by Jeff Ihnen | Nov 12, 2024 | Energy Rant
Two weeks ago, I described the chasm before mass-market electric vehicle adoption. The chasm, as shown in Figure 1 and depicted in the EV Rant as a moat, is the gap between enthusiastic nerds and mainstream curmudgeons. I’m often among the mainstream...
by Michaels Energy | Nov 11, 2024 | News
From Inc: When Jeffrey Ihnen was growing up on a farm in Minnesota, the country faced a reckoning in the form of the 1973 oil crisis. That event marked an early inflection point for the U.S. and its shift toward energy conservation, and for Ihnen, it was the beginning...
by Jeff Ihnen | Oct 28, 2024 | Energy Rant
In September, I wrote a series of five Rants on data centers, a concise and comprehensive collection that might just be the Data Center Digest you never knew you needed! Chip and server power density, cooling, and projected GW load growth. Data center facilities...
by Jeff Ihnen | Oct 22, 2024 | Energy Rant
A recent study, Stacked Energyscapes, led by professors at Loyola Marymount University and Penn State University, caught my eye. The paper describes webs of complexities associated with transitions from fossil-fuel-powered economies to clean-energy economies. I...
by Shelly Dolbeer | Oct 21, 2024 | Videos & Webinars
Watch Stan Nabozny of Michaels Energy talk about the benefits of thermal batteries for the electric grid and resiliency in cold food storage. This is an excerpt from a longer, AESP-sponsored webinar. Enter the multifaceted landscape of demand flexibility through...
by Jeff Ihnen | Oct 15, 2024 | Energy Rant
New York Attorney General Letitia James is suing JBS USA Foods, the country’s largest beef producer, for misleading the public with its net-zero greenhouse gas emissions plan by 2040. Not to be left behind, Attorneys General from Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, and...
by Jeff Ihnen | Oct 7, 2024 | Energy Rant
In the first post in this data center series, I introduced the staggering power density of neural computing systems used for artificial intelligence. At the macro level, in Northern Virginia alone, Dominion Energy projects data center load growth to increase from 3.3...
by Jeff Ihnen | Sep 30, 2024 | Energy Rant
I couldn’t pass this up to break from data centers for a second. One day last week, I read in the morning from the American Energy Society, “California Governor Gavin Newsom is trying to get control of wild gasoline spikes.” In the afternoon, I read...
by Jeff Ihnen | Sep 23, 2024 | Energy Rant
In our first data center post two weeks ago, we covered the core of data centers, including racks, servers, and the exploding computer capacity and heat generation of evermore powerful computing chips. In last week’s second post, we covered the types of data centers,...
by Jeff Ihnen | Sep 17, 2024 | Energy Rant
Last week, I was on a webinar when the following chart[1] emerged as a forecast for decarbonization. I quickly thought of two things. First, an example from The Wall Street Journal, “Government often uses ‘catalytic tools’ such as regulation, tax incentives, grants,...
