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New e-bike batteries have a special coating to resist fires. A major battery maker is touting a new formula for cold climates called "Winter Pro." It sounds like a tire. Oil is doomed as these battery makers promise a charge time of 9 minutes and 20 year life-spans. Solar canopies over cemeteries in France. Rest in electrons!

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• Brian has a cold

• Barry, our cinematographer friend, gets back to us on why he never got solar on the farm but is now.

• Brian rightly defends Greta Gerwig and how she was snubbed at the Oscars.

• EV startup Rivian has two exciting new vehicles

• BYD slashing EV prices even more to kill combustion cars.

• The false horse head in Poor Things wasn't far fetched, it's something that happened in a previous transportation disruption.

• Solar canopies over a cemetery in France

• How has Australia caught up to North America in EV adoption? The answer is Chinese-made EVs.

• New York has a program for window heat pumps for apartments

• Heat pumps cut emissions even on very dirty grids

• Palm oil is starting to be made in a lab just like fake dairy and fake meat

• Potted cells for E-bikes offer much-desired fire protection

• SK ON battery announcement could spell the end of Oil

• The Lightning Round!

• A methane-tracking satellite will shame oil companies who leak the greenhouse gas into the atmosphere.

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James investigates an air quality advisory and discovers Oil is to blame. His entire city of Regina, Saskatchewan is within the cancer zone of the oil refinery. Apple kills its electric car program. Alberta shoots itself in the foot by discouraging vast investment in renewable energy in favor of dirty energy. A small city saves big money on electric police vehicles. Taking down Tesla's automation advancements. A nuclear reactor will put almost all its juice into a data center. Cooktops with their own batteries.

• How do you charge an EV in a small town or on a farm? (you plug it in)

• Battery advancements will disrupt yard equipment even further down the road.

• Alberta's punitive EV tax

• Ford's Tesla access is 'plug and charge' and that's a great thing!

• Saskatchewan premier breaks the law. Is a lawless Purge on the horizon?

• Air Quality Statement for Regina, Sask in the middle of winter reminds us that the entire city is at an increased risk of certain cancers.

• Who Killed the Apple Electric Car?

• Bridgewater, Nova Scotia police highlight their EV savings for the small city.

• Alberta's new restrictions on clean energy. (none on dirty energy)

• Tesla FSD - the argument that Waymo or others will win over Tesla in the automation race.

• Induction ovens and cooktops will soon have batteries, big ones!

• Nuclear for data centres

• The Lightning Round!

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James reviews the Dr Volts podcast episode on nuclear and tries to see a path to nuclear competitiveness in North America. How it might get to compete with solar and wind plus batteries next decade if we move now. Comedy in climate? Brian discusses a New York Times piece. Chat GPT might need several nuclear reactors worth of energy to run it. And carbon emissions in the airline industry. Is the future of air travel guilt-free?

• Oil changes alone are enough to go buy an electric car that doesn't need them

• Brian back from Toronto where he color-graded a film

• Guilt free flying

• Green hydrogen for flight

• Out of Spec Reviews take on the Honda Prologue

• Peak charging rates don't represent the true charging time of EVs

• Climate and comedy - The Juice Media, Rollie Williams' Climate Town, Yellow Dot Studios and "Don't Look Up"

• Nuclear discussion of David Robert's DrVolts nuclear episode with Jigar Shah, Dept of Energy Loans.

• New Jersey school buses to power schools

• Law News - Chicago sues big oil

• Bigger offshore wind turbines abandoned in US

• Data centre energy use

• The Lightning Round!

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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. 

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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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