Emmet Penney
@nukebarbarian
Senior Fellow, Infrastructure and Energy: @joinfai Contributing editor: @compactmag_ @TFASorg Novak Fellow '24 - '25 writing about electric reliability.
I recommend returning to your hometown to visit power infrastructure that’s been there for over a century
A dear friend who shares my love of book shopping came to town and I went very hard at the used bookstores.
momentous decision with impacts that will no doubt be felt for seconds to come
Landmark ruling in the Advisory Opinion by the ICJ on Climate Change. 1.5 degree C is legally the Planetary limit. All countries are legally obliged to comply. Even fossil-fuel subsidies can be illegal. States have duty to solve the planet crisis and can be held accountable.
My latest in next week's Washington Examiner magazine featuring comments from some of your favorite nuclear experts @energybants, @Dr_A_Stein, and @nukebarbarian.
Trump administration aims to bolster nuclear energy production, starting in a familiar if surprising place trib.al/v7BSZon
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Ladybird book in the Spotlight ‘Public Services: Water Supply’ 1969 [Deep sigh] Artist: John Berry
"Everything Is Buttholes" by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari
Almost every single AI company logo is a butthole. The visual representation is painfully accurate, as their product is an excretion of other people's work. Perfectly good fare goes in, and defecation comes out.
Had a lot of "remembering some guys" moments while reading @MoustacheClubUS's post mortem on the post left.
it was months in the making, but I'm back in @compactmag_ with a story I had to tell: the brief rise and even more rapid fall of the Post-Left compactmag.com/article/the-de…
Yo I thought the idea with the energy transition was that we pay for capacity that we need in the GW and this is going to be ok because as long as we have high operating cost low fixed cost stuff we can afford it as long as we have a ton of zero marginal cost energy. Doesn't…
Prices cleared at $329/MW-day price cap across all of PJM. The capacity price comps above the 2025-26 auction of $270/MW-day (which had risen ~9x from $29 in the auction prior to that). Clear signal the RTO is going to see i) bill increases (est. 1-5%) and ii) shouldn't…
You are morally obligated to lift weight to Black Sabbath today.
RIP Ozzy 🫡
The @JoinFAI posting to policy pipeline requires no permits.
.@RepWesterman: “I ask… to submit for the record a Green Tape post titled ‘NEPAstats’”
FAI's agency NEPA streamlining recommendations are in the FCC's new notice of proposed rulemaking
Watching the Lionesses of Nuclear (@MadiHilly and @SenatorRezin) breakdown repealing the Illinois nuclear moratorium.
