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Free Press founder Bari Weiss named editor-in-chief of CBS News after deal with Paramount Paramount Skydance CEO David Ellison has named Bari Weiss editor-in-chief of CBS News, as part of a deal to acquire the online news site she founded, The Free Press.

The age of failing upwards/learning to parse truth from propaganda: 40 years of climate change disinfo has kept my skills sharp so not worried, just disappointed. ground.news/article/free...

Hey, folks, please check out the new Drawdown Explorer.

It’s the world’s leading resource for science-backed climate solutions. And now it provides the most up-to-date, localized, actionable intelligence to help scale these solutions out in the world.

Drawdown.org/explorer

AI-Driven Demand for Gas Turbines Risks a New Energy Crunch Orders for turbines to power natural gas plants are vastly outpacing supply, threatening the world’s ability to keep pace with rising electricity demand.

There's a severe shortage of gas turbines globally. Wait times have gone up from 2 years to 5 years or more. AI companies are willing to pay any price to get their hands on them.

Is that a climate blessing or curse? Our global investigation has an answer.

🎁link
www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

Seven Fisker Oceans for the NJ owners association gathering.

A torrent of Oceans from this wknd (damn it’s been a busy couple days).

Find community wherever you can. With the Fisker Owners Association it has been amazing sharing and collaborating on service, upgrades and even our own app environment.

Still lb-4-lb the best EV that is no longer on the market

India on track to add more than 45 GW of solar in fiscal 2026 India installed 18 GW of solar in the first five months of fiscal 2026 and is projected to exceed 45 GW for the year, with rooftop and open-access systems driving growth alongside tax cuts and expandi...

India on track to add more than 45 GW of solar in fiscal 2026 www.pv-magazine.com/2025/09/24/i... - good news from #India and much more solar PV ahead: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

WE ARE

Never alone

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India adds 4.8GW solar cell capacity to ALMM list-II The Indian government has added 4.8GW of annual solar cell nameplate capacity to its Approved List of Models and Manufacturers List-II.

India adds 4.8GW solar cell capacity to ALMM list-II #energysky -- via pv-tech:

How Trump’s Case Against Revolution Wind Fell Apart The administration argued in the name of national defense — but Orsted had receipts.

Scoop: Trump lost the legal battle over halting the offshore Revolution Wind project after Orsted, its developer, brought reams of evidence to court alleging the government was lying about military security concerns.

It’s a sign truth can empower companies Trump targets.

Via @heatmap.news

⚡️🤯⚡️!

WRI expert note: The United States should not turn food into aviation fuel Dan Lashof and Audrey Denvir Summary Emissions from domestic aviation are responsible for 3 percent of annual US greenhouse gas output and are expected to increase by 2–3 percent per year through midcentury unless the course is corrected. In contrast, emissions from ground transportation are expected to decline as vehicles become more efficient and are increasingly electrified. Aircraft efficiency is improving, but not fast enough to keep up with increasing air travel. While some short-haul flights can be replaced with high-speed rail and could possibly be electrified in the future, most of the emissions reductions needed from aviation through midcentury will have to be achieved through alternative liquid fuels—also known as sustainable aviation fuel (SAF)—or compensated for through carbon dioxide removal. Not all alternatives to petroleum jet fuel reduce the environmental impact of air travel, and they often have unwanted side effects. For example, diverting soybeans and corn from food and feed markets to make fuel—currently the leading approaches to producing alternative jet fuel in the United States—harms consumers by driving up food prices (Malins 2023) and leads to deforestation, biodiversity loss, and emissions from land-use change. Federal and state support for alternatives to petroleum jet fuel should focus on approaches that avoid the conflict between food and fuel production by using waste biomass, carbon captured from the atmosphere, and clean hydrogen as feedstocks for SAF. Technologies such as biomass gasification, Fischer-Tropsch fuel synthesis, and electrofuels (e-fuels) made from clean hydrogen and captured carbon dioxide are nascent but have the potential to produce truly sustainable aviation fuel (Energy Institute 2024; Ringle 2024; Twelve n.d.). Read more: https://www.wri.org/research/united-states-should-not-turn-food-aviation-fuel

However, the US has ambitious alternative aviation fuel targets, but still allows that fuel to be made from food crops like corn or soy, which would increase emissions relative to using conventional jet fuel. Our analysis: the US should not turn food into aviation fuel. www.wri.org/research/uni...

Oof some folks only learning this 29 yrs too late… “R&D is something that cannot by any short-term measurement meet the test of the marketplace, the libertarians’ measure of all things.”

Reading this and thinking about the massive investments China made in early 00s and how that’s paying off now.

A look at India's $18.2B chipmaking push, with 10 projects across six states to cut import reliance, as experts question if talent and investment are enough (Priyanka Salve/CNBC)

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"Our measurements show that wheat and grass-clover mixtures grow just as well between vertical solar panels as in open fields. At the same time, the panels produce electricity in a daily pattern that better matches energy demand. It's a win-win,"

Get these to Kansas ASAP

"When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross." Sinclair Lewis

A poster for the live stream event that says, "Watch Katharine Hayhoe's keynote live from the AMNH during Climate Week NYC!"

My last talk on Friday at the American Museum of Natural History will be live-streamed. Register to watch here! www.eventbrite.com/e/climate-ed...

Revisiting the Geoengineering Question We probably shouldn't do it, but if we do it we need narrow bounds

But we should debate those bounds now, before heat waves, crop failures, or tipping-point fears goad governments into ill-considered action. The world stumbled into today’s accidental sulfur cooling without intention or oversight. We should not stumble into a replacement.

Ultra-large 35MW offshore wind turbines envisaged in new tender News comes just weeks after record-smashing 26MW wind turbine was installed in China, as analyst says turbines even of that size are 'unlikely to be the upper limit'

The current largest installed wind turbine is 26MW (that's gigantic btw - it has a rotor diameter as wide as London's Shard is tall). But there are plenty of signs that we will see turbines significantly bigger than that fairly soon...

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“Most oil production in [US] comes from fast declining unconventional sources…Absent further capital investment…production declines – a 65% drop over the next decade.”

*570B USD in 2025 exp. Imagine how good the 🌎 utilization of energy could be without this heavily subsidized dino juice. ⚡️⚡️⚡️

Solarcleano launches panel cleaning robot for large PV installations, trackers #energysky -- via pv magazine global: www.pv-magazine.com/...

Iron Lion Zion

I’ve got to run like a fugitive to save the life I live

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Hell’s Kitchen: Can Lithium & Geothermal Power Thrive In The Salton Sea? - CleanTechnica The Salton Sea’s brines hold lithium and heat. CTR’s Hell’s Kitchen aims to tap both, but scaling DLE and shifting policy make the outcome uncertain.

Hell’s Kitchen: Can Lithium & Geothermal Power Thrive In The Salton Sea? - CleanTechnica cleantechnica.com/2025/09/05/h...

RE+ product launches: Canadian Solar low-carbon modules, FTC Solar new tracker, NovaSource's AI-platform Many companies launched new solar products during RE+ 2025, in Las Vegas, including NovaSource, OMCO Solar, FTC Solar and Canadian Solar.

RE+ product launches: Canadian Solar low-carbon modules, FTC Solar new tracker, NovaSource’s AI-platform #energysky -- via pv-tech:

hi, cis folks!

if you said you’d stand with trans people, we need you now.

the FY26 budget bill gets a vote by 9/30. the GOP wants to jam a ban on federal funding for ALL health services that provide trans care for ANY AGE.

we need you to call senators: reps.fyi

more info & script downthread.🧵

I knew that psychrometric chart was just two graphs that should’ve stayed apart!

The Dark Of The Sun

In your eyes there was a freedom

We will stand as one

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Council says street light dimming trial saved nearly £540,000 The council is considering fully adopting a scheme that sees lights dimmed to 30% brightness between 20:00 and 07:00.

HALF A MILLION POUNDS

One council!
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Page from Lord of the Rings, which I’m finally getting around to about 30 years behind schedule. Highlighted quote from Gandalf: “look out for me, especially at unlikely times!”

What’s this guy’s deal? I grew up with the stern Ian McKellen, never realized JRR was playing Gandalf more like Clay Aiken’s “If I was Invisible” 🤣😂

Breakthrough on California housing could put taller buildings in single-family neighborhoods The Yes In My Backyard housing movement is close to another victory in the California Legislature as a bill to ease construction near transit stations moves forward.

One of the year's most controversial housing bills (in a year full of extremely controversial housing bills!) is a big step closer to becoming law thanks to a last-minute deal between long-time political foes.

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“It’s the truth I’m after, and the truth never harmed anyone. What harms us is to persist in self-deceit and ignorance.”
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

(I imagine he wasn’t in a tweed suit, but dig the style)