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Yeah, But No, But Yeah: The Strange Tale Of 3 Million Hacked Toothbrushes

Is the viral story about three million hacked smart toothbrushes being used in a cyber attack true? Security experts explain why they think it's fake news.

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[Synthaholic]

These Amazon villages are powering up without electric poles or cables​

Solar panels are transforming life for communities in the Amazon, from how they get to work to how they negotiate their connections with the broader world.

 

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Incredible solar array.

 

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Here’s how EVs could get 200 miles per gallon ​

When the Toyota Prius cruised into North America for the first time in the early aughts, drivers were shocked. At a time when the average sedan got just 23 miles per gallon (and the average passenger car just 20 miles per gallon), the Prius got 48. Thanks to regenerative braking and the little electric motor, its city mileage was better than its highway mileage.

That was then. Now, when it comes to miles per gallon, electric vehicles blow hybrid cars out of the water. The average electric car in the United States today gets the equivalent of 106 miles per gallon. And, according to a new report, that number could more than double in the next decades, to the equivalent of more than 200 miles per gallon.

That growth in efficiency — possible with technologies that exist today — could help ease the strain that electric vehicles are expected to place on the grid, extend battery range and even limit the need for public car charging. With a concerted push, the U.S. transition to EVs could be made smoother and billions of dollars cheaper for consumers, experts argue.


Without it, the country could face increased electricity demand equivalent to about a quarter of all current U.S. electric power use.

“It’s like walking by money on the sidewalk,” said Luke Tonachel, a senior strategist at the Natural Resources Defense Council and one of the authors of the report released Wednesday by NRDC and the Electric Power Research Institute. “We’ll miss out on savings that are right there in front of us.”

The groups’ analysis finds that increasing the efficiency of EVs could cut energy consumption per mile in half by 2050 — and in so doing, reduce pressure on the grid by about half.

 

[Sparker]

The alt energy device I want is a woodburning stove.

 

[Synthaholic]

CLIMATE CHANGE IS A HOAX!!!!!

 

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New data from California Independent System Operator (CAISO) shows that supply from geothermal, hydro, solar and wind exceeded demand for between 0.25-6 hours per day for more than three quarters of days since the start of March.

It is the first time that the US state has succeeded in drawing all of its electricity needs from wind-water-solar (WWS) sources for such a sustained period of time.

“This is unprecedented in California’s history,” Mark Z. Jacobson, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at Stanford University who first shared the figures, told The Independent.
“In previous years, WWS supply exceeded demand occasionally on one weekend day, but never two days in a row and never during the week, and never to the magnitude that is now, up to 122 per cent of demand.”

 

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[San Souci]

The alt energy device I want is a woodburning stove.

Or Coal.

 

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Giant Batteries Are Transforming the Way the U.S. Uses Electricity
They’re delivering solar power after dark in California and helping to stabilize grids in other states. And the technology is expanding rapidly.

 

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Nice video clip.

 

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Bwahahahahahaha!!!!!!

Mississippi Republicans love at least one project Trump now calls a ‘green new scam’​

President Donald Trump embraces Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith during a campaign rally at BancorpSouth Arena in Tupelo on Nov. 1, 2019. Credit: Eric J. Shelton/Mississippi Today, Report For America​

Some of Mississippi’s top Republicans, namely Gov. Tate Reeves and U.S. Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith, traveled last week to Marshall County in north Mississippi, a stone’s throw from the state line with Tennessee, to celebrate the groundbreaking for a new electric vehicle battery plant.

“Today we broke ground on a project of record proportions — the single largest payroll commitment in Mississippi’s entire history, and the third largest economic development project in Mississippi’s entire history,” Reeves said of the $1.9 billion plant that is slated to create 2,000 jobs paying an average salary of $66,000 annually to build electric batteries to power commercial trucks.

The night before Reeves, Hyde-Smith and the other prominent officials celebrated the new development, their party’s leader, former President Donald Trump, sharply criticized the increase in jobs like the ones the new Marshall County plant will create.

During last week’s often discussed presidential debate, Trump blistered Democratic President Joe Biden’s “green new scam” jobs and called them “a plan to make China rich.”

 

[Dragonlady]

Bwahahahahahaha!!!!!!

Mississippi Republicans love at least one project Trump now calls a ‘green new scam’​

President Donald Trump embraces Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith during a campaign rally at BancorpSouth Arena in Tupelo on Nov. 1, 2019. Credit: Eric J. Shelton/Mississippi Today, Report For America​

Some of Mississippi’s top Republicans, namely Gov. Tate Reeves and U.S. Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith, traveled last week to Marshall County in north Mississippi, a stone’s throw from the state line with Tennessee, to celebrate the groundbreaking for a new electric vehicle battery plant.

“Today we broke ground on a project of record proportions — the single largest payroll commitment in Mississippi’s entire history, and the third largest economic development project in Mississippi’s entire history,” Reeves said of the $1.9 billion plant that is slated to create 2,000 jobs paying an average salary of $66,000 annually to build electric batteries to power commercial trucks.

The night before Reeves, Hyde-Smith and the other prominent officials celebrated the new development, their party’s leader, former President Donald Trump, sharply criticized the increase in jobs like the ones the new Marshall County plant will create.

During last week’s often discussed presidential debate, Trump blistered Democratic President Joe Biden’s “green new scam” jobs and called them “a plan to make China rich.”

The CHiPs Act is really going to reclaim green energy production for the USA, after decades of Republicans letting China take over all of your manufacturing. Smart move on Biden's part, on so many scores. Providing "good jobs" in rural America!

 

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[Woodznutz]

That's an estimate of energy savings only after the cost of energy saving devices have been recovered by the homeowner, which can take five years or more. So, while the benefit to the environment and to those businesses is immediate the benefit to the homeowner will take a while.

 

[Dragonlady]

That's an estimate of energy savings only after the cost of energy saving devices have been recovered by the homeowner, which can take five years or more. So, while the benefit to the environment and to those businesses is immediate the benefit to the homeowner will take a while.

I got a new washer, dryer and fridge this year and a new furnace and already my electric useage has gone down 25%, and my gas useage went down 10%.

If I had new windows, my heating bill would be cut in half.

That’s an immediate household saving cash saving equivalent to one weeks groceries every month. And that’s groceries at TODAYS prices.

With the price of electricity and gas going up, the the dollar value of the savings only increases with time.

 

[Woodznutz]

I got a new washer, dryer and fridge this year and a new furnace and already my electric useage has gone down 25%, and my gas useage went down 10%.

If I had new windows, my heating bill would be cut in half.

That’s an immediate household saving cash saving equivalent to one weeks groceries every month. And that’s groceries at TODAYS prices.

With the price of electricity and gas going up, the the dollar value of the savings only increases with time.

How much did the new appliances cost, and is your attic insulation up to the new standard of R-49 to R-60? I upped mine to R-49 and it makes a big difference in heating and AC costs. Did it myself for about $300.