Jimmy Hendricks

Jimmy Hendricks @jimismash.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 21:39 UTC

Is it just a way of turning MWh into food, or is the capital cost too much? If we end up with energy that's too cheap to meter or circumstances (like... some sort of global shift in climate) that limit fresh water availability we might find some utility.

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Jimmy Hendricks @jimismash.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 09:48 UTC

Bets on sbsp vs fusion?

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Jimmy Hendricks @jimismash.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 20:40 UTC

How are AHJs doing on incorporating forward looking changes in building codes? Especially it the areas at risk for fires?

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Jimmy Hendricks @jimismash.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 21:37 UTC

*lower fire risk.

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Jimmy Hendricks @jimismash.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 14:03 UTC

I'm starting with this, because it gives a longer history:
www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-uk-....
But wait, there's more! A dashboard (for GB, not UK): grid.iamkate.com
Past year: Wind>nukes>biomass>solar>hydro

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Jimmy Hendricks @jimismash.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 13:51 UTC

It looks like they did pretty well on the "coal reductions due to zero carbon power" metric, as well. The UK has a (relatively) great offtake structure for captured carbon, but I don't think it's big enough for gas to count for that much zero carbon power.

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Jimmy Hendricks @jimismash.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 21:32 UTC

It seems like someone published something about this phenomena www.smbc-comics.com?id=2556
But he's just a cartoonist, so maybe don't trust him.

This comic was referenced (and cited in the bilbiography) of "The Climate Deniers Playbook" that I just listened to.
art19.com/shows/the-cl...

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Jimmy Hendricks @jimismash.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 02:12 UTC

I had to learn the hard way why virtual environments are a best practice. Anyone else? In my case, I had a webscraping tool that ran hourly and e-mail results to some public health people if it was above a certain threshold. I upgraded pandas and it changed how tables were read, causing a failure

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Jimmy Hendricks @jimismash.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 01:39 UTC

sending migrants back to Mexico and Central America is our MS St. Louis? Or is that the Mediterranean boats from Syria, etc.? Or the Palestinians? We would have done the right thing, but it's an election year... The thing is, I get it, the stakes being what they are.

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Jimmy Hendricks @jimismash.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 30, 2024 at 17:53 UTC

MAGA then:"He'll run the country like a business!" "Sure he might be rough around the edges, but he's a businessman!" 8 years later, after it becomes clear he has had multiple businesses fail and strongarmed small business that tried to work with him: MAGA now: "I guess I just like the racist stuff"

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Jimmy Hendricks @jimismash.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 29, 2024 at 20:04 UTC

Do you have the same negative reaction when I refer to people that mindlessly repeat inaccurate talking points about EVs as Gascists?

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Jimmy Hendricks @jimismash.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 29, 2024 at 01:42 UTC

There was a planet money piece (www.npr.org/transcripts/...) about recycling and the plastic industry. The "main character" is a guy that used to work for a plastics trade group. His job was to lie, convince people to save trees by using "recyclable" plastics. They'll realize they're the bad guys.

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Jimmy Hendricks @jimismash.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 29, 2024 at 01:36 UTC

Ford should have branded all their EVs with lightning badges, including a high performance Mustang EV and done a cross promotion with Metallica for "Ride the Lightning."

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Jimmy Hendricks @jimismash.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 13:37 UTC

I don't know if you understand how PPAs work, but turning silicon into power is turning silicon into money. Snark aside, what percentage of AI infrastructure is being deployed by (relatively) good climate actors?

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Jimmy Hendricks @jimismash.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 13:28 UTC

Jump again!

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Jimmy Hendricks @jimismash.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 01:19 UTC

That makes me think about the importance of not crossing the steams.

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Jimmy Hendricks @jimismash.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 00:30 UTC

Quick googling indicated that your PI doesn't have a PhD, but I know you have at least one in the organization. Is that a requirement? Most of my side projects/data access stuff is done with PIs that have PhDs, but maybe my experience isn't broad enough.

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Jimmy Hendricks @jimismash.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 27, 2024 at 21:24 UTC

Safe to say you're in the pro-CCS(S) camp? Are ways to meaningfully "sequester" the warming like we're talking about sequestering carbon? Reverse geothermal where we pump heat deep into the crust?

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Jimmy Hendricks @jimismash.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 27, 2024 at 19:15 UTC

Is the implication that the catastrophe model is backward looking and will underestimate the potential for catastrophe even as catastrophe continue to increase? How do you turn on future climate impacts?

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Jimmy Hendricks @jimismash.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 27, 2024 at 19:08 UTC

What is the interaction between leasing and issuing permits? Once an area is leased do producers still have to apply for permits before poking holes? Is the permitting process straight-forward, i.e. check these boxes and you get a permit, or is their additional opportunity to stop permitting?

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Jimmy Hendricks @jimismash.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 26, 2024 at 20:12 UTC

Wait... the government will give you money for making data more accessible? And I've just been working on it for free, like a chimp? Is there clearing house for these sort of grants?

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Jimmy Hendricks @jimismash.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 26, 2024 at 15:34 UTC

I had never seen this conceptual test of the nuclear pulse propulsion before, which is weird, because it absolutely seems like the type of thing I would have loved to see. The test is using conventional explosives: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8Sv...

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