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Renewable Friday: Not the End of the World [1]

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Date: 2025-01-31

Regular Global Warming news today, from our usual sources and from Our World in Data. I have put aside Jonathan’s broken Bluesky feeds that fail to pick up their designated tags. More tomorrow in Tuxville, including new feeds built correctly, with names distinct from Jonathan’s.

Global Warming

x The three vans sit on a new 800-volt platform that enables 20-minute charging top-ups to 80%. And that platform can accommodate pretty much any body type on top. insideevs.com/news/749084/...



[image or embed] — InsideEVs (@insideevs.com) January 30, 2025 at 7:11 AM

All Renewables

x Which power generation technologies are the least harmful to the environment & society? It's wind, solar and geothermal. Great meta-study provides an overview of negative externalities associated with electricity supply. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...



[image or embed] — Jan Rosenow (@janrosenow.bsky.social) January 28, 2025 at 1:22 AM

x Which power generation technologies are the least harmful to the environment & society? It's wind, solar and geothermal. Great meta-study provides an overview of negative externalities associated with electricity supply. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...



[image or embed] — Jan Rosenow (@janrosenow.bsky.social) January 28, 2025 at 1:22 AM

x In just one year (2024), China has newly installed more solar power capacity than the entire existing solar power capacity of the United States.



[image or embed] — Raphael Ofner (@raphael-ofner.bsky.social) January 25, 2025 at 11:40 AM

Solar Power

Bloomberg [paywalled]: New York's Biggest Solar Farm Gets $950 Million in Funding

Greenbacker Renewable Energy Co., a clean energy and investment company, lined up $950 million in financing to build New York state’s largest solar farm. The 500-megawatt Cider project in Genesee County east of Buffalo is expected to be complete in 2026, according to Dan De Boer, Greenbacker’s head of infrastructure. Construction began in October but is currently paused for the winter, and is set to resume by the end of the first quarter.

Wind Power

x Fun fact: the second biggest buyer of wind turbines (after power companies) is the petroleum industry because it's cheaper to power their oil extraction equipment with wind power than with the product they extract from the ground.

Think about that for a minute.



[image or embed] — Polar Nerd (@polarnerd.bsky.social) January 25, 2025 at 11:00 PM

x Great news from Nova Scotia: ⚡625 MW of wind power with six projects

🤝Each co-owned with Mi'kmaw communities

🏡Cheaper power, lower bills

🏫$73.5M in social benefits, training, scholarships

📉Largest GHG reduction in NS history #EnergySky #NSPoli #cdnpoli #Renewables 🧵⬇️ www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...



[image or embed] — Stephen Thomas (@stephenjwt.bsky.social) January 28, 2025 at 9:33 AM

x The government has announced plans for 13 new offshore wind projects, streamlining the consent processes to ensure these important green energy infrastructure projects are built more quickly, and bring in up to £30bn of investment. 1/2



[image or embed] — Warren Oates (@warrenoates1.bsky.social) January 30, 2025 at 1:03 AM

Geothermal Power

x Geothermal / Lithium extraction project in California Inland Empire's Salton Sea moves forward as judge dismisses lawsuit from anti-mining advocates 🔌💡 calmatters.org/environment/...



[image or embed] — Yo DG (@dgdela.bsky.social) January 30, 2025 at 6:11 PM

x New geothermal projects can benefit greatly from an overlap in the skills & expertise of the oil & gas industry. Sharing knowledge & improving productivity could help cut the costs of next-generation geothermal energy by nearly 75%. Read more 👉 https://iea.li/40MxoQo



[image or embed] — International Energy Agency (@iea.org) January 27, 2025 at 8:15 AM

Power Storage

Pumping Heat

x Good news from the US: Heat pumps keep widening their lead on gas furnaces. 2024 heat pump sales through November show the clean-heat transition is speeding up in the US.



[image or embed] — Jan Rosenow (@janrosenow.bsky.social) January 26, 2025 at 1:54 PM

Community Solar

Global lenders can’t be bothered to work out deals with reliable but non-traditional partners, as Grameen Bank does.

EBicycles

x "Mismatched chargers and post-sale tampering are almost wholly to blame for the negative press that the electric bike sector has endured" #ebike

www.cyclingelectric.com/in-depth/unp...



[image or embed] — BikeBike In Calgary (@bikebikeyyc.bsky.social) January 29, 2025 at 8:02 AM

Renewables Jobs

x ‘‘Renewable energy is the future—a sustainable and affordable solution to the climate crisis. Transitioning from fossil fuels reduces emissions, creates jobs, and enhances energy security. The time to act is now by embracing innovation for a cleaner, greener, and more equitable world.’’



[image or embed] — The Vegan's Voice (@thevegandispatch.bsky.social) January 25, 2025 at 12:12 PM

x Love seeing Georgetown, TX, on this list of US cities leading the charge to clean energy. Despite what the current WH says, renewable energy creates jobs and would've kept US ahead of the world in innovation. I hope more places follow these cities - Earth Day www.earthday.org/a-renewable-...



[image or embed] — Samantha M Clark (@samanthamclark.com) January 26, 2025 at 12:46 PM

Agrivoltaic Farming

x The US now has 62,000 acres of land where solar and agriculture are combined (agrivoltaics), according to the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. US agrivoltaic sites now have over 10 gigawatts of capacity. - Axios — Nick Hedley (@nickhedley.bsky.social) December 17, 2024 at 8:08 AM

Circular Economy

x Great to see!! A proposal by the City of London to encourage reuse of existing buildings and other circular economy measures will become policy within the coming weeks, the authority has announced www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/city-of...



[image or embed] — Philip Oldfield (@sustainabletall.bsky.social) January 26, 2025 at 2:59 AM

x ♻️ Solar panel recycling set to hit $461M by 2030, growing at 12.5% CAGR! 🌍💡 Dive into sustainability & circular economy trends. Contact EnkiAI for actionable insights! #SolarRecycling #CleanEnergy enkiai.com



[image or embed] — Erhan Eren (@netzerointel.bsky.social) January 27, 2025 at 1:45 AM

Green Industry

x I'm gonna call this a Fun Fact Friday until it gets me in trouble - repost with good news. We are getting incredibly close to carbon-neutral cement recycling - this is the latest of a few studies showing that we can do this at scale, and relatively economically, with renewable energy sources.



[image or embed] — Bossett (@bossett.social) May 24, 2024 at 7:12 PM

x The world’s biggest wind, solar and green ammonia project joins queue seeking federal environmental approval to install up to 60 million PV panels and 3,000 turbines



[image or embed] — Renew Economy (@reneweconomy.com.au) January 23, 2025 at 9:47 PM

x Putin's war accellerated Green Energy use - 2 Hydrogen Production of steel requires lots of coal (and CO2), but the Swedes, with a subsidy from the European Council, have been building a steel plant that uses only hydrogen. It doesn't even look like a steel plant. 1/3



[image or embed] — René Duba 🅿️ (@reneduba.bsky.social) January 26, 2025 at 3:40 AM

Nuclear Reactors

#NoNewNukes

x It’s now clear #AUKUS nuclear reactors will be dismantled at Port Adelaide and the SA Government is considering storing spent nuclear fuel in SA. Why are discussions on these topics being held in secret with a UK company and not openly with the SA public? #FOI #saparli



[image or embed] — Rex Patrick (@mrrexpatrick.bsky.social) January 30, 2025 at 3:27 PM

We have to do it, for sure. But we should figure out something better to do with the spent fuel.

x No damage to reactors after nuclear icebreaker smashes into cargo vessel north of Siberia. Huge fracture in the upper hull.



[image or embed] — Thomas Nilsen (@thomasnilsen.bsky.social) January 29, 2025 at 12:01 AM

Countries and Regions

Swiss government approves new climate goals after court rebuke

Switzerland's government on Wednesday approved new climate targets, proposing a cut in greenhouse gas emissions by 2035 of at least 65% compared to 1990 levels. Switzerland's efforts to counteract global warming came under close scrutiny last year when a top European court ruled that the country was not doing enough to tackle climate change. The Swiss cabinet said it had adopted an amendment to its long-term climate strategy and would submit its new plans to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change by Feb. 10.

x Until last year, Vienna depended on Russian gas to stay warm in winter. Having cut itself off, the city is now investing billions into heat pumps, energy efficiency and geothermal energy



[image or embed] — Bloomberg (@bloomberg.com) January 24, 2025 at 3:37 PM

Another form of Russian bavovna, blowing up their own economy. More, please, everywhere in Europe. We need Putin’s war machine to collapse completely.

Denial and Obstruction

x Texas has the most wind energy, industrial-scale solar energy, flexible storage options and, increasingly, geothermal development of *any U.S. state*. It's crystal clear this is not about economics or energy security. It's about ideology and preserving the status quo at any cost; literally, any.



[image or embed] — Katharine Hayhoe (@katharinehayhoe.com) January 28, 2025 at 9:59 AM

x Reports of offshore wind’s death have been greatly exaggerated… @canarymedia.com analysis shows that Trump’s anti-wind EO will pause some offshore wind projects, but nine projects are fully-permitted and won’t be affected. Those projects represent 14 GW, enough to power nearly 5 million homes.



[image or embed] — Charles Harper (@charlesharper.bsky.social) January 27, 2025 at 3:51 PM

Estimates range from less than $1 trillion to $7 trillion. Where do these numbers come from?

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