Rob = {engineering, research, strategy, worldchanging} with an entrepreneurial bent. Consulting on democracy; wind & solar into the grid, including customers.
Portland, Oregon
Joined February 2010
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Thanks to all for the public health response worldwide including sequencing. cbsnews.com/news/marburg-and…
Unfortunately Marburg Virus has emerged again. The virus was first identified in 1967 in virologists using the plaque assay method with cells from African green monkeys. That was within the memory of the lab I worked in. emergency.cdc.gov/han/2024/h…
The Columbia River is literally the life blood of the Northwest region. Bad idea. @RonWyden @SenJeffMerkley youtube.com/watch?v=tOCWA3bd…
The US has 50 state energy policies with a @FERC and federal energy law overlay. It is what it is. Customers finance the grid and @NARUC is where state regulators discus it. #energytwitter youtube.com/watch?v=oA2HYieA…
I created the first project on the security and reliability of electronic vote counting for Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility in the 1980s. A hand count at scale is a terrible idea. I hope the courts promptly reverse this. nytimes.com/2024/09/20/us/el…
I appreciate creative marketing, from the work of local W+K to the BAFTA awards and British Christmas ads. I had switched to another window while I was waiting for a Youtube ad to play, when the soundtrack pulled me back. It is an ad themed on empathy by agency @motherny.
It is for Amica insurers. Empathy is also a trend in #UX & #CX Let's hope we are entering an era of more empathy, more human, and more love; an end to bullying, an end to braggadocio, and an end to violence. Agencies can be sensors, hope they are right. youtube.com/watch?v=zfGeKlq2…
I visited Kabul and friends worked for the UN. Neglect women at society's peril. nytimes.com/2024/09/04/world…
Firm and clear-eyed engagement is the only way. I worked with ITRI, Taiwan's industrial policy and research group. Americans do not understand the impact of a PRC invasion. When we speak to China and their citizens we need to do better. nytimes.com/2024/08/11/us/ti…
This is disturbing and sad. The executive director will make a lot of money from fossil fuel profits paid for by consumers.
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DOE contributes $700M to $3.2B North Plains Connector transmission line connecting Eastern and Western Grid at 3GW. Portland General Electric commits to 20% of the capacity. Former BPA now PGE VP Bekkedahl sees value in transmission from experience. energy.gov/articles/biden-ha…
This represents the fossil fuel industry's shift of externalities to property owners. People in the West are encountering uninsurability today because of wildfires.
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I have worked on elections and election systems many places. The reports the election was not free and fair are dissapointing. That affects many countries in the Americas and is a betrayal of the Venezuelan people. nytimes.com/2024/07/28/world…
A friend worked with First Solar on a balcony solar system as a D-School project in 2009. It is goof to see the idea happening! nytimes.com/2024/07/29/busin…
FERC has a public process and it' rules are not that technical. But the practical result will be to delay progress urgently needed. eenews.net/articles/challeng…
China moves on government testing-in of ideological quality. LLM training is weak on building in philosophical quality, or human-centered quality. Anyone knows you can't test in quality. Nonetheless the approach is interesting. ft.com/content/10975044-f194…
It would be nice to have a coheasive and comprehensive US solar photovoltaic policy. That said, maybe now is the time for the US to dominate compond semiconductor panels. #energytwitter pv-magazine-usa.com/2024/07/…
PURPA is an important tool for new distributed generation resources. Asymmetric litigation resources will "pick winners and losers," irregardless of the merits. eenews.net/articles/supreme-…
