2023-07-20
The Whiting hydroelectric power plant was built in 1891 and still operates today, and the 2018 Camp Fire in California was caused by a PG&E transmission line built in 1921.
From The Grid part IV by Brian Potter
2023-07-20
Post by @hausfathView on Threads
As I said before, two things are true at the same time right now at once: 1. We are not reducing emissions quickly enough 2. The speed with electrification is happening is underrated
2023-07-19
I enjoyed this book less because of the story and more because of the sense of place. Like taking a trip to the remote areas of Alaska and British Columbia — and in some ways better.
2023-07-17
The navigation elements on my blog now fade out as you scroll down my blog so as not to clutter your view. This has been bothering me for a while so I decided to clean it up.
You can see a demo below or by scrolling on your screen :)
You can see how I did it here
2023-07-15
This piece from the Financial Times really resonated with me.
It hits on something I've experienced: the difficulty of finding a community in an American city that is affordable enough to live in, safe enough to let children play in, and has access to good education. It's so hard to find. In most parts of the US, if you want to have these things, you're pushed to the suburbs.
It seems to me that urban areas have an amazing lack of urgency around this problem.
While reading, I couldn't help thinking of this picture I took during my first week living in Zürich:
In what US city could you imagine this scene?
A group of grade school girls on their way to school all by themselves, without a parent in sight. One of my favorite things about living in Switzerland was that it was not just possible to live in an urban area, but easy.