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
How Biden Will Address the Climate Problem
Re: the photo here, a reader notes: The president-elect has included those with climate experience across a wide swath of federal agencies. I hope they are experts that think outside the business as usual box.
The Big Tech Companies
My colleague Fritz Maffry writes: Craig knows my thesis is that the tech firms will transform energy and transportation, and are much closer to this in large scale disruption than is commonly appreciated. I intend to help them do that.
Coal Plant Retirements
Below is a diagram that lays out the location and size of each of the 33 coal-fired power plants in the U.S. that will be decommissioned in the next four years.
Capturing Carbon in Useful Products
A very bright reader “BreathOnTheWind” (love the name!) comments on my post on carbon sequestration: Somewhere deep in the core of my being I feel that the answer for carbon must be to find a use for it. If carbon …
