Research Scientist at @MIT @mitenergy developing new modeling tools to inform technology R&D, energy policy, and market design
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Joined July 2015
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Ruaridh Macdonald retweeted
The Sustainable Engineering Initiative @nyutandon has multiple postdoc openings on the topic of decarbonizing chemical manufacturing, spanning computational and experimental topics. Miguel Modestino and I are looking to hire researchers across three projects -a thread:
Ruaridh Macdonald retweeted
Folks. We're going to need nuclear power (fission or even fusion) to decarbonize the global economy. Nations like US, Canada, Australia, China etc blessed with land can drive to net-zero with renewables only IF they so choose. But a Net-zero India? South Korea? Japan? Indonesia?
Ruaridh Macdonald retweeted
Fantastic panel! Some key takeaways:
1. Bridge gap b/w least cost models and real world, as we increasingly rely on them for policy
2. Best solution could be an inferior one in terms of cost, but achieve better real world solutions
3. Spatial resolution of analysis is imp
What alternative formulations of the least-cost approach should be considered to capture the complexities of the energy transition?
Join us for our next exciting MES panel with @ErinNMayfield, @TimPedersen11, and @etrutnevyte, which will be moderated by @BDLeibowicz.
Ruaridh Macdonald retweeted
Short thread on the dangers of the fire at Zaporizhzhya NPP.
As of 8am this morning, according to Ukraine's regulator, three of six reactors were connected to the grid; the other three were offline. However, ALL the units will need cooling if they have any fuel inside. (1/n)
