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2024 Was A Productive Year For My Decarbonization Efforts

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It’s the time of year when people publish retrospectives on the year and start thinking about the year ahead. As so much of my work ends up in CleanTechnica, I thought it would be useful to provide my retrospective here. On a purely personal note, I’ve been told over and … [continued]

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Peak EV Fast Charging Is Up 50%, And So Are EV Fast Chargers

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Naturally, electric vehicle sales have gone up this year, as we’ve reported, and there are certainly a lot more electric vehicles on the road than there were a year ago. Sales numbers are just sales numbers, though. Is there evidence of a lot more electric vehicle charging? Yes, there is! … [continued]

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Truck Charging: Start Small, Scale Smart

12 min read

Key Takeaways: Trucks won’t all be electric immediately, so don’t build charging for 100% electric Design charging microgrids for standardized increments of capacity Analyze all sites and design increments that are good enough Gaining the benefits of electric trucks, including significantly reduced maintenance and operations costs and increasing market share, … [continued]

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Walleye Numbers are Down in Lake Erie

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Walleye Numbers are Down in Lake Erie

Ohio Division of Wildlife (ODW) officials have released their 2024 trawl survey indexes for Lake Erie’s two most-sought sportfish: yellow perch and walleye. This year’s results bring an end to a streak of wildly successful hatches for walleye. For yellow perch two of Ohio’s three management zones were above average, with the third zone down by 70% over last year.  

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Chased, dragged out, beaten and stabbed: London man recounts traffic attack

6 min read

A London man hospitalized with serious injuries after a roadway attack says his vehicle was chased “intently” without provocation by an SUV whose occupants dragged him out and violently attacked. “I have my moments mentally where it’s still a bit overwhelming,” Kyle Bradley said in an interview. It was the evening of Nov. 26 when Bradley, […]

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Why Maintaining A Gas Car Sucks Compared To An Electric Car

10 min read

Owning gas cars means dealing with frequent oil changes and various maintenance issues, leading to time, cost, and reliability concerns versus EVs. This rant is going to list some things I’ve found to be annoying about the ~15 gas cars I owned until I went all electric in 2021. At … [continued]

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Bitcoin Is Going to Be the Nail in Our Climate Coffin

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I realize that this article is not going to be popular with everyone. Bitcoin is a kind of tech financial fantasy, whereby many tech fans have come to the conclusion that we can live in some kind of financial utopia divorced from inflation and economic woes if we follow this … [continued]

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