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With China's Help, Saudi Arabia is Deploying Solar Power Faster than any Country in History Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) - Jeffrey Beyer and Stephen Gitonga of the UN Development Program present an overview of Saudi Arabia's full court press to get 50% of its electricity from renewables by 2...

KSA is building solar power infrastructure that can deliver $0.01/kWh electricity.

“The kingdom is aware that fossil fuels, the source of its fabulous wealth, are on their way out. Its leaders want to have a modern electro-state in place when the pumps fall idle.”

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The Iowa Senate seat that Democratic candidate Catelin Drey flipped tonight has been in GOP hands for 13 years.

Not anymore.

Re-reading the report of the Social Security whistleblower, it is striking how many times good people within SSA tried to keep DOGE from committing crimes.

Here's my understanding of the timeline 🧵

Here are the classified files found in Bolton's bathroom. Oh, wait. That's Trump's bathroom.

Pam Bondi Reportedly Created 1,000 Witnesses to the Jeffrey Epstein File - emptywheel In her bid to politicize the search for Jeffrey Epstein files, Pam Bondi created one thousand witnesses to what might be in the file.

Reup: Congratulations to Pam Bondi for creating an additional 1,000 people who know what is in the Epstein files.

Really superb work!

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Special concessions for Alasks

Smaller EVs will rule.

Lucid CEO Warns New Cars Are About To Get More Expensive: 'No Other Way Around It' Today on Critical Materials: Lucid CEO issues a price warning, Musk's companies infuse cash into xAI and Hyundai will ride out tariffs with cheap cars.

“For the American consumers, vehicles are going to be more expensive under the tariff regime." Period, full stop.

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EVs and building better cities will make the difference. Eyes on Paris the new walkable city.

A great and immediate way to decarb the grid is commity solar. Subscribe to Vendor today. Takes just minutes.

Maybe this is just rage bait at this point, but I find it Interesting that heating uses 4x the energy globally as cooling does, but authors of AC-shaming articles like this never call for people to just “tough it out” through the winter without heating their homes 🤔

This is very poor analysis, poor argumentation, and the sort of piece that actively harms climate action. AC is not, to wit, "quantifiably bad" - but this article really is.

China Ramps Up Offshore Wind Projects After Slowdown (Bloomberg) — China has rebuilt a substantial pipeline of offshore wind projects as the sector recovers from a slowdown that followed the end of national subsidies in 2021, according to...

China expecting to complete 9.6 GW of offshore wind alone in 2025, increasing its fleet from 43.8 GW to 53.4 GW.

Another 18.4 GW is currently under construction.

Meanwhile China will complete possibly 0 GW of nuclear in 2025.

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Suing Like the Future Depends on It - Truthdig Trump wants to “unleash” fossil fuels to fight an "energy emergency." This youth-led lawsuit seeks to stop him.

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Suing Like the Future Depends on It - Truthdig Trump wants to “unleash” fossil fuels to fight an "energy emergency." This youth-led lawsuit seeks to stop him.

www.truthdig.com/articles/sui...

Wind+solar providing 40% of the Texas grid right now, keeping prices low, and power supply high. Diversification works!

Any corporate executive who signs off on a bribe to Trump should be prepared to explain their crimes in front of Congress and to the public when Democrats retake power

Carbon Capture More Expensive Than Switching to Renewables, Stanford Study Reveals Researchers have determined that the large-scale adoption of technologies designed to capture carbon dioxide from industrial emissions and the atmosphere would be significantly more costly and environ...

Carbon Capture More Expensive Than Switching to Renewables

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Electricity Prices Are Surging. The G.O.P. Megabill Could Push Them Higher.

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Climeworks: The carbon capture company that emits more than it captures No surprises. Direct air capture was designed to delay the end of fossil fuels.

Climeworks: The carbon capture company that emits more than it captures

“This tech perpetuates the business model of oil and gas companies. This is what this tech is designed to do. None of this is doing any good for climate..it is making things worse.”

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Stop saying it can't be done.

Can you imagine 74 straight days in 2025 with >100% WindWaterSolar on the California ISO grid?

Well it has happened.

Plus 115 of 147 (78%) days in 2025 have experienced >100% WWS, for an average of 4.9 h/day among all 147 days.

RW assault on climate and environment policies has never reached this scale. Hopefully, there is silver lining to this cloud and Americans will realize the hellish nightmare they are getting into.

Congress Just Took A Sledgehammer To The EV Industry. Here's What It Means The U.S. House just killed the EV tax credits. The Senate voted to end California's emissions rules. America is about to fall behind in the electric race.

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Congress Just Took A Sledgehammer To The EV Industry. Here's What It Means The U.S. House just killed the EV tax credits. The Senate voted to end California's emissions rules. America is about to fall behind in the electric race.

The U.S. House just killed the EV tax credits. The Senate voted to end California's emissions rules. America is about to fall behind.

Something to think about and maybe reconsider.

This also promotes the idea that biking is only for sports people.

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