Well…with the idiot trump’s pledge to end subsidies for renewable energy production, we can already say bye, bye jobs in the battery plants, the solar panel plants, and the wind turbine plants that had started to make the US the leader in renewables…and what about the multi billion dollar battery plant in NC that would create thousands of good paying jobs? The plant is not viable without the tax breaks they get under the Chips act so I can’t wait for trump and his idiot cronies to explain why fossil fuel companies continue to get billions and billions of dollars in subsidies when the renewable plants are shuttered…and this bullshit will hand the leadership in solar panels back to China that Biden and his administration wrestled away from them…but of course this incompetent asshole would do this…fossil fuel companies bought the election for him and now are looking for their payoff…and they are going to get it as the world burns…geez…
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Dems in charge…
Well…I think this might have flown under the radar after the announcement was put out a couple of days ago that legislation has been passed by the dems here in Michigan to go completely renewable for electricity generation by 2040…no more coal, oil, or gas and if the repubs were still in charge, we would still be building coal fired power plants even though they cost more than any renewable energy…it would just be a payoff to their big donors who pollute the state. This is what happens when you put intelligent people in charge of the government…no culture wars or other bullshit…just good legislation that benefits us all…okay, dems…now do taxing the rich and let’s fund our schools and take care of those here in Michigan who need help…geez…
Some good news on energy…
Well…as prices for wind and solar power continue to fall, their use continues to rise to be the second most used source of energy in the US. Last year, renewables including geothermal and biomass made up 22% of the energy used and it is predicted that these sources will grow by another 10% next year…and that is good news for the planet as coal use continues to fall…and for some reason, private equity is even getting involved in new ideas in fusion generation of electricity…and that has been a government investment to this point so why private investment now? In my lifetime, fusion has always been “10 years away” and never closer and I’m not sure why individuals would invest the billions necessary build a fusion plant that is no closer being viable that it was in the 90′s…haven’t read of any breakthroughs lately and if there were, people would be shouting it from the rooftops and all I hear is silence. So, let’s take this one with a huge grain of salt…after all, not one fusion plant has ever produced as much energy as has been put in to get the reaction going….but I would love to be proved wrong…