Arrived at our Airbnb last night where we will be hosting my fourth annual aurora chasing workshop here in Fairbanks, Alaska! Look at these STUNNING views! Even though it’s cold, the landscape is absolutely beautiful right now.
We're now heading away from 'solar maximum'...
www.metoffice.gov.uk/blog/2026/de...
What park of Ak were you in when you saw this?
This is one reason I love Alaska. There’s 5 months of this.
I don’t think we can remove the possibility this is just old fashioned manipulation.
If a large fraction of the AI data center load actually comes online we need to consider that the broad system will operate in such a way that variance of stability limits is too broad to be considered reliable without an egregious (and impractical) amount of BESS.
There’s something about Alaska that just sticks with me. I love the land, here.
westchester lagoon
the great one
Denali
Solar events have been at a high since activity on the sun’s surface reached a “solar maximum” in October 2024.
https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML2511/ML25118A209.pdf
TVA submitted an environmental report to support a NRC construction permit application for a GE-Hitachi BWRX-300 small modular reactor (SMR) at the Clinch River Nuclear Site in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. TVA requested a 24-month timeline 🔌💡 www.nrc.gov/docs/ML2511/...
I have waves of nostalgia and this morning I could smell fried eggs and bacon, my grandad's cologne, lake water, and a fresh bag of zoom lizards. I felt anticipation of a catch and a good breakfast with Pappa. It was early morning somewhere in middle Ga. I miss that old man something fierce.
I dunno. Taxes were always supposed to be for "the rich" but then everyone somehow became rich. More scrupulous IRS I don't think anyone really wants.
The stock is way up in 2024 overall. Don't diminish the truth of $TSLA stupidity with bogus takes. Stocks go up and down and the maffs has little to do with these short terms movements.
my experience is they'll promise to curtail on peak, but won't.
Because they're well executed and classy.
I realize all the wrong people will yell at me, but: nuclear is the cheapest resource and it's not a contest. Gas and coal are good. Solar and storage are ... "good" in moderation. Wind looks cool, which has its place.
Part of my spirit will always be with Alaska.
First coat of wax is on tomorrow I create some trim for the base and the back
Fully curtailed?
