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Does the Earth’s Crust Contain Enough Stuff to Enable Renewable Energy Dominance?

Posted on May 1, 2013 by

craigshields Posted in Renewables - Science

I’m writing this post from my annual visit to the University of California at Santa Barbara’s Energy Efficiency Summit. As I mentioned, the focus this year is on materials science, and this raises some interesting questions; for instance, if renewable energy …

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Are Electric Vehicles Really a Boon to the Environment?

Posted on March 12, 2012 by

craigshields Posted in Electric Vehicles

There are at least two kinds of “EV deniers” (as I call them), i.e., people who doubt that electric vehicles represent an improvement for the environment over gasoline. The first concept is that for the foreseeable future, an increase in …

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