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2023-05-03 Range Energy Electric Powered Trailers

Range Energy thinks it has the best answer, and it doesn’t require any retrofitting of tractors or engines, just a new trailer.

Range figured that so many people have thought about electrifying the semi-truck tractor, but nobody has really focused on the trailer. This makes sense considering the trailer is just dead weight on most trucks, so why would people think about changing the motive power of something without motive power?

But with EV tech, Range thinks it can change that and add more safety and fuel efficiency. And it can do this much more quickly than it takes to build and validate new electric trucks.

The idea is to add electric motors and a battery directly onto the trailer itself. This gives the trailer the ability to provide some of its own torque to help lighten the load on the diesel tractor, effectively reducing the amount of mass it needs to pull around on its own.

This is a truly good idea!

https://electrek.co/2023/05/03/watch-how-range-energy-turns-a-semi-truck-electric-just-by-adding-a-trailer/

ELECTRIC SEMI TRUCK RANGE ENERGY
Watch how Range Energy turns a semi-truck electric just by adding a trailer
Jameson Dow
May 3 2023 – 3:46 pm PT
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Range Energy thinks it has the best answer, and it doesn’t require any retrofitting of tractors or engines, just a new trailer.

Range figured that so many people have thought about electrifying the semi-truck tractor, but nobody has really focused on the trailer. This makes sense considering the trailer is just dead weight on most trucks, so why would people think about changing the motive power of something without motive power?

But with EV tech, Range thinks it can change that and add more safety and fuel efficiency. And it can do this much more quickly than it takes to build and validate new electric trucks.

The idea is to add electric motors and a battery directly onto the trailer itself. This gives the trailer the ability to provide some of its own torque to help lighten the load on the diesel tractor, effectively reducing the amount of mass it needs to pull around on its own.

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2023-04-18 Alligator V Crocodile Clips

This shows the difference between the crocodile clips and the alligator clips, and other test clips made for decades by Mueller company.

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2023-01-17 Batteries Better Than Lithium Batteries

https://www.fastcompany.com/90761039 /these-rechargeable-batteries-are-more -sustainable-and-safer-than-lithium-and-half-the-cost

Since lithium-ion batteries were first sold 30 years ago, they’ve dropped in cost by 97%. But they’re still too expensive for making electric cars that can compete in cost with fossil-fueled cars without subsidies, or to economically store wind and solar power on the grid. That’s why one Boston-area startup is developing a different type of rechargeable battery that it says can cut costs in half-while avoiding some of the other flaws of current batteries, from the environmental impact of mining to the fact that lithium-ion batteries can catch on fire.

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2022-10-28 Conservative States Die Younger, Other Stats

Americans die younger in conservative states.

https://amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/oct/27/life-expectancy-us-conservative-liberal-states

Women, especially women of color have higher maternal mortality rates in conservative states.

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2022-07-12 P.U.S.H – Converting Mines Into Hydro Powered Batteries

I believe this information is very important – it’s the key to the solution of the renewables intermittency issue.

https://cleantechnica.com/2022/07/10/converting-mines-into-hydro-powered-batteries/

“”A PUSH facility can be developed using mature technological systems—materials and machinery—used by conventional PSH. In what they call a conservative estimate, researchers determined the US has capacity for between 137 and 285 gigawatts of storage within nearly 1,000 mines likely suited to PUSH.

Based on their analyses, the team made several high- and low-volume reservoir and head estimates, which translated into 5 fully and partially subterranean PUSH designs.””

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2022-08-20 Banks, Big Oil Boards Have Conflicts Of Interest

Banks, Big Oil boards have conflicts of interest!

https://www.nationalobserver.com/2022/07/14/investigations/banks-big-oil-and-boards-untangling-relationship-between-fossil

“”Those calls to phase out the industry are growing louder by the day. It’s not just environmentalists and climate scientists pushing for this essential step in the fight against climate change. United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres recently said the fossil fuel industry and its financiers “have humanity by the throat.”””

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2022-08-09 Carbon Fees “The Turd In The Punchbowl” Elon Musk

“The turd in the punchbowl” – Elon Musk

Article describes..

https://cleantechnica.com/2018/01/16/carbon-fees-mystery-untaxed-negative-externality

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2022-06-27 The Complete History of the Home Microprocessor

A min YouTube video.

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2022-08-04 Is Nuclear Green?

Sabine Hossenfelder is awesome.

This particular episode is fair and impartial towards nuclear power. One thing I didn’t hear her talk about was that nuclear power requires mining uranium and there have been hundreds of deaths from lung cancer caused by breathing radon gas in the mines. And this is especially true for the uranium mines of the Soviets and Russians. Those should be counted in the statistics just as the deaths from workers falling from roofs, as she said.

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2022-06-23

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