https://electrek.co/2021/09/01/ca-dems-endorse-plan-to-push-california-gas-car-ban-to-2030/
2021-08-31 US Electric Generation Sources
Electric generation in the US, 2020. This chart doesn’t tell the whole story.
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/road-to-decarbonization-united-states-electricity-mix/
2021-08-31 Cobalt Free Battery Pack Unveiled
<< Cobalt-free batteries come at a welcomed time as the Earth’s stash is limited and is expected to be in short supply by 2026. Other battery manufacturers like Tesla and Panasonic have put their own R&D into cobalt-free battery packs as well and have shared similar progress. >>
2021-08-30 ICEV Sales Peaked In 2016
Comment I made
Lee Davies
I’m not sure what you mean by the real exponentials. In the US, Tesla’s market share has to pretty much come from eating into sales of new ICEVs because most people old enough to drive already have a car.
If Tesla opens Giga Berlin and can sell really cheap cars in Europe, the high price of gasoline gives a lot of incentive for drivers to go gasoline free. More incentive, I think, than for the US.
2021-08-29 JHAT – Climate Change
JHAT 2021 AUG 29
The most urgent question now — at least for any rational person — is not whether climate change is a real phenomenon; that debate is long since settled, except in the minds of a delusional minority.
“It’s easy to assume that reducing greenhouse gas emissions will be prohibitively expensive; it’s an argument you’ll often hear from folks with vested interests in incumbent, monopolistic industries like fossil fuels, big pharma and agribusinesses. In fact, the data in this report show completely the opposite and suggest that sheltering those industries would in fact be a multi trillion dollar mistake. Anyone investing in those older technologies today risks losing most, if not all of their money on assets that will become stranded in the next decade as a result of the basic market forces that the new disruptive technologies will activate. If governments need to intervene at all, then it’ll be to play the vital role of protecting the hard working people who are going to lose their livelihoods in those older industries. They will need financial support as well as priority retraining and priority reemployment in the new industries of the future so that society can be well-placed to take advantage of these new disruptive technologies as they accelerate,
2021-08-28 1 MW Solar Array
This 5+ min. mostly drone aerial video is on YouTube. This is in Greece.
There are 54 panels per group. There are 56 groups, for 3024 panels total. The power is 330 watts per panel, for 17.82 kW per group.
2021-08-27 Mayor ++ Gets Court To Stop Texas Anti-mask Mandate
The mayor of San Antonio and others have taken Gov. Abbot to court and received a decision that blocks the governor’s anti-mask mandate order.
After the mandate went into effect some school districts went ahead and made masks mandatory and the governor threatened to take them to court. That goes against common sense – masks have been a health aid for more than a hundred years.
Something is wrong when a state government makes laws that prevent requirements that benefit the health and safety of the public. The federal government needs to pass a constitutional amendment that prevents anyone from interfering with the health and safety of the public. And there need to be stiff penalties for interference.
2021-08-27 Photonic Computer Beats Moore’s Law
Interview with Lightmatter CEO. Light guides inside of the chips replace ‘wire’ conductors. Mostly for replacing GPUs in Neural Networks for AI.
2021-08-26 3.6 Mln Lbs Nuclear Waste Buried On California Beach
“A combination of failures” This is about SONGS – San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station which has been shut down for years and is being decommissioned. But all the high level nuclear waste is being stored on site. For how long? Thousands of years? Or will sea level rise force them to move the waste up to higher ground?
