Postdoc @NREL. PhD @CMU_EPP, SM @TPPMIT, BASc @WaterlooENG. #energytwitter/transport/enviro engineering-econ-policy, #tidyverse, 🇨🇦 Tweeted opinions r my own
Jul 29, 2019 • 27 tweets • 7 min read
Did you see the claim that $200/t carbon tax would only cut a tiny impact on climate change, specifically 4%?
Well, there's a bit of "science news cycle" telephone going on... 1/n
Pretty clear, right? Actually, the details really matter...
Heal and Schlenker 2019 model the impact of a Pigouvian carbon tax on cumulative oil-associated CO2. Let's step through what this means term by term.
Apr 9, 2019 • 35 tweets • 8 min read
Did you hear how cotton bags are worse than plastic bags, specifically 7000x worse? Well, the story is much more complicated than that. I find 3 major problems & 2 minor problems, and I fault not only the media but also the LCA study's authors. ... 1/n
First, some bad takes:
-"nobody possibly uses their cotton bags 7000x - cotton is so much worse than plastic"
-"everything we do is bad for the environment (pick your poison!), AND the greenies who love cotton and organic are literally the WORST" 2/n
Apr 3, 2019 • 12 tweets • 3 min read
Idea:
Communicating in 1GW-nuclear-reactor-electric-output-equivalents could be helpful, since TWh/yr can be inaccessible & a nuclear reactor might be more tangible (for some).
Divide TWh/yr by 8 to get 1 unit of "reactor-equivalent." Trying this out... 1/
