Software and Climate: build a better world
summary
Software ties to concrete claims and tools not slogans: electrification is the lever, because grid-scale wind and solar cheapest makes replacing fossil heat with electricity viable; batteries remain pricier so storage and overbuild matter; coal plants retire 10 to 15 years before end of life as batteries and renewables shave margins. Examples: satellite methane detection and ML, patchima satellite offset monitoring, sankey energy flows and heatpumpsquared analysis showing ~5.98 quads (~6%) for residential space heating, and a Crunchbase scrape listing 229 heat pump startups versus ~11,000 solar firms.
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chapters (25)
- 0:00Intro
- 1:05Agenda
- 2:52Climate
- 4:55Optimism
- 6:30Poll
- 10:05Policy and Efficiency
- 15:41The Duck Curve
- 17:14Build more
- 18:34Framework questions
- 20:06Effective Altruism
- 20:46Considerations for Effective Altruism
- 22:51Effective environmentalism
- 24:20Framework
- 24:35Software in Climate
- 26:01Analysis
- 27:39Monitoring
- 29:33Optimization
- 31:13Other Software
- 32:46Sinkey Diagram
- 34:12Residential Energy Flow
- 36:07Crunchbase
- 38:20Back to slides
- 38:33What can we do personally
- 40:19Where to start
- 42:27Wrap up
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