Covid-19 State by State: Data Sources
I encourage everyone here to use these covid-19 information resources as part of their reporting, in addition to finding individual state and country stories and data.StatesCases in U.S. | CDCThis page...
View ArticleRenewable Friday: Two-Thirds Terabuck Hit to Coal Fossil Fools
Coal has been a terrible investment ever since renewables started to come in at lower cost. But as long as financial institutions can unload coal instruments onto Greater Fools, the unscrupulous among...
View ArticleRenewable Monday: Gaslighters Gaslight Themselves Again
[Sigh] When Gaslighters Discover Gaslighting, They Don’t Recognize Themselves, poor fellows. Climate Denialist Anthony Watts of the Denialist Web site Watts Up With That has been observed trying to...
View ArticleRenewable Tuesday: US Wind Surpasses Hydro
A lot of people think only of solar when discussing renewables, but wind power has long been ahead of solar. Now wind has surpassed hydro, the original renewable electricity source, in the US.After...
View ArticleEV Tuesday: Renting Electric Cars
Renting electric cars started out with low-range Leafs and such, which many users didn't like because of range anxiety. Now you can rent excellent EVs privately and from the majors in cities all over...
View ArticleRenewable Wednesday: Heartland Grifters Grifted from Within
The serious professional libertarian fools at The Heartland Institute grouptthink tank are not April Fools. They have done this year-round for decades. And now they have been taken to the cleaners by...
View ArticleRenewable Thursday: The Media Narrative on Global Warming and Renewables
The Solutions Project offers solutions to Global Warming. Their partner Conspire for Good is a strategy and PR company. I have been asked about real conspiracies on Quora, and replied about my part in...
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Covid-19 State by State: State and Territory Health Department Data Sources
I gathered a number of reliable covid-19 information sources at the national level in Covid-19 State by State: Data Sources. Now I want to create a list of the best resources at the state and territory...
View ArticleRenewable Friday: Building the Renewable Grid Out to the Villages in Rwanda
Paul Kigali, President of Rwanda, has ambitious plans to make Rwanda the IT hub of Africa. This requires getting electricity to every school in every village, and getting every schoolchild a computer....
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Covid-19 State by State Indiana 4-3-2020: We're Finally on Lockdown
Much has happened in Indiana since my last report. I have been working on data sources for all of our states and territories, and now I am back to reporting on cases and state actions. We are now on...
View ArticleRenewable Monday: Clean Energy Rebellion during Pandemic
OK, you know what the Jackanapes-in-Office thinks he is trying to do. However, 1. The Energy Department is promoting offshore energy, especially wind. 2. We have yet more alliances of state and local...
View ArticleEV Tuesday: Consumer Auto Media EV Coverage
The MSM tries to ignore the Electric Vehicle revolution, but the auto and truck magazines and other consumer magazines can't. Meanwhile coverage is exploding on teh Intertoobz. The century-old wonders...
View ArticleRenewable Tuesday: TVA Pushing a Bit of Decentralized Renewable Generation
The Tennessee Valley Authority has shut down money-losing coal power plants. Now it is taking another tentative step forward by offering to let some of its customer companies generate some renewable...
View ArticleRenewable Wednesday: Energy Storage Key in East Africa
Eventually I will get a chance to cover many more countries individually, but today it is an energy alliance in East Africa. Renewables are growing fast there, but there are major grid problems that...
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Good News Roundup for Thursday: #WeHaveThis; also toilet paper in stock at...
MCUBernieFan wanted me to share some Good News about how we are winning, because things are indeed bad right now on several fronts. I wrote him a comment, which I can now expand on.(Mokurai says “I...
View ArticleRenewable Thursday: KS Supreme Court Victory for Home Solar
Starting in 1896, we used to ask What's the Matter with Kansas? But now the state has recovered from Gov. Brownback's Tea Party economic superstition, and is getting in touch with reality on renewable...
View ArticleRenewable Friday: Covid-19 vs. Renewable Energy Again
The covid-19 virus severely cut solar panel production. But that was last month's news. Now the virus has radically decreased electricity demand as factories closed. Skies are clearer worldwide, too....
View ArticleRenewable Monday: Huge Market Contraction, but NOT Peak Oil
The old idea of Peak Oil was running out. The new theory is that renewables + EVs will cut demand permanently. Right now, however, we are in a massive market shrinkage from covid-19, and a production...
View ArticleEV Tuesday: Electric School Buses Take the Next Step
School buses are not the thing during the covid-19 disaster with the schools closed, but that will end. When we last looked, there were a few hundred electric school buses in tests here and there. We...
View ArticleRenewable Tuesday: The Next Terawatt of Renewable Electricity, and the Next,...
We are at 2.5 TW of renewables, hydro, solar, and wind. With 176 GW added in 2019, we are only three years away from 3 TW, nearly a fifth of our initial target for the entire world. Of course, there is...
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