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Electric vehicles need to be owned longer, driven further to offset ‘embedded carbon,’ Jefferies says Published Wed, May 26 2021 9:16 PM EDT Updated Wed, May 26 2021 9:44 PM EDT Eustance Huang @EustanceHuang Electric vehicle manufacturing currently faces an “embedded carbon” challenge, says Jefferies’ Simon Powell. He explained that a “huge amount” of carbon is emitted when materials such as steel, aluminum and glass are created and put together to manufacture vehicles. The relatively higher weight of electric vehicles today is a result of manufacturers’ focus on the range for these cars, Powell said. watch now VIDEO 02:30 Jefferies explains why ‘greener steel’ matters for the electric vehicle sector Electric vehicle manufacturing currently faces an “embedded carbon” challenge, says Jefferies’ Simon Powell. “To gain the environmental dividend that governments are looking for, users are going to have to keep them longer, drive them further than they may have done with a conventi

  Rasmussen/Heartland Poll: Viewers of Conservative Media More Likely to Get the Facts Right on Climate Change May 13, 2021 By Justin Haskins Survey Results From April 29 to May 3, Rasmussen Reports and The Heartland Institute, a national free-market think tank, conducted a nationwide survey of 2,000 likely voters.

  Paradigm-Busting New Study Affirms CO2 Doesn’t Drive Climate – Water, Clouds Do By Kenneth Richard on 24. May 2021 A professor of hydrology from the University of Athens eviscerates the “naïve” paradigm that says the natural state of Earth’s climate is constancy and stability, only changing when an “external agent” (i.e., a rapid increase in fossil fuel emissions ) acts upon it. Instead, (a) water is the main element driving climate and (b) the alleged human contribution to heat exchange is 2100 times smaller than Earth’s natural energy fluxes. Koutsoyiannis, 2021 Selected key points from Dr. Koutsiannis’ new paper in the journal Water . 1. The “naïve idea” or “wrong perception” that climate is generally constant unless an external agent changes it is the  consequence of the “white noise paradigm” that has “misled climatologists” for the last two centuries. The “linear causality chain of the type: human CO2 emissions → increasing concentration of atmosph

  EPA “Disappears” the 1930s Drought and Heat Wave Climate Data 3 days ago Guest Blogger 116 Comments Guest essay by Larry Hamlin The EPA has deleted (this chart and data no longer exist at the EPA website) its prior indicator climate data trend chart showing “unusually hot and cold temperatures” across the U.S. and showing the U.S. Heat Wave Index from 1895 to 2015 (shown below) that clearly established the unique drought and heat period of the 1930s. This long-standing climate data chart has now been replaced by a chart which simply “disappears” any notion of the great drought and heat wave period of the 1930s as shown below .  EPA have also added another chart of “Heat Waves” climate data that does not even contain the 1930s period as shown below which starts in the decade of the 1960s. The chart of U.S. droughts remains the same but given the changes to date in the other charts and their data thi

  Mass Blade Fail Means Early ‘Retirement’ for Hundreds of Danish Wind Turbines March 30, 2018 by stopthesethings 17 Comments Offshore wind turbines have the lifespan of a gnat in summer.   Among the lies pedalled by the wind industry is that wind turbines run on the smell of an oily rag and last for more than 25 years. The pitch is made to beguile the gullible (read, ‘planning authorities’, ‘politicians’, ‘bankers’ and ‘investors’) into believing that their operating costs can be covered out of petty cash – which fits with the other great line about there being nothing as ‘free’ as the wind. Mechanical wear and tear, including bearing failure is one of the most common reasons for turbines to be put out of action; and is one of the key factors that accounts for the fact that the ‘economic’ life of wind turbines is 10-12 years, which runs contrary to wild claims about them lasting for “25-plus years” (see  our post here  and  this paper ). Top flight German turbine m

Offshore Wind Power All at Sea: Danish Wind Farm Operator Suffers Massive Financial Losses May 19, 2021 by stopthesethings 3 Comments Apart from literally burning cash, there is no faster way to squander money than by piling it into an offshore wind power project. It’s hardly news that the true cost of generating electricity using  wind power is staggering ; the cost of  doing so offshore is astronomical . Instead of producing ‘free’ energy with purportedly ‘endless’ sea breezes, offshore operators like Denmark’s Orsted is delivering a tale of woe for its shareholders. The Global Warming Policy Forum reports. More cable failures at European and UK offshore wind farms Global Warming Policy Forum Editorial 29 April 2021 Lower wind speeds and cable problems hit first-quarter earnings at Denmark’s Orsted, sending shares in the world’s biggest offshore wind farm developer lower on Thursday. The Danish offshore wind giant, Ørsted, has released its Interim Financial Repor

Colorado drivers could use a “coach” to get them to buy more EVs These things won’t sell themselves, according to a new series of public-private partnerships that say retiring gas vehicles to stop climate change can’t be left to the free market. One seldom-explained job of an electric-vehicle coach is to assure people they’re not seeing ghosts.  Julia Moravcsik likes to take the EV-curious to the parking lot at National Center for Atmospheric Research, on Table Mesa above Boulder, and demonstrate her car’s “Smart summon” mode. With an all-electric Tesla, the driver can stand at the curb and hit a button on the key fob, and the parked car — with no one at the wheel — backs itself out and comes to the waiting driver.  Not all of the other drivers are impressed or titillated by the electric ghost ship docking itself at the curb. In fact, some get so irate when the ghost Tesla passes them — slowly — in the parking lot that their all-too-real profanity persuades Moravcsik to ke

  China's CO2 Emissions Surpass All Developed Nations Combined Solutions need to be found to curb this worrying upward trend. By  Fabienne Lang May 07, 2021 Tianjin, China under a fog Liyao Xie/iStock A report carried out by the Rhodium Group disclosed that for the first time since 1990, China has surpassed the greenhouse gas emissions of all developed countries combined. The research was published on Thursday, May 6, and estimated that in 2019 China's annual emissions had pushed past other developed countries' ones to take the lead. Just in the last 30 years, China's emissions have more than tripled, getting as high as 14 gigatons of CO2-equivalent.  The second largest greenhouse gas emitter was the U.S. with 11 percent of global emisisons, followed by India with 6.6 percent, and the E.U. block close behind at 6.4 percent.  All of this means that China's share of the total 52 gigatons of 2019 global emissio