theenergynerd.bsky.social
Battery Engineer 🔋 Home Energy Advisor 🏡
Stubborn Humanist 👥️ Aspiring Optimist ✨️
Building the future of home electrification at restorahomes.com
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This is great. Bravo to whoever is behind this.
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Link to an incredible podcast: www.latitudemedia.com/news/open-ci...
Thank you, @jigarshahdc.bsky.social, @cleangridview.bsky.social, and @stephenlacey.bsky.social. This made my month.
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If another VC tells me to drop services and hardware because software just sells better, I'm telling them to grow up.
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The $x00K seed funding to very early stage ventures is gone. VCs have pulled back after 2021/2022 exuberance, and federal grants from DOE/NSF/SBA are frozen.
It's pretty dire out here.
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These are good, but the inverse - designing electrification projects to put downward pressure on rates - is more effective long-term and avoids potential cost shifts.
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A good excuse as any to bring up my favorite graphic about wealth: www.visualcapitalist.com/chart-assets...
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The right thing to do is keep these opportunities to companies open. I'm proud of my New England senators @chrismurphyct.bsky.social and @whitehouse.senate.gov for being true champions for small businesses, innovation, and energy abundance.
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The prize was perfect for early stage companies like my own: a small grant for initial operations and a platform at DistribuTECH to catalyze private investment.
But no. The administration doesn't think homeowners should have access to solutions that help them save money and ride out power outages.
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Dammit @support.bsky.team! It's content like this that merits longer video support!
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I wasn't aware of the ~9% headcount growth since 2020. If my own experience is any indicator, those new employees were hired for utility energy transition programs.
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This was such a good one! Damn these 60s limits! C'mon @bsky.app!
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This might be the first insightful thing on Trump I've seen from the New York Times
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This is incredible!
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Here's where an edit button would help. C'mon Bluesky...
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I've read whispers of R support for IRA, but it doesn't seem to have moved voters, given district election outcomes. Will R's go to bat for Biden's policies? Will they keep them and rebrand them?
I fear they'll fall in line and scrap them, but I'd love to be proven wrong.
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a) Cute
b) Yum
c) Boozy whipped cream is also a good move, too. Just not too much or it won't set!
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If we preach the abundance of the energy transition, we have to make that abundance human-scale. Rooftop solar is great at that, but we need to do more. Not every objection to and proposal of development is authentic, but I have to believe most of us work in each other's interests.
I've got to.
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Wind, solar, and transmission lines are at eye level. Despite the fact we'll need 1/2 to 1/3rd less MJ from them, a fraction of a big number is still a big number. Many people, even clean energy practitioners, can be shocked at that scale. It can feel encroaching, intrusive, and marginalizing.
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We dig up oil and gas from underground with small wellheads, transport it through pipelines (often underground), and burn it to release an invisible gas to the atmosphere.
Fossil fuels allow us to ignore the scale of our own consumption.
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I worked on that artificial leaf. And let me tell you something...it was stupid.
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How far do they expect thermal demand response to get them? How will they manage customer comfort during DR events? What do they expect for opt-out? ConEdison's gas demand response pilot was...not great.
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So, behind OpenAI's $160 billion valuation are banner ads and a Netflix subscription?
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I initially read RI as "Rhode Island," and thought GW was way out of scale 😅
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Class action lawsuit for racketeering or harassment? Court shop for a judge who'll issue an injunction?
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So...a tree's-worth to absorb as much as a tree...
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First post photo credit. I was too busy driving to take a photo.
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I know these are 80s vintage turbines, and developers are working to repower projects, but given the high profile, visibility, and history, we have to do better overall. Minimize total, space appropriately, and keep them always spinning.
People have to see what good development looks like.
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Thanks, Nat. Any insight on rates or terms?
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Broligarchy
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Oh man, this is brutal 🤦🏽♂️ Upstate projects canceled due to local opposition?
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Worked for 7 years on flow batteries. Hardest problem was keeping them from leaking.
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I'm sad to read this just after I finished my coffee
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Fair points. I guess, being in climatech myself, I had hope that organizations could grow to match the scale of the climate problem without causing problems themselves. Seems it really does require a whole new system.
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I'm with you. Wealth from exploitation is bad. A question I struggle with is, what happens when a beneficial idea gets big? AFAIK, billionaires are rich because they own a lot of a big company they started. They can't sell it, lest lose controlling interest. Is this just an outcome under capitalism?
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I'm sorry that happened to you. You ought to be able to file a claim for a food spoilage credit with your utility as well. I hate to say it likely won't be much, but it should be something.