Notices by Kevin Leecaster (greenfire@mstdn.social)

Rosie O'Donnell brought attention the Powell Memo which is a major no-no on the right side of the aisle as their Scheme, as @whitehouse.senate.gov calls it, is not anywhere nearly as effective when people are aware of their tactics and goals.
https://www.tiktok.com/@rosie/video/7525805978248301854?lang=en

According to the clean energy company EnergySage, the average rooftop solar installation costs around $29,000 in the USA.

Over the 25-year lifetime of the solar panels, many families can save about $50,000 on their electricity bills.

The residential solar industry supports an estimated 100,000 jobs.

This is why Republicans are so gung-ho to block transition to cleaner technology.

US new electricity capacity additions to our grids, Jan-Apr 2025:

Wind: 2,183 MW-18%
Solar: 9,451-77.7%
Gas 511-4.2%
Oil 11-0.1%

Wind, Water & Solar now ~33% of all US capacity.

Everyone knew or should have known that all of this was going to happen if our electorate didn't keep the GOP out of power in D.C. last fall so it is on us and I sure hope the electorate chooses to do better in the future.

@HistoPol
They have announced that they are taking efforts to end the greenwashing they've been doing which is a good thing.

Batteries are helping reduce our carbon pollution!

Do you know what arbitrage means in relation to grid-connected batteries?

Arbitrage is a new industry created by our clean energy transition. In general, arbitrage is a battery storage unit charging its batteries during low-price periods and discharging them during high-price periods. Battery operators in the RTO markets of Texas and California collectively accounted for 95% of all arbitrage use case capacity.

Look at this exponential growth:

Speaking of new industries emerging to help stabilize our planet's climate, drawing carbon pollution out of our atmosphere and re-sequestering it for thousands of years is crucial to do after we #ElectrifyEverything renewably with clean energy production and stop burning fossil fuels. This company is buying sequestered carbon if you've got a workable scheme. https://frontierclimate.com/who-we-are

We're making progress and don't let the people selling despair make you give up hope!

Quiet and emissions free, the vessel, named “Sea Change,” marks another crucial milestone in the commercialization of zero emissions marine vessel power. The 70-foot, 75 passenger high-speed ZEF will be the flagship for a planned future fuel-cell powered fleet, transporting commuters around the bay of San Francisco, California (U.S.). #Hydrogen https://www.cummins.com/news/2021/02/09/cummins-fuel-cells-powering-north-americas-first-commercial-zero-emissions-ferry

But back to Direct Air Capture and Carbon Sequestration, here's some good news too.

Nestle has stopped greenwashing by via "indulgences".

Consumer food behemoth Nestle SA is getting out of the offset market and putting the money it would have spent on those credits toward cutting emissions in its supply chain and operations. It’s also dropping “carbon neutral” pledges for KitKat, Perrier and other Nestle brands, Bloomberg News reported. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/energy/2023/06/29/kitkats-are-no-longer-carbon-neutral-that-s-good/67aa0018-1670-11ee-9de3-ba1fa29e9bec_story.html

I'm at a loss on what to say about this recent Pew poll indicating Americans, even Dems, are warming back up to fossil fuels.

Look at that drop from 2/3 of Republicans support renewable energy in 2020 to less than half in '21. That deserves serious investigation that I'm not really set up to do.

There are so many terrific images from yesterday so I hate to share this awful one, but it is important for people to see what's going on.

Every aspect of this was set up as a campaign for authoritarianism under trumpism and more people need to wake up to that. Look how all of these powerful symbols surround Trump at the center.

Classic Goebbels shit.

Hey all y'all alleged leftists attacking us Democrats incessantly these days, what part of "Unite Against Fascism" is so damn difficult for you to comprehend?

This is the response I get when I request that people refrain from reducing our political capital by attacking Democrats at this moment in our democratic experiment and we instead unite against fascism.

Katrick Technologies created a new kind of wind turbine. It looks like a beehive. Instead of big spinning blades, it uses oscillating air profiles to capture wind energy.

During tests at the University of Strathclyde, the prototype exceeded expectations. It generated an average of 41.1 watts of mechanical power with winds of just 10.2 m/s.
https://www.katricktechnologies.com/wind-technologies

While Levelized Cost of Electricity (LCOE) is a good metric to track historical technology cost evolution, it is not an appropriate tool to use in the context of long-term planning and policymaking for deep decarbonization.
https://www.catf.us/resource/beyond-lcoe/

Oh, that Republican "fixed" her mistake about Sikh versus Muslim, but she left in the Christian Nationalistic fascism though.

Trump has a new official portrait that looks a lot like his mugshot.

Happened upon this description of a passive solar heated home in Colorado that uses a Russian Fireplace with a pizza oven base

Six tons of thermal mass can get warmed while baking!
https://youtu.be/A6JytOIyl04?si=LeBwnk7MIJJnF8XT

Nice to see so much news about so much investment going into floating wind projects. Proving that technology is dependable and profitable could lead to a large increase in renewable energy generation and significant decarbonization.
https://www.energyvoice.com/renewables-energy-transition/wind/uk-wind/573783/highlands-and-islands-enterprise-to-invest-24m-in-kishorn-port-floating-offshore-wind-scotland/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky

The fossil fuel industry is desperately scared to data like this showing that Victorians are starting to ditch their methane and propane fueled heating systems at greater and greater rates.

Join the team of their former customers by installing heat pumps in your buildings and going fossil free.