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Gregor Macdonald
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Gregor Macdonald writes Cold Eye Earth, a personal blog at gregor.us about economics and science. Since 2009, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-02, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Gregor Macdonald's posts on solar PV growth, which argue that solar is on the upward part of an S-curve. One commenter also mentions his regular finance and economics podcast.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
tracking the progress of energy transition.
What Hacker News says?
I don't like to place too much hope on these periodic doublings going on forever, but it seems that we are on the upward part of the solar PV s-curve right now: http://gregor.us/solar/world-solar-power-goes-parabolic/
Comment linking /solar/world-solar-power-goes-parabolic/
on “Solar Will Power the World in 16 Years”Submitted Coal Jobs and the Power of a False Premise as a story · 5 points
HN discussionThere are so many good finance and economics podcasts out there to choose from. I don't have the link to the podcast on hand, but Gregor MacDonald has a good one that I think runs weekly: http://gregor.us/
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on “Ask HN: What can I learn while driving, aside from a language?”Submitted There Goes the Data: Major Cuts at EIA Washington as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Myth of Energy Breakthroughs as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Cornucopians In Space as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hollow Men of Economics: The Problem with Energy as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Oil in Big Macs: Decade Edition as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Powering the Dubai Overshoot as a story · 1 points
HN discussion
