Category Archives: Westwood

Opposition to solar PV field at new Hanlon-Deerfield school, Westwood, MA

Posted on 29 September 2020 by ecoquant

(Updated 2020-10-07, 17:36) This is sometimes was called the “Shuttleworth Solar Field Project”. In addition to building a combined pair of schools on Town of Westwood property, there is a proposal for building a 2 MW solar array on adjacent … Continue reading →

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More reasons why centralized grids and ISOs/RTOs cannot be trusted, with an afterthought

Posted on 21 December 2019 by ecoquant

From Inside Climate News and I’m sure it’ll eventually show up at Legal Planet, where they touched the matter over a year ago: The new rules, approved by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, are designed to counteract state subsidies that … Continue reading →

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12 km Burgess extension

Posted on 14 April 2019 by ecoquant

Saturday’s run, warm weather, about 20℃. One stop for water. 12.1 km. 1h40m. I was slower than mean because it was warm. Up 130m altitude and back. (Click image for view of interactive version of run map in new tab. … Continue reading →

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Long Mill 1, a run

Posted on 24 March 2019 by ecoquant

(Click on map to be taken to my Ride with GPS site where you can interact with the route display.)

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Another reason we need to stop developing: `If the cement industry were a country, it would be the third largest emitter in the world.’

Posted on 14 September 2018 by ecoquant

Much of the focus on reducing Carbon Dioxide emissions is upon reduction and elimination of fossil fuels. Many do not realize that reducing emissions to zero also means offsetting emissions from agriculture, and especially curbing use of cement. Cement production … Continue reading →

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“All of Monsanto’s problems just landed on Bayer” (by Chris Hughes at Bloomberg)

Posted on 13 August 2018 by ecoquant

See Chris Hughes’ article. Monsanto has touted Roundup (also known as Glyphosate but more properly as ) as a safe remedy for weed control, often in the taming of so-called “invasive species”. It’s used on playfields where children are exposed … Continue reading →

Posted in agroecology, an uncaring American public, business, corporate responsibility, ecology, Ecology Action, environment, environmental law, epidemiology, evidence, invasive species, open data, Peter del Tredici, quantitative biology, quantitative ecology, rights of the inhabitants of the Commonwealth, risk, statistics, sustainability, sustainable landscaping, the right to know, Uncategorized, unreason, Westwood | 1 Comment

+10 PV panels! Now at 13.45 kW nameplate capacity

Posted on 31 July 2018 by ecoquant

In addition to our 10.0 kW PV generation, we just added an additional 3.45 kW, via 10 additional SunPower X21-345 panels. The new panels are tied to a separate SolarEdge inverter, an SE3800H-US. (The older inverter is an SE10000A-US. The … Continue reading →

Posted in resiliency, RevoluSun, solar democracy, solar domination, solar energy, solar power, SolarPV.tv, SunPower, sustainability, the right to know, the value of financial assets, Tony Seba, utility company death spiral, Westwood, zero carbon | 2 Comments

photon farming on 30th March 2016, Westwood

Posted on 31 March 2016 by ecoquant

(Click on image to see generation right now.) That’s 53.9 kWh, and a peak generation of 8.1 kW. And it’s just after Spring Equinox. Postscript. Utility-DIVE reports that ISO-NE now estimates installed solar in New England by 2025 will be 30% … Continue reading →

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How nice it is that Nature and probability bend to developers whims!

Posted on 10 October 2015 by ecoquant

As I have mentioned before, it’s so nice that Nature and probability bend to the whims of property developers and their Town Fathers, with the willing participation of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). If you had property at risk … Continue reading →

Posted in capricious gods, chance, citizenship, climate data, conservation, denial, ecology, engineering, environment, ethics, games of chance, ignorance, living shorelines, mathematics, meteorology, obfuscating data, planning, politics, precipitation, prediction, probability, rationality, reasonableness, risk, spatial statistics, University Station, Westwood | 1 Comment

Foul concerns (UPDATE: 14th September 2015)

Posted on 12 September 2015 by ecoquant

Updated, 14th September 2015 I submitted a Letter to the Editor of The Westwood Press last week, one which was published in Friday’s paper edition. It did not/has not yet made it online. It was in response to an article … Continue reading →

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

Posted on 2 August 2015 by ecoquant

“There is such a thing as being too late.”

Posted in 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 | 1 Comment

It was the year 2000, Elizabeth Houghton had just died, and the plan was to restore the ecosystems about Fowl Meadow

Posted on 29 July 2015 by ecoquant

Please remember Elizabeth Houghton as you pass by Routes 128 and 95 in Canton, looking north over her beloved Fowl Meadow and the Neponset River. She can no longer show you her photographs of the watershed under flood conditions and … Continue reading →

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