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Heya friends -- I'm looking for a postdoc! This time we're looking at the ethics of technology deployment for climate change mitigation. Full description in the link!
Quick details: CVs and cover letters to me by 1 April; $75k/year for up to 21 months; remote within the US is ok.
NEWS: Six months before the Trump admin began bombing Iran, the Department of State fired its oil and gas experts.
State’s energy division got completely DOGE’d. And with it went the people who knew how to plan for a global energy crisis.
Things are apocalyptic for science in the US. It might not seem that way to everyone because many academic scientists have tenure and get to keep their jobs (for now), and most grants last three years, so many scientists still have funding. But it's going to get way worse.
Judge Barbra Streisand presiding.
70's yesterday, snow today. Checks out.
there it is
@roryjohnston.bsky.social on Odd Lots walking through the practical, material effects of even a mildly extended stoppage of traffic through Hormuz
as he says, it's so bad it's traditionally been used as a thought experiment for how bad things can get podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...
Join me at the Applied Machine Learning Conference in Charlottesville, VA, April 17-18!
We have great keynote speakers: @vickiboykis.com and David Luebke from NVIDIA, and the rest of the lineup will be announced, soon!
Scroll down on the reg. page for various ticket options
appliedml.us/2026/
1908: the Lancet, one of the most respected scientific journals, calls for 18 age limit on reading in bed amidst a moral panic surrounding children becoming "addicted" to novels, which were "designed to keep kids hooked" and destroy their attention/mental health
Hey #EnergySky! This summer we are organizing a 2-day energy data lab for early career researchers from August 11-12 at Georgia Tech. It will be a mix of tutorials, open lab time, and networking. Applications are due April 3 – for more info, see our blog post: bit.ly/catalyst-dat...
Best heat pumps lists are great, but it's also good to know what to avoid. Can't say I love my Bosch system and I know someone else with a newer model who thinks it's too loud. @kyrib.bsky.social you also have a Bosch, right?
This is why Emily, Josh, and so many others like us have been thinking and organizing for the necessary public ownership transitions that we _must_ put in place to succeed.
We can both make sure we see the end of fossil fuels and make sure the phase out builds more justice, not more catastrophe.
Thanks for validating. Other details I know are Qcell 595 panels and expected CF of 14%.
Apparently ME is ending community solar — I don’t blame them, retail credits for large ground-mounted is kinda crazy. Might be the last chance and it also qualifies for the ITC.
Can’t hurt to call it out 🤷♂️
It’s ground mounted, south facing, 35°, in Maine. I’m looking at 10-20kW (offset small commercial use). I bet it’s still cheaper than Maine retail power, but paying rooftop rates for part of a project like this rubs me the wrong way.
@commercialsolarguy.com am I right to think that $3500/kW for a share of a ~1MW community solar farm seems steep?
What’s a reasonable price per kW for building 1MW commercial (community solar) these days? And how much should a customer expect to pay for buying a fraction of the project?
#energysky
According to a new court filing, the Trump administration has a six-page list of banned words that Head Start locations are forbidden from using when describing their programs.
Among the censored words: "disability," "race," "women," "trauma," "Gulf of Mexico." Short thread with the full list. 🧵
ReEDS has tx line capacity in both direction. Many cap expansion models use a single value. Better to use the avg or max? Max makes sense if power flows continue in the same direction.
Any thoughts? @wilsonar.bsky.social @nworbmot.bsky.social @oetenergy.bsky.social @bistline.bsky.social
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🧪Let’s set the record straight. AGAIN
Andrew Wakefield’s paper was RETRACTED by The Lancet in Feb 2010.
A bathroom gender sign with a mermaid on one side and a pirate on the other. Underneath it says “whatever, just wash your hands”
My new favorite bathroom sign
The #USRSE (research software engineering) conference wrapped up today. I was excited about 1) the number of undergrads attending, and 2) that there are already recent college grads working in the field. It's great to see the field expand beyond those of us with PhDs that stumbled into it.
X1 TLR here, not that I know the difference. More that I needed something wider (40mm) and with some tread for rides on rail trails with my daughter on the back.
Me, a rock climber: I have calluses on all my fingers.
Me, after getting a new set of GravelKing tires on my bike: Oww, my thumbs hurt 🥺
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"Levitt was a University of Chicago professor, he has (by academic standards) nearly infinite resources, he could study whatever he wants, and he’s going for . . . clicks?"
NEW TOOL: a one-stop, searchable home for 250+ state energy and climate policies, targets, and incentives. Perfect for planners, policy-makers, and analysts.
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Paper figure showing that EIA's estimate of monthly generation at smaller hydro plants in the Mountain region can be wildly over-smoothed compared to a more accurate estimate. The EIA estimates are strongly influenced by the largest dams (i.e. Glen Canyon and Hoover).
Apparently EIA's method results in an over-smoothed distribution of energy across the year, especially for smaller dams. Figure from an earlier paper by the same authors showing how Hoover and Glen Canyon profiles are applied to other dams in the region.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Using dam release or streamflow is more accurate than surveyed plants. They provide generation estimates using both historical capacity (where plant cap has changed over time) and *current* capacity, which is useful for power system models representing today's capacity in historical weather years.
Just found out that EIA downscales annual generation to monthly at most hydro plants using a sample of surveyed plants. ORNL has a paper where they reconstruct monthly generation from 1980-2019 at plants >10MW using local proxies. #EnergySky
@catalyst.coop
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Living the dream. All 6 of biked to the beach!
If they're actually LIB, any reason to believe that charge rates are much lower than discharge rates? I wouldn't expect them to be but suppose they could be setting operational limits.