Distributed Solar: The Democratizaton of Energy
Blogroll
- BioPython A collection of Python tools for quantitative Biology
- Fear and Loathing in Data Science Cory Lesmeister’s savage journey to the heart of Big Data
- South Shore Recycling Cooperative Materials management, technical assistance and networking, town advocacy, public outreach
- Giant vertical monopolies for energy have stopped making sense
- "Consider a Flat Pond" Invited talk introducing systems thinking, by Jan Galkowski, at First Parish in Needham, UU, via Zoom
- NCAR AtmosNews
- "Perpetual Ocean" from NASA GSFC
- Leadership lessons from Lao Tzu
- All about models
- Gavin Simpson
- Ives and Dakos techniques for regime changes in series
- Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI)
- John Cook's reasons to use Bayesian inference
- "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.
- The Keeling Curve: its history History of the Keeling Curve and Charles David Keeling
- Earle Wilson
- Beautiful Weeds of New York City
- Number Cruncher Politics
- James' Empty Blog
- Lenny Smith's CHAOS: A VERY SHORT INTRODUCTION This is a PDF version of Lenny Smith’s book of the same title, also available from Amazon.com
- Dominic Cummings blog Chief advisor to the PM, United Kingdom
- Earth Family Beta MIchael Osborne’s blog on Science and the like
- Mertonian norms
- What If
- Karl Broman
- Flettner Rotor Bruce Yeany introduces the Flettner Rotor and related science
- The Mermaid's Tale A conversation about biological complexity and evolution, and the societal aspects of science
- SASB Sustainability Accounting Standards Board
- All about Sankey diagrams
- Leverhulme Centre for Climate Change Mitigation
- Nadler Strategy, LLC, on sustainability Thinking about business, efficient and effective management, and business value
- All about ENSO, and lunar tides (Paul Pukite) Historically, ENSO has been explained in terms of winds. But recently — and Dr Paul Pukite has insisted upon this for a long time — the oscillation of ENSO has been explained as a large-scale slosh due to lunar tidal forcing.
- Carl Safina's blog One of the wisest on Earth
- Gabriel's staircase
- Survey Methodology, Prof Ron Fricker http://faculty.nps.edu/rdfricke/
- Darren Wilkinson's introduction to ABC Darren Wilkinson’s introduction to approximate Bayesian computation (“ABC”). See also his post about summary statistics for ABC https://darrenjw.wordpress.com/2013/09/01/summary-stats-for-abc/
- 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
- 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/.
- Mrooijer's Numbers R 4Us
- distributed solar and matching location to need
- "The Expert"
- Bob Altemeyer on authoritarianism (via Dan Satterfield) The science behind the GOP civil war
- 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
- Risk and Well-Being
- John Kruschke's "Dong Bayesian data analysis" blog Expanding and enhancing John’s book of same title (now in second edition!)
- The Alliance for Securing Democracy dashboard
- Tim Harford's “More or Less'' Tim Harford explains – and sometimes debunks – the numbers and statistics used in political debate, the news and everyday life
- 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.
- Tony Seba Solar energy, electric vehicle, energy storage, and business disruption professor and visionary
- Earth Family Alpha Michael Osborne’s blog (former Executive at Austin Energy, now Chairman of the Electric Utility Commission for Austin, Texas)
climate change
- MIT's Climate Primer
- 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
- weather blocking patterns
- “Ways to [try to] slow the Solar Century''
- Sea Change Boston
- ATTP summarizes all that stuff about Committed Warming from AND THEN THERE’S PHYSICS
- The Scientific Case for Modern Human-caused Global Warming
- 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
- "A field guide to the climate clowns"
- "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
- Mrooijer's Global Temperature Explorer
- 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.
- Exxon-Mobil statement on UNFCCC COP21
- `Who to believe on climate change': Simple checks By Bart Verheggen
- Wind sled Wind sled: A zero carbon way of exploring ice sheets
- "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.
- Steve Easterbrook's excellent climate blog: See his "The Internet: Saving Civilization or Trashing the Planet?" for example Heavy on data and computation, Easterbrook is a CS prof at UToronto, but is clearly familiar with climate science. I like his “The Internet: Saving Civilization or Trashing the Planet” very much.
- Simple box models and climate forcing IMO one of Tamino’s best posts illustrating climate forcing using simple box models
- Paul Beckwith Professor Beckwith is, in my book, one of the most insightful and analytical observers on climate I know. I highly recommend his blog, and his other informational products.
- “The discovery of global warming'' (American Institute of Physics)
- Tamino's Open Mind Open Mind: A statistical look at climate, its science, and at science denial
- Updating the Climate Science: What path is the real world following? From Professors Makiko Sato & James Hansen of Columbia University
- “The Irrelevance of Saturation: Why Carbon Dioxide Matters'' (Bart Levenson)
- Documenting the Climate Deniarati at work
- Climate Communication Hassol, Somerville, Melillo, and Hussin site communicating climate to the public
- Eli on the spectroscopic basis of atmospheric radiation physical chemistry
- Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature
- Nick Bower's "Scared Scientists"
- Agendaists Eli Rabett’s coining of a phrase
- David Appell's early climate science
- RealClimate
- Climate at a glance Current state of the climate, from NOAA
- Climate Change Reports By John and Mel Harte
- Isaac Held's blog In the spirit of Ray Pierrehumbert’s “big ideas come from small models” in his textbook, PRINCIPLES OF PLANETARY CLIMATE, Dr Held presents quantitative essays regarding one feature or another of the Earth’s climate and weather system.
- 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%.
- CLIMATE ADAM Previously from the Science news staff at the podcast of Nature (“Nature Podcast”), the journal, now on YouTube, encouraging climate action through climate comedy.
- Grid parity map for Solar PV in United States
- Thriving on Low Carbon
- An open letter to Steve Levitt
- Warming slowdown discussion
- Rabett Run Incisive analysis of climate science versus deliberate distraction
- Energy payback period for solar panels Considering everything, how long do solar panels have to operate to offset the energy used to produce them?
- "Lessons of the Little Ice Age" (Farber) From Dan Farber, at LEGAL PLANET
- The net average effect of a warming climate is increased aridity (Professor Steven Sherwood)
- Dessler's 6 minute Greenhouse Effect video
- Tell Utilities Solar Won't Be Killed Barry Goldwater, Jr’s campaign to push for solar expansion against monopolistic utilities, as a Republican
- "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.
- Anti—Anti-#ClimateEmergency Whether to declare a climate emergency is debatable. But some critics have gone way overboard.
- NOAA Annual Greenhouse Gas Index report The annual assessment by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration of the radiative forcing from constituent atmospheric greenhouse gases
- Jacobson WWS literature index
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Recent Posts
- 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
- ”California Defies Doom With No. 1 U.S. Economy” (Bloomberg) 14 June 2021
- Carbon Dioxide reaches levels not recorded in 4 million years. Connecticut Republicans are guilty of child abuse. 12 June 2021
- Baseload is an intellectual crutch for engineers and utility managers who cannot think dynamically 10 June 2021
- Discordant Harmonies: Goals for a Holiday in Retirement 8 June 2021
- Mosses of the Week, 4 June 2021 4 June 2021
- ‘Could batteries replace a proposed peaker plant in Massachusetts?’ 3 June 2021
- doing wind and solar properly 31 May 2021
- Moss of the Week, 2021-05-31: Bryum cf. lisae 31 May 2021
- ‘It begins with attitude’, and about an understated victory 28 May 2021
- Spread the Sun 23 May 2021
- Plans for an Explosive Methane Peaker Plant in Peabody 11 May 2021
- “Our pathetic herd immunity failure” (David Brooks) 10 May 2021
- My favorite tech and photo shop 6 May 2021
- A guide to the Task force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures 6 May 2021
- “I know rockets produce CO2”. Here’s why that’s a win. 6 May 2021
- “Replace a lot of our motion with forethought” 3 May 2021
- (Larkin Poe) “Mississippi” 3 May 2021
- Reblog: “Reporting on the Outlaw Ocean” 2 May 2021
- What is the Tukey loss function? 23 April 2021
- “… [W]e need to address the climate crisis at the pace and scale it demands.” 21 April 2021
- To Samwise, a noble, incredibly smart cat, Pink Floyd performed by the exquisite Larkin Poe 17 April 2021
- Watching out for those investments: A bubble in companies reliant upon fossil fuels for their business 15 April 2021
- Bryophyta and the Importance of Sphagnum for the Carbon Cycle 14 April 2021
- Emily Atkins: “It’s whacked.” “It’s crappy.” 4 April 2021
- Climate Resilience 29 March 2021
- Humble Alternatives to Daylight Savings Time — Math with Bad Drawings 17 March 2021
- Representative Deb Haaland, confirmed as Secretary of Interior 16 March 2021
- Macrophoto of the Biweek 12 March 2021
Goodreads
‘WTF’ indeed. It’s not rocket science, it’s simple sums. Unfortunately, the bean-counters who could make a difference appear to be fixated on ensuring their buddies’ profits.