In 2025, the world started construction of nuclear power plants that would generate 12 GW of power if completed.
In the same year, it installed 108 GW of batteries and 600 GW of solar capacity.
How much of this is from sales that have been financed by NVIDIA loans/investments in the data center companies itself? All may not be quite what it seems…
All federal wind power R&D at the Department of Energy is $0.137 billion. So the government is paying 7x the amount it spends on all wind power R&D just for a fee to kill one wind project. Seems bad.
Don't we already have a cast of characters at the helm that we regret?
Newsrooms should not block the Internet Archive. Any public service publisher should not block the Internet Archive. If anything, we should all be directly supporting the Internet Archive.
I feel like "anti rich current reaches crescendo" is when the guillotine operators are getting OT not when you find a way to levy a new small tax on an undertaxed upper class
Democracy will not come Today, this year Nor ever Through compromise and fear. I have as much right As the other fellow has To stand On my two feet And own the land. I tire so of hearing people say, Let things take their course. Tomorrow is another day. I do not need my freedom when I'm dead. I cannot live on tomorrow's bread. Freedom Is a strong seed Planted In a great need. I live here, too. I want freedom Just as you. Langston Hughes
However low your opinion of the Roberts Court, it should be lower.
All right, this piece has triggered me so I have to yell a bit (though this is bluesky, so I realize I'm just preaching at the choir):
0.025 °C/year, no?
Seven data sets all agreeing on the overall surface temperature trends from 1850 to 2025.
Apropos of nothing here’s a picture of global cooling (it’s that tiny little dip at the end).
We are so far beyond even Teapot Dome levels of "government captured by private industry" in this country, and Democrats genuinely seem to believe their unpopularity is driven by being too nice to trans people, instead of being driven by their screamingly obvious hypocrisy about this.
Assorted Haiku Haiku #2511 Tourists wait in line to enter Machu Picchu. Oh, look! A high queue. Haiku #564127 how dare you suggest I have a short attention spanish omelette Limeraiku There once was a young limerick from Kew who turned into a haiku. The Constraints of Haiku Tied up all night with a haiku dominatrix and her three-line whip. Shakespearean Haiku Shall I compare thee To a summer’s day? Alright – Thou art pretty hot. How to Write a Haiku The last line should flow seamlessly from the first two – hippopotamus. Brian Bilston
It’s International Haiku Day apparently and so for today’s poetry offering, here are a few assorted haiku.
Hi folks! In Brooklyn on May 13? Want to hang out with Elizabeth Kolbert, me and Rebecca Hersher at the Public Library? Of course you do!
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France passed a law requiring solar panels on every parking lot with more than 80 spaces.
Equals 10 nuclear reactors
Reduces heat island, shades cars
The US -- 800 million parking spaces. Most of them are uncovered asphalt sitting in direct sunlight.
Why aren't we doing this?
As a recipient of federal grants from #NIH (for now! 😭) that funds research in my lab, I'd like to sincerely thank American taxpayers on #TaxDay for investing in scientific research that lays the foundation for medical and technological innovation in this country and keeps us ALL safe and healthy
Two postdoc fellowships now open at @brown.edu Dept of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences. One in ocean sciences (apply.interfolio.com/183855) and one in any field of geoscience (apply.interfolio.com/183852). Deadline May 1.
WORLD VIEW 15 April 2026 Why more fossil fuels won’t fix the Iran energy crisis Climate-friendly technologies are the best way to stymie rising inflation — and will get better and cheaper over time. By Gernot Wagner Spend any time discussing solar and wind power as a solution to climate change, and you are sure to encounter someone who asks about reliability. The Sun does not shine at night and the wind does not always blow, so fossil fuels will be needed forever as a back-up, they argue. But how reliable are fossil fuels? In the past two months, conflict in Iran has created an energy crisis — the latest in a series. Oil prices spiked within days of the start of US, Israeli and Iranian bombing in the Gulf region on 28 February. Fuel prices remain high and volatile, and the ripple effects are set to increase inflation in the coming months. Isabel Schnabel, a member of the European Central Bank’s executive board, memorably named this effect fossilflation in the aftermath of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022. There was, and is, one clear winner: renewables and other low-carbon technologies, from batteries to electric vehicles (EVs) and heat pumps. That is what distinguishes this Middle East oil and gas crisis from the Arab oil embargoes of the 1970s. Then, renewables were mostly unavailable, and industrial decarbonization was on few people’s radars. Solar power cost at least 500 times more than it does today, and EVs, heat pumps and induction stoves were a pipe dream. Ditching fossil fuels is not all smooth sailing. In 2022, European natural-gas prices spiked to ten times their levels before the Ukraine invasion, resulting in long waiting times for solar panels and heat pumps. Prices for these rose as demand outpaced supply, an effect Schnabel dubbed greenflation. She used a third term, climateflation, to describe the economic effects of climate-induced weather extremes, such as food-price rises from crop failures (M. Kotz et al. Commun. Earth Environ. 5; 2024).
The Iran War has once again led to a bout of what @isabelschnabel.bsky.social memorably dubbed 'fossilflation'.
It's en vouge to talk about the solution as some massively complex undertaking. It really isn't. Get off fossil fuels faster.
My latest just out @nature.com
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Reminder that the Biden admin was bringing us a free online filing program, but then Trump/Musk killed it before it had a chance to be expanded to everyone:
In a first last month, renewables supplied more power to the U.S. than natural gas, a milestone in the shift to clean energy.
If Bessent needs information on the causes of climate change, he should consult "The Causes of Climate Change," available to all on NASA's website. (Spoiler alert: "Human activities are driving the global warming trend observed since the mid-20th century.")
Comparison maps over California of annual average temperature anomalies in the year 2022 from the low-resolution and high-resolution versions of Berkeley Earth.
Comparison maps over California of annual average temperature in the years 1951 to 1980 from the low-resolution and high-resolution versions of Berkeley Earth.
The transition last year from the old @berkeleyearth.org temperature analysis to the new high-resolution version doesn't make much difference for the global averages, but it is really useful when it comes to capturing local and regional details that would otherwise be missed.
For decades, businesses paid dividends from profits on their trades, Charles Ponzi is taking a different approach.
The weird thing here is that it was already clear that the differences btw data series involved Arctic warming - I don’t understand why IPCC chose to only use the HadCRUT data?
It's never just one thing, but the demographics are pretty different for different groups too. Boomers/Gen X are a much bigger fraction of white folks.
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I didn’t know this, did you? Amazing!
