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Last week, New York City hosted two events which wear out the shoe leather (and sometimes the patience) of New Yorkers and visitors alike: the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), and Climate Week NYC.
When Bruce and I were initially discussing what Halcyon would become, the question of what data and information to prefer in our ingestion processes, at first, was important. Perhaps I did not help matters much when Bruce asked me “what information do you want?” and I responded “all of it.”
Every asset has value. In the energy world, we can define that value in multiple ways.
I am not a management consultant, nor was I ever one (nor, as the old advertising trope goes, did I play one on TV1). That said, enough time in the information business has given me a sense for the value of mental models and heuristic devices to help us understand complex systems.
On Monday, Jack Policar, a climate tech founder and friend of Halcyon, posted a plea on LinkedIn. Seeking clear and transparent data on heat pump installation prices, he searched Google, and received its “AI overview” quoting average installation costs of $4,200 to $7,600.