When you worked for hours and did not realize it was sunny/windy/cloudy/raining/snowing outside... I spent four solid years in the basement (labeled 3rd floor) of this brutally safe building while pursuing my PhD. It marked the start of my academic career. #Grateful

Remarkable to watch and ponder what we (don't) know...

Really nice place and cool field work research from labmates @gsclara_ @David_Koweek

Happy to learn about exciting research and see friends at #USAEE18DC. It is an honor to chair a session on electricity rate design yesterday and I am excited to present a work on the challenges for grid-scale energy storage in renewable energy systems tomorrow. United States Association for Energy Economics

People really misinterpret where the increase in average lifespan comes from over the last 100 years. It mostly comes from beginning of life and not end of life care.

Our @CarnegieScience band, "The Non-Contributing Co-Authors", will play at a party in the Carnegie Ecology building on the Stanford campus at 6 PM on Thursday, 15 Nov. Food drink dance. Friends and family welcome. facebook.com/kcaldeira/post…

I also created an animated version which helps to emphasize how weather conditions during California's fire season have evolved over time. #CaliforniaFires #ClimateChange

A QA engineer walks into a bar. Orders a beer. Orders 0 beers. Orders 99999999999 beers. Orders a lizard. Orders -1 beers. Orders a ueicbksjdhd. First real customer walks in and asks where the bathroom is. The bar bursts into flames, killing everyone.

🚨JOBS🚨: I am hiring 2 post-docs/research scientists to work on the future of natural gas in a carbon-constrained world. Broad scope in specific projects - field-work, modeling, and policy. Location is flexible. Please RT.

Great place to start an academic career as well! Highly recommend!

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What are the best combinations of fuel-vehicle technologies to mitigate climate change and air pollution effects across the United States? With Ines M. Lima Azevedo, I answered this question in a new paper in Environmental Research Letters IOP Environment iopscience.iop.org/article/10.108…

"Role of Long-Duration Energy Storage in Variable Renewable Electricity Systems" new paper in Joule by Jacqueline A. Dowling et al. Cheap energy storage, even if low-round-trip efficiency, is very helpful to variable renewable based electricity systems. cell.com/joule/fulltext…

My first first-author paper is online! Grateful for our team! #EnergyStorage #Renewables Publication Joule: cell.com/joule/fulltext… Press release Caltech: caltech.edu/about/news/ana… Research brief #NewEnergyOptions: jadowling.com/publications

Thank you @parth_PIT! The composition of the U.S. electric grid is changing rapidly as coal-fired plants are being replaced or converted to natural gas and renewable electricity (eia.gov/todayinenergy/…).

1/ Research from PhD alums Fan Tong and Ines M. Lima Azevedo shows that none of the vehicle technology available today mitigates climate change and air pollution simultaneously across the US. iopscience.iop.org/article/10.108… #transportation, #ElectricVehicles

"Effects of Deep Reductions in Energy Storage Costs on Highly Reliable Wind and Solar Electricity Systems" #OpenAccess #energy #storage #climate #wind #solarpower Fan Tong @SteveDavisUCI #NateLewis Mengyao Yuan @CarnegieScience sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Ultralow cost of energy storage would be needed for least-cost, highly-reliable, fully wind+solar systems due to diminishing returns of energy storage. First, with increasing storage capacity, additional storage is used less frequently.

... and, second, as storage capacity increases, hourly electricity costs become less volatile.

Come to my presentation next Wednesday! I'll present a national-level assessment of systemic inequalities in existing carbon-producing infrastructure as well as an energy pathways model focused on non-cost objectives, like employment & air pollution equity.⬇️