infrastructure

Thursday I got home at 7:30, and started squaring away a few things. I checked the weather to figure out if I could leave out a package for the mailman the next day, and noticed a giant string of thunder storms to the…

Photo by Cindy Shebley on Pexels.com Rooftop solar was overlooked. Now it's closing a New England power plant. New England ISO spent the time to deeply model the actual impacts of rooftop solar, and what actual hour by…

10 years ago my wife and I had taken a 2 week road trip through Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Maine. During that trip we stayed at Fundy National Park in a Yurt. And we definitely wanted to come back. In 10 years, a…

Weather conditions affect how much power can be carried on transmission lines, and high-tech DLR sensors attached to transmission lines give grid operators like National Grid real-world information on weather and thus on…

CHPE is expecterd to deliver 1,250 megawatts of clean energy, or enough to power 1 million New York City homes — about 20% of the city's electric demands.Power cable lines will be installed underground and underwater for…

On Monday, August 21, 2017, a total solar eclipse will pass over the Pacific Northwest (Oregon, Idaho, Wyoming etc.). The California balancing authority area will be affected by a partial eclipse between 9:02 AM and…

A pretty compelling read in the NY Times Magazine about the efforts to save the Subway system during Sandy last year . The thing I found most interesting was the institutional memory of the system, and how critical that…

The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), which for all intents and purposes is the standards body of the Internet Protocol, has declared that “IPv6 is no longer considered optional.” This has been coming for a long…

Via Fred Wilson .

At a press briefing here at its headquarters, Google announced a new version of its Apps suite designed specifically for government customers. This tier will be sold alongside the existing version of Google Apps and…

This is just brilliant. Click on it to get the full sized version. Originally from flickr .

The Burlington Freepress is a Gannett site (like our own Poughkeepsie Journal), so this link will probably be useless in a week. However, right now there is a 4 page article on the EC Fiber project , to bring Fiber to…

Yesterday I upgraded the opensimulator.org machine (kindly provided by Adam Frisby) to the latest version of Debian. The upgrade went seemlessly. Now that we are on Debian 5.0 we've got some fresher software on the…

For the past six months, Verizon has been spending a lot of time in our neighborhood. I was as likely to spot little tented trucks with big spools of cable spilling out, as deer on my way to work. Every day this last…