Is This a Solution to EV Charging? It’s Impossible to Know.
Right this minute, you’re reading the words of someone who has reviewed a couple of thousand cleantech business plans, and over the last 14 years in this endeavor, who’s developed a few guiding principles to simplify matters.
One is that presentations that demand more of readers’ attention on the problem than the solution are probably losers. Do I want to read dozens of pages explaining how climate change is a threat to humankind? No, I’d rather the author didn’t insult my intelligence, and concentrate on their proposed solution.
Here’s a great example. Yes, the widespread adoption of EVs will require ubiquitous charging stations, and people living in apartments face a challenge that doesn’t exist for owners of single-family dwellings. We all understand the problem, but we’d be more interested in the proposed solution.
As could be expected, it’s a call for would-be investors. But if you want investment dollars for your cure for cancer, perhaps you should tell us what it is.
I don’t know, maybe just another crazy idea.
People like those pictured at left actually do exist, but they’re rare. If only college-educated cast ballots, Trump would have lost the 2020 election by 40 million (rather than 7 million) votes.
Kurt Vonnegut left us 16 years ago.
From MoveOn:
Yes, we have stupidity at play here, but that’s only part of the problem. In the 50 years since the fall of Richard Nixon, America has taken a considerable nosedive in terms of its core values of honesty and integrity.
This is coming crashing down around them.
This from (real) Christian pastor John Pavlovitz.
In 2009 I interviewed one of the 
At left is a reminder of a disturbing fact: the corporate world is making very few changes to its business models so as to slow the pace at which the Earth’s temperature is rising and its inhabitants are suffering droughts, storms, wildfires, the loss of biodiversity, and devastation of our oceans, and loss of land mass.
The sign this young man is holding expresses a commonly held belief, i.e., that scientists are sanctioned for expressing views that run counter to the mainstream.
