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Al Gore Joins Call for Electric Cars

Plugs and Cars

Buried in Al Gore's challenge today calling for a 100% renewable electric grid within ten years is a call for plug-in electric cars. An electric vehicle fleet would sharply reduce the cost of driving a car, reduce pollution, and increase the flexibility of our electricity grid. Full speech available here.

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Tesla and GM sign on to use supply chain emissions database

Teslarati

Vice President Al Gore at the COP28 climate conference this weekend. The database, dubbed Climate TRACE, was created by Gore’s global climate coalition in an attempt to keep close track of supply chain emissions, according to a report from Fortune. In 2021, Tesla urged a U.S.

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The Greenius Goes Into Overdrive

Creative Greenius

The EPN has been doing the job our local governments have failed to do – they’re educating the public about the scientific facts about energy, about transportation, about waste, about water, about pollution and most of all about climate change. Free, Clean, Renewable Electricity From The Wind: Visiting PacWind with Dency & J.R.

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Driving on sunshine

Plug in America

No pollution, well-to-wheels. I charge at night, when rates are lowest, so there’s a speck of non-renewable energy in my battery. “I was absolutely floored by Gore’s presentation and said, ‘I’ve got to try thinking of what to do.’ And with the solar panels, I was driving on sunshine. .

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Cleantech Blog: Smart Grids and Electric Vehicles

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Renewables That Even Coal-Based Utilities Can Love. Individuals and businesses lose months and connect fees when they add solar and other forms of renewable energy to the grid. Thinking Globally, Acting Locally San Francisco City Carbon Collobarative 18th and 1. ► January (13) What Goes Down, Must Go Up? SZ (1) 6753.T

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What about the Pickens Plan?

Plugs and Cars

While less polluting than petroleum, burning natural gas emits significant carbon. Pickens plan can be viewed as a logical criticism of Al Gore’s plan for 100% renewable electricity within ten years because it doesn’t do anything about our petroleum dependence. But we find ourselves in 2008.

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