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Adam Forni retweeted
These are excellent opportunities to drive advanced reactor commercialization during the most exciting time in the history of the nuclear industry. I'd strongly suggested interested people apply!
NIA is hiring! We are looking for a Director of Operations, Analyst/Senior Analyst, and Program Manager for Nuclear Economics and Project Development. Click here to learn more and to submit your application: nuclearinnovationalliance.ap…
Adam Forni retweeted
AI efficiency is important. Today, Google is sharing a technical paper detailing our comprehensive methodology for measuring the environmental impact of Gemini inference. We estimate that the median Gemini Apps text prompt uses 0.24 watt-hours of energy (equivalent to watching an average TV for ~nine seconds), and consumes 0.26 milliliters of water (about five drops) — figures that are substantially lower than many public estimates.
At the same time, our AI systems are becoming more efficient through research innovations and software and hardware efficiency improvements. From May 2024 to May 2025, the energy footprint of the median Gemini Apps text prompt dropped by 33x, and the total carbon footprint dropped by 44x, through a combination of model efficiency improvements, machine utilization improvements and additional clean energy procurement, all while delivering higher quality responses.
See the blog or technical paper for more about our methodology and ongoing efforts.
Blog:
cloud.google.com/blog/produc…
Link to detailed paper: services.google.com/fh/files…
Adam Forni retweeted
This is my quant... @ddpaolella talking about the new @Breakthrough GRIDS initiative to help speed up grid modeling and get study times down to weeks not months or years. Thanks @gurobi for having us in Berlin!
Adam Forni retweeted
The speed at which batteries have taken over ancillary services in ERCOT is impressive!
Adam Forni retweeted
two ipcc authors wrote a paper for kids that was peer-reviewed by some teenagers and the level of frankness is something a lot of climate scientists could learn from
Adam Forni retweeted
1/ I wrote about how to start an advance market commitment, drawing largely on our experience starting Frontier:
worksinprogress.co/issue/how…
Adam Forni retweeted
Today, we are excited to announce our collaboration with @DukeEnergy and our peers to create a Clean Transition Tariff (CTT) - a new model that allows @Google and other large energy users to accelerate the deployment of clean capacity solutions. news.duke-energy.com/release…
Adam Forni retweeted
Print this figure out and put it on your wall.
Top. Residual emissions with a global carbon price
Middle & Bottom. Residual emissions when you actually try to reduce them...
iopscience.iop.org/article/1…
Adam Forni retweeted
Expanding US transmission is vital for zeroing grid emissions, enabling widespread electrification & supporting economic growth. A new report shows reconductoring lines has large potential alongside greenfield development, making Tx expansion more feasible. I dig into the data ⬇️
Adam Forni retweeted
Great news from the energy folks— @DevonSwezey @jeffriles @xternality and many others—at $GOOG, $MSFT, and $NUE: advancedcleanelectricity.com…
Adam Forni retweeted
Pleased to share that @Google has joined the @United Airlines Ventures Sustainable Flight Fund to support start-ups focused on decarbonizing air travel and create the ecosystem needed to drive SAF production at scale. ✈️
Aviation is a particularly challenging sector to decarbonize and we know SAF will be critical for eliminating emissions. We’re excited about this partnership because it provides early catalytic support to enable the growth of the SAF industry and make this carbon-free solution more widely available. Read the announcement here:
prn.to/3SVZvJ4
Adam Forni retweeted
Modeling simplifies a complex/uncertain path to net zero, w/single scenarios undervaluing optionality.
The bar for saying *we don't need X* should be much higher than *Y could be key & should be supported.*
The data point to new Tx being a crucial tool along w/reconductoring.
After what I’ve learned in the past year, here’s my pitch: we’re going about finding new grid capacity for clean energy and electrification all wrong. A thread. (And one caveat) #transmission #cleanenergy
ALT Guy sitting at a table with a sign that reads "we don't need new transmission -- change my mind"
Adam Forni retweeted
I thought some might be interested in the dose rates I recorded on a recent trip to the areas around Fukushima Daiichi. As expected, the flights resulted in higher dose rates and higher cumulative doses. None of these doses were harmful — less than a panoramic dental X-ray
Adam Forni retweeted
Excited to share that @Google’s first-of-its-kind enhanced geothermal power project with @FervoEnergy is now operational and helping power our data centers in Nevada ⚡️ 1/ blog.google/outreach-initiat…
Adam Forni retweeted
Excited to share @Google is part of Frontier’s second round of carbon removal offtakes - this time to help scale promising Direct Air Capture solutions. Congrats to @nanransohoff, the @Stripe team and other buyers on this next big step.
frontierclimate.com/writing/…
Adam Forni retweeted
In order to fully decarbonize, we'll need to commercialize clean electricity technologies to complement the rapid growth of wind and solar power.
A new paper from @Google highlights a path forward for multiple climate solutions & 24/7 carbon-free energy: blog.google/outreach-initiat…
Adam Forni retweeted
I’m thrilled to share a new paper by the Google energy and climate team about why and how corporate clean energy buyers should support advanced clean electricity technologies needed to accelerate electricity grid decarbonization: blog.google/outreach-initiat… 🧵1/
Adam Forni retweeted
In a fabulous new note, @BloombergNEF has a message for @USTreasury as it crafts US hydrogen tax credit guidance: "be strict, or be damned"!
USA needs rules aligned w/EU & requiring new carbon-free electricity deliverable to electrolyzers & produced at the time it's consumed.
Adam Forni retweeted
How can we design market boundaries that enable credible #cleanenergy and #carbon emissions claims? A new report published today by @TrySingularity and @TheBrattleGroup provides a framework to help answer this question. Check it out here: singularity.energy/boundarie… (1/2)
