In light of the health crisis we are all now experiencing it feels disjointed to be focusing on anything else. So far I, Debbie and the rest of my immediate family are all feeling good and hunkered down in isolation and working from home. I certainly hope that you are doing as well also and imploring everyone you can influence…
I hope you have been paying attention to what I have been telling you was coming for many years. Seems the inevitability of the future of energy is finally beginning to not only take hold but take OVER. And investors are sniffing it out and the flee from fossil fuels is starting and only going to gain momentum. Values for any fossil fuel assets…
I have been predicting for years that an alternative technology would eventually replace the lithium-ion battery that is now used in electric vehicles. Some of the reasons being weight, cost, range and, the availability and cost of cobalt. The following article describes a promising development that could make a huge difference in EV adoption. We’re getting closer and closer to…
Almost 40 years ago, 1982, a book was published called “Megatrends”. The author had been an intelligence officer in WWII and was using a technique that had been developed during the war to intuit what was happening to society, primarily in Germany, at that time. The general concept was to count the number of lines in the local papers that various…
The planet is already experiencing huge impacts from the increasing heat caused by our emitting heat trapping gasses, primarily CO2 and methane. The consequences are going to get much worse due to the amount of these compounds we’ve already emitted but also what we will inevitably put into the atmosphere in the next 10 years and beyond. And while we have and opportunity to mitigate the worse…
Last April I told you for a second time not to worry about the proposed fuel economy standards (CAFE) rollbacks because even if the Trump Administration did issue lower regulations that most likely they wouldn’t be implemented and if they were, the auto manufacturers would not adhere to them. 10 Months Later the Story’s Still the Same: Trump is Irrelevant You’ve seen that…
The following article is long and primarily focused on the risk of investments in fossil fuels. While I have been cautioning you about this for years the chickens are now coming home to roost. The financial markets are finally seeing the signs of a fundamental shift in where energy production is going. And the markets are reacting. While this is…
In my last post I wrote about the cost of battery technology dropping dramatically and faster and faster. So now I want to address the other big barrier to EV adaptation and that is speed of charging. Due out this year is a car that will charge 60 miles in 4 minutes. That’s 360 miles in 24 minutes. OK. Yea, it’s a Porsche…
There have been a great deal of articles recently with information and developments which I want to share with you. My practice has been not to deluge you with emails from me and limit my posts to 2 or 3 a week. I’ve decided to alter that practice for the time being and write to you more often, if I can find the time.…
On July 27, 2001 Dan Becker, the director of fuel economy standards for the Sierra Club at the time, and I went to the White House to urge the Bush Administration that the auto industry had the technology on the shelf to immediately improve MPG of the automotive fleet and that they should and could dramatically increase CAFE (Corporate Automotive…