Daryl Elliott Proponent of solar, wind, EVs, veganism, democracy, and all things environmental and progressive. Writer. Go green.
October 18th, 2020 | by Daryl Elliott
Norway just hit 82% plugin vehicle new car sales in September 2020. This raises the question: "Why are 18% of the purchases non-plugin vehicles?" Let's investigate this question
June 10th, 2020 | by Daryl Elliott
I have no doubt that many plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV) owners work to max out the EV aspect of their vehicles. However, it would be incorrect to believe that all PHEV owners do so. Some don't even plug in their PHEVs
April 21st, 2020 | by Daryl Elliott
Yesterday, the price of oil dropped below the $0 line. For the first time in history, the price was negative. Bloomberg reports that the price reached minus $37.63 per barrel. This means oil companies are paying people to haul oil away because they have so much of it, more is on the way, and they have to make room for the new oil deliveries already en route
February 3rd, 2020 | by Daryl Elliott
Have you ever sat at a red traffic light with no other cars or pedestrians on the road and had to wait? Was it frustrating? If you were in a gasoline or diesel car, did you feel bad about polluting the air? Have you ever sat at a traffic light with 30 cars in each direction waiting to go straight, and the traffic lights instead allowed the turn lanes to go first even though there were no cars in those turn lanes
September 26th, 2019 | by Daryl Elliott
In a podcast by RevealNews.org, a story is told of a scientist, Maria Caffrey, PhD, of the University of Colorado, Boulder, who works with the US Park Service. She did a four-year study of the potential impact of climate crisis on 118 national parks in 2030, 2050, and 2100. It was finished in late 2016 just before Donald Trump ascended to the presidency (after losing the vote by nearly 3,000,000 votes)
September 19th, 2019 | by Daryl Elliott
Ted Krumm, head of the UAW's bargaining committee states: "This strike is about us ... standing up for fair wages, for affordable quality healthcare, for our share of profits, and for our job security." Apparently, the autoworker union does not believe that GM is adequately sharing with workers the more than $8 billion in profits the company made in
September 12th, 2019 | by Daryl Elliott
Greta Thunberg, the famous Swedish climate crisis activist, recently landed upon the American shore in a solar-powered boat. She did not want to fly due to the pollution caused by airplanes
July 29th, 2019 | by Daryl Elliott
If you read these 24 questions (and the answers), it should be 100% clear that nuclear power is not a smart energy solution for humans
June 15th, 2019 | by Daryl Elliott
For several years now, I've felt both guilt and embarrassment for not driving an EV. I wonder how many other CleanTechnica readers who don't own an EV yet, who own an ICE (internal combustion engine) car, feel similarly
March 9th, 2019 | by Daryl Elliott
For CleanTechnica readers not based in the US or unfamiliar with the US presidential election process, there is an odd system that is used that is not a simple one-person-one-vote system. Electoral College (EC) electors are used to represent the states. The number of electors are distributed unevenly, giving low populous states more votes than high populous states. This is an anachronistic holdover from a couple of centuries ago when newspapers were delivered by horse power ... the old, original form of horsepower
December 16th, 2018 | by Daryl Elliott
With the climate generally growing warmer, and with animal agriculture contributing more than its fair share of greenhouse gases and other pollutants to the environment, more and more environmentalists and people, in general, are going plant-based. This article is a part of a series of articles on the environmental impact of the animal agriculture (ag) industry
December 16th, 2018 | by Daryl Elliott
This is the part three of a multi-article series on the connection between animal agriculture and various societal and environmental problems. This article covers the relationship between animal agriculture and wildlife habitat encroachment, species extinctions, concentrated animal feeding operation (CAFO) odors, financially marginalized communities, antibiotic-resistant bacteria, world hunger, tax subsidies for animal agriculture, hidden costs of animal agriculture (including subsidized fast foods), slaughterhouse PTSD and alcohol/drug abuse, domestic abuse, human rights issues, and more
December 9th, 2018 | by Daryl Elliott
This is the part two of a multi-article series on the connection between animal agriculture and various societal and environmental problems. This article covers animal agriculture's connection to freshwater use, freshwater quality, water pollution violations, fishes and other sea animals, ocean hypoxia, and declining phytoplankton in the oceans
December 9th, 2018 | by Daryl Elliott
With the climate generally growing warmer, it becomes more urgent and imperative to slow climate disruption. Recently, the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released a new report after reviewing 6,000 scientific studies and references. The IPCC suggests that it is vital that we keep the temperature delta within 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) compared to the preindustrial historical average. If we were to exceed that level, we may see runaway climate warming. This dire situation demands that we do everything possible to improve our path forward
January 22nd, 2016 | by Daryl Elliott
The Case for Overbuilding Your Rooftop Solar Array When a solar company analyzes a residence for rooftop solar, they look [&hellip
May 7th, 2015 | by Daryl Elliott
At CleanTechnica, we do our best to bring news on developing technologies to our readers. These tech stories sometimes develop [&hellip
January 31st, 2015 | by Daryl Elliott
In the renewables world, passenger car electric vehicles get a lot of attention. However, there is also an emerging market [&hellip
