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Kyri Baker @kyrib.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

There will be a movement on social media towards serif fonts as more and more people named Al get annoyed with their name looking like the acronym AI

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Kyri Baker @kyrib.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

On Monday I’ll be starting at Google DeepMind as a Visiting Researcher for my sabbatical (Jan-Dec 2025). Looking forward to contributing to solving challenging problems in the AI+Optimization for power systems space!

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Kyri Baker @kyrib.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Data center power ratings in MW vs MVA is a good point made by @agelston.bsky.social . If ~40% of a data center's energy consumption goes to the cooling system, and a large chunk of the cooling system's consumption is from AC motors, this is a large amount of reactive power. Which raises questions:

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Kyri Baker @kyrib.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

This is the only educational baby song I know so if anyone has other recommendations let me hear them

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Brian Bartholomew @bpbartholomew.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Boom! PJM now forecasts more than 30GW of summer peak load growth by the end of the decade. Summer peak demand: + 6.7GW by 2026 + 17.7GW by 2028 + 31.7GW by 2030

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Kyri Baker @kyrib.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Kyri Georgia and Bridget’s first Christmas together ❤️ Decided to arrange the stockings in order of age with the exception of Bridget and Georgia which we switched

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Andrew Gelston @agelston.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

My middle name is danger. First name amperage last name voltage, sr. name fire

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Claire Wayner @cwayner.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

#EnergySky Duke Energy is demolishing a coal plant and putting batteries in its place - a great example of faster interconnection of new energy resources by utilizing existing grid assets! 💡🔌 (yes, they are also building a new gas plant nearby, but baby steps...) www.canarymedia.com/articles/bat...

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Duke Energy to knock down coal plant and build its biggest battery yet

Large grid batteries are finally coming to North Carolina, the nation’s fourth largest solar power producer.

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Kyri Baker @kyrib.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

I love all the guesses but the correct answer is that this is an image of cat litter on a basement floor illuminated by the Dyson V15 Detect, the best vacuum I’ve ever owned

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Kyri Baker @kyrib.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Brownie points for whoever correctly identifies what this image is

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Aricie | 아리시 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇨🇦 @parisien.cc · 23/11/2024

Hydro-Quebec sometimes uses helicopter to smash power lines with wooden poles to remove ice and/or snow

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Kyri Baker @kyrib.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Ice on power lines can be melted by temporarily overloading the line. High currents = high heat!

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Kyri Baker @kyrib.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

If one Amazon AI datacenter consumes around 1 GW, and 1 horsepower is 746 Watts, this means that the datacenter is rated at over a million horsepower That’s a lot of horses And an interesting mental visual

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Jesse D. Jenkins @jessedjenkins.com · 19/11/2024

Folks: this is the energy starter pack you were looking for! You don't need any others. Only this one. Thank you @jameshewett.bsky.social for this public service go.bsky.app/6J1B7RK

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Kyri Baker @kyrib.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

When does seeing your baby smile and laugh stop feeling like drugs? Makes me cry 😭❤️

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Kyri Baker @kyrib.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

To be obnoxious I’m now only describing the power ratings of common household appliances in terms of horsepower rather than Watts (1 HP = 746 Watts) My frozen burrito requires 2 minutes when used with a 1.48 HP microwave

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Kyri Baker @kyrib.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

Is it more common for an IOU to own street lighting, or for a municipality to?

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Kyri Baker @kyrib.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

Going to invent heat pump hair dryers for those of us who want to multi-task working on our arm strength while styling our hair

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Kyri Baker @kyrib.bsky.social · 03/11/2024

recall part of the daylight savings time origin story

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Kyri Baker @kyrib.bsky.social · 22/10/2024

What do you do if your baby is only calmed by the gentle hum of transmission lines

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Kyri Baker @kyrib.bsky.social · 20/10/2024

The net sum of energy savings from energy efficiency upgrades across the years will certainly be offset from increased computing IMHO. But efficiency upgrades have key benefits at the distribution level - it’s not just about the net sum of demand, it’s about the location (and timing).

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Kyri Baker @kyrib.bsky.social · 19/10/2024

Going to make a more active effort to be on energy sky (wait, what did we decide to call it again?) Have just been a bit preoccupied with this little bean (she loves hikes and hates baths. Unclear her opinion about various energy technologies yet)

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Catalyst Cooperative @catalyst.coop · 29/01/2024

If you're a student doing research in energy systems, we're working on a grant that would let us support you in developing open data wrangling & software development skills. This short (<10min) survey will help us better understand your needs (ends Fri, Feb 2nd) 🔌💡 forms.gle/3pa9i3Fk5W8W...

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Technical training to improve open-source energy data access

Since 2016, the Public Utility Data Liberation (PUDL) project has been taking energy data that’s already publicly available, and making it publicly usable, by cleaning, standardizing, and cross-link...

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 20/01/2024

One day I hope to meet some Bluesky mutuals, but for now, I’m still meeting people I know from Twitter like @kyrib.bsky.social.

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Kyri Baker @kyrib.bsky.social · 27/11/2023

7-year old Kyri’s author bio was really something

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Kyri Baker @kyrib.bsky.social · 27/11/2023

So toasty rn! Our new hydrogen fireplace is the bomb

A photo of a conventional gas fireplace not turned on.

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Kyri Baker @kyrib.bsky.social · 24/11/2023

I was in charge of the turkey this year for the first time and it came out looking pretty normal

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Kyri Baker @kyrib.bsky.social · 16/11/2023

Who decided that using capital letters meant “yelling”? Like when was the first recorded instance in history of this?

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Kyri Baker @kyrib.bsky.social · 17/10/2023

working on the "Current" chapter. What do you think this image represents? 🤨🤔

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Kyri Baker @kyrib.bsky.social · 14/10/2023

Reminded of how in the 2017 solar eclipse, Google just asked Nest owners if they were ok turning off their A/C for a bit to account for decreased solar production and people were like “ok” and it cut 700 MW of demand

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Kyri Baker @kyrib.bsky.social · 07/10/2023

I don’t like this whole “LMP is comprised of three components” thing. I know it’s to facilitate an intuitive understanding but it’s not 100% mathematically correct. Let’s call it what it is : LMP is the Lagrange multiplier associated with the DC approximation of the power balance constraint at a bus

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Kyri Baker @kyrib.bsky.social · 01/10/2023

A very achievable state goal

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Kyri Baker @kyrib.bsky.social · 27/08/2023

Watching Only Murders in the Building drop some truth

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Kyri Baker @kyrib.bsky.social · 24/08/2023

I made a sno cone by running on a human sized hamster wheel

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 22/08/2023

Circuit Symbols xkcd.com/2818

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Kyri Baker @kyrib.bsky.social · 20/08/2023

Ok I’ve started a casual guide targeted towards non-EE’s for understanding power flow. I figure I can use it for my future research group students as well who come in without a power background. This is the start, more to come…: kyrib.com/pf_01.pdf

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Emily Grubert @gruberte.bsky.social · 08/08/2023

A utility posting “thank you for your resilience at this time” about a big power outage is somehow in my top 5 grim things this week

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Kyri Baker @kyrib.bsky.social · 31/07/2023

She fell asleep in her tunnel snuggling her narwhal 🥺

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Kyri Baker @kyrib.bsky.social · 19/07/2023

Have any other goods/commodities in history, besides electricity and briefly oil, had negative prices?

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Patricia Levi @patricia-levi.bsky.social · 06/07/2023

Hey energy folks! The EnergySky feed is live! The way it currently works is you must include ‘🔌💡’ in your post for it to show up. bsky.app/profile/did:plc:upmfcx5mua…

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David Pomerantz @davidpomerantz.bsky.social · 05/07/2023

Wrote an essay today for the NYT on how utilities are using our money to slow down the clean energy transition, and how we can stop them. Please give it a read and share if you’re able! www.nytimes.com/2023/07/05/opinion/…

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Kyri Baker @kyrib.bsky.social · 05/07/2023

Google project sunroof is estimating a savings of $700 after 20 years if we maxed out solar on our roof, after an investment of $46,000 (post state and federal incentives). Lol. Someone please tell me this tool is highly inaccurate because I really want to justify this

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Kyri Baker @kyrib.bsky.social · 05/07/2023

I feel like there should be a feature on here that's the polar opposite of "targeted advertising" Like, you've gathered my data and used some clustering algorithm to show me posts that have characteristics similar to my interests Now give an option to show the most *dissimilar* clusters on my feed

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Kyri Baker @kyrib.bsky.social · 05/07/2023

Reminiscent vibes I'm getting from Bluesky so far: - High school computer class "who has extra Gmail invites" fiasco - Early days of Facebook when you'd post on each other's walls and be like "hehe, I'm posting on your wall! Poke!" Simpler times

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Scott Lincicome @scottlincicome.bsky.social · 04/07/2023

Independence Day, indeed. 🇺🇸

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 05/07/2023

they’re lighting your posts up over on #energybs

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Kyri Baker @kyrib.bsky.social · 04/07/2023

alright gang, we need a new hashtag to replace #energytwitter. #energybluesky sounds like the name of some kind of early-stage carbon capture startup. #energybs has obvious issues. Actually #energybs is kinda funny...

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