For The Archives -- Clearing Out The In-Box -- February 8, 2021

Frigid northeast: ISO New England continues to burn coal and oil -- 

Why Ford and Mercedes are moving to trucks:

New records, from TheWSJ, what's not to like:

The Russell 2000 action today made me think of Sophia this past weekend:

It's hard to see due to my filming, but Sophia gave her dad a head start (on the right). She caught up with him and either beat him by a "hand" or it was a photo-finish tie.

Amazon to buy 1,000 CNG vans:

• Amazon's orders and deliveries surged in 2020;
• online retailers sales rose 38% in 2020;
• plans to run a carbon-neutral business by 2040;
• engines to be supplied by Cummins Inc and Vancouver-based Westport Fuel Systems, Inc;
• are to be used for Amazn's heavy-duty trucks that run from warehouses to distribution centers;
• they can operate on both renewable and no-renewable natural gas;
• in 2019, Amazon ordered 100,000 electric vans from startup Rivian Automotive LLC; last-mile delivery
• first of these will be delivered to Amazon this year (2021)
• the company also ordered 1,800 electric vans from Mercedes-Benz for its European delivery fleet;

 
Amazon moves on its largest renewable project -- off-shore northern Europe -- link to Julianne Geiger:

• Hollandse Kust Noord
• wind farm in the Netherlands, currently be developed by The Crosswind
• will supply the power through a project known as the Amazon-Shell HKN OffshoreWind Project
• Crosswind: oil giant Royal Dutch Shell and Mitsubishi subsidiary Eneco
• completion date: 2023
• capacity: 759 WM
• yearly generation: 3.3 TWh
• project will include a floating solar energy farm; a short-term battery storage (Musk?), turbines programmed not to interfere with each other; and green hydrogen as a storage technique: this Rube Goldberg project all designed to provide more a continuous power supply from a renewable energy source, wind, known for being notoriously sporadic, with huge peaks and valleys;

And, finally, from the UK, hope it was worth it:

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