A number of LinkedIn readers wanted more detail about my conversion of my 1975 Triumph Spitfire to a fully electric vehicle, so I thought I’d put together a LinkedIn version of an article I wrote for my local Toronto Triumph Club magazine, “Ragtop”. (E-Fire, with its fuel pipeline in the background) I bought my 1975 […]
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Hydrogen to Replace Natural Gas- By the Numbers
Hydrogen to Replace Natural Gas- By the Numbers Update: my peer reviewed article in Energy Science and Engineering summarizes many of the issues in this particular blog post: https://scijournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ese3.1861 UPDATED: April 6, 2023 There’s been a lot of talk recently about hydrogen as a replacement for natural gas. The scheme is to gradually add H2 […]
What is #hopium?
First of all, #hopium isn’t my original idea. I would attribute the use of the term to the person who I first heard use it, but sadly I’ve forgotten. The moment I heard it, I knew this was the ideal description of a problem I’d been seeing in numerous areas of our attempt to decarbonize […]
Distilled Thoughts On Hydrogen
All my concerns about hydrogen #hopium, in one convenient place! Hydrogen is being sold as if it were the “Swiss Army knife” of the energy transition. Useful for every energy purpose under the sun. Sadly, hydrogen is rather like THIS Swiss Army knife, the Wenger 16999 Giant. It costs $1400, weighs 7 pounds, and is […]