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52% of Car Sales in China Are Now Plugins! Full Report
Also: Geely is Rising Plugin vehicles are all the rage in the Chinese auto market, with plugins scoring yet another new record, a little more than 1.27 million sales (in a 2.42-million-unit overall market). That’s up 51% year over year (YoY), and it’s the 4th month above one million units. … [continued]
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Superconducting Transmission Of Electricity Is Here And It’s Supercooled
A couple of months ago, I was in Brussels speaking at the launch of the second edition of Supergrid Super Solution: A Handbook for Energy Independence and a Europe Free From Fossil Fuels. I’d participated in tuning the second edition, written by European renewables giant Eddie O’Connor with Kevin O’Sullivan, … [continued]
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Rooftop Solar Kill Switch, or Sometimes the Sun Shines Too Much
As Australia adds massive amounts of rooftop solar power per year, the discourse is turning from: “we need coal/nuclear because there isn’t enough solar to feed into the grid” to “we need to switch off solar to preserve grid stability.” The point is, though, that we do, but only as … [continued]
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LIVE: London Knights vs. Sarnia Sting
The London Knights play host to the Sarnia Sting in OHL hockey at Canada Life Place in downtown London on Friday night.
London boy’s death while exiting school bus sparks push for safer streets
Southwest Londoners are petitioning for safer streets after a boy was struck and killed after getting off a school bus near Lambeth, as one school safety advocate says students are at increased risk on rural roads.
Engineering job awarded for potential Pottawatomi watermain extension
Georgian Bluffs has awarded the engineering contract for a proposed watermain extension that would supply water from Owen Sound to the residents of the small municipal water system in Pottawatomi Village. At its committee of the whole meeting on Dec. 4, Georgian Bluffs council awarded the contract for engineering services to WT Infrastructure Solutions Inc, […]
Nawash chief says gas bar in works for south of Wiarton
The Chippewas of Nawash intend to establish a gas station, with electric car charging and more, just south of Wiarton in 2025. It’s been one year since Wiarton, which calls itself the gateway to the Bruce Peninsula, has been without a gas station. It and has little charging infrastructure too. The Chippewas of Nawash service […]
Tenants already settling in as London affordable housing project opens
Residents of a new affordable housing project in the cityâs south end have already begun moving in.
Local conservation award helps future environmental champs
A local university student studied lemurs in Madagascar this summer and has tracked turtles on the Bruce Peninsula. Alex Adair, a 19-year-old from Owen Sound who’s in his second of four years studying wildlife biology and conservation at Guelph Univesity, this past summer went to Madagascar to join a research team led by Guelph University’s […]
Residents relieved as politicians vote to keep operating rural trailer park
Residents of a municipally run seasonal trailer park are breathing a temporary sigh of relief after politicians in their rural Elgin County community voted to keep operating it â at least for now.