JUST DROPPED: For years I thought industrial electrification potential was limited.
How wrong I was.
Engineering studies point to 90%+. Long term scenarios support this.
Technology is much further ahead than we think. Question is whether policy keeps up.
janrosenow.substack.com/p/industry-f...
Fear is the foundation of most governments; but it is so sordid and brutal a passion, and renders men in whose breasts it predominates so stupid and miserable, that Americans will not be likely to approve of any political institution which is founded on it.
John Adams, Founding Father US, 1776
How far can industry run on electricity?Much ffurther and faster than the 'hard-to-abate' label suggests.
I think for most it's a way to make the grid more reliable, not to replace it. Certainly true in the Netherlands (but we have winters where solar panels are close to useless).
Kees van der Leun
Solar energy is unstoppable! apple.news/AmV47G6-6TWS...
The latest CFSv2 model results for El Nino (ONI) anomalies later this year are kinda nuts, with a peak at nearly 3.9C in November.
NOAA needs to once again raise the y-axis range; here is what it should look like without all the runs above 4C cut off:
Reminds me of this chart: British beef and lamb consumption takes up an enormous area of land overseas – some of which will be felled rainforest.
We are, however, self-sufficient in cereals such as wheat
Truth!
For a while this was the "serious" position in the US. It's why people like @mzjacobson.bsky.social were attacked. Almost as if they were "heretics". Turns out the heretics were right.
If Trump wants to determine what science is acceptable, he's following in the footsteps of Hitler and Stalin.
Not sure his base cares, but can Americans pls wake up?
Ppl, esp. in @theguardian.com are prone to Pearl clutching over mines for EV minerals while conveniently forgetting meat. So maybe this picture is a helpful reminder of where our priorities should lie.
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A sea of solar panels is rapidly engulfing one of the world’s largest salt deserts. By 2029, nearly 60 million panels will cover 280 square miles of India’s Rann of Kutch, extending right up to the bo...
Pakistan is now the world's #2 solar panel importer.
More than India, more than the entire Gulf.
Almost none of it policy-driven. Grid power is costly & unreliable, so households go solar themselves.
But does that push grid fees higher for everyone left behind?
More soon: janrosenow.substack.com
Ppl, esp. in @theguardian.com are prone to Pearl clutching over mines for EV minerals while conveniently forgetting meat. So maybe this picture is a helpful reminder of where our priorities should lie.
Jan Rosenow
Auke Hoekstra
The idea that only nuclear or gas can provide "firm power" -- the last line of defense against the relentless advance of clean energy -- is going the way of the dodo.
There are no arguments left. The only reason to fight progress now is corruption & raw political power.
Trump appointees having final say on research grants would stop American science dead in its tracks.
Take a minute to add your voice to the registrar for this terrible proposal: fight2win.standupforscience.net/campaign/163...
www.canarymedia.com
Grouping wind, solar, and batteries together can already be more affordable than building a coal or gas plant in prime locations, new report finds.
This Belgian had no idea that there also was a paralympics for beers.
Emily Cassidy
A strength of the US from the late 19th to early 21st centuries. “science” also has been a strength of the US in a revolutionary era sense of a collective pursuit of knowledge and improvement not beholden to tradition, kings or favor. An even more essential strength we’ve lost. John Adams April 1776
Rainforests pushed to breaking point by new demands for resources, report says.
Need for minerals, biofuels and pulp adding to pressures from ranching, monocrops, oil and logging, analysis finds
Story by me.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Rainforests pushed to breaking point by new demands for resources, report says.
Need for minerals, biofuels and pulp adding to pressures from ranching, monocrops, oil and logging, analysis finds
Story by me.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Dan Grey
Need for minerals, biofuels and pulp adding to pressures from ranching, monocrops, oil and logging, analysis finds
www.theguardian.com
Need for minerals, biofuels and pulp adding to pressures from ranching, monocrops, oil and logging, analysis finds
White House proposes new rules giving political appointees final approval of research grants
These proposed Office of Management and Budget regulations would render the federal research grant review process opaque
www.scientificamerican.com/article/whit...
These proposed Office of Management and Budget regulations would render the federal research grant review process opaque
