5 Things: Lost Billions, Money Pits, Offshore Wind, Subsidies, E-car Subsidies
Billions Lost Three billion birds gone since 1970. This is the result from the latest comprehensive review of North American birds. It’s a startling number that suggests that the reduction of habitat...
View ArticleAfter tilting at Scottish windmills and losing, Trump refuses to pay legal bills
Severin Carrell reported yesterday in the Guardian that the Trump Organization is refusing to accept a legal bill of tens of thousands of pounds for the Scottish government’s court costs when it...
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Renewable Friday: Tech News Roundup
When I was writing just Renewable Friday Diaries once a week, I couldn't keep up with the news from PV Magazine and Power and many other sources. Now I can pick out a few choice items from time to...
View ArticleTrump Warns Americans of the Danger of Windmills.
On the Chris Matthews show “Hardball” on Monday December 23, as well as a brief segment on the “11th Hour with Brian Williams,” featuring Brian Williams, President Donald “Fat Boy”Trump was, to the...
View ArticleInteresting Rail News from Germany, England, and India. Then There's America...
A 42 MW solar park is being built in eastern Germany to help power rail lines.German rail operator Deutsche Bahn and solar project developer Enerparc have signed a contract for construction of a 42 MW...
View ArticleWind Turbines in Western MD: Prop. Rights, Power Politics, Public Process,...
June 4, 2020Wind Turbines in Western Maryland: Property Rights, Power Politics, Public Process, NIMBYism and the Dual Environmental ThreatsStatement by Bill of RightsThis essay is dedicated to all...
View ArticleBritain Has Now Gone Two Months Without Electricity From Coal
Britain has now gone two months without generating electricity from coal. The last generator was taken off line at midnight local time on April 9. The previous record of 18 days, 6 hours and 10 minutes...
View ArticleDid Ya Hear The One About the North Dakota County That "Banned" Solar Power?
Nestled in north central North Dakota, between Bismarck and Minot, McLean County is pretty much in the heart of the state’s “coal country”. As a state, North Dakota has tied its economic fortunes to...
View ArticleMessing with Texas: The Lone Star state’s power grid is working exactly as...
On President’s Day, many in Texas received an unexpected “gift” that was even less welcome than a day filled with discount mattress ads, as the state was plagued by a series of rolling blackouts. The...
View ArticleBlackout continues in Texas, as Republicans blame everything but the real...
On Wednesday morning, millions of homes in Texas are still without power as a prolonged blackout continues. Meanwhile, the temperature in Austin, Texas, is expected to approach freezing for the first...
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Tucker Carlson vs. Truth
Wind power is good. That should be hard for me to say economically, because I’m a Pipefittter. If a turbine in not being turned by a heat source pushing dry H2O gas (steam), then my skills are of no...
View ArticleTexas lawmakers look to dodge blackout responsibility with attacks on state...
It's been a month and change since massive Texas blackouts caused by cold weather caused chaos, widespread property damage, and deaths, which has been enough time for Texas Republicans to move on from...
View ArticleIowa nears 60% of power from wind turbines.
Hey, remember how the GOP in Texas claimed that wind turbines don’t work in winter and tried to blame the collapse of their power grid on them?Yeah, not so much.The Des Moines Register is reporting...
View ArticleBiden Climate Action Lead to Transformation of American Society? Why Would...
By Karen Rubin, News-Photos-Features.comOh the horror! American life might be “transformed” by actions to stop carbon emissions that threaten civilization as we know it! So cars would be powered by...
View ArticleTomgram: Michael Klare, Will There Be Resource Wars in a Renewable Future?
This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here.These days in Washington, it’s competition with and hostility to China all the...
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Anti-Capitalist Meet-Up: Offshore wind Part 2, big and small renewable energy...
Finland’s prime minister identifies the future policy challenges ahead, magnified in the US by regional political conflicts. A potential surge in renewable capability can happen in California with...
View ArticleGrid batteries, Elon Musk, and FIRE (yes, right now in Australia)
In order to make better use of green energy (solar, wind, tidal, etc), it helps to be able to store the power when it is generated and use it when you want. Time shifting, as it were.Hydroelectric...
View ArticleA Critique of the Dem. Party's Response to the Climate Crisis: what's MIA -...
Dear Citizens and Elected Officials:Introduction:During the fall of 2018, while Ben Jealous was making a mash of his run for governor of Maryland, I decided to spend my time learning about the vast and...
View ArticleClimate Change is Purely a Political Problem, The Tech to Address the Crisis...
This is part 2 of what I hope to write as a series on technologies we already have, but have either failed to deploy, or underused, that could help get us to a carbon emission free economy. To be...
View ArticleNorth Carolina Open Thread: Education trouble, Tar Hill Taliban, Burr's $,...
NORTH CAROLINA OPEN THREAD Sunday, October 31, 2021337th Weekly EditionThis is a weekly feature of North Carolina Blue. We hope this weekly platform gives readers interested in North Carolina politics...
View ArticleSolar panels and battery storage are the future of how the U.S. gets its power
The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) released its latest findings this month as part of its multi-year Storage Futures Study. The 45-page report, NREL’s sixth in this series, is filled with...
View ArticleEarth Matters: SupCt may gut EPA's regulatory authority; ultra-rightist goes...
Supreme Court case could eviscerate EPA’s (and other agencies’) regulatory authority Fifteen years ago, by 5-4, the Supreme Court ruled in Massachusetts v. EPA that carbon dioxide greenhouse gases...
View ArticleThe man of Mar-a-Lago goes tilting against the windmills of his...
So Donald J. Quixote goes on his BFF Sean Hannity’s Fox News show on the anniversary of President Joe Biden’s first year in office—and goes tilting against windmills in a rant against wind power.The...
View ArticleClimate mitigation takes center stage in latest IPCC report warning against...
If you were to tune into the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) latest presser for its third report—this time focused on climate change mitigation—the words of U.N. Secretary-General...
View ArticleRecord-breaking hydrogen electrolyzer claims 95% efficiency
Record-breaking hydrogen electrolyzer claims 95% efficiency, March 16, 2022.Current efficiency of breaking down water to hydrogen are about 70% to 80%. 95% of hydrogen is produced from wood or fossil...
View ArticleMore Electricity Is Being Generated by Wind than Coal or Nuclear as New...
Electricity generated by windmills has begun to out-power both coal and nuclear plants. The 2000 gigawatts of electricity generated in the US last Tuesday surpassed all sources other than natural gas....
View ArticleMarch 29 marked the first time wind surpassed coal, nuclear power in lower 48
Wind power is slowly but surely cementing its importance to the energy grid. Last month marked a particular milestone for wind power generation, with turbines generating 2,017 gigawatts in the lower 48...
View ArticleTexas being roasted by record heat, but wind and solar are keeping...
On Tuesday, south Texas set records for high temperatures. In many areas, this was not just a high-temperature record for the day, but an all-time record for any date before July. Add in extremely high...
View ArticleThere are plenty of ways to move forward in the fight against climate change,...
Joe Manchin did exactly what we all thought he was going to do. Hell, it’s something he’s historically been doing: denying the very real climate crisis that will only get worse because of his failures....
View ArticleStudying 100% Renewable Energy Studies
the war that matters is the war against the imaginationall other wars are subsumed in it.Diane di Prima, “Rant" On the History and Future of 100% Renewable Energy Systems Research...
View ArticleEnergy as a System, Systems as Synergy
MIT has designed a program which maximizes the production of wind farms by operating the wind farm as a system, not individual wind turbines. Reducing downwind turbulence within the whole wind farm...
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📌This Week In The War On/For Women: Images & Open Thread, updated.
h/t A Siegel 2017Please post your news items, thoughts, hopes, concerns, images, and greetings to one another in the comment thread. California Flex Alerts and elec emergencies may limit host responses...
View ArticleUpbeat news – Europe and Renewables
Oct 7 for 5 hours 100% of the grid power in Greece was from renewables. Greece’s focus is mostly on wind vs solar power, turns out they have reliable wind patterns. This is part of Greece’s long-term...
View ArticleMoving ahead with offshore Central Atlantic wind power in the U.S. -...
Via gCaptain, 1.7 million acres off the Central Atlantic coast are up for potential wind turbine sites.The U.S. Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) has identified...
View ArticleUkraine: The First (or Third?) Climate War
It is my belief that the Russian invasion of Ukraine will go down as the first (or Third, see comments) Climate War. To be clear, climate change hasn’t caused this war, but this is the first major war...
View ArticleWind Power - Ukraine needs it, and why it matters for the long term as well
One of the ways Russia is making life for Ukraine as miserable as possible is by targeting the country’s electrical grid. The NY Times reports that there is one element that could make a difference:...
View ArticleGood News from the Maritime World in a time of changing climate
Via gCaptain:Here’s a sampling of stories that have to do with shipping and how climate concerns are driving change for the better.Thirsty? If you’re on a ship at sea, fresh water is something you...
View ArticleSpotlight on the latest DK climate and other eco-diaries
For more than a dozen years, I put together a weekly compilation of the bulk of environmentally related diaries appearing at Daily Kos. Under various names, including Green Diary Rescue and Spotlight...
View ArticleSome Good News in Energy Transition
Some news about good stuff happening in the US of A regarding energy transition. Some of these items are small and some are huge but all are important steps forward. I’m looking at places that have...
View ArticleCdn. Province of Alberta Imposes 'Moratorium' on Wind and Solar Projects
The ruling United Conservative Party of Alberta, Canada has decided that its mandate includes the impositon of a 7 month moratorium on wind and solar projects. The reasoning is that the necessary...
View ArticleIRA 'Turbocharging' U.S. Jobs, Clean Energy Manufacturing. Will Voters...
Guest: David Roberts, climate and energy journalistAlso: Senate Repubs don't think much of McCarthy's Impeachment Inquiry either...The landmark federal climate bill called the Inflation Reduction Act,...
View ArticleEnergy (and Other) Events Monthly - November 2023
These kinds of events below are happening all over the world every day and most of them, now, are webcast and archived, sometimes even with accurate transcripts. Would be good to have a place that...
View ArticleUkraine plans a makeover for Chernobyl, a massive wind farm to power 800,000...
There is some good news inside Ukraine. The exclusion zone at Chernobyl will be the site of a massive wind farm that can power 800,000 homes in Kyiv. This wind farm will join a solar farm already in...
View ArticleWind Energy: Not Just Hot Air
From Reuters 12.5.23US wind power generation on course to surpass coalU.S. electricity generation from wind power is on course to surpass coal-fired electricity generation, potentially by 2026, as wind...
View Article100% Wind Water Solar Not "All of the Above"
Why We Must Focus on Clean, Renewable Energy and Storage, Not “All of the Above,” For Solving Global Climate, Air Pollution, and Energy Security Problems — A slide deck from Mark Z Jacobson presented...
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Green transition progressing in Denmark
While news is dominated by horrible politics & war, I thought it’s good to bring some under-the-radar good news to people. Last month, I discussed how renewables now dominate electricity generation...
View ArticleMy Senator strikes again (Jim Risch - ID) Lava Ridge Wind Project.
I’ll admit, I didn’t even read the e-mail on this (From Oct. 2023) Admittedly, I was busy being evicted, finding a new place to live, my father was dying, etc, so yeah, not a priority, and it’s from my...
View ArticleRenewable Tuesday 5/7: It's Finally Happening EVERYWHERE
Countries making the most progress on renewables rate a lot of attention, but we need to look at the other end of the spectrum, too. Compare the UK, above, with Turkmenistan, below, just starting its...
View ArticleChina's Staggering Domination of Global Wind and Solar Energy Projects
Just ran across this news item from techxplore.com on new data compiled by the Global Energy Monitor NGO detailing the truly gobsmacking dominance China has managed to establish in the construction of...
View ArticleRenewable Friday: #offshorewind Trending on X
This is going to be simple. #offshorewind was trending on X yesterday, with more than a thousand Xeets. I am therefore going to report some of the sane posts from that conversation—and of course a few...
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