Electric Vehicle Tuesday: BNEF Battery Report Good News
A terawatt-hour here, a terawatt-hour there, and soon you're talking about real power. Bloomberg NEF predicts that 2 TwH of batteries will be made in 2024. That means not just affordable electric cars,...
View ArticleRenewable Tuesday: China's Perverse Coal Incentives
China is still driving coal use up. The world saw the greatest drop in coal production ever this year, at 3%. When China comes around, coal can fall at something like the rate needed to save us all. So...
View ArticleRenewable Wednesday: Energy Storage Boom Coming, but Denialism Still Flourishes
We looked at batteries yesterday, and what that means for cars. Today it's grid storage, as it was last March. Various Denialists continue to claim that wind and solar can't get us to 100% because...
View ArticleRenewable Thursday: The Chinese Belt and Road Initiative
The What and What? What? Just a Chinese plan, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) that could provide about half the renewable energy that the whole world needs, across all of Asia, Europe, the Middle...
View ArticleGood News Thursday: The Constitutional Catch-22 is Failing
The most recent form of Catch-22 is this: They had a right to do anything they could prevent us from preventing. We couldn't prevent them from lying, cheating, and stealing, as long at that kept them...
View ArticleThursday Evening Shade: Devin Nunes vs. Twitter Snark Accounts
WARNING: NSFW. The Internet hates Devin Nunes and loves the "cow" he sued, @DevinCow, yes? But I had no idea how NSFW much. These parody Twitter accounts and hashtags, revealed by searches on "Devin"...
View ArticleRenewable Friday: Oil and Gaslighting IV, Republican Talking Points vs. Greta...
We have looked at corporate gaslighting on energy three times now, and Republican politicians once. (Links below) Now it is time for Republican FUD again. Rep. Garret Graves and Rep. Greg Walden are...
View ArticleFriday Evening Shade: Trumpists Bitten by the Fool's Gold Rule
The Republican Golden Rule was, "He who has the gold makes the rules." But Deplorables believe desperately in the Fool's Gold Rule: "Do unto others before they do unto you." Because of course that's...
View ArticleRenewable Monday: America's Cities Redeem COP25
COP25 was a notable failure. The US and other Denialist-led countries prevented meaningful official action. But it was great for 3,800 mayors, county executives, tribal leaders and businesses that...
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Renewable Tuesday: A Trillion Trees, Pro and Con
A trillion trees would sequester a large fraction of our excess CO2, cheap. A lot of organizations want to do their part. But the doubters and deniers have gathered. And we are losing 10 billion trees...
View ArticleRenewable Wednesday: The Remedy for Anxiety is Doing the Work
Hi, everybody. I only discovered the Climate Anxiety Support Group last week, and joined post-haste. I see that much of the group content is more anxiety-raising, and want you to know that there is...
View ArticleRenewable Thursday: Big Tech Cobalt Lawsuit
Cobalt comes from child labor in copper mines and wars in Congo. The materials industry is trying to clean up on corrupt sourcing, while tech companies seek to make better batteries with less cobalt...
View ArticleRenewable Friday: Oil and Gaslighting V, Renewable Natural Gas
Renewable Natural Gas sounds like the biggest energy oxymoron since Clean Coal. Gas from biowaste is real, but can't supply whole countries, just niche markets. These people are lying with a kernel of...
View ArticleRenewable Monday: 1M Solar Roofs in California
California set out to get solar panels on a million roofs in a multi-year effort that resulted in a law passed in 2006. The original goal was to do it by 2018, but it has been a bit delayed. Now look...
View ArticleRenewable Tuesday: Facing our Climate Problems
Anthropogenic global warming needed to be addressed 50 years ago. It wasn’t. Now we all must accept the consequences, from inconveniences to major death and destruction, and possibly major wars. And...
View ArticleEV Tuesday: Rivian Raises $1.3 Billion
BREAKING: Yesterday electric pickup maker Rivian announced a new round of funding. The trade press, the financial press, the tech press, even the MSM are all agog. We still have to wait until the end...
View ArticleRenewable Wednesday: A Present They Can't Refuse
What's green, worth tens of trillions of dollars, and gives corporations a present they can't refuse? Climate Action 100+ (CA100+). A path to a functioning planet, whether they like it or not. And in...
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Renewable Thursday: Saudi Arabia's Plan to Go Off Oil—But Not Yet
St. Augustine prayed in his youth: God make me pure, but not yet. Saudi Arabia has a similar stance on going off oil: lavish projects that somehow never happen, plus robust obstructionism. They should...
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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 ArticleRenewable Monday: The Terraton/IndigoAg Initiative to Sequester a Teraton of CO2
We have to sequester a teraton of CO2 ASAP in order to restore the atmosphere and oceans, and start to drive global temperatures downward. Among several methods being tried, today's idea is paying...
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