How Do We End The Covid-19 Crisis? A Few Thoughts
“It’s like driving at night. You never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.” — E.L. Doctorow
“It’s like driving at night. You never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.” — E.L. Doctorow
Everyone wants things to reopen. Nobody is happy having to shelter in place or being concerned about money or not being able to do what we have been doing all our lives. However, Covid-19 is just not cooperating.
There’s a new way to see how much methane is being released from Arctic lakes. Using synthetic aperture radar (SAR), a research team at the University of Alaska Fairbanks was able to study satellite images differently.
Based on CleanTechnica’s sophisticated number crunching, in the first quarter of 2020, the Tesla Model 3 had 5× more sales than the Chevy Bolt, 14× more sales than the Nissan LEAF…
I started off writing this article about a week ago, but the article turned into a breaking news story on the Tesla lawsuit against Alameda County.
Battery breakthroughs from Jeff Dahn and CATL could see cell prices fall below $60 per kWh in the near future.
I’ve never seen the Tesla-fan community so split as I’ve seen it this month. I don’t mean in a minor way, either. I’ve seen numerous longtime Tesla supporters, owners, and shareholders passionately debating matters such as the threat of covid-19, how society should respond, how Tesla should respond, the validity and persuasiveness (or lack thereof) of Elon Musk’s tweets, and who is a stupid jackass versus who isn’t. It hasn’t been pretty.
What are “ocean-bound plastics” and how are they a good (or bad) thing? I saw a tweet in my feed by SwiftOnSecurity using this term that grabbed my attention.
The need to decarbonize our economy presents new opportunities to increase electricity demand beneficially. And doing that — particularly by electrifying transportation — has never been cheaper or easier to do than it is now.
One of the popular discussions in plug-in world over the past decade has been how much effort should be put on developing compelling and well rounded 100% electric vehicles as soon as possible versus using plug-in hybrids as a stepping stone to a fully electric era. Perhaps the most useful real-world competition between those two approaches in 2020 is Tesla versus BMW.