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This year saw record-breaking solar output | Published on 29/12/2023
Led by new solar power, the world added renewable energy at breakneck speed in 2023.
Clean energy is often now the least expensive option, explaining some of the growth. Nations also adopted policies that support renewables, some citing energy security concerns, according to the International Energy Agency.
The IEA projected that more than 440 gigawatts of renewable energy would be added in 2023, more than the entire installed power capacity of Germany and Spain together.
Solar panel prices fell a whopping 40 to 53 per cent in Europe between December 2022 and November 2023 and are now at record lows.
In the US, solar manufacturing grew as well. “We have seen the impact of the Inflation Reduction Act in terms of fuelling investments... More than 60 solar manufacturing facilities were announced over the past year,” says Abigail Ross Hopper, president and CEO of the Solar Energy Industries Association.
Much more at https://www.euronews.com/green/2023/12/29/europe-us-china-where-instal
led-the-most-wind-and-solar-power-in-2023
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Brian Brettschneider @Climatologist49
December 2023 was the warmest December on record for the Contiguous U.S. by a wide margin using Prism Climate Group data. It was 0.67°F (0.37°C) warmer than December 2021.
10:07 AM · Jan 1, 2024
https://twitter.com/Climatologist49/status/1741853667270205936
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Brian Brettschneider @Climatologist49
December 2023 was the warmest December on record for the Contiguous U.S. by a wide margin using Prism Climate Group data. It was 0.67°F (0.37°C) warmer than December 2021.
10:07 AM · Jan 1, 2024
https://twitter.com/Climatologist49/status/1741853667270205936
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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
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Dood. You don't need to convince me about climate shift.
Too bad you ruined your credibility on EVERY ISSUE you post about. By lying. Constantly.
If you really cared for any of those "issues", you'd try for SOME semblance of truthiness. But your overwhelming impression is that you only care about virtue signalling and hating everyone who isn't you.
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Disclaimer: This article is written from a very pro-Leftist take on the issue. But this is why I go out of my way to take in news from both sides of the issue instead of just being in an echo chamber all day long.
That being said...
https://www.motortrend.com/news/ford-f-150-lightning-ev-pickup-truck-p
roduction-reduction-report/
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You might have seen the news today: Ford is slashing production of its theoretically popular F-150 Lightning EV pickup due to tumbling demand, amid slowing growth—not a downturn!—in EV sales. As Automotive News reports (subscription required), Ford sent a message to suppliers to expect that Lightning production would be cut to 1,600 units a week, half of the line's full capacity of 3,200 units per week. Thing is, Ford's not telling what the line is actually running at now (it could be spitting out fewer than 3,200 trucks), so without that number, the news is either as dramatic as it seems or not. Either way, that Ford's hyped electric truck will be produced in half the numbers it was originally slated to less than two years after its launch is news.
By next year it will be less than that.
The price is far from the only barrier to entry on Electric Vehicles. Add to that the fact that at least half the country knows how much carbon emitted from mining the materials necessary and for feeding the electricity grid since electricity isn't magic and this isn't Hogwarts. Also add the fact that there will be no used car market because nobody will buy a used EV at a discounted price when they know the battery can go out at any moment and cost them $26,000 to replace. Add again to that the average full coverage insurance policy for an EV is north of $5,000 per year. Then just add the factor of the fear of the unknown as well as the unwillingness of many to change the little things in their life let alone something big like switching to an EV.
EVs are a product that might work in the future, but we aren't there yet, and our government forced the product when it wasn't ready and the car companies are all messed up because of that now.
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The Lightning was supposed to be somewhat affordable, with a starting price of $41,669 when it went on sale in May 2022. That price was a mirage; the truck started at $52,000 when it went on sale (and snagged our 2023 Truck of the Year award).
Right. That's exactly what I told you was going to happen. I see you forgot to mention that immediately after the Biden* Administration announced a $7,500 subsidy on the purchase of a new EV that GM and Ford immediately raised the prices on their new EVs by $7,500. You should probably mention that.
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Quote:Signym, the only solutions you have forwarded to climate change are to plant one trillion trees, cut back the Pentagon's fuel budget by 90%, stop the rich from owning private aircraft, and install solar panels on your roof in California. If you live in California, solar panels are great, but your other "solutions" won't happen. This can happen:
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Dood. You don't need to convince me about climate shift.
Too bad you ruined your credibility on EVERY ISSUE you post about. By lying. Constantly.
If you really cared for any of those "issues", you'd try for SOME semblance of truthiness. But your overwhelming impression is that you only care about virtue signalling and hating everyone who isn't you.
Airloom Energy, a Wyoming-based wind energy startup backed by Bill Gates, created a revolutionary wind-powered technology that it claims can slash energy costs by nearly 70%.
While wind energy continues to get cheaper as more wind farms come online, the turbines themselves are outrageously expensive — a standard utility-scale 2.5 MW horizontal-axis wind turbine (HAWT) can cost roughly $2.1 million, according to an example cited on the Airloom website.
In comparison, the startup’s unique wind power system — simply called AirLoom — comes in at just under $225,000 for a 2.5 MW system. It estimates an entire 20 MW AirLoom wind farm would cost less than $6 million — only about 25% of what conventional wind farms normally cost.
The cost savings can be attributed mostly to the AirLoom’s vastly smaller size and intuitive design that resembles a racetrack, with several 82-foot poles suspending the track in the air. A number of 33-foot blades, or wings, are placed evenly along the oval-shaped track, propelled by air currents to generate energy.
Standard “pinwheel” turbines reach staggering heights of 500 feet or more, with the average tower now more than 320 feet tall, holding up massive 210-plus-foot blades, per the U.S. Department of Energy.
Though the wings on the AirLoom are much smaller, they still could reportedly generate the same energy as HAWT blades in part due to generators connected to the system that spin at 5,000 RPM, compared to 12 RPM for traditional turbines, according to a video on the Airloom website.
https://www.yahoo.com/tech/bill-gates-backed-startup-develops-07300069
2.html
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Jan 3, 2024 - VW's Solid State Cell Holds Up for 300K Miles
Solid-state batteries promise to significantly speed up EV charging and extend their range by hundreds of miles. Among the companies racing to bring them to market is Volkswagen, which says it found a solid-state formula with better longevity than traditional lithium-ion batteries.
Volkswagen did not create the new battery; it was developed by QuantumScape, a California-based battery technology company. QuantumScape provided a prototype to Volkswagen Group-owned PowerCo, which then tested its performance over several months.
The results far exceeded expectations. PowerCo says the cell retained 95% of its range capacity after 1,000 charging cycles, or the equivalent of roughly 300,000 miles. The current industry standard for EVs targets 20% capacity loss over 700 charging cycles . . .
https://www.pcmag.com/news/no-more-ev-battery-replacements-vws-solid-s
tate-cell-holds-up-for-300k
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Bet it doesn't hold up in the cold...
http://fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?tid=65848
EVs are going the way of the dinosaur. And fast.
All the people who wanted one already bought one, and they got fucked on the deal.
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EPA proposes a fee aimed at reducing climate-warming methane emissions
January 12, 2024, 5:09 PM ET
Excess methane produced this year would result in a fee of $900 per ton, with fees rising to $1,500 per ton by 2026.
The fee will encourage early deployment of available technologies to reduce methane emissions. Methane is over 80 times more potent than carbon dioxide. (At least 25% of today's global warming is driven by methane)
https://www.npr.org/2024/01/12/1224508796/methane-emissions-epa-fee
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How YouTube’s climate deniers turned into climate doomers
A new report documents a sharp rise in arguments that clean energy and climate policies won't work.
By Kate Yoder | Jan 16, 2024
https://grist.org/accountability/youtube-climate-denial-solutions-misi
nformation/
Imagine if you could walk from your house to anywhere you needed to go in less than 15 minutes: the pharmacy, the bakery, the gym, and then back to the bakery. In certain corners of the internet, this urban planning concept of “15-minute cities” gets a shady, sinister gloss. Conspiracy theorists evoke COVID restrictions and tout efforts to create walkable cities as steps toward “climate lockdowns.” They warn of a plot by the World Economic Forum to restrict people’s movements, trapping and surveilling them in their neighborhoods.
“They want to take away your cars,” claims Clayton Morris, a former Fox News host, in a YouTube video that’s been viewed 1.7 million times.
YouTube is riddled with false claims like these, so it’s the place to document the evolution of arguments against taking action on climate change. A new report from the Center for Countering Digital Hate, a nonprofit based in London and Washington, D.C., working to stop the spread of disinformation, analyzed 12,000 videos from channels that promoted lies about climate change on YouTube over the last six years. Over that time, the reality of climate change long predicted by scientists has become increasingly difficult to dismiss. The report, released on Tuesday, found a dramatic shift from “old denial” arguments — that global warming isn’t real and isn’t caused by humans — to new arguments bent on undermining trust in climate solutions.
“The success is that the science has won this debate on anthropogenic climate change,” said Imran Ahmed, the nonprofit’s founder and CEO. “The opponents of action have shifted their attention.”
The report suggests that, rather than doing a victory lap, climate advocates may want to focus on defending climate policies and renewable energy as necessary and effective. As the world was besieged by intense heat, expansive wildfires, and catastrophic floods in recent years, YouTubers promoting disinformation increasingly embraced “new denial” narratives, such as that solar panels will destroy the economy and the environment, or that the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is a “fraud.”
“What it is doing is creating a cohort of people who believe climate change is happening, but believe there’s no hope,” Ahmed said. People start watching YouTube at a young age — in 2020, more than half of parents in the U.S. with a child 11 years old or younger said their kid watched videos on the platform on a daily basis. New polling from the center, released alongside the study, found that a third of U.S. teens say that climate policies cause more harm than good.
Six years ago, these “new denial” claims made up 35 percent of denier’s arguments on YouTube; now, they make up 70 percent of the total. The fastest-growing assertions were that the climate movement is unreliable and that clean energy won’t work.
More at https://grist.org/accountability/youtube-climate-denial-solutions-misi
nformation/
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Conservatives hate electric cars
By Kevin Drum | January 17, 2024 – 10:42 pm
Bob Somerby has been watching a lot of Fox News lately:
"We've been surprised by one persistent talking point as we've come to watch more and more of the nation's red tribe cable news:
We've been surprised by the persistence with which red tribe stars pound away at electric vehicles."
Funny thing: I've been meaning to mention that too. Over at National Review, they gleefully highlight anything that can be plausibly considered a knock on electric cars. Every malfunction, every missed sales target, every consumer complaint, every goal to increase EV adoption. Hardly a day goes by without some kind of slam on electric cars.
Why? If you don't want an electric car, don't get one. I'm A-OK with that. But what's the point of bad-mouthing those who do want one?
Now, I'm not an idiot. I know the answer perfectly well: EVs are favored by those who want to do something about climate change, and anything associated with climate change has to be relentlessly attacked. Solar power. Wind farms. LED light bulbs. Efficient houses. You name it.
It's all ridiculous. Even if you think climate change is a big hoax electrification is still good. "Clean" doesn't apply only to CO2, after all. Getting rid of smog and fine particulates is a big win all by itself.
But no matter. Anything that can be interpreted as caring about climate change has to be fought desperately. In no way can climate change ever be acknowledged as a problem, since that would imply the government doing something about it. And that can't be tolerated.
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