Even now, even in the US, despite partisan rhetoric, and oil industry misinformation — the solar industry is booming.
The #EnergyRevolution is underway.
grist.org/energy/solar...
Almost everything we argue about is a substitute for the thing we should be arguing about: the immense wealth & power of an oligarchic class, which captures governments, ruins lives and wrecks the living planet.
This class redirects our rage at scapegoats. To resist its lies is to resist its power.
~10–12 nuclear power plants equivalent. That’s what batteries just delivered for ~1–2 hours at peak in California.
We’ve crossed the line: generation → timing.
Gas loses the peak first. Then revenue. Then relevance.
Nuclear is great. But time costs money. Energy is needed now, not in 15 years.
Well they have a pro-Putin govt
Orca with speech bubble saying “Apartments are fine actually”
In New Zealand we already have 100% new e-bus sales, by policy, and will have 100% e-bus fleet by 2035, also by policy. Clean tech + regulation = win.
Forget "total cost of ownership." In the UK, the average EV is now cheaper than the average ICE vehicle, up front. Sticker cost.
And of course the savings just keep accumulating after that.
Getting Utes out of our towns and cities would make a big difference to air pollution, pedestrian safety, and greenhouse gas emissions.
Fuel prices are not the only reason to reconsider our love of utes newsroom.co.nz/2026/04/20/f...
You have my sympathies
US elites decided, like a school of fish, that climate concern is old, boring, "woke," square, not hip & popular any more. As usual, it was based almost entirely on internal elite dynamics. It had nothing to do with the actual public, which is more concerned than ever.
This chart appears to be sourced from kpler.com, a reputable freight analytics firm, but the original is proprietary. If correct is suggests that mass flight cancellations are imminent, initially in Europe.
Yeah cos burning stuff is inherently a wasteful way to make energy (except if all you want is heat and emissions).
This really is the only answer. Our dependence on fossil fuels must end. For our planet, and for our society.
Atomkraft boomt weltweit? Die Fakten zeigen das Gegenteil:
THREAD: The IEA global energy review 2026
* CO2 record high, but growth nearly ground to halt
* Clean energy shaved 3bn tonnes off CO2
* Fossil-fuel power pushed into reverse
* Age of Electricity "confirmed"
* "Extraordinary" solar growth
* Batteries up 40%
* EVs up 20%
1/10
In China battery electric trucks and hybrid trucks now outsell diesel trucks for the first time.
train + comedian + musician =
clever marketing:
youtu.be/aEP7JM_qQZQ?...
Life imitating art.
Good. Now could we also please abandon the childish neoliberal nonsense that all subsidies are bad?
There are bad subsidies. But there are really good ones, especially those that get our economy of deadly costly insecure fossil fuels.
www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360...
“The U.S. has changed, and we must respond.” No hedging. No “our American friends.” Just a clean acknowledgement that the country on the other side of the border is not the country we thought we knew."
Mark Carney-Canada
Just a thought: How about we stop shaming the poor for buying things that may not be essential, and start shaming the rich for making a profit off things that are essential?
Wow missed this.
“Norway reached 117% renewable electricity use in 2023, producing more than it consumes and exporting the surplus. “
The USA is trying to run a 21st century economy by returning to the 20th century because of ideology (ludicrous climate change / global warming denialism) and the lobbying (sponsorship / bribery) by the fossil fuels industry
Everytime we replace fossil fuel use, we reduce even more use by not burning so much of the bad stuff just hauling it around. Win/win/win.
For a cleaner and more prosperous future*
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*lower windfall profits for big oil and the 1%.
Free public transport in Luxembourg.
Within five years, tram passengers increased fivefold, from 6.2 to 31.7 million between 2019 and 2024. Passenger numbers rail: from 25 to 31.3 million, bus increased by 20,000 passengers per day to 145,000 daily commuters.
www.voisins-nachbarn.eu/de/raumordnu...
20 years of pickup truck design progress in one photo
