It’s been a while since I’ve used Twitter to dunk on a Bad Take I saw on LinkedIn, but I submitted my grades this afternoon so here you go: (clears throat) #renewables cause higher electricity prices because they are intermittent.” (1/9) #energytwitter Let’s pick this apart. Renewables are indeed intermittent (to quote Billie Eilish, “duh”). Battery storage is $$$ but other forms (eg pumped hydro) are cheap. (2/9)

I want to register my displeasure with a current sentiment: quality of life increased markedly in the last century when fossil fuels were the dominant source of energy, therefore they are the only way to ensure future increases in quality of life. 1/6 The corollary that you also see is: if we reduce fossil fuel use, we are doomed to decreases in quality of life (plague, famine, etc). This thinking follows three logical fallacies that we should all look out for: 2/6

I'm seeing some grumblings about the requirements in section 50265 of the IRA for issuing "a right-of-way for wind or solar energy development on Federal land" and I think this is not a big deal if we remember a few things: (1/7) Onshore federal land is 27% of total onshore acreage (620 million out of 2.27 billion acres total) and offshore federal acreage (managed by BOEM) is 1.7 billion acres... (2/7)

I've been getting a lot of requests to explain what's going on with oil/gasoline prices rn, so I made a plot of weekly average gasoline prices and WTI spot prices (both from @EIAgov) going back to May 2020 with some key dates. (1/7) #oott #energytwitter First, notice how correlated the two trends are. Remember, according to EIA as of January 2022 56% of the cost of gasoline was crude costs: eia.gov/petroleum/gasd… (2/7)