I’ll choose to think that whenever it is I venture to the other side, Martin, with his scintillating mind and preternatural ingenuity, will welcome me at the threshold of a gate unfathomably grander than that one marked “NHL staff and media”.
If not for China’s wartime mobilization, the world would have deployed one-half as many solar panels, one-third as many electric vehicles, and one-quarter as many wind turbines last year.
If told today the Parable of the Good Samaritan would feature "illegal immigrants", trans people and other outgroups.
Ballard’s shift to hydrogen fuel cells was the result of a 1983 contract from Canada’s Department of National Defense to explore the technology
Unfortunately, instead of the glass-smooth surface I’d hoped for, my handiwork was more of a lunar landscape...
The Mark 4 (“Mk4”) was an early Ballard fuel cell design, and the one the Direct Methanol Fuel Cell group used at the time.
The security guard asked why I was loitering by the front door in the pre-twilight darkness. Thus began my internship at Ballard Power Systems.
It took from 1997 to 2009 – from Titanic to Avatar – for Toyota to break even, overall, on gasoline hybrids.
ZEV mandates helped accelerate electric transportation, but the associated credits did so with the worst of negative externalities.
Toyota and Honda first set up in Canada in the 1980s, so in the span of 40 years Japanese carmakers went from an existential threat to the Canadian auto industry, to our biggest producers ... “If you can’t beat ’em, make ‘em join you”.
Interviewees' archetype of an environmentalist was “high status, liberal, female, and white”. Elizabeth May (Canadian Green Party leader) fits this perfectly.
Several years ago, when Tesla’s fans and marketing machine could still paper over the red flag parade of Elon Musk’s character and business practices, I became part of a community of his critics.