Notices by Kevin Leecaster (greenfire@mstdn.social)

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.

Rare case of me publicly criticizing Joe Biden alert:

I wish he wouldn't have made those pardons since they help Republicans defend Trump's. I think that he could make up for that damage by coming out and supporting a constitutional amendment to rein in the POTUS pardon power.

I sure would like to see buildings with PV already installed to provide more information like annual electricity bills along with annual electricity production from the PV.

Every building for sale should also publish their Energy Use Intensity so we can shop for the lowest EUI we can find too.
https://www.realtor.ca/real-estate/28343825/62-thorncrest-court-eastern-passage-eastern-passage

I've been expecting consolidation int the oil & gas industry as they lose market share to our efforts to electrify our lives, but not at this scale already. I'm not going to read too much into this at this point though.

With 70% of the votes tabulated, the Australian Greens party has over 12% of the votes.

There's been a tremendous number of stories and posts saying the Democratic Party should reform.

I sure wish that the U.S. Green party would reform itself and start running decent candidates for local races.

That Signal clone app for archiving messages that Mike Waltz has been using, TeleMessage? It's unlicensed. Signal was unaware of its existence until they saw it in that Reuters photo. There's no known security vetting.

Certainly what is happening in terms of climate action is an important metric, but even more important is what is happening in your state, county, city, town, business, and in your own home too.

@ai6yr
I posted that about Blair because his recent anti-renewable energy transition comments are getting quite a bit of attention, but his ties to the fossil fuel industry are not brought up to provide context to what may be shaping his opinions.

Tony Blair is a well paid fossil fool who serves his masters well sadly.

In 2024, the US residential solar market experienced its first annual decline in installed capacity since 2017 - a 31% contraction year-over-year - driven by persistent financing challenges and economic uncertainty. Wood-Mackenzie doesn't anticipate a recovery in customer ownership beginning in 2026.

Hopefully, enough Americans will choose to install PV & batteries this year that their prediction on how long the recovery will take are wrong.
https://www.woodmac.com/news/opinion/us-residential-solar-turbulence-persisted-through-2024/?utm_campaign=pandr-ltpower-g&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky&utm_content=residential-solar-finance-update-h1-2025