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Franklyn Kanyako

@fkanyako.bsky.social

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Research Specialist, @UMich. Former @IRENA Scholar. Energy systems modeling, clean energy transition, and decision analysis.

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Franklyn Kanyako @fkanyako.bsky.social · Jun 20

🚨 NEW PAPER🚨
We showed that R&D investment is the most cost effective for reducing DACS costs compared to other scaling methods. However, if the technology is already mature with high learning rates and low potential for technological breakthroughs, then R&D yields no net benefit. #CDR #DAC

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Franklyn Kanyako @fkanyako.bsky.social · Jun 20

This work raises an important question: Should the industry focus on adapting existing technology from other industries or funding breakthrough technology?

agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

Characterizing the Effects of Policy Instruments on Cost and Deployment Trajectories of Direct Air Capture in the U.S. Energy System

R&D-driven innovation reduces direct air capture (DAC) learning investment by two-thirds versus incremental deployment Accelerated deployment supports yield minimal cost advantages over increment...

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Franklyn Kanyako @fkanyako.bsky.social · Jun 20

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Franklyn Kanyako @fkanyako.bsky.social · Jun 3

I’m happy to share that I’m starting a new position as a Research Scientist, working on Energy Transition and Carbon Removal at the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies,(SAGE),UW-Madison. Working with the incredible @energymorgan.bsky.social #StateofCDR #Netzero

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Franklyn Kanyako @fkanyako.bsky.social · Apr 17

Manchester United never do this again. My heart cannot take it. What a game! Incredible stuff.. #MUFC

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Dave O Mitchell @daveomitchell.bsky.social · Jan 17

Eight states across the US are piloting projects that replace fossil gas networks with shared ground-source heat pumps, via @volts.wtf. Any Canadian provinces?
www.volts.wtf/p/thermal-en...

Thermal energy networks are the next big thing

Could gas utilities transform into "thermal utilities"? Here's how networked heat pumps could give them a whole new business model instead of going extinct.

www.volts.wtf

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Franklyn Kanyako @fkanyako.bsky.social · Nov 28

Wonderful read. I can finally go through my timeline on a social media platform. Happy to be back!.

"Much of what we experience as ‘transformation’ involves some stretching or shattering of an artificial and often brittle boundary in moments of expansive awakening."

Dr. Carlie Trott @carlietrott.bsky.social · Nov 27

I read this weeks ago and can't get it out of my head. A must-read (& share) for anyone serious about systems change.

"Complexity approaches generally begin with the assumption that it is not possible to direct a living system along a linear pathway no matter how desirable the potential outcomes."

Is Systems Thinking the same as Complexity Thinking?

Path Notes #4

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · Nov 26

Okay, I have to do a thread on this pretty amazing article because it is just seriously chockers with eye-opening stats about 'direct air capture' - ie, sucking up air and trying to remove carbon dioxide from it

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Reality check on technologies to remove carbon dioxide from the air

An MIT Energy Initiative study finds many climate-stabilization plans are based on questionable assumptions about the future cost and deployment of “direct air capture” and therefore may not bring abo...

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RAND @rand.org · Nov 12

Climate change poses enormous risks and uncertainties. How can military leaders understand what the future might look like?

To better anticipate potential scenarios, RAND experts developed an analytic card game set in the 2040s: www.rand.org/pubs/article...

Wargaming the Future of Climate Change

The U.S. Department of Defense describes climate change as a critical national security issue and a “threat multiplier.” A new card game can help military leaders think through how climate change migh...

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Franklyn Kanyako @fkanyako.bsky.social · Nov 24

Thank you Dr. Nock. I am happy to be here.

Destenie Nock, PhD @destenie.bsky.social · Nov 24

Hey everyone help me welcome @fkanyako.bsky.social who joined us in the #GreatSkyMigration. He is an energy research scholar who focuses on wind energy, sustainability, and energy modeling. He looks at US and Africa. One of my fave papers of his is here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Seasonality and trade in hydro-heavy electricity markets: A case study with the West Africa Power Pool (WAPP)

Hydroelectric power plants account for 25% of West Africa's total installed electricity generation capacity. In general, electricity generated by thes…