Maybe. We're still in the US and by virtue of how our cities are designed, how we move most of the time, the way our food is grown, we have like 4-5 times the footprint of the average world citizen. IOW, yes, kuddos to you, but we actually need big government to lend a hand.
78. God bless you. We're at 77 and thought that was high. Sometimes at night to sleep we have to go down to 76, because it does stop and it gets muggy.
Programmable thermostat. I have it set to 76 one hour before sleep and then 77. When we're not home it is at 80 (or is it 82?), starts cooling down about an hour before our usual return time.
And yet, your insurance company will replace the whole roof with only cosmetic damage? I know, it's happening right now on my 8 year old roof. It only does because we allow utility cooperatives & companies to build and repair their grids in the least sustainable and durable methods possible. Then again, we actually listen to companies that railed on about how seatbelts were going to bankrupt the auto industry, how accessible ramps and bathrooms were going to bankrupt every restaurant, store and mall, and a litany of other disasters by regulatory action, never came to pass There are quite a few Americans that are simply ignorant cowards It's still a dumb comparison. It's not more expensive, it's simply more cowardly, because of a section of the American populace is resistant to any federal regulation The next threshold for electrics is taking market share from fleet vehicles that natural gas from diesel and to a lesser extent, gas. Your municipal garbage trucks, city maintenance vehicles, buses, etc that may drive 200-300 miles a day more more, but never leave town and always end up back at the city / county garage at night. Cheap natural gas has been a big savings for fleet operators like this, especially since diesel is really nasty to store and have delivered. Following that, electrics taking over from natural gas and killing off diesel with delivery services like the US Mail, FedEx / UPS, etc.
That is not necessarily great right, EVs are cleaner than Gas, but Gas is cleaner than petrol, in terms of carbon foot print (after construction) EV>gas>petrol. Is hydrogen fuel (expensive) better than Electric?
Correct. Musk is already at work on this. So are the Germans (VW + BMW), Chinese (BYD) and a bunch of other startups.
Ive said like 100 pages ago, perhaps two years ago, that the only thing missing for Germans producing e-cars was batteries. The concepts are there. They would perfectly suit as grid stabilizer for this renewable energy system weve built where cars get loaded and deloaded when needed. But the people in Munich, Stuttgart, Wolfsburg and Berlin are clever enough to know other places in this world still want to buy them old versions of German cars and they are going to milk that revenue to develop 2nd and 3rd generation e-cars that are actually worth it to produce in high numbers for the world market. Tesla as the first market entry could become a google(which is unlikely) or another yahoo.
Hydrogen has volatility issues and it currently takes electricity to make. If / When we develop an easier way to capture / create hydrogen, it may challenge EV's if they don't improve charge time, but there's no reason to think they wont. Eventually, we may be looking at hybrid Hydrogen FCEV / Rechargable EV cars, but I'm betting that EV will win out as recharge times can be cut to a few minutes or battery storage improves. FCEV's will have the advantage of being less reliant on the rare elements for batteries and the associated pollution related to mining / fabrication / disposal
Anyway, some good news, at least for the short term... https://www.theguardian.com/busines...ugh-puts-another-nail-in-the-coffin-of-diesel Mazda boosts petrol engine efficiency in fresh blow to diesel Japanese carmaker says from 2019 it will sell cars fitted with engines that largely eliminate need for spark plugs, improving fuel consumption by 30% One of the world’s largest automotive firms has hailed a technological breakthrough for the petrol engine, in an engineering twist for an industry racing to embrace the electric car. Japanese car manufacturer Mazda claims to have designed a vehicle that will largely eliminate the need for spark plugs in petrol engines, increasing fuel efficiency by as much as 30%. The development also increases the existential threat facing diesel engines because its fuel economy could match diesel’s performance without high emissions of nitrogen oxides or sooty particulates. That last part could be telling over the next decade or so, as we introduce the infrastructure for EV's and the like.
So is the event of more hurricanes an act of god or a result of global warming? Hurricane Harvey is about to hit Texas and according to the media frenzy, with all gods wrath. I hope that they fare better than Seattle and the media frenzy over the great windstorm of 2016 Seattle, Horrific! Scenes from the next day.
See Global warming is not 100% bad. Tanker from Norway to Korea along Northern Sea Route without an icebreaker. First time. A third shorter distance. https://t.co/LwCgM52NHo— Carl Bildt (@carlbildt) August 27, 2017
Well, Harvey will likely be the worst natural disaster in Texas history, but much of that will be due to the fact that metro Houston's sprawl has paved over the coastal prairie that has historically soaked up the rain from huge storms. If this sounds familiar, it's because Katrina was so much more damaging because so much of the wetlands of south Louisiana that used to soak up rainfall and storm surges were drained and developed over the past century.