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David Paolella
@davidpaolella.bsky.social
Focused on technology and policy for the future of energy
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One of the best fun web projects I’ve seen in years. I want a mini CRT in my house that can run this on a loop. weatherstar.netbymatt.com?_bhlid=108f9...
WeatherStar 4000+
Web based WeatherStar 4000 simulator that reports current and forecast weather conditions plus a few extras!
weatherstar.netbymatt.com
June 5, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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Much ado about the role of renewable energy (RE) in the Spanish blackout. The investigation into the effective cause is still ongoing, but many pointed to the fact that RE has no ‘inertia’. Is that true? The answer is: yes, but ... 🧵
May 1, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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Clean firm data center projects I've encountered require advancements in controls and software. It's easy to imagine the broader innovations needed to fulfill their promise, helping nascent technology scale + making it viable for lower-revenue applications.
While data center load growth presents new challenges for climate goals, we're already seeing the data center boom could be a major driver of early demand for nascent clean firm power technologies, buying down costs for others. This figure from the ADP24 captures the scale of the opportunity.
December 5, 2024 at 10:05 PM
While data center load growth presents new challenges for climate goals, we're already seeing the data center boom could be a major driver of early demand for nascent clean firm power technologies, buying down costs for others. This figure from the ADP24 captures the scale of the opportunity.
December 5, 2024 at 9:32 PM
The ADP24 was published today with some very interesting updates on timely topics like data center load growth, next-gen geothermal potential, implications of a future geologic hydrogen breakthrough, and others.

Take a look at the results here: www.evolved.energy/us-adp-2024
2024 US ADP | evolved-energy
www.evolved.energy
December 5, 2024 at 9:28 PM
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In all US net zero scenarios, installed capacity of “firm” generation sources remains in line with current levels with ~500-1,000GW (vs. ~875GW today), even "100% RE." Chart from @davidpaolella.bsky.social

This issue is very similar to Tx in 2015. Let's not make the same mistakes and get to work...
November 25, 2024 at 6:18 PM
Nobel (Memorial) Prize for Meme Science
November 20, 2024 at 2:43 AM
November 19, 2024 at 2:44 AM
Pause for a moment and admire the incredible success we’ve had.

www.cnn.com/2024/11/15/c...
November 18, 2024 at 11:12 PM
We just released an executive summary of this year's Annual Decarbonization Perspective, in collaboration with Evolved Energy Research. We lay out ten takeaways including implications of recent policy on US pathways to net zero. 🧵

breakthroughenergy.org/news/annual-...
Annual Decarbonization Perspective 2023 Executive Summary | Breakthrough Energy
Co-authored with Ryan Jones and Ben Haley of Evolved Energy Research and Jim Williams of University of San Francisco
breakthroughenergy.org
December 6, 2023 at 6:25 PM