Archive - Second Power

June 27, 2025 Newsletter: California Supreme Court to Revisit Rooftop Solar, Why I Like "Landman," etc

Also: an announcement that I've accepted a position as senior research fellow at the Institute for Provisional Trust Mechanisms

Jun 28 •

Techno-Economic Concrescence

Many things...are happening!

Jun 10 •

May 2025

The Distributed Altar of Second Power

What ChatGPT said about three years of Second Power content (2022-2025)

May 18 •

California Electricity Imports

Buy High and Sell Low

Published on A Pragmatic Approach To Energy • May 9

April 2025

The Great Outsiders: Carlsbad Caverns Visitor Center

The visitor center in the desert hiding a deep, dark secret.

Published on Owen’s Substack • Apr 25

Building a Telemetry Stack for The Modern Power Company

How Base Power modernized our telemetry stack to lower costs and increase observability.

Published on Inside Base Power Company • Apr 9

Amphibious Geopolitics, Afghanistan, Junkspace, the Mirror of Galadriel, Cybernetics, and Prayer

A Q&A with esoteric analyst Cornelius Stahlblau exploring the willed coexistence of different worlds, psychotronic Cold War vibes, and post-terrestrial…

Apr 4 •

The Case for Natural Gas Maximalism

NG is truly a Swiss Army Knife: a multi-modal substrate that provides fast-ramping, firm capacity, cogeneration, and backup for distributed systems…

Apr 1 •

March 2025

Microgrid Acceleration

Some thoughts on how to best deploy microgrids

Mar 26 •

The Sublime in the Oil Sands

Edward Burtynsky and the Divine Power Delegated to Man

Published on Philosopher of the Oil Sands • Mar 25

California Wildfire Lawfare

"Show me the money."

Published on Climate Change Conundrum • Mar 17

The strange economics of solar

The market has a message for California: Enough, already!

Published on Will’s Substack • Mar 6

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