Here’s a quick discussion between life-long environmentalist Paul Scott and me, regarding the question posed at the left. Paul: Short answer is no. You’ll probably be paying even less if you switch to solar or wind energy.
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EVs and Electricity Prices
Tagged with: cost of electricity generated by solar and wind is very low, electric vehicles can be charged with off-peak energy that has very little value, EVs and Electricity Prices, extremely low efficiency of internal combustion engines (~20%) and the relative high efficiency of charging and discharging batteries (80+%), increased load associated with electrifying every car and truck on Earth is about 14%, price on carbon
Karma for Megachurch Pastor
From this: A California Pastor has died of COVID-19, five weeks after his megachurch reopened in defiance of the state’s ban on indoor religious services. Bob Bryant, a 58-year-old associate pastor at the Water of Life Community Church in San …
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Our Civilization Must Cease Its War on Nature
Check out this short speech from the Secretary General of the United Nations, urging humankind to bring to a halt its war on nature before climate catastrophe becomes inevitable. Powerful stuff.
Are Wind Turbines Burning Money?
There’s a report being passed around social media to the effect that the cost of fires in wind turbines could be as high as $9 million. Although I have no way to verify this, I can point out that there …
Trump 2024!
As baseballer/comedian Yogi Berra put it, “It’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future.” Yes, it’s tough, but let’s just try to extrapolate from where we are now, and take a guess as to what Trump’s popularity is going …
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Environmental Responsibility Post Trump
A great deal of the environmental damage Trump has inflicted on this planet will be fairly easy to reverse once he’s out of office. Of the 104 regulations that formerly protected our skies and waterways from toxic pollution, 80 of …
Putting the Confederate Legacy Into Context
A reader sent me the meme here, and asked (implicitly) for my comments. It’s hard to know where to begin. Robert E. Lee was a traitor to the United States, and led a force that would have promulgated slavery, an …
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The Slogan “Defund the Police” Couldn’t Have Been Any Worse
When we contemplate the phrase “defund the police,” we need to ask: Could progressives have possibly done any worse in their choice of words? Almost all Americans despise police murders. But “defunding” the police sounds like “disempowering” the police, resulting …
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Lab-Grown Meat Is Here
Laboratory-grown meat is now available for human consumption for the first time, having been recently approved by the relevant government agency in Singapore. This is a huge deal for environmentalists, who point out quite correctly that the destruction of Earth’s …
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Bernie Sanders: “Betsy DeVos Worst Education Secretary in U.S. History”
As if this were in doubt? She was put in place specifically to destroy public education, and she put on a stunning performance. She has promoted the privatization of public schools through vouchers, called for deep cuts to federal funding, …
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