News Article: Colorado Avalanche Media Coverage Part VI
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Have you watched the 'American Experience' on Tesla? It was on PBS years ago. Probably could find it on the internet, but it was one of the best American Experience's I think they've made. Super interesting watch if you haven't. Tesla basically invented WiFi in the early 1900s but no one ever talks about it.
Even years ago after watching it - I was like "damn that's Elon to a T...."
Not really--Elon is obsessed with prestige and celebrity. Almost everything he does is centered around consolidating his cult of personality. Also, Elon may be a keen mind, but he is no inventor.
Tesla was eccentric to the extreme, but personal prominence was never his goal. He even relinquished his royalties to Westinghouse out of loyalty (but also because Westinghouse was about to go broke). In that respect Tesla was a lousy businessman. Elon is many things but I don't think he's lousy at the art of capitalism, for obvious reasons.
Should be noted that Edison was a pretty rotten human being and ruthless as they came. He was indeed a brilliant inventor but he gets more credit than he deserves.
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OK, this is two games in a row with no sign of Peter McNabb. Has the organization provided any information?
It's McNab, not McNabb. Don't mix up his name with the cheap shot artist who resides in Vegas.
Anyway, in all seriousness it could just be that Peter is taking some time off. The man is 70 years old after all and it's only been just one year since his diagnosis. Obviously it's concerning whenever he's missing time, but it could be (hopefully) that he's enjoying time away from the rink.
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I don't think McNab has traveled with the team this year yet. Not really a good sign considering that he was traveling last year.
A global comparison of the life-cycle greenhouse gas emissions of combustion engine and electric passenger cars - International Council on Clean Transportation
Life-cycle assessment of the greenhouse gas emissions of passenger cars in China, Europe, India, and the United States, which together account for about 70% of new passenger car sales worldwide.
theicct.org
Are Electric Vehicles Really Better for the Climate? Yes. Here's Why | Common Dreams
Switching to an EV can make a big difference in how much global warming emissions we produce and is one of the biggest actions a household can take to reduce their carbon footprint.
www.commondreams.org
New Data Show Electric Vehicles Continue to Get Cleaner
UPDATE: Get the latest numbers. New data from the US EPA on power plant greenhouse gas emissions are in, and electric vehicles (EV) in the US are even cleaner than they were before. The climate change emissions created by driving on electricity depend on where you live, but on average, an EV drivin
blog.ucsusa.org
Driving Cleaner
On average, battery-electric vehicles produce roughly half the global warming emissions of comparable gasoline-powered vehicles
Actual Report
https://www.ucsusa.org/sites/default/files/2022-09/driving-cleaner-report.pdf
If you have a university login, I can provide a link to some databases that have many studies. There are hundreds of these out there if you have access to those databases.
As a general rule of thumb, even on coal power... an EV is ~15-20% cleaner than the average vehicle. About 5% cleaner than a hybrid. On the US national mix of energy, 65-80% cleaner (anywhere between 15-20k miles to start being cleaner, then significantly). Even in coal heavy areas in the US, the least efficient (non-pickup) EVs are typically about the same as a ~40 mpg vehicle. The most efficient EVs, even in the worst areas are about the same as a 55-60mpg vehicle. EV pickups, closer to ~30-35mpg.
Something not usually taken into account here is also the centralization of the energy production. It is much easier (and more regulated) to manage emissions from a few thousand power plants (many of which are zero or low emission) than it is millions of vehicles. Instead of worrying about the 90s Grand Prix that hasn't had a tune up since 2001 and is spewing black smoke, you have power plants that are required to have inspections and are regulated (for now).
The big reason EVs are this much more efficient is that burning fuel is typically less than 20% efficient at the conversion of energy into motion (the very best hybrids push this to about 30%). EVs (even the worst ones) are about 80% efficient... some approach 90%.
Ceremony
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On the plus side, Adam Foote has a fantastic nose.
Bill Peckerskull
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Last game he did, he didn't sound or look good at all. I hope he's ok, but I fear he's not.
MonsterMack
He did the Mack, He did the monster Mack
Ceremony
How I choose to feel is how I am
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Now if you'd take the time to realise that's what he thinks of you, we might get somewhere.
Freudian
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Some interpret the long silences before he speaks as him being a profound thinker without realizing Elon Musk is somewhere on the autism spectrum and language is a challenge to him. He says more dumb than smart things. His takes on the Ukraine war are so dumb it's baffling.
He's probably very useful to have around if you have an engineering problem, since his intellect is so heavily tilted towards those kind of things. I don't think Twitters challenges are primarily engineering problems.
He's probably very useful to have around if you have an engineering problem, since his intellect is so heavily tilted towards those kind of things. I don't think Twitters challenges are primarily engineering problems.
Metallo
NWOBHM forever \m/
Thanks for the feedback. My goal is to understand efficiencies of energy conversion at each step. For example your last paragraph covers energy to motion. I also want to know things like the efficiency of mining coal and then burning it to produce electricity. How efficient is that? Then there is GHG footprint for every scenario, then the material usage and scarcity (are EV scalable to the whole planet?), infrastructure issues with the scaling of electricity consumption/production... Lots of reading ahead!A global comparison of the life-cycle greenhouse gas emissions of combustion engine and electric passenger cars - International Council on Clean Transportation
Life-cycle assessment of the greenhouse gas emissions of passenger cars in China, Europe, India, and the United States, which together account for about 70% of new passenger car sales worldwide.
Are Electric Vehicles Really Better for the Climate? Yes. Here's Why | Common Dreams
Switching to an EV can make a big difference in how much global warming emissions we produce and is one of the biggest actions a household can take to reduce their carbon footprint.
New Data Show Electric Vehicles Continue to Get Cleaner
UPDATE: Get the latest numbers. New data from the US EPA on power plant greenhouse gas emissions are in, and electric vehicles (EV) in the US are even cleaner than they were before. The climate change emissions created by driving on electricity depend on where you live, but on average, an EV drivinblog.ucsusa.org
Driving Cleaner
On average, battery-electric vehicles produce roughly half the global warming emissions of comparable gasoline-powered vehicleswww.ucsusa.org
Actual Report
https://www.ucsusa.org/sites/default/files/2022-09/driving-cleaner-report.pdf
If you have a university login, I can provide a link to some databases that have many studies. There are hundreds of these out there if you have access to those databases.
As a general rule of thumb, even on coal power... an EV is ~15-20% cleaner than the average vehicle. About 5% cleaner than a hybrid. On the US national mix of energy, 65-80% cleaner (anywhere between 15-20k miles to start being cleaner, then significantly). Even in coal heavy areas in the US, the least efficient (non-pickup) EVs are typically about the same as a ~40 mpg vehicle. The most efficient EVs, even in the worst areas are about the same as a 55-60mpg vehicle. EV pickups, closer to ~30-35mpg.
Something not usually taken into account here is also the centralization of the energy production. It is much easier (and more regulated) to manage emissions from a few thousand power plants (many of which are zero or low emission) than it is millions of vehicles. Instead of worrying about the 90s Grand Prix that hasn't had a tune up since 2001 and is spewing black smoke, you have power plants that are required to have inspections and are regulated (for now).
The big reason EVs are this much more efficient is that burning fuel is typically less than 20% efficient at the conversion of energy into motion (the very best hybrids push this to about 30%). EVs (even the worst ones) are about 80% efficient... some approach 90%.
As a trained engineer I'll need to find peer-reviewed papers with actual equations. Reports by interest groups only goes so far.
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Thanks for the feedback. My goal is to understand efficiencies of energy conversion at each step. For example your last paragraph covers energy to motion. I also want to know things like the efficiency of mining coal and then burning it to produce electricity. How efficient is that? Then there is GHG footprint for every scenario, then the material usage and scarcity (are EV scalable to the whole planet?), infrastructure issues with the scaling of electricity consumption/production... Lots of reading ahead!
As a trained engineer I'll need to find peer-reviewed papers with actual equations. Reports by interest groups only goes so far.
Most of the academic papers are behinds university paywalls. You can find the abstracts, but not the full papers.
The well to disposal studies are out there too. Mining, distributing,and burning coal tends to have less greenhouse gasses than drilling, transporting, refining, transporting, distributing, and eventually burning oil. And that’s really the worst case, dirtiest situation. Natural gas has supplanted coal in many areas and is much cleaner. Then the widespread wind solar and hydro out west pushes it to another level. Nuclear has tended to be regionalized and unpopular for a number of reasons, but tends to be pretty clean through the process.
You probably have a good point.
I apologize for that. I am probably a bigger nothing than anyone on here.
Everything that I have seen is that Elon stands for free speech
Twitter has been a liberal censorship machine for years .
I hope he fires everyone.
The avalanche are dominating which is way more important right now.
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Savage as F, love Bo.
Bill Peckerskull
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Kaut rocking a 97 percent xGF% over a 2-game span?
Yea that Columbus team is friggin' abysmal, we shouldn't get too excited yet.
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