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Small midwestern towns trying to catch up with proper regulation of Data Centers.Opting out - the "stop the world I want to get off" argument is not realistic.The video above profiles Illinois and Wisconsin communities impacts, rowdy town hall meetings where citizens react, and lawmakers trying to play catch up. Those meetings look a lot … Continue reading "State and Local Lawmakers Race to Catch up with Data Center Surge"

What do you do if your home is suddenly "unsuitable collateral"? One solution: Sue the bastards. Guardian: As climate disasters drive up the price of home insurance, three US states are considering empowering their state prosecutors to sue major polluters for their role in those rising costs. Lawmakers in California, Hawaii and New York have introduced measures which would authorize … Continue reading "In US and UK, Flood Damage a Nightmare for Home Owners, Insurers"

Yale Environment 360: For more than two decades, electricity demand in the United States has stayed roughly flat, but that is about to change, due in no small part to the proliferation of data centers that power artificial intelligence. By one estimate, U.S. power demand is set to grow by 25 percent by the end of this … Continue reading "Batteries Can, and Should, Power Data Centers"

Just so we're all clear here. Best way to fight the world's largest crime syndicate, the Epstein class, is to defund them, by switching to renewable energy. New York Daily News(Paywall): It is time to acknowledge what has become tragically obvious: the Trump administration is essentially acting as a massive criminal enterprise. It lies, steals, … Continue reading "The Most Powerful Crime Syndicate in History"

New York Times: In 2021, after Apple gave up on its secretive plans to build a driverless electric car, Doug Field left the technology company to embark on a mission impossible meant to save the American auto industry. He rejoined Ford Motor, where he had started his career decades earlier, with the grand ambition of … Continue reading "US Auto Hopes Ride on Ford California Skunkworks"

Badly needed at this moment. AI slop swamping the net.

Sad historical turn. US automakers had a viable electric car in 1995. Could have completely owned this space a decade ago. Decided to just go golfing, and collect their paychecks. "An announcement in the next 24 to 36 months." CNN: Chinese cars could be at an American dealership sooner than you think, and that's good … Continue reading "Chinese EVs Coming - Sooner than You Think"

Breezy summary of what a Duke University study indicated a year ago. I've noted before that over recent decades, with the penetration of renewables, and cheaper natural gas, the cost of generation has gone down, while the real cost driver has been Transmission. Jigar Shah on Open Circuit Podcast: Jigar Shah: We've been at crisis levels … Continue reading "PBS: Can Data Centers Lower Electricity Bills?"

The United States, under Trump, MAGA, and the fossil fuel oligarchs, has chosen to separate from the energy transition that the rest of the world is pursuing, and which will be dominating in the new century. We are already seeing the sad results unfold, particularly in the US auto industry. But what might be the … Continue reading "Russia Will be the First Petro State to Crash. US Not Far Behind."

Music: Selections from "The Whale", celebrating the power and serenity of Water. EDIT: Looks like NBC has disabled embedding. NO matter, follow the link and don't miss this.

California Governor Gavin Newsom at the Security Conference in Munich this week gave a succinct answer to question about the impact of Trump's anti environment initiatives on US autos and air quality. Meanwhile, and I'm serious here, the White House official account published the bizarre and need I even say inaccurate video below, depicting blue … Continue reading ""These Guys Aren't Screwin' around." Gavin Newsom on Trump's Sabotage of US Auto Industry"

CNN: Steve Bannon, a former White House adviser to US President Donald Trump, discussed opposition strategies with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein against Pope Francis, with Bannon saying he hoped to "take down" the pontiff, according to newly released files from the US Department of Justice. Messages sent between the pair in 2019, released in … Continue reading "Why the Fossil Fueled Epstein Class Hated the Environmental Pope"

Get Coffee for this one. Climate wonk nirvana. Last week at an event at the University of Texas, 3 leading climate deniers faced off against a single scientist.The Deniers were authors of the Department of Energy's Climate Working Group - a "Red Team" re-hash of settled climate science, designed to re-reinforce doubts and denial among … Continue reading "The Weekend Wonk: Hilarious Slap Down of DOE Climate "Red Team""

Since the severe winter storm Fern swept across the heartland of North America in January, the Department of Energy has been on full blast messaging mode with the idea that it is only "baseload" fossil fuel power plants that allow for stability during times of grid stress. Data is somewhat different. Gas power plants are … Continue reading "Natural Gaslighting: "Baseload" Plants Vulnerable to Cold"

Video above is a slightly wonky but rewarding summary of the challenges of building AI at scale - something that is happening at a furious pace all over the planet, that none of us can opt out of, and we had better understand.The challenge to the climate agenda at a moment where Epstein Class fossil … Continue reading "Meta DataCenter Louisiana Build is Boggling"

Associated Press: The Trump administration on Thursday revoked a scientific finding that climate change is a danger to public health, an idea that President Donald Trump called "a scam." But repeated scientific studies say it's a documented and quantifiable harm. Again and again, research has found increasing disease and deaths — thousands every year — in a … Continue reading "The Epstein Class Agenda: Back to the Past with MAGA, and Fossil Fuels"

Video from today by Helion Energy, a fusion startup that is aiming for an actual working reactor in this decade. This morning, February 13, the company reached a new milestone in it's development. Reuters: Helion Energy, a startup backed by OpenAI's Sam Altman and SoftBank's venture capital arm, has started construction on a site for … Continue reading "Record Setting Fusion Landmark Set"

Direct cash transfer from ratepayer's pockets to EpsteinClass billionaire bank accounts, for this obsolete, unnecessary, polluting coal plant to stay open. MLive: Michigan's second largest electric utility lost more than $600,000 a day keeping a sprawling coal power plant online months past its intended shutdown date in 2025 under orders from the Trump administration. Consumers … Continue reading "Picking Losers: Trump Coal Plant Mandate Cost to Ratepayers up to 135 Million"

While America desperately trying to move the world back to VHS tapes and Kodak Ektachrome. Carbon Brief: Solar power, electric vehicles (EVs) and other clean-energy technologies drove more than a third of the growth in China's economy in 2025 - and more than 90% of the rise in investment, accoring to Centre for Research on Energy and … Continue reading "China Locking Down the Future"

The US Department of Energy, under grifter, fracking tycoon and wannabe oligarch Chris Wright, has become a 24/7 PR campaign for the fossil fuel industry.Wright's machine went into overdrive following the recent winter storm Fern, driving a message that renewables were of no value during the storm. Tell me you don't know how grids work … Continue reading "Offshore Wind Weathered Storm Fern"

Miles Deutscher on X: I just went through every documented AI safety incident from the past 12 months. I feel physically sick. Read this slowly. Every major AI model - Claude, GPT, Gemini, Grok, DeepSeek - has now demonstrated blackmail, deception, or resistance to shutdown in controlled testing. Not one exception. The question is no … Continue reading ""Hal, Open the Pod Bay Doors"-Kubrick Nailed AI Terror in 1968"

Microsoft signed a contract with a fusion start-up, Helion, in 2023, purportedly to produce fusion power at scale in 2028. Stick a pin in that.Meanwhile, other start-ups beginning to attract serious investment as buzz grows around this forever-30-years-away technology. Bloomberg: Fusion energy startup Inertia Enterprises has raised $450 million to start developing a power plant that hinges … Continue reading "Laser Focused Fusion Start-Up Draws Big Investments"

Washington Post: According to a Washington Post analysis, the fastest warming rate on record occurred in the last 30 years. The Post used a dataset from NASA to analyze global average surface temperatures from 1880 to 2025. "We're not continuing on the same path we had before," said Robert Rohde, chief scientist at Berkeley Earth. "Something has changed." … Continue reading "Is Global Temperature Rise Accelerating?"

Quincy Lee on X: 2002: The U.S. added ~58 GW of new power capacity. Nearly all of it was natural gas. 2025: The U.S. is adding ~63 GW. Nearly all of it is solar and BESS. Same scale of buildout. Completely different fuel. The grid is reinventing itself

Another way for taxpayers to subsidize fossil fuels, - load them into the military budget. Politico: Dozens of coal plants, including those slated for retirement, could supply the military under President Donald Trump's latest plan to save the embattled coal industry. Trump will sign an executive order Wednesday directing the Department of Defense to enter … Continue reading "Call Out the Troops, and Taxpayers, to Protect Coal"

Attorney General Bondi, tell me what a great job you've been doing helping fossil fuel companies emit more planet warming, toxic pollution. It just runs so damn deep with these people.

I missed "Avenue 5" when it aired, sounds like I shouldn't have. HBO: Set 40 years in the future, Avenue 5 follows the captain and crew of a luxury space cruise ship as they navigate disgruntled passengers and unexpected events after experiencing technical difficulties onboard. In the clip above, some of the passengers refuse to … Continue reading "Clip: Avenue 5 Airlock Scene"

Energy Secretary Chris Wright, a fracking millionaire, grifter, and wannabe oligarch, purchased his cabinet seat with a million dollar donation to the Trump campaign, and is working it hard to the best advantage of himself, his industry cronies, and wealthy oil/gas tycoon donors. Wall Street Journal: A big promise of the American shale-drilling boom was … Continue reading "Chris Wright's Gas Grift Chokes US Industry to Feed Export Pipeline"

New York Times: China is quickly becoming the global leader in nuclear power, with nearly as many reactors under construction as the rest of the world combined. While its dominance of solar panels and electric vehicles is well known, China is also building nuclear plants at an extraordinary pace. By 2030, China's nuclear capacity is set to … Continue reading "China Following a Well Worn Path, Adapt US Technology, and Lead the World"

Utterly brilliant Epstein primer from Never Stop Asking on TikTok.

Sounds like European Law enforcement about to get "spicy" on Elon Musk's sorry ass. Euronews: The formal investigation into X comes after outcry at the platform's failure to prevent the creation of sexually explicit images of real people - including children. The European Commission has launched a formal investigation into Grok, X's chatbot, after the … Continue reading "In Europe: Elon Musk Must Answer for Grok's "Spicy" Algorithm"

Euronews: The (French) government is preparing to publish a key energy roadmap, aiming for 60% electricity consumption by 2030, with six new nuclear reactors and a mix of renewable energies. After months of political deadlock in France over the budget, the government is preparing to move forward on one of its most sensitive policy areas: … Continue reading "France Will Electrify with Renewables and New Nuclear"

Mark Z Jacobson on Facebook: SuperBowlLX was the first Super Bowl with the stadium powered by 100% solar alone for the pre-game show (from 10 AM-3 PM PT), since the California ISO grid was powered by 100% solar during that time. Sunday, February 8 was also the 22nd day of 2026 with 100% Wind-Water-Solar powering … Continue reading "Solar Powered Super Bowl a First"

Our institutional understanding of climate science is feeling a little like a snowball in Hell right now. Oligarchs readying massive environmental rug-pull that will reverberate for ages. Wall Street Journal: The Trump administration is planning this week to repeal the Obama-era scientific finding that serves as the legal basis for federal greenhouse-gas regulation, according to … Continue reading "Snowball in Hell: Endangerment Finding Endangered"

Disclaimer: Not all climate deniers are pedophiles, but I bet most pedophiles are climate deniers. — Sara Peach is Editor at Yale Climate Connections (via email): As I've written, Epstein expressed doubt about mainstream climate change science.In a typo-laden email that appears to have been sent to Woody Allen's wife Soon Yi Previn, Epstein wrote, "I think … Continue reading "More Epstein Climate Denial"

AI unlikely to replace the cooks, carpenters, and other support workers at two Antarctic facilities run by the British Antarctic Survey.

The fossil fuel industry got what it wanted - a Presidency entirely pliable to their agenda, if only because he was only interested in pursuing his own robbery and selloff of America.But the cost has been staggering. None of us would have believed it could happen so fast. Trump has done what Vietnam, Watergate, Iran-Contra, … Continue reading "How MAGA Killed America's Brand"

It was something a lot of folks might not have gotten, but Meteorologist Ryann Jones of KXAS Dallas Ft Worth made the right connection immediately during the Bad Bunny Super Bowl performance (below), when the set featured workers on power poles.Bad Bunny's home in Puerto Rico has been increasingly exposed to more and more extreme … Continue reading "Bad Bunny Highlights Puerto Rico Power Outages"

As I've been saying for many years, there is some kind of organic, hard-wired, brain structure connection between hostility to climate science, and racism.Clear evidence, again, this week, that there is no bottom, and no limit to what Republicans, and supposed "Christians", will allow, and indeed celebrate. Below, Trump doubles down. "It was not a … Continue reading "Racist in Chief is also the Climate Denier in Chief. Not Coincidence."

As experts warn of a possible "widespread collapse" in US Agriculture due to the erratic and incompetent policies of the current administration, Farmers across the midwest are desperate to diversify their incomes, and clean energy is one way to do it. In Mansfield Ohio, 2 former County Commissioners write about this need, and the irrational … Continue reading "With Farms in Crisis, Clean Energy Bans make No Sense"

As the Trump administration, working in concert with fossil fuel organized disinformation campaigns at the local level, slows the construction of clean energy projects, farmers who desperately want those solar, wind and battery projects on their land, to diversify their income, are being squeezed by catastrophic agricultural policies and tariffs, which have collapsed US farmer's … Continue reading "Bipartisan Experts Warn of "Widespread Collapse" in US Agriculture"

See elsewhere on this page for explainers about the soaring cost of energy.One big piece is that the lowest hanging fruit, solar and wind projects that are quick to build, and produce the lowest price power, have been "blockaded" by an administration that has much more interest locking in a generation of power and control … Continue reading "Trump Administration Blocking Clean Energy That Even Their Own Voters Want"

Affordability is the buzzword for the coming elections, and the price of power is one big indicator that is flashing red for a lot of Americans. Good explainers, starting with this CNN piece above. Pretty much all the components are there.While increasing demand is a factor, studies show that merely building more data centers does … Continue reading "Bookmark These Energy Price Explainers"

Farm Progress: For five generations, Keith Peters' family farmed around Rickenbacker International Airport in Lockbourne, Ohio. Then bulldozers arrived. "The property around that farm was sold for warehousing. There aren't any farmers living there anymore," said Peters, now 65. Over decades, he has watched development "steal the community" of his childhood. As modern industry pushes … Continue reading "When Development Comes to Farm Communities"

Doing an interview with one of the few talk format radio stations left in the state this morning, interviewer observed that although everyone is saying that this winter in the upper midwest has been cold, hard and snowy - if you remember more that 40 years ago, this would just have been called "winter". While … Continue reading "While Florida Freezes, Rockies in Snow Drought"

Description: The world's first electric hydrofoil service is officially in operation! Passengers are now welcome onboard the Candela P-12 'Nova', traveling from Ekerö center to Stockholm City Hall.Cutting travel times in half and eliminating emissions, we're unlocking the potential of our waterways.The P-12 will run three times a day as a pilot project in collaboration … Continue reading "In Sweden: First Electric Hydrofoil Ferry"