Distributed Solar: The Democratizaton of Energy
Blogroll
- OOI Data Nuggets
- Comprehensive Guide to Bayes Rule
- "Consider a Flat Pond"
- All about ENSO, and lunar tides (Paul Pukite)
- distributed solar and matching location to need
- The Plastic Pick-Up: Discovering new sources of marine plastic pollution
- Los Alamos Center for Bayesian Methods
- Awkward Botany
- Mrooijer's Numbers R 4Us
- Bob Altemeyer on authoritarianism (via Dan Satterfield)
climate change
- The Sunlight Economy
- Documenting the Climate Deniarati at work
- All Models Are Wrong
- Interview with Wally Broecker
- The Green Plate Effect
- David Appell's early climate science
- SOLAR PRODUCTION at Westwood Statistical Studios
- "Lessons of the Little Ice Age" (Farber)
- Mrooijer's Global Temperature Explorer
- Ellenbogen: There is no Such Thing as Wind Turbine Syndrome
Archives
Category Archives: cliamate mitigation
Opposing Canadian hydropower, an opposition which supports local renewables?
Ilana Cohen of the Pulitzer prize-winning Inside Climate News reports how some environmental activists in northern New England are concerned about the progress of tapping Canadian hydropower to feed the electrical needs of New England. Opposition is also voiced by … Continue reading
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“On the road again …”
Suggested citation: Davis, Lucas. “Electrification? We Are Already On The Way“, Berkeley Haas Energy Institute Blog. Even without environmental incentives, the United States has moved towards greater electrification. Note, however, that Massachusetts is not numbered amongst the Enlightened.
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How quickly temperature barriers are breached!
This is from the Economist‘s special issue this week on climate disruption. What’s striking is how quickly delay in substantial action takes us from +1.5C to +2C tp +2.5C to +3C, and it’s almost independent of how much we cut, … Continue reading
