Distributed Solar: The Democratizaton of Energy
Blogroll
- "The Expert"
- Team Andrew Weinberg Walking September 8th for the Jimmy Fund!
- "Consider a Flat Pond" Invited talk introducing systems thinking, by Jan Galkowski, at First Parish in Needham, UU, via Zoom
- Bob Altemeyer on authoritarianism (via Dan Satterfield) The science behind the GOP civil war
- Darren Wilkinson's introduction to ABC Darren Wilkinson’s introduction to approximate Bayesian computation (“ABC”). See also his post about summary statistics for ABC https://darrenjw.wordpress.com/2013/09/01/summary-stats-for-abc/
- Thaddeus Stevens quotes As I get older, I admire this guy more and more
- Tony Seba Solar energy, electric vehicle, energy storage, and business disruption professor and visionary
- Nadler Strategy, LLC, on sustainability Thinking about business, efficient and effective management, and business value
- NCAR AtmosNews
- Brian McGill's Dynamic Ecology blog Quantitative biology with pithy insights regarding applications of statistical methods
- Risk and Well-Being
- Dominic Cummings blog Chief advisor to the PM, United Kingdom
- Leadership lessons from Lao Tzu
- Gavin Simpson
- Mertonian norms
- John Cook's reasons to use Bayesian inference
- 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.
- Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI)
- 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.
- Healthy Home Healthy Planet
- All about Sankey diagrams
- Earle Wilson
- Label Noise
- 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
- Flettner Rotor Bruce Yeany introduces the Flettner Rotor and related science
- American Statistical Association
- James' Empty Blog
- International Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA)
- distributed solar and matching location to need
- 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.
- AP Statistics: Sampling, by Michael Porinchak Twin City Schools
- Beautiful Weeds of New York City
- Gabriel's staircase
- Earth Family Beta MIchael Osborne’s blog on Science and the like
- Number Cruncher Politics
- Rasmus Bååth's Research Blog Bayesian statistics and data analysis
- Charlie Kufs' "Stats With Cats" blog “You took Statistics 101. Now what?”
- 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.”
- London Review of Books
- 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
- OOI Data Nuggets OOI Ocean Data Lab: The Data Nuggets
- Los Alamos Center for Bayesian Methods
- GeoEnergy Math Prof Paul Pukite’s Web site devoted to energy derived from geological and geophysical processes and categorized according to its originating source.
- BioPython A collection of Python tools for quantitative Biology
- Survey Methodology, Prof Ron Fricker http://faculty.nps.edu/rdfricke/
- Carl Safina's blog One of the wisest on Earth
- 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
- Brendon Brewer on Overfitting Important and insightful presentation by Brendon Brewer on overfitting
- ggplot2 and ggfortify Plotting State Space Time Series with ggplot2 and ggfortify
- "Perpetual Ocean" from NASA GSFC
climate change
- Exxon-Mobil statement on UNFCCC COP21
- Anti—Anti-#ClimateEmergency Whether to declare a climate emergency is debatable. But some critics have gone way overboard.
- Isaac Held's blog In the spirit of Ray Pierrehumbert’s “big ideas come from small models” in his textbook, PRINCIPLES OF PLANETARY CLIMATE, Dr Held presents quantitative essays regarding one feature or another of the Earth’s climate and weather system.
- 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.
- All Models Are Wrong Dr Tamsin Edwards blog about uncertainty in science, and climate science
- MIT's Climate Primer
- Wind sled Wind sled: A zero carbon way of exploring ice sheets
- The net average effect of a warming climate is increased aridity (Professor Steven Sherwood)
- 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
- Jacobson WWS literature index
- 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.
- "Getting to the Energy Future We Want," Dr Steven Chu
- SOLAR PRODUCTION at Westwood Statistical Studios Generation charts for our home in Westwood, MA
- Climate impacts on retail and supply chains
- Tuft's Professor Kenneth Lang on the physical chemistry of the Greenhouse Effect
- Ellenbogen: There is no Such Thing as Wind Turbine Syndrome
- Climate Communication Hassol, Somerville, Melillo, and Hussin site communicating climate to the public
- "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.
- Grid parity map for Solar PV in United States
- Social Cost of Carbon
- Ray Pierrehumbert's site related to "Principles of Planetary Climate" THE book on climate science
- RealClimate
- Climate Change Reports By John and Mel Harte
- Energy payback period for solar panels Considering everything, how long do solar panels have to operate to offset the energy used to produce them?
- Solar Gardens Community Power
- Simple box models and climate forcing IMO one of Tamino’s best posts illustrating climate forcing using simple box models
- And Then There's Physics
- Ricky Rood's “What would happen to climate if we (suddenly) stopped emitting GHGs today?
- David Appell's early climate science
- Climate Change: A health emergency … New England Journal of Medicine Caren G. Solomon, M.D., M.P.H., and Regina C. LaRocque, M.D., M.P.H., January 17, 2019 N Engl J Med 2019; 380:209-211 DOI: 10.1056/NEJMp1817067
- James Hansen and granddaughter Sophie on moving forward with progress on climate
- “The Irrelevance of Saturation: Why Carbon Dioxide Matters'' (Bart Levenson)
- Wally Broecker on climate realism
- Jacobson WWS literature index
- 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%.
- Bloomberg interactive graph on “What's warming the world''
- Skeptical Science
- History of discovering Global Warming From the American Institute of Physics.
- 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.
- "Climate science is setttled enough"
- On Thomas Edison and Solar Electric Power
- Dessler's 6 minute Greenhouse Effect video
- Klaus Lackner (ASU), Silicon Kingdom Holdings (SKH) Capturing CO2 from air at scale
- Thriving on Low Carbon
- Non-linear feedbacks in climate (discussion of Bloch-Johnson, Pierrehumbert, Abbot paper) Discussion of http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/wol1/doi/10.1002/2015GL064240/abstract
- Risk and Well-Being
- Nick Bower's "Scared Scientists"
- Sir David King David King’s perspective on climate, and the next thousands of years for humanity
- 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
- The Carbon Cycle The Carbon Cycle, monitored by The Carbon Project
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Recent Posts
- Climate Facts from James Hansen and Makiko Sato Ahead of COP26 14 October 2021
- An Open Letter from U.S. Scientists Imploring President Biden to End the Fossil Fuel Era 9 October 2021
- “It’s the exact opposite.” 7 October 2021
- Rationale for XR, short term 5 October 2021
- “I don’t want my grandchildren to suffer” XR 5 October 2021
- Stopping climate disruption and eating cookies 5 October 2021
- Myths 5 October 2021
- Stephen Fry on XR 5 October 2021
- A very recent Bill McKibben on Where We Are 1 October 2021
- “A political dynamic …” 1 October 2021
- Meet Solkjøring 28 September 2021
- 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
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