Category: clean disruption

• “… [A] fair, legally binding and truly transformational climate agreement …”

  adaptation . Anthropocene . Bill Nye . bridge to nowhere . Cape Wind . carbon dioxide . citizenship . civilization . clean disruption . climate change . climate disruption . climate justice . compassion . decentralized electric power generation . decentralized energy . ecology . education . efficiency . energy . energy reduction . energy utilities . environment . fossil fuel divestment . fossil fuels . global warming . Hyper Anthropocene . investment in wind and solar energy . microgrids . natural gas . pipelines . politics . public utility commissions . PUCs . rationality . reasonableness . religion . solar energy . solar power . SolarPV.tv . sustainability . Unitarian Universalism . UU Humanists . wind energy . wind power . zero carbon

  Oct 27.2015
• Irrelevant power utilities

  bridge to nowhere . chance . clean disruption . consumption . decentralized electric power generation . decentralized energy . demand-side solutions . destructive economic development . economics . efficiency . energy . energy reduction . energy utilities . ignorance . investment in wind and solar energy . mathematics . microgrids . optimization . physics . planning . public utility commissions . PUCs . rationality . reasonableness . risk . selfishness . solar power . SolarPV.tv . Spaceship Earth . sustainability . Tea Party . the right to know . the value of financial assets . Tony Seba . wind energy . wind power . zero carbon

  Oct 20.2015
• The Koch brothers are afraid, very afraid … and should be

  Anthropocene . bridge to nowhere . Cape Wind . carbon dioxide . citizenship . clean disruption . climate justice . decentralized electric power generation . decentralized energy . demand-side solutions . denial . ecology . economics . efficiency . energy . energy utilities . environment . Exxon . fossil fuel divestment . fossil fuels . geophysics . global warming . Hyper Anthropocene . ignorance . investment in wind and solar energy . meteorology . obfuscating data . physics . rationality . reasonableness . risk . science . selfishness . solar energy . solar power . SolarPV.tv . sustainability . the right to know . the value of financial assets . Tony Seba . transparency . wind power . zero carbon

  Oct 17.2015
• Climate Disruption and Carbon Taxes: That ‘outlandish lefty plot’

  adaptation . Anthropocene . bridge to nowhere . carbon dioxide . Carbon Tax . Carbon Worshipers . citizenship . civilization . clean disruption . climate change . climate disruption . COP21 . decentralized electric power generation . decentralized energy . demand-side solutions . destructive economic development . ecology . energy utilities . engineering . environment . Exxon . fossil fuel divestment . fossil fuels . geophysics . global warming . Hyper Anthropocene . ignorance . meteorology . mitigation . oceanography . physics . planning . politics . rationality . reasonableness . risk . zero carbon

  Oct 16.2015
• On Changing Things

  adaptation . Anthropocene . bifurcations . bridge to nowhere . Buckminster Fuller . Cauchy distribution . clean disruption . climate disruption . demand-side solutions . destructive economic development . Disney . dynamic linear models . dynamical systems . Epcot . exponential growth . fossil fuel divestment . global warming . Hyper Anthropocene . physical materialism . planning . rationality . reasonableness . Spaceship Earth . stochastic algorithms

  Sep 30.2015
• “Projected Costs of Generating Electricity” (IEA report)

  Anthropocene . carbon dioxide . clean disruption . climate change . climate disruption . conservation . consumption . decentralized electric power generation . decentralized energy . demand-side solutions . destructive economic development . ecology . economics . efficiency . EIA . energy . energy reduction . energy utilities . environment . forecasting . global warming . Hyper Anthropocene . investing . investment in wind and solar energy . natural gas . NIMBY . pipelines . planning . public utility commissions . rationality . reasonableness . solar power . SolarPV.tv . temporal myopia . time series . Tony Seba . wind energy . wind power . zero carbon

  Sep 28.2015
• The Sounds of Wind

  clean disruption . investment in wind and solar energy . sociology . wind power

  Sep 16.2015
• interesting: Cap-and-Trade died not only because of the fossil fuel lobby, but because of proponents of corn methanol

  Anthropocene . biofuels . bridge to nowhere . carbon dioxide . clean disruption . climate . climate disruption . conservation . methanol

  Sep 13.2015
• Foul concerns (UPDATE: 14th September 2015)

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  Sep 12.2015
• Bob Inglis: “Energy optimists. Climate realists.”

  Anthropocene . atheism . bifurcations . Bill Nye . bridge to nowhere . capricious gods . carbon dioxide . Carbon Tax . citizenship . civilization . clean disruption . climate change . climate disruption . compassion . conservation . consumption . decentralized electric power generation . decentralized energy . demand-side solutions . destructive economic development . ecology . economics . education . energy reduction . energy utilities . environment . ethics . finance . fossil fuel divestment . global warming . humanism . Hyper Anthropocene . ignorance . investing . investment in wind and solar energy . meteorology . new forms of scientific peer review . NOAA . oceanography . physical materialism . physics . politics . rationality . reasonableness . risk . science . sociology . statistics . sustainability . Tea Party . UU Humanists

  Sep 10.2015
• Tell Utilities Solar won’t be Killed

  Anthropocene . Cape Wind . clean disruption . climate . climate change . climate disruption . conservation . consumption . corruption . decentralized electric power generation . decentralized energy . demand-side solutions

  Sep 9.2015
• “Dismantling the Utility Model is the Fastest Path to a Cleaner Electricity Infrastructure”

  Cauchy distribution . clean disruption . climate disruption . conservation . consumption . decentralized electric power generation . decentralized energy . demand-side solutions . destructive economic development . economics . efficiency . EIA . energy . energy reduction . energy utilities . engineering . fossil fuel divestment . fossil fuels . global warming . investment in wind and solar energy . maths . mitigation . natural gas . optimization . pipelines . politics . public utility commissions . rationality . reasonableness . solar energy . solar power . SolarPV.tv . Tony Seba . zero carbon

  Sep 7.2015
• “Solar: A convenient truth” (2016)

  Anthropocene . carbon dioxide . clean disruption . climate . climate change . conservation . consumption . decentralized electric power generation . decentralized energy . demand-side solutions . destructive economic development . economics . efficiency . energy . energy reduction . energy utilities . exponential growth . fossil fuel divestment . global warming . investing . investment in wind and solar energy . meteorology . optimization . physics . politics . rationality . reasonableness . solar energy . solar power . SolarPV.tv . sustainability . temporal myopia . the right to know . Tony Seba . wind power . zero carbon

  Sep 3.2015
• Solar array with cloud predicting technology launched in WA

  adaptation . Anthropocene . carbon dioxide . citizenship . civilization . clean disruption . climate . climate change . climate disruption . conservation . consumption . decentralized electric power generation . decentralized energy . demand-side solutions . dynamic linear models . efficiency . energy . energy reduction . energy utilities . engineering . environment . ethics . forecasting . geophysics . global warming . Hyper Anthropocene . investment in wind and solar energy . Kalman filter . mathematics . maths . meteorology . microgrids . mitigation . NCAR . numerical software . optimization . physics . prediction . probabilistic programming . rationality . reasonableness . risk . science . solar power . stochastics . sustainability . time series

  Aug 31.2015
• Yep, power to developing countries as simple as that

  Anthropocene . civilization . clean disruption . climate education . compassion . conservation . consumption . decentralized electric power generation . decentralized energy . destructive economic development . economics . education . efficiency . energy . energy reduction . environment . ethics . fossil fuel divestment . humanism . Hyper Anthropocene . investment in wind and solar energy

  Aug 30.2015
• Locally generated solar PV will destroy America’s electric utilities: Barclays

  adaptation . Anthropocene . bridge to nowhere . Cape Wind . carbon dioxide . citizenship . clean disruption . climate . climate change . climate disruption . compassion . conservation . consumption . decentralized electric power generation . decentralized energy . demand-side solutions . destructive economic development . dynamical systems . economics . efficiency . energy . energy reduction . energy utilities . engineering . environment . ethics . exponential growth . forecasting . fossil fuel divestment . fossil fuels . geophysics . global warming . Hyper Anthropocene . investing . investment in wind and solar energy . meteorology . microgrids . physics . prediction . public utility commissions . PUCs . rationality . reasonableness . risk . solar power . statistics . Tony Seba . wind power . zero carbon

  Aug 26.2015
• Why coastal New England is good for wind

  Cape Wind . carbon dioxide . civilization . clean disruption . climate . climate change . climate disruption . conservation . consumption . decentralized electric power generation . decentralized energy . ecology . economics . EIA . energy . energy utilities . environment . ethics . forecasting . fossil fuel divestment . games of chance . geophysics . global warming . Hyper Anthropocene . ignorance . investment in wind and solar energy . MA . meteorology . NCAR . NIMBY . NOAA . physics . politics . rationality . reasonableness . risk . science . wind power

  Aug 20.2015
• “Does Local Climate Information Stimulate Action?” | Tyndall°Centre for Climate Change Research ®

  Anthropocene . Boston Ethical Society . carbon dioxide . Carbon Tax . citizenship . civilization . clean disruption . climate . climate change . climate disruption . compassion . demand-side solutions . economics . environment . ethics . games of chance . geophysics . global warming . humanism . Hyper Anthropocene . ignorance . meteorology . sociology . temporal myopia . UU Humanists

  Aug 20.2015
• A new site in favor of climate disruption

  clean disruption . climate . climate change . climate education . fossil fuels . global warming . methane

  Aug 19.2015
• Google shows how it’s done

  Anthropocene . carbon dioxide . citizenship . civilization . clean disruption . climate . climate change . climate disruption . conservation . consumption . COP21 . decentralized electric power generation . decentralized energy . destructive economic development . ecology . economics . efficiency . energy . energy reduction . energy utilities . environment . ethics . fossil fuel divestment . global warming . Hyper Anthropocene . investment in wind and solar energy . rationality . risk . science . solar power . sustainability . wind power . zero carbon

  Aug 17.2015
• “Allocating a 2° C cumulative carbon budget to countries”: Gignac and Matthews

  adaptation . Anthropocene . Boston Ethical Society . bridge to nowhere . carbon dioxide . Carbon Tax . chance . chemistry . citizen science . citizenship . civilization . clean disruption . climate . climate change . climate disruption . climate education . climate justice . compassion . conservation . consumption . decentralized energy . demand-side solutions . destructive economic development . ecology . education . energy . energy reduction . environment . ethics . forecasting . fossil fuel divestment . fossil fuels . geophysics . global warming . humanism . Hyper Anthropocene . ignorance . investment in wind and solar energy . IPCC . meteorology . mitigation . open source scientific software . physical materialism . physics . population biology . prediction . rationality . reasonableness . risk . science . science education . scientific publishing . sociology . solar power . sustainability . temporal myopia . the right to know . time series . UNFCCC . UU Humanists . wind power

  Aug 10.2015
• Utilities for dummies: How they work and why that needs to change (from grist.org)

  Anthropocene . bifurcations . bridge to nowhere . carbon dioxide . citizenship . civilization . clean disruption . climate . climate change . climate disruption . climate education . conservation . consumption . corruption . decentralized electric power generation . decentralized energy . demand-side solutions . destructive economic development . disingenuity . dynamic linear models . dynamical systems . ecology . economics . education . efficiency . energy . energy reduction . energy utilities . engineering . environment . ethics . exponential growth . finance . forecasting . fossil fuel divestment . fossil fuels . fracking . global warming . Hyper Anthropocene . ignorance . investing . investment in wind and solar energy . mathematics . maths . meteorology . methane . microgrids . natural gas . optimization . physics . pipelines . politics . prediction . public utility commissions . PUCs . rationality . reasonableness . risk . science . solar power . statistics . sustainability . taxes . temporal myopia . the right to know . time series . Tony Seba . wind power . zero carbon

  Aug 10.2015
• Solar installation progress, courtesy of MacSolarIndex.com

  adaptation . Anthropocene . carbon dioxide . citizen science . citizenship . civilization . clean disruption . climate . climate change . climate data . climate disruption . conservation . consumption . decentralized electric power generation . decentralized energy . demand-side solutions . destructive economic development . dynamic linear models . dynamical systems . ecology . economics . efficiency . energy . energy reduction . environment . exponential growth . forecasting . fossil fuel divestment . fossil fuels . geophysics . global warming . Hyper Anthropocene . investing . investment in wind and solar energy . mathematics . mathematics education . maths . meteorology . microgrids . open data . optimization . physics . politics . prediction . rationality . reasonableness . risk . science . science education . solar power . sustainability . the right to know . time series . Tony Seba . wind power . zero carbon

  Aug 10.2015
• California solar users already affecting per-residence rates of non-solar utility customers

  bifurcations . clean disruption . climate . climate change . climate disruption . conservation . consumption . decentralized electric power generation . decentralized energy . demand-side solutions . destructive economic development . differential equations . dynamical systems . economics . efficiency . energy . energy reduction . environment . exponential growth . finance . fossil fuel divestment . fossil fuels . global warming . investing . investment in wind and solar energy . maths . microgrids . natural gas . pipelines . politics . rationality . reasonableness . solar power . statistics . temporal myopia . Tony Seba . wind power . zero carbon

  Aug 5.2015
• SCIENCE OF DOOM takes on assessing zero Carbon power and a zero Carbon grid

  adaptation . Anthropocene . clean disruption . climate data . climate disruption . conservation . consumption . decentralized electric power generation . decentralized energy . demand-side solutions . destructive economic development . dynamic linear models . dynamical systems . economics . efficiency . energy . energy reduction . engineering . environment . exponential growth . forecasting . fossil fuel divestment . global warming . Hyper Anthropocene . investing . investment in wind and solar energy . microgrids . open data . optimization . prediction . rationality . reasonableness . risk . solar power . state-space models . stochastics . sustainability . the right to know . time series . wind power . Wordpress . zero carbon

  Aug 4.2015
• The United States Clean Power Plan … It’s time.

  Anthropocene . astrophysics . bifurcations . bridge to nowhere . carbon dioxide . Carbon Tax . citizenship . civilization . clean disruption . climate . climate change . climate disruption . climate education . climate justice . decentralized electric power generation . decentralized energy . demand-side solutions . destructive economic development . ecology . economics . energy . engineering . forecasting . fossil fuel divestment . fossil fuels . geophysics . global warming . Hyper Anthropocene . ignorance . investment in wind and solar energy . IPCC . meteorology . oceanography . physics . politics . Principles of Planetary Climate . rationality . Ray Pierrehumbert . reasonableness . risk . science . science education . sea level rise . statistics . sustainability . Tamino . temporal myopia . the right to know . time series . UNFCCC . UU Humanists . Westwood . wind power . zero carbon

  Aug 2.2015
• Professor James Hansen responds and explains:

  Anthropocene . arXiv . astrophysics . bifurcations . biology . bridge to nowhere . carbon dioxide . Carbon Tax . citizenship . civilization . clean disruption . climate . climate change . climate disruption . climate models . COP21 . denial . disingenuity . dynamical systems . ecology . education . environment . ethics . forecasting . fossil fuel divestment . fossil fuels . geophysics . global warming . investment in wind and solar energy . IPCC . James Hansen . maths . meteorology . NASA . NCAR . new forms of scientific peer review . NOAA . oceanography . open source scientific software . physics . Principles of Planetary Climate . probability . rationality . reasonableness . science . science education . sea level rise . temporal myopia . the right to know . time series . WAIS . zero carbon

  Jul 27.2015
• Tea Party member Debbie Dooley on solar power (from The Guardian)

  bifurcations . carbon dioxide . citizenship . clean disruption . climate . climate change . climate disruption . conservation . consumption . decentralized electric power generation . decentralized energy . demand-side solutions . economics . efficiency . energy . ethics . finance . fossil fuels . global warming . investing . investment in wind and solar energy . maths . microgrids . politics . rationality . reasonableness . risk . solar power . statistics . Tea Party . time series . Tony Seba . wind power . zero carbon

  Jul 24.2015
• References Regarding the 450 ppm CO2 Ceiling

  adaptation . Antarctica . Anthropocene . Arctic . arXiv . carbon dioxide . carbon dioxide capture . carbon dioxide sequestration . Carbon Tax . citizenship . civilization . clean disruption . climate . climate change . climate disruption . climate education . climate models . compassion . conservation . decentralized electric power generation . decentralized energy . demand-side solutions . ecology . economics . efficiency . energy . energy reduction . engineering . environment . fossil fuel divestment . fossil fuels . geophysics . investment in wind and solar energy . meteorology . oceanography . physics . Principles of Planetary Climate . rationality . Ray Pierrehumbert . reasonableness . risk . science . sea level rise . solar power . statistics . sustainability . the right to know . WAIS . wind power . zero carbon

  Jul 22.2015
• Burlington, VT: Electricity from 100% renewables!

  carbon dioxide . clean disruption . climate . climate change . climate disruption . conservation . decentralized electric power generation . decentralized energy . demand-side solutions . efficiency . energy . energy reduction . engineering . environment . geophysics . global warming . investment in wind and solar energy . microgrids . rationality . reasonableness . solar power . sustainability . Tony Seba . wind power . zero carbon

  Jul 20.2015