Eric Hittinger
Public Policy Professor at RIT, WILL International Chair at Univ. of Lille & Past President of the US Association for Energy Economics. Batteries, renewables, electricity markets, and emissions. Sometimes I bike across the continent.
- Reposted by Eric HittingerWhy I’m running for Congress: www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2026...
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- Reposted by Eric HittingerThis is a super insightful graph from @kingsmillbond.bsky.social illustrating how countries like India that are experiencing economic development later are skipping over some (not all) fossil dependency. ember-energy.org/latest-insig...
- A lot of discussion about "long-duration storage" is problematic and confused and stems from the fact that most discussion about it (even "long-duration storage"!) uses terms and metrics that frame a weakness of the technology as a feature. The main feature of LDS feature is super low cost.
- Tip for the youth: anyone over ~35 is constitutionally incapable of seeing Youtube personalities as celebrities. It is simply not built into the architecture of our brains. Even if we watch Youtube, the names and faces of the hosts don't get filed away like they would for famous actors or musicians.
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- Where do Loki and I apply for our natural gas demand response credit?
- Reposted by Eric HittingerWe are hiring at the 2035 Initiative at UC Santa Barbara! We are looking for a Senior Energy Analyst to take on analysis, research, and project management tasks, with a particular focus on energy systems modeling and analysis. Check out the job posting here: www.2035initiative.com/jobs
- Basically "Kurt Vonnegut was correct about everything."
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- Reposted by Eric Hittinger“One mile on a bike is a $.42 economic gain to society, one mile driving is a $.20 loss.” “Which means that Copenhagen, a city of 1.2 million people, saves $357 million a year on health costs because something like 80% of its population commutes by bike.” #CityMakingMath Some costs aren’t costs.
- Extremely true
- On Twitter, the algorithm would directly feed you the "news of the day" tweet, but on here you have to infer a general subject matter (bus?) and then snoop around to find the original story. A little mystery for you to figure out, as a treat.
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- Reposted by Eric HittingerBig, big news! This is probably the coolest of the many jobs I have shared here! 🚨COME BE MY DEPUTY🚨 🚨JOIN THE BEST TEAM WORKING IN CLIMATE POLICY AND POLITICS!🚨 This. Will. Go. Fast.
- Reposted by Eric HittingerI'm posting this for no other reason than goats Well, solar's a pretty good reason, too And also, solar is the GOAT
- Here is a funded PhD position with an awesome energy transition researcher at RIT.
- We accidentally won two gingerbread houses from a charity auction. Whoops!
- Reposted by Eric HittingerIt’s a good thing Congress isn’t alive to see this
- Just got halfway through reviewing a research article to realize that it was an AI copy of a recent (legitimate) article. Finding reviewers is hard these days, and I'll tell you that wasting an hour trying to carefully respond to AI slop is a huge disincentive.
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- Reposted by Eric HittingerTerrifying headline if you don’t realize they are sports teams.
- Not sure who needs to hear this, but: the plot of Zootopia 2 revolves around the inventor of the industry-scale heat pumps that make their society possible.
- Reposted by Eric HittingerChristmas came early for me, with delivery of my new @airspool.bsky.social heat pump. The driving force behind me getting this thing was that it promised to be easy to install, and boy was it ever! Read on to see how I got it on the night it was delivered without drilling a big hole through my wall.
- ....and battery storage!
- Science has named the seemingly unstoppable growth of renewable energy worldwide as the 2025 Breakthrough of the Year. Learn more about this year's #BOTY and other big advances in science: scim.ag/493Tpgx
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- I consider it a great victory when I can get ~80-90% of my Energy Policy students to say "energy" when they mean "energy" and "electricity" when they mean "electricity". The clarity is important!
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- Our town's philosophy in a nutshell (spotted at Brighton High School)
- Reposted by Eric HittingerAfter becoming a congressional leader, a politician’s stock portfolio beats out those of peers by 47 (!!!) percentage points a year through trades timed around bills and firms that later get government contracts www.nber.org/papers/w34524 via @florianederer.bsky.social
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- That isn't me any more - the two primary generations in our Thanksgiving crew was 12 people, then gen2 spouses brought it to around 20, then all of the gen3 kids made it collapse under its own weight like a black hole. We do try to all meet up, but without a meal - no table could hold us.
- Shout out to those 30+ yr olds who are still awkwardly at the kids table, but it does mean that you are lucky enough to have most of the older generation still around, so who's to say what is a blessing and what is comedy.
- High voltage = high bounces
- All of my life choices are validated in this moment
- My MS advisor was Swiss and told us that being in the lab nights and weekends was a sign that we were not good at managing time. Don't do it much - it makes both of us look bad.
- Reposted by Eric HittingerWhat's from Chicago, hates Illinois Nazis, and is holy as fuck? It's the Pope in 1982.
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- I'm such a nerd for energy data, I probably should have gotten a L2 charger (with this data reporting) sooner. I'm sure I'll figure out something fun to do with this data...
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- Reposted by Eric HittingerHappy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.
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- As a former crystallography student, it gives me great pleasure to see Wegmans experimenting with more dense packing layouts for bottled water. When I was a student, we had a homework assignment about the most efficient packing method for soda cans!
