A lidar image of the Borrego Fault in Baja California, Mexico, courtesy of the University of California, Davis
Eva Botkin-Kowacki's excellent big-picture story on lidar is out today in the Christian Science Monitor. In her reporting, she came across "The Laser That's Changing the World" and, from there, me.
It's an interesting thing, as a journalist, to…
The incoming Trump administration and the oil and gas industry like to talk about the burdens of environmental red tape. But in Deloitte’s “reality check” of the top six issues facing the oil and gas industry in 2015, regulatory burden is absent. These are mostly big companies for whom compliance is a part of doing business…
Solar panels tend to generate substantially less electricity when in garages.
Given the success of the global climate talks in Paris, it's time to post a hyper-local piece on our household's greatest carbon-mitigation endeavor: our solar panels.
Specifically, I got a wild hair to compare the volume occupied by the stack of solar panels to the volume of the…
Google's driverless, autonomous vehicles portend a radical chance in how we get around. (courtesy Google)
AVs (not audiovisual, but rather autonomous vehicles) are poised to change the developed world. It seems that about everyone who looks at transportation comes to the same conclusion. It takes a bit of explaining as to why, and a recent piece I wrote for…
Sixth Avenue and roughly Trenton St., at 6:30 a.m. on Thursday, June 25, 2015
I was going to get up and work on something entirely different, but my dusty Daily Camera reportorial instincts got the better of me and, at about 6:30 a.m., I took to the streets of our east Denver’s Lowry neighborhood to survey…