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by cwal37 9y ago
Super fun diagrams. I interned at LLNL at one point and did a little work with some Sankey variants visualizing energy and resource flows in urban environments[1]. I think I still have the code lying around somewhere, I'd love to retur
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by cwal37 10y ago
Just FYI, you can get a more fuel and technology specific breakdown of generation and inputs from form 923, but it's timelagged and many plants don't show up in the monthly reports, so you have to wait for the annual.
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by cwal37 10y ago
Here is an at least a somewhat optimistic take on this issue in that it's looking for mitigation techniques and IDing possible research[1]. I worked for the lead author one summer at LLNL right around when this was published, and I bel
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Welcome to Pleistocene Park(theatlantic.com)
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by cwal37 10y ago
Shoreham is actually way more interesting and complicated than that. The plant was never really in operation, but a deal was struck for it to briefly "turn on" so that cost recovery could be triggered and passed on to the rate bas
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by cwal37 10y ago
If you want an extremely thorough look into the operation of New York State's (including NYC of course) electricity market I would recommend the market monitoring unit's State of the Market Report[1]. The deregulated markets have
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by cwal37 10y ago
With timed exclusives they can also capture some amount of revenue from conversion of free trial users into "forgot to unsubscribe" users. They got me with Coloring Book a few months ago. It wasn't available elsewhere, so I s
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Who will win the presidency?(projects.fivethirtyeight.com)
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Whirlpool Corporation Launches New Beer System Exclusively Through Indiegogo(whirlpoolcorp.com)
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by cwal37 10y ago
You could reflexively post that, or you could read the article, which provides some evidence that the answer seems to range from "possibly", to "yes". It's tempting to just link to Betteridge's Law and move on,
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by cwal37 10y ago
I've been (and am) there. My undergrad was at least half ecology with plenty of field work (in the states and briefly in Africa), and one of my graduate degrees was also in environmental science, but somehow here I am in a windowless c
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by cwal37 10y ago
Oh, awesome! And yeah, I know plenty of them don't get that big as they age, not every tree can rely on being fed the way the giants out west are haha. It's an unfortunate situation here these days, pollution, disease, and invasiv
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by cwal37 10y ago
Hmm. That's a pretty broad list. I live right outside the Smokies for example, and hike quite a lot in and around the park. Old growth trees are rare enough that individuals get called out in trail guides, let alone the quite unique en
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by cwal37 10y ago
Yeah, it feels like one of those immediately neat things that falls apart when you look a little closer. The data behind it is quite easy to work with though, and I think there's some better (more interactive, a bit more control) visua
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by cwal37 10y ago
It's not quite that simple because the overall impact of an individual compound relies on both its atmospheric residence time and infrared absorption. This article[1] covers the basics. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
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The 8-Bit Game That Makes Statistics Addictive(theatlantic.com)
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by cwal37 11y ago
It is possible to access many parts of most of these models, however I think it's not as easy as you might imagine to just dive in and improve them. Often, an individual needs a background in a specific scientific field in addition to
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How I got a game on the Steam Store without anyone from Valve ever looking at it(medium.com)
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by cwal37 11y ago
I see marriage failures or catastrophic divorce rates bandied about a lot in these types of societal decay rants, and it bothers me. The divorce rate has been dropping for decades[1]. A proposed reason for that actually has to do with more
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by cwal37 11y ago
I wrote up a little survey[1] of the on-the-ground installed energy storage landscape nearly 2.5 years ago now (when I was first learning how to make graphs outside of excel), and really not a whole lot has changed since then in terms of tr
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Can Wall Street Solve the Water Crisis in the West?(propublica.org)
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The Man Who Made the Whac-A-Mole Has One More Chance(popularmechanics.com)
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America's Power Plant Problem(psmag.com)
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The WW2 flying wing decades ahead of its time(bbc.com)
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The Weird Thing About Cat Legs(theatlantic.com)
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One of Africa’s Biggest Dams Is Falling Apart(newyorker.com)
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The Valley Below(theverge.com)
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by cwal37 11y ago
That stuck out to me, because those auto-video ads were one of the major reasons I uninstalled the facebook app entirely. Quickly checking some things on my phone while walking down the hall at work, or while some code runs I don't wan
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by cwal37 11y ago
The book Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind[1] is relevant here (which I've been reading and thoroughly enjoying recently) if anyone wanted to seek out some longer-form information on this and the topics around human evolution and d
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by cwal37 11y ago
If I had to guess she's talking in terms of each individual tank/unit set-up. So, one tank has a capacity or power rating of 500kW (capacity in the sense of the way a utility refers to size/ability of generating units). This

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