every time I see this graph
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every time I see this graph
it reminds me that the status quo thinkers and talkers and powers are an oil slick in our minds
telling us things can never change
what they really mean: STOP THE CHANGE
our answer: no
#SolarIsRadical@susankayequinn I find think tanks are stacked with neoliberal, right wing propagandists. I don't think I've ever seen or even heard of a decent think tank.
On the other hand, they now have Trump at the helm, so this may plateau it out, for a couple of years. Depending on the impact of the US on this R&D area.
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every time I see this graph
it reminds me that the status quo thinkers and talkers and powers are an oil slick in our minds
telling us things can never change
what they really mean: STOP THE CHANGE
our answer: no
#SolarIsRadical@susankayequinn thanks for my daily required dose of hope when facing the inept and corrupt governance of our lives.
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This is so perfectly put
@billmckibben.bsky.social
@susankayequinn I guess some of it, at a certain time of the day, probably travels through the Strait of Hormuz. But not enough to matter.
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@susankayequinn I guess some of it, at a certain time of the day, probably travels through the Strait of Hormuz. But not enough to matter.
@Harald_Korneliussen haha true, but the only people who care about the photons traveling through the Strait of Hormuz are the plants/animals/beings in the Strait of Hormuz
and that's the kind of radical groundedness that can change the world
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This is so perfectly put
@billmckibben.bsky.social@susankayequinn because there is no option other than oil or gas… https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn877d27gndo
Curiously all those rural homes that are not, and never will be, on the gas network do have electricity.
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@susankayequinn because there is no option other than oil or gas… https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn877d27gndo
Curiously all those rural homes that are not, and never will be, on the gas network do have electricity.
@Wifiwits @susankayequinn Not mention they have roofs and, in many cases, a spot of land around them that could host a PV panel or 7.
Imagine the effect turning on the money tap or shaking a few leaves from the magic money tree would have in bringing energy independence to people living in rural areas.
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@Wifiwits @susankayequinn Not mention they have roofs and, in many cases, a spot of land around them that could host a PV panel or 7.
Imagine the effect turning on the money tap or shaking a few leaves from the magic money tree would have in bringing energy independence to people living in rural areas.
@susankayequinn @brad I do understand the capital outlay is too much for many, but there are creative ways around that.
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@susankayequinn @brad I do understand the capital outlay is too much for many, but there are creative ways around that.
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@susankayequinn @brad woah there communist… where I’m from we only do that collective thing if we’re burning wood pellets imported from irreplaceable Canadian forest… or nuclear.
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@susankayequinn @brad woah there communist… where I’m from we only do that collective thing if we’re burning wood pellets imported from irreplaceable Canadian forest… or nuclear.
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@susankayequinn @brad I also wish there wasn’t quite so much truth in that.
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@susankayequinn @brad I also wish there wasn’t quite so much truth in that.
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every time I see this graph
it reminds me that the status quo thinkers and talkers and powers are an oil slick in our minds
telling us things can never change
what they really mean: STOP THE CHANGE
our answer: no
#SolarIsRadical@susankayequinn I am waiting for it, but someone will point to the destruction of solar panels in last night's U.S. storms as some kind of evidence that they aren't useful. Okay, Brad, but weren't those homes and businesses useful, the ones that also got destroyed?
People said the same inane thing after Hurricane Helene, when so many electric cars got inundated with salt water, and some of their batteries caught fire. Uh, I think that flood was destructive to everything, not just electric cars.
It's maddening that people try to make caring about ourselves, our environment, the planet, and each other, is somehow something we don't want.
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@susankayequinn I am waiting for it, but someone will point to the destruction of solar panels in last night's U.S. storms as some kind of evidence that they aren't useful. Okay, Brad, but weren't those homes and businesses useful, the ones that also got destroyed?
People said the same inane thing after Hurricane Helene, when so many electric cars got inundated with salt water, and some of their batteries caught fire. Uh, I think that flood was destructive to everything, not just electric cars.
It's maddening that people try to make caring about ourselves, our environment, the planet, and each other, is somehow something we don't want.
@kimlockhartga the amount of energy they will put into resisting change rather than embracing it is astonishing and indicative that they really just cannot deal with a changing world.
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@kimlockhartga the amount of energy they will put into resisting change rather than embracing it is astonishing and indicative that they really just cannot deal with a changing world.
All the while marketing *their* new products and technology as good, necessary and, indeed, inevitable.
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every time I see this graph
it reminds me that the status quo thinkers and talkers and powers are an oil slick in our minds
telling us things can never change
what they really mean: STOP THE CHANGE
our answer: no
#SolarIsRadical@susankayequinn
Yup, however this is installed capacity, i would be more optimistic if it was like that for the tera wathours production, and if the shift to more electric usage was following this. Because if you add clean energy but do not remove shitty sources like coal it has no climate impact mitigation, and this is what we need to survive. -
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Yup, however this is installed capacity, i would be more optimistic if it was like that for the tera wathours production, and if the shift to more electric usage was following this. Because if you add clean energy but do not remove shitty sources like coal it has no climate impact mitigation, and this is what we need to survive.@tykayn "no climate impact" is wildly pessimistic and falling prey to the same kind of thinking that led to these predictions.
Yes, we need to remove shitty sources like coal (which we are doing at an astonishing rate) but this solar surge also allows better quality of life for people who skip over fossil fuels altogether and go straight to renewables. There are incredible (and a lot of unknown and unknowable) knock on effects.
Pessimism is a comfortable place but it doesn't bring change.
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every time I see this graph
it reminds me that the status quo thinkers and talkers and powers are an oil slick in our minds
telling us things can never change
what they really mean: STOP THE CHANGE
our answer: no
#SolarIsRadical@susankayequinn it's the opposite of the Itanium Sales Forecasts graph https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itanium#Expectations
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All the while marketing *their* new products and technology as good, necessary and, indeed, inevitable.
@hamishb @susankayequinn I've seen people manipulated into believing that access to their own Healthcare is something they shouldn't want, so my faith in people is pretty limited.
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@susankayequinn it's the opposite of the Itanium Sales Forecasts graph https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itanium#Expectations
@th huh, almost like the same forces of rapacious consumption are behind both the over/under predictions 🫡
