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Tom Harvey
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Here to talk climate, energy transition and tech startups. Or, maybe sometimes, things that aren’t my job.

🏠 Valencia, Spain 🇪🇸
👶🏻 Glasgow, Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
… took the scenic route between them
PyPSA; there goes my weekend! I’ve been looking for an excuse to dig into that.

Would usually head to github.com/ADGEfficienc... for battery modelling specifics.
GitHub - ADGEfficiency/energy-py: Reinforcement learning for energy systems
Reinforcement learning for energy systems. Contribute to ADGEfficiency/energy-py development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
May 10, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Can’t think of a topic less parochial than global climate. Thanks for calling it out; he has given a lot of his wealth to his PR team.
May 9, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Swoon! What a great project! Don’t suppose you’ve open sourced the code?
May 9, 2025 at 10:00 PM
“Everything is additive” - What did you take from the comments against “every Wh counts” in here andymasley.substack.com/p/replies-to...
Replies to criticisms of my posts on ChatGPT & the environment
And a little manifesto of how I think about climate change
andymasley.substack.com
May 9, 2025 at 9:39 PM
I keep reading that AI has driven huge DC growth; which is driving gas resurgence.

I’d expect to see an inflection point in the growth; either now-ish or in the near forecast. And I don’t see that in either total power or in gas.

CA is the wrong state to see that? What’s happening.
May 9, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Can you link the source of this? Would love to see more of the context.
May 9, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Only $3bn? Those are rookie numbers. www.ft.com/content/a7b3... 🤣
Maker of AI ‘vibe coding’ app Cursor hits $9bn valuation
Anysphere closes $900mn funding round from investors including Thrive Capital and Andreessen Horowitz
www.ft.com
May 6, 2025 at 9:32 PM
10kloc: LGTM ✅🚢
May 6, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Main upside of the outage for me - excuse to get deeply nerdy!
April 30, 2025 at 4:38 PM
You mean “Inertia” within the context of spinning turbines?

Very much looking forward to a long read about multiple cascading system failures. 😀

And, yes, as uncool as it is to say so - it’s been a good recovery job so far. Compare to Heathrow being offline for almost a full day.
April 28, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Back online in my apartment on central València. Will likely take a while to get the whole country up but I’m surprised I got back online so fast after such a widespread outage.
April 28, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Fully agree but “what should happen” and “makes more sense” aren’t such clear concepts to ERCOT 😀

But more seriously, there are still supply chain, planning and grid capacity issues with dropping gas turbine generators near your DC
April 28, 2025 at 2:39 PM