Question: Which energy resource represented the most new generation in 2020? At 17 gigawatts, what percentage of the total new generation was that?
Answer: Can be found at Clean Energy Answers.
Relevance: It’s currently only 11% of the total grid-mix, but it’s gaining steadily.
“I’m often asked by some of my friends on the other side of the aisle about COVID … and why does it seem like folks in Mississippi and maybe in the Mid-South are a little less scared, shall we say,” Reeves said. “When you believe in eternal life — when you believe that living on this earth is but a blip on the screen, then you don’t have to be so scared of things.”
This is a great idea, one that we encounter often. The problem is that it’s impossible.
War mongers and the rest of the far right are singular in their belief system, and the hate they carry with them naturally brings them together.
Progressives have a range of different ideas: healthcare for all, gun control, better education, environmental stewardship, a woman’s right to choose, justice for all, and gay rights. We also have a range of different emotions: cheerfulness, hope, love, compassion, and sympathy. It’s this divergence that makes it hard to organize around.
I “dream” of it too, in the sense that I used to dream I could fly when I was a kid.
Seriously, don’t hold your breath.
Of the three, sustainability has the best chance of becoming a topic of conversation. Climate change and other aspects of environmental collapse are affecting us all, at a far deeper level than ever before. When storms that used to be 100-year events happen every summer, it’s conceivable that a huge majority of people will force both the public and private sectors to do what’s necessary to stop the destruction.
Robert Rapier is a “somebody” in the world of energy and sustainability, and he writes about the graph here and below:
Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI) is at the lunatic fringe of the ultra-right, and finds himself up for re-election in 2022. Here’s a campaign ad created by his opponent, in which his says that “climate change is bullshit.”
Wisconsin is a swing state. Like many others, it features many universities and urban sophisticates, but it has its rural regions as well.
Having said that, the concept that climate change is a hoax is accepted by fewer and fewer every day. I predict he will drop this platform, or lose. Of course, I’m hoping for the latter.
It’s scary how America features two sets of people who really don’t like one another. Now, people say that this is about politics, i.e., liberal and conservative, which is not untrue. Yet the real problem here is that the so-called conservatives seem to have lost their minds, and now advocate things that are deeply immoral.
Take Trump himself: conman, pathological liar, would-be tyrant, fraud, election fixer, environment destroyer, extortionist, white supremacy supporter, and insurrectionist. If you support that, decent people seriously don’t want to have anything to do with you.
Yes, you probably won’t like me, and I’m good with that.
In response to my post on real estate prices crashing in hurricane-prone regions, 2GreenEnergy supporter Brian McGowan writes:
Be advised, real estate companies are developing a system to rate homes based on susceptibility to climate change.
Thanks, Brian. It’s impossible to imagine how prices can do anything else than plummet.
This is both funny and serious at the same time.
I cringe whenever I have to use “we the people” in the objective case, as in “God gave rights to we the people.”
I usually try to rework the sentence.
Inductive EV charging has been on the scene for a decade or so, but has not gotten much traction. Here’s an article about a breakthrough in the subject developed at Oak Ridge National Lab that features a power density of 8 – 10 times what we’re dealing with now.
The author points out that this can be used to charge vehicles while they’re in motion, i.e., by inserting these devices in the roadways. I’ll be stunned if this ever happens, given the progress we’re making in batteries and the rapidity with which they can be charged while stationary.
