Kent Kuran

Renewables and data centers at NextEra. Traveler, scripologist. A card-carrying Philatelist.

[Kent Kuran @KentKuran]

Published outlook for large solar projects in E. Africa. On-grid PV can be an important part of industrialization.
https://t.co/A2dsHKNnPB

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@rothschildmd You could also argue that Senate over-performance suggests that Harris was a millstone.

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@Rainmaker1973 And they all died. Eventually.

[Kent Kuran @KentKuran]

The life and legacy of my Grandma Sylvia.

To me she will live on as the taste of cherry juice at an Aegean breakfast, the smell of a musty kilim, the shuffle of slippers at Christmas, the grip on my elbow at the symphony, and the creased smile at my Italian wedding.

[Timur Kuran @timurkuran]

Sylvia Kuran, my dear mother, left us today at age 99. To the end, she lived a full life— connected daily to family and friends, active in philanthropic causes, developing new interests, intellectually engaged, and staying up-to-date with modern technology.

She held four passports, spoke four languages, and spent her nearly-ten decades living in three countries. Her British passport came through her Anglo-Mexican father; he and his American wife lived in Mexico City, where they raised my mother and her siblings as Anglo-Mexicans. Moving to the U.S. for college and graduate school, she met my father Aptullah Kuran at Yale and moved to his native Turkey, living there for 50 years. In addition to raising my two sisters and me, she was deeply involved in organizations that promoted access to education, women’s advancement, and fostering Turkish-American relations with a focus on higher education.

After my father died in 2002, she moved the U.S. to be closer to children and grandchildren. At birth in 1925, she had been denied U.S. citizenship because it was her mother, not her father, who was American. Eight decades later, she successfully petitioned to achieved citizenship through her three U.S.-citizen children.

In addition to the three of us, Sylvia Kuran leaves behind many cousins, a daughter-in-law, a son-in-law, seven grandchildren, three grandchildren-in-law, five great-grandchildren, and a network of other relatives, friends, and admirers in the U.S., Turkey, and Canada. She has shaped each of us in ways large and small, and we will strive to live out the values she taught by example.

[Timur Kuran @timurkuran]

Sylvia Kuran, my dear mother, left us today at age 99. To the end, she lived a full life— connected daily to family and friends, active in philanthropic causes, developing new interests, intellectually engaged, and staying up-to-date with modern technology.

She held four passports, spoke four languages, and spent her nearly-ten decades living in three countries. Her British passport came through her Anglo-Mexican father; he and his American wife lived in Mexico City, where they raised my mother and her siblings as Anglo-Mexicans. Moving to the U.S. for college and graduate school, she met my father Aptullah Kuran at Yale and moved to his native Turkey, living there for 50 years. In addition to raising my two sisters and me, she was deeply involved in organizations that promoted access to education, women’s advancement, and fostering Turkish-American relations with a focus on higher education.

After my father died in 2002, she moved the U.S. to be closer to children and grandchildren. At birth in 1925, she had been denied U.S. citizenship because it was her mother, not her father, who was American. Eight decades later, she successfully petitioned to achieved citizenship through her three U.S.-citizen children.

In addition to the three of us, Sylvia Kuran leaves behind many cousins, a daughter-in-law, a son-in-law, seven grandchildren, three grandchildren-in-law, five great-grandchildren, and a network of other relatives, friends, and admirers in the U.S., Turkey, and Canada. She has shaped each of us in ways large and small, and we will strive to live out the values she taught by example.

[Kent Kuran @KentKuran]

@BCFinucane @mehdirhasan Remember when Bin Laden lived for years in an apartment building in central Lahore?

Me neither.

[Kent Kuran @KentKuran]

@ukraine_map @Rainmaker1973 I bet you’re one of those “Pluto’s not really a planet” people.

[Kent Kuran @KentKuran]

A Russian salient faces envelopment in the 2nd Battle of Kursk.

What century are we living in?

[(((Tendar))) @Tendar]

According to several Russian war blogger the last of the 3 bridges over the Seym River west of Korenevo, Kursk Region, has been destroyed by the Ukrainian Army. Russians tried to compensate by establishing pontoon bridges with one north of Glushkovo at those coordinates:

51°22'28.42"N, 34°36'40.84"E

But NASA FIRMS maps confirm that exactly that spot is already burning, indicating that Ukrainian artillery is already bombing this area.

In the east of this sector Ukrainian forces most certainly closed the gap by reaching the Seym River. The villages Snagost and Vishnevka have fallen to the Ukrainian advance.

Meanwhile in Tetkino the Russian troops in the town are getting hammered by air strikes and artillery.

[Kent Kuran @KentKuran]

@apoorv_bh89 I think he meant lots of wind plus transmission lines but I may have heard it wrong

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@yepoka Just finished. A wonderful book.

[Kent Kuran @KentKuran]

@reedwildman Going to start marching my boys through poison oak. 🫡

[Ben Serrurier @benserrurier]

Rare and truly unique job posting: Chief of Staff at @fervoenergy. Perhaps the most interdisciplinary role at a very interdisciplinary company. Incredible opportunity for a whip smart go-getter with the right mix of hunger, organization and creativity. https://t.co/O9h2StWbZM

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@Shteyngart @daveweigel There’s a screenplay with Maggie Smith and Francis McDermott in here somewhere.

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@Molson_Hart Nypidaw, Myanmar

or one of those coastal Chinese towns that managed to make every zipper.

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@GbaligonR @mistameister That was a strike against a facility directing military operations located 50 miles from Israel.

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@GbaligonR @mistameister A weird thing to write after Iran launched missiles against a place 1500 miles away.

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@KimGhattas I’ve always thought of New Jersey as the Lebanon of America

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@JayinKyiv @joncoopertweets For 50 years this was the only tower in Warsaw, a middle finger that Stalin punched up from the rubble of Poland.

Beautiful to see it blend in among a healthy skyline in a confident city.

[Kent Kuran @KentKuran]

@timurkuran Will you be moving to France now?

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@MoviesSilently Huntington Beach as Malay Coast? 🤷‍♂️

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@AdversusN @JonCampbellNY False. It’s the Karachi of America.

Washington D.C is the Islamabad of America.