Everyone old enough to remember 9/11 has a personal story of where they were and what they were doing when they found out about the attacks. It’s a hard memory to forget, right? For me, I was a high school student on a 40-mile journey to class in rural New … [continued]
Fear, uncertainty, and doubt (FUD) are the preferred weapons of the fossil fuel industry’s army of PR specialists, tools in delaying action on climate change solutions. Recently, I got to witness an example of how FUD played out in real life (IRL), and hope that by documenting it here, people … [continued]
For some people, electric cars are to be feared and so they make up the most outrageous lies about them to scare people away from them.
From 2020, the Port Gregory garnet mine, in Western Australia, has been 70% powered by a hybrid power plant consisting of a 2.5 MW wind farm (composed of reused wind turbines) and a 1.1 MW solar farm with a 2 MW/0.6 MWh battery. Australia-based Advanced Energy Resources (AER) is providing … [continued]
One of the enduring pieces of FUD misinformation that circulates in the miasma of the internet is that wind turbines (and other materials that are used for renewable energy generation) will end up in the landfill and destroy the Earth — much worse than coal, obviously. Like all FUD, there … [continued]
There are barriers to renewables in America that can be overcome by strategic thinking that validates the concerns of local people.
If you know me much, you probably know that the State of California and I don’t always see eye to eye on things. But, whatever differences we may have over the contents of my purse on road trips, I’m not one of those people who’s looking to bash the state … [continued]
As legacy automakers move into electric vehicles, it will be interesting to see if they will do some “UnFudding.” For the past 10 years at least, the public has been subjected to a great deal of FUD — Fear Uncertainty and Doubt — around the use of EVs. This has … [continued]
A recent Facebook share by a frenemy of mine inspired me to look more closely at electric vehicle fires. Here is the post: “So if one is involved in a crash, and people are trapped inside, the fire brigade has to isolate the battery before they cut into the car… … [continued]
The electric car misinformation & disinformation campaign just keeps spitting out lies, distortions, and half truths.
