The Myth of Clean Energy
POSTED BY: 6ixStringJack
UPDATED: Friday, June 19, 2026 17:34
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There has been huge progress in another energy technology — batteries:
Source: RMI https://rmi.org/the-rise-of-batteries-in-six-charts-and-not-too-many-n
umbers/
Batteries, in turn, work synergistically with solar power, making it possible to generate power when the sun shines and use it after dark. Here, for example, is what happened last February in California: In California, batteries stored nearly a third of solar generation on a sunny February day, shifting it into the evening
Source: Ember https://ember-energy.org/latest-insights/us-electricity-2025-special-r
eport/insight-2-the-rise-of-batteries-plus-solar/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Originally posted by second:Quote:What argument would have convinced the Confederates not to rebel?
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
We're fucking done with you, Second. Shut the fuck up and spend a few days to yourself without any news and see for yourself if it's even possible for you to come up with one single good idea to dig the Democratic Party out of the grave that it's lying in.
Otherwise, shut the fuck up.
YOU are NOT the good guy.
Get that through your thick skull.
America hates you.
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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon
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Well, SECOND, until batteries get well south of $15,000 for enough KWH to limp us thru a night until the next morning (thinking emergency response), it'll still be too expensive for us, and WAAAAY more expensive than a trifuel generator.
For regional application, you need enough juice to at least power you through one whole night, not just "shift" consumption by a few hours.
And while it's true that ON THE AVERAGE some areas generate a significant amount of electricity with renewables, there will STILL be peaks and troughs. Some days/vweeks/ months will be SUPER!
50%+ renewables!
But sometimes you'll run into EXTREMELY LONG troughs, like the one summer in England that was hot but also very, very still. You have to plan for the worst case, not just wave your hands and hope for averages.
AFA killing a nearly-completed project ... well, that's as stupid as crashing a perfectly functional satellite. Really really stupid.
What can I say? Trump does some really stupid things. I knew I was going to disagree wildly with Trump on Mideast policy and climate change. If Dems hadn't done even stupider things, and had stood a sensible candidate with reasonable policies, I wouldn't have had to vote in the gutter.
Stop whining about Trump! That's a losing proposition for Dems. If you want Dems to win, tell them to STFU about Trump and Russia.
Run better candidates, ones who will follow through on nationalist policies that will benefit all Americans, not just some, and I'll vote for them.
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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger
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Deuterium fusion rates improved with innovative benchtop reactor
https://www.earth.com/news/deuterium-fusion-rates-improved-with-innova
tive-benchtop-reactor/
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Donald Trump, Champion of Renewable Energy
His humiliating defeat in Iran has sealed the deal
Paul Krugman
Jun 19, 2026
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/donald-trump-champion-of-renewable
On Wednesday the Interior Department announced that it would pay the energy developer Invenergy $765 million not to develop three offshore wind farms. This is the third such payment by the Trump administration to undo offshore wind projects that have been years in the planning. Trump has so far committed $2.5 billion in taxpayer dollars to killing renewable energy projects. The administration has also tried to stop offshore wind farms already under development — moves that have been blocked by the courts — while the Pentagon has been refusing to grant routine permits for onshore wind projects.
Yes, $2.5 billion to destroy already-approved, cost-effective clean energy projects while Americans are suffering from soaring electricity prices thanks to data centers and high gasoline prices.
Yet here’s the irony: Donald Trump’s disastrous Iran war has delivered a huge boost for renewable energy around the world — except in the U.S.. Trump has so far done more to shift the global economy away from fossil fuels and towards renewable energy than any other single individual in history.
Why do Trump and his gang hate green energy so much? The roots of their hatred range from the power of fossil fuel interests, to Trump’s petulant whine that wind turbines ruined the view from his Scottish golf course, to a general sense among right-wingers that clean energy threatens their masculinity.
What’s best for Americans has nothing to do with it. Thus, Trump lackeys justifying their hostility to renewables consistently make arguments even they must know are stupid. Consider, for example, an exchange last month between Doug Burgum, secretary of the interior, and Rep. Jared Huffman of Nevada:
Burgum: All of these projects you’re describing in Nevada have one thing in common—when the sun goes down, they produce zero electricity.
Huffman: Mr. Chairman, I request unanimous consent to enter in the record this amazing new technology that apparently the secretary is unaware of: It’s a battery.
Indeed. To get a clearer understanding of far battery technology has progressed in enabling the transition to renewables, let’s look at how the state of California sourced its electricity this past Wednesday. The chart below shows megawatts supplied at 15-minute intervals over the course of the day. The area shaded yellow represents daylight hours. The light blue line at the top is electricity generated by renewables, mainly solar power (with some wind and hydro as well). In addition to supplying energy for current consumption, renewables supply energy to batteries for nighttime consumption. The black line at the bottom is net electricity supply from batteries — which is negative when batteries are charging, positive when they’re being drawn down:
California — which would be the world’s 4th largest economy if it were a country — gets more than half of its electricity from renewables. It is rapidly becoming a state largely powered by the sun during daylight hours and powered by batteries during the night.
Burgum’s suggestion that solar is an unproven or unreliable technology is completely at odds with reality.
Nor is California the only economy that now makes substantial use of renewable energy. Burgum’s home state of North Dakota gets more than a third of its electricity from wind power (don’t tell Trump). In South Dakota wind supplies 57 percent of the electricity. And renewables generate a large share of electricity in many countries, including most big European economies. (France is the outlier, not because it relies on fossil fuels, but because it has large nuclear capacity.) Spain, for example, now reli
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