Fed up and cold, what do you do for power after the storm?If you are living without power and or frustrated at the power failures impacting your neighborhood as a result of Tuesday’s wind storm and…Nov 22, 2024Nov 22, 2024
Heat Pump Check-in — 2024Way back in 2021 I finally found an installer who would install a ground source heat pump with no fossil fuel backup. It only took 5 years…Oct 19, 202419Oct 19, 202419
Carbon Death and TaxesWhat is up with a Carbon Tax? Why does it get my goat, so to speak? It comes back to economic thinking blotting out messy reality and…Sep 13, 2024Sep 13, 2024
The Voluntary Carbon Market is Working as DesignedOffsets, and in particular Amazon’s self-certification scheme, are making the rounds again so it probably makes sense to describe a bit of…Aug 17, 2024Aug 17, 2024
AI II: Electric Boogaloo15 months ago, I outlined some of my thoughts on AI as there was an ongoing freak-out over how superintelligent general intelligence was…May 29, 2024May 29, 2024
This Grist article from last week is a very familiar story.So long as the credit for doing good is separate from the actual good we’ll continue to get a climate show instead of climate action…May 14, 2024May 14, 2024
Bouncing Around in the SunI’ve had occasion to think about concentrating solar power again, which has somewhat faded in interest as photovoltaics have rapidly gotten…Feb 29, 2024Feb 29, 2024
Forestry and Friends: February ‘24We had a great Forests and Friends session today.Feb 16, 2024Feb 16, 2024
How2AIGoogle and Microsoft are in the news recently for using AIs for new material synthesis. How could those efforts have been more effective?Jan 28, 2024Jan 28, 2024
