Are we there yet?
No, definitely not. But maybe you can see a path if you squint hard enough? The energy transition is going to take a really long… Read More »Are we there yet?
Ontario is one of the few places where the grid is getting dirtier
Toronto and Canada are trying hard to electrify heating. I’m told that starting around 2025 it’ll be pretty hard to build a new condo that… Read More »Ontario is one of the few places where the grid is getting dirtier
Where has contributed most to global warming?
I really liked HannahRitchie’s writeup of global climate impact by country, but the Georgist in me was curious what it would look like normalized by… Read More »Where has contributed most to global warming?
Nuclear power is kinetically trapped
Diamond and graphite are cool because they are both 100% made up of carbon atoms, and yet are totally different in almost every characteristic. Thermodynamically, graphite is the most stable allotrope of carbon, but diamonds are incredibly stable because they are “kinetically trapped.”
Why are we fighting entropy?
I really like the idea that life is a kind of “negative entropy” — consuming energy in order to reduce or slow the growth of universal entropy. That’s a mission I can sign up for. The units of entropy are Joules / Kelvin, thus the bad J/K pun.