On Sunday, April 27 the MOPLY community will celebrate Earth Day with a Vegan/Vegetarian Lunch, Eco Fair, and Electric Vehicle car show. Details are at https://www.moply.org/solar-at-mo. The headline news is that the church is having a large solar panel system installed on the roof. This system will have a 123 kW nameplate capacity and will […]
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This is one of those nerdy topics that doesn’t matter, and yet, can be a source of ongoing debate. At least, I intend to make it so, even if I am screaming into the void. This is going to be a bit of a ramble, but hopefully you will find your self entertained and maybe
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I had the pleasure of meeting and talking to the Brooklyn Park Rotary club on April 15. Given the time that has passed since I last presented, I updated some of the slides that had several year old data with up-to-date information. These include counts of DC fast charger locations and dispensers, and manufacturer and
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I am on several Sierra Club North Star chapter mailing lists and recently got an invite to a Degrowth Team meeting. The meeting invite included a link to an article for shared reading by Christopher Marquis, published on the Harvard Business Review and titled, In Defense of Degrowth. I saved a copy of the article
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I was recently contacted by Martin, a school volunteer at an extracurricular science program. Martin related that a student in the program had come across an earlier blog post I had written, as well as an informative article on electric school buses, and wondered if I would be willing to put a link to that
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A few months ago, the question of an alternative reality occurred to me: What if our personal contribution of green house gasses from driving a car was confined to our own share of the global atmosphere? This is not how the world works, of course. Every time we burn a fossil fuel, the CO2 produced
What if you had to live with your own CO2 from driving a car? Read More »
I had the pleasure of presenting to a small group at the Hardwood Creek library in Forest Lake, MN. I would like to thank librarian Cristina for reaching out and organizing this talk. Hardwood Creek is a nice facility and I had a small, but interesting and engaged group. I’ve included the presentation version I
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A number of automotive manufacturers, charging equipment manufacturers and charging networks have announced they will support, and/or change their product’s charging connection to NACS (North American Charging Standard). Tesla coined the term, NACS, in late 2022 to rebrand the then-Tesla exclusive EV charging connection used on all Tesla vehicles sold in North America, and to
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It was a nice coincidence that Paula Carlson of Fairchild-Nichols library filled out the Shift2Electric contact form on May 17, requesting an electric vehicle talk. As we corresponded, a plan emerged to connect our planned July trip to Connecticut to an available date when I could provide the talk in-person. Thus, on July 26 Karen
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