Episode 34 - Hannah on Running, Clean Energy, Bird Sightings, and Watts the Tea Podcast Episode · Micromobility DC with Edie · April 13 · 40m

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This is a major indictment of federal inaction re: car tech.

For years, automakers sold consumers on Level 2 systems by implying (seldom outright saying) that drivers need not focus on the road.

The feds -- NHTSA, FTC, Congress -- have never forced the car co's to stop. Now confusion reigns.

For all the “EVs are over” folks. (AKA shout out to to the EV haters.)

Having a hopeful time at Colorado Climate Week, then this drops 🤦‍♀️

We love public transit 🥹

With technologies like iron air batteries from Form Energy, how much of the buildout does she feel needs to be *firm* power? (Versus intermittent power with long-duration storage?)

Electric Gridlock Introduction Into the Mainstream (Or at Least a Running Stream?)

I jumped on the trend and made a substack. This is mostly for me to practice writing out energy affordability thoughts—I am not a marketing person, so it rambles and features a random electric bus photo from 2024. Read it, laugh at it, or ignore it here! open.substack.com/pub/electric...

Gasoline isn't expensive enough, given how many people I see idling their vehicles.

And exciting parking reform gossip from NYC! mailchi.mp/parkingrefor...

Just discovered this heat pump COP comparison chart, and my Friday night is MADE! jessejenkins.github.io/heat-pump-map/

A proud Shoupista here because Denver abolished minimum parking requirements back in August.

This isn’t good policy for numerous reasons. Land use issues being a few of the big ones. Maybe invest in technologies and infrastructure that help people in the US become less dependent on internal combustion engines?

Go, Michigan, go!

Utilities Are — Cautiously! — Learning to Love Startups The surge in electricity demand from data centers is making innovation a necessity.

My job largely involves helping utilities discover startups that could help modernize the grid and result in customers having a more positive experience getting electricity. The utility space is, by nature, slow moving, so excitement around innovation is great! heatmap.news/climate-tech...

And one of the surest ways to improve safety is to reduce VMT. Better bus routes, don’t subsidize ridehail 😖

As I sit here scouring the internet for any lingering federal residential heat pump in incentives 😡

A rate freeze is a terrible policy response to rising electricity rates.

A rent freeze is a terrible policy response to rising rents.

A data center moratorium is a terrible policy response to rising grid pressures.

All for the same basic reason: it doesn't solve the problem.

This ski season continues to be a nightmare for more reasons than one

Merci !

A win for micromobility!

“German utilities expressed many of the same concerns nearly a decade ago when plug-in solar started to become popular in Germany. But with more than a million systems installed, no safety incidents have been reported for customers who used the panels as instructed.”

Balcony solar for the people!