Distributed Solar: The Democratizaton of Energy
Blogroll
- SASB Sustainability Accounting Standards Board
- "The Expert"
- John Kruschke's "Dong Bayesian data analysis" blog Expanding and enhancing John’s book of same title (now in second edition!)
- Flettner Rotor Bruce Yeany introduces the Flettner Rotor and related science
- The Keeling Curve: its history History of the Keeling Curve and Charles David Keeling
- 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/
- 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
- Professor David Draper
- South Shore Recycling Cooperative Materials management, technical assistance and networking, town advocacy, public outreach
- "Consider a Flat Pond" Invited talk introducing systems thinking, by Jan Galkowski, at First Parish in Needham, UU, via Zoom
- Why It’s So Freaking Hard To Make A Good COVID-19 Model Five Thirty Eight’s take on why pandemic modeling is so difficult
- Dominic Cummings blog Chief advisor to the PM, United Kingdom
- Brendon Brewer on Overfitting Important and insightful presentation by Brendon Brewer on overfitting
- Pat's blog While it is described as “The mathematical (and other) thoughts of a (now retired) math teacher”, this is false humility, as it chronicles the present and past life and times of mathematicians in their context. Recommended.
- Healthy Home Healthy Planet
- Ives and Dakos techniques for regime changes in series
- AP Statistics: Sampling, by Michael Porinchak Twin City Schools
- Ted Dunning
- distributed solar and matching location to need
- BioPython A collection of Python tools for quantitative Biology
- Brian McGill's Dynamic Ecology blog Quantitative biology with pithy insights regarding applications of statistical methods
- Team Andrew Weinberg Walking September 8th for the Jimmy Fund!
- 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
- Comprehensive Guide to Bayes Rule
- All about Sankey diagrams
- Slice Sampling
- Dr James Spall's SPSA
- International Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA)
- Subsidies for wind and solar versus subsidies for fossil fuels
- James' Empty Blog
- Fear and Loathing in Data Science Cory Lesmeister’s savage journey to the heart of Big Data
- Label Noise
- Gavin Simpson
- John Cook's reasons to use Bayesian inference
- Giant vertical monopolies for energy have stopped making sense
- Dollars per BBL: Energy in Transition
- Risk and Well-Being
- Charlie Kufs' "Stats With Cats" blog “You took Statistics 101. Now what?”
- Tony Seba Solar energy, electric vehicle, energy storage, and business disruption professor and visionary
- Quotes by Nikola Tesla Quotes by Nikola Tesla, including some of others he greatly liked.
- Higgs from AIR describing NAO and EA Stephanie Higgs from AIR Worldwide gives a nice description of NAO and EA in the context of discussing “The Geographic Impact of Climate Signals on European Winter Storms”
- Busting Myths About Heat Pumps Heat pumps are perhaps the most efficient heating and cooling systems available. Recent literature distributed by utilities hawking natural gas and other sources use performance figures from heat pumps as they were available 15 years ago. See today’s.
- "Talking Politics" podcast David Runciman, Helen Thompson
- Earth Family Alpha Michael Osborne’s blog (former Executive at Austin Energy, now Chairman of the Electric Utility Commission for Austin, Texas)
- NCAR AtmosNews
- Number Cruncher Politics
- WEAPONS OF MATH DESTRUCTION Cathy O’Neil’s WEAPONS OF MATH DESTRUCTION,
- Mike Bloomberg, 2020 He can get progress on climate done, has the means and experts to counter the Trump and Republican digital disinformation machine, and has the experience, knowledge, and depth of experience to achieve and unify.
- Peter Congdon's Bayesian statistical modeling Peter Congdon’s collection of links pertaining to his several books on Bayesian modeling
- 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
climate change
- Climate Change: A health emergency … New England Journal of Medicine Caren G. Solomon, M.D., M.P.H., and Regina C. LaRocque, M.D., M.P.H., January 17, 2019 N Engl J Med 2019; 380:209-211 DOI: 10.1056/NEJMp1817067
- RealClimate
- Rabett Run Incisive analysis of climate science versus deliberate distraction
- Agendaists Eli Rabett’s coining of a phrase
- Grid parity map for Solar PV in United States
- The HUMAN-caused greenhouse effect, in under 5 minutes, by Bill Nye
- Bloomberg interactive graph on “What's warming the world''
- HotWhopper: It's excellent. Global warming and climate change. Eavesdropping on the deniosphere, its weird pseudo-science and crazy conspiracy whoppers.
- 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.
- All Models Are Wrong Dr Tamsin Edwards blog about uncertainty in science, and climate science
- “Ways to [try to] slow the Solar Century''
- Reanalyses.org
- Professor Robert Strom's compendium of resources on climate change Truly excellent
- Updating the Climate Science: What path is the real world following? From Professors Makiko Sato & James Hansen of Columbia University
- 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.
- Dessler's 6 minute Greenhouse Effect video
- "Climate science is setttled enough"
- `Who to believe on climate change': Simple checks By Bart Verheggen
- "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.
- weather blocking patterns
- The great Michael Osborne's latest opinions Michael Osborne is a genius operative and champion of solar energy. I have learned never to disregard ANYTHING he says. He is mentor of Karl Ragabo, and the genius instigator of the Texas renewable energy miracle.
- Climate Change Denying Organizations
- "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.
- Ray Pierrehumbert's site related to "Principles of Planetary Climate" THE book on climate science
- On Thomas Edison and Solar Electric Power
- James Powell on sampling the climate consensus
- 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
- MIT's Climate Primer
- Climate model projections versus observations
- Non-linear feedbacks in climate (discussion of Bloch-Johnson, Pierrehumbert, Abbot paper) Discussion of http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/wol1/doi/10.1002/2015GL064240/abstract
- "When Did Global Warming Stop" Doc Snow’s treatment of the denier claim that there’s been no warming for the most recent N years. (See http://hubpages.com/@doc-snow for more on him.)
- "A field guide to the climate clowns"
- 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%.
- 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.
- "Lessons of the Little Ice Age" (Farber) From Dan Farber, at LEGAL PLANET
- History of discovering Global Warming From the American Institute of Physics.
- The net average effect of a warming climate is increased aridity (Professor Steven Sherwood)
- Climate Communication Hassol, Somerville, Melillo, and Hussin site communicating climate to the public
- Tamino's Open Mind Open Mind: A statistical look at climate, its science, and at science denial
- The Scientific Case for Modern Human-caused Global Warming
- Ellenbogen: There is no Such Thing as Wind Turbine Syndrome
- Anti—Anti-#ClimateEmergency Whether to declare a climate emergency is debatable. But some critics have gone way overboard.
- The Keeling Curve The first, and one of the best programs for creating a spatially significant long term time series of atmospheric concentrations of CO2. Started amongst great obstacles by one, smart determined guy, Charles David Keeling.
- `The unchained goddess' 1958 Bell Telephone Science Hour broadcast regarding, among other things, climate change.
- "Getting to the Energy Future We Want," Dr Steven Chu
- "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
- Sea Change Boston
- Earth System Models
- Skeptical Science
- Andy Zucker's "Climate Change and Psychology"
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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
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