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Came across this new product: https://enteligent.com/collections/ev-chargers It's a DC charger that couples solar PV directly to the car bypassing the usual DC to AC and AC back to DC when charging the battery. It claims to eliminate the 83% energy loss of the round trip conversions. Currently...

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/09/biodiversity-loss-is-biggest-driver-of-infectious-disease-outbreaks-says-study?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other Biodiversity loss is the biggest environmental driver of infectious disease outbreaks, making them more dangerous and widespread...

Reinforces Attenborough point about biodiversity loss https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/09/biodiversity-loss-is-biggest-driver-of-infectious-disease-outbreaks-says-study?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other Biodiversity loss is the biggest environmental driver of infectious...

Watched this last night. Incredibly compelling.

Although public officials continue to stress that the bird flu virus currently poses a low risk to humans, they do worry about it spreading silently throughout the nation’s dairy cattle herds. If it were to become endemic in cows, the chances go up that it could mutate into a strain that could...

https://www.statnews.com/2024/05/08/bird-flu-in-milk-h5n1-levels-suggest-asymptomatic-cows/?_hsenc=p2ANqtz--tL9JymDM7dDcEGzJNxjY21b915xUiK3c6V-U1RTeKbjCdZgrgHIQn7CQaG6ifTHqf002Lo7i0OXlDu1REsByXdCCd5g&_hsmi=306279324 Since March, when the first reported cases of H5N1 bird flu began showing up in...

"The best engineer is no engineer" ;)

Unfortunately, all we have is Elon on X as the most authoritative source.

wrap it in aluminum foil

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/05/07/climate/battery-electricity-solar-california-texas.html?smid=nytcore-android-share That’s now changing. Since 2020, California has installed more giant batteries than anywhere in the world apart from China. They can soak up excess solar power...

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/08/renewable-energy-passes-30-of-worlds-electricity-supply Renewable energy accounted for more than 30% of the world’s electricity for the first time last year following a rapid rise in wind and solar power, according to new figures. A...

https://au.news.yahoo.com/meat-linked-to-terrifying-new-disease-sweeping-the-world-ticking-time-bomb-071135021.html The world’s growing love of meat has been linked to the terrifying strain of avian influenza that’s killed millions of birds, thousands of wild animals, and has even spread to...

Long time ago. Elon doesn't believe in PR departments. Keeps people guessing. All we get are random tweets.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/07/un-expert-human-rights-climate-crisis-economy?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other The race to save the planet is being impeded by a global economy that is contingent on the exploitation of people and nature, according to the UN’s outgoing leading...

Newsom gets lots of bribes from the utilities. Can't expect him to help consumers.

Definitely a change in strategic direction. I'm think it's a good change (but clumsy execution). We will see.

Good argument for the elimination of stalks.

What happens if your key breaks off in a regular ICE car? Duh... you have to call remote service to get if fixed. What happens if you get a flat tire? Duh... you have to call remote service to get it fixed. Some things can disable a car. You have to get them fixed.

California gets very little electricity from coal. (Today it is zero) Most from natural gas. https://www.caiso.com/TodaysOutlook/Pages/emissions.html

Elon fired all of the maintenance people.

The model S has a similar row of buttons on the center console.

For Elon's definition of "appropriate".

I still don't understand.

Elon may have that in mind. It's a low growth, low margin dull business. Not like AI.

TFA said this is the Republicans (not Bernie Sanders) "appealing to selfish greed and social envy plus a dose of right wing fear..."

How will you vote on the new Compensation package?

https://www.teslarati.com/major-tesla-shareholder-criticizes-musk-pay/

I think there are already generous subsidies for building chargers. Tesla can (is) take advantage of these. After they are built, the cost to keep them running is small and prices can be adjusted to maintain profit. Unfortunately, since Elon sacked the entire SC team (including maintenance), we...

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/03/gas-stoves-nitrogen-dioxide-pollution?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other Using a gas stove increases nitrogen dioxide exposure to levels that exceed public health recommendations, a new study shows. The report, published Friday in Science...

https://electrek.co/2024/05/03/read-the-wild-email-tesla-is-sending-to-suppliers-amid-supercharger-chaos/ It seems abundantly clear that, whatever explanation we accept, the firing of the Supercharger team was not well-considered (and our readers seem to agree). Even if headcount reduction is...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/02/youth-climate-lawsuit-juliana-appeals-court?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other A federal appeals court on Wednesday evening granted the Biden administration’s request to strike down a landmark federal youth climate case, outraging climate...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/03/florida-climate-future?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other But new research by a coalition of prominent universities paints a more upbeat picture of Florida’s future as a thriving state for humans and wildlife, with natural resources harnessed to...

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/02/climate/amazon-reforestation.html?smid=nytcore-android-share The new company, which is also Mr. Araújo’s new employer, is a forest restoration business called Re.green. Its aim, along with a handful of other companies, is to create a whole new industry that...

https://earthjustice.org/action/electrify-california-industry If you asked a random smattering of folks to name the largest manufacturing state in the country, I suspect you would hear a lot of folks say Michigan, or perhaps Pennsylvania. I don’t think many would peg California as the nation’s...

In 10 years you'll have to replace both the battery and the engine in the hybrid.

Interesting that the least polluting modes of transport are electric. How about electric bike?

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/30/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-hannah-ritchie.html?smid=nytcore-android-share Cows Are Just an Environmental Disaster https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/30/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-hannah-ritchie.html?smid=nytcore-android-share And a new politics is starting to...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/ianpalmer/2024/04/28/oil-going-down-while-chinas-energy-mix-and-emissions-doing-a-backflip/

The issue is Elon' s fitness as a manager. Sacking the Supercharger team is a symptom.

Actually, Twitter is the point. Having too much money led Elon to buy Twitter and go on a "free speech" crusade (actually just free speech for the right wing folks). Having too much money led Elon to believe that he would be as good at social media as he was at engineering. Having too much money...

Unfortunately international development agencies keep funding coal rather than renewables.

If you made all of your purchasing decisions based on whether or not you don't like the CEOs politics, etc., you would never buy anything. Most CEOs are right wing (they just don't advertise it like Musk does). Look up Henry Ford if you want an eye-opener.

Just the fact that Musk suddenly woke up to the fact that Tesla has grown too fat with the wrong people shows that he has not been paying attention. (Perhaps spending too much time promoting fascists on X) Tesla needs full time adult leadership.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/30/big-oil-climate-crisis-us-senate-report “For decades, the fossil-fuel industry has known about the economic and climate harms of its products but has deceived the American public to keep collecting more than $600bn each year in subsidies while...

Musk takes chances, moves fast and breaks things. That made Tesla successful. (But not some of his other ventures). Now that Tesla is a large company, Musks style is dangerous. Tesla needs adult leadership.

Another adolescent tantrum by Elon. Tesla needs adult leadership.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/apr/30/tyson-foods-toxic-pollutants-lakes-rivers?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other Tyson Foods dumped millions of pounds of toxic pollutants directly into American rivers and lakes over the last five years, threatening critical ecosystems, endangering...

https://www.autoevolution.com/news/six-airlander-10-aircraft-to-enter-service-in-the-scottish-highlands-and-islands-233091.html

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/apr/29/taxing-big-fossil-fuel-firms-raise-billions-climate-finance A new tax on fossil fuel companies based in the world’s richest countries could raise hundreds of billions of dollars to help the most vulnerable nations cope with the escalating...