Technical Director @JoinPowerhouse | Previously your local maker of artisanal bespoke photovoltaics @Alta_Devices 💀
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We must stop climate change so that our children can continue to shred the gnar pow ❄️ – at Squamish-Lillooet, British Columbia
It might not feel like it these days, but I think America is great, and photovoltaics are too. A short history and a patriotic pitch, would love to know what people think. fightingentropy.blog/why-sol…
Everyone wants to debate the cause of the blackouts in Spain and Portugal, but isn't it surprising how quickly they got back up? From zero watts to basically normal in less than 24 hours is not what I was expecting.
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I like that everyone is excited about permitting reform, but it seems overindexed on NEPA. If you look at the top causes of project failure, it's zoning, interconnection, and community opposition. Environmental restrictions are a distant 5th.
@paces_ai have done great work identifying where zoning outright bans solar, for example paces.com/post/permitting-ri…
Best thing I’ve read on DeepSeek so far. Really drives home that if some reasoning model in China can hang with o1 then it doesn’t matter where the data center is, latency is irrelevant. Also there’s a ton of room for compute efficiency. stratechery.com/2025/deepsee…
It’d be funny if Stargate can’t turn on because Trump blocked the wind and solar projects.
If you really hated Donal Trump you would buy an EV, a heat pump, and some solar panels.
...While the "national emergency order" was framed as a 'production' problem, production is already at an all-time high & grew under Biden’s Admin & even more (88%!) across Obama’s two terms.
As @robinsonmeyer expertly analyzed in @heatmap_news, the point is to increase *demand*
Dang and I thought we needed a $100B data center to win at AI…
I wrote about how easily and quickly I was able to switch from using ChatGPT to using DeepSeek for my random day-to-day AI queries bloomberg.com/news/newslette…
If Trump put tariffs on Canadian goods, Canada should fill the Great Lakes with wind turbines as retaliation.
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When the Chevron refinery in Richmond caught fire in 2012, about 15k people went to the hospital. That refinery moves 240k barrels of oil per day, or about 17 GW. The Vistra Moss landing battery project evacuated about 1200 people and moves 750 MW. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chev…
This is a great example of a project that is not being stopped by NEPA but by “public opposition.” Permitting reform needs to be so much more than just NEPA. pv-magazine-usa.com/2025/01/…
