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jqkeller

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About jqkeller

Mechanical Engineer doing energy efficiency retrofits

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    Comment #17191128

    My understanding of their data innovation is on the marketing side. What I heard is they're narrowing their marketing to only homes on heating oil or propane, essentially not going…

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    Comment #17188242

    Ground Source (geothermal) heat pumps are not new, but Dandelion is doing interesting/innovative things. Here is my understanding from keeping track of what they're up to for a lit…

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    Comment #12648822

    Are you helping utilities that don't have an API to setup one?

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    Comment #12575958

    I've worked on a few street light retrofit projects and the AMA warning is a little overblown and frankly immediately outdated. This is off the cuff, but it comes down to circadian…

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    Comment #12561935

    I was just commenting today how approachable this book makes understanding the requirements to transition to renewable energy. I would warn though that the little bit of economics …

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    Comment #11101694

    Under the current regulatory schemes and market rules the low capacity factor of solar is absolutely a problem. I guess I'm saying that more flexibility for smaller systems to play…

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    Comment #11100854

    Maybe at the 100MW scale it already operates like this, but not at smaller scale. Recently I had a discussion with a county level public utility district where we were exploring bu…

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    Comment #10361483

    One of the basic arguments of this piece is that skyscrapers have a lower environmental impact than low and mid rise buildings, but that's not necessarily true. The city of Seattle…