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@cfarndt @ramez Hope this is something @TomSteyer understands. I didn’t hear this discussed in his recent pod w @drvolts. Although he was v clear that CPUC needed reform & he was going to put people there who would bring down elec prices.
Still waiting for CEQA reform…
volts.wtf/p/tom-steyer-w…
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I'd add that it is not just "red tape" in the regulatory-burden sense.
It's a fundamentally different theory of how to allocate transmission risk:
ERCOT puts curtailment risk on developers and lets price signals site the assets; CAISO historically put upgrade-cost risk on developers and is now layering on administrative zoning to manage the queue. Ramez, I would say you are directionally right but underspecified. The "less red tape" framing misses that the deeper issue. It is about who bears which risk.
The answer Texas chose happens to align developer incentives with grid efficiency -- and speed to deployment.
I guess I feel compelled to point this out because I think the better answer lies in how policy is crafted rather than simply a "more/less red tape" or "more/less government" framing.
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Nick Kocharhook 🇺🇦💪🏻 retweetledi
Everyone who cares about climate should understand this. Texas, with no pro-climate policies, has blown passed California in clean energy. In large part because Texas has less red tape and makes it easier to build.
John Bistline@JEBistline
Texas just passed California in utility-scale solar. And it's not close in wind or energy storage.
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Nick Kocharhook 🇺🇦💪🏻 retweetledi
This single-step Apple Shortcut is a GAME CHANGER. No more going to Settings -> Apps -> and then finding the app.
Just swipe from Control Center, run the shortcut, and you’re automatically redirected!
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The best story you'll watch all week: apparently the Italian town of Punta Marina in Ravenna has been suffering from a peacock "invasion" and residents are not amused.
The editing alone is Primetime Emmy-worthy.
Sound on. You can thank me later. 😎
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The world's largest single-unit 16-megawatt floating offshore wind turbine "Three Gorges Pilot" was installed on May 2 in waters off Yangjiang, south China's Guangdong Province.
cctvplus.com/news/20260503/…
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Seize the day: Time to let solar “daylight saving” in batteries reduce our costs in Australia
Renewables increasingly bring tight band of lower prices, and batteries, though only small but growing part of NEM supply, reduce volatility displace gas in peak
reneweconomy.com.au/seize-the-day-…
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Nick Kocharhook 🇺🇦💪🏻 retweetledi
Batteries are reshaping electricity markets in real time.
New data from Australia's energy market operator (AEMO) shows what happens when you double grid-scale battery capacity in a single year.
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@UKgridlive Looks like the Hornsea wind farms are misplaced. Also, I don't think the carbon forecast is actually from "now"? It always seems to start around 23:00. This is arguably the most helpful and unique widget on the front page, I'd love to be able to read it realiably.
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@k9 Yeah it appears that image is fully broke.
Thanks added it on our list of things to do!
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📢 Huge Website Update📢
New Pages
-Nuclear
-Solar
New Features
-Install to desktop or mobile
-In browser alert system
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@UKgridlive One thing is that the OpenGraph image for the above link looks incorrect, both "Live" and the sine wave seem to be misaligned?
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@UKgridlive This site is great! I have a bunch of relatively minor bugs to report, what's the best way to do that? Could you perhaps create a GitHub repo for it, a la github.com/sublimehq/subl…?
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Nick Kocharhook 🇺🇦💪🏻 retweetledi
Finally, the AI feature we all wanted and needed: Amazon now creates an AI “podcast” about products where two AI “hosts” discuss the product and take your questions as if it’s a call-in show.
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You cannot buy a new gas turbine until 2030. Order books at GE, Siemens, and Mitsubishi stretch to 2029. Turbine prices have nearly tripled since 2019. Every AI data center needs power and every gas plant needs a turbine. And every turbine has one part that bottlenecks the entire industry: The blade. It has to survive in gas 500°C above the melting point of the metal it's made from and spin at up to 20,000 RPM under 10,000 g of centrifugal force. Each blade is grown as a single crystal of nickel superalloy, pulled through a vacuum furnace at 3 mm per minute. A set of blades costs $600,000 and takes 90 weeks to grow. The same metallurgy powers modern jet engines. Only 3 companies on Earth can build one. China spent $42 billion trying to catch up. They bought a Russian fighter engine, took it apart, and copied every part. Their copy ran 30 hours between overhauls versus 400 for the original. Modern Western engines run 4,000. You can reverse engineer the shape of a turbine blade. You cannot reverse engineer 60 years of metallurgy.
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Randomly thought about this “bidenflation” tweet so I downloaded DoorDash and this has increased 85% under Trump lmao
Sean T at RCP@SeanTrende
@KFILE I have two teenage boys! Two bloomin' onions, a steak salad, lobster tails, a filet, a chicken sandwich and a sirloin + tip + tax = $125 on Doordash right now. It's crazy.
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no professional economist has ever been or will ever be again this funny on purpose
First To Hear It@firsttohearit
REPORTER: You mentioned that, staying on as Fed governor, you intend to keep a low profile. Could you give us a little more detail on what that looks like? JEROME POWELL: *ducks down*
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Sodium-ion batteries are about to go mainstream. They have a raw materials price of ~1/5th that of lithium batteries. In the long term, the day/night cycle for solar is essentially solved. Winter, however, remains a serious problem.
AukeHoekstra@AukeHoekstra
Potentially hyper-cheap sodium batteries are becoming commercially available and are getting LFP battery specs. This is nuts! This could lead to *incredibly* cheap batteries!
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Nick Kocharhook 🇺🇦💪🏻 retweetledi
Twenty-three years ago the US said it was going to Americanize Iraq. Instead we got something closer to the Saddam-ification of the US.
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This is a really neat UK grid website! It also factors in forecast conditions. You can even get notifications, e.g. if the grid becomes particularly clean. ukgridlive.co.uk
UK Grid live@UKgridlive
📢 Huge Website Update📢 New Pages -Nuclear -Solar New Features -Install to desktop or mobile -In browser alert system
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🦀 Rust: Decorator-like macro for memoization
In Python, you’d slap on lru_cache and call it a day.
In Rust, you get the same idea via macros like cached.
Zero runtime magic – just compile-time power.
kocharhook.com/post/5/caching…
#rust #rustlang
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