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The energy efficiency, wind and solar sectors all expect to add thousands of new jobs in 2017, so what does PEOTUS Donald Trump intend to do about coal?
As the cleantech transition speeds up, many of us are jumping for joy. Trump may be king of tweetland, but he and his oil & gas buddies can’t stop renewables or electric robotaxis. They know that. Their goals are pretty clear, though: pump up the carbon bubble as much as possible, stuff as much cash into their own bank accounts before it pops, and hopefully retire and die before the whole global economy is brought down with the the thin soapy liquid that was probably much prettier as a bubble.
New York governor Andrew Cuomo announced plans this week to close the Indian Point nuclear power plant, which supplies electricity to New York City and surrounding areas.
Here’s the Tesla week-in-review, via Twitter.
The global automotive headlights giant Koito Manufacturing Company and the LiDAR sensor firm Quanergy Systems have announced collaboration on the development of an automotive headlight+LiDAR concept.
Before getting into the crux of this article, it’s probably necessary to explain that the climatic changes that have occurred over the last tens of millennia (observable in the paleoclimate record) haven’t always been gradual, widespread, or consistent.
There are three big tools for breaking down the barriers to community renewable energy: using non-tax-based incentives for renewable energy, simplifying the process of raising capital, and adopting formal “community energy” laws that enable power sharing.
Automakers are not stupid and they have every right to make as much money as they can possibly stuff into their wallets. But deliberately lying to people to cover up your own greed-induced behavior is despicable.
America will be a different place after the Trump inauguration. The concepts of liberalism on which the country was founded will be replaced by avarice. The people will become little more than low wage workers in a new feudal society owned and managed by corporations.
