Andrei Kamalov
yahboireirei.bsky.social
Andrei Kamalov
@yahboireirei.bsky.social
Scientist, husband, dog dad millennial.
They’re so pretty!!!
May 13, 2025 at 12:34 AM
March 28, 2025 at 7:59 PM
If we don’t respect the first and fifth amendment, what are we doing here? What happened to law and order? This is a bipartisan concern. #firstamendment #fifthamendment #law #shenanigans
March 28, 2025 at 7:44 PM
I am so proud of you. You are an amazing human being.
March 28, 2025 at 6:24 PM
6/6

The assault on government sponsored research and development will not save the country that much in taxpayer money, but it will rob us of future economic strength. #science #DoE #solar #pvwatts #NREL #StandUpForScience #ScienceForAll #StandUpForScience2025 #SciComm
March 1, 2025 at 10:00 PM
5/?

National science research funding is used for thousands of projects like this, that might not clearly benefit taxpayers, but are vital for a stronger U.S. economy. These are the types of projects that we risk missing out on due to the recent political assaults on academia and science funding.
March 1, 2025 at 9:52 PM
4/?

It saved me from adding $10k of panels that would not have been useful. We are just one of thousands of households that benefited from this tool - this tool has probably indirectly saved taxpayers millions of dollars that have been injected into the economy as other purchases.
March 1, 2025 at 9:50 PM
3/?

For our roof, it showed that northern facing panels are simply not cost efficient and not worth the investment. It helped us tailor our system size to what we were looking for. This tool probably cost the equivalent of a year’s salary for a full time staffer to make.
March 1, 2025 at 9:46 PM
2/?

Doing the calculation of sun angles across a full year is a solvable problem, but it is tedious and difficult calculation. Thankfully, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory made a tool to do these calculations for you. pvwatts.nrel.gov
PVWatts - NREL
Estimates the energy production and cost of energy of grid-connected photovoltaic (PV) energy systems throughout the world
pvwatts.nrel.gov
March 1, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Yeah it’s probably worth $16M / year in today’s market
January 26, 2025 at 8:34 PM