Today is a big day... getting my gas range replaced with induction. Chuffed, as they say.
Used to live in a place with one, then had to switch to gas, and let me tell you, it's real hard to go back to anything else after induction, but especially gas.
@bluegreenandfree I do not like induction, which I had in the 1990s, but do like the kind that has electric coils underneath plate glass. That's what we have now. I do not remember what they call it. It's like a hard glass countertop that you can selectively heat. But it does get hot.
We're hiring a technical writer familiar with Python, Sphinx, @readthedocs
and hopefully also energy systems to help improve our #OpenData docs. It's contract work and the writer doesn't need to be in the US. Please share & boost!
Dear #energymastodon, I’m in Thailand for the first time for my brother’s wedding, and because I’ve grown up in countries that don’t use aircon, I had no real intuition for:
a) how much energy a typical room unit consumed
b) much ppl use aircon if they can afford it
Who is writing good analysis about the predicted spike in load in Europe when people who haven’t used aircon start using it more, because they get it “for free” after switching from gas boilers to heat pumps?
@mrchrisadams it’s a good read. Most eye opening prediction for me was that, the majority of people who will own an AC in the future don’t own one now! 🤯
We want to apply to the Google Season of Docs for #PUDL but have never worked with an outside technical writer before. Does anybody have someone to recommend? It's a #Python project focused on producing open data describing the US energy system.
If you're a student doing research in energy systems, we're working on a grant that would let us support you in developing open data wrangling & software development skills. Would you be willing to spend <10min filling out this survey to help us better understand your needs? Survey closes Friday, Feb 2nd.
I've been researching and writing about energy matters for nearly 15 years now, so I'm used to finding the data that I'm looking for pretty quickly.
But this week I set out to try to get a sense of the average anticipated monthly capacity factors for #offshorewind off the coast of New England, and so far I've been frustrated.
I figure average monthly wind speeds would be a good proxy, but I haven't been able to find those either.
Last year West Virginia bought the $290 million winning ticket out of a pool of 500 potential sites.
Form claims a duration of 100 hours for its new iron-air battery. In its least dense configuration, a one megawatt system comprises half an acre of land.
Form also has a sulfur-based flow battery in the works.
Th leaked #45V#hydrogen tax credit rules from the US Treasury look goood. Let's hope people don't flip out and try to get them changed before they're finalized. #EnergyMastodon#EnergyTransition
With the $3/kg credit, new renewables running electrolyzers already pencil financially even without a grid connection, so stuff is going to get built even with these additionality, hourly matching, and deliverability requirements.