energy

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Essays

the cheapness did both jobs

essay draft 2026-07-13 · nonproliferation, nuclear-history, cold-war, commodity-economics, energy

Everything else

Capture: Do ERCOT's primary reports confirm the ~226 GW (Nov 2025) large-load queue, the ~63 GW end-2024 baseline, and the ~77%-data-center share?

capture promoted 2026-08-01 · energy, grid, texas, ercot, interconnection
ERCOT's own board presentation directly confirms the ~226 GW (Nov 2025) and ~63 GW (Dec 2024) large-load queue figures

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-01 · energy, grid, texas, ercot, interconnection
ERCOT's large-load interconnection queue grew to roughly 238.6–239 GW by December 17, 2025 — about four weeks after the 226 GW snapshot

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-01 · energy, grid, texas, ercot, interconnection
ERCOT's own primary source states ~73% of its large-load queue is data centers — not the ~77% figure widely reproduced in trade press

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-01 · energy, grid, texas, ercot, interconnection
Only about 2% of ERCOT's 226 GW large-load queue had been 'Observed Energized' as of November 2025

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-01 · energy, grid, texas, ercot, interconnection
In The Coal Question (1865), William Stanley Jevons argued that improving energy efficiency increases rather than decreases total energy use — the effect now called the Jevons paradox

claim seedling Tier 4 2026-07-12 · economics, energy, jevons, jevons-paradox, rebound-effect
Verify Jevons's Coal Question (1865) and the paradox's original framing against the primary text or a scholarly economic history

question answered 2026-07-12 · verification, jevons, jevons-paradox, economics, energy
In the 1976 'Midnight Connection,' a Texas utility deliberately linked its grid to Oklahoma to force federal jurisdiction, and regulators ordered the link cut within a year

claim seedling Tier 3 2026-07-11 · energy, grid, texas, oklahoma, ercot
ERCOT's large-load interconnection queue reached about 226 GW by November 2025 — roughly quadruple a year earlier — with about 73% from data centers and an unknown share of speculative 'phantom load'

claim seedling Tier 2 2026-07-11 · energy, grid, texas, ercot, interconnection
Megatons to Megawatts converted 475.2 metric tons of Soviet weapons HEU into LEU that supplied about one-third of US reactor fuel for two decades

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-11 · nonproliferation, nuclear-history, cold-war, commodity-economics, nuclear-power
Texas kept its electric grid intrastate to dodge federal regulation under the 1935 Public Utility Holding Company Act, not for engineering reasons

claim seedling Tier 3 2026-07-11 · energy, grid, texas, ercot, regulation
Do ERCOT's primary reports confirm the ~226 GW (Nov 2025) large-load queue, the ~63 GW end-2024 baseline, and the ~77%-data-center share?

question answered 2026-07-11 · energy, grid, texas, ercot, interconnection
Does a primary or scholarly source confirm that Texas kept its grid intrastate to avoid federal regulation under the 1935 PUHCA — and the 1976 'Midnight Connection' details?

question answered 2026-07-11 · energy, grid, texas, ercot, regulation
AI's inference-driven power demand is reviving nuclear power, but the US grid interconnection queue may be the real bottleneck

capture promoted Tier 1 2026-07-09 · energy, nuclear-power, AI-infrastructure, data-centers, grid
Kairos Power's KP-FHR is a molten-fluoride-salt-cooled, TRISO-fueled reactor — a non-light-water design backing Google's AI power bet

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-09 · energy, nuclear-power, reactor-physics, AI-infrastructure, molten-salt
Microsoft's 20-year PPA to restart Three Mile Island Unit 1 as the Crane Clean Energy Center is a nuclear bet on AI power demand

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-09 · energy, nuclear-power, AI-infrastructure, data-centers, compute-economics
US transmission interconnection queues hold roughly 2,600 GW — more than twice current installed capacity — and average wait times have stretched to about five years

claim seedling Tier 2 2026-07-09 · energy, grid, interconnection, infrastructure, AI-infrastructure
Do LBNL's 'Queued Up' primary figures confirm the ~2,600 GW queue total and ~5-year median interconnection time?

question answered 2026-07-09 · energy, grid, interconnection, verification, quant