Josh Smith
@smithtjosh
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Powering Spaceship Earth at @abundanceinst Because prosperous people are energy-intensive.
Utah
Joined March 2014
Three key points: 1) Grid governance should move further towards energy-only systems. 2) The right governance for the grid is tech-neutral. 3) Capacity markets are cures worse than the disease.
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RT @clawrence: For anyone who is *shocked* 😲 about the Trump administration pausing permitting of renewables on federal land & putting up r…
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"An unapologetic embrace of energy abundance means tearing down the barriers and cutting the red tape that lock away energy assets on federal lands. The second Trump administration will squander this potential if it narrows its goals to “Drill, baby, drill” instead of the better ethos of “Build, baby, build.”
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RT @robertwiblin: The energy and water use required to operate a human researcher is outrageous — e.g. they require food grown by thirsty p…
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@BrianCAlbrecht @tribsantos @wwwojtekk And way easier usually. I've tagged the wrong authors before! lol
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@xiaowang1984 Do people plug many space heaters into outdoor outlets? I suppose a garage is a place where that could happen? You've got your solar setup outside and a space heater inside?
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I've been thinking about this... and I just can't imagine many realistic scenarios where it happens? Help me out--what's the scenario? The panels would need to be ~1200W, and contribute all of that to get you to 10a from the solar. Then, you have 20a from the grid. But what loads are pulling that? A bunch of small appliances adding up to it? Then, the plug-in solar not only has to be contributing that full 10a, but has to do it consistently. A cloud might mean it drops below 10a, the grid pull grows beyond 20a, and the breaker trips. Right? There's nothing wrong with planning for unlikely contingencies--we probably don't do it enough! But what are those situations when someone shouldn't plug in solar? What are the equivalent cases to the "don't plug your electric heater into an extension cord" etc?
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RT @elidourado: Good ideas from @ThomasHochman and @AidanRMackenzie—the White House should absolutely listen to them as they come up with n…
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RT @ThomasHochman: CEQ’s regulatory authority is dead. What comes next? It’ll all come down to implementation: in a matter of months, CEQ…
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You don't have to squint to see the incentive problem that the ESA creates:
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"I'm a young Viking and this is the worst winter I've known [yet]" Maybe I'm just a sucker since having kids, but parenting is all I could think about through this part of the conversation. Plus, there's a nice statistical lesson about regression to the mean and small sample sizes.
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The call is coming from inside the house
American stagnation is not about anything foreigners are doing. It's about us overregulating the domestic real economy. American stagnation is not about anything the Fed has done. It's about us overregulating the domestic real economy. American stagnation is not about low science funding. It's about us overregulating the domestic real economy. Every other thesis about American stagnation is wrong. It's about us overregulating the domestic real economy.
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