Sean's Mental Walkabout

There are countless news articles and studies that reiterate the point that electric vehicles “have fewer moving parts” or are “less complex” and therefore pose a threat to autoworkers’...

https://dague.net/2023/10/11/electric-cars-labor/

Thursday I got home at 7:30, and started squaring away a few things. I checked the weather to figure out if I could leave out a package for the mailman the next day, and noticed a giant string of...

https://dague.net/2023/09/09/climate-infrastructure/

Fascinating look at the impacts of climate change on the potato landscape in the US. Climate stories are everywhere, even in your bag of potato chips.

https://dague.net/2023/08/30/potatoes-and-climate-change/

For the last decade I’ve been an avid bike rider. When I was still working in an office a co-worker started riding his bike in, and I figured out there was a 9 mile route I could take that larg...

https://dague.net/2023/08/27/bike-radar/

As I’ve said before, we did a piece of this trip 10 years ago, in the same Subaru Outback we took this time. 10 years ago it was a new car, purchased in 2012. Now it is not. So inevitably, once...

https://dague.net/2023/08/23/im-so-over-gas-cars-vacationing-in-an-age-of-climate-solutions-part-4/

It’s truly awesome how we are going to enter a second age of sail and return to using the power of the wind on the ocean again.

https://dague.net/2023/08/22/a-second-age-of-sail/

It’s a 5 hour drive from Bar Harbor to Fundy National Park in New Brunswick, plus a border crossing that went very quickly. We set out early to make sure we had plenty of time to settle in once...

https://dague.net/2023/08/22/the-great-machines-vacationing-in-the-age-of-climate-solutions-part-3/

New England ISO spent the time to deeply model the actual impacts of rooftop solar, and what actual hour by hour needs for extreme weather events in the winter were, and found that roof top solar...

https://dague.net/2023/08/21/rooftop-solar-for-the-win/

I learned to love gazpacho when working summers at the Warren Store in the Deli. Before that, the idea of cold soup was completely unknown to me. There we’d make gazpacho 5 gallons at a time, a...

https://dague.net/2023/08/20/summer-gazpacho/

In Bar Harbor we stayed in a Inn outside of town, largely because it had both an indoor and outdoor pool and my daughter has gotten into swimming this year. That seemed to weather proof us for so...

https://dague.net/2023/08/20/the-heat-pumps-of-maine-vacationing-in-the-age-of-climate-solutions-part-2/

10 years ago my wife and I had taken a 2 week road trip through Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Maine. During that trip we stayed at Fundy National Park in a Yurt. And we definitely wanted to com...

https://dague.net/2023/08/19/bar-harbor-bus-network-vacationing-in-the-age-of-climate-solutions-part-1/

It continues to amaze me how certain executives only want to build things that divide us. Imagine this amount of effort being put into something that unites us with our neighbors. Good on the Gua...

https://dague.net/2022/12/11/last-minute-arizona-wall-pillow-fort/

The understanding that climate change and air pollution affect the developing brain has grown exponentially in the last 20 years. Research has now linked prenatal as well as postnatal air polluti...

https://dague.net/2022/12/01/what-climate-change-is-already-doing-to-childrens-brains-time/

All of which invites the question: Why do these rail barons hate paid leave so much? Why would a company have no problem handing out 24 percent raises, $1,000 bonuses, and caps on health-care pre...

https://dague.net/2022/12/01/rail-strike-why-the-railroads-wont-give-in-on-paid-leave/

This was one of the most important things the IRA will do, change the politics around clean energy. Clean energy production is going to be the jobs on the ground that people see in lots of parts ...

https://dague.net/2022/12/01/the-politics-of-clean-energy-is-changing/

Osaka University in Japan is beginning a joint research project with civil engineering company Toda to develop the world’s largest floating wind turbine. As Nikkei Asia reports, the goal is to ...

https://dague.net/2022/11/30/japan-to-create-the-worlds-largest-floating-wind-turbine-pcmag/

CHPE is expecterd to deliver 1,250 megawatts of clean energy, or enough to power 1 million New York City homes — about 20% of the city’s electric demands.Power cable lines will be installed ...

https://dague.net/2022/11/30/work-begins-on-339-mile-transmission-line-from-canada-to-nyc/

Weather conditions affect how much power can be carried on transmission lines, and high-tech DLR sensors attached to transmission lines give grid operators like National Grid real-world informati...

https://dague.net/2022/11/30/ny-project-will-use-high-tech-sensors-to-get-more-clean-energy-onto/

One of the current challenges in the field of Journalism is that there are currently 6 PR staff for every 1 Journalist, and the PR staff are much higher paid. Which means that a lot of reporting ...

https://dague.net/2021/10/24/deconstruction-of-a-bad-study-ev-fuel-pricing/

Summer 2021 was different in New York than past summers. It wasn’t the relentless brutal heat that we’d experienced the last few years. The heat that finally drove my parents in Vermont to in...

https://dague.net/2021/09/04/my-climate-summer/