Remembering George Crabtree (1944-2023)
The energy sector lost a giant this week in the passing of Dr. George Crabtree, who was one of the
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Age of Incompatibility: Fixing Smart Home Tech
A minor saga involving a dysfunctional lightswitch led me to thinking about some of the challenges of integrating smart home technology.
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Matterport 101 – Three Unusual Use Cases
The Matterport platform offers plenty of opportunities well outside the realm of simply creating virtual tours for real estate listings.
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Terrorists Blew Up Power Infrastructure This Weekend. The Media Barely Noticed.
To be fair, there’s a lot of weird stuff going on these days. The wealthiest man in the world, with
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Move Over, Trucks: It’s Time For Smaller Delivery Solutions
Delivery drones, we are told, will change everything. There are some hurdles, but according to recent research, drones might just be the best bet for most– but not all- local delivery.
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Detroit Rallies The 2030 Districts
Last night, I had the opportunity to attend a happy hour event sponsored by Detroit’s 2030 District, one of 26
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GM Vision Zero: Joe Biden and Mary Barra, Fiddling While The World Burns
As British Columbia excavates houses, roads, and, tragically, bodies, from the aftermath of catastrophic flooding, the President was in Detroit yesterday to tout the virtues of a 9,000-lb. electric car that, liberals apparently believe, will solve climate change.
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Community Solar: Coming To A Michigan Near You?
DTE and CMS took the unusual step of tag-teaming a new announcement about community solar, a novel model for photovoltaic power generation development, in the Mitten state, where fossil fuels continue to dominate the generation mix.
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It’s not an “energy crunch.” It’s a “fossil fuel crunch.”
Economies rebooting from a long COVID slumber are now facing higher energy prices, just in time for winter in the northern hemisphere, where most of the highest-consuming countries are. Is it really an “energy crisis”? Or is it really just a fossil fuel crunch?
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In Irrational Markets, Bitcoin Mining Uses– And Abuses- Local Power
Economic development is good, right? Well, perhaps not so much if it involves infuriating local residents with noise or point source air or thermal pollution.
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