With the expiration of the Biden tax credits for EVs, you might expect the price of an EV to shoot up by $7500 this month but that turns out not to be the case. InsideEVs has provided a detailed tabulation of interest rate cuts, rebates, and lease deals that are available in October, and perhaps in some cases beyond. Check your locality and your dealer for special deals.
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Cities worldwide are cutting emissions, greening streets, and adapting to climate threats faster than national governments, according to a new international report.
https://www.dailyclimate.org/cities-are-quietly-outpacing-nations-in-climate-progress-2672577790.html
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— Francis Sealey (@globalnet21.bsky.social) October 14, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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“Denver’s New-Build Advantage: Free Upgrades, Lower Rates, Real Deals" “What if your next home came with a lower rate, closing credits, and even free solar panels? Builders around Denver are making it happen! 🏗️ In the Denver Metro and West suburbs — Wheat Ridge, Arvada, Lakewood, and beyond —
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— John Bulik (@johnbulik.bsky.social) October 13, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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Nigerians, and Africans at large, are turning to solar. As the price of Chinese solar panels dropped, Africans adopted solar, with the number of solar panels on the continent growing by 60% in the last year alone. Solar will be the #1 energy source by 2035.
www.csmonitor.com/World/Africa...
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— 🌱♻️Seminal Wellness💚 (@seminalwellness.com) October 13, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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“Buyers mat have to move fast because GM also said that the new Bolt will be a “limited run” model only, despite the company saying that it doesn’t have any production constraints.”
What bs is this. Stop doing weird demand assessments and just make the car.
insideevs.com/news/775280/...
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— Yogurt (@dahibhallay.bsky.social) October 13, 2025 at 1:44 PM
🎩 jessiestaff et al.
Even as the federal government attempts to prop up the waning coal industry, New England’s last coal-fired power plant has ceased operations three years ahead of its planned retirement date. The closure of the New Hampshire facility paves the way for its owner to press ahead with an initiative to transform the site into a clean energy complex including solar panels and battery storage systems.
“The end of coal is real, and it is here,” said Catherine Corkery, chapter director for Sierra Club New Hampshire. “We’re really excited about the next chapter.”
Unless global heating is reduced to 1.2C ‘as fast as possible’, warm water coral reefs will not remain ‘at any meaningful scale’, a report by 160 scientists from 23 countries warns
No New Nukes
There are still no commercial SMRs, just two grid-connected research prototypes, in China and Russia, which are not our friends. The project in Argentina got shut down.
BO-O-O-O-OGUS!!
Renewables + storage are far cheaper than nukes, take a fraction of the time to permit and build, don’t need massive amounts of water for cooling, and generate no toxic waste.
We need laws to require data centers to put in renewables and storage FIRST, before the computers.
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NextEra expands in gas and nuclear for AI boom
https://www.byteseu.com/685073/
NextEra Energy Inc, one of the world’s biggest suppliers of wind and solar power, is seeking to expand its natural gas and nuclear generation in a bid to meet the surging demand for electricity sparked by artificial …
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— BYTESEU (@byteseu.bsky.social) January 25, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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An Iowa nuke plant may be the next to restart thanks to AI power demand
https://www.europesays.com/2377194/
An Iowa nuke plant may be the next to restart thanks to AI power demand https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/01/nuclear-duane-arnold-nextera-nee-tech-data-center-ai.html by thinkB4WeSpeak
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— Europe Energy (@euenergy.bsky.social) September 1, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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"For the moon reactor, it would be built here on Earth & then sent to the moon."
At $100M per tonne or more, for tens of tonnes? I don't think so.
#NoNewNukes nowhere, nohow.
Solar with two weeks worth of storage would be far cheaper & safer. Lunar regolith would make an excellent storage medium.
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— Mokurai (@mokurai.bsky.social) October 14, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Actually, SMRs are much worse. In the Internet/Dot.Com boom the Internet actually existed. There are zero, count them 0, commercial-grade SMRs.
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Experts have raised concerns regarding the economic viability of SMRs
Chris Gadomski, head of nuclear research at BloombergNEF
"What I see happening with SMR and data centres reminds me of the internet boom and bust of the early 2000s"
www.ft.com/content/8a18...
#nuclear #bubble #kärnkraft #svpol
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— ecopolitain (@ecopolitain.bsky.social) October 13, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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The Financial Typhoons (🎩 Tommy Smothers) at JPMorgan have proved the Greater Fool theory of investing once again by throwing actual $$money$$ into the nuclear hole.
Some minerals are sound investments, & HVDC power lines definitely are, once we get past the rules on connecting them.
#NoNewNukes
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— Mokurai (@mokurai.bsky.social) October 14, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Denial and Obstruction vs. Resistance and $$Real Money$$™
🎩 WineRev
What do you do when you’re laying out all this good, corporate money for well-placed bribes, and then the Brib-ee bites you in the wallet? You mean you can still get stiffed? Looks like it. NextEra Energy builds and installs solar panels (YAY!) on an industrial scale. One project on their books was a spot in Nevada that would generate enough electric power for 2 million homes (impressive!). And just to seal the deal, they made a “generous contribution” to the Ballroom Blitz Defacement Project at the White House. BUT NOW IT LOOKS LIKE Dumb Donnie took the “contribution” (pronounced “bribe”) and has turned around and screwed the company, cancelling their big Nevada project. Not even trying to hide it anymore……
NextEra is also in on the nuclear power corporate grift, as noted above.
Why did Newsom veto California’s virtual-power-plant bills?
Supporters say the bills would have helped ease the state’s energy affordability crisis while strengthening grid reliability.
On Friday, Newsom vetoed AB 44, AB 740, and SB 541, which were passed by large majorities in the state legislature last month. Each bill proposed a distinct approach to expanding the state’s use of rooftop solar, backup batteries, electric vehicles, smart thermostats, and other customer-owned energy technologies.
In three separate statements, Newsom argued that the bills would complicate state regulators’ existing efforts to use those technologies to meet clean energy and grid reliability goals.
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India’s sunshine is fading. A new study shows a 30-year decline in sunlight caused by aerosols and lingering clouds, threatening crops and solar ambitions. In Mumbai, daily life unfolds under a persistent haze.
tinyurl.com/29nkacwv #ClimateCrisis #AirPollution #India #SolarEnergy #Health
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— activist360 (@activist360.bsky.social) October 13, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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Most people start with a false, introjected belief that wind turbines use free energy.
The reality is that wind turbines consume huge amounts of energy from the earths climate engine, primarily wind. This has a direct relationship with the movement of high and low pressure fronts, the climate.
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— NewsPappy Headlines (@lucidr.bsky.social) October 14, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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'Greenpeace is threatening to sue King Charles’s property management company, the Crown Estate, alleging it has driven up costs for wind power developers and boosted its own profits and the royal household’s income, due to the "aggressive" way it auctions rights.'
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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— paulusthewoodgnome (@paulusthewoodgnome.bsky.social) October 13, 2025 at 10:17 AM
