By Gwynne Dyer ‘Zeitgeist’ is a slippery word. At best it’s just a fancy German way of saying ‘the spirit of the times’; at worst it is only pretentious noise. […]
Archives for August 2021
What could Tesla’s virtual power plant do for California’s grid — and what will customers get out of it?
Earlier this month, Tesla quietly launched a call to customers equipped with its Powerwall batteries: join what could become the biggest behind-the-meter battery aggregation in California and help support the state’s grid […]
Picture this — your carbon emissions as plastic straws
By Barry Saxifrage I have littered the equivalent of 15 plastic straws every second, for hours on end, day after day. That’s how much climate pollution our family car littered out […]
On Computer Modelling
Computer models do not make the job of decision making any easier. They make it harder. They enforce rigourous thinking and expose fallacies in mental models we have always been […]
Who to Vote for as Rain falls at the normally snowy summit of Greenland
Rain fell at the normally snowy summit of Greenland for the first time on record Who to vote for this time in Canada? “For the first time on record, precipitation […]