From FB comment I see all this speculation about what’s going to happen in the future with the Keystone Pipeline but no one brings up a few very important points. There are already pipelines from Canada to the south, so this cancelled pipeline is increasing the existing amount coming into the US. The cancellation is
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👍🤗 ********** Quoted from this NPR article: https://www.npr.org/2021/01/14/956714241/state-republican-parties-blast-members-of-gop-who-voted-to-impeach-trump << [John] Katko, who was the first Republican to say he would vote to impeach, said that as a former federal prosecutor, he “must follow the law and the facts.” He said, “To allow the President of the United States to incite this attack without consequence is
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Maybe the state income tax should include a surcharge for water. https://amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/19/california-water-bills-affordability-debt-crisis
We should be relieved that another of Trump’s assault on the laws was stopped by the courts. Trump tried to politicize the science and laws that were meant to protect the health of people and the Earth. https://www.powermag.com/court-kills-trump-rule-on-power-plant-emissions/
From this YouTube video https://youtu.be/O-kbzfWzvSI At the 26:26 point he displays a slide about using EVs on the grid:i A 200 mile range BEV can power the average American home for 2 days.
The previous blogs cover battery costs and battery storage costing less. This is about BEVs (battery electric vehicles) coming down in cost because the cost of the batteries is the most expensive part of the BEV and by 2023 the costs of batteries is predicted to be $100 per kWh. For a BEV with 75
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The Hornsdale Battery Storage has made a big disruption in the market for electricity in South Australia. Since it can supply electricity almost instantaneously it outcompetes the gas turbine generating plants even though it is a much smaller percent of the total electric supply. The South Australia state has a large amount of renewables –
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Elon Musk did a presentation where he showed this estimate of the gross profit of a Tesla EV used as a robotaxi. After the lease expires they want the Tesla EV back. It wasn’t stated if the reason was because they want to then use the EV as a robotaxi. The YouTube video is here
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Nature article (.PDF) abstract quote: << Here, we show that the net global climate warming caused by managed grassland cancels the net climate cooling from carbon sinks in sparsely grazed and natural grasslands. In the face of future climate change and increased demand for livestock products, these findings highlight the need to use sustainable management
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The chart from Bloomberg NEF predicts that by 2050 the world will still have 24% of global electricity produced by fossil fuels. We must switch to more renewables sooner or there will be no future. https://theconversation.com/worried-about-earths-future-well-the-outlook-is-worse-than-even-scientists-can-grasp-153091
