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Glassdoor Chief Economist glassdoor.com/research I post charts about the job market and workplace trends Formerly known as @DanielBZhao on Twitter Maryland born & raised, now in NYC
👤 Joined on 01 May 2023
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@danielzhao.bsky.socialAt one point I was explaining a mortgage to my daughter, and she asked when we'd get access to the parts of the house the bank owned.
Show PostGS: More than 95% of mortgage borrowers have interest rates below current market rates, and 65% have rates 2pp below market rates, strongly disincentivizin them from moving.
Show PostGood thread surveying the current context of solar and the trajectory towards net zero. Very long but worthwhile reading, disappointed I missed it when it was first posted!
Show Post38. Many of these turbines will run at lower capacity factors than historical gas turbines, and the best sort of fossil fuel plant is one that runs only occasionally. It is possible to have higher fossil capacity but much lower fuel burn, and indeed this makes a lot of economic sense.
Show Post39. Even our Net Zero Scenario modelling, to my despair, relies a lot on carbon capture and storage from a residual fragment of gas generation. Net zero is just very hard, but working towards it is better than not working!
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