Which legacy automaker will truly lead on electric vehicles? The author made the point that each automaker has its strengths, like Ford has the F-150 pickups. It’s not important to me which “takes the crown” because everyone wins when vehicles stop burning fossil fuels. Quote << Of course, several of them have announced plans to
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This website gives the news about climate change, deniers, climate change lawsuits and more. https://climateinvestigations.org/ Quote << For the past four or five decades, the science has become increasingly clear: the predictions have been borne out by the evidence. Scientists predicted that the world would warm, and it has, at the rate that most models
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From Tesla small shareholders Dylan McGill Said, “In 10 years Tesla will sell 20X as many cars.” Not likely. If level 5 autonomy is available to all vehicles, those vehicles will no longer need to be sitting in garages and parking lots for 95% of the time like they do now. Instead those vehicles will
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This article shows the synergy between solar PV and the use of the canals as the location for solar canopies. They call it agrivoltaics but there is no agriculture or crops. The author said there are three benefits. But the author did not include the added benefit that the canal water keeps the solar panels
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This is elementary. https://cleantechnica.com/2022/01/31/learning-chinese-be-a-better-cleantech-advocate-or-investor-in-30-minutes-daily-part-1/ https://cleantechnica.com/2022/01/31/learning-chinese-be-a-better-cleantech-advocate-or-investor-in-30-minutes-daily-part-2/ https://cleantechnica.com/2022/01/31/learning-chinese-be-a-better-cleantech-advocate-or-investor-in-30-minutes-daily-part-3/
This pumped hydro system uses an underground mine for the lower reservoir. It can even use a mine that is still in operation. They say there are plans for a 400 MW system. https://www.powermag.com/blueprint-underway-for-commercial-mine-energy-storage-facility-in-sweden/
In the 2022 Feb 10 email with The Guardian’s Down to Earth, the author complains about the following (quoted). I really don’t think that these are a big issue; they’re not important because the world is changing over to electric vehicles and the demand for fossil fuels is going down so it is likely that
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A long article, important information about taxation of aviation turbine (jet) fuel. https://cleantechnica.com/2022/02/07/the-wacky-untaxed-world-of-jet-fuel-is-coming-to-an-end/
The California PUC has halted NEM3.0, which would have reduced the amount per kWh that customers with solar get when they sell their power back to the grid. NEM3.0 would discourage future solar customers from getting solar. The utilities are claiming that the money that is saved by solar customers is costing the non-solar customers
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The $7.5 Billion for EV charging infrastructure. Quote << The United States needs 70 million EVs and a 20 percent reduction in vehicle miles traveled (a way we measure transportation emissions — the total miles traveled in a vehicle each year per person) by 2030 to keep us safe from the worst impacts of climate
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