Miles Abernathy

[Miles Abernathy @MilesAbernathy]

I'm very sorry about your loss Randy. I hope you had insurance.

[randy petersen @ranflyer]

a recent event caused me to lose my ranch. only one or two items survived. among the ashes ... (a custom flyertalk paperweight)

[Miles Abernathy @MilesAbernathy]

If you watch closely you will see a couple of times when quick motion makes the image just a blur. I think those are cuts.

[MindVoyager @MindVoyagerHQ]

@historyinmemes The film's opening number, "Another Day of Sun," was filmed as what appears to be a single continuous take on a Los Angeles freeway, requiring months of choreography and planning.

[Doug Lewin @douglewinenergy]

Texas now has >100 gigawatts (!) of solar, wind & batteries. And it's a good thing, too, bc demand is forecast to exceed the pre-2026 record peak demand *every day* this week. Renewables will meet ~50% of the massive peak power demand. Batteries will reach ~10 GW every night. 1/

[YIMBYLAND @YIMBYLAND]

Texas shattered its all-time demand record yesterday hitting 91 GW.

Was there an energy shortage? Nope.
There was a capacity SURPLUS of 20+ GW!

If you want to see what Energy Abundance looks like in practice, Texas has it and it’s beautiful.

Texas is the future.

[Doug Lewin @douglewinenergy]

The all-time power demand record in Texas held today. We got within ~300 megawatts of it. ERCOT forecasts 90 gigawatts of demand Wed. but >30GW of spare capacity thanks to massive amounts of solar power. Today was #5 all-time for solar as it generated >35% most of the day. 1/

[Miles Abernathy @MilesAbernathy]

If she misses the first segment (RDU to CLT) I believe the airline will cancel the rest of the trip.

[Philip Hall 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @MilesAbound]

@RDUAirport can you confirm if flights are back to normal? My daughter is at rdu heading to Rome via clt and need to know if we need to go get her and take her to clt instead. Airport staff giving confusing information

[Svengoolie @Svengoolie]

Yes, it was 47 years ago that I first hit the airwaves in Chicago. No, I never expected to be where I am today. Very grateful and thankful to you all for your loyalty,support, and friendship!

[Miles Abernathy @MilesAbernathy]

The bricks on UT buildings also have a "mingle", a certain percentage of each of ~ 5 color shades.

[UT Austin @UTAustin]

If you look closely at Spanish tiles roofs across the Forty Acres, you’ll see they range from red and brown to orange and cream.

What began in 1909 with Battle Hall grew into a defining campus identity, continuing across generations and still shaping the look and feel of UT Austin today: https://t.co/Q1EOxjHlFV

[Miles Abernathy @MilesAbernathy]

Creating an album with photos dot Google dot com

[The Points Guy @thepointsguy]

What's your favorite way to document your travels? Do you prefer journaling, photography, or something else?

[Miles Abernathy @MilesAbernathy]

Submarines?

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

This is the only ship in the world that can deliberately sink itself.

R/P FLIP (Floating Instrument Platform), the legendary 355-foot oceanographic research vessel. Built in 1962, it can deliberately flood its ballast tanks to tilt 90°, submerging 300 feet of its hull.

[Miles Abernathy @MilesAbernathy]

@TheFigen_ How lucky to have cameras on the surface and also below the ice, both pointing in exactly the proper direction and running!

[Miles Abernathy @MilesAbernathy]

Interested, and still appreciating the Concorde r/t 😁

[randy petersen @ranflyer]

working on something new for the frequent flyer crowd. trying to fix a problem we’ve all learned to live with… maybe we shouldn’t have.
looking for 50–100 of my frequent flyer friends to quietly test it and tell me what i got right (and wrong).
interested? reply or DM.

this one might actually be my best idea yet.

[Joshua D. Rhodes @joshdr83]

It is just through Q1 2026 and very likely to change, but still wind and solar at almost 45% for electricity in ERCOT so far! ⚡️🌬️☀️🔋

[Dr Paul Dorfman @dorfman_p]

Renewable energy sources generated more electricity than natural gas in the United States for the first time.
https://t.co/oBalgmaAYu

[Craig Lawrence @clawrence]

@datarade So, explain ERCOT where the percentage generation provided by natural gas (and coal) has decreased as solar, wind and batteries have increased?

[Miles Abernathy @MilesAbernathy]

Have a fun day today Sven, and thank you for all the joy and shivers you bring to your fans!

[Michael R. @BatQuinn5801]

Happy birthday to Rich Koz, who is most well-known for playing horror-movie host @Svengoolie from 1973 to the present day. He was also the host of the programs The Koz Zone and Stooge-a-Palooza.

[Brian Alvarez-Bailey (BABz) @agentic_brian]

How do non-Chicagoans know who @Svengoolie is???

[Miles Abernathy @MilesAbernathy]

Congratulations Doug!

[Doug Lewin @douglewinenergy]

I’m excited to share that I have joined @Google's Energy Market Development team, leading energy strategy and market design work in Texas.

Google is helping drive energy innovation at scale, and I couldn’t be more thrilled to join such a fantastic team. In this new role, I’ll be creating and implementing strategies to integrate data centers into the grid in ways that lower costs for all energy consumers while strengthening the grid. From advanced cooling technologies to enhanced geothermal to maximizing distributed energy resources to using AI to optimize the grid itself, Google is driving positive change, and I’m excited to be a part of it.

Over the years, I’ve had the privilege to work in different capacities toward one mission: unlocking energy abundance that supports economic growth, public health, and a better quality of life. The opportunity to do that at Google is an extraordinary one.

I wouldn’t have this opportunity without a large community of people who have mentored, taught, and supported me over the years—I’m grateful to all of you. The Texas energy community is a great one, and I’m so lucky to be a part of it. I look forward to continuing to work with y’all in this new role and to deepening existing relationships, making new connections, and building the grid of the future together.

One more thing I want to address: lots of people are asking the right question about data centers: Why? If that’s a question on your mind, please watch The Thinking Game (link in the reply), an award-winning documentary about @GoogleDeepMind and its Nobel Prize winning founder and leader, Demis Hassabis. Google DeepMind cracked the code on protein folding, a holy grail that had eluded scientists for many decades. This breakthrough has the potential to create cures for Alzheimer’s, Parkinson's, and dementia, among a host of other diseases.

My dad has Parkinson’s. I know firsthand how devastating it is. To make breakthroughs like this—and so many more—AI data centers will need a lot more power.

This is my why. Working together, we can make breakthroughs unimaginable to previous generations. We already have. My role will be to help figure out how we can power these breakthroughs while also making cheaper, cleaner, and more reliable electricity. I can’t think of a better or more important challenge.

I truly believe the future of energy is bright. To be part of a company like Google, helping bring that future into reality, is a dream come true. I’m excited to get to work.

[Michael E. Webber @MichaelEWebber]

This is horrendously wrong. Spectacularly wrong.

[Packy McCormick @packyM]

Over the past 35 years, the cost of the components in the Electric Stack - li-ion batteries, magnets and motors, power electronics, and embedded compute - have fallen 99%.

The Electric Era is inevitable.

The question is who builds it.

I wrote 40,000 words to understand.