Juggling Dynamite

Remember the adage: “It’s hard to get a person to admit facts when their pay cheque depends on denying it”?

Electric vehicles powered by renewable power makes so much more sense on every measure than old school ‘ICE’, that the evolution is unstoppable. Even oil companies are finally starting to publicly acknowledge these facts with projections that 35-47% of new cars will be EV within 23 years–likely a gross underestimation of the adoption pace now unfolding.

Electric cars are coming fast — and that’s not just the opinion of carmakers anymore. Total SA, one of the world’s biggest oil producers, is now saying EVs may constitute almost a third of new-car sales by the end of the next decade.

The surge in battery powered vehicles will cause demand for oil-based fuels to peak in the 2030s, Total Chief Energy Economist Joel Couse said at Bloomberg New Energy Finance’s conference in New York on Tuesday. EVs will make up 15 percent to 30 percent of new vehicles by 2030, after which fuel “demand will flatten out,” Couse said. “Maybe even decline.” Here is a direct video link.

Amber Sullins gets a minute or two to tell up to two million people about some extremely complicated science, using the tools of her trade: a pleasant voice, a green screen, and small icons denoting sun, clouds, rain, and wind. She is the chief meteorologist at ABC15 News in Phoenix, so her forecasts mostly call for sunshine. Within this brief window, however, Sullins sometimes manages to go beyond the next five days. Far beyond. Here is a direct video link.

A few years ago, I wrote to Home and Garden Television and proposed a new show that featured green renovations. Instead of all the old tech, dinosaur drivel, let’s show viewers all the incredibly smart innovations pouring onto the market all around the world to make homes emission-free, net energy producers rather than net drag, cash flow guzzlers.  I am still waiting on that show, but in the meantime Netflix has launched an important new Bill Nye show on these topics.

Watch this series with your kids and grand kids.  Today more than ever, people need information, hope, leadership and proactive steps forward.  This show is about all the solutions.   I also recommend Nye’s latest best-selling book  Unstoppable: harnessing science to change the world.  Naysayers double down on defeatist nonsense as an excuse to do nothing, thinking people have to learn and lead.

Bill Nye – science guy, educator, mechanical engineer, and curator of curiosity – returns with a new show. Each episode of Bill Nye Saves the World tackles a specific topic or concept through lively panel discussions, wide-ranging correspondent reports from a crackerjack team, and Bill’s very special blend of lab procedure and sly personality.  Bill Nye Saves The World is now streaming, only on Netflix.  Here is a direct link to the trailer.