Why is it even there in the first place? I assumed it was to make oil products for the island(s) but if its been shut down since 2012 that clearly isnt the case. I guess its closer to Venezuela but their crude is typically pretty hard to refine and requires a lot of blending. 

In a 3/4 ton truck the drivetrain might weigh 3k. It probably weighs closer to 15k in a big truck. But the weight savings might not be more than 5k or so.

Electrolysis is wildly inefficient and hydrogen storage is much more difficult that storing natural gas or propane.

It wont be quite that bad of weight hit. The electric drivetrain will be much lighter than the diesel one its replacing.

Except they arent when you look at the entire process. Energy is wasted at every stage of hydrogen process. Its much more efficient to go full electric or if range is an issue, scale up a Volt style drivetrain.

That graph matches up pretty well with the tapering off of and then ramping back up of coal plants. 

Landlords should suffer first and hardest during recessions. During booms they get free money just by being rich. 

If that is the case, landlords should have to sell their property. Easy peezy.

I assumed that she meant it wasnt ‘new’ renewable energy. Just pre-existing renewables already being generated. And the shell game is that MA could out bid other parts of Canada for that electricity to reach their goals, while those other parts just supplemented their lost energy with cheap coal or gas.

I assumed that she meant it wasnt ‘new’ renewable energy. Just pre-existing renewables already being generated, that MA could out bid other parts of Canada on to reach their goals, while those other parts just supplemented their lost energy with cheap coal or gas. 

If you are killing yourself in your garage a CO monitor in your house will not save you. 

Seems much more like a 90's contrarian. Think “Thank You for Smoking”. I am sure his beliefs have evolved considerably since the times when “more rainforest now than 100 years ago” talking points were bandied about. 

Nothing that these groups do will “make the burden more equally shared”. This will only have the affect of driving industry further offshore, making even poorer communities bear the brunt.

Unless he is also committing to the entire state not needing to burn any fossil fuels, this is just hypocritical BS. Making someone else hold the bag just so you dont have to feel guilty about the price of modern society.

Is anyone taking into account that the primary reason solar panels are so cheap is because they are being made in coal-powered Chinese factories?

The overwhelming majority of these would have been purged with nitrogen or seawater or both when the platforms they ran too were decommissioned. But not forcing and enforcing (and being generally too lax about stuff) is a huge issue in O&G the pipeline stuff isnt really an issue, just more of an indicator of a larger…

So, what everyone did with everything before the advent of modern refrigeration?

The cynic in me thinks this is a Chinese government op designed to put pressure on Tesla. 

Manufacturing consent doesnt just happen on cable news. It happens on every media platform and is responsible for basically everything that is currently wrong with the world. 

Would have been so much cooler if it just stayed a Panda.