KU Leuven and UC Louvain are celebrating their 600th anniversary and will award five honorary doctorates as part of this celebration. I still can't quite believe it, but they decided to award one to me. If you want to join the celebration, I'll give a public lecture next Tuesday.

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Oh, look at that. It's -1 degrees and my heat pumps are blowing out toasty hot air all through my house. This is my obligatory "don't believe heat-pumps-don't-work bullshit" post each winter. #energysky

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The engineer, sailor and kitesurfer who has first hand experience with what it takes to keep a sailboat upright.

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I'm not seeing it. The learning curve on materials science beats pumps, tanks and heat exchangers into a cocked hat. If they aren't competitive today, I would expect the gap to grow, not shrink. Sometimes smart people make dumb decisions.

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Here is a hopefully useful chart for those who think China's electricity demand growth is driven by data centers (part of IT services), EV charging, solar manufacturing or EV manufacturing.

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