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		<title>Green Ethanol and Green Hyrdogen</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2023/10/13/green-ethanol-and-green-hyrdogen/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Oct 2023 15:17:18 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[How to make ethanol: 1: Use diesel and gasoline powered farm equipment to grow and harvest a sugar-rich crop. 2: Use fossil fuel supplied heat and electricity to operate a cooker, which turns the plants you grew into cattle feed and ethanol. How to make hydrogen: 1: Obtain methane from fracking or some other fossil &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2023/10/13/green-ethanol-and-green-hyrdogen/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Green Ethanol and Green Hyrdogen</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Moving The Dial Towards A Survivable Future</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2022/07/08/moving-the-dial-towards-a-survivable-future/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jul 2022 14:31:36 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Electric Vehicles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Energy]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Electric Cars are catching on. Survey says, 14% would by an eV right now if they are going to buy any car at all. See: Americans are coming around on electric cars. An additional 22% say they would seriously consider an eV. That adds up to a lot. Deadline August 19th!!!!: President Biden&#8217;s Bipartisan Infrastructure &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2022/07/08/moving-the-dial-towards-a-survivable-future/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Moving The Dial Towards A Survivable Future</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Heat Kills.  More Heat Kills More</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2021/10/22/heat-kills-more-heat-kills-more/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Oct 2021 14:19:33 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Climate Change]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Over the last few years, the Atlantic Ocean and other parts of the world smashed their weathery fists into the faces of climate change deniers again and again until the denial of climate change fell to the mat, bleeding, and forever silent. I wish. It wasn&#8217;t quite that extreme, but nearly so. In certain social &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2021/10/22/heat-kills-more-heat-kills-more/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Heat Kills.  More Heat Kills More</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>If all the vehicles are electric, where will the energy come from?</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2021/10/02/if-all-the-vehicles-are-electric-where-will-the-energy-come-from/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Oct 2021 12:38:12 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Electric Vehicles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Energy]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[That is a complicated question I will not answer here. But it also a stupid and misleading question, and that part of it I comment on, in relation to Minnesota specifically: In Minnesota, between a third and half of the energy we expend is converted into useless heat or work, mainly owing to that fact &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2021/10/02/if-all-the-vehicles-are-electric-where-will-the-energy-come-from/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">If all the vehicles are electric, where will the energy come from?</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>This is the decade when electric cars replace gas cars</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2021/05/10/this-is-the-decade-when-electric-cars-replace-gas-cars/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 May 2021 14:01:02 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Electric Vehicles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Electric cars will be cheaper to produce than internal combustion engine cars by 2027, according to a study commissioned by Transport &#38; Environment in Brussels. Electric car sales have been booming in Europe. Meanwhile, in North America, Uper and Lyft are acting like electric cars are a futuristic idea that may or may not work &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2021/05/10/this-is-the-decade-when-electric-cars-replace-gas-cars/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">This is the decade when electric cars replace gas cars</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>How to save the world one gas station at a time.</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2020/10/28/how-to-save-the-world-one-gas-station-at-a-time/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2020 15:21:36 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Look at a map of your city or suburb. Search for the gas stations, you know, those places where you can buy cigarettes and petroleum products? Now imagine going to each and every one of those locations and tearing it down. We don&#8217;t need them any more anyway, because we&#8217;ve electrified transportation and nobody smokes. &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2020/10/28/how-to-save-the-world-one-gas-station-at-a-time/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">How to save the world one gas station at a time.</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Divestment in Fossil Fuels is Happening, A Little</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2020/01/17/divestment-in-fossil-fuels-is-happening-a-little/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jan 2020 22:54:33 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Divestment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fossil Fuel DIvestment]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[BlackRock Inc is the world&#8217;s largest investment management company. It is headquartered in New York City, handling nearly seven trillion dollars in assets. BlackRock is about to move away from investment in fossil fuels. Bill McKibben notes, in a piece in the New Yorker, &#8220;If you felt the earth tremble a little bit in Manhattan &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2020/01/17/divestment-in-fossil-fuels-is-happening-a-little/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Divestment in Fossil Fuels is Happening, A Little</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Solar Power, Jobs, Costs, Economy</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2020/01/10/solar-power-jobs-costs-economy/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jan 2020 14:16:11 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Energy]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Solar energy will become an increasingly important part of the equation, as deploying this form of electricity generation creates jobs and lowers energy costs. In Iowa, solar is starting to compete with wind for being cheap and a good investment, and as a course of more and more safe and cheap electricity. &#8220;Invenergy, a major &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2020/01/10/solar-power-jobs-costs-economy/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Solar Power, Jobs, Costs, Economy</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Do Not Miss Rachel Maddow&#8217;s New Book: Blowout</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2019/09/29/do-not-miss-rachel-maddows-new-book-blowout/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Sep 2019 14:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Books]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[War on Science]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Book review]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rachel Maddow]]></category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://gregladen.com/blog/?p=32375</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[Rachel Maddow is the Charles Darwin of Cable News. Darwin&#8217;s most important unsung contribution to science (even more important than his monograph on earthworms) was to figure out how to most effectively put together multiple sources into a single argument &#8212; combining description, explanation, and theory &#8212; of a complex phenomenon in nature. His first &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2019/09/29/do-not-miss-rachel-maddows-new-book-blowout/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Do Not Miss Rachel Maddow&#8217;s New Book: Blowout</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>A good reason to oppose development of nuclear power in the US</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2019/08/28/a-good-reason-to-oppose-development-of-nuclear-power-in-the-us/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Aug 2019 14:04:01 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Energy]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#8230; is the fact that you can trust the nuclear power industry about as far as you can throw an elephant. If you can&#8217;t trust an entire industry to even look at you and not lie, then why do we trust them to do anything important? For example, Ohio. In Ohio, there has been a &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2019/08/28/a-good-reason-to-oppose-development-of-nuclear-power-in-the-us/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">A good reason to oppose development of nuclear power in the US</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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