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UK power crisis – entirely the fault of regulators and ministers

EV Info

We have closed most of the coal plants and several the aging nuclear plants are moving offline as they close for repair of reach end of life. We have a pipeline from Norway and from the Continent. Or in other words we are reliant on Putin to keep the light on and at his mercy on the cost of the gas. True cost of Smart Meters.

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Naysayer Alert – the hydrogen red herring

My Electric Car

The energy stored within hydrogen has been imparted from electrical energy through the electrolytic hydrogen production process or more likely in the refinement of fossil fuels such as coal seam (methane) gas – both are energy intensive processes in themselves. . The reasons are numerous. .

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War in Ukraine: We Need to Talk About Fossil Fuels

Cars That Think

The pipeline had been completed at a cost of €9.5 The continent was mostly powered by locally mined coal until the 1950s, when imports of cheap Middle Eastern oil started transforming the energy picture. That year, 85 percent of Europe’s pipeline gas imports came from Russia; most of the rest came from Norway.

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Electric Car Makers: Oregon Wants You - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

April 10, 2009 10:09 am Link It amazes me that in the vast debate about electric cars world wide including here in Norway, no one ever mention the fact that the batteries in such cars need replacement in no more than five years. But that cost in a built as an EV is much less than an ICE’s costs by about 1/2.

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