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With 25% of the vehicles on the roads of Norway being electric, the country provides us with insight into what our EV future looks like. Therapists are seeing an increase in climate anxiety. The Chevy Equinox EV details raise questions about its affordability. Rioters burn a Waymo robo taxi.

• Brian buys a Tesla Model Y, his third Musk Mobile
• Marques Brownlee trashed the Fisker Ocean EV
• James is elated with his Chevy Bolt EV getting plug and charge capability in Canada via the Flo network
• Climate Anxiety
• Norway: EV Utopia (CNBC link)
• Waymo robotaxi set on fire in San Francisco
• Equinox EV details - maybe not the affordable EV we've been waiting for
• European automakers teaming up to fight Chinese wave of EVs
• India plans to spend $8 billion on rooftop solar for the poor
• Flattering mail on the occasion of out 200th episode
• The Lightning Round! News from the past week.
• A New Zealand man wins the right to sue big polluters

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Proposed Canadian legislation aims to limit fossil fuel advertising that is greenwashing reality. James blasts his local center-left political party for coming out against it. Surprising support for off-shore wind. The EU's collapse of coal and LNG gas. Vertical east-west solar panels amaze. Charging EVs on household outlets.

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• Brian orders at Tesla Model Y from his nearby store.
• Stellantis on board with NACS charging standard
• 53 battery electric buses coming to Regina, Saskatchewan
• 1000 kWh snowplow in Norway
• Super Bowl powered by renewable energy in Las Vegas.
• Commentary - Fossil Fuel greenwashing in Canada should be abolished from advertising.
• Tommy Douglas
• US coastal residents support offshore wind in a big majority.
• Bifacial east-west vertical solar performs well in snow and cloudy weather.
• Mixing solar panel orientation can give a base-load-like curve throughout the day!
• YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AVO1IyfA9M&t=612s
• Coal and natural gas (METHANE) dropping in the EU
• Mail! Jan Rosenow
• Micro heat pumps, like AC in an apartment but with heat too!
• Why level 1 EV charging may be the way to help apartment dwellers adopt EVs.
• Stripping old airplanes to make battery cases.
• The Lightning Round!

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Ethiopia suddenly bans combustion vehicles, effective immediately. Floating offshore wind. Scientists call for Cat 6 hurricane classification due to climate change. Ford owners first to access Tesla charging network. Consumer Reports should fire its automotive staff. Tidal power for an off-grid island. Paris taxes SUVs when parking.

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• • Brian flees California just in time as Palm Springs floods.
  • Record rainfall at UCLA
  • Dog collar used to light charging port.
  • FSD beta for Tesla now transferable and Brian might take advantage.
  • Is the coming of NACS charging standards delaying EV adoption?
  • Ford will soon send out free Tesla adapters
  • VW rolls out plug and charge on new models.
  • Rivian tops Consumer Reports' survey for car brands but the staff at CR trash the brand. They're wrong and should be fired says James.
  • Tony Seba: "Like many incumbents, Toyota can't even forecast the present."
  • Submersible floating wind farm offshore.
  • Is there a need for Category 6 hurricanes due to climate change?
  • Battery maker CATL building their own wind farm.
  • Parisians vote against SUVs in a referendum.
  • An off-grid island in the Philippines is switching from diesel to tidal power.
  • Ethiopia immediately bans combustion vehicles from entering the country.

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CATL/BYD price war will see some LFP batteries drop another 50% in just the first half of 2024. That's really all you need to know. 

Our Fourth Anniversary of the podcast!

From Palm Springs, CA and Regina, Canada this week.

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This week's show:

• Brian rents a Tesla Model Y from Hertz in Palm Springs, California.
• He notices a large wind farm in the area, some turbines with only two blades.
• John Kerry says misinformation is causing the EV slowdown.
• Consumer Reports podcast thinks hydrogen will be the fuel for cars in ten years. Fire him!
• Alberta oil sands pollution 64 times worse than reported.
• Highest uptake of heat pumps in the United States is in the south east.
• CBC Marketplace misleading EV show.
• Canada refurbisihing a fifty-year-old nuclear reactor.
• England using coal mines for heat pump heat source.
• Biden pauses LNG exports.
• Region in Spain looking to live without rain.
• WHAT IS PRECISION FERMENTATION
• Clean energy spending hits 1.8 trillion in 2023.
• Hydrogen refueling stations down more than they're up.
• Cars qualifying for the US used EV tax credit.
• Sweeden's heat pump court dates back to 1989.
• Listener mail.
• The Lightning Round!

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Percision fermentation dairy is already cheaper than animal dairy, sooner than even Tony Seba expected. This disruption will disrupt agriculture starting now. A flurry of misinformation followed the recent cold blast in North America. Some of that misinformation comes from governements, expecially when it concerns the power grid emergency in Alberta, Canada. Also, the refinery fog over Vancouver sickens residents, New York City is looking at replacing natural gas systems with district geothermal, the solar/battery solution for Porto Rico and the Pentagon is looking to plaster their roof with solar panels!

• Brian is in Vancouver this week and he salutes film director Norman Jewison who he has spent time with.
• Vancouver refinery incident and emergency alert.
• Killers of the Flower Moon - oil greed still exists and it continues to kill people.
• What really caused the grid chaos in Alberta during the recent cold snap.
• Uber Tesla drivers' problems in cold weather explained.
• New York district heating.
• Porto Rico virtual power plants taking off. That's when residents are part of the power grid, feeding energy from batteries charged by solar panels.
• Mail - a correction, a thank you and lement over misinformation, and a Hyundair Ioniq 5 cold weather update from Mike.
• Rooftop solar for The Pentagon.
• Nuclear News - 2023 was a net loss for nuclear power in the world and even more money is going into Sizewell C in the United Kingdom.

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A deep cold snap grips North America but nowhere was it more extreme than Alberta where there was no sun and no wind as temperatures dipped to nearly -40. Wind turbines are safer for birds than fracking. Hawaii replaces coal with batteries. Are flying cars almost here?

• Brian's weather report
• This Old House on PBS
• James stirs up cold weather hate on the Internet
• Bolt loses 50% of its range in extreme cold
• Brian's Tesla charges at full speed in -30C thanks to preconditioning of the battery.
• Alberta Grid emergency alert to cut power consumption.
• Hertz to sell off some EVs
• Natural gas isn't fully reliable.
• Battery Storage in Hawaii
• Wind Turbine bird study
• CES flying car
• Wood-burning EV charger for off-grid use.
• Why some countries use 120v and others use 240v.
• Proterra's new owner.
• World's tallest wind turbine and also the highest altitude wind turbine.
• The Lightning Round!

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Plug and play solar panel kits are showing up on millions of baconies in Europe and China, saving apartment dwellers money. Making ships' pollution cleaner is having a warming effect on the planet. Vertical solar panels are coming to agrivoltaics for the first time in the United States. A Japanese automaker owned by Toyota has admitted it forged the results of safety tests for more than 30 years. 

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• Cold weather has arrived at the Clean Energy Show's headquarters.
• Brian's heatpump isn't liking the cold and needs some attention.
• Testing the high efficiency wood burning stove
• Chevy Bolts under $20,000 in the U.S.
• Tesla Magic Docks in Calgary.
• Verticle agrivoltaics.
• Leave the World Behind on Netflix.
• You Are What You Eat also on Netflix features Tony Seba.
• Dihatsu fakes safety.
• Solar on baconies in Germany.
• Plug-in cars reach 50% of sales in New Zealand.
• More heat pump manufacturers meet Biden's cold climate heat pump challenge.
• Big OIl loses in court in the United States.
• The Lightning Round
• Ships's pollution reduction heats the world.

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2023 was a good year for EV adoption but a steller year for batteries and solar. With prices falling through the floor, things will really take off in 2024! Plus, it's too warm for some small town skating rinks, what work on my family tree teaches me about climate lecacy, and the first electric vehicle with sodium ion batteries has rolled off the assembly line.

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• Celebrating four years of the podcast.
• James was on public radio early in the morning to talk solar and shame his government. 
• Link to that interview: https://t.co/PeMljFDWGJ
• James's family tree research - what will my decendents dealing with a sick planet think of me?
• Saskatchewan vs. The Netherlands in solar deployment.
• Natural ice problems in Canada ruins hockey.
• Ice road problems from a warming climate cut off remote regions of Canada.
• A look ahead to 2024 in clean energy.
• Sodium ion battery car comes out.
• All the EVs coming in 2024.
• Heat pump subscriptions in the UK.
• UK-Denmark undersea interconnection cable is something to behold!
• The Lightning Round!

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James looks back on the remarkable momentum of clean energy and transportation in 2023. Nothing can stop us now! Solar, wind, nuclear, batteries, two- and three-wheeled transportation, the displacement of fossil fuels, rooftop solar powering grids, and unexcected progress in technology that will power the transition even faster!

Brian shows us a big solar farm in Kentucky, using rocks to store renewable energy, and standardizing the Tesla EV connector and port.

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• The Clean Energy Show's brown Christmas on the Canadian prairies.
• Using a car window cover to avoid frost scraping in the mornings.
• James may have gotten Covid the one time he leaves the house.
• James compares The Netherlands to Saskatchewan, Canada in solar potential and deployment.
• James's moments of astonishment in clean energy this year includes a giant wind turbine that operates through a cyclone. Solar canabalization, roof top powering the grid and more.
• Kentucky solar.
• 2023 review of solar's progress and where it's going. 
• Automated driving setbacks.
• Two and three wheelers displace oil.
• Wind setbacks and why.
• Nuclear rejuvinated.
• Ultra-deep geothermal drilling for energy anywhere.
• Hot rock energy storage solution.
• Rooftop solar's amazing year.
• SAE International announces standards for the Tesla/NACs connector coming to all vehicles in North America.
• Battery update: New chemistries, falling prices!
• The Lightning Round!

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Oil interests dominated the U.N.'s COP28 climate conference but reports of trouble lie ahead for oil. What it will look like when oil begins its inevitible decline. Al Gore is angry and he should be. High speed rail to Las Vegas. And solar you can see from space on this special edition of the show!

• Brian's heat pump update involves switching to Farhenheit
• James's angry viral video on SaskPower and the Saskatchewan politicians who went to COP28.
• Canadian premier Scott Moe debunked.
• Al Gore TED talk anger ahead of COP.
• COP28 oil demand/OPEC NYT link (free)
• Electric car news - cuts from legacy automakers trying to make EVs.
• Can solar get too big? Yes. But here's how you fix that!
• News on various auto company's plans for vehicle-to-home/bi-directional charging plans.
• Tweet of the week. Minerals mined for batteries today will still be in use 130 years from now!
• High speed rail to Las Vegas.
• EV sales not as bad as you've heard in the media.
• Ireland's onshore wind boom and what's to come.
• Carbon pricing vs. carbon tax in Canadian politics.
• Reconsidering the Tesla Cybertruck but would you want it in your driveway?
• The Lightning Round - the latest news in climate and clean tech.
• Good news on the climate from Al Gore if we can only stop the emissions.

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Oil interests dominated the U.N.'s COP28 climate conference but reports of trouble lie ahead. What it will look like when oil begins its inevitible decline. Al Gore is angry and he should be. High speed rail to Las Vegas. And solar you can see from space on this special edition of the show!

• Brian's heat pump update involves switching to Farhenheit
• James's angry viral video on SaskPower and the Saskatchewan politicians who went to COP28.
• Canadian premier Scott Moe debunked.
• Al Gore TED talk anger ahead of COP.
• COP28 oil demand
• Electric car news - cuts from legacy automakers trying to make EVs.
• Can solar get too big? Yes. But here's how you fix that!
• News on various auto company's plans for vehicle-to-home/bi-directional charging plans.
• Tweet of the week. Minerals mined for batteries today will still be in use 130 years from now!
• High speed rail to Las Vegas.
• EV sales not as bad as you've heard in the media.
• Ireland's onshore wind boom and what's to come.
• Carbon pricing vs. carbon tax in Canadian politics.
• Reconsidering the Tesla Cybertruck but would you want it in your driveway?
• The Lightning Round - the latest news in climate and clean tech.
• Good news on the climate from Al Gore if we can only stop the emissions.