Comments on: How to save the world one gas station at a time. https://gregladen.com/blog/2020/10/28/how-to-save-the-world-one-gas-station-at-a-time/ Fri, 30 Oct 2020 22:38:54 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 By: Doug https://gregladen.com/blog/2020/10/28/how-to-save-the-world-one-gas-station-at-a-time/#comment-903750 Fri, 30 Oct 2020 22:38:54 +0000 https://gregladen.com/blog/?p=33362#comment-903750 In reply to Christopher Winter.

Well the problem is we need to reach zero carbon across the world by 2030. Something to keep in mind is that economics is non-starter when the environment is out of control and we are facing, at best, massive die off of all species including our own, and at worst the 6th great extinction.

]]> By: Christopher Winter https://gregladen.com/blog/2020/10/28/how-to-save-the-world-one-gas-station-at-a-time/#comment-903361 Thu, 29 Oct 2020 02:30:23 +0000 https://gregladen.com/blog/?p=33362#comment-903361 I think it would make sense to start in a few selected areas — Los Angeles County, say, MPLS-St. Paul, Seattle, etc. to keep govt. costs down and expose the new systems to all kinds of weather.

]]> By: Doug https://gregladen.com/blog/2020/10/28/how-to-save-the-world-one-gas-station-at-a-time/#comment-903315 Wed, 28 Oct 2020 16:19:42 +0000 https://gregladen.com/blog/?p=33362#comment-903315 First you have to make fully electric cars affordable, and I’m not talking Tesla’s or hybrids, just vehicles with 300km or more range. Feds need to impose zero emission standard by year x for cars, as well as power generation. So perhaps massive buybacks on gas burning cars of any age, combined with huge subsidies on new and used electric vehicles. Right now they are anything but. Regardless of country a lot has to take place first. There are new developments in Hydrogen production (https://www.researchgate.net/publication/263846585_A_Review_of_Hydrogen_Production_Technologies) that could make it a better choice for vehicles than batteries. Electricity for the grid can be produced with new enhanced geothermal technology (https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/eavor-loop-geothermal-1.5255420) that does not require fracking and as an added bonus makes use of existing abandoned O&G wells.

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