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Herecin thecUSxit challenges the income and profit of the donors to our politicians so we will continue to shut down any efforts to bring down costs or solve climate change. 🤬😡🤡

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Hopefully making Oil-and-Gas advocates like Richard Tice sound even more like bought-and-paid-for reactionary shills than they already do.

America suffers from Old White Men with No Vision Syndrome.

Waste products of batteries can be recycled. There isn't any other tech that is anywhere are closed cycle as wind+solar+batteries.

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That’s funny. Solar power is actually costing more than it was before it was solar. In the last 2 yrs my electric billed has almost doubled.

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it" The Fossil Industrial Complex is fighting tooth and nail to obfuscate what you are saying. They are in the same position as Big Tobacco before them, and using the same tactics, on steroids

Yep. I do know that but it's nice to see the story. It won't last. Biden did alot. He went out with a bang.

Without Solar Power...I would not be alive.....Thank you sun...

Make the Cuyahoga River burn again!

1950 had too many New Deal programs still in effect. Try 1850

They aren't here and they aren't ready to go. Pricewise they are north of $20000 per kW for FOAK (before state assistance). I would say it's mostly hot air but it literally won't produce any meaningful hot air earlier than in 10-15 years.

The best part is you don’t have to get into stupid arguments with climate change deniers to make the point about renewables. Money talks.

It’s obvious to some. Not so much to others who want to continue to rape the planet, and use up finite resources.

A solar farm is being developed near my home with nearly 900,000 panels. Quite big them. I am hoping that these will be largely recyclable at their end of life. Imagine how many trucks will be needed to take them away.

but the oil Oligarchs noticed😠

cc: greedy CEOs in the fossil fuel industry

I live in the Southern California desert, where it hit 118°F/48°C yesterday. I have solar panels, and so far this year I have paid US $20 to the electric utility company.

“Little notice?” American Republicans are destroying the choice for the rest of us. Leaving us behind as the rest of the world moves forward.

Shucks. Imagine that!

But not in the US. The Orange Ape and his cult go coal.

There are reasons beyond economics to decarbonize one's life.

There was an election for the Public Services Commission last month in Georgia. There was 2% voter turnout. Our utility companies have no incentive to decarbonize their grids and provide cheaper energy to Americans because the American electorate doesn't care about that stuff sadly.

You are absolutely correct!!

Take into account that US regulations and whatnot make rooftop solar 2-3 times more expensive than the global average. Australia installs them at less than 1/3 the US price. So pay back in the US is crazy high.

Here in Pennsylvania the ROI is 12 to 15 years. Probably because we have net metering so when my solar panels are generating more than I am using I am putting that power into the grid and getting credit for it at the same price per KH that I pay when I’m drawing from the grid.

Because you're getting ripped off by having to use locally made panels and high tariffs on imported parts. As others have said Australians pay about a third what Americans pay for similar sized systems

The next time you hear an antiFarsite insisting that the Iranian nuclear energy and isotopes program 'has to be a weapons program because they have lots of oil' remember that the knly ME manufacturer of wind turbines is IRAN

If you want people to notice it, keep running stories like this. Renewable energy, sustainable companies, Earth First is the future

Biden did this.

And yet some want to carry on destroying the planet.

Don’t let facts get in the way of firing up coal powered plants

This "little notice" is intentional. The media are not reporting on it so that the fossil fuel lobby can continue to spread its fairy tale that renewable energies are not good enough.

The world minus the U.S. where the president continues to be a ridiculous uneducated clown.

except in the U.S. you mean right? Of course it is.

We’ll take it. Knew it would happen eventually. They’ll claim they were always for it. And we’ll muffle our screams of frustration over the hypocrisy

Except in the US, where they are reopening coal mines.

Exactly. And our socialist (taxpayer subsidized) fossil fuel industry owns most of Congress so US will continue to destroy our climate for profit.

Except in that largish portion of the world lying between Canada and Mexico apparently!

Unfortunately we have China, not America, to thank for this. China’s strategy of state planned industry and intervention paid off massively here. The Invisible Hand was obviously busy doing something else.

Which is why trump is against it.

Not here in neanderthal America!

Trump’s timing is impeccable.🧑‍🍳💋

Meanwhile the orange stain doubles down on fossil fuels.

While nuclear has its benefits - its also hella expensive and way to slow to build. With cheap solar it just is not part of the discussion unless you force it in ideologically.

Nuclear is perfect. For the Fossil Industry. Slow and expensive to build out, giving them more time to scalp society on energy and less dangerous competition.

"suddenly become the obvious" to the New Yorker Solar has been competitive since 2013, wind since before chart en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:El...

We spent money, people worked, progress

And yet we are stuck with "Donnie dark ages" dragging us into the abyss of the past while the rest of the world competes with us with renewable energy. Stupid people.....

And then what is going to happen, when there is a breakthrough in efficiency, like 50%, then even controlled fusion will be obsolete. A small panel on your roof.

Lots of people noticed. Just not your colleagues in the main stream media. They were too busy getting Trump elected.

okay, so why is el trumpo setting us back a century with coal?

Yes. He is ceding the future of energy systems to other countries. The US will end up importing technology, not creating it. That is the true consequence.

Those of us in the renewable energy field have noticed. Renewable energy coupled with energy storage is deployable, creates jobs, and it's affordable. It's not perfect, but nothing is. Let's get on with this.

Trumps are against anything that saves us money. He wants control of everything we might own.

Oh WOW what a surprise/ not

That’s why legacy energy giants are pivoting from denial to delay. The propaganda playbook shifts, but the strategy’s the same: protect the House at all costs. 📜 dailyliesreport.substack.com/p/the-powell...

Alas, in the United States of America...

Which, unfortunately Trump is trying to back pedal because his Big Oil buddies are paying him to. "Fuck the environment, look at all the money they're giving me!"

The problem is that it isn’t cost efficient when subsidies are needed. But continue doing the research to make renewables such as solar smaller, cheaper and aesthetically pleasing to the eye. Only then will the industry dominate.

President Carter knew that in 1977 and Reagan destroyed it because he was an oil man so don't give us the 2 past years BS. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_p...

Fantastic article and very engaging (nice writing). I had no idea that solar power generation was growing so rapidly (and even in Texas, oil capital of the US and the reddest of states). I do hope that nobody brings this to the attention of Trump - he’ll only f*ck it up!

Here's another set of facts that counter climate doomerism. The curves are exponential. When the going gets tough, the tough gets going. Be part of the change and the hope, not the status quo and indignation. ember-energy.org/latest-insig...

I beg to differ. It is a narrative pushed to make us give up. Forecasts are not absolute facts. What we are witnessing is an exponential growth of renewables, that may well replace much of fossil fuels in the next decade. We will likely breach many of the dangerous thresholds, but not apocalypse

not that simple unfortunately

Shade moves

Well, hold on for the effects of the BBB. All of the forward looking science based Clean Energy tax incentives/credits and the Real Investors/Companies relying on the same, will be screwed over by the Whale Oil, Luddite MAGA Brains currently in charge. 2026 Must be a BIG "MAGAECTOMY" ..for democracy

Imagine a country where: The demand for energy is exploding. There are vast expanses of land could house HUGE solar and wind farms. AND YET The country's leadership does everything it can to SQUASH renewable energy. I guess there's just not enough opportunity for grift.

That's only grid energy. Add carbon-neutral hydrocarbons from biomass & nuclear! Biomass + hydrogen + nuclear heat pushed through a refinery, and, TADA, all the liquid fuel needs met without burning fossil fuels & changing infrastructure Then, heat/transport energy could be carbon-neutral, too!

MAGA will end that for us.

they invented "Carbon Footprint"

Well duh! I desperately want solar with battery storage in my house! I'm just disabled & cannot afford it!

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Oh you're not the sharpest knife in the drawer.

What about the carbon footprint of an oil refinery, how does that stack up against solar?

Are you certain the US isn't already there?

Return of the Sun God

Except here...so much winning here in the US.

You fucking bastards, do you think I've forgotten how you ruthlessly hounded Joe Biden while kissing Trump's ass? Fuck you and your lousy magazine, the fascists you enable hate solar power, I hope you have a wonderful day with your filthy enabling. Oh yeah fuck you, fuck you twice.

Please let the USA return to normalcy and once again become part of the solution instead of the problem.

www.cnn.com/2025/05/01/c...

Project 2025 wants us back to the 50s.

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‘In the past two years’….🙄

Except for backwards Republicans

Just heard about the ocean turbine in Scotland, so cool. 6 years of uninterrupted power.

Except in the USA🇺🇸, where it is illegal to subsidize these industries but is legal to prop up coal, oil & gas.

Wow, pulled back from fascism

Don't tell our current administration. They like to be in the dark. I mean, really.

He’ll succeed in the short term, and America will stumble for a bit as a result, but globally it’s over. The rocket has launched and is gaining speed.

Nice article, but it belittles the condition. To get a real time assessment of environmental reality watch any YouTube program with Johan Rockstrom. Vaya con Dios

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Thanks for giving it a plug 😇

Sorry. I think I have the wrong link? There is a news report that showed how warning sirens have worked to save lives. Let me check...

And that is precisely why the GQP is so adamantly opposed to it. That, and their donors wallets.

"Burning Questions:" A conversation with Bill McKibben about his new book on solar power one.npr.org/i/fis-103969...