🔋jtam🔋

Solar, Wind, and Energy Storage Engineer and Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade Balloonatic. All tweets are mine ... he/him/his

[🔋jtam🔋 @siliconretina]

Hey, guess what. Same sex marriage has been legal longer than the Confederate States of America was around. So, I guess officially, the Rainbow 🌈 flag represents our heritage better than the confederate battle flag.

[🔋jtam🔋 @siliconretina]

@wehavethedata_ As an aside, this is awful formatting for “myth busting”. By stating the myth prominently and providing the offending graph first, he has reinforced the myth for 90+% of casual readers.

[🔋jtam🔋 @siliconretina]

@duncancampbell Autodesk Construction Cloud or ProjectWise

[🔋jtam🔋 @siliconretina]

The legend about my grandfather is that he was a steam locomotion mechanic (Southern Railroad). When they started switching to diesel in the 30s, he would bring home the manuals at night and taught himself to be a diesel mechanic.

[Jesse Peltan @JessePeltan]

Electric motors are superior.

We figured this out 100 years ago.

[🔋jtam🔋 @siliconretina]

@TommyApples80 @CarlSparre @JessePeltan One of the podcasts I was listening to recently was talking about catenary charging except through tunnels. Only need enough battery power to go a couple of miles or so that way.

[🔋jtam🔋 @siliconretina]

Helpful hint: there is a Follow All button. You don’t have to click each person individually. Although it was fun seeing how many people I know from here.

[Tyler Norris @tylerhnorris]

I'm told the other platform is ramping up again, so I created a starter pack for electric grid & power systems. This will remain my main venue for now but will start engaging more there!

[🔋jtam🔋 @siliconretina]

@SimonMahan One power wall because you don’t want to limit your mobility plus a Rivian in a couple of years.

[🔋jtam🔋 @siliconretina]

@Atomicrod VC Summer is in South Carolina not North.

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@Meteor_Blades My 15 y/o son taking AP Gov in high school dubbed it Project 25th.

[Ramez Naam @ramez]

"On your left"

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@ramez @SnoozeButtonBen North Carolina: Photographing Voted Ballot Prohibited. – No person shall photograph, videotape, or otherwise record the image of a voted official ballot for any purpose not otherwise permitted under law.

(Not sure for what purpose it would be legal?!?)

[🔋jtam🔋 @siliconretina]

@KevinSKrause @PrinceMyschkin @JessePeltan I just ran a PVWatts simulation for Copper Harbor, MI, for one 600W bifacial module on a microinverter. 17.9% CF/940kWh. I’m assuming if you only have a single module then you can take care to optimize the output. Unclear why we are quibbling over minutiae. The OP point remains.

[🔋jtam🔋 @siliconretina]

@EverestBrady @JessePeltan 21 watts per square foot. 42% ground coverage ratio. That gives you about 384kW per acre. Throw in some extra for roads and inverters and you get about 3 acres per megawatt DC. We use a 1.3 DC/AC ratio so about 4 acres per MW ac.

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@EverestBrady @JessePeltan 3

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@JessePeltan More interested in the N-type process that is more efficient and resists light induced degradation (LID) better than the P-type process (most common today). I guess “no silver” is an added benefit.

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@MathsPlusPlus @KidinaSandbox @EpiEllie Buddy of mine is a software engineer (PhD/MS in computer science, BEng/MEng in Electrical Engineering). He distinguishes between software engineers and programmers.

[🔋jtam🔋 @siliconretina]

@csiroperfidy They fill completely different roles in the electricity ecosystem. Not a valid comparison.

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@csiroperfidy Nuclear advocates should not cede ground and use the pejorative “waste”. Terrible marketing. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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@gercohen You’ve just driven every election conspiracy theorist right off the deep end. Bravo! 😂

[🔋jtam🔋 @siliconretina]

@kareem_carr @network_pun Not exactly. There are only five ways to get a single electoral vote. Cf Maine(2) and Nebraska(3). Each state has a minimum of 3 EVs with ME and NE being the only two states that split their EVs. All the others are winner take all.

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@nedrosswestlake @JessePeltan Please describe the ancillary services provided by a hair dryer.