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The price of solar has gone down so far (90% in 13 years) and so fast that it is now the cheapest form of energy available. This is as close to a miracle as you can get in the world of energy technology. Erik Brynjolfsson Ramez Naam Paul Graham David Wallace-Wells Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼

Did you know? Plant Vogtle is a management disaster that Ga Power profits from and customers pay for. As your commissioner I would ensure that business failures cost the business and its shareholders, not its customers. This is wrong. ajc.com/news/monitors-…

One truth to understanding future energy markets: fossil fuels are inherently inflationary. Renewables are intrinsically deflationary

The #1 thing we can do to help people who are poor, oppressed, & hungry is to drive down the cost of energy. Energy improves the quality of human lives more than anything else: from food production & healthcare, to housing, sanitation, water quality, & economic opportunity.

"These changes underline one of the most startling aspects of climate breakdown: the speed with which global average temperature rises translate into extreme weather." #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #climatebreakdown theguardian.com/environment/20…

The goal of TerraPower is to avoid having to develop an off-site radiological emergency plan for its proposed #Natrium fast #nuclear reactor in #Wyoming. It's always easier to fine-tune a calculation when you know the answer you want in advance. nrc.gov/docs/ML2220/ML…

Synchronous Condensers free up wind and solar and slash the need for back-up. #renewables #climate #energy reneweconomy.com.au/big-spinning-m…

Believing that the profit motive will deliver a decarbonized economy despite [gestures at everything] is like believing that Earth was created 6,000 years ago despite the dinosaur fossils sitting right in front of our eyes.

'The bottom line—nuclear power, whether from large or small nuclear reactors, is just not economically competitive. But this is not what you will hear from the vendors of small modular reactors.' #nuclear #SMR #climate #energy nbmediacoop.org/2022/07/31/smn…

Wow, TerraPower is really blowing their presentation at the NRC public meeting on EPZ size. These folks don't know what they are talking about and embarrassing themselves.

West Texas storm chaser Laura Rowe captured the picture of a lifetime, fantastic shot of a mature supercell thunderstorm, illuminated at varying heights from the setting sun.

Kate Brown's books are the most heavily footnoted books I've ever read. She packs an incredible amount of information into this video. Four minutes of stark truth about Chernobyl: Kate Brown - Chernobyl is Not an Exception (NEIS 5/26/22) youtu.be/N4FD0hYZCRU via YouTube

‘The new normal’: how Europe is being hit by a climate-driven drought crisis theguardian.com/environment/20…

In past flooding, hydrologists have calculated runoff 1,000 times greater than without mining. Scientists say climate change will intensify heavy rains. courier-journal.com/story/news/loc…

Good news Cambridge engineers invent world’s first zero emissions cement Cement is the source of about 8% of the world's carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions so this is good news #climate ukfires.org/press-release-…

IIs Russia’s capture of Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia atomic reactor dangerous? YES! A meltdown or explosion will let loose more radioactivity than an atomic bomb! Listen to Nuclear Hotseat host Libbe Halevy talk with Arnie Gundersen nuclearhotseat.com/podcast/ukrain…

Obama: You’ll note that he refused to hide any of my grey hairs. Refused my request to make my ears smaller. He also talked me out of wearing a tan suit