2/ The Big 3 asks: 1. Faster Permitting 2. Industrial Land 3. #hydrogen hub 😎
Oct 7, 2021 • 14 tweets • 5 min read
1/ Short thread on Voltaire's Bastards' Bastards (h/t @johnralstonsaul). If you're an EU energy technocrat and this just happened, *maybe you shouldn't be one*.
2/ Hold on -- change the y-axis, it got even worse yesterday!
Feb 5, 2021 • 25 tweets • 12 min read
1/n Elon Musk isn't Iron Man. He's Homelander. 🧵
cc: @TheBoysTV@Sethrogen2/n Let's warm up: US Govt (@FAANews) tells you not to launch your rocket for public safety reasons? Do it anyway, because... "I can do whatever the f*ck I want"
1/ Finally got around to listening to @TESLAcharts's excellent pod with @nikolatrevor. I'll give broad-brush commentary; others like @BonaireVolt have probed specifics.
1a/ On BEV vs FCEV @JigarShahDC put it best on @TheEnergyGang (22-25 minute mark)
"The use of math all the time to say #fuelcells are worse than batteries literally makes no sense. This is not about round-trip efficiency..."
FRAME THIS STATEMENT! greentechmedia.com/articles/read/…
Apr 22, 2020 • 21 tweets • 6 min read
1/ Part 1 of my reflections on the Michael Moore-backed #PlanetoftheHumans 🍿🍿🍿 2/ The YouTube write-up is an accurate summary of the movie's argument.
The misanthropy inherent in the phrase "out-of-control human presence" is ... revealing. 🤦♂️
Mar 12, 2020 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
1/ "Stairway to Mercury" -- part 1 of my profile of #FuelCell stalwart @BallardPwr -- is now up on @fuelcellsworks
[checks notes]
Oh, we went with the "halfway to Mercury" title. Fair enough. 😅 fuelcellsworks.com/news/exclusive…2/ This instalment experiments with @axios-style SmartBrevity®. Feedback encouraged.
As always, no investment dealings, though I worked there years ago, and helped them with a small project (~1 person-day-equivalent) more than a year ago.
May 2, 2019 • 12 tweets • 12 min read
@BlairKing_ca@steeletalk@BCGreens@AJWVictoriaBC 1/ Hi Blair, I find many (most?) of your analyses thorough and commendable. In this one case, your source data is a bit off. If you have a garage, buying + installing a Level 2 charging station will probably cost $1500 ballpark. Some folks (me!) just use a wall outlet.
@BlairKing_ca@steeletalk@BCGreens@AJWVictoriaBC 2/ That's based on roughly 500-ish detached home incentives Plug In BC distributed in 2018. Avg cost for apartments / condos is a lot higher. Now, EVs *do* remain more expensive than combustion vehicles. No denying that.
Oct 11, 2018 • 16 tweets • 13 min read
@tomfletcherbc Hi Tom, what's the best way to offer additional context to the data? Letter-to-editor? I've tracked the Canadian EV market for 6 years (see: tinyurl.com/CanadaEVSales) and some of the stats could use some clarification.
@tomfletcherbc In calendar 2017 (most readily available data) 2.6% of California car sales were battery-electric or fuel cell vehicles, with an additional 2.2% being plug-in hybrids. The ZEV share was therefore 4.8%; BC's ZEV share in 2017 was about 1.4%.
