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Millen Paschich

Infrastructure in the age of supercells
Infrastructure in the age of supercells

Thaddeus Miller–Assistant Professor, Arizona State University–discusses the infrastructure crossroads facing the United States.

Missile alert lessons for active shooter alarms
Missile alert lessons for active shooter alarms

My brother was in Hawaii, and this is what it felt like: "A full blast 10 on the scary scale. Somehow, some way, we were expecting life would change, and we were hoping to survive."

Bitcoin energy is 234 kWh per transaction
Bitcoin energy is 234 kWh per transaction

How many kWh were used on Bitcoin energy yesterday, and were any of them hiding in your building's load curve?

Maintenance procedures that actually work
Maintenance procedures that actually work

Dr. Hodkiewicz–of The University of Western Australia–and team asked 176 maintainers about their work and what makes procedures effective.

The dollar cost of weather in your utility bills
The dollar cost of weather in your utility bills

Fred Fox, founder of Planalytics, tells us the obvious, that "weather is the envelope we live in." The impact it has on Amazon sales–and your utility bills–is not.

Space station maintenance on Skylab
Space station maintenance on Skylab

NASA astronaut Dr. Edward Gibson–who spent a record 84 days living in space–discusses the repair and maintenance of America’s first space station, Skylab.

~Superluminal temperature response curves
~Superluminal temperature response curves

What impact is outside air temperature having inside your building? Turn a year's worth of data–34,944 data points–into a data visualization for insights on your building's temperature response behavior.

Infrastructure PPPs in an era of deferred maintenance
Infrastructure PPPs in an era of deferred maintenance

Michael Bennon, Managing Director at the Global Projects Center at Stanford University, discusses infrastructure Public-Private Partnerships in an era of compounding deferred maintenance deficits.

Solar eclipse totality popularity worth 3.8%
Solar eclipse totality popularity worth 3.8%

As energy nerds, we were nearly as excited to browse through solar submeter data from Monday as we were to actually see the eclipse. And the Gridium team was not alone...