Paul Krugman nails it: "In many ways the #TrumpAdministration’s hostility to #vaccines is similar to its hostility to #CleanEenergy, which I wrote about yesterday. Both policy swerves will kill Americans. If Trumpists succeed in forcing the U.S. to burn more coal, thousands will die from air pollution. Only a year into the Trump 47 administration, there is already a resurgence in almost conquered diseases due to the anti-vax MAGA crusade." His advice: FOLLOW THE MONEY

https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/how-the-kakistocracy-became-a-quackistocracy?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=277517&post_id=188239974&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=false&r=zgs9&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

Green heat and cooling from District geothermal in New Haven, CT!

Historic busy train station + 1000 units of new public housing
Linked with ground loops, heat pumps.
Moving toward clean municipal utility 🙌

Dense urban center, major freeway (I-95), so switching from oil or gas heat is big #AirQuality win for health.

#climatechange #cleaneenergy #hvac #CT #heatpump #geothermal #publichealth #urban #train

https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/geothermal/connecticut-union-station-network-underway

Big clean energy win for "Virtual power plants" , provided half of peak power for San Francisco for 2 hrs

Network of batteries at homes, businesses. Supplies power back to grid when needed.

Takes place of extra peaker fossil gas plants, with no extra emissions at all!

#cleaneenergy #batteries #storage #climatechange #climatehope

https://insideclimatenews.org/news/14082025/inside-clean-energy-battery-virtual-power-plants-california/

Fish oil is good for solar cells, too

#solarcells #solar #solarenergy #solarpower #fishoil #cleaneenergy #greenenergy #energy #electricity #renewableenergy #renewables #solarcellefficiency #climateaction #energytransition #science #research #biobased #nature #bioeconomy

https://cleantechnica.com/2023/09/24/solar-cells-boosted-by-this-one-weird-trick-spoiler-alert-fish-oil/

Fish oil is good for solar cells, too

#solarcells #solar #solarenergy #solarpower #fishoil #cleaneenergy #greenenergy #energy #electricity #renewableenergy #renewables #solarcellefficiency #climateaction #energytransition #science #research #biobased #nature #bioeconomy

https://cleantechnica.com/2023/09/24/solar-cells-boosted-by-this-one-weird-trick-spoiler-alert-fish-oil/