The Cognitive Dissonance of Earth Day
Marching for science in the Anthropocene For what you have tamed, you become responsible forever – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry I ask the same question every year: how do we balance our sense of hope and despair? Another Earth Day rolls around and the question has never been more cogent. Barely three months into Donald Trump’s America decades of policy and …
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Intersolar North America 2016 – Update
At Intersolar today in San Francisco, I explored three examples of how the industry is working to meet the challenges of solar energy integration: High Capacity Storage This morning I met with Bill Sproull of Energy Storage Systems – ESS. In partnership with ARPA-E and others, ESS brings to market a turnkey 100kW/800kWh iron flow battery for long duration, commercial …
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Climate Impacts on Forests and Wildfire
In the southwest of North America, record heat has spawned an early an aggressive start to the 2016 fire season. One consequence of a warming world is the increased frequency and intensity of wildfires. With increasing heat, fires burn more intensely over a steadily increasing wildfire season signaling a regime shift in global forests . A 2015 study published in …
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