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MariusGjerd

6 karma · joined February 27, 2026

Electrician turned developer, now studying industrial automation in Bergen, Norway. I build IoT in the energy sector and write about what happens when code touches the real world: https://mariusgjerd.github.io
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MariusGjerd··on US strikes $1.2B deal to pay German firm to halt offshore wind projects
take a look at what Spain is doing. diversifying the energy system is needed
MariusGjerd··on Wind turbine is being used to produce zero-carbon "green ammonia" fertilizer
yeah and imagine you store the unregulated energy source in a battery so you can use it whenever you want OR you could also help stabilize the grid and or sell your energy from the battery if you want. wind + battery will become very popular in the comming years and is already being highly adopted in countries like spain
MariusGjerd··on Wind turbine is being used to produce zero-carbon "green ammonia" fertilizer
the talk about "electricity can do things" misses whats actually interesting here. Working in the energy sector, the hard problem is rarely generating the power, it is getting it into the grid. connection queue runs for years and turbines regularly get curtailed when the grid c anncot absorb more. A flexible load behind the meter, like an electrolyzer making ammonia on site, monetizes energy that would otherwise be wasted or never get built at all. The fertilizer is almost a side effect, the real product is a use for stranded wind. i would also add that wind + battery would be much better both for stablization and also the same use as mentioned in the article.
MariusGjerd··on Immersive Linear Algebra Book with Interactive Figures (2015)
never trusting something made by a swede (yes im norwegian)
MariusGjerd··on I Learned to Read Again
at work we started making a libary with books we want to read to keep us sane and adopting good and old practices in the world of ai. its very easy to get blind nowdays but reading have helped me alot
MariusGjerd··on Claude Code sends 33k tokens before reading the prompt; OpenCode sends 7k
not even surprised
MariusGjerd··on Write code like a human will maintain it
Start asking your peers to explain what their code does and alot will be surprised that they dont know