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Winning the Energy Transition on Oʻahu: It’s Not About Technology

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The clean energy future for Oʻahu is no longer blocked by missing technology. The architecture is already visible. Once overseas aviation fuel, international bunkering, and military energy use are taken out of the frame, and once transportation, buildings, and industry are electrified, the civilian Oʻahu system settles into roughly 6,000 … [continued]

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How The West Lost The Automotive Industry And Its Mojo, Part 2

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This is the second of three articles seeking to contextualise the failure of the West to grasp or even understand or manifest technological change over the past 15 years. The touchstone used here, and in our previous article, is “New Energy Vehicles” (plugin vehicles). The first article focussed primarily on … [continued]

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Silver Lining: Honda’s EV Retreat Proves Trump’s Bully Pulpit Has Become Irrelevant

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It feels like everyone in the EV space already wrote their hot takes on Honda’s massive $15.8 billion EV retreat when the news first broke, and then promptly moved on to the next news cycle. But after sitting with the announcement for the last week and a half, I realized … [continued]

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