We’ve unpacked the research, gathered the data, and synthesized the results in a new white paper reviewing Climate TRACE findings from the #emissions reduction roadmap tool.

Read it here: media.climatetrace.org/Climate_TRAC...

The first book sold ~15M copies in the US, so maybe 5% of Americans read it? Yes, surprisingly popular relative to other books perhaps, but still tough to extrapolate to the US as a whole

My intuition is that high robotaxi adoption would want to trade parking spots for road area

Instead of being parked in my driveway/garage, the car is now empty and waiting for (maybe heading to, maybe not) the next pickup

Would be very interesting to model it

Editorial nit: can you please call it ML instead of AI?

On the chart, positive wind speed = westerly? So going to zero, or negative, is a cessation or reversal of direction?

Interesting…

There seems to be a lot of interest in managing methane emissions. I wish there was a good overview of the impact that these offerings are making

from an engineering perspective, it is "intentionally" wasted: systems are designed to reject it. think fans and radiators, cooling towers. they can't let it build up, systems would break. and the owner isn't funding the systems to otherwise use it.

wow this is awesome! Thank you

ADs can also cause more atmospheric methane release.
In the ADs, production declines the longer the feedstock is in. Operators rotate the feedstock, which then finishes fermenting outdoors. This late-stage release can be substantial.

The chart data is from 2012, which is why there's so much coal and so little solar. Here's a cleaner version.

here's the source

All in, I wouldn't have short-listed a site that only has a single 138 kV feed, active wells and pipelines, bisected with a line of wind turbines, and a neighbor of uncertain disposition. But the Vantage team is really, really good at what they do, so don't listen to me!

There are active oil & gas wells and pipelines on both the current 1,200 acres and the (presumed) expansion 1,300 acres. Seems like a bad mix for a data center. Maybe Vantage will buy them out and seal them. Red dots are unplugged wells, purple lines are pipelines.
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They'll probably put in some gas turbines. There's nothing in ERCOTs generator interconnection queue, but that doesn't mean anything. The Crusoe Abilene site has 10 35MW turbines going in right now, and nothing in the interconnection queue, either.
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They don't have a warranty deed on the barn and residence in the south half. Regardless, the yellow and purple areas combined add up to 2,500 acres.
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The purple areas are adjacent properties that have warranty deeds with Vantage as the grantee. Presumably, Vantage has locked in some expansion options with those properties.
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So far, Vantage has closed on 1,200 acres, in yellow. If you look closely, you'll see 9 large wind turbines in the yellow. There's also a substation on site, but that's likely far too small for the full development. It's fed by a single 138 kV circuit.
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