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Need to forget ideologies in favor of... "the science Nobels offer a case for plodding curiosity: that esoteric, seemingly useless exploration can lay the bricks for a road to places we cannot yet see."

Can always flee into a fantasy. Just to say congratulations for the 2025 Hugo Award for The Tainted Cup. Rereading City of Stairs.

Klimakrise gir forsikringskrise: Økende tap truer lønnsomhet og stabilitet Konsekvensene av klimaendringene – som branner, flom og ekstremvær - gjør forsikringer dyrere. Selskaper sier nei til å forsikre utsatte områder. I verste fall kan dette påvirke stabiliteten i finansm...

"Globally, we are facing a systemic risk that threatens the entire society. Climate risk is unpredictable and increasing. What you have to pay for insurance as a result of climate change will gradually increase to the point where it becomes impossible to manage" www.energiogklima.no/nyhet/klimao...

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Sachets de nicotine, lors d'un séjour en Norvège, peu de fumeurs, beaucoup de SNUS - pour le why, I don't know:
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To please ideological minds, would propose some SMRs like HTGRs or molten salt reactors... though understanding that the probability of fruition are paper thin + in // as a temporary solution some wind + solar... which will become the permanent solution out of necessity. Just bying time.

My ego was crushed so many times. Most of my predictions failed 'cause I forgot about other egos.

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A federal judge has lifted a stop-work order on Revolution Wind, handing a rare victory to the U.S. offshore wind industry amid the Trump administration’s relentless effort to torpedo it. 🔌💡
@yes-energy.bsky.social
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So has he gained the ability to fire FERC commissioners at will? I am guessing that it wouldn’t directly touch NERC... but if FERC’s independence is weakened, NERC could feel pain.

Might have added that efficiency programs, mild weather years + aggressive behind-the-meter solar = net energy demand dipping. Curious about peak power.

Bummer.

True... and the lack of transmission capacity north-south.

True, demand in ISO-NE fell 9% and in NYISO 6%. But that doesn’t mean no shortage risk. Retiring nuclear + thermal plants, winter peaks, and rising loads from EVs, heating + data centers flip the outlook. The challenge isn’t past demand, it’s capacity adequacy going forward.

Two factors to the falling imports from Canada: drought conditions have led to less hydropower in Canada + "between 2016 and 2024, electricity demand in ISO-NE fell 9%, and demand in NYISO fell 6%". But...

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Small silver hummingbird with touch of green perch med on branch. Tongue sticking out.

Anna’s hummingbird, tongue out.
#Birds #YardsBirds #Photography

Some discussions going on about bringing consumers up north. Seems that building gen is only half the story, making sure it can actually be used is the real challenge. // Interesting to see what NFL will decide with its deal with Qc: shipping electrons south or using them for own industrial needs.

Ønsker seg dyrere kraftpriser i nord: Vindkraftverk har stått stille siden april Lave kraftpriser fører til økonomisk hodepine for både kraftselskap og kommunene.

Northern Norway’s largest wind farm has stood idle since April, not for lack of wind, but because prices are too low. Just shows how "optimisation" with price signals isn’t as simple as we like to think. Turns out electrons have their own appetites. Need the right buffet.
www.nrk.no/tromsogfinnm...

Surging US power costs defy Donald Trump’s pledge to halve bills Electricity price inflation sparks political debate ahead of elections

Despite promise to cut electricity bills in half, US households are seeing prices rise, up to 7%. Culprits = scrapped offshore projects and support for onshore renewables + soaring demand from AI/data centers.
www.ft.com/content/4e19...

Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future | Dan Wang Announcing my book; whalelore; Austrian Catholicism; the legacy of Moses and Rickover; Yunnan; influencer culture; how historians work.

Great reference. Thanks. "China is an engineering state, which brings a sledgehammer to problems both physical and social, in contrast with America’s lawyerly society, which brings a gavel to block almost everything, good and bad."

danwang.co/breakneck/

Great article. AI can enable numerous small gizmos across systems to be coordinated while we become more decentralized. My concern is with different AI controlling assets with competing objectives = can lead to chaos. Coordination will be needed = share information in real time + same op rules.

Agreed. Some see Churchill Port as an option for AB gas, but Hudson Bay is ice-bound most of the year = costly icebreakers.

On 🇨🇦 supporting the idea of natural gas as a transitional fuel = Fermeuse Energy LNG plans to tap 9.7 Tcf offshore gas for export to Europe...and Northeast. No discussions on a gas pipeline to ISONE 'cause don't wish to be captive to New England only.
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Yes, part of the Aldhani heist.

I don't know, but "the distance between what is said and what is known to be true has become an abyss."

Scaling Carbon Capture: Can We Meet the Challenge? What would it take to scale carbon removal technologies to remove billions of tonnes of carbon dioxide a year? These charts explain.

"To hold warming below 2 °C, a total of 525 to 755 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide will need to be removed from the atmosphere by 2100". As with expanded popcorns, difficult to push down the lid of the pot.
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The Implications of Oil and Gas Field Decline Rates – Analysis - IEA The Implications of Oil and Gas Field Decline Rates - Analysis and key findings. A report by the International Energy Agency.

A major topic of debate today is about how the oil & gas outlook is affected by policy, renewables, EVs, etc.

A key variable often missing from the conversation is how production declines from oil and gas fields.

That's the topic of a new @iea.org report out today

www.iea.org/reports/the-...

It's amazing to see the number of open positions while our needs keep increasing. I often recommend hiring retired engineers + technicians specifically in system planning to fill the gap. But we compete with AI/DC with a different pay scale.

Agreed. But, on a dime, they have created havoc in the Northeast + increased the risk of energy deficits with cancelling most of the offshore projects. Might need more engineers in elected positions.

Just read the intro, sounds like housing meets wholesale power politics.

In the end, it’s a tariff design: who pays for the wires, and who regulators choose to shield. Connecting straight to transmission wires, industrial load are only on the hook for transmission + energy. But with a more decentralized grid, we might review that design.