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Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

The Strait of Hormuz is perfectly safe...

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Jesse @ember42.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Should we be setting a climate action level target like we set a NATO defense spending target? Say a target of 2% of GDP. As a security issue the same as the defense spending target? #energysky

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Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

I've been trying to understand why I feel the particular flavor of distressed that I do right now. I think it's because we can no longer discuss the lessons we should be learning from any kind of disaster without the worst chucklefucks coming out of the woodwork to wreck everything.

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Nick Touran @whatisnuclear.com · 11/01/2025

People often say that breeder reactors "make more fuel than they consume". I think a wood stove analogy is more intuitive: "They ignite more logs than they need, so you can go start other fires". Regular reactors burn kindling (U-235). Breeder burn logs (U-238 or Th-232).

Squares of Uranium-238, Thorium-232, and a little bit of U-235, showing that there's a lot more fertile fuel than fissile.

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Doug Parr @dougparr.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

The irony of a climate-change fuelled disaster hitting the US West Coast as a new climate sceptic administration takes charge of America will be lost on few people in California, but likely all of those assuming power in Washington www.fastcompany.com/91256483/the...

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The horrifying L.A. wildfires are being fueled by the worst conditions January has ever seen

Southern California is experiencing a midwinter drought at the same time as dangerous Santa Ana winds, leading to a wildfire in the Pacific Palisades.

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Doug Parr @dougparr.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Look how far UK has to go to get housing stock to low-C heating compared to Europe Numerous barriers incl (dis)information, up-front cost, running cost, local strategies Upcoming Warm Homes Plan needs....a plan Thanks to @benmsanderson.bsky.social for flagging graphic www.ehpa.org/market-data/

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Andrew G. Benson @a-g-benson.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

Nuclear power is the best source of electricity if you care about preserving scenic vistas.

Chart comparing land use between different sources of electricity. Visit https://ourworldindata.org/land-use-per-energy-source for a detailed explanation.

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Gniewomir Flis @gnievchenko.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

BloombergNEF recently revised it's green hydrogen cost projections. $1/kg H2? Forget about it. Already $2/kg is a stretch, even for China and India who don't reach it until 2040. Worth noting these are average costs tho. There will be exceptional projects that will outperform.

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Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

Merry Christmas! And many warm greetings to Bluesky - y'all are the reason I turned my idea into reality. youtu.be/kTctVqjhDEw

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I tricked my car charging station into powering a 7.5 kW heater

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Aaron Stoll @aaronstoll.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

We need to build more transmission, this is obvious. But what I think a lot of people overlook is the fact that even if we build more tx, we still need to completely overhaul the interconnection process. The current process does not make any sense for a high renewable penetration grid

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Xiao Wang @xiaowang1984.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

A really interesting study on cold weather heat pump COPs, including at max thermal capacity where the temperature is recovering. The setup where they look at an electric heater and achieving temperature balance in a cold box was pretty elegant too. www.nrel.gov/docs/fy23ost...

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Siobhan Thompson @vornietom.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

We have entered the season of no meal rules. Dessert is breakfast. Dinner is lunch. A snack is an entire honey-mustard ham

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Nick Touran @whatisnuclear.com · 21/12/2024

The Fuel of the Future: a 1964 film about how the Argonne National Lab fabricated plutonium fuel for the Experimental Breeder Reactor-II. Utterly fascinating footage! www.youtube.com/watch?v=93Ef...

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The Fuel of the Future: Making Plutonium Fuel for EBR-II (1964)

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Jesse D. Jenkins @jessedjenkins.com · 20/12/2024

This is probably the most important story of year in the energy transition. ~600 gigawatts of new solar added to world grids today. That will produce ~1,000 terawatt-hours of clean electricity, or ~25% of all US electricity use or 2/3 of India's. In one year! Simply massive & it's accelerating. 🔌💡

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 20/12/2024

Today on Volts: I talk with the developer of the nation's largest virtual power plant, composed of hundreds of thousands of smart thermometers controlling residential HVAC systems in Texas. We get into customer experience, data privacy, & the outer limits of VPPs. www.volts.wtf/p/the-promis...

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The promise of residential VPPs

How Renew Home is building a massive virtual power plant by tapping into millions of smart thermostats that are already in people's homes 🏠⚡️

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Gniewomir Flis @gnievchenko.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Buying green hydrogen in the UK today will set you back *at least* £30/kg H2. Real quotes from suppliers. Sure it’ll get cheaper with time but you can kiss £4/kg goodbye before 2035.

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Olaf Falafel @ofalafel.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

When someone says Pacific instead of specific

Ragazzo morso da un ramarro painted by the Italian Baroque painter Caravaggio, shows a curly-haired man pulling a face like he’s just heard someone say ‘Pacific’, ‘Expresso’ or ‘Mataland’.

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Ember @ember-energy.org · 16/12/2024

As we approach the end of the year with a rapidly advancing global #energytransition, here is Ember's Weekly #energynews Roundup ⚡👇 🧵1/5

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Jesse @ember42.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Not going to comment on the politics of it, but this looks to be serious and sober analysis for how nuclear could fit in for Australia. www.frontier-economics.com.au/economic-ana... This sort of 'whole system analysis' is the minimum necessary to do a credible analysis comparing resource mixes.

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Economic analysis of including nuclear power in the NEM

This is the second independent report in this series on modelling the economics of including nuclear in Australia’s National Electricity Market (NEM).

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Jesse D. Jenkins @jessedjenkins.com · 15/12/2024

This is huge: China's refined oil consumption peaked in 2023, says the research arm of the China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC). Will decline 1.3% in 2024, despite ~4.8% GDP growth projected this year. Why? EVs! (Mostly) www.reuters.com/world/china/... 🔌💡 🔌🚗

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China’s oil consumption peaked in 2023, CNPC says

China's refined oil consumption peaked in 2023 at 399 million metric tons (7.98 million barrels per day) and is expected to fall 1.3% to 394 million tons in 2024, CNPC Economics & Technology Research Institute said on Friday.

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Atomic Astrid @atomicastrid.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Anti-nuclear campaigners are making some devastatingly good points in their new report 😭

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Jenny Chase @solarchase.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Do you sign corporate PPAs for renewable energy, as buyer, seller or trader? Would you like access to some BNEF research for free? We are running a collaborative survey on this market. The output is a report on PPA offer prices, including factors such as size, term & structure.

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Angelica Oung @angelicaoung.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Norway is contemplating grid defection.

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Nick Greenacre @nicknet.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Great news. And good to see biomass charted separately from renewables.

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Emil Dimanchev @emildimanchev.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

A cautionary tale unfolded last week as Denmark failed to attract bids for offshore wind. What can we learn from this? This is a multi-dimensional problem, but the primary lesson I believe is that Denmark wrongly expected developers to take on market risk. 🧵🔌💡1/9 www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

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Failed offshore auction highlights how Denmark missed winds of change

Denmark's failure to attract any bids in an offshore wind power tender this week stems from a rigid auction model, a failure to adapt to a changed economic reality for renewable energy projects and rising competition, analysts said on Friday.

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Nick Touran @whatisnuclear.com · 08/12/2024

This is perhaps the new champion in beautiful graphics and clear basic explanation of what goes on inside a nuclear power plant. Thanks, KHNP! www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHgM...

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Principles and Operations of Nuclear Power Plants

YouTube video by KHNP Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power Co., Ltd.

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Angelica Oung @angelicaoung.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Tell Patrick White what your favorite reactor is and he will tell you who you are. I told him my favorite light water reactor is the ABWR and then a soft spot for molten salt reactors. “You are a practical person who secretly believes in abundance and endless possibilities.” I feel so seen🥹

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Michael Liebreich @mliebreich.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Today's #HydrogenSoufflé is brought to you by #Australia and #Japan. Kawasaki has pulled out of the HESC consortium planning to ship liquid #hydrogen made from Latrobe Valley coal to Japan. It was a bonkers plan from the start, obviously. HT @rgmerk.bsky.social www.linkedin.com/posts/mliebr...

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Nick Touran @whatisnuclear.com · 04/12/2024

Great and timely new report from Radiant Energy Group: Restart the reactors!

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Jesse D. Jenkins @jessedjenkins.com · 02/12/2024

Want to learn all about advanced geothermal and why it's so hot right now? Here's a great roundup of recent podcasts on the topic. 🔌💡

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