Environment & Energy

I support electric vehicles in France, I guess. (I'd rather do without cars, although I'm a hypocrite in so saying since I own and use one.)

I don't support them in New Jersey, because in New Jersey electricity is dirty, and electric cars are worse than gasoline. My car is slightly less noxious than either an electric car or a gasoline car, but "slightly better" is not the same as "good."

I really, really, really, really am sick of hearing about a putative "energy transition." To me, it's rather like thinking Jesus is concerned about my paycheck and my health and whether I can find a parking space in time to make my next appointment.

I don't believe in Jesus, and to believe that there is an "energy transition" is very close to believing in Jesus. We are burning more fossil fuels than ever. There is no "energy transition," other than from bad to worse.

Electric cars are subject to the same constraints as so called "renewable energy," They'll be a lecture tomorrow night on critical minerals at the Institute of Advanced Study in Princeton. I'll attend to deepen my already fairly deep understanding of the issue.

No lanthanide mines, no cobalt mines, no nickel mines, no lithium mines, no electric cars.

The car CULTure is not sustainable in any form, and the sooner we face that the sooner we will be able to slow the acceleration of the collapse of the planetary atmosphere.