Jockgill
@jockgill.bsky.social
Areas of interest: climate, distributed renewable energy, open spectrum & SDRs, photography, local history, lowest cost kwhs & installed pv watts, the commons, cooperation, equality, EVs, storage,
Executive summary. Electrification is no longer a climate bet — it's an efficiency, cost, health, and security bet that happens to also solve climate, and the countries and companies making it are already pulling ahead. jgill5862.substack.com/p/the-electrostate-wager
The Electrostate Wager
Is the future electric?
jgill5862.substack.com
September 17, 2026 at 4:10 PM
Executive summary. Electrification is no longer a climate bet — it's an efficiency, cost, health, and security bet that happens to also solve climate, and the countries and companies making it are already pulling ahead. jgill5862.substack.com/p/the-electrostate-wager
There are many problems that are way beyond what any one state can solve alone. We need to restore and revitalize a community of states working together to solve the hardest challenges.
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The Rural Housing Capacity Trap
Show Me the money
jgill5862.substack.com
September 13, 2026 at 8:25 PM
There are many problems that are way beyond what any one state can solve alone. We need to restore and revitalize a community of states working together to solve the hardest challenges.
jgill5862.substack.com/p/the-rural-...
jgill5862.substack.com/p/the-rural-...
Starving the Beast means also starving the commons. This is the root of many problems in rural America. The almost impossibiltiy of building low income and senior housing is but one example.
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The Debt They Wanted
Debt as a Political Weapon
jgill5862.substack.com
September 11, 2026 at 5:24 PM
Starving the Beast means also starving the commons. This is the root of many problems in rural America. The almost impossibiltiy of building low income and senior housing is but one example.
jgill5862.substack.com/p/the-debt-t...
jgill5862.substack.com/p/the-debt-t...
As Bill McKibben points out, we have a serious problem with addressing the new initial conditions supporting our existence. Clearly, relying on the initial conditions of the pre- industrial era is no longer appropriate or useful.
substack.com/p/executive-summary-of-the-tyranny
substack.com/p/executive-summary-of-the-tyranny
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August 25, 2026 at 11:16 PM
As Bill McKibben points out, we have a serious problem with addressing the new initial conditions supporting our existence. Clearly, relying on the initial conditions of the pre- industrial era is no longer appropriate or useful.
substack.com/p/executive-summary-of-the-tyranny
substack.com/p/executive-summary-of-the-tyranny
When the Lights Go Out for Good
What a New York Times cover story — and a small city in Sweden — reveal about the future of the American grid
Nine substations.
That’s the number a FERC power-flow analysis landed on. Take out nine critical substations …
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What a New York Times cover story — and a small city in Sweden — reveal about the future of the American grid
Nine substations.
That’s the number a FERC power-flow analysis landed on. Take out nine critical substations …
jgill5862.substack.com/p/what-if-am...
What if America Went Completely Dark?
Why was the Distributed Energy Resources model not mentioned?
jgill5862.substack.com
August 23, 2026 at 3:22 PM
When the Lights Go Out for Good
What a New York Times cover story — and a small city in Sweden — reveal about the future of the American grid
Nine substations.
That’s the number a FERC power-flow analysis landed on. Take out nine critical substations …
jgill5862.substack.com/p/what-if-am...
What a New York Times cover story — and a small city in Sweden — reveal about the future of the American grid
Nine substations.
That’s the number a FERC power-flow analysis landed on. Take out nine critical substations …
jgill5862.substack.com/p/what-if-am...
Why the fight over “commons vs. private property” is really a fight about centralization — and what that means for education, AI, and the next power grid.*
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Private Enterprise Lives inside the Commons
The Balance Sheet No One’s Keeping
jgill5862.substack.com
August 14, 2026 at 2:11 PM
Why the fight over “commons vs. private property” is really a fight about centralization — and what that means for education, AI, and the next power grid.*
jgill5862.substack.com/p/private-en...
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"What enclosure of the commons tells us about ecocide, militarism, and capitalism — and why “everything’s connected” isn’t quite the right way to say it
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What do you think? Do we have sufficient 'Accountable Governance'?
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What do you think? Do we have sufficient 'Accountable Governance'?
The Line That Never Stops Moving
What enclosure of the commons tells us about ecocide, militarism, and capitalism
jgill5862.substack.com
July 29, 2026 at 7:28 PM
"What enclosure of the commons tells us about ecocide, militarism, and capitalism — and why “everything’s connected” isn’t quite the right way to say it
jgill5862.substack.com/p/the-line-t...
What do you think? Do we have sufficient 'Accountable Governance'?
jgill5862.substack.com/p/the-line-t...
What do you think? Do we have sufficient 'Accountable Governance'?
Transitioning to a Circular Economy That Treats the Biosphere as an Essential Commons
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Transitioning to a Circular Economy
Treating the Biosphere as an Essential Commons
jgill5862.substack.com
July 21, 2026 at 5:23 PM
Transitioning to a Circular Economy That Treats the Biosphere as an Essential Commons
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6% Energy Solution for VT
To achieve complete energy independence and build a “Super Power” Vermont must move beyond incremental efficiency and transition to a fully electrified, decentralized, and bidirectional infrastructure.
jgill5862.substack.com/p/a-6-energy...
To achieve complete energy independence and build a “Super Power” Vermont must move beyond incremental efficiency and transition to a fully electrified, decentralized, and bidirectional infrastructure.
jgill5862.substack.com/p/a-6-energy...
A 6% Energy Solution for VT
$1.5 billion dollars retained annually with 6 cent retail KwHs
jgill5862.substack.com
July 18, 2026 at 10:00 PM
6% Energy Solution for VT
To achieve complete energy independence and build a “Super Power” Vermont must move beyond incremental efficiency and transition to a fully electrified, decentralized, and bidirectional infrastructure.
jgill5862.substack.com/p/a-6-energy...
To achieve complete energy independence and build a “Super Power” Vermont must move beyond incremental efficiency and transition to a fully electrified, decentralized, and bidirectional infrastructure.
jgill5862.substack.com/p/a-6-energy...
The modern tension between the “commons”—our shared ecological, social, and atmospheric spaces—and private property rights …
jgill5862.substack.com/p/the-common...
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The Commons & Private Property Rights
The Environment as an Indivisible Whole
jgill5862.substack.com
July 16, 2026 at 1:43 PM
The modern tension between the “commons”—our shared ecological, social, and atmospheric spaces—and private property rights …
jgill5862.substack.com/p/the-common...
jgill5862.substack.com/p/the-common...
This was originally published in 2012 in the Pittsburgh Post Gazette. The PPG was then edited by David Schribman.
Michael Cudahy was a speech writer for George Bush in 1980.
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Michael Cudahy was a speech writer for George Bush in 1980.
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Stealing America: Wealthy interests are taking over our political system
Pittsburgh Post Gazette, April 8, 2012
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June 29, 2026 at 5:52 PM
This was originally published in 2012 in the Pittsburgh Post Gazette. The PPG was then edited by David Schribman.
Michael Cudahy was a speech writer for George Bush in 1980.
jgill5862.substack.com/p/stealing-a...
Michael Cudahy was a speech writer for George Bush in 1980.
jgill5862.substack.com/p/stealing-a...
Obsoleting the Pearl Street Station.
Those who remember the early days of the internet and may know of David Reed’s idea of “the power of leveraging end-user capital”, will recognize this as an effort to realign our energy system with the core values of our internet based communications system.
Those who remember the early days of the internet and may know of David Reed’s idea of “the power of leveraging end-user capital”, will recognize this as an effort to realign our energy system with the core values of our internet based communications system.
Maximizing endpoint resilience
The 10-Year Endpoint Resilience Pathway
jgill5862.substack.com
May 21, 2026 at 8:41 PM
Obsoleting the Pearl Street Station.
Those who remember the early days of the internet and may know of David Reed’s idea of “the power of leveraging end-user capital”, will recognize this as an effort to realign our energy system with the core values of our internet based communications system.
Those who remember the early days of the internet and may know of David Reed’s idea of “the power of leveraging end-user capital”, will recognize this as an effort to realign our energy system with the core values of our internet based communications system.