Brandt 🌊

energy & nonpro / clean, secure, dynamic, abundant 🇺🇸

[Brandt 🌊 @bkmabuni]

Temper ambition with gratitude

[Brandt 🌊 @bkmabuni]

@Mariners Cathartic. Love how stoked Raley and Woo are for him.

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@MindBags @GeringerAdam @DukeEnergy Massive jump between previous (hypothetical) and current (actual) estimates when the chips were down… I can only speak for PNW but the cost of undergrounding is literally close to 10x the cost of overhead replacement.

[Brandt 🌊 @bkmabuni]

@HellenicVibes I used to think similarly, but even when I was single and perfectly healthy, my dad helped me understand the bigger picture.

If ever I suffered something terribly expensive, my parents (bless them) would go broke before letting their child go without care.

[Brandt 🌊 @bkmabuni]

@MarinerMuse Bo Bichette is that RH pure hitter

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@pwatts93 @uranium100k Cheers to nice start to a new year 🥂

[Brandt 🌊 @bkmabuni]

@U308_bull @flashbondtrader The timing of when the deficit will finally finish eating through gaps in a market w extremely lumpy demand is a guess but the deficit itself is not a guess.

[Brandt 🌊 @bkmabuni]

@moseskagan @sweatystartup Just stick w multiplayer, friends only

[Brandt 🌊 @bkmabuni]

@slip_trace Agreed. I think it’d be shortsighted and viciously counterproductive to cut our allies on the priorities block.

[Brandt 🌊 @bkmabuni]

@slip_trace Will the costs of extended deterrence ever outweigh its benefits?

[Brandt 🌊 @bkmabuni]

@lleopard11 @SStapczynski Not much space to do that in SG.

[Brandt 🌊 @bkmabuni]

Wheezing…I cannot think of a less elegant storage solution to complement a renewables-first vision of the future.

[Seaver Wang @wang_seaver]

Y'all are gonna love this but I finally geolocated Energy Vault's 25MW/100 MWh gravity-based storage project in Rudong County, Jiangsu, China.

For a project with 1/30th the storage capacity of the Moss Landing battery facility in California, it's sure chonky.

32.525 N 121.091 E

[Brandt 🌊 @bkmabuni]

This maps to Erikson’s 8th and final stage of psychosocial development: Integrity vs Despair

The older I get the more I admire those who remain nothing but magnanimous and hopeful after a living a full life.

[Pacific Forum @PacificForum]

🚨 New Publication Alert 🚨

Issues and Insights Volume 24, WP 6 by Yerin Yoon, our Resident Korea Foundation Fellow, explores "Taiwan Strait’s Echo in Korean Peninsula Security and the US-ROK Alliance"

Read the full article: https://t.co/ELiAMnKoTc

#PacificForum

[NRC @NRCgov]

We’ve accepted for review TerraPower’s application to build the company’s Natrium #NuclearPowerPlant near Kemmerer, Wyoming. We’ll announce an opportunity to request a hearing on the application in the near future. https://t.co/K0GVgHugu5

[Brandt 🌊 @bkmabuni]

@NoahRettberg @casperj33081634 @rafaelmgrossi And even further, it is his prerogative to safeguard and build up the IAEA’s politically-neutral watchdog credibility.

[catherine morehouse @cmorehouse10]

NEW: A senior official at DOE's loan office said Vogtle has drummed up interest in building more large-scale -- not SMR/advanced/micro -- reactors.

Yep, you read that right:

https://t.co/7sM8cBGkpf

[Jane Darby Menton @JDMenton]

In @ForeignPolicy, @areddie89 and I wrote about the little known history shaping the future of nuclear energy in Taiwan. A story replete with spies, lies, disasters, democracy, and semiconductors. https://t.co/SSNjWLsmiu

[Brandt 🌊 @bkmabuni]

@JDMenton @ForeignPolicy @areddie89 Great piece! Read in FP today. Also halfway thru Leveraging Latency —thanks for the great rec.

[Kristi Govella @KristiGovella]

On April 16, @PacificForum will celebrate the 20th anniversary of its Young Leaders Program at its annual dinner. I’ll be on a panel of YL alumni with @DEricSayers and @bkmabuni (moderated by @BradGinTokyo) discussing Indo-Pacific policy issues and how the YL program impacted us.