Creative Greenius

JANUARY 15, 2009

And that’s also why the most accurate news you’ll find about Killer Coal’s role in changing the climate and poisoning our environment is in my letter to the editor published in today’s Los Angeles Times. Seth Godon helped me see the light in his blog post, “ When newspapers are gone, what will you miss?

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 28, 2009

11 days ago See More Related Articles and Blog Posts Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1) 1 morgan 9:26PM (4/22/2009) Am I the only one who thinks this looks like a mid 90s car? In California, 20% of our electricity comes from zero CO2 renewables (sun, wind, geothermal), another 20% from zero CO2 hydro, and only 20.1%

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Creative Greenius

DECEMBER 8, 2008

For more than a year now in this blog I’ve been researching and reporting on climate change, energy and transportation issues and related environmental stories covering them on both a personal and a global perspective. But during this same past year, I’ve also been attending the meetings of the South Bay Cities Green Task Force.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 20, 2009

That being said, even a car that derives its energy from coal power plants would be far more clean. Having centralized energy production in that way allows for centralized pollution control measures, filters, so-called "clean coal" rather than depending on X number of cars, manufacturers, and consumers to deal with pollution control.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Vice Chairman Bob Lutz in GMs FastLane blog ). Bob Lutz, Vice Chairman, Product Development, and Chairman, GM North America in GMs Fastlane Blog ) 7/26/06 But Micky Bly, engineering director of GMs hybrid programs, says the lithium-ion batteries required by the plug-ins drive up costs, making them difficult to market. ( Red Herring ).

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Read more in this blog post: [link] — Gregory Hancock 5. Even if you charge your EV with electricity made from coal fired generators you reduce your car’s pollution by half. Search This Blog Previous Post: The Promise of a Better Light Bulb? If you charge with solar, is way less.

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Creative Greenius

FEBRUARY 17, 2009

Some of the green benefits you’ll read about in Joe’s blog: Smart Grid/Advanced Battery Technology/Energy Efficiency. The coal industry is about to get what’s coming to them and not a moment too soon. The EPA is about to start regulating deadly CO2 emissions from coal fired power plants.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Denmark did that with Wind Power and now most of their energy comes from wind rather than oil, natural gas, or coal. Generating electricity from wind and geothermal rather than a CO2 producing sources would help alleviate that problem. The intolerable act is to pretend that making cars into plug-ins will reduce CO2.

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