Does the idea of an e-bike battery spontaneously bursting into flames between your legs worry you? It should! In the Daily Caller, Steve Goreham shows how world leaders are overlooking the growing safety hazards from “green” energy. Electric vehicles, grid-scale batteries and similar e-technologies are bursting into flames left and right, making them far more dangerous than internal combustion engines. Even more dangerous hydrogen applications are coming next.
At Least He Paid his Losing Bet
Paul Ehrlich, author of the spectacularly incorrect 1968 best-seller The Population Bomb, recently died at 93. Despite his longevity, Ronald Bailey points out in Reason, Ehrlich did not live to see even one of his numerous apocalyptic predictions come true. The world’s population certainly grew, but not merely larger, richer and fatter too. Most famously, Ehrlich once bet economist Julian Simon that the world was approaching economic collapse – but in 1990 had to mail Simon a cheque.
