Modern transportation causes grave problems for society

It may not look like it, but the ‘modern’ transportation system, especially as it exists in the U.S.A., is broken, horribly. As I see it, the car companies and others are working hard on the appearance that modern transportation systems are okay.  That’s just the sugar coating designed to make…

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Tesla deploying Titanium shields to mitigate Model S fire risk

Tesla Model S

Last year the thing we all feared occurred – Electric cars, catching fire, blowing up even, the battery packs clearly on fire, spread all over international news.  This was something to be feared because it might spook the buying public into thinking electric cars are dangerous.  Tesla Motors, fortunately, were…

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Several states bidding to win Tesla Motors’ Gigafactory

Beginning last summer, Tesla Motors CEO began making it clear that manufacturing a few hundred thousand electric cars per year (as Tesla plans to begin doing starting in 2017) would swamp the total lithium-ion battery manufacturing capacity in the world.  It’s a simple bit of math – By 2017, Tesla…

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Extreme weather, climate change, and the Oso WA landslide

Over the weekend a big landslide struck Oso, WA, located on the Stillaguamish River about an hour north of Seattle.  It’s a tragedy of large order, with several already confirmed dead, reports from emergency workers saying it’s worse than has yet been reported, whole neighborhoods wiped out, etc.  I’ll pop in…

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