Covid Karma Cloud-Cuckoo Stir-Crazies of 4/29/2020
I. Can't. Even. Where to begin?This will be short. The Thing, The It from Camazotz, has been going crazier every day. And I am suffering from allergies and sleep disturbances that are interfering with...
View ArticleRenewable Friday: Hydrogen for Mass Energy Storage, Diesel Truck Conversions
Hydrogen has been used for local, off-grid energy storage, but now that renewable energy for cracking water is getting much cheaper, electrolysis co-located with renewable energy facilities is being...
View ArticleCovid Karma Credible Crushing
Hulk trample! No shoes needed. Here are some more Credible Hulks with various takes on the current covid craziness. And cats. We must have cats. Because we have more than a million cases with more than...
View ArticleRenewable day: Sweden Closes Last Coal Plant Two Years Early
Go bye-bye! It has been pleasant to report more and more countries taking the Pledge, but it is much sweeter to see them achieve it. Coal first, then gas and oil, as demand for each collapses. Belgium...
View ArticleEV Tuesday: 2021 Electric Car Models
Obviously, I can’t just copy the following article here, nor can I take the upcoming electric car models not yet on the market for a test drive. But I can give you the names. Most of these will be out...
View ArticleRenewable Tuesday: 1 GW of Solar for India's Railways
Not so long ago I was complaining that India wanted to grow renewable energy by leaving hide-bound coal ministers in place and telling new suppliers what the market prices will be. Now they are talking...
View ArticleCovid Karma Consternation, 5/4/2020: States Re-Opening
I have had to take a few days off from reporting covid karma, but neither covid-19 nor karma rest. Now we are about to see the worst, as many states unlockdown while the threat in many of them grows...
View ArticleRenewable Wednesday: Post-Covid Decarbonization
Covid-19 has brought the Climate Denialists and Concern Trolls and Pundits-Telling-You-What-You-Really-Think out in force. It will destroy renewables and EVs and whatever. Or else it will demonstrate...
View ArticleRenewable Thursday: Renewables Dominate New Electricity Installations
Yet another tipping point passed in new renewable electricity installations. We have to finish off finishing off coal, then the gas Ponzi scheme, and ramp up EV usage, helped by covid-19, fracking...
View ArticleBlack Hole Found in Naked-Eye Ternary Star System
There is a new record-closest black hole to us, and the world is taking notice. This was only put out yesterday, but newspapers and the Internet have lit up over a totally dark object that no one can...
View ArticleRenewable Friday: Coal Plant Closures
I have mentioned that some of the usual suspects think that the public will demand more expensive and more polluting power in response to the covid-19 pandemic. I am delighted to have facts to report,...
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Covid-19 State by State: Indiana testing, reopening plans, meat packing
Up until now, most of the data on covid-19 in Indiana has come through the State Health Department, reporting on confirmed, symptomatic cases.Covid-19 State Testing Program to Begin WednesdayThe...
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Covid Karma: Burn, Baby, Burn
Couple who can't see their baby in NICU hope people take social distancing more seriously; Pure evil: those who want covid-19 to burn through the entire population by ending lockdowns. Some explicitly...
View ArticleRenewable Monday: Free Electricity for Health Care in Nigeria
We have a different kind of Good News today, combining covid-19 treatment with renewable energy in Africa, funded by an oil company. We are going to need a lot more of this. (I needed to take a break...
View ArticleEV Tuesday: If EVs Were a Country
Good EV News!Bullard SparklinesThe global auto industry has more than $2 trillion in annual revenue and employs millions of people in dozens of countries. It’s also shrinking—at least in terms of what...
View ArticleCovid Karma Conniptions: Sen. Martha McSally, R-WayBeyondMcCainistan
In the Good News group we are getting our trampling shoes on for the elections. Nobody deserves trampling more than ersatz Sen. Martha McSally of AZ, who couldn't get elected, and is losing bigly after...
View ArticleRenewable Tuesday: Fossil Fuel Soot Increases Death Rate from Covid-19
No! Really? We had to find out all over again that soot kills, and that it especially kills those with lung diseases? [sigh] Yes, we had to. And even the unborn. So where are all those Pro-Lifers when...
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Renewable Wednesday: Big Battery Bank Boom
A tipping point in financing in the battery storage market, shifting from expensive private equity investments to ordinary bank finance. Which will be another factor leading to a terawatt of storage by...
View ArticleCovid Karma Carnival: Rand Paul is...Words Fail Me
Senator Paul to Dr. Fauci: "As Much as I Respect You, I Don’t Think You’re the End-All" on DecisionsI, I, I can't. Just watch, if you can stand it.Wait. There are words to express the Rand Paul...
View ArticleGood News Thursday: FDR had One Frances Perkins, but Joe will have—Wait, I...
I was considering writing about the usual Wrong-Wing Evil, or about all that we can look forward to accomplishing in January, but no, it is better to take the Middle Way, and look at the steps...
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