Distributed Solar: The Democratizaton of Energy
Blogroll
- All about models
- Thaddeus Stevens quotes As I get older, I admire this guy more and more
- Brendon Brewer on Overfitting Important and insightful presentation by Brendon Brewer on overfitting
- Earth Family Alpha Michael Osborne’s blog (former Executive at Austin Energy, now Chairman of the Electric Utility Commission for Austin, Texas)
- American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
- International Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA)
- The Keeling Curve: its history History of the Keeling Curve and Charles David Keeling
- 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
- NCAR AtmosNews
- Quotes by Nikola Tesla Quotes by Nikola Tesla, including some of others he greatly liked.
- The Alliance for Securing Democracy dashboard
- Ives and Dakos techniques for regime changes in series
- Prediction vs Forecasting: Knaub “Unfortunately, ‘prediction,’ such as used in model-based survey estimation, is a term that is often subsumed under the term ‘forecasting,’ but here we show why it is important not to confuse these two terms.”
- Label Noise
- "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.
- Earth Family Beta MIchael Osborne’s blog on Science and the like
- 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/
- "The Expert"
- ggplot2 and ggfortify Plotting State Space Time Series with ggplot2 and ggfortify
- All about Sankey diagrams
- Mrooijer's Numbers R 4Us
- London Review of Books
- Charlie Kufs' "Stats With Cats" blog “You took Statistics 101. Now what?”
- Harvard's Project Implicit
- South Shore Recycling Cooperative Materials management, technical assistance and networking, town advocacy, public outreach
- Carl Safina's blog One of the wisest on Earth
- Healthy Home Healthy Planet
- "Perpetual Ocean" from NASA GSFC
- Nadler Strategy, LLC, on sustainability Thinking about business, efficient and effective management, and business value
- What If
- Brian McGill's Dynamic Ecology blog Quantitative biology with pithy insights regarding applications of statistical methods
- Subsidies for wind and solar versus subsidies for fossil fuels
- SASB Sustainability Accounting Standards Board
- John Kruschke's "Dong Bayesian data analysis" blog Expanding and enhancing John’s book of same title (now in second edition!)
- John Cook's reasons to use Bayesian inference
- Risk and Well-Being
- Mertonian norms
- James' Empty Blog
- 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
- 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.
- 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
- WEAPONS OF MATH DESTRUCTION Cathy O’Neil’s WEAPONS OF MATH DESTRUCTION,
- Earle Wilson
- 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
- Tony Seba Solar energy, electric vehicle, energy storage, and business disruption professor and visionary
- Dollars per BBL: Energy in Transition
- Comprehensive Guide to Bayes Rule
- Dominic Cummings blog Chief advisor to the PM, United Kingdom
- Professor David Draper
- American Statistical Association
climate change
- Simple box models and climate forcing IMO one of Tamino’s best posts illustrating climate forcing using simple box models
- On Thomas Edison and Solar Electric Power
- Climate model projections versus observations
- "Lessons of the Little Ice Age" (Farber) From Dan Farber, at LEGAL PLANET
- Simple models of climate change
- Anti—Anti-#ClimateEmergency Whether to declare a climate emergency is debatable. But some critics have gone way overboard.
- `Who to believe on climate change': Simple checks By Bart Verheggen
- "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.)
- HotWhopper: It's excellent. Global warming and climate change. Eavesdropping on the deniosphere, its weird pseudo-science and crazy conspiracy whoppers.
- And Then There's Physics
- Sea Change Boston
- "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.
- Ellenbogen: There is no Such Thing as Wind Turbine Syndrome
- Updating the Climate Science: What path is the real world following? From Professors Makiko Sato & James Hansen of Columbia University
- 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.
- 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.
- Sir David King David King’s perspective on climate, and the next thousands of years for humanity
- Tell Utilities Solar Won't Be Killed Barry Goldwater, Jr’s campaign to push for solar expansion against monopolistic utilities, as a Republican
- ATTP summarizes all that stuff about Committed Warming from AND THEN THERE’S PHYSICS
- 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
- Social Cost of Carbon
- Energy payback period for solar panels Considering everything, how long do solar panels have to operate to offset the energy used to produce them?
- Grid parity map for Solar PV in United States
- Climate Change Reports By John and Mel Harte
- Eli on the spectroscopic basis of atmospheric radiation physical chemistry
- SolarLove
- Exxon-Mobil statement on UNFCCC COP21
- Documenting the Climate Deniarati at work
- Risk and Well-Being
- The beach boondoggle Prof Rob Young on how owners of beach property are socializing their risks at costs to all of us, not the least being it seems coastal damage is less than it actually is
- Équiterre Equiterre helps build a social movement by encouraging individuals, organizations and governments to make ecological and equitable choices, in a spirit of solidarity.
- Rabett Run Incisive analysis of climate science versus deliberate distraction
- "Getting to the Energy Future We Want," Dr Steven Chu
- 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
- Wind sled Wind sled: A zero carbon way of exploring ice sheets
- Interview with Wally Broecker Interview with Wally Broecker
- The HUMAN-caused greenhouse effect, in under 5 minutes, by Bill Nye
- RealClimate
- Climate impacts on retail and supply chains
- Non-linear feedbacks in climate (discussion of Bloch-Johnson, Pierrehumbert, Abbot paper) Discussion of http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/wol1/doi/10.1002/2015GL064240/abstract
- James Hansen and granddaughter Sophie on moving forward with progress on climate
- The Carbon Cycle The Carbon Cycle, monitored by The Carbon Project
- Reanalyses.org
- "A field guide to the climate clowns"
- An open letter to Steve Levitt
- 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.
- Tamino's Open Mind Open Mind: A statistical look at climate, its science, and at science denial
- The Green Plate Effect Eli Rabett’s “The Green Plate Effect”
- "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
- The net average effect of a warming climate is increased aridity (Professor Steven Sherwood)
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Recent Posts
- 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
- Field survey update for 2021-03-03 and 2021-03-10: Bryophytes, lichens, and Lycopodia in winter (LoSoMaaCoF) 12 March 2021
- Professor Tony Seba, update 9 March 2021
- “Local hazards grow as Americans trash more” 7 March 2021
- Sir David Attenborough : “… a value on Nature … and through global cooperation” 1 March 2021
- New Meetup: Massachusetts Mosses and Lichens 26 February 2021
- Texas. Wonderment. 26 February 2021
- Field survey update for 2021-02-24: Bryophytes, lichens, and Lycopodia in winter (LoSoMaaCoF) 25 February 2021
- Why I care about and study mosses 20 February 2021
- Moss of the Week, 2021-02-19 19 February 2021
- Wind turbines in winter 18 February 2021
- Field survey update for 2021-02-17: Bryophytes, lichens, and Lycopodia in winter (LoSoMaaCoF) 17 February 2021
- unsustainable 15 February 2021
- You want to know where we really are? 14 February 2021
- GM owes (us) 12 February 2021
- Meet your sparring partner 11 February 2021
- ICL’s Gast, Openshaw, Riley, Barclay on COVID-19 by SARS-CoV-2 : Disease, transmission, variants, and all that 10 February 2021
- Field survey update for 2021-02-03 and 2021-02-10: Bryophytes, lichens, and Lycopodia in winter (LoSoMaaCoF) 9 February 2021
- It’s all because we didn’t listen to Ted Nelson 8 February 2021
- Good news: +2.1 degrees Celsius … It shows what we can do 8 February 2021
- “Trump supporters go to Washington” 7 February 2021
- Posidonia oceanica 6 February 2021
- “…. [T]here’s something wonderful about … shooting for 200% renewable generation [over what’s needed] rather than struggling to get to 90% or net zero” 5 February 2021
- Another reason air source heat pumps are a win 4 February 2021
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