editor's blog on sun & fossil fuels
Politics of sun & fossil fuels
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Energy is an inherently political topic. In the “On Sun and Fossil Fuels” blog section, I’ll focus in particular on the often highly-charged politics of sun (and renewable energy) and fossil fuels. Thanks in large part to the election of Barack Obama as President of the United States there is far more political momentum behind the “greening” of America and its economy than in the days of “W”. I hope to help build this momentum, if perhaps in a small way, through my “On Sun and Fossil Fuels” blogging entries.
Solar-charged electric cars are no panacea
Monday, 18 March 2013 09:15 | Written by Christof Demont-Heinrich, SCD.Com Editor |
  
 Peter Charles' documentary, Zeitgeist: Moving forward, calls for socal change far beyond individuals driving around in solar-charged electric vehicles, a solution that, while it would result in virtually no pollution, would not rid us of the massive traffic jams that plague modern society.
I don't have an EV to add to our 5.59 kW worth of solar PV here in sunny Aurora, Colo., because we're likely going to be in Germany from August 2013 to August 2014, and it made no sense to buy, or lease, an EV (which have been available for a bit over a year in Colorado) when we knew we were going to be away for awhile. But simply because I've lost some of my mojo here on SolarChargedDriving.Com -- in my own defense, there are more than 1,200 entries and stories on the site, many of which are still completely timely, relevant and helpful to those still discovering solar-charged driving -- doesn't mean I'm still not surfing about on the Internet, spreading my own brand of environmental and EV + PV activism ;-) |
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So, I haven't posted anything to SolarChargedDriving.Com in about a week. I'll confess part of this is the fact that I've lost some of my solar-charged 'mojo' after 3 1/2 years of doing this site and still having only home solar but no EV.
So much for the myth of "clean coal", eh?
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Web blogs by current solar-charged drivers
-- Peder Norby's Electric BMW ActiveE Blog
-- KenClifton.Com
-- Darell Dickey's EV Nut Web Site
-- Doug Korthof's Live Oil Free Pages
-- The Solar-Charged Electric Car Page
-- Solar Power and Electric Cars
-- Sun Powered EVs
-- Ecogeeco Web Site
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