Nugnewbie
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Trump Threatens Climate Policies in the States
After halting federal attempts to combat global warming, President Trump is now targeting efforts by states to reduce greenhouse gases, setting up a legal clash.
Climate in the 21st Century
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ttystikk
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My favorite saying of Tyson's is,"the truth doesn't care if you believe in it or not."
This holds everywhere but political science LOL
injinji
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Then his trade war cost the coal producing part of the country any chance they had of exports.
Trump signs executive orders to boost coal, a reliable but polluting energy source
President Donald Trump has signed four executive orders aimed at boosting coal, a reliable but polluting energy source that’s long been in decline.apnews.com
injinji
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Insurance is always the first to care about problems (that they have to pay for).
laddyd
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I was in the industry. The Chinese took over the manufacturing for a good portion of our product. They are hard to compete with. Their government subsides them to the point that they can sell finished goods shipped from china for cheaper than the raw materials cost.
But wait, we have a product that we do better than anybody. One of the few things we sell to China. Or did. We've made our product too expensive to buy but we still have to buy your stuff because we stopped making it.Way to go stable genius, we fought hard to get a market there.
injinji
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We will always need coal to make steel, even after we stop using it for fuel. We need to be smart about what we use. I can't wait until we use oil only for chemicals.
ttystikk
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This day is coming, sooner than many think.
Solar is cheap. Really cheap. It's super amenable to distributed power schemes that don't tax the capacity of long distance power transmission and distribution systems, instead tending to lower demand on them.
Pakistan bought 22 Gigawatts of panels in just 2024 alone, a staggering quantity that will help the country's development and keep it from ever needing to generate that electricity from fossil fuels.
The United States needs to get serious about our own transition to renewables or we will be left behind. The petrodollar is dead.
injinji
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This past year was our first that greenish energy was more than 50%. That is counting nuclear, but still a huge increase. My county has three pretty big solar farms now, one near the Sandhill. As neighbors go, they are better than cotton.
ttystikk
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SUN ROOMS, they said? You know, we might know a thing or two about bringing the sun indoors for the purpose of growing plants...
I'm surprised that so little seaweed is needed to produce such a dramatic reduction in methane emissions.
Finally, I wonder how the cows feel about it? I wish there was a way we could ask them if it tastes okay, if it feels better when they digest it, etc. Contrary to popular opinion, cows aren't stupid; if we can train dogs to communicate with us using pads on the floor that say words when stepped on, maybe someday we could train cows to talk to us about their burps.
And no, I'm not stoned! Lol
ttystikk
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Agrivoltaics is the name given to various schemes to have solar power generation coexist with agricultural production on the same patch of land.
The research has really accelerated and it's looking like farmers who apply this can pretty sharply increase their dollars earned per acre over doing either one on its own.
If I had farmland I'd definitely be trying it; generating enough power to operate the farm plus having enough surplus to export is a win-win that farmers could really use.
Dr.Amber Trichome
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ttystikk
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I guess it depends on your credit rating. I see no reason why the utility would mind but getting their approval and a purchase power agreement would be important to the process.
