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• blog/2011/11/off-the-grid-and-into-peoples-homes.html
  A recent KPMG survey shows that most auto executives still believe hydrogen fuel cell cars are going to win and EVs are going to fail in the long run.  Many of the major oil companies believe that biofuels are fundamentally limited in scale, and oil is too carbon intensive so are looking at a EVs […]
  Neal Dikeman
• MIT Mistakes and How Much an Uber Driver Actually Makes
  MIT recently posted a sensationalist research article where the authors claim 74% of Uber and Lyft drivers earn less than the local minimum wage. Which begs the question, if the authors are right, why in the hell would hundreds of thousands of people do that? Are they all too stupid to do math, have no other options […]
  Neal Dikeman
• Exxon and Shell will Never Again Match Their Oil Market Share in Renewables
  According to Bloomberg, cleantech global capital spending was $333 Billion last year, 40% of that in China.  That’s 3.5x bigger than the COMBINED capex total for Shell, Exxon, BP, Chevron, and Total. Put another way, that’s enough capital to outspend 7 Shell’s and 7 Exxon’s. These are staggering numbers. Bloomberg reports cleantech venture capital was […] […]
  Neal Dikeman