My wife and I both had green passports. They were a special issue commemorating Ben Franklin and the 200th anniversary of the US consular service. We got them in 1993/94. We didn’t know each other at the time. (It was meant to be.)

I and The Oatmeal agree with you...

Grow up, dude. We’re not in kindergarten.

1900 miles was round trip. The first leg was 863 miles.

Sweet. Now you’re calling me names. Way to keep it civilized.

Sorry that’s all you got out of my response.

What do you mean “deal” with batteries? You don’t do anything to them, you just use it.

Converting my beat-up e21 to electric is one of the things I’m considering doing when its venerable M10 starts really crapping out. Its at 206,000 miles now, has some valve-related smoking issues on start-up, isn’t as plucky as it once was and is just a single obscure Bosch CIS fuel injection component breakage away…

Um. Because its not as friggin freezing here on Planet Earth like it is in space. Duh. Just because NASA uses fuel cells and RTGs for specific applications doesn’t mean the same technology applies to cars. Besides, for ISS and satelites, the power demand is fairly smooth. Cars have very spikey power demand and surplus…

Its really not much at all. Its about 3% for our utility.

I drove 1900 miles in a Model S last year for Christmas. My brother in law did the same trip in a Ford Excursion. He took 17 hours for the first leg of the trip. We left the evening before, spent the night in a hotel on the way, and arrived an hour after him, much more refreshed.

Well, compared to the amount of fuel used in the extraction, transportation and processing of shale oil sands from Alberta, lithium extraction is downright pleasant!

Its a good step in the right direction. I’ll take it.

Lithium ion batteries are “insanely” toxic? Oil is burned to make lithium ion batteries?! That’s hilarious. Do you even know how these batteries are made? Stop reading Breitbart and go just google it. While you’re at it, why don’t you google Tesla’s Gigafactory as well. If you do, you’ll learn that they’re actually…

Not much conclusive there. I’d ask, how much of that methane would be emitted by plant material decomposition just sitting on the ground if the reservoir wasn’t there? How much of the methane component is influenced by agricultural fertilizer run-off?

Got a source for that stat? I’m pretty sure all of CA has green power options, and California represents more than 10% of the nation’s population. All of OR has that option, as does WA, MA, NY, ME, and NH. Those are just the states I’m personally familiar with.

Huh. You can get in a Tesla Model S or Model X and drive across the country right now, no planning, no problem. You’ll be able to do that in a Model 3 as soon as they’re out as well.

You do realize that fuel cell cars are just really complicated electric cars that you still pay oil companies to fuel, right? That fuel cell cars actually also have the same lithium-ion batteries that electric cars have?

Never said they were non-polluting. But they are cleaner.

My electricity comes from hydro, wind, solar and biomass. I pay for renewables only through my NW power company. My electricity is carbon neutral.