Articles by David Roberts
David Roberts was a staff writer for Grist. You can follow him on Twitter, if you're into that sort of thing.
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Things I learned from the L.A. Times piece on Dingell
Rep. John Dingell is Polish stock — his immigrant grandfather changed the name from Dzieglewicz. Who knew?
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Go big or play it safe
I’ve had the Lieberman-Warner climate bill proposal (PDF) printed out for a couple weeks now, but still haven’t gotten around to reading it. Bad blogger! The general assessment from other quarters seems to be: eh. Medium. The big flaw is that it gives around 25% 75% of its permits away. Bad, bad, bad, but maybe […]
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Comin’ ’round the bend
Coming to a showroom near you: a $30,000 all-electric sedan with a top speed of 80mph and a range of 120 miles per charge. Why the low price? It’s made in China, with cheap labor and advanced lithium ion batteries that came out of government-funded research. There’s competition: Phoenix Motors has a four-door utility truck […]
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Why aren’t people doing this stuff already?
DR: If every industrial facility in the world has been throwing money on the ground, why has it taken so long for somebody to come along and pick it up? What’s the catch? TC: EPA did a study and it appears that we can generate 20 percent of our electricity with industrial energy that’s now […]
