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2020-07-17

Assessing Alternatives to Diesel Backup Power

Improved resilience has emerged as a top priority for the U.S. power grid. Efforts to mitigate wildfire risk in Northern California last year led to hundreds of thousands of electricity customers being disconnected from the grid. During hurricane season, customers in the Eastern and Southern U.S. often face the associated threat of multi-day power outages. […]

Article posted by Michael Krakowiak / Articles, Climate, Energy / Greenhouse gas, Microgrid, modeling, natural gas, solar energy Leave a Comment

2019-04-14

Playing Intelligence

How games and game engines can provide new ways of comprehending networked and distributed forms of intelligence. gaming could serve as an alternative to voting — could potentially be realized with a plurality of people gaming national and global eventualities. For any given issue, different proposals could be gamed in parallel. As some games collapsed, […]

Article posted by John Verdon / Articles, CACOR Values / Artificial Intelligence, Collective Intelligence, Digital Environment, Digital Governance, Future of Democracy, Future of Learning, modeling, Participatory Decisioning, Simulations, Valuing Values Leave a Comment

2018-10-01

How Nature Defies Math in Keeping Ecosystems Stable

Paradoxically, the abundance of tight interactions among living species usually leads to disasters in ecological models. New analyses hint at how nature seemingly defies the math. Diverse, complex ecosystems in nature are generally stabilized by the abundant interactions among the species they hold. Yet in simulations, model ecosystems typically become less stable as the interactions […]

Article posted by John Verdon / Articles, CACOR Values / All models are wrong, Complexity, Math, modeling, Real Ecologies Leave a Comment

2018-07-10

extreme heat next week: Siberia, Canada, Scandinavia

Extreme Heat Event in Northern Siberia and the coastal Arctic Ocean This Week The heatwave in northern Siberia is receding, but heat is building in Northern Canada and Scandinavia this week. All the result of very strong, persistent high pressure systems, leading to surface temperatures 15-30 degrees F (8-17 C) above normal. Global Forecast System […]

Article posted by Zachary Jacobson / Climate, Global Warming / climate change, global warming, modeling Leave a Comment

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