I've never liked titles of scientific papers that being with "On the...". It's always struck me as simultaneously pretentious and uninformative. These days I usually try to give the main result in a paper's title, or at least, make it clever, or humorous... (Another irk is when people introduce a speaker with the phrase "Without further ado...". Please.) [ 281 more words. ]

http://bravenewclimate.com/2016/06/04/what-on-the

The 6th January 2015. That was the last time I posted an original contribution to Brave New Climate (BNC) -- at least something that wasn't a re-post (e.g., from The Conversation), a guest post, an Open Thread or a side note... In other words, the BNC blog has fallen fallow for well over a year. I think it's about time for a reboot! [ 473 more words. ]

http://bravenewclimate.com/2016/05/27/bnc-3-0

The last Open Thread has screamed past 1000 comments, so time for a new one... (And for those who are wondering why there have been so few posts on BNC recently, well... there are reasons. I will post again soon to explain more, and discuss the future directions of this blog/website. Meanwhile, on with the productive discussion!) The Open Thread… [ 106 more words. ]

http://bravenewclimate.com/2016/05/01/open-thread-24/

Guest Post by John Morgan. John is Chief Scientist at a Sydney startup developing smart grid and grid scale energy storage technologies. You can follow John on twitter at @JohnDPMorgan. A lot of ink is spilled on wind intermittency, and not necessarily based in data. So I have extracted and analyzed a high resolution dataset of a year’s worth of Australian wind power for a number of interesting properties. [ 2385 more words. ]

http://bravenewclimate.com/…/08/the-capacity-factor-of-wind/

The last Open Thread is feeling a tad dated, so time for a new one... The Open Thread is a general discussion forum, where you can talk about whatever you like — there is nothing ‘off topic’ here — within reason. So get up on your soap box! The standard commenting rules of courtesy apply, and at the very least your chat should relate to the general content of this blog. [ 76 more words. ]

http://bravenewclimate.com/2015/10/25/open-thread-23

This is Part II of the “Sustaining the Wind” series of essays by NNadir. For Part I, click here. Part II is here. In part 2 of this series[2], we discussed the claim of Udo Bardi, an academic “peak oiler” out of the University of Florence, that uranium supplies are subject to exhaustion, this because, according to Bardi, and a correspondent evoking, if not actually citing, him in this space, extracting meaningful amounts of uranium from seawater, where its mass vastly outstrips the quantities obtained from domestic ores, is too expensive in terms of energy and cost. [ 15234 more words. ]

http://bravenewclimate.com/…/sustaining-the-wind-part-3-is-…

This is Part II of the "Sustaining the Wind" series of essays by David Jones. For Part I, click here. At the conclusion of part 1[i] of this series, we saw that the putative demand for the element indium in order to build some 15,000,000 wind turbines (at a nominal peak capacity of roughly 900 MW) that would be required to produce annual outputs of 90 exajoules of energy, given the low capacity utilization associated with wind infrastructure, was on the order of 18,000 tons. [ 9368 more words. ]

http://bravenewclimate.com/…/sustaining-the-wind-part-2-ind…

What follows on this blog over the next few weeks will be a series of five important essays on sustainable energy, by David Jones (who also blogs as NNadir on Daily Kos, bio here). A previous article on BNC by David, on world energy demand and uranium supply, can be read here. Here is Part I. ------------------ [ 6756 more words. ]

http://bravenewclimate.com/2015/07/27/sustaining-the-wind-p1

Techno-fixes for climate change

http://bravenewclimate.com/…/techno-fixes-for-climate-change

Making sense of the Tesla Triumvirate – solar, batteries and electric vehicles

http://bravenewclimate.com/…/making-sense-of-the-tesla-triu…

Complaint about misleading Helen Caldicott article in "The Saturday Paper"

http://bravenewclimate.com/…/complaint-about-misleading-hel…

Less than the sum of its parts: Rethinking “all of the above” clean energy

http://bravenewclimate.com/…/less-than-the-sum-of-its-parts…

Solar Impulse; and other comedies

http://bravenewclimate.com/…/solar-impulse-and-other-comedi…

Potential for worldwide displacement of fossil-fuel electricity by nuclear energy in three decades based on extrapolation of regional deployment data

Environmental and health impacts of a policy to phase out nuclear power in Sweden