How Eco-Friendly Is Electric Transportation?
Here’s a subject we haven’t covered in a while: the net eco-benefit of electric transportation. It seems so straightforward at first glace: add up all the environmental footprint associated with putting an EV on the ground, add in that of generating N number of kilowatt-hours of the electricity required to keep in on the road throughout its expected life, and compare all this to building an ICE (internal combustion engine) vehicle and powering it with gasoline or diesel throughout its (much shorter) life. (more…)
Pictured here is a set of devices that are designed to extract the kinetic energy out of ocean waves. The rising and falling water lifts and drops the blue paddles which compress a fluid, whose tubes are connected to onshore turbines.
The United States has become a complete circus, and as we all know, no circus can function without a barker. One might have thought that when Trump lost the 2020 election by 73 electoral college votes (not to mention 7+ million popular votes) that the man in the top hat who had captivated the world with this chicanery and misdirection for four full years would have become irrelevant to American life going forward, but nothing could be further from reality.
The meme here is funny, but it’s not 100% true.
The Sierra Club makes the point that most documentaries on climate change leave their audiences with a sense of hopelessness, whether by design or by accident. And indeed, the problem is large and growing, and human civilization, fragmented as it is, has not proven that it has the capacity to come together so as to create and implement solutions.
Powerful image here.
Reader “Tom” sent me this and comments, “And the corpse stinks worse with each passing day. We’re not going to let up on this until ethics are fully in, (and the truth of a stolen election prevails).”
Is it just me, or is justice starting to make a comeback?
Almost half of Americans look at this quote from British actress Audrey Hepburn with disdain. A left-over hippy? Someone grossly out of touch with the grim realities of living in a competitive world?
There is no doubt that our world would be a much better place to live if we used our resources to educate young people across a wider sphere of disciplines.
