Eric Hittinger
@ElephantEating
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Public Policy Prof. @RITtigers, WILL Chair @univ_lille & @USA4EE President-Elect. (Gone fishin' on Bluesky/Fediverse - Don't expect any content here...)
Rochester, NY
Joined April 2010
My twitter handle reminds me: A successful climate/energy transition is like eating an elephant - you just do it one little bite at a time.
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The scary thing about all this AI stuff basically boils down to this: When you tell it "Don't think of an elephant", it actually does not think of an elephant.
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Note that the search is on the early side - we will start reviewing candidates on 15 September. For the full posting, you have to search the job number (8119BR) on the RIT job application site:
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A few details: our department is Public Policy, with a tilt towards Sci/Tech Policy. We have great connections across campus (Engineering, CompSci, Science, Sustainability) and a large and growing MS program. We need help managing our growth!.
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My department (Public Policy) has a tenure-track faculty search. Topical focus is open, but we are especially interested in anyone with health or cybersecurity policy or anything that complements our existing strengths. Please share & send me any questions. Link below in thread.
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RT @TylerHuckabee: really might need to consider having a moment in every movie where the cast looks directly into the camera to slowly and….
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Japan is seeing the rapid spread of work clothes that aim to protect against heat. The fans attached to the clothes suck outside air, evaporating sweat, thereby releasing heat through vaporization and cooling the body. [read more: .
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RT @RobbySlowik: The CEO of OpenAI hoping a movie about the man who made the literal worst thing on earth would inspire kids to be scientis….
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Does this kind of thing ever get old? I have found that it does not.
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Turns out that I'm (mostly) an academic and I'm currently in Europe, so I'm gonna do a bit of this myself. .
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Happy "I'm on vacation until 25 August and will reply to your email after that" season to European academics.
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RT @TimMLatimer: 1/Today I am thrilled to announce, after years of work, our team @fervoenergy has developed a major advancement in geother….
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An enhanced geothermal system expands the range of sites able to be tapped for geothermal energy, and Fervo’s demo is the first time a company has shown it can be done on this kind of commercial...
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Ooof. A tough but fair look at the numbers on CCUS. CCUS really works, but you have to want it to work to see it realized. If it is just a Macguffin to deter alternatives, then you end up with nothing.
A thought: in 2008, confidence in CCUS was high enough that the Harper gov't was going to require it for all new oil sands projects, Alberta had a climate strategy which projected roughly 25Mt/yr from CCUS by today, and 135 Mt/yr by 2050. How has that worked out?.
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This is an interesting one: putting batteries into railcars so that you could use them as stationary storage or drive them around as a form of electricity transmission. While it would be a bet against large-scale new transmission, that isn't a terrible bet to take.
.@phadkeamol and team explore the potential role that rail-based mobile energy storage could play in providing back-up to the US electricity grid.
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In France, EDF is advertising visits to clean electricity facilities at the start of the summer vacation period, leading the animated ad with nuclear (and brags that EDF is the most visited company in France).
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