Climate silver buckshot solution, golf cart edition.
In addition to everything else mentioned below, golf carts on urban streets are smaller and safer for other people than cars/SUVs and add to the traffic-calming expectation needed on city streets.
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One big difference from previous oil shocks is widespread availability of used EVs, hopefully that will help.
Big miss by not discussing driving EVs or other non-ICE transportation, here in the state with the highest EV penetration in the country. And especially the Bay Area.
Two-car households in particular could maximize use of the one EV.
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Norway is going to clean up. An oil exporter with extremely high EV usage and zero-carbon energy (hydro).
Well, there's always promoting EVs and public transit. Keep looking under those rocks and maybe you'll find these ideas.
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The effect will also be differentiated. Before it was oil producers v the rest. Now, places with high renewable energy use and high EV penetration will be much less affected. Others will need to catch up.
UK used large amounts of coal long before the Industrial Revolution:
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...so it's a big and unnecessary disadvantage to stop it, but maybe we can at least make some progress on solar during Trump.
Would be nice if they had some support for individual rooftop and community solar as well. Bring back the Green Tea Party.
Solar is a sufficiently big business to be financially attractive to MAGA proponents. Again, I'll take it.
TBF, before the Inauguration some MAGA types said their energy policy was "everything but wind" (because Trump hates wind). This might be reverting to that idea.
Wind is quite valuable....
Briefly skimmed this - I didn't see any discussion of whether AVs reduce private vehicle parking needs and therefore increase urban density. Seems like it only looked at negative effects. Not sure what to think, but again all I did was skim.
One more thing to worry about - rising CO2 affecting our blood pH levels.
I assume this is also affected by indoor CO2 which is easier to fix, but still emblematic of the problem (and one fix is to get rid of methane gas for heating, water, and cooking).
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It's ridiculous. Complex legislation almost never should be done by voter initiative. Voter initiatives should be used to overcome powerful groups that use their money to stop legislative bills.
This is a powerful group instead using money to pull a fast one on the people.
European EV sales are similar to California's.
power outage vulnerability map for the U.S.
A nice map from a 2024 paper showing which counties have the highest vulnerability to their power grid, based on power outage data from 2014-2023. It rated the counties holding Los Angeles/Riverside/San Bernardino, Houston, Miami, Fort Lauderdale, and Detroit as ones facing "extreme" risk.
I've wondered whether they'll use the fact that they're being sued to argue that the endangerment finding still exists and therefore the legal field is occupied, while also trying to get rid of the finding.
Might be harder though for the states being sued to say the feds must keep endangerment.
Their case is actually made weaker by the Trump Administration's abandonment of climate regulation. Kind of hard to argue the legal field has been fully occupied by the feds when the "occupier" has deserted.
Bowheads can live over 200 years (although not the same species as this one).
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Not Menlo Spark's typical thing, but too cool to pass up. Whale song from 1949.
And whales may play an important role in carbon sequestration....
Thank you @asmmarcberman.bsky.social for introducing #AB2313, which will give Californians the option to electrify their homes with money that would otherwise be spent replacing old gas service lines!
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Por su jardin:
Time to garden!
EV batteries are lasting longer that EVs themselves. In my mind this raises a new "good problem" of what to do with these batteries that aren't new but still good enough to run EVs.
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Great to see this, given that Zillow removed similar info under pressure from Realtors Associations, which are attempting to conceal future climate risks from the clients that individual Realtors represent.
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Today we’re launching Open Climate Risk, a fully open option for U.S. building-level climate risk data. It’s unique because it allows you to see not only risk scores, starting with wildfire, but also the complete underlying dataset, methods, and codebase. carbonplan.org/research/cli...
Not as anti-CCS as Mark, but there are serious concerns, especially with other emissions not captured. Blue hydrogen has lots of problems.
Seems like it was generally a good idea.
No escalator in your solar lease payments though? Mine has one, although lower than utility price increases.
Each regional total also seems off. Maybe I'm missing something.
Nice visualization that it's not power generation that's a problem.
This graph seems strange though, the regional totals (white circles) don't look to me like they add up to the national total:
Dark red line along the bottom of graph is CA, the place some misinformed folks say has expensive elec due to all its wind, solar, and batteries. (Counting RA cost doesn't chg the story) Our high rates pay for response to what climate change is already doing: wildfires.
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