Distributed Solar: The Democratizaton of Energy
Blogroll
- Harvard's Project Implicit
- Label Noise
- All about ENSO, and lunar tides (Paul Pukite) Historically, ENSO has been explained in terms of winds. But recently — and Dr Paul Pukite has insisted upon this for a long time — the oscillation of ENSO has been explained as a large-scale slosh due to lunar tidal forcing.
- Ted Dunning
- Team Andrew Weinberg Walking September 8th for the Jimmy Fund!
- Quotes by Nikola Tesla Quotes by Nikola Tesla, including some of others he greatly liked.
- Bob Altemeyer on authoritarianism (via Dan Satterfield) The science behind the GOP civil war
- Logistic curves in market disruption From DollarsPerBBL, about logistic or S-curves as models of product take-up rather than exponentials, with notes on EVs
- BioPython A collection of Python tools for quantitative Biology
- John Kruschke's "Dong Bayesian data analysis" blog Expanding and enhancing John’s book of same title (now in second edition!)
- Gabriel's staircase
- Tony Seba Solar energy, electric vehicle, energy storage, and business disruption professor and visionary
- Thaddeus Stevens quotes As I get older, I admire this guy more and more
- American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
- Nadler Strategy, LLC, on sustainability Thinking about business, efficient and effective management, and business value
- 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.
- Dollars per BBL: Energy in Transition
- Number Cruncher Politics
- All about Sankey diagrams
- Peter Congdon's Bayesian statistical modeling Peter Congdon’s collection of links pertaining to his several books on Bayesian modeling
- Musings on Quantitative Paleoecology Quantitative methods and palaeoenvironments.
- "Perpetual Ocean" from NASA GSFC
- All about models
- AP Statistics: Sampling, by Michael Porinchak Twin City Schools
- James' Empty Blog
- The Plastic Pick-Up: Discovering new sources of marine plastic pollution
- 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/.
- NCAR AtmosNews
- 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/
- 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
- London Review of Books
- Earle Wilson
- Risk and Well-Being
- Karl Broman
- Brendon Brewer on Overfitting Important and insightful presentation by Brendon Brewer on overfitting
- "The Expert"
- Healthy Home Healthy Planet
- "Talking Politics" podcast David Runciman, Helen Thompson
- ggplot2 and ggfortify Plotting State Space Time Series with ggplot2 and ggfortify
- Why "naive Bayes" is not Bayesian Explains why the so-called “naive Bayes” classifier is not Bayesian. The setup is okay, but estimating probabilities by doing relative frequencies instead of using Dirichlet conjugate priors or integration strays from The Path.
- The Keeling Curve: its history History of the Keeling Curve and Charles David Keeling
- Giant vertical monopolies for energy have stopped making sense
- Ives and Dakos techniques for regime changes in series
- Flettner Rotor Bruce Yeany introduces the Flettner Rotor and related science
- "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.
- GeoEnergy Math Prof Paul Pukite’s Web site devoted to energy derived from geological and geophysical processes and categorized according to its originating source.
- "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
- Gavin Simpson
- Charlie Kufs' "Stats With Cats" blog “You took Statistics 101. Now what?”
climate change
- James Hansen and granddaughter Sophie on moving forward with progress on climate
- The Scientific Case for Modern Human-caused Global Warming
- All Models Are Wrong Dr Tamsin Edwards blog about uncertainty in science, and climate science
- Ray Pierrehumbert's site related to "Principles of Planetary Climate" THE book on climate science
- RealClimate
- weather blocking patterns
- Dessler's 6 minute Greenhouse Effect video
- Spectra Energy exposed
- “Ways to [try to] slow the Solar Century''
- Thriving on Low Carbon
- History of discovering Global Warming From the American Institute of 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
- Eli on the spectroscopic basis of atmospheric radiation physical chemistry
- `Who to believe on climate change': Simple checks By Bart Verheggen
- Jacobson WWS literature index
- Équiterre Equiterre helps build a social movement by encouraging individuals, organizations and governments to make ecological and equitable choices, in a spirit of solidarity.
- ATTP summarizes all that stuff about Committed Warming from AND THEN THERE’S PHYSICS
- Grid parity map for Solar PV in United States
- Climate at a glance Current state of the climate, from NOAA
- Professor Robert Strom's compendium of resources on climate change Truly excellent
- The Carbon Cycle The Carbon Cycle, monitored by The Carbon Project
- Wind sled Wind sled: A zero carbon way of exploring ice sheets
- Non-linear feedbacks in climate (discussion of Bloch-Johnson, Pierrehumbert, Abbot paper) Discussion of http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/wol1/doi/10.1002/2015GL064240/abstract
- World Weather Attribution
- Climate model projections versus observations
- Simple models of climate change
- "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.
- 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
- The Green Plate Effect Eli Rabett’s “The Green Plate Effect”
- Solar Gardens Community Power
- Interview with Wally Broecker Interview with Wally Broecker
- Energy payback period for solar panels Considering everything, how long do solar panels have to operate to offset the energy used to produce them?
- On Thomas Edison and Solar Electric Power
- 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.
- Warming slowdown discussion
- The HUMAN-caused greenhouse effect, in under 5 minutes, by Bill Nye
- Mathematics and Climate Research Network The Mathematics and Climate Research Network (MCRN) engages mathematicians to collaborating on the cryosphere, conceptual model validation, data assimilation, the electric grid, food systems, nonsmooth systems, paleoclimate, resilience, tipping points.
- Rabett Run Incisive analysis of climate science versus deliberate distraction
- Tell Utilities Solar Won't Be Killed Barry Goldwater, Jr’s campaign to push for solar expansion against monopolistic utilities, as a Republican
- Tuft's Professor Kenneth Lang on the physical chemistry of the Greenhouse Effect
- Tamino's Open Mind Open Mind: A statistical look at climate, its science, and at science denial
- Exxon-Mobil statement on UNFCCC COP21
- Climate Change Reports By John and Mel Harte
- Wally Broecker on climate realism
- HotWhopper: It's excellent. Global warming and climate change. Eavesdropping on the deniosphere, its weird pseudo-science and crazy conspiracy whoppers.
- Paul Beckwith Professor Beckwith is, in my book, one of the most insightful and analytical observers on climate I know. I highly recommend his blog, and his other informational products.
- Bloomberg interactive graph on “What's warming the world''
- Climate Change Denying Organizations
- Agendaists Eli Rabett’s coining of a phrase
- And Then There's Physics
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Dr David Gallo of WHOI on today’s “Face the Nation” on CBS: MH370
Good to see Dr Dave Gallo speaking about WHOI’s approach to AF447 and its similarity to MH370. Update. 2014-03-26. WHOI is getting ready to deploy their REMUS 6000 systems. Update. 2014-03-28. The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution has offered its expertise … Continue reading
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Tagged AF447, MH370
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