It’s mandatory that the world stops using gas guzzling fossil fueled vehicles and convert to EVs. Immediately! https://youtube.com/shorts/xu4J098pah4?si=VklIUXljbm6SMBAO
Archive for the ‘Consumer Information’ Category:
2023-09-19 How Area Codes Were First Assigned By Telcos – Dr. Tyson
Well, Dr. Tyson got a few things not quite right. For one, he said that the area code numbers were chosen so that the most *people* would have do dial the least amount of digits. Well, that was just a side benefit. The central office equipment can’t have a dialer for every telephone, so they
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2023-09-16 Dr. Tyson On Student Debt
Some small amount of debt might be acceptable, such as credit cards. But the student debt os far too onerous and is outright economic slavery. So I don’t agree fully.
2023-09-13 EV charging Uses Less kWh Than Water Heating In Homes
Less than Air conditioning and less than heating. EV Charging Consumed Less Energy Than Water Heating In A Typical US Household In 2020
2023-08-31 Corporations Have No Pretense Of Democracy.
It’s true: corporations have no pretense of democracy. This may not run for you if you’re not on Facebook. https://www.facebook.com/100009308115158/posts/pfbid02L55DcPLFiL5ZQLie7Cmms7DhbcNuKgQ3F5p1cZF8xzAKHAMmC9QGGPSTXNWuxWjNl/?mibextid=NOb6eG
2023-08-29 Study Calculates The Carbon Emissions Of Getting Rich
This PBS Newshour article explains what the effect is of the wealthy on carbon emissions. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/this-study-calculated-the-carbon-emissions-of-getting-rich
2023-08-25 Electric Vehicle Lies – EPA Authoritative Source
There are so many LIARs out there who propagate the myths that EVs are worse than gas cars. They are not. This list has several other myths – lies – that it debunks. https://www.epa.gov/greenvehicles/electric-vehicle-myths#:~:text=a%20gasoline%20car.-,Myth%20%232%3A%20Electric%20vehicles%20are%20worse%20for%20the%20climate%20than,even%20when%20accounting%20for%20manufacturing
2023-08-24 Texas Approves Two Tesla VPPs – Virtual Power Plants
This is exciting! The VPPs are going to make liars out of those badmouthers who say that renewables will never be able to run the grid without fossil fuel power plants. We need many more VPPs! Quote: “”PUCT says that there is already 2.3 GW of capacity from small energy storage devices in Texas and
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2023-08-19 Electric Vehicle Batteries – What Happens To Them
Electric car batteries and all other lithium batteries are processed into ‘black mass’ at this Li-Cycle facility in Gilbert AZ. 95% of the batteries is recycled into inert, mostly plastic waste, copper and other heavy metals, and black mass where the lithium, cobalt and other valuable minerals are. The process starts with shredding the batteries
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2023-08-18 Wealthiest 10% Are Source Of 40% Of Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Quote: “”The wealthiest tenth of U.S. households are the source of 40 percent of national greenhouse gas emissions, according to research published in the journal PLOS Climate.”” Quote: “”The wealthiest 1 percent of households were responsible for between 15 percent and 17 percent of emissions.”” https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/4157562-us-climate-emissions-attributed-richest-households-study/ I started thinking about this and guessed that some
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