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One Atmospheric Nuclear Explosion Could Take Out the Power Grid

Cars That Think

Military and non-proliferation experts are worried about the growing temptation by nuclear-armed countries to engage in a first-strike EMP attack using nuclear weapons that, while avoiding direct casualties, could prove devastating to electric grids and electronic devices from smartwatches to supercomputers. See the illustration, below.).

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Advocating electric in the heartland

Electric Auto Association

Members of Mid-America Electric Auto Association (MAEAA) , straddling KansasCity and stretching into Missouri, Kansas, and Oklahoma, have been active in challenging two pieces of legislation in the Kansas State Legislature, including a 2019 ordinance to level a demand charge on the state’s solar-powered homes.

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Don’t stop the EV music

Electric Auto Association

Louis, Missouri chapter. He was promoting the benefits of EVs and how they compare with ICE (internal combustion engine) vehicles and talking about living off the grid. One customer, Walter Crumbly, has a hotel in Costa Rica where he powers off the grid so he doesn’tt have to worry about outages.” Jack Rikard on EVTV.

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US and China Presidents Announce US-China Electric Vehicles Initiative, Six Other Measures to Strengthen Cooperation Between the Countries on Energy Issues

Green Car Congress

Paired cities will collect and share data on charging patterns, driving experiences, grid integration, consumer preferences and other topics. Building on the success of the first-even US-China Electric Vehicles Forum in September 2009, the United States and China will sponsor the event annually, alternating between the two countries.

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A Well Earned, Guilt Free #YearOfJoe

Creative Greenius

When I spoke out against the home-porting of the battleship Missouri with its nuclear tomahawk cruise missile arsenal, the folks at the Alliance for Survival called and asked me, “Do you just talk about stuff or do you DO anything too?” So I wrote some more screenplays and began developing TV sitcoms that nobody wanted to produce either.