Writing The Steep Climes Quartet, Part 2: Economics in Climate Fiction
Early on in the creation of the series The Steep Climes Quartet, I wrote a post for my newly configured website. The website was reconfigured to support the series and…
Author: David Guenette
Climate Defiance
Today, I’m writing about the group Climate Defiance. I’m also writing about climate defiance, lowercase, by which I mean the application of public shaming of executives of fossil fuel corporations,…
The Headlines are Full of Bill Gates’ Latest Wisdom—It’s Hysterical!
Can’t a billionaire get better writers? The headlines are full of Bill Gates touting some version of “Bill Gates Doesn’t Think Climate Change is Important.” It is hysterical. The general…
Climate Change and the Human Condition
There seems ever more to worry about these days. There’s nothing made up about our deep concerns, unfortunately, and worry is part of the nature of humanity. Put as plainly…
Why I Haven’t Installed Solar Power and Batteries
Hey, I know the acronyms: DER, VPP, REC, FEOC, SMART, FRCEC, PPA, ESHEP… I recently went through the process of reviewing options for a 12.32 kW Solar Electric System with…
The American Solar Cost Paradox: Analyzing the Soft Cost Drivers and Policy Barriers to Affordable Residential PV in the U.S.
Note: This report was generated with Gemini Deep Research. Executive Summary The analysis of residential photovoltaic (PV) system costs in the United States reveals a profound structural inefficiency, resulting in…
The Residential Energy Storage Cost Equation: Applying PV Cost Benchmarks to Deconstruct U.S. Home Solar + Storage Economics
Note: This report was generated with Gemini Deep Research. Executive Synthesis: Shifting the Residential Cost Paradigm 1.1. Context and Cost Measurement Transition The evaluation of residential battery energy storage system…
Comparative Analysis of Residential Solar and BESS Safety Regimes: United States, Australia, Denmark, and Germany
Note: This report was generated with Gemini Deep Research. Executive Synthesis: Divergent Regulatory Philosophies and Safety Benchmarks The global transition to decentralized renewable energy has spurred rapid growth in the…
Democracy, Climate Action, Climate Fiction… and Criminality
These days it can be hard to write climate fiction. Given the dangerous threat America is under now from authoritarianism, the more pressing action seems obvious: combat our country’s slide…
Blues Skies by T.C. Boyle: Oh You Humans!
C. Boyle has entered the climate fiction arena before—A Friend of the Earth (2000) comes to mind—but I suspect that Boyle doesn’t see any of his work as primarily climate…