Renewable Wednesday: Ukraine
Russia seized Crimea from Ukraine and occupied its Donbass region, where Ukraine's main fossil fuel resources lie. Putin messes with Ukraine in all sorts of ways, and with EU energy supplies. Ukraine...
View ArticleRenewable Thursday: Real Money in Grid Frequency Stabilization with Battery...
Remember how the Denialists told us that intermittent renewables would destroy grid stability? Now we find that stabilizing the frequency with grid-scale batteries and DC-AC inverters is of at least...
View ArticleRenewable Friday: The Fossil Foolishness Pandemic is Far Worse than Covid-19
The Denialists deny it, and the MSM is too scared to bring it up. We have more than five million deaths from fossil fuel, 8.8 million from air pollution overall every year. Covid-19, with 119,000...
View ArticleCovid-19 State-by-State: Indiana
Indiana has not reached its covid-19 peak, but we now have more known recovered patients than hospitalizations. We have more than enough ICU beds and ventilators, but we are short on PPE, testing, and...
View ArticleRenewable Monday: Denmark is Soooooo Windy...
How windy is it?"Wind power alone produced 42.7% of Denmark's electricity production in 2014 and is expected to increase its production by nearly 80% in the years to 2024." Coal will be phased out by...
View ArticleEV Tuesday: 80% of Electric Cars are Leased
Electric cars have a lower Total Cost of Ownership (TCOE) than gas guzzlers. But so far, they have higher purchase prices. Leasing evens out the purchase price with lower maintenance and repair costs....
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Renewable Tuesday: 2020 Heartland Denialist Climate Conference Postponed
Guess why. Yes, you're right. Covid-19. Not that the rest of us would miss it, but we have to observe where the most savage Denialists have gone, now that the Oil and Gaslighters have thrown coal under...
View ArticleRenewable Wednesday: Virginia Clean Economy Act
It's Earth Day, and this year we can celebrate it, not just observe it. In March Virginia joined the growing list of countries, states, and cities setting dates and plans for 100% renewable energy, and...
View ArticleRenewable Thursday: Chile
Chile is still recovering from a disastrous political history, including the US-backed coup that ousted Salvador Allende and installed the murderous Augusto Pinochet. But now the US is supporting...
View ArticleRenewable Friday: Megadroughts, Megafloods, Megamelts
Yes, it's as bad as that sounds. Decades-long droughts, more and bigger floods wiping out crops, more and worse glacial melting. And for all of the governments and corporations aiming at 100%...
View ArticleCovid Karma Roundup, 4/25/2020: The Good, The Bad, The Ugly Data, and the...
We have to start with the mini-Dalekoid/Tribble hybrid above trolling the lockdown protesters at the #LetsShareCovid19 rally in Madison, Wisconsin. We have the right attitude about these ingrates. And...
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Renewable Monday: America's Biggest Methane Plume
You might think that profit-driven oil and gas drillers would want to capture all of the methane they produce, either to sell immediately or to pump back down into oil wells to increase production. You...
View ArticleCovid Karma Roundup, 4/26/2020
I love the smell of schadenfreude in the morning. It smells like...victory. Over the disease, and the forces of delusion.Disciple: The Lotus Sutra says that all sentient beings have the Buddha Nature....
View ArticleCovid Karma Roundup: White Hot Anger Edition
I am putting aside my collecting activities today. We have idiots, imbeciles, insects in meat-packing plants; monstrous health-care failures; and 1,000 West Point cadets required to travel through the...
View ArticleRenewable Tuesday: Should Activists Buy Oil at Record Low Prices?
Can we buy oil now, and keep it in the ground? Will that have a significant effect? Bloomberg NEF wants to have that discussion. Their take: No. My take: "Buy" when prices are negative, as now, and buy...
View ArticleEV Tuesday: Get Paid to Charge Your EV, Make Hydrogen
Denialists complain bitterly about the variable output of wind and solar energy systems. But for consumers, that means that the cost of electricity is necessarily negative sometimes. You get to...
View ArticleRenewable Wednesday: Conservatives for Renewable Energy, Funded by Progressives
Oh, really? Yes, the Conservative Energy Network is supporting renewable energy from the opposite ideology, arguing that it reduces government expense and so on. It claims to be a grassroots...
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Covid Karma Coverup Catastrophe
Rachel Maddow blows administration and MSM out of the water. Trump orders meat plants to re-open; eviscerates CDC; plays pretend doctor/lawyer/Indian Mogul Sultan on TV. FDA, OSHA, Labor Department...
View ArticleRenewable Thursday: Exponential Solar Surge Continues
The IEA is still way behind the curve, though not as much as it used to be. But even behind the curve of reality, it is giving us serious Good News. Cue wailing, rending of garments, and gnashing of...
View ArticleGood News Fifth Thursday: Progressive Covidity
Covid-19 is an expensive lesson for Republicans, who are having to adopt massively Progressive measures in order to have any chance of surviving it as a Party. Let us not, therefore, waste the...
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