Energy Findings
July 31, 2025 AEST
Thermal Energy Storage in Dirt for Repowering Decommissioned Coal Plants
Alicia Wongel, Jacqueline A. Dowling, Lei Duan, Austin Vernon, Ian S. McKay, Ken Caldeira
https://findingspress.org/article/141340-thermal-energy-storage-in-dirt-for-repowering-decommissioned-coal-plants
Can dirt-cheap thermal energy storage be used to repower turbo generators from decommissioned coal-fired power plants?
Initial analysis suggests it could be economically viable to store thermal energy in dirt.
@aliciawongel.bsky.social
findingspress.org/article/1413...
30.07.2025 21:56 — 👍 11 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
“Ok now a funny pic!” And it’s only me being goofy hahaha 🤣
23.04.2025 18:33 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Photo of Paulina Jaramillo, Emily Zuetell, Lyssa Freese, Edgar Virguez, Jackie Dowling, and Ken Caldeira in the US Capitol Building.
Thanks, @paulijllo.bsky.social, for giving us a nice tour of her workplace, the US Capitol Building.
Paulina is going to have a front row seat to a lot of crazy that is about to happen.
With Emily Zuetell, @lfreese.bsky.social , @edgarvirguezr.bsky.social, and @jadowling.bsky.social
16.12.2024 14:59 — 👍 9 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1
Opportunities and constraints of hydrogen energy storage systems - IOPscienceSearch
Opportunities and constraints of hydrogen energy storage systems, Jacqueline A Dowling, Tyler H Ruggles, Edgar A Virgüez, Natasha D Reich, Zachary P Ifkovits, Steven J Davis, Anna X Li, Kathleen M Kennedy, Katherine Z Rinaldi, Lei Duan, Ken Caldeira, Nathan S Lewis
Hi #EnergySky!
Geologic hydrogen storage is a promising candidate for long-duration (seasonal) energy storage!
Paper: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
Research Brief: img1.wsimg.com/blobby/go/65...
With @kencaldeira.bsky.social, @edgarvirguezr.bsky.social, and more!
05.12.2024 20:49 — 👍 9 🔁 2 💬 3 📌 1
GitHub - EIAgov/BlueSky
Contribute to EIAgov/BlueSky development by creating an account on GitHub.
Project BlueSky is an EIA initiative to develop a next generation energy systems model.
Today, as a first step, we released an open source BlueSky prototype on GitHub under the Apache 2.0 license 🔌💡
github.com/EIAgov/BlueSky
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31.10.2024 19:05 — 👍 42 🔁 13 💬 2 📌 8
Want an Introduction to the Electricity Sector spanning engineering, economics & regulatory perspectives? I've made all lecture slides and syllabus from the Spring 2024 version of my Princeton class available to all here: www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/2wkzp...
13.09.2024 14:40 — 👍 206 🔁 42 💬 20 📌 4
Calling all Macro Energy Systems enthusiasts. I created this macro energy systems starter pack. Featuring @jessedjenkins.com @gruberte.bsky.social @jfdecarolis.bsky.social @patricia-levi.bsky.social #energySky
Let me know in the comments who I missed and I'll add them.
go.bsky.app/TTnoSNL
03.12.2024 01:54 — 👍 100 🔁 32 💬 29 📌 3
Starter Packs:
Energy Systems (Macro): go.bsky.app/TTnoSNL
Energy Systems (Micro and Policies): go.bsky.app/QJyK8o4
Energy and Climate Justice: go.bsky.app/HXiuKJ5
Energy and Climate Justice with Community Impact: go.bsky.app/RLGdcQF
Transportation Justice and Equity: go.bsky.app/AUVTxJ8
#EnergySky
04.12.2024 23:35 — 👍 46 🔁 13 💬 7 📌 3
Electrolyzers paired with seasonal or multiyear H2 storage in reliable wind and solar systems may operate at reduced capacity factors (∼50%) and capitalize on abundant, otherwise-curtailed, zero-cost electricity to drive electrolysis.
26.03.2024 04:12 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
An earth-abundant, but less-active, electrocatalyst may be an acceptable replacement for rare IrOx (used in commercial PEM electrolyzers) in scenarios with infrequent electrolyzer use and low-cost electricity.
26.03.2024 04:11 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Our catalysis paper was published today!
pubs.acs.org/doi/epdf/10....
My Ph.D. @Caltech combined materials chemistry with techno-economic analysis to advance & assess long-duration storage tech in wind- and solar-based electricity systems.
26.03.2024 04:08 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
AGU is a global community supporting more than half a million advocates and professionals in Earth and space sciences.
Environmental Studies Professor at Wellesley College. Author of Charged: A History of Batteries and Lessons for a Clean Energy Future (2022). Tracking and analyzing clean energy supply chains at https://www.the-big-green-machine.com
Lebanese researcher in sunny California | Stanford PhD Candidate, Energy Storage and Industrial Decarbonization
Senior publisher/serial journal launcher at IOP Publishing
Covering #energy, #materials science, #photonics, #neuromorphic computing, #quantum, #sustainability and various areas of engineering. Phew :)
Bristol, UK
Consulting on climate change & the energy transition for NGOs & foundations at Kostyack Strategies. Senior Contributor at Forbes.com & Senior Fellow at ceea.us. All opinions expressed here are solely my own.
A climate action advocate running on a drained battery.
I tried to convince y'all that the constant criticism of Democrats was going to put the GOP back in charge, but oh well here we are.
Supporting Democrats is a lot better than living under GOP rule.
Founding executive editor of Heatmap News. Contributing Opinion writer for The New York Times. Cohost of the Shift Key podcast. 📍NYC
Professor at Stanford Doerr, Advisor to Watershed. Steer Global Carbon Project, Co-lead Carbon Monitor, Contributing Author to IPCC, Tech Council of SBTi. https://sustainablesolutions.stanford.edu
Deputy Editor, Our World in Data
Senior Researcher, University of Oxford
Climate, energy, environment, all things data.
Assistant prof at Columbia IEOR developing AI for decision-making in planetary health.
https://lily-x.github.io
Evaluating technologies in electricity systems, carbon removal, and transportation. PhD, Carnegie Mellon. Views deeply personal.
Researching energy systems and climate policy. Postdoc at Princeton ZERO Lab. Research Affiliate at MIT CEEPR. Consulting for Good Judgment. 0th-gen immigrant. Writings: dimanchev.com.
Energy systems researcher. Views my own
Engineering prof (mechanical + electrical) at a big Midwest state school. Energy, climate, buildings, power grid, control, optimization, data science. He/him. Personal account. https://kevinjkircher.com/ Email: my last name at purdue dot edu
Climate, sustainability, environmental justice through education, research, action, & advocacy.
Director of Sustainability at Carleton College, Juneau Icefield
I run a newsletter/podcast called Volts about clean energy & politics. Subscribe & join the community at http://volts.wtf!
Professor for Solar Economy @UniLUT. Interested in sustainable energy-industry-CDR systems based on #100RE. Safe planetary boundaries matter.
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ICREA Professor & Head research group Environmental & Climate Economics at @icta-uab.bsky.social • Systemic solutions, Energy rebound, Instrument synergy, Carbon pricing, Public support, Low-carbon innovation, Evolutionary modelling, GDP paradox & Agrowth
ED of GridLab dot org. Clean=reliable. Earnest cyclist.
