There are lots of reasons why induction cooking is better than gas: control, speed, safety, health, and the environment. In our last post, we sang the praises of induction and dug into all the reasons it is crucial for decarbonizing our lives. In this post, we assume you’re sold and … [continued]
How we cook our food plays a big role in our ability to fully decarbonize our lives and keep our families healthy. While less significant in its emissions compared to other home activities like space and water heating, cooking can be one of the last holdouts in the transition to … [continued]
The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 has been the story of the quarter in the cleantech world. It will do much to shape the USA’s clean energy and electric vehicle growth and development in the coming decade. We have been especially focused on the EV tax credit portion of the … [continued]
In the 1950s, when nuclear energy was booming and hydroelectric dams were laying across rivers like tourniquets, the all-electric home became a thing. It didn’t matter that the electric heating technologies of the time were vastly inefficient. The promise of electricity that was “too cheap to meter” meant that people could use it to their heart’s delight.
In Part 5, we covered solar panel installation. In this chapter, we’ll discuss using that solar system to power your cooking. I was also going to cover clothes washing here, but the article got too long, so look for laundry in Part 7.
By Indradeep Ghosh, PhD Cupertino, CA About 80% of the world’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are a direct or indirect result of extraction and burning of fossil fuels – a process that needs to stop to put the brakes on global climate change. The concept of fuel switching is simply … [continued]
