Michael Hendricks

i believe that humans are good. the decline of children and their replacement with pets feels like an extension of the misanthropy that's been fashionable since the 1960s. i look forward to a future when we remember that humanity is amazing

@Gregg02784748 @johnrhanger about 90% recycled

@johnrhanger What happens to the old ones?

Repowering of existing US onshore wind farms could double their current capacity (153 GW) to ~314 GW. Yearly wind electricity generation would also double, from 453 terawatt-hours in 2024 to 911 TWh. That's equal to ~20% of US supply. anthropocenemagazine.org/2026/03/americ…

code written by LLMs some days

@Nowooski an ERV is ~$500 and a day to install. no shame having an open window, but an ERV is not a big deal

ERV Enthusiasts: if you just redesign your entire house for a air tight envelope and also put in an expensive new hvac system with an ERV you can get air exchange that is 85% as good as an open window!!! Me: Thanks, I’ll just crack the window and enjoy the nice breeze.

The thing buying a co2 monitor taught me is that the obsession with insulating and sealing houses is psycho. You actually want a window cracked 24:7. The solution to climate change isn’t hotboxing in 2000ppm co2: it’s window open + AC / Heat On powered by abundant electricity.

@captgouda24 @grok give specific examples in the US tax code where oil and gas receive a tax break that other industries do not

Note that when you look into these sorts of claims, the “subsidy” is simply that it is not taxed as much as they think it should be. You can argue the status quo is wrong, but you can’t really call it a subsidy, now can you?

@emollick more than the rest, anthropic has kept recursive self-improvement in its sights. no image output, no video output, just get better and better at coding

The failures of both Meta and xAI to maintain parity with the frontier labs, along with the fact that the Chinese open weights models continue to lag by months, means that recursive AI self-improvement, if it happens, will likely be by a model from Google, OpenAI and/or Anthropic

@deanwball typo aside, the observation is insightful

@mndrix argh, typo, my bad

"Lee Kuan Yew is great; the seed he plants does not grow on American soil."

@ballez @leRaffl aiui, ICE cars remain completely legal to sell and register in Denmark. even the proposed ban wouldn't take effect until 2030, so that doesn't seem to explain rapid adoption many years prior

@leRaffl i dont know where you are from, but this has happened precisely because the danish state have effectively outlawed new petrol/diesel cars did you know?

Even with this insanely fast transition in Denmark, the fleet on the road will take quite some time to go fully electric. This is why it's important to switch fast if you want emissions to go down. Also it's why the whole skadoodle about 2035 prohibition of ICE is bullshit. There are going to be ICE cars on the road car far into the future even if we were to instantly switch to only selling BEV. But it is a least SOME progress towards a more sustainable future, so I'll glad take it. Just please stop trying to to force ICE cars on people for even longer, deal? (Looking at you Germany and Japan 😑)

virtual fences are the new barbed wire. i've had this dream for years. cool that someone did the hard work to make it real. should be cheaper and more useful than existing fences in the long run

@ChurchillWw @adam_tooze TX added lots of wind and solar in this time frame and prices are down

A huge structural factor is intermittency. Wind and solar add large volumes of capacity, but their output is variable. You can build massive storage or very strong transmission networks (UHV grids), as China is doing, to compensate for this. If you don’t, the system still needs dispatchable generation in the background. That effectively means maintaining two layers of capacity: one producing, one stabilizing the system. -> more costs.

The Economist has looked into rising electricity prices, and has come to the conclusion: don’t blame the data centers! Today's Chartbook Top Links just dropped with more:

@leRaffl i'm curious to see if high gasoline prices move the needle at all in the next couple months

🇺🇸 USA - February 26 - BEV Trajectory 6.2% BEV 1.2% PHEV 92.7% ICE (of which 13.5%p were HEV) Trailing 12 months are: 7.3% BEV 1.5% PHEV 91.2% ICE (of which 12.7%p were HEV) Graphs are available in the Gallery: leraffl.github.io/LeRaffl-Galler…

@ogre_codes sheet metal blown across the highway in a 70 mph wind gust. glad it was us instead of a softer vehicle or someone could have been badly hurt

@mndrix Ugh. Deer?

FSD perk: the car can still drive itself even if most of the rest of the windshield is smashed

@welovewind thanks for the answer. i've spent a lot of my life in that area and am excited about your project. it's fun to hear details like this

@mndrix Hi- final turbine model/s TBD but typical operating range 5-65 mph. Years of wind testing/monitoring shows our site benefits from low wind shear, or relatively stable, wind resources.

Today is a good day to visit hint.fm/wind/ to see the power of the wind. #WyomingWind Solidly over 30 mph.

i counted 15 semis blown over inside the Cheyenne city limits today during my failed attempt at a quick road trip. near Chugwater, a rock blew off a gravel road 30 yards away and cracked my windshield. never seen it this strong

@mattbeane abstract says "using GPT-4o". do you have a sense how this holds up with recent models?

Paper drop, 3 years in the making. Ever felt the model "helped" but somehow made things worse? Now we can measure it: AI proactivity imposes cognitive load that degrades your work - and once the model derails, it doesn't recover. You do. 🧵 arxiv.org/abs/2505.10742

TIL that ~50% of the cost of coal delivered to a power plant is transportation, with ~10% of the total being diesel for running the trains

wyoming just reduced its EV registration fee from $200 to $100 annually, exempted fast chargers from sales tax, and applied a 3.5¢/kWh fuel tax on fast chargers. it's roughly revenue neutral, but avoids some double taxation of residents and aligns better with gas/diesel taxes