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Dec 27, 2023
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Great point. Note that heavier EVs burn through tires at a greater rate as well

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Ah, but they're making special new tyres for EVs now to reduce wear, I'll have you know. :)

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And the batteries on electric buses are so heavy that they're cracking the bus frames. I read about this in a 2 year old news piece on the Philadelphia EV bus fleet, which is now completely taken out of service. Here's the story - https://wattsupwiththat.com/2021/07/19/report-philadelphias-electric-bus-fleet-in-complete-shambles/

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Things are really not looking good for the EV revolution, are they?

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Jan 1, 2024Edited
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It's the same problem with wind and solar: they make sense -- solar, at least -- in certain contexts and circumstances. Use them in these circumstances rather than trying to force them to make sense in all and any circumstances.

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I dug a little deeper and need to make a correction - they don't say the bus "frames" cracked; they say the "chassis's" are cracking. Still not good, though...

As for the frames, Proterra started making them lighter, out of composites, not steel, to "compensate for the heavier batteries".

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Dec 27, 2023
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I saw truth being conveyed with a touch of sarcasm.

It's hard to take much of anything the "greenies" have to say, seriously.

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Thank you! I was being sarcastic. :) I will try to do better on clarity, though, thank you for the feedback. It's all quite simple, really, but made complicated out of incompetence and, partly, deliberately.

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"where the subsidies are better, as in, more generous"

Such subtle sarcasm tickles my funny bone.

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Delightfully written, even though the topic, and what our betters are putting us through with this grand experiment is nothing more than drudgery for the sake of it.

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As always Irina, I love your sense of humor and being from "over the pond" myself and in particular from Northern Ireland where we have a "wicked sense of sarcasm" and irony, I am with you all the way! Here in the US not so much, which I find makes the written word harder ! (And further explanation does detract from the humor part!)

Thank you for the end of year smile!

Have a great new year and try not to "break" (brake) too much!!!

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Thank you, JF! I''ve found nations/groups with a long history of hardship and suffering tend to develop a sense of irony possibly as a self-preservation mechanism. It works wonderfully.

You too have a great year and watch those microparticles. :D

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The Frankfurt School adapted Marx’s theories on revolution to include Freud’s theory of the subconscious. The Cultural Marxists’ main focus was to reshape the subconscious of Western men and women and thus create new type of person: one who would react passively to provocations of all kinds.

Cultural Marxists encourage abortion, birth control, divorce, homosexuality, “carrier women,” drugs, miscegenation, the destruction of the traditional family, and unrestricted immigration of racial foreigners into white countries. This is a reflection of what the Cultural Marxists preach: white reproduction is evil, and that which prevents white reproduction is good.

https://nordicresistancemovement.org/what-is-cultural-marxism/

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I can see they've been quite successful yet in light of all the protests, not completely successful.

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“I fear the Jewish bankers with their craftiness and torturous tricks will entirely control the exuberant riches of America and use it to systematically corrupt modern civilization. The Jews will not hesitate to plunge the whole of Christendom into wars and chaos so that the earth should become their inheritance.” ― Otto Von Bismark

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Good morning/Afternoon evening Irina. I absolutly love your listening feature! I get to get my "Irina" fix while working. GREAT job making the articles feel personal! Happy new year, and we know there will be lot's of material to write.

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That's great to hear, thank you, Stu! Happy new year to you too!

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Ahhh the difficulties of being a leftwingnut libtard come home to roost - can’t make anything work so just make new rules and tax them!

May God bless the libtards, it’s all they have and don’t even believe in that!!

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FROM WSJ [JUL 2023] the-biggest-winners-in-americas-climate-law-foreign-companies TO: Tulsaworld [5 days ago] judge-orders-removal-of-wind-farm-opposed-by-osage-nation [ref wiki on Enel]. What happened there, I wonder? LOL

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A much-needed win for normal people.

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Well, Irina, as if we needed further proof that there are too many government agencies and workers, it seems that they keep busy by creating even more inane policies. I do love the concept of micro particle emissions, and cannot wait for the explanation as to how the much heavier EVs are less problmatic than ICE vehicles. I'm sure they will concoct some excuse though, it is, after all, the entirety of their output...excuses that is.

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Well, after I learned that EVs perform better than ICE cars in snowy weather I can no longer put anything past the transition crusaders. :D

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I can attest to brake emissions... I worked in garages and gas stations through high school and college... brakes in those days were asbestos. The dust was caked on everything. Our procedure for a brake job involved pulling the brake drums off getting the compressed air hose and blowing the asbestos dust all over the place, disassembling the brakes and cleaning the parts in leaded gasoline.

It's a little better today...

Excellent piece as always Irina. Happy New year

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Aha! Thank you for the explanation, Lee. I guess they no longer use asbestos? Or do they?

Happy New Year!

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Brake pads are now some kind of polymer/fiber mix that has some metal flakes. The idea is that the pads are a softer material than the steel disc, so they wear out faster. Changing the pad is cheaper than changing the disc. Every one every once in a while you see brakes catch fire, usually trucks or race cars,but that never happened in the good old asbestos days.

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I had a pretty reductive idea of "emissions", I guess. I'll add a clarification in the post. Thank you again, Lee!

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The Suicide Club - by R L Stevenson. A trilogy set in the 19th Century involving a club for people who wish to end their lives. Remade for the 21st Century with the title “Net Zero”.

American economist Herbert Stein’s Law: “If something can’t go on forever, it will stop.”

Let’s hope so. Something to keep the spirits up. Happy New Year to one and all.

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The residential rate in CA is 60 cents per kWh, five times the national average. The solar “net Metering” deal was that the utilities would pay the retail price for excess power from solar systems, when they didn’t need it. If the real time market price was 3 cents, the utilities paid 60 cents and the difference went to all the other customers who didn’t have solar. Rich people who could afford solar were subsidized by poor people who didn’t. Sort of like electric cars.

There was a hell of a fight at the Commission about this. Solar companies and their rich customers against the poor, the widows, the orphans, the POC, the non-binary, the furries, and the indigenous. Finally it became so obvious and odious that even Gavin Newsome could no longer support it. The wailing! Taking $20 per month away from the rich is actually worse than the Nazi’s.

😂😂😂😂😂

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Happy New Year. I've written a few times about how much energy it takes to produce hydrogen, because of the incredibly strong chemical bonds in H2O. But the real irony is that H2O is the end product when you 'burn' hydrogen, and H2O vapor is a much greater greenhouse gas than CO2. Am I missing something?

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What a transitionally awkward point to make about water vapour. Thank you for making it! And Happy New Year!

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So, the EU requires EV makers to create batteries with 80% capacity after five years. What. a good idea - commanding technological progress at gunpoint. Because, as we all know, we get smarter and more creative when we're under compulsion.

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Excellent point. And don't forget that energy efficiency target they set at COP28 -- 4% per year because it's perfectly doable, even under normal circumstances.

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Great Update.

Note that EVs wear out tires more quickly than conventional cars and create vast plumes of carcinogens !

See:

https://tucoschild.substack.com/p/overweight-evs-generate-massive-plumes

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The good news I’m waiting for a public rejection of the idea environmental approval is required to move molecules around on the earth. No other mammal needs it so why are we so willing to beg for approval to live?

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