‘baseline solar scenario found if 40% of future solar development is placed on cropland, a rate the research paper says is consistent with historical patterns, prices for maize, soybeans and wheat would increase by less than 5.6%’
Solar as a crop price support?
Paper says biofuels cost rise 3X.
Kind of interesting that the biggest partisan spread is on the question of groceries.
My instinct here is the same as Dean's. This would make leave the government holding the bag for what looks like a wildly inflated asset.
Hello from Norway, where we have the largest fossil-funded sovereign wealth fund on the planet, and petroganda is widespread across society
I mean, yes
Commercial Solar Guy
ACTupper
With an extended closure of the Strait you are seeing a shift away from climate and towards energy security.
After Russia disrupted gas markets in 2022, governments focused on replacing Russian supply.
After the Strait of Hormuz disruption, they're asking how they use less **imported fuel**.
Ketan Joshi
Asawin Suebsaeng
Brad Reed
Nevermind about China's EVs, look at its ICE sales😮
May -39% y-o-y
Just 560,000 sold, compared to 2,660,000 peak almost ten years ago in Dec-2016.
lol getting booed as the president of a country during your country's national anthem is a new level of loser.
Boss level loser. Intergalactic LOSS. Generational fumble of existence.
GEO Group, a private prison company, signed a contract to give ICE use of Delaney Hall and “support services” like security, maintenance, food services, etc. in exchange for over $60 mil/yr
But it is the detainees—not GEO Group—who actually do that work, for free
ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
"On June 1, the Tumbleweed project in California’s Kern County became the first major battery installation in the U.S. that can discharge power for up to eight hours at a time — twice as long as typical energy-storage facilities," reports Julian Spector: www.canarymedia.com/articles/lon... 🔌💡
Anna Gifty
ballsandstrikes.org
The Delaney Hall Strike participants haven’t been convicted of anything—and are still being forced to work for nothing.
The Tumbleweed installation just went online in Kern County. It can store clean energy and discharge it for eight hours straight, a harbinger of what’s to…
There are two big drawbacks to Bernie Sanders' plan to take stakes in AI companies to create a sovereign wealth fund:
1. We don't need a sovereign wealth fund.
2. You are going to make normal people view themselves as investors in AI companies, which is bad.
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/an-ai-fund...
Research from Indiana University suggests that concerns over the impact of solar development on US agricultural production are largely exaggerated, with prices for maize, soybeans and wheat expected t...