141. When Electric Cars Aren't Reliable; The Benefits of Processed Foods

Brian talks about Wired.com's story on the benefits of processed foods. James is depressed because his beloved Nissan LEAF needs a new PTC cabin heater with a hefty price tag. The city of Houston has a boil water advisory because of a blip in their power grid. The Tesla Semi seems to be for real. Musk says it completed a 500 mile journey pulling an 81,000 pound load. The upcoming Sizewell C nuclear power plant in the UK was in need of public funding.

Why the Saudis have electric buses. 

There's a new record size for off-shore wind turbines and it's 16 megawatts.

Ebike subsidies expand across the United States.

GM dealerships are repairing Teslas. Will they also fix James's LEAF?

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Transcript

Hello, and welcome to episode 141 of the Clean Energy Show.

I'm Brian Stockton.

I'm James Whittingham.

I finally come clean this week about a secret I've been keeping for two months.

And, no, I'm not pregnant.

And, yes, I would make an excellent mother.

The city of Houston is under a boil water advisory.

Because of power outages.

Everything is bigger in Texas, including grid problems.

The Tesla semi completed a 500 miles journey with a load weighing 81 £0, or roughly half the weight of Elon Musk's eagle.

The upcoming Sewell Sea nuclear power plant in the UK was in need of funding.

Ultrawealthy prime Minister Rishi Sunak has stepped in with a cash infusion.

Oh, wait, I'm being told it's taxpayer money.

He's not an idiot.

All that and hopefully borrow this edition of the Clean Energy Show.

Brian I'm sweating like a hog and I'll tell you why.

Yes, I'm not a sick.

I was shoveling the driveway because it blew in.

And before the show, I frantically tracked down a plug in electric snow blower.

My partner was coming home for lunch and I said, can you swing by the Walmart because there's one left.

It was like $100 less than if I made this decision a few days ago.

I would have had all the Cyber Monday Friday deals, but I missed out on that.

But I found one with specs that was really good.

Now, I've got a battery operated snow shovel.

Not cutting it.

What's going to happen now is we're going to get trace amounts of snow for the next five years, but I say, fine, it's worth spending the money for that to happen, because it's worth it.

We've been snowed in and my partner had to park on the street and the driveway was daunting.

So I quickly assembled it at lunchtime.

While you were having your happy nap.

Yeah.

And I went out there with a short extension cord and did what I could.

And now I'm sweating like a crazy.

I'm soaked in sweat because my heart was going maximum, which doesn't take much these days, but when you're doing anything clearing snow, it gets the heart rate going, unfor