significantly below
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Lynn Conway.
#ResistanceRoots
Lynn Conway was born on this day in 1938 in Mount Vernon, N.Y. She was a computer scientist, electrical engineer and prominent transgender rights activist whose work at IBM and Xerox PARC fundamentally reshaped the architecture of modern computing and the semiconductor industry. /1
We need market reform. In the meantime, deploying price-sensitive load specifically during renewable hours can help provide some price support for renewables.
We’re earlier on the price cannibalization curve of batteries (though AS prices have dropped significantly and in many areas, batteries are not currently cost effective) compared with renewables.
Current market structures are not going to pay enough for renewable generation. It’s a problem.
@PeteHegseth on X: Let’s make one thing crystal clear: Admiral Mitch Bradley is an American hero, a true professional, and has my 100% support. I stand by him and the combat decisions he has made — on the September 2 mission and all others since. America is fortunate to have such men protecting us. When this @DeptofWar says we have the back of our warriors — we mean it. 01 Dec 25
Hegseth is very transparently blaming a Navy admiral for his own decision. Let this be a lesson for every other military officer: The Trump administration will issue unlawful orders, then blame you for following them.
He’s an onion!
(Utility scale renewables being compensated by the wholesale market)
Broadly agree that generation costs are minimally important for residential electricity costs but taking about generation — building renewables is in the red in almost all markets. We need to be paying renewables more!
The most insanely frustrating thing about the #ClimateCrisis is how the breakthrough we so clearly need isn’t technological. It’s just a collective willingness, a determination even, to change in ways that would clearly be SO MUCH BETTER than the clear and obvious consequences of NOT changing.
Isn’t that true for any place that has a capacity market?