Here’s a few interesting pieces of energy-related content I’ve come across this week.
1. SolarQuotes have put up a video about their experience participating in a virtual power plant. In the video they cover:
I thought I’d share a few interesting presentations released by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL).
1. A presentation outlining four phases of energy storage deployment, where storage provides:
I thought I’d share three interesting pieces of energy-related content that I’ve come across recently.
1. Some incredible footage of the engineering behind a hydro turbine:
How the Turbines in the Kölnbrein Dam are 92% Efficient
A new podcast called Windfall has just launched, covering the engineering, economics, and politics of offshore wind farms in the USA.
It is being produced by the Outside/In podcast team, whom I’ve been a big fan of for the past few years.
I just finished listening to the first episode, and can thoroughly recommend it!
I was recently interviewed on the Talk Python podcast about my background in analytics and how I’m applying it in the energy sector: Python in the Electrical Energy Sector
Back in 2017, I had the amazing opportunity to be one of 20 young Australians selected by Startup Catalyst to receive a scholarship for their Future Founders Mission to Silicon Valley. On this trip I had the opportunity to visit dozens of tech companies including Google, Facebook, Twitter, etc and learn from senior people within these organisations. At the time I was constantly jotting down little notes, and I thought I’d take some of them and write them up as a post now.
As I’ve been writing my thesis I came across a paper with such an excellent conclusion I wanted to share it. I think there are two lessons we can take from it:
I’m extremely excited to announce that I was one of the 20 young Australians selected by Startup Catalyst for their Future Founders Mission to Silicon Valley at the end of the month.
As part of the trip I’ll have the opportunity to visit Stanford University, as well as multiple tech companies, including Google, Facebook, and Dropbox.
I’ll be providing regular updates on Twitter and aim to write a series of articles here distilling everything I learn on the trip.
The new lord of the biology department at ANU
Earlier in the year I had to reset the observation hive and sadly that process resulted in the death of a fair few bees who ended up on the ground. Now, I knew that there were large carnivorous bull ants in the area and I completely expected them to clear away the bodies within a few hours. Unexpectedly though, none of the bodies were removed.
After a couple of days, I took a closer look and noticed something interesting – the bull ants were missing, but the tiny ants* in the area had found them! I’ve circled a few of them in the image below.
