James Kinghorn

@fichtner_jan @CleanPowerDave Or the European Changzhou. And they are scaling BESS. energy-storage.news/hungary-advanc…

@CleanPowerDave Why is solar so big in Hungary? They don't have a special policy to boost solar, right? Boosting BESS thus would be a no-brainer for the new Hungarian government. Could Hungary become "the European California" soon?

This is my favourite graphic. It's incredible how far DAYTIME solar has already come with almost no batteries. Just think how this will change with batteries, when instead of daytime solar, we get DISPATCHABLE solar. The solar boom is only just starting...

@BafanaSurprise @HistorySAZAR retweeting this kind of xenophobic do-whistling. Not for the first time. What a disappointment.

Illegal foreigners attacked a White lady in Durban, during the March and March clean up program. One of the illegal foreigners that was attacked, is because they assaulted this Woman who was wearing the March and March regalia.

This reflects my experience of speaking with ordinary South Africans (ie. non-climate nerds)

@GerardoMunck Thank you! These are helpful. Criticism of 2 could be clearer. Bias in coding?

Measuring Democracy I support measuring democracy. It's good to study reality with data. But I believe that indices like those of V-Dem, Freedom House, and the EIU deserve to be used more carefully than is usually the case. Here’s a summary of my criticisms of these indices👇

Ideas of SA getting into green ammonia export are not looking so far fetched after all. archive.ph/17xxd

While AI can increase efficiency, this increase can come with a trade-off in confidence with which I can report outputs. I cannot stand on a number generated by AI in the way I could stand on one that I have painstakingly generated myself. I'll be using these tools with caution.

The research process, for me, remains unchanged. We are not yet at a point where I can reliably and fully outsource my work to AI. Automation of tasks must be piecemeal and carefully validated at each stage.

How is AI changing the way we work? I have had a lurking fear that to remain competitive in my field (applied research in environmental economics) I would need to reduce my role to one of talking to LLMs. Here is what I can report, after a few days of using Copilot Premium.