Josh Smith
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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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An important new video from @rayrothrock and @abundanceinst. Watch it! For 100 years, the LNT model assumed ANY radiation dose could cause harm. New machine learning research on Hiroshima survivors: no causal link below ~50 mSv (5 rem). LNT-based regulation made nuclear
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And both proposals seem like the kind of thing that you can easily explain to 1) the public and 2) the state legislators you need to move policy.
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Of course, any SMR is then going to hit the ~5-year interconnection queue. So we should probably get that in order too, with something similar: https://t.co/D6NsbbmdeL
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Obvious + Simple. Sure, it'd be best if it were agnostic to source, or had some load flexibility components as well as hitting the generation side. But it seems like a clear improvement over the status quo that the SMR connection is at least future-proofing when/if SMRs prove
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Giving a fast pass for load with generation attached seems like a great move all around.
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A big thanks to @julesheerschap & the entire team at @abundanceinst for a great conversation. As states modernize permitting we can build new transmission (& repair existing infrastructure) which will improve both affordability & reliability. 🏗️ 🇺🇸 🔨
Come hang out with me (virtually) + an all star panel of energy experts to talk about the intersection of federal and state energy policy.
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Starting right now!
📆 TOMORROW online: What can lawmakers do about rising electricity costs? with - @Clancy4Utah - @NiconomistLoris @C3SolutionsNews - Michael Buschbacher, Boyden Gray - Our @julesheerschap
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cc: @GideonOPowell / @ts_fisher It'd be interesting to actually see the Morgan Stanley note and commentary, not just this reporting and commentary. https://t.co/oFFx6WTNJJ
finance.yahoo.com
Investing.com -- Morgan Stanley analysts warned in a note this week that surging artificial intelligence demand could leave the United States facing a “power shortfall totaling as much as 20%” for...
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Some live ideas from both policy and industry: CRE, SB132 in Utah (cousin bills in NH, WV, and OH), HB3970 in Texas, Enchanted Rock's Bridge-to-Grid, and going off grid https://t.co/8P2nfZvWu2
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Whatever could these time-to-power solutions that "do not rely on the typical grid interconnection process" be?
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One other story--wiping poo! I watch my parents change my twins sometimes. They fold over every corner to get as much as possible out of each wipe. That's not only a testament of love, it's a testament of being poor! It can be romanticized for the first reason, but need not
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Being "robbed" of moments of connection between you and your child is not a feature of technology. It is a feature of you as a human. It is about where you put your time.
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I'm out of state today. Three hours ago, my wife sent this text, "Double fevers." I'm glad that I left her with an army of robot helpers: washing machine, dishwasher, furnace, water heater, indoor plumbing, and the car. Oh, and the microwave, oven, toaster, blender, coffee
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Humanity’s inventions first engender panic, then acceptance, and finally fade out of the conscious mind. AI will share the same fate. https://t.co/VeWc3g0RT4
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We will watch the washing program. (And then we will go to the library.)
Me on not letting a robot servant into your house. "A machine is always aiming to simplify and standardize. The closer to the training data, the safer the operation. A human being is freer to delight in difference." https://t.co/FWIMDrNxl0
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One of the most difficult aspects of planning the electrical network is understanding the grid's relationship with other networks Traditional top-down planning is often one-dimensional and reactive, and fails to encapsulate how distributed actors across both load and gen
Everyone’s planning for the next data center boom, but what if the grid is building in all the wrong places? Our new whitepaper maps 760K acres across Texas and found that only ~17% of substations have room for the coming 80 GW surge by 2030. See the solution:
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The good news here is how much control this implies for policymakers. Get rid of mandates and let markets rip.
-9 of 10 states with the fastest rise in electricity prices were under unified Democratic Party control -7 of 10 states with the slowest increases were under unified Republican control What's driving electricity prices up is not data centers, or solar. It's Dem policies.
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The person complaining about data center water use would be a much more effective environmental activist if they targeted the RFS.
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A few months ago I had collected everything I'd written about AI and the environment and condensed it into 9 paragraphs to make what I think is my single, conclusive argument that you shouldn't feel any climate guilt at all about using chatbots. I realized I could just copy the
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