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There are countless news articles and studies that reiterate the point that electric vehicles “have fewer moving parts” or are “less complex” and therefore pose a threat to autoworkers’ jobs. Many cite a 2017 Ford presentation that mentioned a “30% reduction in hours per unit” as a benefit of producing EVs, or former Volkswagen CEO … Continue reading Electric Cars & Labor
12.10.2023 00:46Electric Cars & LaborThursday I got home at 7:30, and started squaring away a few things. I checked the weather to figure out if I could leave out a package for the mailman the next day, and noticed a giant string of thunder storms to the west (so nope!). 10 minutes later huge straight line winds hit us, … Continue reading Climate Infrastructure
9.9.2023 10:16Climate InfrastructureFascinating look at the impacts of climate change on the potato landscape in the US. Climate stories are everywhere, even in your bag of potato chips.
30.8.2023 15:25Potatoes and Climate ChangeFor the last decade I’ve been an avid bike rider. When I was still working in an office a co-worker started riding his bike in, and I figured out there was a 9 mile route I could take that larger avoided busy roads. The last summer I worked in an office 5 days a week … Continue reading Bike Radar
27.8.2023 21:24Bike RadarA good post. Thank you.
23.8.2023 18:56Comment on I’m so over gas cars – Vacationing in an Age of Climate Solutions part 4 by Sustain | sustain-blog.comAs I’ve said before, we did a piece of this trip 10 years ago, in the same Subaru Outback we took this time. 10 years ago it was a new car, purchased in 2012. Now it is not. So inevitably, once we’re 50 km over the border to Canada, and our cell phones aren’t working … Continue reading I’m so over gas cars – Vacationing in an Age of Climate Solutions part 4
23.8.2023 11:59I’m so over gas cars – Vacationing in an Age of Climate Solutions part 4Wind is the way to the future. Thank you
It’s truly awesome how we are going to enter a second age of sail and return to using the power of the wind on the ocean again.
22.8.2023 11:47A Second Age of SailIt’s a 5 hour drive from Bar Harbor to Fundy National Park in New Brunswick, plus a border crossing that went very quickly. We set out early to make sure we had plenty of time to settle in once we got there. One thing I was sad that we would not see was this giant … Continue reading The Great Machines – Vacationing in the Age of Climate Solutions part 3
22.8.2023 11:27The Great Machines – Vacationing in the Age of Climate Solutions part 3New England ISO spent the time to deeply model the actual impacts of rooftop solar, and what actual hour by hour needs for extreme weather events in the winter were, and found that roof top solar and regional wind provided a lot more power to the grid during those times than they had expected. Classically … Continue reading Rooftop Solar for the win
21.8.2023 11:41Rooftop Solar for the winI learned to love gazpacho when working summers at the Warren Store in the Deli. Before that, the idea of cold soup was completely unknown to me. There we’d make gazpacho 5 gallons at a time, and it would go pretty quick. Our deli gazpacho was chunky, hand cut, and that’s the way I tended … Continue reading Summer Gazpacho
20.8.2023 21:29Summer GazpachoIn Bar Harbor we stayed in a Inn outside of town, largely because it had both an indoor and outdoor pool and my daughter has gotten into swimming this year. That seemed to weather proof us for some activities. The room had a pretty standard through wall AC unit, which was loud (clearly not going … Continue reading The Heat Pumps of Maine – Vacationing in the Age of Climate Solutions Part 2
20.8.2023 20:33The Heat Pumps of Maine – Vacationing in the Age of Climate Solutions Part 210 years ago my wife and I had taken a 2 week road trip through Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Maine. During that trip we stayed at Fundy National Park in a Yurt. And we definitely wanted to come back. In 10 years, a bunch of things changed, and a bunch stayed the same. we … Continue reading Bar Harbor Bus Network: Vacationing in the age of Climate Solutions part 1
19.8.2023 20:21Bar Harbor Bus Network: Vacationing in the age of Climate Solutions part 1It continues to amaze me how certain executives only want to build things that divide us. Imagine this amount of effort being put into something that unites us with our neighbors. Good on the Guardian with leading that this is an illegal action.
11.12.2022 22:47Last minute Arizona wall pillow fortThe understanding that climate change and air pollution affect the developing brain has grown exponentially in the last 20 years. Research has now linked prenatal as well as postnatal air pollution exposure to reduced IQ and other cognitive problems, developmental disorders such as ADHD and autism, depression and anxiety, and even structural changes in the … Continue reading What Climate Change Is Already Doing to Children’s Brains | Time
2.12.2022 02:23What Climate Change Is Already Doing to Children’s Brains | TimeAll of which invites the question: Why do these rail barons hate paid leave so much? Why would a company have no problem handing out 24 percent raises, $1,000 bonuses, and caps on health-care premiums but draw the line on providing a benefit as standard and ubiquitous throughout modern industry as paid sick days? The … Continue reading Rail Strike: Why The Railroads Won’t Give In on Paid Leave
1.12.2022 15:29Rail Strike: Why The Railroads Won’t Give In on Paid LeaveThis was one of the most important things the IRA will do, change the politics around clean energy. Clean energy production is going to be the jobs on the ground that people see in lots of parts of the country that were left behind. That is going to change the politics of future climate legislation, … Continue reading The Politics of Clean Energy is changing
1.12.2022 13:32The Politics of Clean Energy is changingOsaka University in Japan is beginning a joint research project with civil engineering company Toda to develop the world’s largest floating wind turbine. As Nikkei Asia reports, the goal is to have an experimental wind turbine capable of outputting 15 megawatts. In order to achieve such high output, the blade span of the new turbine … Continue reading Japan to Create the World’s Largest Floating Wind Turbine | PCMag
1.12.2022 01:24Japan to Create the World’s Largest Floating Wind Turbine | PCMagCHPE is expecterd to deliver 1,250 megawatts of clean energy, or enough to power 1 million New York City homes — about 20% of the city’s electric demands.Power cable lines will be installed underground and underwater for an estimated cost of $2.2 billion. The transmission line is expected to start full operations in the spring of … Continue reading Work begins on 339-mile transmission line from Canada to NYC
30.11.2022 22:22Work begins on 339-mile transmission line from Canada to NYCWeather conditions affect how much power can be carried on transmission lines, and high-tech DLR sensors attached to transmission lines give grid operators like National Grid real-world information on weather and thus on the carrying capacity of lines. In simple terms, colder air temperatures and higher wind speeds cool down power lines, giving them more … Continue reading NY project will use high-tech sensors to get more clean energy on to grid
30.11.2022 16:42NY project will use high-tech sensors to get more clean energy on to gridOne of the current challenges in the field of Journalism is that there are currently 6 PR staff for every 1 Journalist, and the PR staff are much higher paid. Which means that a lot of reporting on more technical areas ends up being mostly taking an existing press release, doing an interview with the … Continue reading Deconstruction of a bad study – EV fuel pricing
24.10.2021 14:42Deconstruction of a bad study – EV fuel pricingSummer 2021 was different in New York than past summers. It wasn’t the relentless brutal heat that we’d experienced the last few years. The heat that finally drove my parents in Vermont to install air conditioning. That was constant and oppressive, but not acute. You did kind of adapt to it. You learn that the … Continue reading My Climate Summer
4.9.2021 11:27My Climate SummerIn reply to <a href="https://dague.net/2014/10/18/led-lighting-primer-part-1-background/comment-page-1/#comment-1679">infobetbagus</a>. What do you mean about the supply?
27.9.2019 09:46Comment on LED Lighting Primer – Part 1 (Background) by Sean DagueThanks , I've just been looking for information approximately this topic for ages and yours is the best I have came upon till now. However, what about the bottom line? Are you certain about the supply?
27.9.2019 02:33Comment on LED Lighting Primer – Part 1 (Background) by infobetbagusIn reply to <a href="https://dague.net/2019/01/08/why-us-emissions-rose-in-2018/comment-page-1/#comment-513">Mike Little</a>. Hydro was down a bit, that's recorded in there. But NG generation was up by 10x that. So it's hard to say the drought was the driving force here. Though the summer heat probably drove up AC utilization.
9.1.2019 11:50Comment on Why US Emissions Rose in 2018 by Sean DagueThank you for including Citizens Climate Lobby in your podcast feeds. In addition to that feed, Citizens Climate Radio has its own feed with our monthly show. You can find it wherever you get podcasts. The feed is hosted over at SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/citizensclimateradio
9.1.2019 09:21Comment on A Year in Podcasts by Peterson Toscanohttps://weather.com/science/environment/video/western-drought-has-boosted-carbon-emissions
8.1.2019 14:48Comment on Why US Emissions Rose in 2018 by Mike LittleThe contrast between Germany and France is particularly telling. France is a leader in clean electricity (green) because of major long-term investment in nuclear power. This TEDx lecture may convince some environmentalists to reconsider nuclear power: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciStnd9Y2ak
26.3.2018 13:27Comment on Electricity Map by Bill RubinAll too often the solutions being pushed are presented as a "one solution for everything" (this article at least understands that it's a combination of multiple sources, not just one). We should also consider localized and (for lack of a better term, "hyper-localized") generation. Think of things like an old-fashioned waterwheel at the town park; it's ornamental *and* can at least supplement power needs (I'm presuming there's a freely-running water source already in place). Tapping methane from the town dump is another. When I say "hyper-localized", I mean that every piece of electronics you have should have a solar cell as an example. Rooftop panels can be solar or thermal. Your exercise bike should be a generator of it's own, rather than requiring a plug to power it (heck, hook up the kids' game consoles to a pedal generator). Little bits here and there, while not significant on their own, add up to help. Then there's ways to make energy sources also solve other problems at the same time. Waterways overrun with phosphates? Plant duckweed, and once it has absorbed the phosphates, scoop it up and make biofuel. Or a specific example; I still don't know why someone hasn't set up a geothermal generating plant in Centralia PA. The fires underground may be burning for a very long time to come, so why not collect the energy being expended. The problem with creative solutions is government regulators are too lazy to look at clever solutions, and would rather just demand adherence to irrelevant regulations which hinder innovation. Either that or they just like to boss people around with their petty fiefdoms.
14.2.2018 15:43Comment on Getting to a Zero Carbon Grid by jelabarreIn reply to <a href="https://dague.net/2018/02/11/getting-to-a-zero-carbon-grid/comment-page-1/#comment-498">Dirk Husemann</a>. If I understand the modeling correctly, it's pricing the projected market prices of energy based on current trends. I think the simulation looks at a 2030 kind of horizon IIRC. I don't think there is any look at the existential risks / costs in there. The whole video is worth watching and seeing his break downs. It's definitely interesting and hard to figure out risks / existential costs especially when nothing is a zero sum. Nuclear has existential risks that are actually hard to quantify, Fossil Fuels have pretty concrete and measurable health issues (in spills and pollution), and harder to quantify issues like hurricanes, and Renewables (and the upgraded transmission lines) have land use challenges that have seen projects getting blocked (at least in the US). My take away is that everything is trade offs, and the whole thing needs to be treated as a complex system. There isn't a straight line to zero emissions and what is going to get you to 50% reduction, might not get you to 80%, and what gets you there might not work to get to 0.
13.2.2018 17:35Comment on Getting to a Zero Carbon Grid by Sean DagueThe "nuclear" option is pricing in the real costs of nuclear (i.e., long term storage, risk, costs to rebuild, etc)?
13.2.2018 16:11Comment on Getting to a Zero Carbon Grid by Dirk Husemann[…] North Bay Python last December was a fantastic experience for me. And I really enjoyed getting to represent IBM […]
6.2.2018 16:08Comment on Notes from North Bay Python by Manage your GitHub projects with Python functions on OpenWhisk - The developerWorks BlogThis is terrific, Sean!
22.12.2017 15:52Comment on No Coal this Christmas Season – Personal Climate Action you can take now by Iona LuteyGreat article, please feel free to post it in the Northeast Geothermal facebook group.
21.12.2017 02:34Comment on No Coal this Christmas Season – Personal Climate Action you can take now by Matthew VanDerlofskeThanks for the article! I hope to live up to your example. You might be interested in: https://www.wunderground.com/cat6/it’s-time-give-air-quality-attention-it-deserves As a community we can track, report and hopefully improve our air quality!
18.12.2017 23:58Comment on No Coal this Christmas Season – Personal Climate Action you can take now by Mike Little[…] I’ve been hosting my email over at Fastmail for years, and for the most part the service is great. The company understands privacy, contributes back to open source, and is incredibly reliable… Read more […]
13.12.2017 16:36Comment on Syncing Sieve Rules in Fastmail, the hard way by Using Python with Selenium to Sieve Rule Syncing with Fastmail – Full-Stack Feed[…] and other related topics. My goal as a newbie to API Strat was to get wider exposure to the API microversions work that we did with OpenStack, and to get out of that bubble to see what else was happening in the […]
13.12.2017 14:49Comment on REST API Microversions by Thoughts and notes from a first-timer at API Strategy & Practice Conference - The developerWorks BlogIn reply to <a href="https://dague.net/2017/12/05/notes-from-api-strat/comment-page-1/#comment-504">Eduardo Kienetz</a>. Thanks. Apparently I linked it out of google photos incorrectly. Fixed now.
7.12.2017 11:01Comment on Notes from API Strat by Sean DagueFYI, the image is not loading.
7.12.2017 02:28Comment on Notes from API Strat by Eduardo KienetzIn reply to <a href="https://dague.net/2017/06/12/comparing-speech-recognition-for-transcripts/comment-page-1/#comment-502">Graham White</a>. Thanks!
16.6.2017 13:47Comment on Comparing Speech Recognition for Transcripts by Sean Dague