Energy and climate nerd. Electricity @energyinnovation.bsky.social. Views are my own.
Brendan Pierpont
Well, this situation is confusing. www.anthropic.com/news/fable-m...
New research examines Waymo's California robotaxi trips btw Aug 2023 and Dec 2025.
Conclusion: 46% of miles driven involved no one inside the car.
That's 40 million miles of deadheading, with Waymo vehicles using road space w/o transporting a human.
doi.org/10.32866/001...
Backup generators at Virginia data centers are permitted to emit nearly as much NOx each year than the dirtiest coal plant (New Madrid in MO) produces in a year. 👀
Google and Intersect are building over a gigawatt of solar, wind and battery energy storage to power a new Texas data center with an on-site clean energy park. blog.google/innovation-a...
It's sort of like if a coal plant had been permitted in Northern Virginia and nobody knew?
www.sierraclub.org/articles/202...
Behind the meter data centers don't provide ratepayer protections. They may end up increasing prices for consumers more than grid connected data centers.
www.utilitydive.com/news/data-ce...
Republican, independent, and Democratic voters agree on this: Government corruption is hurting democracy. A new Brennan Center survey finds strong support for bold solutions to combat corruption. bit.ly/4apvVns
There is a common trope about how solar energy has low power density so it would use land way more than fossil fuels, and let me tell you...https://ourworldindata.org/land-use-per-energy-source
On The Climate Brink, I write about how hard it is to predict the future of our energy system. The failure of past predictions should make us hesitant to put too much faith in future predictions. #energysky 🔌💡
www.theclimatebrink.com/p/nobody-kno...
We have some really cool jobs open right now at EPI, if I may say so. An early-career fellowship, a data engineer position, and a CA-focused research manager.
My colleagues are amazing. We have fun and we make a difference.
energyandpolicy.org/jobs/
The US government has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States.
Overwhelming majorities across parties see corruption as a major problem and back measures to limit self-dealing by officials and the influence of money in politics.
All energy production takes up land, but which sources use the most land, and which use it most efficiently?
ourworldindata.org
Jeremy Fisher
PM2.5 Kills ~9 Million People Worldwide Annually
Great WaPo article on the **10,000** huge diesel generators at Virginia's data centers permitted to emit 13,000 tons of NOx. The article is based on data crunched here at Sierra Club (1/9) @washingtonpost.com
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Pollution from Virginia's many data centers could cause respiratory symptoms and deaths in the region, analysis of state permits and corporate disclosures shows.
www.washingtonpost.com
Jeremy Fisher
Check this out, solar outpacing coal in electricity generation on a monthly basis for the first time!
This is despite efforts to promote coal over renewable energy.
apnews.com/article/trum...;
