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by cwal37 9y ago
+1 It's the forgotten point of reduce, reuse, recycle. People are almost always surprised when I mention that it's a ranked list, heading towards less efficacy. You might be proud of recycling, but it's the low hanging and le
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Chicago’s Awful Divide(citylab.com)
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by cwal37 9y ago
A minor nitpick in the article, the $12.99 Amazon prime subscription does not cover their spotify competitor streaming service. I've always thought this was a bit odd given that it does include a netflix-esque amount of streamable vide
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by cwal37 9y ago
There's a big difference between general "emissions" which a lot of people take colloquially to just mean greenhouse gases (and CO2 in particular with combustion engines), and then the small particulates and other things (lik
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The Sabermetric Movement’s Forgotten Foremother(theringer.com)
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by cwal37 9y ago
Chicago is so ridiculously cheap compared to the rest of the very small group of "large american cities with big functional public transit networks." Never thought I'd really consider moving back home, but that's definit
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by cwal37 9y ago
At a previous job my first project was building a webscraper and some processing tools to pull down every application for preliminary permit ever filed with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to build a pumped storage plant. The basis
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by cwal37 9y ago
D.C.'s metro is plagued with problems: didn't stay on top of upkeep, no dedicated funding, semi-unworkable governance, service cuts in the last couple years. We just exited a year long "Safe Track" maintenance program ea
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by cwal37 9y ago
Also fun, 1-2 times a year the Spallation Neutron Source[1] is shut down and the tunnels are open for tours. Was happy to have had the opportunity to check that out when I was working there, although I think my favorite high-science tour is
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by cwal37 9y ago
For an individual? Not really, no * . The residential geothermal you refer to is actually not geothermal at all, but more accurately a ground source heat pump which is relying on the fact that the soil temperature a couple meters down is ab
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The FCC has unveiled its plan to repeal its net neutrality rules(washingtonpost.com)
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Cheap Tricks: The Low Cost of Internet Harassment(propublica.org)
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by cwal37 9y ago
Yup, mostly tourism/maintenance of flows, downstream concerns, etc. It's drawn up in a treaty between the US and Canada, I think the International Joint Commission[1] is in charge/involved. The International Control Dam is th
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by cwal37 9y ago
Haha, no worries, and sorry if that came off as overly pedantic, I work in the broader industry and was still winding down from aggressively-reading-things-about-energy-mode. Glad you found it interesting! One additional tidbit is that they
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by cwal37 9y ago
Not quite. It's to refill the Lewiston Reservoir (on the American side). The Robert Moses Niagara Power Project runs at a deficit of water during the day once the morning really picks up and through peak hours into the evening. On a sl
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by cwal37 9y ago
You're not alone in thinking that. It works[1], and it's cheaper than the current revolving door of policies and support systems. The problem seems to be that people have a strong negative reaction to "undeserving others&quot
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How Facebook, Google, and Twitter 'embeds' Helped Trump in 2016(politico.com)
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Decline of Midwest's Public Universities Threatens to Wreck Vibrant Economies(theatlantic.com)
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by cwal37 9y ago
I pretty much always read the entire thing, and I love them for the extensive context. I have the opposite problem these days, where shorter articles without much else going on fail to hold my attention. There are plenty of those out there,
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by cwal37 9y ago
What you want is NREL's Annual Technology Baseline spreadsheet/presentation/scenario viewer[1]. Plenty of fun numbers and formulas to look at there (Disclaimer: I worked on the hydro section, so I'm a bit biased to think
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There Is No Free Market for Electricity: Can There Ever Be?(americanaffairsjournal.org)
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by cwal37 9y ago
For some reason people have this idea that LNG tankers are a big bomb waiting to go up, but that's not really true. Vapor cloud detonation has never been considered particularly likely, and never documented as far as I know. Mostly it
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by cwal37 9y ago
The main finding, which I'm shocked hasn't been so clearly enunciated before, is that within a 25 mile radius of an outdoor power plant coal stockpile you have a measurable increase in infant mortality rates. Personally, I think t
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Handle with Care: The Local Air Pollution Costs of Coal Storage(nber.org)
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by cwal37 9y ago
South Africa has some very specific definitions[1] for this type of thing. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coloureds
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Eero changed how we think about Wi-Fi – now it wants to make our homes smarter(theverge.com)
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'Crash Override': Malware That Took Down a Power Grid(wired.com)
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by cwal37 9y ago
Piggybacking off of your Monterey suggestion, take the slight detour there to check out Point Lobos, a particularly beautiful state park. Also, strongly second Nightlife at the Cal Academy of Sciences. I try to design my trips to the bay ar
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by cwal37 9y ago
Not on the coding side, but the inspiration. . . For those of us in the USA, there is a much more accessible version of synchronous fireflies at Great Smoky Mountains National Park in Tennessee. I lived there for a few years and went multip
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Scaling the World’s Most Lethal Mountain, in the Dead of Winter(nytimes.com)
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