As a proud new South African, I would like to say that it is critical that all bans and boycotts etc of abhorrent regimes is maintained for as long as they are in place. This is an issue of ethics, human rights and keeping up pressure; lack of instant results is not a reason to stop.
Need to remember you only install solar panels once. If there is a very high level of rooftop solar, at some point this new installations will drop to near zero. This will be GREAT news.
Worth every cent, especially in places with electricity supply issues like South Africa. If possible add in reasonable batteries at time of installation unless this makes no sense in your country.
If China wants to subsidize this for the rest of the world, I find it hard to see how this is a bad thing...
Perhaps some Chinese businesses will fold, and certainly there will be real pain in the doomed fossil fuel and internal combustion legacy arena. But every solar panel, every battery and every turbine is going to be installed somewhere and will stop carbon emissions for 20 odd years.
How many Venezuelan kids did they murder??
And how many *people* did they illegally kill?
Great to see that there are some more rock climbing focused science starting to come through. It is a big advance from just hoping that studies from quite different activities would have some relevance.
Great to see countries leapfrogging the fossil fuel based energy phase. Will be a major boost for quality of life and climate. Trend towards electrified two and three wheeler also very promising...
This is awesome! A great insight, not only into the change in power supply, but the way it is happening and changing how people interact with the system!
Is this at a museum or airforce base?
Indeed the best decision for the system may be very different to the best decision for the household as different entities get the benefits and cover the costs. Different prices for each too.
And for the individual, if the cost of storing is less than peak energy cost, it is a no-brainer to store daytime solar. There may be other benefits of being more modular in terms of distributing risk.
Obviously for the system the graph values would stand.
....(e.g. stable electricity supply which is not a given in the global south with places like Pakistan and South Africa having issues with interruptions).
This is a fair enough point, but for an individual it is dependent on a reasonable and fair feed-in tariff. It also excludes other benefits to an individual....
This really is dumb: If Russia wants to continue with war, we won't support the peace process.
Amazing how progressive Hungary is on this! Interesting that some of those making the best progress on renewables (China, Hungary, Texas, Iowa, Oklahoma) are not exactly high on the woke liberal bunny-hugger lists.
Not to discourage recycling, but worth bearing in mind that just South Africa produces 60 millions tons of pretty toxic coal waste each year. Some perspective on scale!
Ref: A. Eberhard. The future of South African coal: market, investment, and policy challenges
Progr. Energy Sustain. Dev. (2011)
This is the best kind of bad news!
And renewables are totally modular and infinitely scalable; which is something that, despite claims, is a total fiction for nuclear.
Seems like a good fit... perhaps just put the panels on the golf courses. :-)
Yes some systems are dirtier, and replacement would give better outcomes, but broadly it does not matter whose roof or field has a panel. So long as there are many, many panels and they are put up asap. Yes there are economic benefits to winning the renewables race, but for climate we all win.
This is great news. Each kwh produced by an installed renewable is effectively free and will inevitably displace fossil fuel production (which has a fuel cost for each extra kwh) and hence carbon. Further, for our climate system, it does not matter where on earth this displacement takes place.
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Huge-ass bags of seeds, next to teeny tiny little bags of seeds, next to a stack of "plant native plants" posters, with the words "take one and plant" on the bottom. Also there are posters in teh background that have had clips attached to them.
~600 seeds packs have been distributed throughout Fishtown, Kensington, & Port Richmond. Putting together the next batch, with the PA ecotype seeds for the poster series today.
It's not solving everything, but adding more insect habitat to urban ecosystems while educating? Worthwhile I think.
These are great - I really like to ability to see the species as part of ecosystems rather than isolated specimens; and the size comparisons, extincts and interactions are all built in! Very nice.
A Notiomastodon, relative of today's elephants, walks through a marsh waving a stick to scare away a group of broad-snouted caiman, while a jabiru stork watches from its perch on a log.
A pair of Doedicurus, car-sized heavily armored armadillo relatives, watches as a jaguar passes them by. A red-legged seriema stands on top of one of their shells.
A maned wolf stands between a pair of feeding Eremotherium, giant ground sloths, holding one of the wolf-apples (a fruit native to the region) that has fallen due to the sloths' diturbance of the trees.
A scenic view of a small lake surrounded by tropical vegetation, representing what Central Brazil would be like 15,000 years ago. Pictured are the extinct species: Smilodon, Notiomastodon, Xenorhinotherium, Eremotherium and the empty shell of a Glyptodon, as well as the still-living species: broad-snouted caiman, jabiru stork, nine-banded armadillo, caracara, and caatinga parakeets.
A while ago I did a short series of illustrations showing extinct species coexisting with still living ones in my home country of Brazil, as would have happened around 15-10k years ago. #paleoart #SciArt #artbyjulio
Clearly the logical next step is to sack everyone who who is not male, white and six foot tall??? The levels of stupidly and cruelty are just amazing.
A close-up photograph of an flint dagger with a chipped, gray stone blade and a weathered wooden handle. The blade is knapped to a sharp point with visible flake scars, while the handle appears aged, the black birch tar, that was used to fasten the blade to the handle, can be seen.
This uniquely preserved Late Neolithic flint dagger (2900 BCE) was found in Allensbach at the Lake Constance, southwest #Germany. The blade was made of flint from Monte Baldo, northern #Italy. It was fastened with birch tar in a handle made of elderwood.
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We can absolutely accelerate this, but this is showing a very clear and positive trend (in the right direction!).