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Renewable Friday: Where the Sun Shines [1]

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Date: 2025-08-29

We always knew in a general way that the tropics get more sun than regions further from the equator, and that high deserts get the most. Now we have much greater detail on those regions. We get many times more sunlight than we can convert to electricity and actually use, although AI data centers will try hard to use all we can generate. Just don’t let them use far more expensive nukes or fossil fuels. Talk to them about $$Real Money$$™ at every opportunity.

x Researchers Map Where Solar Energy Delivers the Biggest Climate Payoff

->Newswise | #SolarEnergy #RenewableEnergy #Climate | More info from EcoSearch



[image or embed] — Climate, Ecology, War and More by Dr. Glen Barry (@bigearthdata.bsky.social) August 27, 2025 at 4:42 PM

In addition to the places with the best sun, we need to map where the HVDC lines can go from those places to where the electricity is needed, within each country concerned, and internationally.

Bill McKibben

I just got Bill McKibbens’s new book, Here Comes the Sun, from the local library. Unlike the first book from McKibbens, warning us of what was coming, and many more telling us it was actually happening, this one is telling us what we here know, that there is a new chance for civilization.

Much more when I get a chance to read it.

Also, he says on Substack

and on Bluesky

x I hope people read and react to this idea: what if climate policy focused on flooding the planet with cheap, or free, solar panels? Globalize China and India's panel factories, buying panels by the boatload and just offloading them at every wharf on earth

billmckibben.substack.com/p/a-modest-p...



[image or embed] — Bill McKibben (@billmckibben.bsky.social) August 28, 2025 at 12:39 PM

Likewise, he was just on the Chris Hayes Why is This Happening podcast.

x Between doomscrolling & doomlistening, there is some (literal) light this week to treat your poor, anxious 2025 brain to: @billmckibben.bsky.social talking with @chrislhayes.bsky.social about the ☀️ and how solar power is (truly! already!) here & ready to change the entire world as we know it.



[image or embed] — Chad Perman (@chadperman.bsky.social) August 27, 2025 at 1:41 PM

Moar Tipping Points Moar

x Vehicle-to-home (V2L) technology can transform an EV into a huge generator on wheels, making stationary battery packs irrelevant. Here's what you need to know. insideevs.com/features/770...



[image or embed] — InsideEVs (@insideevs.com) August 28, 2025 at 2:26 PM

We said this was coming, and here it is.

x Virtual Power Plants Showed Up for Their Biggest Test Yet. Here Are the Results The California grid got an evening boost from 535 megawatts of home-based batteries, giving a hint at what this decentralized resource can do. insideclimatenews.org/news/1408202...



[image or embed] — Francis Sealey (@globalnet21.bsky.social) August 29, 2025 at 12:47 AM

x Hyderabad-based Fourth Partner Energy (FPEL) has partnered with Adani Wind to procure 165 megawatts (MW) of #windturbines for clean energy projects across India. Read more www.saurenergy.com/solar-energy... #renewableenergy



[image or embed] — Saur Energy (@saurenergy.bsky.social) August 29, 2025 at 12:23 AM

Some things need to be said as often as possible. Ignore the denialist quote at the top.

x "The energy transition is dead!" Very well paid important people funded by the oil industry petrofascists. Meanwhile, one country in Africa imported enough solar panels in a year to replace 60% of its total power consumption. That isn't a transition, that is a tsunami. Get on board!



[image or embed] — Justin Mikulka (@justinmikulka.bsky.social) August 26, 2025 at 7:22 AM

And the one in here, too.

x I absolutely love glimpsing these Ontario wind turbines in the distance anytime I’m up by Whitefish Bay. When people complain about these things ruining landscapes I’m not having it



[image or embed] — Old_Greg (@normieetc.bsky.social) August 28, 2025 at 8:13 PM

Now, THIS is a trade policy!

x China scrapping tariffs on African exports, strategically boosts goodwill—and sets the stage for more Chinese exports back: solar panels, EVs, wind turbines, and cheap, quality tech. As Africa earns more, it’ll buy more—and China’s the default supplier. Trade diplomacy with a disruptive twist. ⚡🌍🇨🇳



[image or embed] — EV Curve Futurist (@evcurvefuturist.com) July 2, 2025 at 5:58 PM

x Heat pumps could halve heating bills with energy system reform, study finds Read more #Energy #ClimateAction #ClimateJustice — peetiebelanda.bsky.social (@peetiebelanda.bsky.social) August 29, 2025 at 12:15 AM

x North Carolina is investing $5 million in microgrids after Hurricane Helene spotlighted how advantageous they can be to communities that have suffered disasters ow.ly/RRq450WJ52J 🔌💡



[image or embed] — Southern Alliance for Clean Energy (@cleanenergy.org) August 28, 2025 at 3:00 PM

Denial and Obstruction vs. Resistance and $$Real Money$$™

Bo-o-o-o-ogus Fossil Fools have never heard of energy storage, poor loonburgers. Ah, well, more pointing and laughing for us.

👇👇😂😂👇👇

x “That is the same guy who, a few years ago, promised his company would only sell EVs in Europe by 2030,” said Kia Europe CEO Marc Hedrich.

Go, Kia!

#EVs #InsideEVs



[image or embed] — Mark's Spot (@markmckechnie.bsky.social) August 28, 2025 at 9:27 AM

There is no actuarial excuse for this.

x Insurers are hosing people who choose to drive EVs. It's more expensive to insure an EV than its gas-guzzling equivalent #EconSky insideevs.com/news/770337/...



[image or embed] — Sean Brodrick (@seanbrodrick.bsky.social) August 28, 2025 at 9:06 AM

x US manufacturing investment stumbles as clean tech cancellations pile up More clean tech manufacturing investments were canceled in the U.S. in the second quarter than were announced, according to a new study from the Rhodium Group and MIT. Companies canceled $5 billion worth of projects, while…



[image or embed] — news-s.bsky.social (@news-s.bsky.social) August 29, 2025 at 12:45 AM

Beyond the bogon event horizon. All I can say is sue every Fossil Fool who claims that renewables increase energy costs for fraud, and take them for every nickel they have. We can’t afford to wait for them to destroy themselves.

Have RI and CT sued yet?

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