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By Lou, on February 16th, 2012%
Greenhouse gases, climate change and the transition from coal to low-carbon electricity (emphasis added):
Letter
A transition from the global system of coal-based electricity generation to low-greenhouse-gas-emission energy technologies is required to mitigate climate change in the long term. The use of current infrastructure to build this new low-emission system necessitates additional emissions of greenhouse gases, and the . . . → Read More: Doc alert: Greenhouse gases and low-carbon electricity
By Lou, on January 7th, 2012%
If you could wave your handy dandy magic wand and create a single technological breakthrough that would make a huge impact on our intertwined climate and energy challenges, you’d be hard pressed to come up with something better than a killer battery. Find a way to make a battery pack that greatly exceeds the range . . . → Read More: Yet another battery breakthrough
By Lou, on December 11th, 2011%
After a Herculean effort by Durban negotiators to clean the climate change Aegean Stables, we have… what, exactly?
I don’t think we’ll know for sure for a while, and it will take years, possibly decades, to see how the entire process plays out. Remember, there was a time when the whole world was excited because the . . . → Read More: As the Durban smoke clears, we see mirrors
By Lou, on November 20th, 2011%
Fascinating poll results about what people think a reasonable recharge time is for an EV:
Vehicle Technologies Program: Fact #702: November 21, 2011 Consumer Preferences on Electric Vehicle Charging:
Question: Considering your expected vehicle use, what is the longest time to fully recharge the battery that you would consider acceptable when buying or leasing an electric vehicle?
Damn… and . . . → Read More: Acceptable EV charge times
By Lou, on November 15th, 2011%
Freshwater Use by U.S. Power Plants: Electricity’s Thirst for a Precious Resource:
Take the average amount of water flowing over Niagara Falls in a minute. Now triple it. That’s almost how much water power plants in the United States take in for cooling each minute, on average.
In 2005, the nation’s thermoelectric power plants—which boil water to create . . . → Read More: Doc alert: Freshwater Use by US Power Plants
By Lou, on November 4th, 2011%
Water Energy Food Nexus, Bonn 2011 (emphasis added):
A new report on the water-food-energy nexus from the World Resource Institute (WRI), the Coca-Cola Company and iSciences, compiles information the WRI gathered with help from its partners in the Aqueduct project, which includes General Electric, The Coca-Cola Company, Bloomberg, The Dow Chemical Company, Talisman Energy, United Technologies Corporation . . . → Read More: Energy, water, food. Any questions?
By Lou, on July 21st, 2011%
I’ve long contended that the build-out of an EV charging infrastructure in the US (aside from the wiring that already exists in houses across the country) would not be an issue, for two reasons:
1. If you buy an EV for use as your “second car”, or are willing to rent an ICE or hybrid when you . . . → Read More: A brief reminder about economics
By Lou, on June 30th, 2011%
After the flurry of articles the other day about the NRDC’s study on set-top boxes (cable boxes and DVRs), I decided to dust off my trusty Kill A Watt and take some measurements.
The headline from the NRDC report that got the most play was the fact that a typical set-top box setup consumes 446 kWh/year, slightly . . . → Read More: Vampire hunting, now in HD
By Lou, on June 14th, 2011%
The corporate deniers, the ones who do it purely out of greed and their utter indifference to their impacts on human beings, are a maddening bunch, even at their best of times. But when they resort to piling one blatant lie atop another, they’re beyond description. Therefore, I will simply point you to a . . . → Read More: Electricity utility deniers reach new lows
By Lou, on June 13th, 2011%
Longtime readers know that I’ve often said the current range of EVs and relative paucity of recharging stations is not a big deal in the US, as there’s a huge group of consumers that have a convenient place to recharge the car and have at least two vehicles, making it very easy for them to always . . . → Read More: This just in: EVs work!
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