David J Murphy

Dad, Energy Prof. Author of "Renewable Energy in the 21st Century"

[Russell Gold @russellgold]

Well that came pretty close to rolling blackouts on ERCOT. The frequency plunged quickly at 7:10 pm. What happened @ERCOT_ISO? Anyone else see what caused this.

[David J Murphy @djmurphy04]

@MarcoRaugei @NafeezAhmed @NJHagens If I disregard the added red arrow at the end of that graph, my conclusion would be that coal production hasn’t changed much globally over the past 10 years.

[David J Murphy @djmurphy04]

@ActuallyImGood @Leigh_Phillips @EricLevitz think this is the debatable part "The cost to the system of a variable renewable source...overbuild)." We cover in episode, but if that is the case for VRE, then we should do the same for Nukes and Coal too - techs that also can't, by themselves, support entire grids.

[David J Murphy @djmurphy04]

@chrisnelder @smyth_gj @MarcoRaugei @energies_mdpi @TransitionShow Here you go! Should be open access. https://t.co/TZToiHBNj9

[David J Murphy @djmurphy04]

@duncancampbell @chrisnelder @TransitionShow Here you go! It's open access! https://t.co/TZToiHBNj9

[International Energy Agency @IEA]

Limiting global warming to 1.5°C will require a faster scaling up of clean energy

For several key clean energy technologies, the announced pipeline of manufacturing projects would approach the levels needed to reach #NetZero emissions by 2050 ➡️ https://t.co/Fys4r3PtUt

#WEO22

[Transition Show @[email protected] @TransitionShow]

In Ep. 184, @djmurphy04 rejoins us to discuss his recent paper with @MarcoRaugei et al. harmonizing the EROI of various fuels at the point of use: https://t.co/ewuR7Saz65
Turns out oil and other liquid fuels deliver *less than half* the net energy of solar and wind power!

[Nat Bullard @NatBullard]

Decarbonization, as investment layers.
1. Renewable energy: ~$400bn a year, flat

2. Energy transition (+electric transport, storage): $200+ billion, growing

3. Net zero (+heat, chemicals, materials): <$100bn, just getting started

[David J Murphy @djmurphy04]

this about sums it up from @fbirol in the financial times.

"The second fallacy is that today’s global energy crisis is a clean energy crisis. This is an absurd claim."

https://t.co/HdSF8sDE5Q

[Javier Blas @JavierBlas]

The International Energy Agency's has published its inaugural World Energy Employment, highlighting that "clean energy" currently employs 50% of the world's energy workforce, "owing to the substantial growth of new projects coming online" | @IEA #OOTT https://t.co/Ib4zf5p5Oe

[Nat Bullard @NatBullard]

US nat gas had record price volatility in February 2022 https://t.co/yXE50kFo0d

[BloombergNEF @BloombergNEF]

Our 2022 Electric Vehicle Outlook by the numbers:

⛽1.5M barrels of oil per day are being displaced by EVs
💰$53T is the size of the EV market opportunity between now and 2050
📅2027 will be the peak for road transport oil demand

Read more: https://t.co/4ASpmsEWCU #BNEFEVO

[Paul @glastris.bsky.social Glastris @glastris]

The top 10 reasons you should check out the Washington Monthly's 2022 College Guide and Rankings issue. First, unlike U.S. News, colleges don't have an incentive to send us phony data./1 https://t.co/Q4vS2qgARS @monthly

[Bloomberg @business]

European benchmark power prices break through 1,000 euros for the first time https://t.co/3h8I742f8p

[Ben McWilliams @McwilliamsBen]

“European gas prices have in our view overshot fundamentals fueled by a combination of supply and demand concerns and exceptionally poor liquidity in the market,” Goldman Sachs said in a report late on Friday.

from @business

[David J Murphy @djmurphy04]

@DrSimEvans Did you not realize that lithium is mined? Batteries cost energy to make as well!!! Jeez. These academics just can't get it right. Thankfully we have fossil fuels. Refineries are awesome. Do we mine them? I can't remember. Nevermind. Renewables are bad.

[David J Murphy @djmurphy04]

@matthewsyed Really excited to see EROI work getting so much attention - though I wish you had read our article. EROI of renewables less than 5 is incorrect. As is an EROI of 5 for FF. https://t.co/NkJNLo6lxE

@MarcoRaugei

[Akshat Rathi @AkshatRathi]

"43% of oil and gas workers plan to leave the industry within five years, and 56% want to leave to work on renewables."

https://t.co/wwfQXYvRUV ht @TimMLatimer

[David J Murphy @djmurphy04]

@chrisnelder More to the point: anyone who wears anything but hand woven wool shorn from wild sheep in from the Scottish Highlands, and acquired in person by swimming across the ocean, is destroying the planet.

[David J Murphy @djmurphy04]

@chrisnelder also - love the reference to recent issues with wind in North Sea. Yeah ok - but what about the role gas played in Texas last year? Reminds me of when nuclear people talk about env. impacts of RE but omit mention of Fukushima...
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