“”A study published in the journal Joule found that switching to renewable energy could save the world at least $12 trillion by 2050, compared with continuing to rely on fossil fuels. The analysis concluded that a rapid transition to clean energy would not only reduce overall energy system costs, but also deliver more energy to
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Wind and solar just hit a major global milestone: for the first time ever, they generated more electricity than gas for an entire month. April 2026 is now in the history books. https://www.facebook.com/100064672212764/posts/pfbid0CQiAfVGrLBZSTCLzBrzCUYQoXeUvUv1catKuLeFkXP98Mc8ZyeqdfQu1NbPRBkJel/?mibextid=CDWPTG In a first, wind and solar generated more power than gas globally in April 2026
Quote “”France just completed the world’s largest agrivoltaic trial — installing solar panel canopies above 2,400 hectares of Provence vineyards, cereal fields, and vegetable plots, generating 500 megawatts of clean electricity from the same land producing full agricultural output. The Sun’Agri program installs tilting solar panels on 5-meter-tall structures above crops, with panel angles controlled
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The new Cottbus Solar Park covers 3500 hectares or 35 square kilometers or 13.5 square miles – huge!! It holds 4.2 million bifacial solar panels generating 2.2 Gigawatts. That’s a lot! It’s on a former coal mine in Brandenburg. Germany has plans for 28 GW more solar. https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid0Jav6nMgpffLuSBDuT3MjQcLQ3bvYVMaPP7U4VTDuuoJ6neQaJhrcnLBwQeyJsPbUl&id=61577817790681&post_id=61577817790681_pfbid0Jav6nMgpffLuSBDuT3MjQcLQ3bvYVMaPP7U4VTDuuoJ6neQaJhrcnLBwQeyJsPbUl&mibextid=CDWPTG
“”The expansion of solar energy has always carried one tension with agricultural nations that no policy document resolved cleanly: solar farms require land and farmland is finite. Germany found a way to make that tension irrelevant by installing solar panels above active crop fields in an approach called agrivoltaics where the same land produces food
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This Grist article makes some very good points. Important! “Insulate, insulate, insulate.” “Double pane windows.” “Do not burn fossil fuels in your home. Install heat pump HVAC.” However it says, “… Heat pumps join electric vehicles and induction stoves in increasing demand on the grid.” I don’t agree. The heat pumps should reduce the amount
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2026-04-08 OMG!! “”China just finished the largest energy project in human history — 50 gigawatts from one location in the Gobi Desert. The Kubuqi Desert Renewable Energy Megabase covers 100,000 hectares of Inner Mongolia with 35 gigawatts of solar and 15 gigawatts of wind across the same landscape. Construction required 280,000 workers over five years
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Plans to change unused farmland in California to a 21 GW solar project, probably the largest in the world. https://www.facebook.com/reel/968024809035097/?mibextid=CDWPTG
There are 700 acres of crops under the solar panels. 😍👍 https://www.facebook.com/reel/1451693053143891/?mibextid=9drbnH&s=yWDuG2&fs=e
Graph showing drop in renewables over the last decade or so. https://www.facebook.com/100083516882613/posts/pfbid029T4wi3N5BUTjGarpzSCddu4E3vEA5S1Hxdd8D1X3ZYHWGbSvYYdmR9JTdXmZKjzRl/?mibextid=Nif5oz
