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No, they are in it to make money, because we are all cheerful and honest capitalists. But they are trying to make money through the most viciously unfair trade practice of all: selling a superior product at a lower price. Yes, EVs are currently somewhat more expensive to purchase than...

... except that charging overnight is typical for 90 percent of use cases and that is, everywhere, a time when we aren't using very much electricity. And since the structure of the grid is determined largely by peak load, you won't need to change the grid very much to allow ev charging at large...

In other news, Wal-Mart is quietly but rapidly building out its own DCFC network at its many retail locations. As of the middle of June, 65 locations are open nationwide, 136 are under construction, and at least 190 are in the permitting process. This is eventually intended to replace...

They could have, but the change in the laws seemed to have happened decades after the traffic circles were removed. I'd also keep in mind that auto safety and the statistical analysis of traffic accidents was in its infancy back in those days and both the reliability of the data collected and...

Actually the rules for traffic circles back in ancient times was quite different and that's why there were higher accident rates. The biggest thing was those antediluvian traffic circles had the rule that cars entering the circle had right-of-way, while the modern equivalent gave priority to...

Except much of those high electricity rates are due to the enormous costs of wildfire mitigation. Which are exacerbated by fossil fuels wrecking the climate. Also another big hit is for grid upgrades since CAs power grid was architected and substantially built in the 1920s and 1930s. In 1930...

And also, if you just put rooftop solar on all homes that could manage it, you'd generate around 40 percent of the current electricity we consume here. That ain't nothing, to be sure. And because a lot of that electricity would be consumed by those homes, you wouldn't need the "grid upgrades"...

Except you don't have to dedicate that land to generation and can still use it for other things. A wind farm can be built on a farm. Estimates are that if you made all farms additionally be wind farms in the Untied States you'd generate 10x the amount electricity we currently use. A solar...

What people underestimate is how much money fossil fuel companies have invested in having very effective PR and think tanks that can be quoted in the media who support their position and spread Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt about realistic alternatives. When we purchase their products they pour...

... and yet the cost per kwh of pv solar + battery backup drops by ninety percent every decade. It is already the cheapest form of electricity generation in history. And no imaginable technology will catch up with it for a very long time. So I will never understand why people don't want...

Yeah, but in Australia everyone drives on the wrong side of the road so it is easy to understand why cyclists would run stop signs. I've always wondered if you stop on the opposite side of a stop sign in the Southern Hemisphere anyway...

Once you know The Playbook, you can't not see it.

The DARVO is strong here.

I'll say it again and again. If you think it is okay (or even cute and funny) to joke about harming or killing people because they caused you a short delay you are seriously messed up. And should not be allowed to operate any motorized vehicle under any circumstances until your issues are...

You would need orders of magnitude more transformers for data centers than to fix the grid to handle renewables better. If most EVs are charged at off-peak times (and they presently are) you need even fewer grid upgrades to support large-scale EV use. I suspect that how we are going to beat...

Only a fool with a serious drug problem would consider orbiting data centers a good idea. What I'm seeing Right Now in the Untied States is that about half of the proposed data centers are either being canceled or "delayed". I will be very surprised if even thirty percent of them actually get...

Never had AC at home. Never will.

You are assuming all of the proposed data centers can actually be built.

The other technology that I find fascinating, if limited, is Balcony Solar Power. I never imagined that would even work.

I'm gonna be a bit contrarian and argue why putting off the transition to renewables, up to a point, might be kind of stupid smart. Solar panels and batteries are Wright's Law devices whose costs decline rapidly year over year as economies of scale take over. Any device whose manufacture is...