Banning gasoline-power in inner cities is a win for air quality and a non-event for fossil fuel usage
I love cars, I love driving, and I love the freedom that the automobile has brought us. There is something universally appealing about that freedom, which is the reason there are 2 billion cars on the road and climbing. But in the heart of big cities, I hate cars and I hate driving. Cycling […]
Some problems can never be solved – will clean energy be one of them?
There are many things we do every day that are plain stupid. Things that are dangerous to our short term or long term well being, or our very life. And we are quite comfortable living that way if the odds of harm seem low enough. There are countless examples around every day, if you […]
A butterfly’s wings might start a tornado, but that doesn’t mean the energy world works that way
The butterfly effect, a function of chaos theory, speculates that the flapping of a butterfly’s wings in Brazil can eventually cause a tornado in Texas. Some theorists demonstrated how this would be, that the wind vortices generated were necessary to get the (much bigger) snowball rolling. This isn’t a particularly useful theory because it’s not […]
The EV tsunami – is it really a huge wave, or is the emperor/clothes thing again?
Apologies for the apparent Tesla fixation these days, but it really is the energy story of the summer. Tesla’s wild ride is far and away the most interesting development in the auto industry, and for that matter the business news in general. It’s an interesting story because it’s a bit iceberg-ish; there is the surface […]
The game changing, rock star car is here – will Tesla’s model 3 make history as promised?
Tesla Motors announced this week that its mass-market (sort of) Model 3 has received all regulatory clearances and is set to begin production on schedule. The first models will be delivered to customers before the end of the month in a ceremony that will no doubt rival a dozen Chinese New Years for sheer spectacle. […]
