Author: craigshields

Electric vehicle maven Ed Benjamin posts the meme here, noting, “We don’t need a handful of people doing it perfectly. We need millions of people doing it imperfectly.” Right on–and fortunately, this seems to be where we’re going.  Fewer Hummers.  …

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Here’s a battery energy storage concept that is proposed for cell phone charging and high-efficiency lighting in the many parts of the developing world that, otherwise, have no access to electricity.  The product will cost about $12, and the consumables …

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Here’s Bill Nye the Science Guy talking about climate change denial, generally. Separately, here’s an excerpt from an article on how one might deal with denialists:

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Here’s a bulky, expensive, electrically motorized kitchen appliance that chops up food waste and renders it appropriate for use as plant fertilizer. People with back yards can accomplish the same thing, free of charge, using zero energy, giving up no …

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Here’s a video that explains How Many Houses Can We Power with a Lightning Bolt? There is a lot of useful information here, most of it correct, and, IMO, this is an interesting subject, but:

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The recent post BlackRock Announcement Huge Win for the Environmental Movement included these questions:

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Larry Fink, CEO of money management firm BlackRock, announced today that the company would prioritize mitigating the climate crisis in its decision-making on future investments and strategies.

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To the guy on Facebook who is all upset about this: I have news for you. It doesn’t matter to his supporters, either in the electorate or in Congress, what crimes he has committed in the past, or will commit …

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When I first became interested in electric transportation in 2008, the Aptera was already on the scene, and, as I recall, hunting around for potential investors.

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This put a smile on my face. It’s a hydro power concept that proposes to scoop water out of a river, (somehow) lift it vertically upwards, and then recoup some of that energy, as gravity brings the water back into …

Hydro Power Breakthrough? Read More »