ILSR states community power scorecard gives a letter grade to how the states score on community power. Some states score poorly even though they have changed to renewables. Utilities are greedy and don’t the state to allow the DERs – distributed energy resources, AKA net metering. https://ilsr.org/2022-community-power-scorecard/ Also see California NEM 3.0.
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2022-02-21 Republicans Guilty Of Hypocrisy
A group of anti-Trump Republicans and conservatives put out an ad calling out GOP leaders for their hypocrisy on Jan 6. Republican Accountability Project put out an advert on Fox. Collective amnesia? They said it: Trump was irresponsible and allowed the Jan. 6 attempted coup d’etat to happen. A 1 min. YouTube video. https://youtu.be/68TCUFIi2Io
2022-02-20 Solar City Shareholders Lawsuit – Musk Should Pay $13B
This is the first I’ve heard about this lawsuit. Must be newsmedia ignoring it. https://www.reuters.com/business/telsa-investors-urge-judge-order-musk-repay-13-bln-solarcity-deal-2022-01-18/
2022-02-19 Calif Utilities Must Procure 40+GW Clean Energy By 2032
California lowers electric sector GHG target, directs procurement of more than 40 GW of clean energy resources The chart with the yearly figures shows 40.55 GW total must be procured by 2032. The utilities must procure 25GW clean energy generation and 15GW storage, while meeting strict reliability standards. Some of this will be pumped hydro.
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2022-02-19 Biden Admin To Decarbonize Industry, Build Green Hydrogen
The Biden administration’s Energy Department is launching a $9.5 Billion initiative to decarbonize the industrial sector and build green hydrogen. https://www.utilitydive.com/news/biden-launches-initiatives-decarbonize-industrial-sector-hydrogen/618928/ Another article about this and hydrogen. https://www.renewableenergyworld.com/hydrogen/new-report-highlights-key-challenges-ahead-for-clean-hydrogen/
2022-02-19 DOE $6B To Help Struggling Nuclear Power Plants
The DOE intends to help struggling nuclear power plants to stay online by helping with $6 billion. The utilities want to avoid further costs by shutting down the unprofitable NPPs, often replacing them with gas turbines spewing more CO2. https://www.utilitydive.com/news/doe-to-offer-6-billion-to-keep-struggling-nuclear-reactors-online/618919/
2022-02-18 NOAA: Sea Level Rising 1 Foot By 2050
The NOAA Report says the sea level may rise up to a foot or more by 2050. This will cause serious flooding in many areas. Populations will have to relocate to higher ground. << …NASA administrator Bill Nelson, who says, “Sea levels are continuing to rise at an alarming rate, endangering communities around the world.
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2022-02-16 Opinion Re: VAERS, Covid-19, Vaccines, Vaccination And Hesitancy, Skepticism
This Guardian opinion article is harshly critical of just about everything and everyone having to do with Covid-19, vaccines and their approvals, the pharmaceutical companies, the CDC, and vaccinations, antivaxxers, and official policies. The one item I believe is the most misleading is the paragraph about VAERS, the vaccine adverse event reporting list. The author
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2022-02-15 Trump’s Dubious Financial Statements
The Mazars accounting firm is cutting ties with Trump Organization. They say his financial statements are dubious. https://youtu.be/csAS4WLvMao I have to feel a bit of satisfaction that Trump’s crooked past is catching up with him.
2022-02-10 Biden’s Climate Agenda
In the 2022 Feb 10 email with The Guardian’s Down to Earth, the author complains about the following (quoted). I really don’t think that these are a big issue; they’re not important because the world is changing over to electric vehicles and the demand for fossil fuels is going down so it is likely that
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