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- I’ve been driving 4 totally different electrical automobiles for nearly 11 years. (See 3 of the 4 together with the Tesla Mannequin 3 that I’ve been driving the final 5 years in first determine under)
- I put photo voltaic panels on my roof in Utah in 2014 (see the twond determine under) and simply had them taken off and put again on for a brand new roof this month.
- I stay in congested, booming northern Utah and drive my Tesla incessantly on a 12-lane freeway (I-15) within the winter as proven within the 3rd determine under.
- The remainder of the time within the winter we’re in much less populated sunny Saint George in southern Utah.
- My spouse and I and a small rescue canine spend our summers on a lake the place I expertise driving my Tesla in rural northern Wisconsin, as proven within the 4th determine under.
- Along with doing the 3000-mile roundtrip to Wisconsin and again 5 instances, we’ve pushed to each US coasts all within the Tesla. We’ve accomplished over 140,000 miles of metropolitan, rural, and cross-country driving within the Tesla. See examples of each the empty and full Superchargers we have now utilized in these travels within the 5th determine under
- I taught alpine snowboarding at Brighton Ski Resort for 10 years, so I’ve quite a lot of expertise driving electrical automobiles on snowy mountain canyon roads. (See images of summer time and winter Tesla driving within the 6th determine under)
- I’ve been driving obsessively with Tesla’s Full Self Driving now for 32 months.
- I’m an emeritus analysis scientist for NASA Goddard House Flight Heart and at age 84 I’ve been retired for almost 20 years. I’ve traveled extensively in my work and since, and have noticed clear power manufacturing and electrical transportation wherever I’ve gone.
- I’m an skilled laptop consumer, author, photographer, and photograph editor.
In my travels, I see progress towards clear power manufacturing throughout the nation: for instance, a small wind farm in Spanish Fork, Utah, and the transportation of a wind turbine blade on I-90 in South Dakota, and a large wind turbine farm in southern California as seen within the determine under. I additionally noticed enormous photo voltaic farms and as soon as even a concentrated photo voltaic array in southern California.
In my travels I’ve noticed the introduction of electrical buses: 1) I’ve seen the whole conversion to electrical buses at Zion Nationwide Park in Utah. 2) With the assistance of my brother, I’ve noticed the introduction of electrical buses in Madison, Wisconsin. 3) I’ve noticed a big introduction of electrical buses in Salt Lake Metropolis, Utah, and 4) When my spouse and I visited Paris, France, final spring we noticed the introduction of electrical buses on one line there. You possibly can see images of the electrical buses in these places within the determine under.
In my life and travels I’ve noticed numerous types of clear public transportation. My brothers and I took the Straßenbahn (road automotive) to high school daily once we lived in Munich for a 12 months in 1955. My spouse and I had been common customers of the Paris Metro (subway) once we lived there for 6-months in 1975. Once I traveled for NASA, on one event I took the AMTRAK excessive pace (by US requirements) electrified Acela practice from Washington, DC to New York Metropolis, New York. You possibly can see my Acela practice within the photograph under. With new nonstop service, the journey time is 2 hours and 35 minutes. That is actually sooner than air from downtown to downtown when you think about journey to and from airports and safety check-in.
Europe: All of the passenger trains I’ve traveled on in Europe are electrified. My spouse, daughter, and grandson and I took the high-speed TGV (Prepare à Grande Vitesse) on a 6-hour journey from Paris to Munich in 2013. At nearly 200 mph, it’s an important different to air journey with a a lot smaller environmental footprint. You possibly can see TGV trains at Paris Gare de l’Est within the photograph under and a TGV practice with its pantograph and overhead wires within the central France countryside within the following determine. I took the night time sleeper practice from Vienna to Zurich once I was in Europe on enterprise in 2013. My spouse and I traveled by rail from Prague to Český Krumlov within the Czech Republic and from Paris to Chartres in France once we had been in Europe not too long ago.
Australia: When my daughter served as Adobe’s far east gross sales supervisor in 2015-16, we lived along with her in Sydney Australia, for a number of weeks on three events. We rode a practice on the Sydney Trains Community from her home close to Bondi Junction to the Round Quai within the Central Enterprise District (CBD). The practice was on one route of a 229-mile community of electrical rail serving Sydney and its suburbs. At Round Quai, you could possibly catch a ferry to the entire Sydney suburbs that line the huge Harbour. Whereas the ferries are diesel-powered, they’re extra environment friendly than vehicle journey and can be targets of future electrification. On one other event, I put my bike on the practice and rode it to the CBD. I bought off close to the one “bike-safe” road within the CBD and rode it onto the Harbour Bridge. You possibly can see these occasions illustrated within the determine under. Almost all of those technique of public transportation make the most of metal wheels on metal rails to effectively transfer giant numbers of individuals with electrical motor propulsion and power seize on deceleration, so that they use a lot much less power per individual than cars.
Thailand: Earlier when my daughter was working for Intel Inc. in Bangkok, Thailand for 2 years we bought to go to her there twice. Inside strolling distance of her 25th flooring excessive rise condominium was the only elevated electrical sky-train line which intersected with a pair subway strains. You would journey to the large Bangkok market or the river (See the Sky Prepare and river journey within the determine under) however not a lot else. Journey by automotive or van on town streets of Bangkok was so congested that you simply needed to plan on about one mile per hour. That was in 2004, 20 years later, taking a look at a Bangkok commuter rail map there are various extra public transportation choices.
Vietnam: I couldn’t resist together with this. In 2005 I used to be invited to present lectures for NASA in Bangkok, Thailand, and Hanoi, Vietnam. I imagine if I had visited Hanoi 20 years earlier, everybody would have been driving bicycles. In 2005 in Hanoi, there was just about no public transportation, however the streets had been swarming with bikes. It was an eye-opening expertise to see a rustic in such an early stage of growth. The {photograph} under reveals a motorbike lineup at a stoplight and one of the wonderful sights, a household of 5 driving on a motorbike — the Hanoi model of a SUV! There have been some bicycles, some rickshaws for vacationers like us, a handful of cars, and an occasional minibus, however in any other case bikes had been the dominant technique of transportation. Even the taxis had been bikes, and I rode on my first bike taxi. I’m certain that within the intervening 20 years there are some electrical bikes. Possibly there’s even some public transportation. However if you happen to assume we have now the whole lot found out, this illustration says we don’t.
Expertise as a pc consumer, author, photographer and photograph editor: I’m an skilled author, photographer, and photograph editor. I wrote over 40 peer-reviewed articles as a NASA scientist. I’ve written 7 photo-biographical books since my retirement from NASA. They’re out there from Amazon.com (search on Arthur Frederick Hasler). Lastly, that is my 141st article printed by CleanTechnica. From my time at NASA and since, I’ve been a techno-nerd who has all the time tried to make use of the most recent know-how. I’ve been utilizing Apple computer systems because the 2e and the primary Mac. See my present Mac Mini M2 with 8-Terabyte SD drive, 8-terabyte backup arduous drive with a normal 28″ 4K Costco-purchased TV monitor that I used to jot down this text within the photograph under. I’ve been utilizing Microsoft Phrase since model 1.0. I’ve been utilizing Adobe Photoshop since model 1.0. I simply bought Photoshop Components 2025 and may’t wait to begin utilizing its Synthetic Intelligence enhancements. My main digital camera is a digital full body Nikon DSLR 750 with a ten x (28-300 mm) zoom. I’ve been utilizing Apple iPhones since their introduction, nonetheless, my iPhone 15 Professional Max with lenses starting from excessive huge angle to 5X telephoto is so good and so helpful that has taken over nearly all of my images and videography. See my Nikon 750 DSLR and iPhone 15 Professional Max within the second photograph under.
Photographs by Fritz Hasler.
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