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patrickbryant.page @patrickbryant.page · 23/09/2026

He also claims that the reason we have an electric capacity crunch is that “we got gummed up in climate change and sustainable energy” Maybe someone needs to tell him about the IRA repeal and the billions Trump is shoveling to offshore wind developers to cancel projects.

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patrickbryant.page @patrickbryant.page · 23/09/2026

The hubris, naïveté and ignorance on display here by Huang is staggering. His solution for AI safety is “don’t release unsafe products.” Ezra has to explain to him that the hugging face hack was by an unreleased model. Huang then suggests the solution is to make better sandboxes.

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Opinion | Jensen Huang Thinks A.I. Alarmism Has Gone Too Far (Gift Article)

Jensen Huang, the chief executive of Nvidia, does not want you to be afraid of A.I.

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patrickbryant.page @patrickbryant.page · 02/09/2026

Welp. Now this is my map situation

A screenshot of an iPhone app folder containing three maps apps, OsmAnd Maps, Organic Maps, MapQuest

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patrickbryant.page @patrickbryant.page · 31/08/2026

Looks like it’s time to give Apple Maps a try

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Zeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com · 05/08/2026

The rise in Niño 3.4 region sea surface temperatures over the past few weeks has been nothing short of astonishing. We are now hotter than any days during the 1997/1998 super El Niño event, and we are still many months from the peak.

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patrickbryant.page @patrickbryant.page · 05/08/2026

$100/kWh for 4-hour grid battery systems in the Middle East. Deploying O(10GWh)/year in the near future, already Texas/California scale installed. Sodium-ion coming soon with lower system cost and 2x cycle life. Batteries are fundamentally changing the grid this decade. 🔌💡 @modoenergy.bsky.social

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Why Batteries Are Changing Faster Than the Industry Expected - Marek Kubik

YouTube video by Modo Energy

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patrickbryant.page @patrickbryant.page · 02/08/2026

I was a AAAS Fellow after my postdoc at CMU, it was an incredible experience (before the Trump admin put a stop to nearly all our work at DOE). Highly recommend applying for the congressional fellowship if you are looking for a path out of academia and/or into another field!

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patrickbryant.page @patrickbryant.page · 01/08/2026

Fascinating to see all the Chinese EVs around Ireland. BYD taxis everywhere, my girlfriend particularly enjoyed the fact that BYD adopted the backronym “Build Your Dreams.” Bonus EV experience was the double decker bus from downtown Dublin to the airport. That beast of a bus pulled hard! 🔌💡

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Free DC @freedcproject.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

While we wait for the bill to come up, a bit of Home Rule 101. Under the Home Rule Act that governs DC, when our local legislature the DC Council passes a bill, it goes through a Congressional review period (either 30 or 60 days depending on subject matter).

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patrickbryant.page @patrickbryant.page · 20/07/2026

I think the next closest thing in terms of distance from the thermodynamic limit that humans do is food production. Probably around O(100) from the limit for vegans and O(1000) from the limit for meat rich diets.

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patrickbryant.page @patrickbryant.page · 20/07/2026

Everything humans do with energy is near the thermodynamic limit except computation. The fact that we are O(1,000,000) away from Landauer’s limit means disruptive technology will eventually arrive and the AI bubble will pop. All these AI data centers will become stranded assets.

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Thermodynamic Computers Go With the (Energy) Flow | Quanta Magazine

Today’s computers need safeguards against random energy fluctuations. Thermodynamic computers would put those fluctuations to use.

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patrickbryant.page @patrickbryant.page · 09/07/2026

“During a press briefing Wednesday, Mr. Salgado held back tears recalling the moment he saw a video in which he heard his father cry in agony moments after he was injured.”

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Family of Man Fatally Shot by ICE Agent Calls for Independent Inquiry

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Bloomberg Opinion @opinion.bloomberg.com · 01/07/2026

The heatwave hitting the US right now needs to be taken seriously. Climate columnist @markgongloff.bsky.social has advice on staying cool and how to detect heat exhaustion 🎥

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patrickbryant.page @patrickbryant.page · 30/06/2026

The new ruling, [Justice Sotomayor] said, “gives the president a power unknown even to the English Crown against which the Founders revolted, elevating him above his once-coequal branches.” 🔌💡

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patrickbryant.page @patrickbryant.page · 26/06/2026

@techconnectify.bsky.social can you please use the magic of buying two of them to show how GE pulled this off?? The other window heat pumps on the market are 10x more expensive! These GE units are definitely real heat pumps and they seem to perform well in Maine winters…

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patrickbryant.page @patrickbryant.page · 25/06/2026

I’m assuming these batteries’ max continuous power output is ~10kW, so 2000 of them adds ~20MW to the Chicago grid. This would represent a significant fraction of the total battery capacity in PJM! Very cool that they are being used to instantly lower residential costs. The batteries are coming :)

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patrickbryant.page @patrickbryant.page · 18/06/2026

Very proud of my city and also to be featured in this video twice! Once on a CaBi on the MBT (7:02) and once walking around Petworth PorchFest (23:34).

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patrickbryant.page @patrickbryant.page · 15/06/2026

The bar chart is… not to scale. Gas should be 10x longer than solar and coal should be 2x longer than gas. If it’s a log x-axis it really shouldn’t be.

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patrickbryant.page @patrickbryant.page · 12/06/2026

Big batteries are finally coming to PJM! Not sure where this $250M number is coming from, but if it is the BESS CAPEX then this thing is ~$1.70/W (very competitive with CTs!) and $420/kWh (still a lot higher than what a similar system would cost in China) 🔌💡

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New $250 million battery energy storage system coming to Rockingham County

Elevate renewables is celebrating a $250 million dollar investment, that’s being made into the future of Virginia’s energy.

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patrickbryant.page @patrickbryant.page · 03/06/2026

I’ve been trying to explain this to people for years! Describing battery “duration” as the shortest possible time they can discharge energy is misleading. They can discharge almost arbitrarily slowly if you pay them to!

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patrickbryant.page @patrickbryant.page · 27/05/2026

The promise of AI is big but the current reality is bleak. People are understandably upset about it. Data centers are contributing significantly to near term electricity cost increases in parts of the country. Someday they may be flexible and help drive down costs but they aren’t doing it yet.

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patrickbryant.page @patrickbryant.page · 27/05/2026

I think people are upset because they see big data centers going up, running jet turbines without pollution permits, and mostly running sycophantic LLMs and generating slop. A lot of the claims he made about AI doing good things are tiny models that run on a laptop.

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

“Helsinki hasn’t registered a single traffic-related fatality in the past year…Citing data that shows the risk of pedestrian fatality is cut in half by reducing a car’s speed from 40 to 30km/hr, city officials imposed the lower limit in most of Helsinki’s residential areas and city center in 2021.”

politico.eu

Helsinki just went a full year without a single traffic death

The capital city is Finnish’ed with car-related fatalities.

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patrickbryant.page @patrickbryant.page · 12/05/2026

It qualifies for a @dcseu.bsky.social $250 rebate as well! Very excited to be reducing our gas demand this coming winter.

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patrickbryant.page @patrickbryant.page · 12/05/2026

I keep hearing about $3000 window heat pump units. Turns out there is a $500 option from GE that also performs well in freezing climates! I just ordered one, will report back this winter with how it performs! #EnergySky

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Our World in Data @ourworldindata.org · 09/05/2026

Read our article: “Putting solar panels on land used for biofuels would produce enough electricity for all cars and trucks to go electric”: ourworldindata.org/biofuel-land...

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Putting solar panels on land used for biofuels would produce enough electricity for all cars and trucks to go electric

The world dedicates a Poland-sized area of land to liquid biofuels. Is there a more efficient way to generate energy?

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patrickbryant.page @patrickbryant.page · 12/04/2026

I don’t think this is the digital Jesus @reckless.bsky.social has been talking about #vergecast

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patrickbryant.page @patrickbryant.page · 10/04/2026

Thus while the bidirectionality of a power electronics transformer is an engineered and controlled feature, for a traditional transformer it is a consequence of physical law and the physical configuration of the device.

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patrickbryant.page @patrickbryant.page · 10/04/2026

Transistors are fundamentally unidirectional power flow devices but they can be combined together into power electronics systems where power flow and voltage from multiple sources, AC or DC, can be controlled with software!

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patrickbryant.page @patrickbryant.page · 10/04/2026

Transformers are fundamentally bidirectional power flow devices but the direction power flows is not determined by the transformer itself.

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patrickbryant.page @patrickbryant.page · 10/04/2026

Transformers leverage the fundamental relationship between electricity and magnetism to trade AC current for voltage and vice versa. Power flows through them are determined entirely by the laws of physics, there is no built in control.

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patrickbryant.page @patrickbryant.page · 10/04/2026

This is so exciting! If the data center power crunch results in scaling power electronics for distributed energy that would be a huge win for the future of the grid. Traditional transformers are truly incredible bits of physics that make our grid work, but they are also inherently inflexible!

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 10/04/2026

Just to crib Jan's great chart here a little bit - here are just a few of the headlines that came out when growth somewhat slowed in 2024 Many, many media outlets do not really know how to handle technological change like this

a bunch of headlines claiming EV sales slowing down in 2024 when really they grew, but slowly trhan the previous year

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patrickbryant.page @patrickbryant.page · 09/04/2026

Oh wow I definitely wasn’t aware the Artemis II solar eclipse was only due to the launch delay to April 1. (Helium flow issue in February required the rocket to be slowly rolled back to the assembly building) Superb photo highlights from @hankgreen.bsky.social

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Explaining the Most Important Artemis II Photos

YouTube video by Hank Green

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