The photo at left comes along with the comment:
A creative Tesla owner recently took sustainability into his own hands by installing a solar roof on his Model 3, testing whether it could generate enough energy to charge the electric vehicle independently—and it worked. The modification integrates solar panels seamlessly onto the car’s roof, capturing sunlight and converting it into electricity to supplement or even fully power the vehicle’s battery.
I saw a Prius with PV roof at a car show in 2009 when I first got interested EVs. They look cool, and if that’s important to you, please be my guest.
The reason they are a rarity though is math and physics. At most places on the planet, Earth receives about 1000 Watts/square meter. Assuming 8 hours per day of high-grade sunshine, 3.5 square meters of PV, an efficiency of 25%, that’s 250 Watthours/day. This translates to about one mile per day for the typical EV.
If you want to fully power your 100 KWhr Tesla, that’s 400 days, just over a year–not too compelling.
https://www.2greenenergy.com/2026/01/12/roof-mounted-solar-pv-for-your-ev/
A judge has ruled that New York State’s climate “superfund,” modeled after laws that provide money to clean up toxic waste, runs counter to federal law and is therefore invalid.Eventually, we will have laws that force companies whose actions are ruining the planet to pay for the remediation that must happen to avert environmental collapse. In the meanwhile, we need to expect the fossil fuel industry to continue its ruthless legal attack such legislation.
Climate “Superfund” Will Require Legislation at the Federal Level
The idea expressed at left, i.e., that Trump’s arch–or any single action Trump has taken towards self-aggrandizement is causing is approval rate to plummet–is fallacious.
Sure, a great many of his similar efforts, e.g., putting his name on the Kennedy Center, or issuing coins with his image on them, rankled our souls as Americans.
But let’s face facts, Trump’s approval rating is hovering at just above 30%, meaning that about one-third of U.S. voters don’t care that he’s a petty, spoiled child, a convicted felon, and one of the most despicable people in the history of humankind.
There Is No Single Act that Would Crash Trump’s Approval Rating
Here’s proof (as if any were needed) that Trump understands that he’s despised and knows that his claims that he’s “respected around the world” are total bullshit.
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