Senior Energy Analyst Glenn Doty writes on the subject of large electric vehicles:
While I was clear in my praise for the electric buses, (large electric trucks represent) the opposite case: One of the avenues of lowest net gain for the environment. Buses are exciting because the transportation is endless start/stop. (more…)
Astoundingly, there is still a great deal of discussion in Washington regarding Trump’s moral rightness. (more…)
Why has there been a 30% reduction of North America’s bird population since the 1970s?
No one knows. Of course, there are obvious suspects: loss of habitat, toxins that affect life span and/or fertility, climate change, and reductions in food supply, faster cars, more plate glass windows, the expanding population of house cats–even wind turbines, though that effect is small and extremely well studied. (more…)
To my shame, I’ve never attended a Bioneers conference, but as suggested in this pic I just took, that’s about to change.
Founded in 1990, Bioneers is a nonprofit organization that promotes practical and innovative solutions to global environmental and bio-cultural challenges, and is also widely recognized for producing innovative media covering subjects such as environmentalism, rights of nature, social justice, sustainability and permaculture.
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You know you’re on thin moral ice when you want to remove a piece of environmental regulation that the industry itself believes is a good idea. (more…)
More good news about electrifying large vehicles. Anheuser-Busch, the beer company behind popular brands like Budweiser and Stella Artois, is launching the largest fleet of Class 8 electric trucks in North America. (more…)
A reader notes: Re: Trump, it comes down to whether a president can keep us out of war. And you know? So far, that dog hasn’t barked. And Trump has had plenty of pressure to go to war. And Tulsi is an amazingly smart person, the only democratic candidate who is 100% anti war. I say let it ride. I don’t deny Trumps many faults, but in the topic of war, so far so good.
I respond: (more…)
A reader offers this interesting but fairly cynical viewpoint on the impeachment proceedings currently taking place in the U.S.
Golden Hamster
Here’s an article in which the author demonstrates the folly of replacing the nuclear power plants in the UK with wind and solar.
Was anyone suggesting that this would be a good idea? We could power the country with hamsters running on wheels, too. With a power output of 0.4 Watts per hamster, you would need 68 billion hamsters to generate the U.K.’s 34 GW. But let’s be more realistic and admit that they can only do 8-hour shifts, thus 204 billion would be required.
Here more on the controversy surrounding the ill-effects of the consumption of red meat.
Not the biggest deal in the world either way, IMO. Now that the Impossible Burger is so widely available, there is no reason to eat beef hamburgers; today’s plant-based meat, as I see it anyway, is totally indistinguishable from beef. (more…)
