About two thirds of the electricity generated in the US comes from petroleum and natural gas, with about equal contribution from both sources. Given the source, how do electric cars make a difference environmentally? If the source is the same, it's not making any significant difference when using an electric car. Additionally, there would be loses in efficiency due to transmission/energy transfer.
While I understand that there are other significant sources of electricity like nuclear and renewables, oil and gas (and coal) still contribute to almost 80% of the power generated in the US. So discussion of electricity is still unfortunately dominated by fossil fuels. And given the size and geography of the US large scale adoption of reliable renewables would still take some time.
So let's get back to our present situation. Only 2% of the cars on the road are electric. Almost all the rest run on gasoline. Very small fraction of cars in the US have alternate fields like hydrogen or CNG. Of these, CNG cars are the most realistic option. Since CNG cars are cleaner than petroleum cars, why is there not a push for such cars? In the US, there has been about a 25% increase in the natural gas production in the last five years. While the auto-manufacturers are trying to develop better electric cars, in the short term, like over the next 15-20 years, would it not be better to push for CNG cars? Since the technology already exists, there would not be a huge difficulty in adoption of such vehicles.
Am I missing something significant here?
(Ref: eia.gov)
Article: https://www.anothermag.com/fashion-beauty/13108/what-2021-could-mean-for-fashion-and-sustainability
What's interesting:
- Various initiatives taken by designers like Alexander McQueen, Ganni in circularity
- New Materials such as laser-cut washable paper
The grid has to have base load sources of electricity generation. These base load sources provide large amounts of electricity, regardless of time of day or current weather conditions. The lack of these characteristics are why wind and solar are not classified as base load sources of electricity generation. We need base load power generation for when the wind isn't blowing and at night when the sun isn't shining.
A large segment of environmentalists, however, actively work to block the building of new nuclear power plants and dams for hydro plants. Isn't this a little hypocritical?
From a development perspective, how we would integrate our back-end software with the blockchain we were building our platform on was crucial for us. Stellar shines here as well. It provides integration points that allow smooth interaction between the Poseidon building blocks on the Stellar blockchain and the Poseidon software modules that are hosted on a secure Amazon Web Services infrastructure. The Stellar infrastructure is fast and scalable, providing Poseidon with a future-proof environment that will ensure the reduce platform will be able to satisfy growing demand while remaining environ- mentally friendly. The main interaction with Stellarโs blockchain is through a RESTful API called Horizon. This allows us to build hundreds of variations of software that sit outside the blockchain to perform complex tasks that satisfy global carbon market requirements. The outcome of these operations, the available amount of carbon credit in a specifi c emission reduction project for example, is then published to accounts on the Stellar network via a HTTPS request to the Horizon API.
https://poseidon.eco
