Explainer: How Ukraine War is Jacking Fossil Gas Prices
May 10, 2022
Above, good Wall Street Journal explainer on the Ukraine war’s effects on fossil gas supplies.
Below, I interviewed Dr Peter Schubert, Director of the Lugar Center for Renewable Energy at the University of Indiana-Purdue at Indianapolis, and we talked about the relationship between domestically sourced renewable energy and national security.
Climate Denial Crock of the Week 
May 13, 2022 at 11:25 pm
Some notes about avoiding “single point of failure”:
– It doesn’t matter if you have the most redundant hardware system in the world if the same software with the same bugs was installed on all your controllers.
– A regional hard freeze, wind storm, heat wave or flood can cause many simultaneous failures in multiple parts of the system.
– It doesn’t help to design redundant or resilient systems in place if the actual materials or fabrication are of stunningly poor quality: