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What Flavor EV Will Prevail?

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A few weeks ago, Sam and I became more intimately involved in the EV (Electric Vehicle) controversy.

Which helped us discern the slew of issues involved with adopting these wonderful vehicles.  Like the environmental costs of mining lithium, the fact that we haven’t upgraded our electric grids (and even killed Senator Manchin’s compromise bill that would have allowed us to more rapidly replace our aging electric infrastructure- because without it, we are going to be forced to use fossil fuels as the electric supply for these batteries), among other cost/environmental situations arising as we grow this business segment.

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Sewage as an energy source?

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One of my theses involved the conversion of Honest-to-Goodness Solid Waste (HGSW) to energy.  The process made sense then- and makes even more sense now.  (Believe it or not, there’s only one company examining this process on a large scale, some 4 decades later.)   But, we also need to treat our liquid wastes (sewage)- because we want to keep our rivers and streams (which is where we discharged those treated waters) safe.  Amazingly, we employ about 2% of our energy supply to treat this waste stream.

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