This is the future, to eliminate fossil fuel use.
2022-01-19 CATL Batteries Huge Future Demand 400+GWh
There will be a huge demand for batteries in the future according to CATL. They are bringing a huge factory online but the demand will be greater over the next few years. The demand is growing.
2022-01-18 Used And Useful: States Must Enforce – End Waste By Utilities
This opinion article exposes the bad business practices that utilities are guilty of.
The electric utilities abuse the ratepayers by passing on their disinformation and bad decisions in the form of increased electricity costs.
2022-01-18 Nuclear Fusion Is Not Needed
It should also be explained that life on Earth depends on the Sun’s photons to make plants grow, to feed life on Earth. Why should humans try (unsuccessfully) for decades to make an artificial Sun when the Real Sun supplies many times as much energy to us every day. For FREE!
Nuclear Fusion is *not* needed.
2022-01-18 Florida: Rooftop Solar Bill & Net Metering
The Utilities are complaining about net metering, that the rooftop solar owners are getting back too much money so the non-solar customers must be charged more to make up for the utilities’ losses. They say this is unfair to non-solar customers. To me, this looks like the utilities have a flawed business model. They should not be complaining about the electricity that comes from rooftop solar because it reduces the amount of electricity that the utility must generate from thermal plants.
But the biggest problem with their change to net metering is that it removes incentives for customers to get rooftop solar, and slows down the changeover from fossil fuels to renewables. Also when we look at the overall view, the utilities want to change to utility scale solar or wind, which costs them *zero* for fuel. Rooftop solar costs zero for fuel, but the utilities lose control over generation – the homeowner can go off-grid and be independent of the utility. The utilities want the customers to be dependent on them for electricity, they don’t want to lose customers.
The most important thing for the future is that the utilities *must* be required to change from fossil fuels to renewables plus storage. We, the whole Earth must end fossil fuel burning and change to renewables – we must stop climate change.
As a customer without rooftop solar, I see that this law will have some benefit for me. But it’s a killer of changing from fossil fuels to renewables, and that must not happen at any cost because of climate change. Lawmakers must include a proviso in the law that the utilities *must* speed up the transition to renewables plus storage.
2022-01-17 OC Official Antivaxxer Dies Of Covid
This video is about if it’s ethical to use the death of an antivaxxer as an example to make it clear to others that they must get vaccinated. It’s *not* ethical — it’s irresponsible and deadly — to persuade others to not get vaccinated! Our condolences go out to the family of antivaxxers, but there should be no need for sympathy for those who try to convince others to make foolish decisions based on misinformation that the antivaxxer gives out. The antivaxxers use the antivax campaign to make money from social media and other means like lecturing. They – the antivaxxers – are the ones who are being unethical. They – the antivaxxers – are the ones who are causing misinformed people to die from Covid-19.
2022-01-17 CalPERS Has A Large Position in TSLA Stock
CalPERS, California Public Employees Retirement System, my pension payer, has a sizeable position in Tesla stock. Over a billion, 300 million at its current value of a little over $1000.00.
2022-01-16
Utilities want to stop rooftop solar!
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<< But Houston, we have a problem. Humanity, in its wisdom, has created utility companies — corporate entities that make money by turning fossil fuels and nuclear energy into electricity and selling it to us for the highest price obtainable. They have converted the greatest public resource of all — the power of the sun — into a profit center for a select few. This is called capitalism and is alleged to be a good thing. But the result is that the utility companies have come to believe that electricity is their private domain.
The idea that ordinary people might harvest solar energy themselves for their own use, or even [gasp!] share it with their neighbors, is anathema to utility companies, which will do anything to stop that from happening so their revenue stream is protected. “It’s our electricity,” they shout, “and we will decide who gets it and how much they will pay for it!” To make sure that is the case, they spend millions of the dollars they receive from their customers to make sure local, state, and federal regulatory agencies are well stocked with people who will protect their business interests at all costs.
Not only that, they are guaranteed a predetermined rate of return on every dollar they invest. It doesn’t matter if an investment turns sour or is rendered obsolete by newer technology. Utility customers are required to pay the freight for failures, even if it takes decades to pay them off.
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Just as automakers kicked up a fuss and screamed about how nobody wanted an electric car, so too the utility companies refuse to engage with the future for fear that doing so might kill the goose that laid the golden egg. Greed, however, is not good. It will be the number one cause of the extinction of the human race. >>
2022-01-16 Amlodipine+ Valsartan= Exforge, ALLHAT Trial, Blood Pressure
Information about Norvasc, and an alternate for it in the ALLHAT Trial.
https://www.peoplespharmacy.com/articles/amlodipine-norvasc-side-effects
2022-01-16 You’re Wrong About Hydrogen Cars
This 4 day new LTT video about hydrogen EVs has a much more impartial view of hydrogen EVs. Elon calls hydrogen “… a staggeringly dumb form of energy storage…” But if you compare it to ICEVs, it’s nowhere near as bad. And right now, most vehicles are ICEVs using even more inefficient gasoline. Elon should be less biased and less critical of hydrogen EVs.
In the video they showed a 700 bar (10,000 PSI) hydrogen tank being shot with a bullet and said there was no explosion.
One issue they pointed out is that BEVs like Teslas are heavy cars due to the heavy batteries needed for decent range. This compromises the ride and handling. Hydrogen EVs are not as heavy and have a better ride and handling.
The biggest issue is getting ‘H70’ filling stations built but governments are subsidizing these stations.
