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29 Jun 2017
My twitter handle reminds me: A successful climate/energy transition is like eating an elephant - you just do it one little bite at a time.
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10 Aug 2023
The scary thing about all this AI stuff basically boils down to this: When you tell it "Don't think of an elephant", it actually does not think of an elephant.
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1 Aug 2023
My department (Public Policy) has a tenure-track faculty search. Topical focus is open, but we are especially interested in anyone with health or cybersecurity policy or anything that complements our existing strengths.
Please share & send me any questions. Link below in thread.
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1 Aug 2023
A few details: our department is Public Policy, with a tilt towards Sci/Tech Policy. We have great connections across campus (Engineering, CompSci, Science, Sustainability) and a large and growing MS program. We need help managing our growth!
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1 Aug 2023
Note that the search is on the early side - we will start reviewing candidates on 15 September. For the full posting, you have to search the job number (8119BR) on the RIT job application site: careers.rit.edu/faculty
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24 Jul 2023
I think we found the most "Lille" product in existence
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Eric Hittinger retweeted
23 Jul 2023
really might need to consider having a moment in every movie where the cast looks directly into the camera to slowly and clearly articulate the major themes.
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23 Jul 2023
Japan is seeing the rapid spread of work clothes that aim to protect against heat. The fans attached to the clothes suck outside air, evaporating sweat, thereby releasing heat through vaporization and cooling the body
[read more: buff.ly/44Uh9zT]
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Eric Hittinger retweeted
23 Jul 2023
Putin, defender of the faith
22 Jul 2023
Odesaโs main Orthodox cathedral. Established in 1794, destroyed by Stalin in 1936, rebuilt under an independent Ukraine and destroyed again by Putin in 2023. One of several historical parts of central Odesa, a UNESCO world heritage site, hit by Russian missiles strikes today.
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Eric Hittinger retweeted
22 Jul 2023
The CEO of OpenAI hoping a movie about the man who made the literal worst thing on earth would inspire kids to be scientists tells you everything you need to know about OpenAI
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19 Jul 2023
Does this kind of thing ever get old? I have found that it does not...
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19 Jul 2023
(I'm just walking back from the grocery store, BTW)
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18 Jul 2023
Happy "I'm on vacation until 25 August and will reply to your email after that" season to European academics.
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18 Jul 2023
Turns out that I'm (mostly) an academic and I'm currently in Europe, so I'm gonna do a bit of this myself....
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18 Jul 2023
1/Today I am thrilled to announce, after years of work, our team @fervoenergy has developed a major advancement in geothermal, proven it at the field scale, and is set to deliver commercial next-gen geothermal decades ahead of schedule. THREAD. bloomberg.com/news/articles/โฆ
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17 Jul 2023
Ooof. A tough but fair look at the numbers on CCUS. CCUS really works, but you have to want it to work to see it realized. If it is just a Macguffin to deter alternatives, then you end up with nothing.
17 Jul 2023
A thought: in 2008, confidence in CCUS was high enough that the Harper gov't was going to require it for all new oil sands projects, Alberta had a climate strategy which projected roughly 25Mt/yr from CCUS by today, and 135 Mt/yr by 2050. How has that worked out?
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17 Jul 2023
This is an interesting one: putting batteries into railcars so that you could use them as stationary storage or drive them around as a form of electricity transmission. While it would be a bet against large-scale new transmission, that isn't a terrible bet to take.
17 Jul 2023
.@phadkeamol and team explore the potential role that rail-based mobile energy storage could play in providing back-up to the US electricity grid. go.nature.com/3XQTNJi
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16 Jul 2023
In France, EDF is advertising visits to clean electricity facilities at the start of the summer vacation period, leading the animated ad with nuclear (and brags that EDF is the most visited company in France).
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Eric Hittinger retweeted
14 Jul 2023
The median global income is about $8/day.
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