A quote from an article from EESI – Environmental and Energy Study Group. Such an enormous amount of money in only a single year! “”There are many kinds of costs associated with fossil fuel use in the form of greenhouse gas emissions and other pollution resulting from the extraction and burning of fossil fuels. These
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This 12 minute PBS Weathered video explains wet bulb temperature and shows some good maps and graphs. She tells how humans (and other living things) cannot keep cool when the humidity rises and causes the wet bulb temperature to rise. The person’s core temperature rises and they have heat exhaustion or heat stroke. This can
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For the first time China’s carbon emissions are going down.
China, the world’s largest emîtter of greenhouse gases, could become https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid02QqdHPx1QoQLwEw1xxZznMEERdXNYbkgfw2WLgDkEbnjQ8hRMYyP6mB1VPbDw1sKTl&id=100070231777183&post_id=100070231777183_pfbid02QqdHPx1QoQLwEw1xxZznMEERdXNYbkgfw2WLgDkEbnjQ8hRMYyP6mB1VPbDw1sKTl&mibextid=Nif5oz
Sam Evans Electric Viking video tells us about the change China is making to solar and wind and away from coal and natural gas. Planned new coal power plants are being cancelled. CO2! Emissions and pollution are not rising, they are falling.
and replace them with solar and wind. A 1 min. short video from DW. Spain had some major power outages in the past few weeks and badmouthers are blaming them on wind & solar.
Good Floodlight article about electric grids in neighborhoods and how the poor are suffering – inequality. https://floodlightnews.org/redlining-shaped-the-power-grid-communities-of-color-are-still-paying-the-price/?ref=im-a-reader-newsletter
Quote “”Solar and wind accounted for almost 98% of new US electrical generating capacity added in Q1 2025, according to new Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) data reviewed by the SUN DAY Campaign. Solar and wind also made up an impressive 100% of new capacity in March, and March was the 19th consecutive month in
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For 98 of 116 days California met 100% of electric demand for 10 hours using only renewables. Solar is Winning! https://www.facebook.com/reel/1114042600561278/?mibextid=9drbnH&s=yWDuG2&fs=e
This is a short video. The insulator strings each have 30 insulators. That’s several hundred kilovolts AC. Each of the three phases has a bundle of four conductors. That’s a very large amount of power!! https://www.facebook.com/reel/552027003839740/?mibextid=9drbnH&s=yWDuG2&fs=e
