I thought I would offer a few random observations on the adoption of EVs, based on the reading of this subject over the last 10 years:
Author: craigshields
Electric Vehicles and the Coming Disruption in the Oil Market
Below is a cool set of videos suggested by frequent commenter “Breath on the Wind,” describing the coming crash of the world oil market caused by the electrification of transportation. As could be expected, there is not a single mention …
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We’re Saying Goodbye To Fossil Fuels, But Not As Soon As We’d Like
Jeff Merkley, a progressive senator from Oregon (a progressive state) is introducing legislation that provides a plan by which the country can wean itself off fossil fuels by 2050. Though the details of the plan aren’t available, they include the …
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Eco-Threats To Our Civilization’s Food Supplies
According to The Writer’s Almanac, it’s the anniversary of “Black Sunday” in 1935, the day on which the Great Plains region experienced one of the largest dust storms in American history. It’s an important reminder of what happens when farm …
Tagged with: algal blooms, bioaccumulate, Chemical fertilizer run-off, Climate Change, dead zones, deforestation, desertification, drought conditions, Eco-Threats To Our Civilization’s Food Supplies, environmental issues, fungicides, herbicides, Insecticides, melting of the ice sheets in Greenland the Antarctic, monocropping, Pesticide residues, sea level rise
Airborne Wind
Even since the advent of large-scale commercial wind energy in the 1990s, there has been a certain interest in airborne wind, as illustrated here. In principle, it offers all the benefits of offshore wind, on steroids. It’s less visible than …
Comprehending the Universe Would Be Nice, But It Could Be Impossible–Or Of No Real Value
As we learned in the early 20th Century, depending on the circumstance, light can behave either as a particle or a wave. Want to see the wave nature of light? Set up a double slit experiment (see photo on left) …
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Trump’s Press Secretary Shawn Spicer’s in Trouble. But Why, Since He’s Perfect for the Job?
Here’s a conversation on Facebook that presents my viewpoint. Liz McCleney He (Spicer) misspoke (about Hitler’s not using chemical weapons), he apologized; move on.
What Compels Dr. James Hansen to Sound the Climate Change Warming Alarm?
Here’s eminent climate scientist James Hansen’s recent Ted Talk on global warming. I’m not sure there’s anything new here in terms of the data themselves: the imbalance of the Earth’s heat energy is 0.6 Watts/square meter, 20 times the rate …
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Smoking Hot New Use for Internet of Things
Here’s an article on how the IoT applies to smart buildings, in this case, greenhouses for cannabis–yet another sign that “the times they are a’changing.” Cannabis clearly has medical value, both in pain relief generally and in the treatment of …
U.S. Public Needs and Wants Mean Essentially Nothing in Congress
If you’re looking for more evidence that public opinion and law-making have identically zero to do with one other, here’s a case in point: Bernie Sanders is the most popular senator in the U.S. Congress, and Mitch McConnell is the …
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