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And told to pay. The high prices are worth seeing the lib tear drops fall!
He always does.
And told to pay. The high prices are worth seeing the lib tear drops fall!
eventually, he'll be crying too
batteries have been a game changer for renewables
low cost wins
ttps://www.reuters.com/business/energy/global-wind-solar-power-outpace-gas-first-time-april-report-shows-2026-05-20/Wind and solar combined generated more electricity than gas globally in April for the first month ever, data analysed by #UK-based think tank Ember showed on Thursday.
Together, wind and solar generated 22% of global electricity in April, compared with 20% from gas.
https://www.newscientist.com/article...vious-decades/Earth is now heating up twice as fast as in previous decades
Global warming has accelerated and is now happening twice as fast as in previous decades, meaning major climate catastrophes could happen sooner than expected.
Earth was warming by about 0.18°C per decade prior to 2013-14. Since then, it has been heating up by about 0.36°C per decade, according to an analysis by Stefan Rahmstorf at the University of Potsdam, Germany, and US statistician Grant Foster.
If warming continues at this rate, humanity could breach the Paris Agreement goal of limiting warming to 1.5°C in 2028, even sooner than other research has projected.
“Every tenth of a degree matters and makes the impact of global warming worse in terms of extreme weather events, in terms of ecosystem impacts, also the risk of crossing tipping points,” says Rahmstorf. “The world, apart from the US, is trying to halt global warming, reduce it, and that’s why the fact that it’s now actually doing the opposite, accelerating, is of great concern.”
After a string of record-hot years, climate scientists began widely debating in 2023 whether global warming is speeding up. But natural fluctuations, such as the El Niño climate phase, which caused additional warming in 2023 and 2024, made it difficult to tell if the faster rise in temperatures was due to climate change or just random weather.
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a cheaper and cleaner technical base is coming regardless of Trumplandia's nostalgia for king coal
https://www.motherjones.com/politics...id-resilience/For the first time ever, solar is set to generate more electricity than coal in the power market managed by the Electric Reliability Council of Texas. Nobody is building new coal power plants in the state, but developers are adding more solar there than anywhere else in the country. As a result of those diverging trajectories, the federal government expects ERCOT will receive 78 billion kilowatt-hours from solar in 2026, and just 60 from coal.
This trend does have seasonal variations. Last year, solar output beat coal on a monthly basis from March through August, and this year it is expected to do so from March through December, per the US Energy Information Administration at the Department of Energy.
thanks, Trump
for kick-starting the green new deal
https://bsky.app/profile/akshatrathi.../3mnheb5s2i22pHistory shows that successive severe shocks tend to drive profound changes to the global energy mix. The scale of the disruption to oil and gas supplies caused by the war in the Middle East is unprecedented, and comes just four years after another crisis precipitated by Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. This time the shift is likely to be away from fossil fuels and internal combustion engines, and toward renewables and electric devices, as governments and consumers reckon with their vulnerability to volatile prices in an insecure world.
solar > coal
https://abcnews.com/US/solar-generat...y?id=133783328The amount of solar power generated in the U.S. is continuing to grow despite efforts from the Trump administration to slow down the renewable energy sector, according to two reports released this week.
The U.S. has generated more power from solar compared to coal for the first time, according to a report by Ember, a think tank focused on the clean energy transition. In May 2026, solar supplied 12.8% of U.S. electricity, while coal supplied 12.2%, according to an analysis of official monthly and preliminary hourly generation data.
A record 45.5 terawatt-hours (TWh) of solar energy was generated in May 2026, exceeding the output from May 2025 by 17%, the think tank found. The record could be broken again in the upcoming summer months, as solar output typically peaks in June and July.
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Trump's nostalgic attachment to fossil fuels is re ing the technical transformation of the USA and ceding the field for electrification to China
https://www.techspot.com/news/112051...um-old-ev.htmlJapan finds a way to recover 90% of lithium from old EV batteries
Countries that don't mine their own lithium have two options when supply gets tight: pay whatever the market demands, or figure out how to reuse what they've already got. Japan is trying to lean more toward the latter, and one major breakthrough may help with that. A facility in Fukui Prefecture has figured out how to extract a whopping 90% of the lithium sitting inside dead EV batteries. That's around double what such operations previously achieved.
Behind the breakthrough is JX Metals Circular Solutions, a subsidiary of one of Japan's largest non-ferrous metal companies. While it was announced back in April 2025, it really started grabbing headlines this month after some Japanese publications revealed the actual process at the company's plant in Tsuruga.
Tadashi Nakagawa, the facility's vice president, told NHK that the team achieved its goal by rethinking the chemicals and methods involved in extracting lithium from spent battery cells.
The process starts with old batteries being separated and burned to strip away non-metal components. What's left gets crushed into something called black mass. This is essentially a powder packed with recoverable metals. From there, a water-based chemical treatment called hydrometallurgy pulls the lithium out.
One clever distinction in this new process is that the recovered lithium hydroxide actually replaces a chemical traditionally used during refining. This cuts the carbon footprint by about 40% compared to older methods.
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