jeffsseidman.bsky.social
Teaches philosophy and environmental studies at Vassar College. Climate teaching website under development: https://climatesolutions-careers.org
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Will also post a site I created, based on a class I teach. The "Climate Solutions" half is a tour of the landscape of solutions, emissions-sector by emissions-sector. The "Climate Careers" half is a tour of just a few careers that people might not think of when they say "I want to work on climate."
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Helpful take from Nan Ransahoff on finding a role in climate, starting from a Sankey diagram of flows leading to emissions sectors. (The blog post below depends on her earlier "mental map" post explaining that diagram: www.nanransohoff.com/A-mental-mod... )
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installs. Driving HP deployment beyond early adopters and replacement for expensive delivered heating fuel (as opposed to nat gas) looks to me like a much harder problem than electrifying transport, where falling costs will do much of the work. Should HPs really count as "electrotech?"
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I think this is true, but I'm beginning to see how much it masks important differences. Electrifying transport rests on a tech, batteries, that are on steep learning curves. Electrifying res. heating rests on heat pumps, which are not - and for which the main cost is skilled labor for bespoke...
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A full squamsh definitely makes a happy heram for me. (Is a heram like a harem? You want to keep it happy.)
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I recognize you're joking, but: the same authors who wrote the report I linked also wrote this interesting piece, arguing that cleantech is not a useful category, but electrotech is. One way to put my worry: even though heat pumps electric, are they electrotech, as they've marked the category?
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(rather than cheap nat. gas) and (2) financially secure early adopters. Lumping heat pumps and EVs together as "end-use electrification" obscures this difference, and the real policy (and political economy) challenge for heat pumps.
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But heat pumps aren't on steep learning curves, and even if equipment gets cheaper, so much of the final cost is skilled labor for bespoke installations. Without some very smart policy, hard to see how they get cheap enough to move beyond (1) folks with expensive delivered propane/oil for heat...
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Given the enormity of the task, it baffles me batty that the decarb movement remains hyper focused on the end user. It’s much easier to shift the upstream HVAC industry: manufacturers and installers. We should be accelerating much better HVAC products first, then installer training.
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So grateful to you. Now: senate or governor - please!
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In case people missed this, Cuomo was “open to” rolling back Local Law 97, which the real estate lobby hates. A lot was at stake for that, as it’s the world’s most-important city-level climate/jobs law.
Mamdani won’t be open to that lol