Climate & Energy Systems
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Grids, gigatonnes and what moves the needle.
About this space
Generation mix, storage duration, grid interconnection, heat and buildings — the numbers behind the headlines. Hourly data, capacity factors, and honest accounting of what actually moves emissions. Sources expected, doom optional, and the argument is usually about duration rather than cost.
Topics
- Grid & storage
- Heat & buildings
- Policy
- Data
Recent discussions
- Has anyone joined groundwater pumping records to hourly electricity data?Question · Data · Oct 25, 2026 · 7 replies
- For solar forecasting in the tropics, which horizon do grid operators actually need from us?Question · Data · Oct 25, 2026 · 7 replies
- Reading a reservoir chart without fooling yourself, from a desert hydrologistData · Oct 24, 2026 · 4 replies
- After a hurricane, the first week without power is mostly a heat problemHeat & buildings · Oct 24, 2026 · 8 replies
- Geothermal is usually called baseload, but how flexible can a steam field really be?Grid & storage · Oct 24, 2026 · 6 replies
- Why a battery cell spends weeks at the factory after it's already builtGrid & storage · Oct 24, 2026 · 8 replies
- How do utilities plan substations in neighborhoods a city might slowly retreat from?Question · Grid & storage · Oct 24, 2026 · 6 replies
- What a grid battery actually does on a hot evening, told from the control roomGrid & storage · Oct 24, 2026 · 8 replies
- Where do you get honest hourly grid data by country?Question · Data · Oct 2, 2026 · 8 replies
- Heat & buildings: how do you keep going past the interesting part?Question · Data · Sep 27, 2026 · 2 replies
- Storage duration is the argument, not storage costGrid & storage · Sep 26, 2026 · 7 replies
- Heat & buildings: six months in, including what did not workGrid & storage · Sep 18, 2026 · 5 replies
- Heat pump in a 1930s house with no wall insulationHeat & buildings · Sep 13, 2026 · 9 replies
- Grid & storage: the best money I could spend right now?Question · Grid & storage · Sep 13, 2026 · 5 replies
- Heat & buildings: the advice I had to unlearnHeat & buildings · Sep 10, 2026 · 11 replies
- Policy: where would you tell a beginner to start?Question · Heat & buildings · Sep 8, 2026 · 3 replies
- Grid & storage: a small thing I am quietly pleased withHeat & buildings · Aug 22, 2026 · 4 replies
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