Alex Cimorelli

@benlandautaylor Hey Ben. We specialize in industrial construction. Happy to chat!

Update on my text preservation project: —A few months ago I announced my project to record digital information on very durable tablets, so that it will still be there for future historians after our hard drives have decayed to junk. The glib oversimplification was "Carve the entire English-language Wikipedia in stone." —After further research and experimentation, I believe the best approach is laser-etching on tempered glass tablets, due to the combination of durability and cost. I’ve made a preliminary proof of concept, and am now doing more detailed prototyping. I should have a couple hundred tablets arriving this week, so I can mess around and see whether I’ve got the right specifications before I start serious production at scale. —Soon I’ll start taking orders through Ammonite Inscription Company, which will sell tablets inscribed with anything you want to preserve. Do you want to keep your grandmother’s memoir for your descendants? Do you want your thesis to last after you’re gone? Do you want a memento you can give to the speakers at your conference? Do you want all your tweets preserved for future historians? To get email announcing when I start taking orders, sign up here: docs.google.com/forms/d/1E-r6e… —I’m also creating the Ennigaldi Foundation to preserve culturally important texts. Ennigaldi will purchase tablets (likely from Ammonite Inscription Company, but if we find a superior supplier, then so much the better) and arrange for their long-term storage, so that future historians will be able to read them in the year 4000 or whatever. Our 501(c)(3) application is underway. I’m not doing a major fundraising push yet, until we have a shitty initial version of the manufacturing and logistics up and running, but if you want to donate then please DM me. For updates on our activities, sign up here: docs.google.com/forms/d/14_8RN… —Production will start relatively small, and scale up exponentially as I learn what the hell I’m doing and refine the manufacturing process. The first major project will probably be the production of a book or book-length text. The long-term goal is to print the entire English-language Wikipedia and store it in underground vaults, but even if there are no major hurdles or surprises (lmao) it will take a long time to build up that much capacity.

@JessePeltan @j_timmer How's this?

@AlexCimorelli @j_timmer It’s not March.

Who is running this account? Embarrassing. U.S. generation is finally growing after decades of stagnation. Nuclear hasn’t kept up, while wind and solar have continued to grow faster than demand. (mostly solar now) There’s NO WAY that the DOE doesn’t know this.

@JessePeltan Yes. Did you make it? It’s deceptive. Here’s a better one from @j_timmer , and for easy reference: eia.gov/electricity/mo…

@AlexCimorelli Did you read the chart?

@JessePeltan Even so far in 2025, Nuclear still contributes 3x the power. Yes, solar is growing fast. How fast is battery storage growing? Nameplate is not the right metric for comparison.

No. That’s actual generation in TWh — not nameplate capacity. That’s how fast solar’s growing. 2023 is way out of date.

@ClemenzaPuzo @FSPDomino @JessePeltan LCOE is overly simplistic. Just accommodating the intermittent generation is a tremendous cost. There’s also value deflation, added infrastructure, and other issues. Reference german power prices for real world implementation, or look at the payback period for home solar

That was true a decade ago — but not anymore. The levelized cost of solar is now one of the lowest of any energy source, even before incentives. Every major energy source — including oil, gas, coal, and nuclear — receives subsidies. But only one keeps dropping in cost every year while scaling fast: solar.

@mmjukic Yup. Marriage is for the good of the spouses, and for the good of (the) children. It essentially treats deeper and simpler needs. Wildly generative conversation is a nice treat, not a required staple.

This sounds nice, but is actually an example of under-self-actualized, paralyzing techie neurosis. I don't think my parents or grandparents had 20,000 hours of "wildly generative" conversation. I can't imagine having 20,000 hours of wildly generative conversation with *anyone.*

@OneBobShow I got you next time

My wife and I voted. It was pleasant and quick. Go vote if you haven’t already!

Officials on why Trump did not have SS protection surrounding the golf course: "He isn't the sitting president"

@UnintendedCons5 @ADrunkenmiller Bullish supply, bearish price?

@ADrunkenmiller Demand isn’t great and spreads are strong. Plus Nigeria resold a bunch of stuff they had bought. Market is very bearish 2025 balances, partly because of OPEC and large US growth projections. A Trump win is bullish IMHO.

Great data here. The leveling off of 3month production despite increasing lateral length is a major problem. With reduced rig counts it’s nearly impossible to see US production rising - despite being a core assumption on every 2025 oversupply scenario #oott

@DonMiami3 @MacroEdgeRes @MacroEdgeVision This is falsifiable on chipotle.com - I came up with $22 (incl guac) vs $20 in TN

No comment necessary for the circus.

@coloradotravis @AdamSinger What do you use for meetings?

None of you are old enough to have had to use GoTo Meeting

@coloradotravis Airbnb was a no-brainer to me when I started using it in 2014, now… not so much. I still use it when I’ll be somewhere for a few days and want more space than a hotel room.

@coloradotravis I would point to all time high construction employment as well. fred.stlouisfed.org/series/USCONS

@waitbutwhy Understanding of and conforming to reality

How do you define wisdom?

@cooljamm55 @jordanbpeterson Thanks. Sweden had less excess mortality than Denmark and Norway, with nearly 2x the population.

@AlexCimorelli @jordanbpeterson OECD analysis of 31 of its member countries A link to the OECD page is embedded in the article (3rd of the 3 tweet 🧵)

Why does nobody want to talk about Sweden? The country that the New York Times called ‘A Pariah State’ Is it because the OECD found it had the least excess deaths during the pandemic period? Out of 31 OECD members Better than neighbours Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway ☄️💥

@cooljamm55 @jordanbpeterson Note these are raw numbers. Adjust for population size differences.

@cooljamm55 @jordanbpeterson Here’s a link to an explorable dataset for those interested (as I was) ourworldindata.org/grapher/cumula…

@Mark_Sisson cc @AllanRSavory

I haven’t analyzed the feasibility in any rigorous manner but I love the idea

Love it