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EDITOR'S CHOICE
16 Oct 2023 | Synopsis
"Non-solutions and even major problems are being pitched hard as climate wins. Nuclear energy, carbon capture, hydrogen for energy and synthetic fuels should be ignored..."...Bent Flyvbjerg's data set of over 16,000 projects greater than a billion dollars in cost shows, nuclear energy is close to the worst type for cost and schedule overruns...Hydrogen for energy is another dead end.
"The climate crisis and the opportunity are both too great to waste time on clearly poor solutions."
15 Oct 2023 | Synopsis
"Global warming is about science, not beliefs or politics. The realization we must do something is not a religion or a political party. It's a rational response to an existential threat..."Americans supported fossil fuel production and consumption with direct and indirect subsidies totaling $757 billion last year, far more than the IRA's support for clean and unlimited energy...Put another way, every man, woman and child in America paid nearly $2,230 in 2022 to help the fossil energy industry sell products that ultimately destroy homes, lives, lungs, ecosystems, biological diversity, and quality of life."
15 Oct 2023 | Synopsis
"Under the SAFE Program, NYC-based delivery workers can apply to trade-in their non-compliant e-bike or moped in exchange for heavily discounted pricing on UL-2849 certified e-bikes with two batteries...the city has between 50,000 and 75,000 delivery workers...A low-cost,12-month loan is also available to delivery workers...through Sept. 14 of this year, cops have seized 8,607 mopeds, more than double the 4,085 seized during the same period last"15 Oct 2023 | Synopsis
"Auto executives in Europe, America, and Japan 'didn’t believe China's car companies could grow so fast...With as many as 300 companies manufacturing EVs in China, the competition is intense, but one homegrown brand is much, much bigger than the rest. Steered by a billionaire CEO, BYD may well soon eclipse Tesla in both tech savvy and sales"In short, Chinese companies are threatening the 100-year hegemony of [GM], Ford, Volkswagen..."
15 Oct 2023 | Synopsis
"With the McLaren P1, Porsche 918, and LaFerrari coming out, General Motors knew it was time to pull the trigger on electrifying the Corvette's next generation...E-Ray...very first mid-engine Corvette into a hybrid supercar.The E-Ray's pack is rated at 300 volts...plenty for a hybrid and unusually high for 1.9 kWh of total capacity...Each pouch...can put out around two horsepower continuously, or more in a burst. E-Ray has 80 of them.
"...combined fuel economy as a regular Stingray (19 mpg), despite having 655 hp versus the base car's 495."
15 Oct 2023 | Synopsis
"The first plane connected to the charger at Marshfield Municipal Airport was an all-electric ALIA, made by BETA Technologies -- the same company that makes the charger."The Vermont-based company already has 9 publicly accessible electric chargers online, more than 55 sites in permitting or construction, and plans for nearly 150 online by 2025, the goal being a charging network covering much of the nation east of the Mississippi.
14 Oct 2023 | Synopsis
"Research from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and Leiden University’s Institute of Environmental Sciences in the Netherlands evaluates how vehicle-to-grid (V2G) bidirectional charging programs may offer short-term grid storage opportunities..."Participating in V2G programs lowers the average state of charge while the vehicle is parked, which can help batteries stay healthy and last longer."
14 Oct 2023 | Synopsis
"According to the U.S. Department of Energy, nearly 4,000 public EV charging stations with 7,000 ports were out of service as of early October, an outage rate of more than 6%."Despite all the promise of these shiny, new EV chargers, there is one crucial element missing from the pot – the people to install and maintain them...the country’s electrification push, including EV charging and solar panels will require at least 142,000 more certified
14 Oct 2023 | Synopsis
"...climate activists painted a giant slogan condemning French oil giant TotalEnergies in the dry bed of the Agly River...the phrase accompanying the French river painting - 'If there’s no water, let them drink oil!' - is a powerful rallying cry.
"ExxonMobil asserted that 'it is highly unlikely that society would accept the degradation in global standard of living required' to achieve net-zero emissions."
14 Oct 2023 | Synopsis
"...the concept of 'blue hydrogen' originated from the oil and gas industry, aiming to capture the released carbon dioxide during the breakdown of methane...this capturing process necessitates additional energy, often sourced from burning more natural gas."...'green hydrogen' plays a pivotal role in a decarbonized energy future. It is generated solely from renewable electricity using electrolysis, which is a process that separates water
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