Profit Greenly: Thinking of Jigar Shah's defense of new nuclear on @volts.wtf. He noted that we'd need to 3x our transmission to be all solar and wind, and we're only on track to 1.8x. In the previous reconductoring interview Emily Chojkiewicz noted advanced conductors can add nearly 4x more transmission capacity.

Thinking of Jigar Shah's defense of new nuclear on @volts.wtf. He noted that we'd need to 3x our transmission to be all solar and wind, and we're only on track to 1.8x. In the previous reconductoring interview Emily Chojkiewicz noted advanced conductors can add nearly 4x more transmission capacity.

I don't think Jigar or Emily are on bluesky yet, but I bet @ucenergyinstitute.bsky.social and @costasamaras.bsky.social have ways to reach them (@volts.wtf certainly does, but I don't think he can read all his mentions). I hope they can chat so we can all improve our grid in cheaper, cleaner ways.

Here's the nuclear podcast if you want to listen to it. www.volts.wtf/p/nuclear-pe...

Nuclear? Perhaps!www.volts.wtf I speak with Jigar Shah (head of DOE’s Loan Programs Office) about all things nuclear, including its recent performance, the strategies that could revive and accelerate it, new nuclear technologies an...

Here's reconductoring: www.volts.wtf/p/one-easy-w...

One easy way to boost the grid: upgrade the power lineswww.volts.wtf Upgrading power lines — “reconductoring,” in the biz — enables the electricity grid to transmit more power and leak less of it. In this episode, I talk with a CEO and a researcher about the national p...

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