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Renewable Friday: Better than You Think [1]

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Date: 2025-03-14

High-tech market analysts used to say that anything you can actually buy is obsolete. In the Global Warming fight every plan is necessarily obsolete before it is published, whether from newer technologies or failures of imagination. At one time, the engineers at Stanford in The Solutions Project were way, way, out ahead of governments worldwide, but now their wildest imaginings/best calculations look pitiful as technology advances by leaps and bounds. Rooftop solar, offshore wind, and geothermal energy are booming far beyond our previous notions. Concentrating solar and nuclear energy are dying. Fossil carbon is peaking and going into terminal decline. Denial and obstruction have not died, but every year more of their talking points become irrelevant and they have to think of new bogosities to try to sell to government, business, and the public. Outside of the MAGA bubble all of them have in reality noticed that

Renewables = $$Real Money$$TM

But the main point remains totally true. However you slice the technology pie, renewables are growing in the exponential part of the market development curve, so that we have no excuse for failing to reach 100% renewables before 2050.

The pie keeps getting SO MUCH bigger!

We recently looked at climate geoengineering proposals for mining a few teratons of reactive minerals to crush and use as fertilizer, so that they could combine with CO 2 to form stable carbonates and take a teraton of carbon out of the air and oceans. Here is a different version, taking advantage of the basalt already exposed on the bottom of the global ocean. This company calls it Solid Carbon. It is not pure carbon, but it is definitely solid, and stable on a geological scale. Now we need to compare costs at scale.

x 2/🪨“Solid Carbon has the potential to leverage the world’s largest reservoir for #CO2 sequestration, ocean basalt, to combat the #ClimateCrisis & lay the foundation for a #Canadian-led sustainable solution.” 💬@katemoran.bsky.social, ONC CEO+President & Solid Carbon PI 👉🏼 bit.ly/4iu77g3 🧪 @uvic.ca



[image or embed] — Ocean Networks Canada (@oceannetworks.ca) March 13, 2025 at 7:37 PM

The Solid Carbon: The Ocean’s Rock-solid Sociotechnical Climate Solution was among six initiatives awarded funding under the NFRF’s Transformation stream, which supports large-scale Canadian-led interdisciplinary research with the potential to realize real and lasting change for major challenges. Ocean basalt has a unique capacity to address current increasing emission levels by permanently and safely storing carbon dioxide (CO₂) in the sub-seafloor as rock. Basalt is found all over the world’s ocean floor and reacts with CO₂ to mineralize, over short periods of time. An area of sea-floor basalt 200 kilometres off the west coast of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, has been extensively studied by the Solid Carbon team through previous eight years feasibility studies, laboratory experiments and modelling most recently funded by the UVic hosted and led Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions. “Solid Carbon will utilize ONC’s world-leading subsea cabled infrastructure off the coast of Vancouver Island as part of this research experiment, enabling 24/7 real-time monitoring that will be publicly accessible through the Internet,” says Moran. “The ongoing development of CDR technology has the potential to transform Canadian industry as we transition away from fossil fuels towards building a diverse, equitable blue economy and climate industry.” Global energy-related CO₂ emissions reached a new record high of 37.4 billion tonnes (Gt) in 2023. Accessible ocean basalt regions have an estimated overall carbon removal potential upwards of tens of thousands of Gt of CO₂ using the Solid Carbon technology under development.

x Rooftop solar could supply two-thirds of global power, study finds

->PV Magazine | More info from EcoSearch



[image or embed] — Climate, Ecology, War and More by Dr. Glen Barry (@bigearthdata.bsky.social) March 14, 2025 at 2:23 AM

x 'The value of flexible storage will be higher than investors expect': AEMO Services on Australia's energy storage market

->Energy Storage News | #EnergyStorage | More info from EcoSearch



[image or embed] — Climate, Ecology, War and More by Dr. Glen Barry (@bigearthdata.bsky.social) March 13, 2025 at 10:49 PM

x WBCSD’s latest brief explores how Thermal Energy Storage can decarbonize high-temperature industrial processes. Learn the technical capabilities, location requirements, and commercial considerations of TES, with insights from real-world projects. @wbcsd.bsky.social #ThermalEnergy #EnergyStorage



[image or embed] — William Sisson (@wsisson.bsky.social) March 12, 2025 at 5:36 PM

x I have never used the expression wow before, but WOW.

Let this be an example and inspiration to others.

#solarenergy #green #environment #globalwarming #savetheplanet



[image or embed] — Robin A Weston (@robinbike.bsky.social) March 13, 2025 at 5:21 PM

x Nigeria’s Solar Energy Growth Gains Momentum Despite Financing Challenges – Report Nigeria is making steady strides in solar power adoption, with 73 megawatts of new capacity installed in 2024, according to a report by the Global Solar Council (GSC). While South Africa and Egypt remain Africa’s…



[image or embed] — naija247news.bsky.social (@naija247news.bsky.social) March 13, 2025 at 11:55 PM

x LCOTV (Large Cargo Orbital Transfer Vehicle), a solar-electric tug taking 227 metric tons from LEO to GEO over 180 days. This is the smaller version with a "mere" 497x86.6m of solar panels.

#lego #space #spacecraft #spaceship #rocket



[image or embed] — krismur.bsky.social (@krismur.bsky.social) March 13, 2025 at 10:09 PM

x 📢 Applications are open for #EUGreenWeek 2025 Partner Events! Planning an event, webinar, workshop, or conference about reusing, repairing, and recycling for a better life between 1-30 June? Apply by 21 March to make it an official Partner Event 👉 bit.ly/4iHllKz #CircularEconomy



[image or embed] — European Circular Economy Stakeholder Platform (@ecesp.bsky.social) March 13, 2025 at 8:32 AM

x ☀️ DC’s largest rooftop community solar is live!

🔹 6.1MW solar spans 700,000 ft² 🌆

🔹 Powers 965 homes & saves $7.5M over 20 years 💰 📊 Want insights? Contact EnkiAI.

#EnergyTransition #CommunitySolar #CleanTech 🔔 Don't forget to follow for more updates! enkiai.com



[image or embed] — Erhan Eren (@netzerointel.bsky.social) March 14, 2025 at 2:56 AM

x NEW: StatsCan reports #Quebec reached 30% ZEV sales in Q4 2024 Sales for zero-emission vehicles across #Canada in Q4 hit 18.3%: 202,103 battery-electric + 68,882 plug-in hybrids sold in 2024. Bottom line: it’s the strongest market showing yet. electricautonomy.ca/data-tracker... #EVs #EVAdoption



[image or embed] — Electric Autonomy (@electricautonomy.com) March 13, 2025 at 2:15 PM

x EV range is getting better all of the time. With a maximum EPA-rated range of 392 miles, the new A6 E-Tron is the longest-range EV in the German automaker’s American portfolio: insideevs.com/news/753393/...



[image or embed] — InsideEVs (@insideevs.com) March 13, 2025 at 7:08 AM

x 😂🤣Tesla Cybertruck Tow Hitch Stress Test Results In Catastrophic Failure

“If I see a Cybertruck towing on the freeway, I would not want to be anywhere close to that thing.”

insideevs.com/news/753092/...



[image or embed] — Merlin Ca (@merlinofcanada.bsky.social) March 13, 2025 at 11:55 AM

x Horisont Energi secured offtake for the Barents #BlueHydrogen Ammonia Project in Norway, signing the first term-sheet for gas supply from the Snøhvit LNG facility. #BlueHydrogen #Ammonia #CleanEnergy #Sustainability #HydrogenNow fcw.sh/9AWR3O



[image or embed] — Fuel Cells Works (@fuelcellsworks.com) March 13, 2025 at 11:20 AM

Denial and Obstruction

America's clean-energy industry is growing despite Trump's attacks. At least for now

x EPA issued a slew of climate rollbacks on 3/12, including announcing it would attempt to nullify a pivotal 2009 finding by the US government that planet-heating gases, like carbon dioxide, threaten human health. Redefining physics while people die. #climatedenial

www.theguardian.com/environment/...



[image or embed] — 🌱♻️Seminal Wellness💚 (@seminalwellness.com) March 13, 2025 at 5:59 AM

x New study showed that short-term exposure to #wind turbine noise had no impact on cognitive functions, and 93 pct did not find turbine noise intrusive



[image or embed] — Renew Economy (@reneweconomy.com.au) March 13, 2025 at 11:14 PM

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