Energy

Electric Car Batteries Are An Expensive, Energy Intensive Headache To Recycle- And That Is Not Going Away

Riding a wave of government mandates and subsidies, and ignoring that fossil fuel usage to create electricity is identical to what it was before a trillion dollars in additional subsidies for solar and wind alternatives, electric cars are now everywhere. ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Nov 9 2021 - 7:32pm

Solar Power Activists Keep Saying Solar Is Ready- If So, Net Metering Subsidies Are No Longer Needed

Utility customers in California are being exploited by a special class of grifters. Those who live in apartment buildings or rental homes or live in poor neighborhoods are forced by law to subsidize million-dollar solar installations on homes in Malibu. Th ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Feb 5 2022 - 1:28am

Liquid Electrolyte In Solid-State Batteries Could Make Electric Car Batteries Cheaper And Better

Electric cars are being artificially bolstered by government mandates and subsidies and are doing little to reduce emissions because the electricity they need is overwhelmingly not solar, nuclear, or hydroelectric. What would help are batteries that aren&# ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 7 2022 - 2:01pm

Planting Trees Can Fix The Climate, But Only If We Eliminate 80% Of Energy Usage

Nothing is more ridiculous than annual logjammed airports because celebrities use private jets to go to climate conferences and tell attendees eating four-course meals they need to do more to convince poor people using dung and wood for fuel that they shou ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Mar 31 2022 - 1:20pm

Solar's On Demand Problem May Get Solved- And May Allow Solar Energy To Be Shipped Worldwide

 Solar power has potential but a crippling weakness that has meant despite trillions of dollars in subsidies and continuing mandates, it has not made a dent in use of conventional energy; it is not on demand and batteries are expensive and going to do more ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 12 2022 - 1:44pm

One Way Solar Is Better Than Nuclear- Going To Mars

Imagine a world where government decided they would mandate and subsidize existing cellular phones. With no incentive to improve, we'd still be using Motorola StarTacs.  ...

Article - Hank Campbell - May 5 2022 - 6:10pm

Wind Energy Can't Blackstart A Dead Grid- Here Is What Can Help

The downside to political mandates and subsidies for alternative energy is they place consumers in peril; and when a power grid does go down adjuvant energy sources like solar and wind can't "blackstart" without short circuits and faults. Wi ...

Article - News Staff - May 31 2022 - 4:40pm

For Electric Cars To Be Viable, Charging Station Locations Need To Be Optimized

One thing electric car owners who have lost the mystique tell you is that you live your life around them. Some report going to a store like Costco to charge their cars, they need new service panels at their house, and one owner famously blew up his Tesla w ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jun 6 2022 - 1:49pm

The Biden Administration Is Mandating Condensing Furnaces- That's Bad For People And The Environment

The Biden administration has issued a decree that any furnace sold after 2029 must be a "condensing" furnace, and his environmental group allies are thrilled they have locked in another win. It may not be a win for the public. ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jun 16 2022 - 10:32am

Would Peer-To-Peer Charging Reduce Range Anxiety And Make Electric Cars Mainstream?

One of the sillier commercials for a cell phone I have seen in recent memory is some guy shaking his head in sadness that his phone is out of battery and a kindly person places her phone on his to give him a boost. They were able to use the Qi wireless cha ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jun 17 2022 - 2:19pm