Future Pathways
Bernard McCartyThoughts on Climate Change, the Energy Transition and a Solar Future
| Platform |  | Pricing | Only free issues | Publishes | Twice weekly |
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| Issues | 26 | Founded | a year ago | Last Issue | 5 months ago |
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Future Pathways: 2025/26 Update
For the first post of 2026 I thought I’d revisit the Future Pathways project. Oh, and Happy New Year Everyone!
Listening to ’s End of Year Reflections reminded me that I needed to post an update on the Future Pathways project. I’ve long be...
A Solar PV Data Logger for SolaX Inverters
Following on from my recent GoodWe data logger post, here’s another solar data logger that I thought might be useful for people trying to log data from their SolaX inverters. If anyone has had success with other types of inverter, please le...
The 280 TWh Solar Opportunity No One Is Talking About
Consuming when not generating!
TL;DR: Most residential solar systems only consume ~20-40% of what they generate. The rest gets exported for little or no payment, then bought back from the grid at full price. Fixing this with proper load...
A Solar PV Data Logger for GoodWe Inverters
A bit of a change from my usual posts - to be honest, I’m completely AI’d-out at the moment! So here’s something a bit different that fellow solar enthusiasts might find useful. Over the past year I’ve been tinkering with analysing solar da...
The Creative Machine: A Book
Book Cover by Pamina Stewart
Hello everyone. I have some news.
Over the past year, many of the posts on my Substack have circled around a set of connected questions. What can today’s AI systems really do? Why are the boldest claims often...
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Thoughts on Climate Change, the Energy Transition, a Solar Future, Physics, Short Stories and some bits about AI hype.
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