A very old phone, at the Point Sur lighthouse in California. Photo taken in late March 2016. We've come a long way!
A very old phone, at the Point Sur lighthouse in California. Photo taken in late March 2016. We’ve come a long way!
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My article in DCD Focus: Modernizing enterprise data centers for fun and profit
In September 2015, Data Center Dynamics published my article titled “Modernizing enterprise data centers for fun and profit”, which describes the rationale for my upcoming online class. The current incarnation of that class starts again May 2, 2016. Here are the opening paragraphs of the DCD article: Twenty first century
Read moreOur journal article critiquing a recent Energy Policy article on nuclear costs has just been released online
Our article critiquing the recent Lovering et al. Energy Policy article on the costs of nuclear power was just published online by Energy Policy (the article is now considered to be “in press” with only minor tweaks to come once they assign the article to an issue). My colleagues Nate
Read moreUpcoming class: Modernizing enterprise data centers for fun and profit
jgkoomey: Cern datacenter Photo credit: By Hugovanmeijeren (Own work) [GFDL or CC-BY-SA-3.0-2.5-2.0-1.0], via Wikimedia Commons I’ve been struggling for years to convince executives in large enterprises to fix the incentive, reporting, and other structural problems in data centers. The folks in the data center know
Read moreMore excuses from the Breakthrough Institute on data quality
The following is a joint post from Danny Cullenward and Jonathan G. Koomey. ______________________________________________________________ Image Credit: Michael Maggs CC BY-SA 3.0 File:Bouncing ball strobe edit.jpg Created: 29 September 2007 More excuses from the Breakthrough Institute on data quality Dr. Harry Saunders, a Senior Fellow at the Breakthrough Institute,
Read moreVLab at SRI is having an interesting panel discussion on Smart Buildings and Data-Driven Office Space on February 16, 2016
My friend Fred Stein at SRI alerted me to this upcoming event. I’m not able to make it, but I encourage others to attend. If you do go, please let me know what you learned! Smart Buildings: Silicon Valley Delivers Data-Driven Office Space Date/Time Date - Tue Feb
Read moreThe three pillars of modern data center operations
Photo credit: Jonathan Koomey, taken at Stanford University, October 14, 2015. Data Center Knowledge published my essay today titled “The three pillars of modern data center operations”. Here the intro: Modern enterprise data centers are some of the most technically sophisticated business activities on earth. Ironically enough, they are also
Read moreUpcoming class: Modernizing enterprise data centers for fun and profit
Cern datacenter Photo credit: By Hugovanmeijeren (Own work) [GFDL or CC-BY-SA-3.0-2.5-2.0-1.0], via Wikimedia Commons I’ve been struggling for years to convince executives in large enterprises to fix the incentive, reporting, and other structural problems in data centers. The folks in the data center know that
Read moreA Brief Review Of “Dire Predictions”, 2nd Edition, By Mann And Kump
The reports produced by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change contain the sum total of scientific knowledge on climate change science, mitigation, and adaptation. The long lead times needed to produce such comprehensive documents means that they inevitably omit the latest scientific findings when the reports are finally approved and
Read moreA reply to key comments on our rebound article and blog post
______________________________________________________________________ The following is a joint blog post by Danny Cullenward and Jonathan Koomey ______________________________________________________________________ Last Monday (January 4th, 2016), we published a postsummarizing the implications of our critique of Harry Saunders’ article on rebound effects in the US economy. We have since received thoughtful comments from Dr. Saunders (a Senior Fellow
Read moreEveryone makes mistakes on the rebound
What follows is a joint blog post by Danny Cullenward and Jonathan G. Koomey. To freely download the journal article in which we dissect the Saunders article on rebound, click here. Our article will be freely downloadable until January 20, 2016. ________________________________________________________________ Summary: About once a decade, a slew of popular
Read moreOur article on electricity demand and GDP is now out in the Electricity Journal, and is free to download until Jan 3, 2016!
My colleague Richard Hirsh and I just published our article in The Electricity Journal titled “Electricity Consumption and Economic Growth: A New Relationship with Significant Consequences?”. The Electricity Journal. vol. 28, no. 9. November 2015. pp. 72-84. [http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1040619015002067] The data tell an interesting
Read morePrepare for new Scope 2 emissions reporting requirements with this upcoming free webinar
On October 13, 2015 at 9am PDT, Anthesis Group and World Resources Institute are partnering to bring you an informative free webinar on the new Scope 2 emissions reporting protocol from WRI’s Greenhouse Gas Protocol Team. Here are the details: The webinar will review the details adopted in the
Read moreCalling clean energy innovators (especially rock star women entrepreneurs): Cyclotron Road cohort applications are now open
Cyclotron Road is building a new model to advance breakthrough energy technologies. Our purpose: support critical technology development for your project while helping you identify the most suitable business models, partners, and financing mechanisms for long term impact. By joining Cyclotron Road, innovators receive a salary and seed funding, support
Read moreA highly political example of lying with charts
At hearings yesterday about Planned Parenthood, Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) put up the chart above. This tweet gives the apparent source of the graph, which is an anti-abortion organization. Abortion is of course a highly charged issue, and feelings run high, but there is no excuse for making a chart
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