Reads, Takes and Links

Category: asides

  • Revisiting H2-powered datacentres

    This is a follow-on post from an earlier post I dashed out – Hydrogen datacentres – is this legit? – where a podcast interview caught my attention about one approach being sold to address demands on the grid caused by new datacentres. This post will make more sense if you have read it. Basically ECL…

  • What I want from a mobile provider in 2024

    I’m dashing this post as a follow up to this thread on Mastodon, when I was asking for pointers for new providers, after getting sick of Vodafone’s poor broadband service. It’s an outline of my circumstances as I hunt around for an alternative provider of mobile connectivity for someone who lives in Berlin. Here are…

  • If you want greener energy, what’s the best way to get it?

    If you want greener energy, what’s the best way to get it?

    I saw an interesting chart fly by recently from a tweet by Juliaen Jomaux, taken from the recent IEA Renewables report (page 57), What does this chart tell us? The key thing that attracted my attention was how in China, the use of fixed-tariffs / premiums, where anyone building a renewables project gets a fixed…

  • Hydrogen datacentres – is this legit?

    Part of my job at work is to stay up to date about the options for decarbonisation of the digital sector. I listened to a podcast yestersday where there were a load of claims that seemed well.. too good to be true, even with my developing knowledge of the sector. I’ll outline them below, because…

  • A new Californian law on offsets goes a long way to making them more transparent

    This came up on one of my feeds recently. Emphasis is mine from the original text on the Californian legislation website detailing the bill: AB 1305, Gabriel. Voluntary carbon market disclosures. This bill would require a business entity that is marketing or selling voluntary carbon offsets, as defined, within the state to disclose on the…

  • Listening notes: zero carbon cement on the Volts podcast

    I listen to quite a few podcasts, and as an experiment in Jan 2024, I’m going to try to share the notes from ones that stand out for me. This is partly as a way to retain what I learn, and share with others, but get better at writing quickly. The first one is an…

  • Fixed broadband growth is slowing down

    In my line of work, it’s common to see charts of ever growing internet usage, and projecting growth rates forward to reach eye-opening levels. It turns out the data in the last few years suggests that at least for fixed broadband, this isn’t happening as much people might think. This quote from a post by…

  • Useful context for hydrogen economy convos – a recent keynote by Michael Liebreich on hydrogen

    This talk, by Michael liebriech communicates a massive amount of useful knowledge in 20 mins, and crucially provides useful context for assessing claims of hydrogen being a silver bullet in loads of sectors. Michael liebreich‘s keynote speech at the world hydrogen congress 2022 Things I learned Jacob Reese Mogg most had literally called hydrogen a…

  • Outcomes, goals, objectives

    This diagram from Jamie Arnold turned up in my timeline yesterday, and it I liked it so much, that seemed worth a quick write up: I think a nice way to frame it: A Goal in this case is broad direction you’re heading in. Head in this direction! An Outcome is the benefit from achieving…

  • The pleasing mapping between Sam Ladners three states and Myddletons’ three types of research

    I’m trying to use this blog more, and really on twitter less as an outboard brain. So over the next week or so, I’ll experiment with blogging stuff I’d typically tweet, then link to it. I came across a nice mapping between two people I find interested and the mental models they present for thinking…