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Nearly two decades of making the built environment a better environment. Focused on improving the spaces we live/work/play through #energyefficiency, #DERs and stakeholder empowerment. Comments on bsky represent my own opinions.

Fireworks at the lake, happy 4th
“fuck Elon” sticker on a CCS ChargePoint
Laptop connected to local network managing batteries, chargers, grid inflow and inverters
Mushrooms
The Artemis 2 capsule about to meet the water for splashdown
Natural Capitalism is required reading!
“Product of USA”
Zeke’s dashboard is super handy!
Flowers beginning to pop up for Spring. Winter’s over!
300Ah battery setup into the inverter/charger system, tied to grid for backup and load shifting.
My utility makes ~7.7 cents from every dollar we pay for electricity.
Comment to keep NCAR from closure from NSF restructuring.
Early Springtime flowers
Crude price rising over $90 per barrel in 2007 led to a massive crunch in credit markets as businesses and consumers were already laden with bad debt.
CO2 has increased dramatically in recent yrs, as carbon sinks fail and dino juice junkies lead key economies around the world.
A triumphant dog next to the fallen boots of her sled riders
Low and slow on a ham hock and black beans, generous on some cumin.
100A LFP battery strapped to hand truck for ~24hrs of emergency backup
Move from 1.5B people without access to electricity in 2000, now ~700M.
Though up 5x from 2005, the vast majority of emissions are not tied to a market-based trading scheme.
“Electricity on the Farm” pamphlet, 1941
Two turtles swimming in front of two signs decrying renewable energy and energy storage.
A bunch of lonely souls moping on social media when we are legion and could stop the hate through peaceful, mass intervention on authoritarians around the world.
EVs + hybrids now make up 25% of US battery-based vehicles, and the trend is clear
OutKast Aquemimi
PJM generation mix, 7am Xmas morning
Fish soup and dumplings
S&P Global Clean Energy Index hits 50% returns in 2025 (S&P500 ~12%) and no one is talking about it!
Clothing and toy swap!
Abstract Africa’s forests and woody savannas have historically acted as a carbon sink, removing atmospheric carbon and storing it as biomass. However, our novel analysis reveals a critical transition from a carbon sink to a carbon source between 2010 and 2017. Using new high-resolution satellite-derived biomass maps, validated with field plots and machine learning techniques, we quantified the aboveground biomass stocks across African biomes over a decade. Between 2007 and 2010, the continent gained 439 ± 66 Tg yr⁻1 of aboveground biomass, but from 2010 to 2015 biomass declined by − 132 ± 20 Tg yr-1 and from 2015 to 2017 this decline continued with a loss of − 41 ± 6 Tg yr-1, primarily driven by deforestation in tropical moist broadleaf forests.
Charging the car outside the diner.
Eagles trying to win this damn game they keep trying to lose!
Dog stole the pillow!
NYC skyline from JFK’s AirTrain
Sitting on a plane home, learning about flights getting cut…tomorrow.
Cover of The Discoverers by Daniel J Boorstin
1st Waymo ride, taking a suped-up Jag to get milk.
Our dog (Dottie) laying in bed, begging for pets.
Tree near Marbletown, NY, reds and yellows just showed up this week.
Seven Fisker Oceans for the NJ owners association gathering.
Page from Lord of the Rings, which I’m finally getting around to about 30 years behind schedule. Highlighted quote from Gandalf: “look out for me, especially at unlikely times!”
Chuck Schumer’s asking for money because I made the mistake of donating to the person I want to primary him and all Dems now have me on a list and I wish we could realize how little value our leaders provide us.
A picture of a sill with a calendar, still on June…at the end of August…
A framed info booklet on rural electrification in the US from January 1941.
Gilbert U-238 Atomic Energy Lab. Toy from 1950s with radioactive materials included.
View of Chicago from mtgs
The American flag outside Fort Ticonderoga, Mount Defiance in the distance.
All smiles in the rain under mama’s poncho
Maple tree in NY, branches grow separately and then fuse into each other in the wonder of nature.
Beer and durum at an all-night Turkish joint saved my rumbly stomach
The view over Paris, June 2025
Picking up trash on todays creek hike