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The sports fan in me is fired up w this video.
The engineer in me wonders about the Factor of Safety in those bleachers, just how much steel and concrete they used
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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…
Who has datasets on how fast solar PV really gets built? Analysis of real schedules for construction (+contracting, permitting etc) pref to labor level. Granularity cost is bonus. add who i missed @duncancampbell @JessePeltan @ShanuMathew93 @solar_chase @aniruddh_mohan
Amazing addition to the team! Welcome aboard @tylerhnorris, looking forward to great things.
Big professional update: I’m thrilled to share that I’ve joined @Google as Head of Market Innovation on the Advanced Energy team, and today is my first day.
The power sector is undergoing a transformation as rapid load growth, emerging technologies, and ambitious decarbonization goals all converge. In this role, I’ll be focused on identifying and advancing innovations to better enable electricity markets to accommodate AI-driven demand and clean energy technologies.
As I transition to the Bay Area, I'm excited to be joining a world-class team working at the frontier of energy innovation, and to collaborate with partners across the energy ecosystem. I'm also grateful that I can continue my PhD research and stay close to the research community.
I wouldn't be here without the support of incredible mentors and colleagues at @DukeU and beyond – thank you for everything.
Let’s get to work!
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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…
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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!
Burning fuels like oil, gas, and coal feels comfortable and familiar. We've been doing it in our homes for centuries. Human impact gradual.
Hazards from things like batteries and nuclear feel much more exotic. Interaction much more rare.
Education needed for long time to come.
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The speed at which batteries have taken over ancillary services in ERCOT is impressive!
Google will need a wide range of clean energy resources to reach our goals. But it's important to get the details right. So, excited to publish procurement criteria for a techs like #nuclear #geothermal #bioenergy #ccs and all the rest! See appendix C. sustainability.google/report…
San Francisco folks advise if interested in #energytwitter happy hour next Monday 14th near Embarcadero. Some of us will be in town.
#EnergyTwitter SF happy hour at Gotts (Ferry Building) 5pm next Monday 14th, reply or DM if attending. Some of us Google Climate team folks in town, and though I don't live in SF anymore, I sure enjoy a good meetup.
see you there at 5pm today looks like a good turnout.
#EnergyTwitter SF happy hour at Gotts (Ferry Building) 5pm next Monday 14th, reply or DM if attending. Some of us Google Climate team folks in town, and though I don't live in SF anymore, I sure enjoy a good meetup.
We need a diversity of technologies for the future of the grid, and I'm excited to announce we have added #nuclear to our planned mix alongside #solar #wind #geothermal #batteries #ESS #hydro and #bioenergy
Huge congrats to all involved.
1/ Today, @Google signed the world’s first corporate agreement to purchase clean nuclear energy from a series of small modular reactors (SMRs), to be developed by @KairosPower - our first-ever advanced nuclear deal. ⚛ Our blog: blog.google/outreach-initiat…
Hi @KatherineBlunt and @audreyjachinlee I understand you do the important work orchestrating #EnergyTwitter happy hours. feel free to stop by or tell the gang. cc @ryancmann @cleakolster
Exciting times in DAC!
Our latest carbon removal offtake agreement is a milestone -- the first $100/ton deal for direct air capture. DAC faces a long road to achieving commercial viability and scale and achieving lower cost DAC at a small scale is a first step towards giving the market confidence that reaching megatons or even gigatons per year could be possible. @google blog.google/outreach-initiat…
There are not many trillion dollar questions in the world, but how to do electricity emissions accounting is definitely one. It's also incredibly wonky and obscure.
On this topic @NiyerClimate is one of the best thinkers & communicators on this platform.
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