Stephen Byrd

@PDabbar @Fusion_Industry @ENERGY Paul, this is exciting. I respect your expertise and wanted to ask a question I am hearing from a few bears. The bears are pointing to the very low efficiency of the laser - and that as a result, even this advance does not achieve a true net positive energy balance - thoughts?

A very important step in physics and for energy. Net energy-out has eluded experimentalists, until now. Fusion power is no longer perennially 30-years out. ⁦@Fusion_Industry⁩ ⁦@ENERGY⁩ on.ft.com/3iWb1Vn

@MichaelWWara Totally agree.

I talked with students recently about love and climate change. Been thinking a lot about it since wrt the COP and wildfire. I really do think that we will only find a way through this if we can love each other and the places we live and care for enough. It comes down to that.

@__Chimaera ifar.org/upload/pdffile…

@ArtFraudInsight The last page of this article shows and interesting link between Mangan and John Darren Re

@ArtFraudInsight ifar.org/upload/pdffile…

This gets more interesting! Due diligence into the owners is a bare minimum….

@MichaelWWara Yes

Hey #energytwitter peeps, if there was, hypothetically speaking, an executive ed program focussed on having moderated but unvarnished and truthful conversations about the hard policy challenges in the energy transition, would you show up (and be willing to pay to do so)?

@MichaelWWara I mean per kWh, not per MWh

@MichaelWWara $200-300/MWh

Hey #energytwitter, what's a reasonable cost per MW or MWh for new utility scale battery? Assuming no interconnection cost and easy siting.

@MichaelWWara @Stanford Congratulations!

Personal career news: Today I step into the role of Interim Executive Director for Policy at the Sustainability Accelerator within @Stanford's new School For Climate and Sustainability. sustainabilityinitiative.stanford.edu/news/interim-l…

@MichaelWWara I had the same thought.

Last night I was trying to imagine what it would have been like to get up this morning, say goodbye to my kids and their mom, go down to city hall to pick up an AR15 to go and fight against a professional army. I cannot imagine; nor being the parent trying to keep our kids safe.

@leahstokes Dr. Stokes, do you have a sense for how rooftop solar developers would be treated under this program?

@jburwen For a broader assessment of the cost of moving to a green hydrogen-based energy system (and eliminating methane), see the work from the Hydrogen Council and also a piece from Guidehouse on a potential green hydrogen backbone that could be developed for Europe

Hi #energytwitter--what would be the impact/cost of "future-proofing" gas power for decarb, i.e., requiring any new gas-fired generating units installed to be capable of >>90% H2 firing? If not feasible today, how many years away from that are we?

@MichaelWWara @russellgold A tax credit would reduce the customer bill impact, which might in turn cause utilities to increase their spending because there is sufficient bill headroom.

@russellgold I find this interesting bc transmission gets regulated rate of return if sited. So why would a tax credit induce more transmission? Maybe I just don’t get it. Will it help the transco pay more to landowners to buy them off? Or offer greater concessions to PUCs to get FPCNs?

A transmission tax credit? Yes Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. wsj.com/articles/biden…

@AriPeskoe I would totally tune in to a meta-technical conference.

Related: I will be hosting a technical conference about all of the upcoming FERC technical conferences. #FERCTechCon

@AriPeskoe Ameren, Edison International, PPL, FirstEnergy

Another utility sheds its non-rate-based generation assets. AEP and First Energy....which other utility holdcos made this shift?

@JillEnergy Well said

Morgan Stanley: Coal-Fired Power Off U.S. Grid by 2033 powermag.com/morgan-stanley…

@AriPeskoe @HanaVizcarra Does FERC now need to determine a methodology to quantify downstream and upstream climate impacts for proposed pipelines?

This is much more direct. From the EO: "The Chair of CEQ...shall take steps...to require that Federal permitting decisions consider the effects of greenhouse gas emissions and climate change." h/t @HanaVizcarra FERC does not need to wait for follow-up by CEQ. It can act now.

@AriPeskoe Whoa

WOW

@MichaelWWara Interesting. I wonder how regulation might change if a Biden EPA were to take a different approach to emission measurement.

The red bars are the measured emissions of CH4 (and presumably other compounds at many of these facilities). The diamonds are the emissions factor based estimates that EPA uses for estimating emissions of a wide variety of air pollutants including CH4, CO, CO2, NM-VOCs, NOx, etc.

I've been reading off and on whatever I can about the differences between measured emissions at major industrial sites and what is reported using emissions factors under standard @EPA reporting guidelines. This figure jumps out from the SI for Duren et al, 2019: