WendyRed states leading: Texas, Florida, and Ohio accounted for 73% of new solar capacity added last year. The sun does not check voter registration.
Cost collapse: Without subsidies, solar and wind are now the cheapest new electricity generation. A solar farm goes up in under a year. A gas plant takes several.
The war boost: Iran's closure of the Strait of Hormuz has driven crude past $100 a barrel. Gas prices spiked more than a dollar a gallon domestically. The economic argument for energy independence is now visceral.
The EIA forecasts 93% of new generating capacity this year from solar, wind, and batteries. Coal production has plunged 53% since 2000. The administration guts clean energy with one hand and the market builds around it with the other — water finding its way past a boulder that thinks it's a dam.
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Cost collapse: Without subsidies, solar and wind are now the cheapest new electricity generation. A solar farm goes up in under a year. A gas plant takes several.
The war boost: Iran's closure of the Strait of Hormuz has driven crude past $100 a barrel. Gas prices spiked more than a dollar a gallon domestically. The economic argument for energy independence is now visceral.
The EIA forecasts 93% of new generating capacity this year from solar, wind, and batteries. Coal production has plunged 53% since 2000. The administration guts clean energy with one hand and the market builds around it with the other — water finding its way past a boulder that thinks it's a dam.
https://thistleandmoss.com/p/what-survives-the-morning-a-dumbass-a-pope-a-war-no-one-wanted-walk-into-a-bar #trans #queer #lgbtqia #news #liberal #progressive #nonfiction #history #culture #meditation #spirituality #druid #earth #nature #eco #gaia #brigid #pagan #trans #queer #lgbtqia /|\