Creative Greenius

APRIL 5, 2011

Stroll, play, talk, celebrate -do whatever you want on the public street without sucking up gas fumes or fearing for your life from drunk drivers, texting drivers, drivers eating or putting on makeup or just plain dangerous behind the wheel lunatics. Or build a cardboard solar panel and wind turbine to tow and show!

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Cars That Think

MARCH 11, 2023

Photo-illustration: Max-o-matic; photo source: Herald Examiner Collection/Los Angeles Public Library The engineers at AC Propulsion (ACP) were familiar with the basic precepts of bidirectional EV power. General Motors’ Impact debuted at the 1990 Los Angeles Auto Show. After earning a Ph.D.

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Creative Greenius

APRIL 5, 2011

Stroll, play, talk, celebrate -do whatever you want on the public street without sucking up gas fumes or fearing for your life from drunk drivers, texting drivers, drivers eating or putting on makeup or just plain dangerous behind the wheel lunatics. Or build a cardboard solar panel and wind turbine to tow and show!

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Creative Greenius

JANUARY 17, 2009

No one needs to buy another new gas powered car. She lives in a solar powered house and drives an electric car. It’s going to change the world of our Los Angeles and Long Beach ports. That’s right those are solar panels that all electric Toyota RAV4 is towing. Save your money. You could too.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 19, 2023

In addition to helping the nation meet ambitious carbon-neutral goals, the development and implementation of the proposed technology can help reduce the cost of and emissions from hydrogen production to mitigate the effects of climate change while creating new jobs and revitalizing our economy.

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Creative Greenius

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

Ever since the Copenhagen climate treaty talks ended in impotence two months ago there hasn’t been a single ounce of positive news on the international scene about our chances of cutting the world’s greenhouse gas emissions and getting CO2 levels back down to the safe 350 ppm zone. Our small size becomes an advantage.

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Creative Greenius

MARCH 4, 2010

It lifts the current “cap&# on rooftop solar from the crappy 2.5% The cap has to do with what percent of rooftop solar customers get to participate in the “net metering&# program that actually gives them credit for the solar power they produce and feed back into the grid. to a BFD level of 5%. No you do not.

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Creative Greenius

JUNE 11, 2009

As our climate change crisis worsens and spins out of control with each passing day there’s no time to spare for those of us whose job it is to educate and motivate our fellow citizens to actions that cut our greenhouse gas emissions. SOLAR FINANCING – WHO GETS IT AND WHO DOESN’T.

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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. First off you might be surprised that our cities have Climate Action Plans, but don’t be.

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Creative Greenius

FEBRUARY 28, 2009

“ But some scientists say that weaning the world off coal is crucial to slowing the devastating effects of climate change. “ Really, Los Angeles Times? It sounds like the Los Angeles Times is telling us there is still a viable debate on this subject. “ Some Scientists?&#

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Creative Greenius

OCTOBER 15, 2009

In the 15 months that have passed since I wrote the following, ALL the climate change news has gone from bad, to worse, to much worse than that. For the past three months I’ve been working night and day as the Chairman of the South Bay Los Angeles 350 Climate Action Group.

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Creative Greenius

MARCH 22, 2009

The Greenius Plan To Spread Rooftop Solar Faster Then The Common Cold. If you’ve followed The Adventures of the Solagnelist thus far you know that I am seriously jonesing to generate all my electricity from my own rooftop solar power. The only thing stopping me - a even more serious lack of the do-ray-mi.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 1, 2009

Future ozone losses from unregulated rocket launches will eventually exceed ozone losses due to chlorofluorocarbons, or CFCs, which stimulated the 1987 Montreal Protocol banning ozone-depleting chemicals, said Martin Ross, chief study author from The Aerospace Corporation in Los Angeles. Darin Toohey.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

And at the headquarters of Pacific Gas and Electric, utility executives are preparing “heat maps” of neighborhoods that they fear may overload the power grid in their exuberance for electric cars.&#. The employees pull into carports that are covered with solar panels and plug their cars into the 100 available charging stations.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

You lose the flexibility of the hybrid being able to fuel up nearly instantaneously at a gas station, and pay an additional $10k for that loss. people’s desire for electric over gas cars 2. Of course people want gas cars — they don’t know where to get any other fuel. — Dan 3. — Ken Smith 4.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

The Next ‘Better Place’ Is Australia New Subsidies for Electric Cars in Britain Tesla Motors to Build Battery Packs for Other Car Makers Previous post Group Says European Cap-and-Trade System Reduced Emissions Next post Cutting Costs With Solar Walls From 1 to 25 of 29 Comments 1 2 Next » 1. but not all of it.

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Creative Greenius

APRIL 22, 2012

You can go to festivals and visit the booths of green nonprofits and solar energy companies, take part in composting workshops, learn about wildlife protectors and electric car companies. But what you cannot do at any Earth Day event – or any other day’s events – is change the sense of urgency of the U.S. La Di Da. . La Di Da.

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Creative Greenius

APRIL 22, 2012

You can go to festivals and visit the booths of green nonprofits and solar energy companies, take part in composting workshops, learn about wildlife protectors and electric car companies. But what you cannot do at any Earth Day event – or any other day’s events – is change the sense of urgency of the U.S. La Di Da. . La Di Da.

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Creative Greenius

JULY 25, 2009

See, California’s AB 811 is all about funding solar energy and energy efficiency for property owners. Looking at that on the local level, here in Los Angeles County, we’ve got 3,400,000 existing housing units for our 10 million people. That means doing an energy retrofit on all of our 13.2 That’s 3.4

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Next post States’ Proposals for Gas Taxes Sputter 11 Comments 1. If you charge with solar, is way less. The small electric will be king and batteries a valuable commodity, so valuable in fact, they will have to be wielded in to prevent theft by the Solar, Wind, Wave, Tidal, folks for their home installations!

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Last week, at the Model S unveiling in Los Angeles, Tesla revealed that an optional “ QuickCharg e &# battery would get a full charge in 45 minutes from a 480V outlet. Email « Is It a Solar Bottom? For the standard version, Tesla plans to use a battery that can recharge at a typical 220V outlet in about four hours.

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Creative Greenius

JUNE 16, 2009

Admittedly I am a geek when it comes to AB811 type programs that give people loans to put solar on their roof and add energy efficiency to their homes. Just ask Los Angeles Lakers Basketball fans. And I felt a kindred connection with him after reading about his experiences putting solar PV on his roof.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Ive found it facinating how car commercials changed the main MPG number they promoted before gas went over $4 a gallon as city miles. Think of driving any vehicle in the hot Los Angeles summer time. Denmark did that with Wind Power and now most of their energy comes from wind rather than oil, natural gas, or coal.

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Creative Greenius

MAY 21, 2014

But this election season in my own South Bay of Los Angeles just keeps getting curious and curiouser – and it’s impossible for your friendly neighborhood Greenius not to note and comment on these curiosities. It’s a damn good thing I read plenty of Lewis B. But Billy Bloomfield isn’t alone.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 14, 2009

But in a year that has seen both a worsening recession and state budget crisis, residents’ support for urgent action on climate change has slipped and a partisan divide on the issue has widened. Most residents (66%) support the 2006 California law (AB 32) that requires greenhouse gas emissions to be reduced to 1990 levels by 2020.

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EV Match

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Ironically, Governor Abbott targeted renewable energy just as The New York Times was writing that Texas’ grid trouble is a sign of disruption to come as climate change induces more and more extreme weather events. Frozen natural gas pipes in Texas. Credit: Los Angeles Times. Credit: The Texas Tribune.

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