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January 18, 2025

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Archived Articles Revisited:

This is your weekly personal list of three random articles extracted from our website archives. These links are unique to you and are more than one year old. The intention is to deliver a sense of what was considered a priority on that date compared with today's latest articles and presentations. You are encouraged to share these links with your social media and other networks.




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CACOR Live | Dr. Jeff Golliher | Transforming our Way of Life: Lessons from a Franciscan. | 2025-01-15 13:30 EST

Topic: Transforming our Way of Life: Lessons from a Franciscan Time: Jan 15, 2025 13:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada) Biography: The Rev. Canon Jeff Golliher, Phd. is a cultural anthropologist and Episcopal priest, formerly of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine and the Anglican Communion Office at the UN.  Today, he is Assisting Minister Provincial for Sacred Ecology …

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Jake Brooks | Achieving reliability in a Net Zero Ontario electrical grid. | CACOR Live | Jan 22, 2025 at 13:30 EST

Jake Brooks | Achieving reliability in a Net Zero Ontario electrical grid. | CACOR Live | Jan 22, 2025 at 13:30 EST

You are invited to a scheduled CACOR Live meeting. Speaker: Jake Brooks Topic: Achieving reliability in a Net Zero Ontario electrical grid. Time: Jan 22, 2025 13:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada) Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89516327629?pwd=56GQieRi8NaEiwkMVtdJ4g87OqHgL9.1 Meeting ID: 895 1632 7629 Passcode: 219052 Summary: Although low carbon sources of bulk electricity are becoming increasingly straightforward and economic to source, ensuring …

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Latest Articles

Turn off the taps

Refusing turn off the oil taps means keeping the taps on for sea level rise. Accelerated ice melt and ocean expansion to has already caused the rate of sea level rise to double in the last 30 years. Unless leaders double down on transitioning away from fossil fuels, the terrible impacts of sea level rise will only increase further – affecting every …

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Turn off the taps

Foreign Affairs (2023 article): The Age of Climate Disaster Is Here

Foreign Affairs (2023 article): The Age of Climate Disaster Is Here
Preparing for a Future of Extreme Weather Alice Hill August 25, 2023 The planet has broiled this summer, with July winning the unwelcome title of the hottest month since records began, in the nineteenth century. Indeed, climate scientists think that it was possibly the hottest month in the past 120,000 years. Given the rapid pace of climate change, however, July …

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The L.A. Fires Show the Need for Climate Realism

The ongoing wildfires in Southern California, particularly affecting areas like the Pacific Palisades and Pasadena, highlight the devastation climate change brings to local communities. The author reflects on their personal ties to the region and the increasing intensity of wildfires, linking them to global warming trends. Recognizing the inevitability of climate change exceeding 3°C, they advocate for a pragmatic approach termed “climate realism.”

Categories: Articles, Climate

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Los Angeles is burning, villas and palm trees all around

Scientists Quantified The Speed of Human Thought, And It's a Big Surprise

Scientists Quantified The Speed of Human Thought, And It's a Big Surprise
The speed of the human brain's ability to process information has been investigated in a new study, and according to scientists, we're not as mentally quick as we might like to think. In fact, research suggests our brains process information at a speed of just 10 bits per second. But how is this possible, in comparison to the trillions of …

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Please Don't Visit

What Is Overtourism and Why Is It a Problem? In 2016, Skift published an article titled “Exploring the Coming Perils of Overtourism” that discussed the hazards of excessive tourism in popular destinations. In the years following, the term “overtourism” appeared in countless media headlines worldwide. International tourism had been growing rapidly and exponentially, more than doubling between 2000 and 2019 and the need to …

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Improving calculations of energy return on investment.

CACOR Writers Quill Pens
Correspondence Improving calculations of energy return on investment. Charles A. S. Hall   & Graham Palmer  SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Syracuse, NY, USA. Department of Civil Engineering, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia. Nature Energy (2025) 10 January 2025 Maintaining energy supply is a critical challenge as we strive to transition away from fossil fuels.  Energy return on investment (EROI) is a tool widely used by …

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How well are we doing?

How well are we doing?
Key indicators of how humans are changing the Earth: Sea level, species, carbon dioxide, sea ice, population, daily temperature extremes, annual climate change performance by country, air pollution, temperature records, climate change indicators, top ten emitters, historic emissions, electric vehicles.

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Project Polo: The plan to build a 27-state virtual power plant

Sunwealth has secured a $289.7 million loan guarantee for a scheme to deploy up to 1,000 solar PV and battery energy storage systems across 27 states. (ed:  VPPs are not constrained by political state borders)

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Toxic fallout from LA fires

Toxins in air, land and water.   Then there are the mud slides.

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EDF, Hypervolt Partner to Use EVs for Grid Balance

Working with Britain’s National Electricity System Operator (NESO), this initiative will use Hypervolt EV chargers to support the grid at times when it is facing challenges maintaining the required frequency, EDF said. The offer aligns with NESO’s Clean Power 2030 Report, emphasizing quicker responses to maintain system frequency near 50 Hz and increasing services through frequency markets, according to EDF. …

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Tesla to Expand Supercharger Access to Seven Additional Manufacturers

As of January 13th, Tesla has added even more manufacturers that will soon be able to charge at its Superchargers. Six manufacturers already have access to Tesla’s Superchargers in North America, and a handful more are on the way. Today, Ford, Rivian, General Motors (GM), Volvo, Polestar, and Nissan have access to Tesla’s Superchargers through the third-party vehicle access option in …

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Mark Carney - Canada Not Interested in Trump’s Offer & Liberal Leadership Prospects | The Daily Show

Mark Carney, Canadian economist and former Governor of the Bank of Canada and Bank of England, chats with Jon Stewart about his country’s response to Donald Trump’s desire to annex Canada: “It’s not going to happen.” They also discuss the impending financial crisis Canada faces if Trump follows through on his tariff threats and how the country’s upcoming election involving …

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Texas, the ‘Wild West’ of grid services, lands a new VPP

Though the Lone Star State is known for its fast interconnection process and abundant sunshine, Texan solar also faces challenges that leave retail-based solar buyback programs as the primary option for homeowners. But a bold new solution to Texas’ solar paradox just came online. Solrite Energy, a solar and storage financier, and sonnen, a virtual power plant (VPP) and battery storage company, …

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Students design tiny, cheap, off-grid homes for others to copy

Cara Chapman, an environmental engineering student at the University of British Columbia (UBC), says reading about climate change in the news can often feel "isolating and hopeless. Students might feel like there’s nothing they can do.  But the passion project she’s part of at school has made her realize that this is far from the truth. Every weekend, Chapman and …

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The U.S. and Canadian economies need VPP 2.0, utilities could deliver

Virtual power plants can play an essential role in meeting rising electricity demand, but to do so, utilities must bring them into the heart of their planning and rapidly take it to grid scale.  Distributed capacity procurement (DCP) is a new model for utility-led and funded VPPs. Through DCPs, utilities plan for, site, dispatch and deploy DERs as capacity resources …

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Tesla Solar Roof Review: Was it Worth It?

0:00 I have not paid for electricity in a year 1:15 How does solar work 4:56 Why I picked the Tesla solar tiles 7:28 Numbers/specs time! 11:06 Summer 13:01 Fall 13:59 Winter 16:25 Spring 17:17 Eight Sleep 18:39 The money question 22:35 Quirks and Features 27:11 Conclusion (ed:  The Manotick Microgrid used traditional rooftop solar panels, but this video is …

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Improvements to Electric Vehicles Ease Concerns About Range Loss in Cold Climates

“I drive an EV every day, and my winter is almost as harsh as yours ,” he said. “The anxiety around winter and reduced range, while it’s not inaccurate, is just a bit overhyped.” EVs aren’t the only cars to suffer performance issues under frigid conditions. Conventional gasoline cars lose between 10 percent and 20 percent of their driving range …

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