Director at Canary Media, reporting on climate change, electrification, decarbonization @CanaryMediaInc.
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A Texas Cop Signed on to Help ICE Deport His Neighbors. It Tore the Town Apart. propublica.org/article/depor…
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She went as a congresswoman who hadn’t bought Meta stock after signing a NDA
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What would get you to join a virtual power plant? That’s what these researchers are trying to figure out by letting 200 California households build their own VPP.
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“Battery fires are like shark attacks: frightening events that loom cinematically large in the American psyche and almost never actually happen.” As US grid batteries surge, risk of fires plummets @CanaryMediaInc canarymedia.com/articles/bat… #energy #BESS #batteries
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Grid batteries are growing — and their fire risk is shrinking.
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Jonathan Webb, founder of bankrupt indoor-farming startup AppHarvest, is the cofounder and CEO of The Nuclear Company.
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NEW: Google will pay Voltus for a gigawatt of virtual power plant capacity in PJM Interconnection, hoping to free up space on the grid for data centers.
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A bartender traveling to New Orleans for tales of the cocktails was arrested by ICE at MSY and deported to a country she's never been to.
@rjamesfinn on how Louisiana has become the epicenter of ICE's deportations to countries people have no ties to nola.com/news/courts/alexand…
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Congress is taking its first crack at approving balcony solar nationwide.
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Update: Mayes has filed an action In Maricopa County Superior Court asking a judge to force Heap to restore the prior voter registration status for 25* U.S. citizens.
AZ Attorney General Kris Mayes is threatening to sue Maricopa County Recorder Justin Heap if he doesn’t restore voting rights to 24 U.S. citizens who were previously flagged using a controversial and unreliable federal citizenship verification database.
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We are proud to lean into native 800VDC datacenters with @VantageDC. The first of many GWs to come.
.@VantageDC just reserved over 1 GW of manufacturing capacity for Heron Link, bringing the adoption of 800 VDC power architecture for next-generation AI data centers a step closer.
The @nvidia 800 VDC architecture calls for converting medium-voltage grid power directly to 800 VDC. Heron Link does just that, integrating power conversion, protection, and distribution into a single cabinet.
Our agreement with @VantageDC creates a path to bring this architecture to hyperscale data center campuses.
Read more: heronpower.com/news-stories/…
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Science authors oversold fusion hype to the point people unironically think it would be better to concentrate on it rather than fission. The ssoner the reckoning comes the better.
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Methane gas billows from oil wells, blasts out of pressure valves on pipelines, wafts from sprawling gas processing plants and rises up in clouds when companies air out systems during routine maintenance in the oilfields.
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Fusion will be orders of magnitude more expensive than boiling water with hot rocks.
Simulations aren't good enough to capture all the plasma instabilities that arise in a practical implementation. You basically need agents + robots 3d printing and assembling thousands of chambers, instrumenting them, and running tons of cases physically.
I'm shocked that people think fusion will be cheap. Fuel is cheaper? Ok, fission reactor fuel is like 10% of total fission cost. Fusion with tritium breeding will be oozing out (lower level but still real) radiation like crazy. I suspect we'll see net positive fusion energy soonish but I think it will remain 10-300x more expensive than the competition probably forever due to engineering complexity, fast neutron first wall issues, and tritium management.
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Simulations aren't good enough to capture all the plasma instabilities that arise in a practical implementation. You basically need agents + robots 3d printing and assembling thousands of chambers, instrumenting them, and running tons of cases physically.
I'm shocked that people think fusion will be cheap. Fuel is cheaper? Ok, fission reactor fuel is like 10% of total fission cost. Fusion with tritium breeding will be oozing out (lower level but still real) radiation like crazy. I suspect we'll see net positive fusion energy soonish but I think it will remain 10-300x more expensive than the competition probably forever due to engineering complexity, fast neutron first wall issues, and tritium management.
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But I feel all of this polite deference was really dancing around the reality that Lovins's essay reads as absurd today. Mega-solar is thriving. Transmission infrastructure spans continents in North America, Europe, and Asia. China is planning large hydropower projects that will generate triple what the Three Gorges Dam does today. Humanity has urbanized and clustered industry more intensively, not less. We are not producing fuels from small-scale organic biomass converters. The backyard windmill market is nonexistent. We have not cooked our rivers and lakes to cool thermal power plants. Fossil fuel deposits are, unfortunately, not as scarce as Lovins predicted. And the path we now regret not taking is the missed opportunity to build more nuclear power capacity in the 1980s-1990s.
Insofar as people continue to champion a soft energy path today, it is as a sub-branch of capabilities and solutions within the hard energy system... with most now implicitly agreeing that the two can in fact coexist and are not mutually exclusive. The centralized, mega-infrastructure hard energy path has won the past 50 years, and seems likely to win the next 50.
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