Distributed Solar: The Democratizaton of Energy
Blogroll
- Awkward Botany
- What If
- Giant vertical monopolies for energy have stopped making sense
- Leadership lessons from Lao Tzu
- John Kruschke's "Dong Bayesian data analysis" blog Expanding and enhancing John’s book of same title (now in second edition!)
- Beautiful Weeds of New York City
- Harvard's Project Implicit
- Gavin Simpson
- Flettner Rotor Bruce Yeany introduces the Flettner Rotor and related science
- Healthy Home Healthy Planet
- Ted Dunning
- All about Sankey diagrams
- NCAR AtmosNews
- Mark Berliner's video lecture "Bayesian mechanistic-statistical modeling with examples in geophysical settings"
- Carl Safina's blog One of the wisest on Earth
- Subsidies for wind and solar versus subsidies for fossil fuels
- The Keeling Curve: its history History of the Keeling Curve and Charles David Keeling
- Hermann Scheer Hermann Scheer was a visionary, a major guy, who thought deep thoughts about energy, and its implications for humanity’s relationship with physical reality
- Karl Broman
- WEAPONS OF MATH DESTRUCTION Cathy O’Neil’s WEAPONS OF MATH DESTRUCTION,
- "Perpetual Ocean" from NASA GSFC
- John Cook's reasons to use Bayesian inference
- Dollars per BBL: Energy in Transition
- Peter Congdon's Bayesian statistical modeling Peter Congdon’s collection of links pertaining to his several books on Bayesian modeling
- WEAPONS OF MATH DESTRUCTION, reviews Reviews of Cathy O’Neil’s new book
- Leverhulme Centre for Climate Change Mitigation
- "Impacts of Green New Deal energy plans on grid stability, costs, jobs, health, and climate in 143 countries" (Jacobson, Delucchi, Cameron, et al) Global warming, air pollution, and energy insecurity are three of the greatest problems facing humanity. To address these problems, we develop Green New Deal energy roadmaps for 143 countries.
- ggplot2 and ggfortify Plotting State Space Time Series with ggplot2 and ggfortify
- Slice Sampling
- Logistic curves in market disruption From DollarsPerBBL, about logistic or S-curves as models of product take-up rather than exponentials, with notes on EVs
- Number Cruncher Politics
- Brendon Brewer on Overfitting Important and insightful presentation by Brendon Brewer on overfitting
- Prediction vs Forecasting: Knaub “Unfortunately, ‘prediction,’ such as used in model-based survey estimation, is a term that is often subsumed under the term ‘forecasting,’ but here we show why it is important not to confuse these two terms.”
- Why "naive Bayes" is not Bayesian Explains why the so-called “naive Bayes” classifier is not Bayesian. The setup is okay, but estimating probabilities by doing relative frequencies instead of using Dirichlet conjugate priors or integration strays from The Path.
- Rasmus Bååth's Research Blog Bayesian statistics and data analysis
- In Monte Carlo We Trust The statistics blog of Matt Asher, actually called the “Probability and Statistics Blog”, but his subtitle is much more appealing. Asher has a Manifesto at http://www.statisticsblog.com/manifesto/.
- BioPython A collection of Python tools for quantitative Biology
- Mrooijer's Numbers R 4Us
- "Talking Politics" podcast David Runciman, Helen Thompson
- Earle Wilson
- Professor David Draper
- "Consider a Flat Pond" Invited talk introducing systems thinking, by Jan Galkowski, at First Parish in Needham, UU, via Zoom
- Thaddeus Stevens quotes As I get older, I admire this guy more and more
- Los Alamos Center for Bayesian Methods
- Survey Methodology, Prof Ron Fricker http://faculty.nps.edu/rdfricke/
- AP Statistics: Sampling, by Michael Porinchak Twin City Schools
- Fear and Loathing in Data Science Cory Lesmeister’s savage journey to the heart of Big Data
- Tony Seba Solar energy, electric vehicle, energy storage, and business disruption professor and visionary
- SASB Sustainability Accounting Standards Board
- Brian McGill's Dynamic Ecology blog Quantitative biology with pithy insights regarding applications of statistical methods
climate change
- Anti—Anti-#ClimateEmergency Whether to declare a climate emergency is debatable. But some critics have gone way overboard.
- Skeptical Science
- "Mighty Microgrids" Webinar This is a Webinar on YouTube about Microgrids from the Institute for Local Self-Reliance (ILSR), featuring New York State and Minnesota
- David Appell's early climate science
- Ice and Snow
- The Green Plate Effect Eli Rabett’s “The Green Plate Effect”
- "A field guide to the climate clowns"
- Transitioning to fully renewable energy Professor Saul Griffiths talks to transitioning the customer journey, from a dependency upon fossil fuels to an electrified future
- SolarLove
- Équiterre Equiterre helps build a social movement by encouraging individuals, organizations and governments to make ecological and equitable choices, in a spirit of solidarity.
- Climate Communication Hassol, Somerville, Melillo, and Hussin site communicating climate to the public
- "Impacts of Green New Deal energy plans on grid stability, costs, jobs, health, and climate in 143 countries" (Jacobson, Delucchi, Cameron, et al) Global warming, air pollution, and energy insecurity are three of the greatest problems facing humanity. To address these problems, we develop Green New Deal energy roadmaps for 143 countries.
- Warming slowdown discussion
- "Warming Slowdown?" (part 1 of 2) The idea of a global warming slowdown or hiatus is critically examined, emphasizing the literature, the datasets, and means and methods for telling such. In two parts.
- Grid parity map for Solar PV in United States
- Tamino's Open Mind Open Mind: A statistical look at climate, its science, and at science denial
- "Betting strategies on fluctuations in the transient response of greenhouse warming" By Risbey, Lewandowsky, Hunter, Monselesan: Betting against climate change on durations of 15+ years is no longer a rational proposition.
- Wally Broecker on climate realism
- Climate Change Reports By John and Mel Harte
- Jacobson WWS literature index
- Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature
- “Ways to [try to] slow the Solar Century''
- Klaus Lackner (ASU), Silicon Kingdom Holdings (SKH) Capturing CO2 from air at scale
- Climate impacts on retail and supply chains
- Climate change: Evidence and causes A project of the UK Royal Society: (1) Answers to key questions, (2) evidence and causes, and (3) a short guide to climate science
- Nick Bower's "Scared Scientists"
- Interview with Wally Broecker Interview with Wally Broecker
- AIP's history of global warming science: impacts The American Institute of Physics has a fine history of the science of climate change. This link summarizes the history of impacts of climate change.
- Tuft's Professor Kenneth Lang on the physical chemistry of the Greenhouse Effect
- Rabett Run Incisive analysis of climate science versus deliberate distraction
- HotWhopper: It's excellent. Global warming and climate change. Eavesdropping on the deniosphere, its weird pseudo-science and crazy conspiracy whoppers.
- Reanalyses.org
- World Weather Attribution
- Andy Zucker's "Climate Change and Psychology"
- Ray Pierrehumbert's site related to "Principles of Planetary Climate" THE book on climate science
- Dessler's 6 minute Greenhouse Effect video
- "Lessons of the Little Ice Age" (Farber) From Dan Farber, at LEGAL PLANET
- weather blocking patterns
- Non-linear feedbacks in climate (discussion of Bloch-Johnson, Pierrehumbert, Abbot paper) Discussion of http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/wol1/doi/10.1002/2015GL064240/abstract
- Ricky Rood's “What would happen to climate if we (suddenly) stopped emitting GHGs today?
- Updating the Climate Science: What path is the real world following? From Professors Makiko Sato & James Hansen of Columbia University
- "Getting to the Energy Future We Want," Dr Steven Chu
- Earth System Models
- Mathematics and Climate Research Network The Mathematics and Climate Research Network (MCRN) engages mathematicians to collaborating on the cryosphere, conceptual model validation, data assimilation, the electric grid, food systems, nonsmooth systems, paleoclimate, resilience, tipping points.
- And Then There's Physics
- James Hansen and granddaughter Sophie on moving forward with progress on climate
- The beach boondoggle Prof Rob Young on how owners of beach property are socializing their risks at costs to all of us, not the least being it seems coastal damage is less than it actually is
- "Climate science is setttled enough"
- US$165/tonne CO2: Sweden Sweden has a Carbon Dioxide tax of US$165 per tonne at present. CO2 tax was imposed in 1991. GDP has grown 60%.
- Risk and Well-Being
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Recent Posts
- Climate Facts from James Hansen and Makiko Sato Ahead of COP26 14 October 2021
- An Open Letter from U.S. Scientists Imploring President Biden to End the Fossil Fuel Era 9 October 2021
- “It’s the exact opposite.” 7 October 2021
- Rationale for XR, short term 5 October 2021
- “I don’t want my grandchildren to suffer” XR 5 October 2021
- Stopping climate disruption and eating cookies 5 October 2021
- Myths 5 October 2021
- Stephen Fry on XR 5 October 2021
- A very recent Bill McKibben on Where We Are 1 October 2021
- “A political dynamic …” 1 October 2021
- Meet Solkjøring 28 September 2021
- Greta, YouthCOP, 2021 28 September 2021
- First Contact, and the Long Now Foundation 26 September 2021
- Vineyard Sound, Rhode Island Sound, August, 2021 17 September 2021
- Last ICE car gone from our ownership 14 September 2021
- Jeremy Grantham credits Greta Thunberg and XR for pressuring governments to finally do something to cut emissions 11 September 2021
- ASES Webinar: Educating and Inspiring the Inclusion of Solar Energy for Homeowners 11 September 2021
- James O’Brien changes his mind : XR is changing minds! 7 September 2021
- Climate Change and Extreme Weather Linked in U.N. Climate Report 3 September 2021
- Youth Climate Anthem: “Long Forgotten Road” 2 September 2021
- Biomes are too dynamic and intertwingled to be managed with simple political slogans: The case of Gnetum luofuense 2 September 2021
- safest form of energy 17 August 2021
- “100 % renewables is possible, here’s how” 16 August 2021
- We Are Here 15 August 2021
- Discordant harmonies in views of natural systems by The Sierra Club and others 15 August 2021
- 2019, and big fossil fuel companies and their utility companies learn to encourage suburban friends 10 August 2021
- RELDI 4 August 2021
- Cladonia coniocraea in a field of Polytrichum juniperinum 4 August 2021
- These are not “climate activists” … 31 July 2021
- Net Zero: Nature doesn’t count? 29 July 2021
- Jeff wins the Adams Prize 28 July 2021
- Video Evidence 28 July 2021
- But there IS a Carbon price already imposed 27 July 2021
- Moss Evolution 26 July 2021
- “Humanity’s final exam” : Professors Pierrehumbert and Moomaw 25 July 2021
- Temperate zone floods in China 20 July 2021
- CBAM, Carbon Tariffs, and Waste Reduction (Paul Krugman) 16 July 2021
- Why I Retired 11 July 2021
- Yeah but … 11 July 2021
- People opposing wind, solar, and battery placement deserve the climate disruption they will reap, without my sympathies 10 July 2021
- (About the Greta Thunberg address posted here a day ago) 3 July 2021
- Statistics taught by posing it in terms of specific problems. Excellent. 3 July 2021
- Miscellania. 3 July 2021
- Larkin Poe. New York State. Syracuse. 2021. The Fair. And others elsewhere. Music, like Physics, is universal. 3 July 2021
- Greta Thunberg, in July 2021 2 July 2021
- CFTC and Climate: “We have to slam on the brakes” 30 June 2021
- Codium fragile for 27 June 2021, or 2021J178 27 June 2021
- WTF 22 June 2021
- No better investment 22 June 2021
- The New Republic claims climate change mitigation measures are doomed without Brazil 17 June 2021
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