#Turbines

Avik Roy

Avik

Why are millions of Americans in Texas without power and heat for days amid extreme winter weather? Blame bad energy policy. https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-political-making-of-a-texas-power-outage-11613518653?reflink=desktopwebshare_twitt

Thomas Edwards

NotionalGrid

1. Gas turbines are only marginally less efficient than Coal - and that excludes warming times - new recip gas engines are more efficient full stop. makes more sense to

Dean Gloster

deangloster

A short thread on why Texas has no power:1. Climate change and the moving polar vortex.2. Gas, coal, and atomic powerplants offline in the cold. 3. Texas decided to have

c0nc0rdance

c0nc0rdance

Let's talk about the Magnus Effect & its application.If a disc/cylinder is spinning in an airstream, it produces force perpendicular to both direction of spin & airstream.Derived from Newton's 3rd

kate dc

katedc16

We’ve subjected power companies, and by extension consumers, to energy market traders that make money by waiting for the opportunity to price gouge desperate people for electricity. /14 But hey,

Drew Smithee, PE

DrewSmithee

Energy Twitter has struck a nerv. Apparently a lot of you experts don't know basic terms. I hope this is a short thread but I'll add to it if I

CATU Fairview Marino Clontarf

CatuFMC

Extremely late but I've finally found some time to put together our updated response to the NDP (due tomorrow afternoon) based on @amyplify excellent notes. https://www.gov.ie/en/consultation/d3f3a-review-to-renew-the-public-consultatio

Michael Shellenberger

ShellenbergerMD

Nations that partner with Russia or China to build nuclear plants are absorbed into their sphere of influence. The line between soft power and hard power runs through nuclear energy.

The Editorial Board

johnastoehr

1. Regular readers are familiar with my use of the term “fascism,” but regular readers may not quite understand why. Fascism is all-American. It’s native-born. And it describes the politics

Nathan Bernier

KUTnathan

I'm on an ERCOT media call now. I'll post some of the stuff they say here. ERCOT CEO Bill Magness says they're still working with power generators to get them

Optimist 🇳🇫💰🔋🚅🌹🦉✊🏾

Optimistbot

“store of value” is something that people frequently invoke in that cadence. (Ie Not “value store”)That’s just such a strange concept. It’s like a battery, like you released chemical energy

Tim Baxter

timinclimate

So you know how you've heard that gas is cleaner than coal?This needs a heckuva fact check. But first, gas is super complicated: this needs a heckuva definitions section. Gas

Joe Noonan

NoonanJoe

Ireland still disobeying 2008 EU Court order.Fines rising at €15,000 a day as successive governments in Ireland have not complied. Total penalties now over ten million euro. Plus legal costs.https://twitter.com/rtenews/status/132823895851

Christopher Knittel

KnittelMIT

In our partisan world, I guess I shouldn't be surprised of the misinformation that is spreading like mad about the situation in TX. Yes, wind turbines that are frozen. No,

Samir Kayande

SamirKayande

Ah, Equinor. They publicly posted their NA shale postmortem, which I applaud, but, sadly, when you get accountants to opine on what-went-wrong, the answer is some version of "accounting." A

Billy Fleming

JooBilly

While I’m sure that part of bribing Manchin to go along with a series of climate bills as bold as Biden’s campaign platform will require funds for DAC, CCS, and

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