Category: energy reduction

• Foul concerns (UPDATE: 14th September 2015)

  Anthropocene . bifurcations . Boston . bridge to nowhere . carbon dioxide . citizenship . civilization . 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 . fracking . global warming . Hyper Anthropocene . investing . investment in wind and solar energy . meteorology . methane . microgrids . mitigation . natural gas . pipelines . planning . politics . public utility commissions . PUCs . rationality . reasonableness . risk . solar energy . solar power . SolarPV.tv . sustainability . temporal myopia . Tony Seba . Westwood . wind power . zero carbon

  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
• “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
• Leaks in Westwood: Natural Gas — a bridge to nowhere

  bridge to nowhere . carbon dioxide . climate . climate change . climate data . climate disruption . conservation . consumption . ecology . energy reduction . energy utilities . environment . fossil fuels . fracking . global warming . investment in wind and solar energy . meteorology . methane . natural gas . open data . pipelines . politics . public utility commissions . PUCs . rationality . reasonableness . risk . spatial statistics . sustainability . the right to know . zero carbon

  Aug 26.2015
• 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
• Hausfathers “Climate Impacts of Coal and Natural Gas”

  Anthropocene . bridge to nowhere . carbon dioxide . climate . climate change . climate disruption . consumption . COP21 . ecology . energy . energy reduction . environment . forecasting . fossil fuels . geophysics . global warming . James Hansen . methane . natural gas . physics . pipelines . rationality . Ray Pierrehumbert . reasonableness . risk . statistics . the right to know . zero carbon

  Jul 30.2015
• 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
• Links explaining climate change Kevin Jones liked

  Anthropocene . astrophysics . bifurcations . biology . bridge to nowhere . carbon dioxide . chance . citizen science . citizenship . civilization . clean disruption . climate . climate change . climate disruption . climate education . climate models . climate zombies . conservation . consumption . decentralized electric power generation . decentralized energy . demand-side solutions . dynamical systems . ecology . economics . efficiency . energy . energy reduction . environment . exponential growth . forecasting . fossil fuel divestment . fossil fuels . geophysics . global warming . history . investing . investment in wind and solar energy . IPCC . living shorelines . mass extinctions . mass transit . mathematics . maths . meteorology . methane . microgrids . model comparison . NASA . natural gas . NCAR . NOAA . oceanography . physics . politics . population biology . Principles of Planetary Climate . rationality . Ray Pierrehumbert . reasonableness . science . science education . Scripps Institution of Oceanography . sea level rise . sociology . solar power . statistics . temporal myopia . the right to know . Tony Seba . WHOI . wind power . zero carbon

  Jul 13.2015
• federal energy subsidies: your tax dollars at work

  bridge to nowhere . carbon dioxide . chance . citizenship . civilization . clean disruption . climate . climate change . climate disruption . climate education . consumption . decentralized electric power generation . decentralized energy . demand-side solutions . denial . economics . education . efficiency . energy . energy reduction . environment . fossil fuel divestment . fossil fuels . global warming . investment in wind and solar energy . methane . natural gas . politics . rationality . reasonableness . solar power . statistics . sustainability . taxes . wind power . zero carbon

  Jul 8.2015
• Cost of (unsubsidized) solar reaches a new low

  citizenship . civilization . clean disruption . climate . climate change . climate disruption . consumption . decentralized electric power generation . decentralized energy . demand-side solutions . economics . efficiency . energy . energy reduction . engineering . environment . fossil fuel divestment . investing . investment in wind and solar energy . microgrids . rationality . reasonableness . solar power . sustainability . wind power . zero carbon

  Jul 6.2015
• Climate Justice

  adaptation . Anthropocene . bifurcations . carbon dioxide . carbon dioxide capture . carbon dioxide sequestration . Carbon Tax . citizenship . civilization . clean disruption . climate . climate change . climate disruption . climate education . climate justice . compassion . conservation . consumption . decentralized electric power generation . decentralized energy . demand-side solutions . dynamical systems . economics . education . energy . energy reduction . environment . ethics . fossil fuel divestment . games of chance . geophysics . global warming . history . humanism . investment in wind and solar energy . IPCC . NOAA . oceanography . physics . politics . population biology . rationality . reasonableness . risk . science . science education . sociology . temporal myopia . Unitarian Universalism . UU Humanists . zero carbon

  Jul 2.2015
• ARTICLE: “Why the rise of green energy makes utility companies nervous”

  biology . clean disruption . climate . climate change . climate disruption . climate education . decentralized electric power generation . decentralized energy . demand-side solutions . ecology . economics . energy . energy reduction . environment . ethics . investment in wind and solar energy . rationality . reasonableness . solar power . sustainability . wind power . zero carbon

  Jun 25.2015
• Why decentralized electrical power has to win, no matter what Elon Musk says, and utilities are doomed

  bridge to nowhere . carbon dioxide . Carbon Tax . citizenship . clean disruption . climate . climate change . climate disruption . climate education . compassion . conservation . consumption . decentralized electric power generation . decentralized energy . demand-side solutions . diffusion processes . dynamical systems . ecology . economics . efficiency . energy . energy reduction . engineering . environment . ethics . exponential growth . forecasting . fossil fuel divestment . geophysics . global warming . investing . investment in wind and solar energy . living shorelines . mass transit . mathematics education . maths . meteorology . microgrids . natural gas . NCAR . NOAA . nor’easters . obfuscating data . oceanography . open data . optimization . physics . politics . population biology . Principles of Planetary Climate . rationality . Ray Pierrehumbert . reasonableness . reproducible research . risk . science . science education . scientific publishing . Scripps Institution of Oceanography . solar power . state-space models . statistics . temporal myopia . testing . the right to know . time series . wind power . zero carbon

  Jun 16.2015
• The United States does not need any more darn natural gas pipelines

  carbon dioxide . clean disruption . climate . climate change . climate disruption . decentralized electric power generation . decentralized energy . demand-side solutions . economics . efficiency . energy . energy reduction . environment . ethics . forecasting . fossil fuel divestment . investing . investment in wind and solar energy . microgrids . natural gas . rationality . reasonableness . risk . solar power . wind power

  Jun 6.2015
• Earth Day, my hope

  carbon dioxide . Carl Sagan . Charles Darwin . citizen science . citizenship . civilization . clean disruption . climate . climate change . climate education . compassion . conservation . Darwin Day . demand-side solutions . ecology . economics . education . efficiency . energy reduction . environment . ethics . forecasting . fossil fuel divestment . geophysics . history . humanism . investing . investment in wind and solar energy . IPCC . mathematics . maths . meteorology . NCAR . NOAA . oceanography . open data . open source scientific software . physics . politics . population biology . Principles of Planetary Climate . privacy . probit regression . R . rationality . Ray Pierrehumbert . reasonableness . reproducible research . risk . science . science education . scientific publishing . Scripps Institution of Oceanography . sociology . the right to know . Unitarian Universalism . UU Humanists . WHOI . wind power

  Apr 9.2015
• We are trying. And the bitterest result is to have so-called colleagues align themselves with the Koch brothers

  Anthropocene . astrophysics . Boston Ethical Society . bridge to nowhere . carbon dioxide . carbon dioxide sequestration . Carbon Tax . chemistry . citizenship . climate . climate change . climate education . consumption . decentralized electric power generation . demand-side solutions . ecology . economics . energy reduction . engineering . forecasting . fossil fuel divestment . investment in wind and solar energy . IPCC . JAGS . meteorology . methane . model comparison . NASA . natural gas . NCAR . Neill deGrasse Tyson . oceanography . open data . physics . politics . population biology . Principles of Planetary Climate . Python 3 . R . rationality . reasonableness . reproducible research . risk . science . science education . Scripps Institution of Oceanography

  Apr 3.2015
• “Human activity has nothing big enough to affect Earth”

  Anthropocene . biology . bridge to nowhere . carbon dioxide . Carbon Tax . citizenship . civilization . climate . climate change . climate education . consumption . ecology . economics . energy . energy reduction . engineering . environment . ethics . fossil fuel divestment . geophysics . history . investing . investment in wind and solar energy . IPCC . meteorology . methane . natural gas . notes . open data . physics . politics . population biology . reasonableness . risk . science . science education . solar power . statistics . the right to know . time series . wind power

  Mar 14.2015
• Hestia: A glimpse at greenhouse gas emissions enforcement

  bridge to nowhere . carbon dioxide . Carbon Tax . citizen science . citizenship . civilization . climate . climate change . climate education . conservation . consumption . decentralized electric power generation . demand-side solutions . ecology . economics . education . efficiency . energy reduction . engineering . environment . ethics . fossil fuel divestment . geophysics . investing . investment in wind and solar energy . IPCC . meteorology . methane . natural gas . NOAA . oceanography . physics . politics . population biology . Principles of Planetary Climate . rationality . reasonableness . science . science education . sociology . solar power . statistics . wind power

  Jan 13.2015
• “Atmospheric lifetime of fossil fuel carbon dioxide” (2009)

  astrophysics . carbon dioxide . carbon dioxide capture . carbon dioxide sequestration . Carbon Tax . chemistry . citizenship . civilization . climate . climate education . conservation . consumption . demand-side solutions . differential equations . ecology . economics . education . energy . energy reduction . engineering . environment . fossil fuel divestment . geoengineering . geophysics . IPCC . meteorology . methane . natural gas . NCAR . NOAA . oceanography . physics . Principles of Planetary Climate . rationality . reasonableness . risk . science . science education

  Jan 6.2015
• Notes on distributed generation of electricity and stability of microgrids

  bridge to nowhere . Carbon Tax . citizenship . civilization . climate . conservation . consumption . decentralized electric power generation . demand-side solutions . economics . efficiency . energy . energy reduction . engineering . environment . fossil fuel divestment . investing . investment in wind and solar energy . meteorology . microgrids . optimization . politics . rationality . reasonableness . risk . solar power . wind power

  Jan 5.2015