Pedal-electric Hopper may be the German "car" you didn't know you wanted.
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The rider's pedaling power is augmented by a 250-watt rear hub motor, taking the Hopper up to a top speed of 25 km/h (16 mph). The motor is powered by a removable 30-Ah/48V/1,440-Wh lithium-iron-phosphate battery, which is claimed to be good for a range of approximately 65 km (40 miles) per charge. An optional rooftop solar panel should help boost that figure.
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In order to minimise maintenance and mechanical complexity, the Hopper utilises an electronic pedal-by-wire system instead of a traditional chain-drive drivetrain.
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Such systems work by having the rider spin up a generator as they pedal. Doing so converts their mechanical energy into electrical energy, which is fed into the motor. That motor converts the electrical energy back into mechanical energy, which is used to turn the wheel.
Useful idiots and Republicans in general will try to use Biden's pause for new LNG export terminal permitting as a political weapn against him this year.
Except because of #ClimateProgress the European Union’s demand for liquefied natural gas, which provided a key lifeline during the energy crisis, will likely peak this year as the region accelerates its renewables transition, according to the bloc’s energy regulator. #ElectrifyEverything#LNG
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The biggest lobbying spenders in Frankfort last month were electric utility companies on opposing sides of a bill that would make it harder to transition away from coal-fired power plants in Kentucky.
Kentucky's supermajority of Republicans in our legislature just overrode the governor's veto of their bill mandating that coal power plants to continue polluting.
All over the country we have local efforts funded by the #FossilFools doing everything they can to delay #ClimateAction
We desperately need to make the transition away from fossil fuels a local issue in as many communities as we possibly can because when it comes right down to it all climate action is local.
Good morning, here's a video of a wind turbine with what I think are pretty good aesthetics. If they work on the ground that's cool, but I bet they could be nice up on the top of tall buildings along the walls. https://airiva.com/
Anyways try to keep your eye on the ball. Joe Biden and Democrats are trying to transition our huge economy away from fossil fuels.
That should be a good enough reason for everyone that cares about people and our planet to support him. So please don't be one of the too many #FossilFools helping to get him out of office.
As the #FossilFools try desperately to put the GOP back in charge of U.S. climate and energy policy there are going to be a lot of stories like these and worse ones that try to appeal to the left and portray him as anti-climate.
The best way to counter this argument is to point out that there is less fossil fuel extraction on federal lands, which he has some control over, but over 75% of our oil & gas in the USA is extracted from private lands that only the marketplace and states have a say.
I love passing by wind turbines. They are such an essential solarpunk element to me. Seeing one feels like a sign of hope: a different future is possible.
@vicgrinberg In Portugal, many times this past year, we had effectively 0€/kWh energy (free-price energy) based-off wind turbines production. We're killing it in renewables—the average % of renewables in the grid sits in the 60-80% usually if not more 90-100% at certain times. #thisistheway#endfossilfuels#EndFossilFuelsNow#fossilfools
I debunked Nick Molden's false claims a while ago.
Many of the claims about EVs causing air pollution reference figures from Emissions Analytics, a private company said that its measurements show that particulate emissions can be 1,850 times more than those from modern car exhausts.
What #FossilFools like Stephen Blank are unwilling to acknowledge yet is that the reason that it doesn't make any sense to build new fossil fuel infrastructure is because we're rapidly transitioning away from fossil fuels.
It's also quite possible that they are being paid in order to try to help slow down the transition.
After decades of seeing climate science denial continue relatively unabated, I don't have confidence that we can affect what these #FossilFools are intent on doing.
I think that our best approach towards reducing the damage they cause would be to spread twice as much positive news on the climate progress that's being made and the benefits from doing it. I certainly don't see how it could cause any harm trying a different approach. I know being cynical is more fun, but does it help? #WeCanDoThis
Joe Biden is a climate hawk and anyone spreading malicious lies like #GenocideJoe is useful idiot for the #FossilFools and authoritarians willing to let people suffer so that they can have bigger yachts.
On Tuesday this week, the Australian Financial Review went large with the story headlined, “How a big new solar farm became a stranded asset”. That evening, energy analyst Tim Buckley debunked the story on social media. This was not a stranded asset at all, Buckley pointed out. “Zero stranding … [financially] a brilliant success”.
What is not over, and the point of this republication, is the ‘culture war’ between new and old energy which is played out daily in the press and is frankly misleading for most Australians, and for many politicians whose votes they crave. People tend to believe what they see in the media.
For that reason, there is a generation of older Australians who read and watch the fossil media who are outraged about the demise of coal – this newfangled “not base-load power” solar boondoggle. “When the wind don’t blow and the sun don’t shine” blah blah. They are simply, relentlessly, misled by the financial press which is pro-fossil fuels. There is money in it for them.
This is also why you will see Tim Buckley, principal of Clean Energy Finance, and the leading coal and RE analyst in the country published in this journal from time to time, but so rarely ever in the AFR or The Australian. They won’t run him; he doesn’t suit the fossil agenda.
A big talking point at #cop28 and among other #FossilFools trying to block #ClimateAction is that phasing out fossil fuels will hurt the poor.
Kenya is a poor country.
Kenya pays a fortune for it to import petroleum. It is looking to slash oil use for economic reasons as much or more than for environmental and climate reasons.
"Kenya is leading the way in electric motorcycle adoption in East Africa, starting with new government initiatives to replace the roughly 2 million diesel motorcycles."
Prediction, after this years #COP28 has failed yet again to develop any 'concrete' plans to prevent the oil, gas & biofuel industries from expanding, how about we actually look at changing the management structure of COP?
"Oil and gas lobby group Energy Resources Aotearoa supports repealing the ban on new oil and gas exploration in New Zealand waters.
"... we've got inadequate investment in backup generation for when there's no wind and rain.
"... removing the ban is an unequivocally positive thing, because it will encourage more gas and more gas means a more diverse, affordable and reliable energy system,"
Hahaha, amazeballs. Never again shall i gently mock #physicists for their #SphericalCows analogy propensity. They ain't got nuffin' on these idiot #economists 🙄 🤦♀️
Possibly the part of the essay where i laughed loudest, was this;
Nordhaus has opined that agriculture is “the part of the economy that is sensitive to climate change,” but because it accounts for just 3 percent of national output, climate disruption of food production cannot produce a “very large effect on the U.S. economy.” It is unfortunate for his calculations that agriculture is the foundation on which the other 97 percent of GDP depends. Without food — strange that one needs to reiterate this — there is no economy, no society, no civilization.
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When ELoon first started to openly flout his far-right ideology and racism, I somewhat suspected that he might be doing it because he knew that he would need for rural Americans to embrace his cybertruck or otherwise it would turn out to be a huge financial mistake.
I don't think he's succeeded in making the cybertruck popular with Republicans though since they're all #FossilFools brainwashed from decades of climate science denial, but we'll see I suppose.
In embracing the concept of the #circulareconomy, Indonesian officials have become prone to portraying #plasticpollution as a potential resource to be repurposed for economic uplift. Lukas Fort on the politics and policy of the "#plasticene" in #Indonesia, "[r]eframing waste as only an economic resource does not convey the urgent need for #wastemanagement and #wastereduction."
“The effort to deny Aboriginal Australians a voice is part of a global playbook from Atlas and its allies,” Walker told DeSmog. “They’ve also used it in Canada and likely anywhere else that greater Indigenous rights could impact fossil fuel and mining profits.”