In a series of guest posts, Assaf addresses — from the perspective both of an EV owner and an analyst — myths about electric vehicles. The first post addressed the life-cycle CO2 Footprint of various types of cars … and … the simple truth (in line with Debunking Handbook guidelines): Electric Vehicles have lower (LOWER!) […]
Dispelling Electric-Vehicle Myths, #5 (and last): Technology Aspects
March 31st, 2015 · 1 Comment
Tags: automobiles · electric vehicles · guest post · hybrid · transportation
Dispelling Electric-Vehicle Myths, #4: Business Viability and Consumer Value
March 30th, 2015 · 1 Comment
In a series of guest posts, Assaf addresses — from the perspective both of an EV owner and an analyst — myths about electric vehicles. The first post addressed the life-cycle CO2 Footprint of various types of cars … and … the simple truth (in line with Debunking Handbook guidelines): Electric Vehicles have lower (LOWER!) […]
Tags: automobiles · electric vehicles · PHEV · transportation
Dispelling Electric-Vehicle Myths, #3: The Sales Wars
March 29th, 2015 · Comments Off on Dispelling Electric-Vehicle Myths, #3: The Sales Wars
In a series of guest posts, Assaf addresses — from the perspective both of an EV owner and an analyst — myths about electric vehicles. The first post addressed the life-cycle CO2 Footprint of various types of cars … and … the simple truth (in line with Debunking Handbook guidelines): Electric Vehicles have lower (LOWER!) […]
Tags: automobiles · batteries · electric vehicles · guest post · transportation
The Solar Photovoltaic Price Evolution Revolution
January 29th, 2014 · 1 Comment
This guest post comes from BruceMcF. In early December, the Guardian covered ALEC’s latest corporate-written attack on freedom, an effort to penalize households that place solar panels on their roof: An alliance of corporations and conservative activists is mobilising to penalise homeowners who install their own solar panels – casting them as “freeriders” – in a […]
Tags: Energy · Solar Energy
China solves smog problem: See no evil
December 13th, 2013 · 1 Comment
Yes, it’s true that China’s air pollution can be seen from space (NASA photo). attribution: NASA Earth Observatory NASA satellite observes intense air pollution and fog over eastern China on 7 December 2013. A new study funded by Greenpeace shows that a quarter of a million Chinese people died of air pollution from coal fired […]
Tags: China · environmental · guest post · pollution
Dispelling Electric-Vehicle Myths, #2: Other Environmental Issues
December 3rd, 2013 · 1 Comment
In a series of guest posts, Assaf addresses — from the perspective both of an EV owner and an analyst — myths about electric vehicles. The first post addressed the life-cycle CO2 Footprint of various types of cars … and … the simple truth (in line with Debunking Handbook guidelines): Electric Vehicles have lower (LOWER!) […]
Tags: automobiles · electric vehicles · electricity · transportation
What does serious climate change look like?
November 13th, 2013 · 3 Comments
Erratic, with this guest post, made me think … Perhaps you will find it interesting as well. And, well, perhaps you agree with me in hoping that “people” do / that humanity does “survive this bottleneck”. In Ondaatje’s Running in the Family, the father describes a persistent delusion where his family is surrounded by a cloud […]
Tags: catastrophic climate change · climate change · environmental · Global Warming
“Send the entire bill to the flat-earthers”
February 22nd, 2013 · 3 Comments
This guest post comes from DWG. And, well, the Star-Ledger‘s editorial board is now my favorite editorial board in the nation. Thanks to damage from recent north Atlantic superstorms, a major New Jersey utility plans to spend $4 billion over the next ten years to make its grid less susceptible to storm damage. “It’s clear that […]
Tags: climate change · climate delayers · climate zombies
Pickpockets at large: Fossil fuel interests bankrupting states
January 28th, 2013 · 3 Comments
This guest post comes from DWG and covers something that the vast majority of Americans are unaware is happening. And, well, how many schools could be renovated, roads repaired, policemen hired, and other public services provided with the tax subsidies that the ever-so impoverished fossil fuel industries are pocketing? NOTE: Let us be clear, however, […]
Tags: carbon dioxide · climate change · emissions · Energy · guest post · tax
One world, two realities: #BigAussieHeat
January 10th, 2013 · 1 Comment
Sadly, as this guest post from Australia by Professor Stephan Lewandowsky reminds us, the United States is not the only nation under siege by Anti-Science Syndrome Haters Of a Livable Economic System in positions of political power. Australia is experiencing the mother of all heat waves. Records are tumbling everywhere: For the first time in […]
Tags: climate change