Distributed Solar: The Democratizaton of Energy
Blogroll
- Ted Dunning
- 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.
- "Consider a Flat Pond" Invited talk introducing systems thinking, by Jan Galkowski, at First Parish in Needham, UU, via Zoom
- SASB Sustainability Accounting Standards Board
- Beautiful Weeds of New York City
- Survey Methodology, Prof Ron Fricker http://faculty.nps.edu/rdfricke/
- 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.
- American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
- Dominic Cummings blog Chief advisor to the PM, United Kingdom
- Earth Family Beta MIchael Osborne’s blog on Science and the like
- South Shore Recycling Cooperative Materials management, technical assistance and networking, town advocacy, public outreach
- Leverhulme Centre for Climate Change Mitigation
- Mark Berliner's video lecture "Bayesian mechanistic-statistical modeling with examples in geophysical settings"
- Ives and Dakos techniques for regime changes in series
- Bob Altemeyer on authoritarianism (via Dan Satterfield) The science behind the GOP civil war
- Flettner Rotor Bruce Yeany introduces the Flettner Rotor and related science
- Slice Sampling
- Number Cruncher Politics
- Patagonia founder Yvon Chouinard on how businesses can help our collective environmental mess Patagonia’s Yvon Chouinard set the standard for how a business can mitigate the ravages of capitalism on earth’s environment. At 81 years old, he’s just getting started.
- Simon Wood's must-read paper on dynamic modeling of complex systems I highlighted Professor Wood’s paper in https://hypergeometric.wordpress.com/2014/12/26/struggling-with-problems-already-attacked/
- distributed solar and matching location to need
- Karl Broman
- 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
- John Kruschke's "Dong Bayesian data analysis" blog Expanding and enhancing John’s book of same title (now in second edition!)
- All about Sankey diagrams
- Earth Family Alpha Michael Osborne’s blog (former Executive at Austin Energy, now Chairman of the Electric Utility Commission for Austin, Texas)
- Carl Safina's blog One of the wisest on Earth
- "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 Expert"
- Brian McGill's Dynamic Ecology blog Quantitative biology with pithy insights regarding applications of statistical methods
- Professor David Draper
- 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
- WEAPONS OF MATH DESTRUCTION Cathy O’Neil’s WEAPONS OF MATH DESTRUCTION,
- Mertonian norms
- Dollars per BBL: Energy in Transition
- Dr James Spall's SPSA
- The Keeling Curve: its history History of the Keeling Curve and Charles David Keeling
- Awkward Botany
- Giant vertical monopolies for energy have stopped making sense
- 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
- WEAPONS OF MATH DESTRUCTION, reviews Reviews of Cathy O’Neil’s new book
- London Review of Books
- Peter Congdon's Bayesian statistical modeling Peter Congdon’s collection of links pertaining to his several books on Bayesian modeling
- The Plastic Pick-Up: Discovering new sources of marine plastic pollution
- Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI)
- Leadership lessons from Lao Tzu
- Subsidies for wind and solar versus subsidies for fossil fuels
- 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.
- All about models
- 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/.
climate change
- Klaus Lackner (ASU), Silicon Kingdom Holdings (SKH) Capturing CO2 from air at scale
- "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
- Simple models of climate change
- Simple box models and climate forcing IMO one of Tamino’s best posts illustrating climate forcing using simple box models
- Climate model projections versus observations
- The Sunlight Economy
- Nick Bower's "Scared Scientists"
- Climate impacts on retail and supply chains
- “The Irrelevance of Saturation: Why Carbon Dioxide Matters'' (Bart Levenson)
- Andy Zucker's "Climate Change and Psychology"
- Reanalyses.org
- Eli on the spectroscopic basis of atmospheric radiation physical chemistry
- All Models Are Wrong Dr Tamsin Edwards blog about uncertainty in science, and climate science
- `The unchained goddess' 1958 Bell Telephone Science Hour broadcast regarding, among other things, climate change.
- "Lessons of the Little Ice Age" (Farber) From Dan Farber, at LEGAL PLANET
- James Powell on sampling the climate consensus
- SOLAR PRODUCTION at Westwood Statistical Studios Generation charts for our home in Westwood, MA
- SolarLove
- Mrooijer's Global Temperature Explorer
- Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature
- Anti—Anti-#ClimateEmergency Whether to declare a climate emergency is debatable. But some critics have gone way overboard.
- 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.
- 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.
- `Who to believe on climate change': Simple checks By Bart Verheggen
- Thriving on Low Carbon
- Tell Utilities Solar Won't Be Killed Barry Goldwater, Jr’s campaign to push for solar expansion against monopolistic utilities, as a Republican
- "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.)
- Non-linear feedbacks in climate (discussion of Bloch-Johnson, Pierrehumbert, Abbot paper) Discussion of http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/wol1/doi/10.1002/2015GL064240/abstract
- Ricky Rood's “What would happen to climate if we (suddenly) stopped emitting GHGs today?
- Bloomberg interactive graph on “What's warming the world''
- 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.
- "A field guide to the climate clowns"
- History of discovering Global Warming From the American Institute of Physics.
- Tuft's Professor Kenneth Lang on the physical chemistry of the Greenhouse Effect
- 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 Scientific Case for Modern Human-caused Global Warming
- RealClimate
- “The discovery of global warming'' (American Institute of Physics)
- Climate Change Reports By John and Mel Harte
- Model state level energy policy for New Englad Bob Massie’s proposed energy policy for Massachusetts, an admirable model for energy policy anywhere in New England
- 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%.
- MIT's Climate Primer
- "Warming Slowdown?" (part 2 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. The second part.
- Solar Gardens Community Power
- Spectra Energy exposed
- 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.
- James Hansen and granddaughter Sophie on moving forward with progress on climate
- Social Cost of Carbon
- Climate Change Denying Organizations
- The Carbon Cycle The Carbon Cycle, monitored by The Carbon Project
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Recent Posts
- Greta, YouthCOP, 2021 28 September 2021
- First Contact, and the Long Now Foundation 26 September 2021
- Vineyard Sound, Rhode Island Sound, August, 2021 17 September 2021
- Last ICE car gone from our ownership 14 September 2021
- Jeremy Grantham credits Greta Thunberg and XR for pressuring governments to finally do something to cut emissions 11 September 2021
- ASES Webinar: Educating and Inspiring the Inclusion of Solar Energy for Homeowners 11 September 2021
- James O’Brien changes his mind : XR is changing minds! 7 September 2021
- Climate Change and Extreme Weather Linked in U.N. Climate Report 3 September 2021
- Youth Climate Anthem: “Long Forgotten Road” 2 September 2021
- Biomes are too dynamic and intertwingled to be managed with simple political slogans: The case of Gnetum luofuense 2 September 2021
- safest form of energy 17 August 2021
- “100 % renewables is possible, here’s how” 16 August 2021
- We Are Here 15 August 2021
- Discordant harmonies in views of natural systems by The Sierra Club and others 15 August 2021
- 2019, and big fossil fuel companies and their utility companies learn to encourage suburban friends 10 August 2021
- RELDI 4 August 2021
- Cladonia coniocraea in a field of Polytrichum juniperinum 4 August 2021
- 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: Pohlia nutans 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
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