Essays & Other Articles
This section archives articles and essays on topics that don’t quite fit into the other categories on energy. They include articles on high-mileage vehicles, chain-reaction accidents, our neighbors, Tule fog, and . . . well . . . other subjects.
Finally, The EU’s Market Policy Recognizes Reality
By
Paul Gipe
After decades of ideological mismanagement of the blocs’ electricity market policy, change may be on the horizon. The EU’s policy …
The White House & Me
By
Paul Gipe
I’ve been invited to the White House only once. Jimmy Carter was the only President to ever invite me. For …
We’re Back after a Long Hiatus: wind-works is Up
By
Paul Gipe
After nearly six months my web site wind-works.org is back up. Thanks to the tireless effort of Matthias Bank the …
Serendipity or How We Survived a Thunderstorm and Ate a Delicious Bear Claw
By
Paul Gipe
We’re continuing our Pandemic Peregrinations to explore our region of California. To that end we try head out most Thursdays for day trips in our Chevy Bolt. On this trip we drove to Mount Pinos in the Los Padres National Forest. It’s the closest place you can go to escape the sweltering heat of Bakersfield in August.
Alan Simpson’s Insightful Views on Energy Policy and British Politics
By
Paul Gipe
Alan Simpson, as he likes to say, is a ‘recovering politician and lapsed economist’. You can his find stinging critiques of energy policy, the lack thereof in Britain, and British politics in general at Alan Simpson–News from Somewhere Else.
When Slide Rules Ruled
By
Paul Gipe
I don’t remember how slide rules came up in a conversation recently. It may have been when Nancy recalled her dreaded chemistry classes in college and noted that she never learned how to use the complimentary slide rules they were given in the class.
