The U.S. power grid added more capacity from solar energy in 2024 than from any other source in a single year in more than two decades, according to a new industry report.
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The Convicted Felon President doesn't like solar energy because he can't get any kick backs from the Sun. He thinks the Sun is weak too because it only stays in the sky for half a day.
Well that cannot be. Cheap, clean energy from the Sun? That is unacceptable in the MAGA world. Trump surely will force all solar parks to be torn down and build plenty of big, beautiful, black coal power plants.
We have much more solar OR wind energy generation potential in the US than we currently need for all energy uses, including transportation. Increasing energy efficiency will keep the capital costs lower since less installed capacity is required. The challenge is not technical, it is political.
Solar and wind are the least costly forms or unsubsidized electricity generation in the USA. They are also the least polluting forms of energy generation, and contribute little to the climate crisis. They also provide jobs for Americans.
We need carbon neutral "fossil" fuels from biomass and nuclear to replace jet fuel, diesel, and gas...no change in infrastructure, no rare metal mining for batteries (nasty, destructive stuff), no need for new vehicles. Tada!
Nuke heat for industrial use, too! China is doing it...
Negated by the fact that we just keep using more energy. Alternative energy doesn't work unless we also aggressively bring down the amount of energy we are consuming.
Yeah but how come nobody is talking about all these ships carrying solar panels around the world colliding, exploding and dumping toxins into our oceans…wait, what? Nvm.
We aren’t chained to money anymore. Smart money is this. Therefore, there is no room for error as an error wasn’t interpreted from any delay, given that we are able to understand exact.
Thank god we now have Trump and Musk in power so all that free clean energy from the sky can be shuttered in favour of blackened tundra and unbreathable air woo
Looking at a chart of solar and wind over last two decades one can see where this could end. America could one day have a great clean energy grid and massively reduced emissions within range needed. And folks will look back and say it was just quietly done in iteratively. Its been building
Someone shove this down the throat of the foolish man occupying the Secretary of Energy chair. If it was up to him we would be back to burning coal everywhere. He loves natural gas because he made his fortune selling frack sand. Chris Wright is just a pimp.
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We need carbon neutral "fossil" fuels from biomass and nuclear to replace jet fuel, diesel, and gas...no change in infrastructure, no rare metal mining for batteries (nasty, destructive stuff), no need for new vehicles. Tada!
Nuke heat for industrial use, too! China is doing it...
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