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    Can Solar & Wind Fix Everything (e.g., Climate Change) with a battery break-through?

    You can buy this electric luxury SUV for $25,000 right now Might be good for a DIYer with programming skills. The catch is the company is about to enter bankruptcy. Oh! EV has a video on it....
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    Can Solar & Wind Fix Everything (e.g., Climate Change) with a battery break-through?

    Denier claim: Renewables are not feasible! Believer Claim: Hydro is a renewable, many places solely get power from hydro. Energy is just energy, of course it is feasible. Melting polar ice is slowing the Earth's rotation A survey of interventions to actively conserve the frozen North...
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    Can Solar & Wind Fix Everything (e.g., Climate Change) with a battery break-through?

    Florida, climate change doesn’t exist...officially Florida Bill Would Purge State Laws of Climate Change Mentions Opinion: Because it's so politicized we'd spend tax dollars reprinting stuff rather than fix stuff. At least it's an relatively inexpensive non-solution. Controversial PragerU...
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    Can Solar & Wind Fix Everything (e.g., Climate Change) with a battery break-through?

    If you just want to see the news as to what's going on you can ignore the many many posts from deniers. Quoting the quy that got fired from Fox Entertainment for generating too many lies as proof of reality? It's obviously true that switching will save us trillions, not sure why anyone would...
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    Can Solar & Wind Fix Everything (e.g., Climate Change) with a battery break-through?

    Where is it safe from Climate Change? Yesterday I picked on Miami and pointed out that it was a slow and gradual change that most of us wouldn't live to see. But where is it safe? That is to say, few places are exempt. Weather events will continue to nickel and dime us as they have in the...
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    Can Solar & Wind Fix Everything (e.g., Climate Change) with a battery break-through?

    NBC did a poll in 2014 too, so... progress? Of course, that's about if humans caused it... which we have proven as carbon isotopes in the air clearly demonstrate where the CO2 came from. A lot more people believe it's occurring and is a problem, some are unsure, and some are in denial...
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    Can Solar & Wind Fix Everything (e.g., Climate Change) with a battery break-through?

    Opinion: This is very fast adoption. It sort of reminds me when hand calculators first came out. But back then, the results were accurate.... ; -) Changes in the Arctic: Background and Issues for Congress U.S. Energy Supply and Use: Background and Policy Primer The Clean Hydrogen...
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    Can Solar & Wind Fix Everything (e.g., Climate Change) with a battery break-through?

    Miami Underwater Miami is already prone to flooding whenever there's a storm surge. The picture to the right isn't unusual and a great explanation for why a carbon fiber or stainless steel body is great to have. Electric is nice too as they don't need a snorkel. Yes! Snorkels for ICE are a...
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    Can Solar & Wind Fix Everything (e.g., Climate Change) with a battery break-through?

    IPCC to blame for inaction: Graphs are hard to read The hunt for lost apple varieties to protect fruit in climate crisis Climate change could be a deciding factor in 2024 election Cocoa Prices Triple in One Year as Climate Change Hits Climate - the Movie: a hot mess of (c)old myths! Shell Is...
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    Can Solar & Wind Fix Everything (e.g., Climate Change) with a battery break-through?

    The "shock" headlines you see in the papers typically forget to tell you how far it is into the future. They also do weird things like take the absolute worst-case scenarios and present them as fait accompli. What I will tell you is the curve is accelerating. Can anyone seeing us abandoning...
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    Can Solar & Wind Fix Everything (e.g., Climate Change) with a battery break-through?

    Thread Recap This thread has been a journey. I started off as a skeptic/denier, but bad science is usually debunked after a decade and the whole topic of climate change had been around far too long not to give it a second look with an open mind. So I open Bill Gate’s book How to Avoid a Climate...
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    Can Solar & Wind Fix Everything (e.g., Climate Change) with a battery break-through?

    Climate models can’t explain 2023’s huge heat anomaly — we could be in uncharted territory Opinion: I bet they mean the standard models and not the hot models MAST: A way to reduce Climate Costs? Spike in 2023 Global Sea Level Miami - a city at risk As you can see from the photo, the 2.6...
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    Can Solar & Wind Fix Everything (e.g., Climate Change) with a battery break-through?

    We can, at the very least, provide a little humor...
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    Can Solar & Wind Fix Everything (e.g., Climate Change) with a battery break-through?

    Sea surface temperature research provides clear evidence of human-caused climate change Opinion: Didn't publish a margin of error and the original paper is behind a paywall, so take it with a grain of salt. Darkness from April's eclipse will briefly impact solar power Opinion: Makes sense, cool...
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    Can Solar & Wind Fix Everything (e.g., Climate Change) with a battery break-through?

    There is, of course, the danger of losing out on intelligent well reasoned thought-provoking arguments. But tuning out trolls doesn't create an echo chamber. Keep in mind they got put on ignore not because they had a difference of opinion, but because of behavior not suitable for polite...
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    Can Solar & Wind Fix Everything (e.g., Climate Change) with a battery break-through?

    Climate Adam: Could the Amazon Rainforest Collapse? World Meteorological Organization: “high probability” that 2024 will be another record-hot year Opinion: Hmmm, that would be bad. 2023 was supposed to be "hot" with El Nino, but it's on its way out. Need to look more into this, but it mainly...
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    Can Solar & Wind Fix Everything (e.g., Climate Change) with a battery break-through?

    No one believes that. Posted on it here, some of the bias is in the way we ask questions, but more is from the search engine helpfully trying to give your what you want to see (not what you need to see). But, if you're aware of the bias you can adjust your query to improve your research...
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    Can Solar & Wind Fix Everything (e.g., Climate Change) with a battery break-through?

    It is disturbing one of the greatest political parties on the planet has its head, like an ostrich, stuck in the sand on the sand on the topic. Not all of them of course, it's mainly just the old guard and that's understandable as a lot of their money comes from that sector. What they don't...
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    Can Solar & Wind Fix Everything (e.g., Climate Change) with a battery break-through?

    Peatlands drying out, carbon sinks to carbon sources Who is buying EVs? This was really shocking... no pun intended...the graph is breakdown by party affiliation of registered EVs for states Trump and Biden won. Biden's is no surprise... but... This is more than just the demographics of...
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    Can Solar & Wind Fix Everything (e.g., Climate Change) with a battery break-through?

    What's in a Word? Trigger words like that are ripe in any website that wants to manipulate you rather than explain to you. Many outlets (e.g., fox, Corbett) go to extremes to tell you how dumb the other side is as a part of tearing them down to disprove their science. It's an easy way to spot...
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    Can Solar & Wind Fix Everything (e.g., Climate Change) with a battery break-through?

    2024 Dust Forecast If you don't live in the tropics this probably isn't something you've talked about (at least not since the dust bowl ; -) But dust (and volcanic ash) play a role in hurricane formation. With El Niña forming and record warm water temperatures we have a couple of the...
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    Can Solar & Wind Fix Everything (e.g., Climate Change) with a battery break-through?

    That's hilarious, and a fantastic example of misrepresenting the truth. It is true you can spoof an AI into doing things because it keeps context of the conversation. But you could ask any human artist to draw them that way too. It's the sort of half-truth a lot of denierism has. But, it's...
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    Can Solar & Wind Fix Everything (e.g., Climate Change) with a battery break-through?

    Looks like VW wants to compete against Tesla's $25k model 2, the model 2's low cost is supposed to be revolutionary in terms of manufacturing. Can't wait to see folks tear them apart on youtube like Monroe is doing the cybertruck.
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    Adding storage to my Enphase system

    Does California have enabled the "request for renewable energy" by drooping the frequency? I thought that was still in the discussion stages? If so, do you get special rates? Or, is this just a situation where the grid is low on energy causing the dynamos to slow due to the extra drag? I...
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    Can Solar & Wind Fix Everything (e.g., Climate Change) with a battery break-through?

    U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate This is the cabinet level position for climate change. On January 31, 2024, it was announced that John Podesta would take over the seat . They have their own government website, but it's under the U.S. Department of State (which seems odd for a...
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    Can Solar & Wind Fix Everything (e.g., Climate Change) with a battery break-through?

    Search Engine confirmation bias: You get more of what you click on making it look more real Opinion: I'm sure this one will pointed back to me... ; -) When you see those denier links, be sure to investigate who funds the site. It's not hard to prove sites like PragerU, ZeroHedge...
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    Enphase battery questions!!!!!!

    A lot of grid-tied solar can now function when the grid is out (or in an off-grid scenario). Enphase's battery and microinverters for example can work when the grid is out and it's not particularly complicated. ref I'm waiting for the bidirectional charging rather than buy more batteries for...
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    Can Solar & Wind Fix Everything (e.g., Climate Change) with a battery break-through?

    Test to Preserve Arctic sea-ice The gist is keeping the ice keeps the albedo higher which slows warming. Record heat: Accelerated warming or El Niño? Court Challenge by Fracking Companies Halts SEC Climate Reporting Opinion: Who didn't see that coming? The fear is two fold: first it's really...
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    Can Solar & Wind Fix Everything (e.g., Climate Change) with a battery break-through?

    Methane leaks in the US are worse than we thought Why methane emissions are still a mystery Not the End of the World Germany on course to meet 2030 climate goal, minister says Opinion: Given the protests and destruction against renewables recently, reverting to coal from nuclear and other...
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    Can Solar & Wind Fix Everything (e.g., Climate Change) with a battery break-through?

    They flourished for 1300 years. A theory of societal collapse puts the average age for most civilizations around 340 years, so seems like they did amazingly well. But weather changes all the time, so it's understandable that people would be slow to adapt to actual climate change. Easy to...
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    Plasma fields

    Okay... that's cool...
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    Can Solar & Wind Fix Everything (e.g., Climate Change) with a battery break-through?

    I post articles of interest regarding climate change on the thread that I come across as I'm interested in the topic. I don't always know how true or accurate they are so it's good to be skeptical, and I value your feedback on them. Overall though, climate change is real, just check out what...
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