Renewable Friday: HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

by Mokurai for ClimateBrief

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Thursday, Oct. 16, 2025 Thursday, Oct. 16, 2025 at 4:00:06am PDT

The 20-foot (6-meter) tall balloon’s creators, who call themselves babysitters, admit they borrowed the idea from comedian Jon Stewart, who in 2016 called Trump a “man-baby.” A crowd-funding campaign raised 20,000 pounds ($26,400) to make it a reality.

Matthew Bonner, one of the organizers, says “depicting Trump as a baby is a great way of targeting his fragile ego, and mocking him is our main motivation.”

He says Trump “doesn’t seem to be affected by the moral outrage that comes from his behavior and his policies. You can’t reason with him but you can ridicule him.”

To quote Bubbanomics. The law of unintended consquences bites hard. Trump tries to kill renewables — and accidentally sparks green energy boom. Its just like the recent ending of the EV tax credits, a mad rush to get them before they’re gone.

T Maysle

Oct 15, 2025 at 06:34:19 AM

The president signed a massive, controversial tax cut megabill earlier this year that, among other things, phases out most tax credits for renewable energy installation at the federal level.

In fact, the rush to take advantage of the tax credits as they sunset is so tremendous "that analysts widely expect the United States to add record — or near-record — amounts of renewable energy and batteries through 2027" with the research firm BloombergNEF revising up their forecast for new wind, solar, and battery installations in 2026 by 10 percent.

Wind and solar projects must be under construction by July to be eligible for federal tax credits that Congress voted this summer to eliminate, years earlier than previously required," the report continued. "To hit that deadline, many developers have ordered custom power transformers — devices used to increase or decrease voltage — solar panels and other equipment much sooner than they normally would have. Placing such orders is one way to demonstrate to the Internal Revenue Service that a project is underway.

CleanCapital director Thomas Byrne told The Times,“There’s this huge hurry-up that is taking place.”

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Record Global Renewable Energy Growth Remains Short of Climate Target: Report

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— BeyondNews24 (@24newss.bsky.social) October 16, 2025 at 12:11 AM

A record 582 gigawatts of renewable capacity was added in 2024, the report showed, representing a 15.1% annual growth rate. Meeting the target by 2030 will require annual growth of 16.6% from 2025-2030.

By the end of 2024, a total of 4,443 GW of renewable energy was installed globally, versus the tripling target of 11,174 GW.

Despite the challenge, IRENA Director-General Francesco La Camera told Reuters the target is still achievable.

He’s right, you know. For example, in 2024 we didn’t have the impulse to capture tax credits noted above, nor vast expansion of renewables in Africa that appeared this year. Thus, as we have seen before, but is worth repeating:

For a long time renewable energy uptake in Africa was lacklustre at best.
But that is changing: Solar panel imports to Africa have surged over the past year—a shift poised to touch nearly every country on the continent as new Ember analysis shows.

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— Jan Rosenow (@janrosenow.bsky.social) August 26, 2025 at 5:07 AM

T Maysle

Oct 15, 2025 at 06:41:32 AM

Tropical forest regrowth increased over the last decade news.mongabay.com/...

Natural forest regrowth in the world’s tropical rainforests is expanding.

more than 11 million hectares (27 million acres) of tropical moist forests are under some stage of forest regrowth between 2015 and 2021.

“We’d rather see that regrowth than not, of course. But increased regrowth is not a straightforward piece of good news,”

“Tropical forests wouldn’t be regrowing if they weren’t cleared in the first place. An increase in regrowth is often correlated to an increase in loss.”

Yet natural regrowth offers a promising low-cost path to widespread restoration in tropical rainforests. If protected from new clearings and left to their own devices, these forests can help ecosystems recover, sequester and store carbon as the trees grow and slowly restore lost biodiversity.

“Amid the 2024 losses of forest cover and forest integrity, restoration efforts reveal both untapped potential and emerging success,” the authors’ write. “Protecting these young secondary forests is as critical as preserving primary and pristine forests.”

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insideevs.com/news/775813/...

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— K (@kkr433.bsky.social) October 15, 2025 at 4:55 PM

Oregon launches its first solar + storage DC fast charging station

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— Electrek (@electrek.co) October 15, 2025 at 2:23 PM

The small electric SUV segment is becoming increasingly crowded every day. We’re here to help look past the clutter with the best available options.
insideevs.com/features/764...

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— InsideEVs (@insideevs.com) October 15, 2025 at 3:26 PM

Cue the next mad rush.

ChargePoint is bringing 600-kilowatt EV chargers to market next year. But there are no EVs in the U.S. that can take that kind of power—for now.
insideevs.com/news/775817/...

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— InsideEVs (@insideevs.com) October 15, 2025 at 8:20 AM

“Turnkey homes now include solar panels as if they were fridges. Young people save up for photovoltaic kits before they buy cars. Charitable organizations that run orphanages and schools now also provide loans for small solar solutions.”
www.corporateknights.com/energy/pakis...

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— RMontpellier - Climate Senior (@climatesenior.bsky.social) October 15, 2025 at 4:11 PM

No New Nukes

Typical nuclear hype, promising to build a whole microreactor for less than $100 million in only one year. If you click through, they will only start building the factory in 2026.
I don't believe a word of it, but it's a great way to suck in lots of other people's money.
#NoNewNukes

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— Mokurai (@mokurai.bsky.social) October 15, 2025 at 11:31 PM

Dr. Mark Jacobson breaks down 7 reasons why both small & large nuclear projects are a dead end. Costly. Slow. Risky.
We have better options—wind, solar, & storage. ⚡
🎥 Watch (2 min): shorturl.at/Sa2RE
#onpoli #renewables #climateinsights

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— Ontario Clean Air Alliance (@oncleanair.bsky.social) October 15, 2025 at 11:10 PM

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

“Harris County, Texas, sues to challenge the Trump administration’s cancellation of $54 million in Solar for All grants to the county to help lower-income families afford solar panels and battery storage systems.”
Houston Chronicle
— sisu1999.bsky.social (@sisu1999.bsky.social) October 15, 2025 at 2:14 PM

VARNEY: Do you want to cancel that huge solar project in Nevada? I think it's largest one in the US
BURGUM: We're taking a look- there's been no cancelization of Esmeralda yet
V: Is it your intention to get rid of wind and solar power completely?
B: It's about making sure we have a secure grid

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— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) October 15, 2025 at 10:14 AM

“The BLM did not cancel the project,” the email reads. “During routine discussions prior to the lapse in appropriations, the proponents and BLM agreed to change their approach for the Esmeralda 7 Solar Project in Nevada.”
cleantechnica.com/2025/10/12/w...

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— Chris Baraniuk (@chrisbaraniuk.com) October 14, 2025 at 3:29 AM

This round goes after a wide variety of states

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— esouthard (@esouthard.bsky.social) October 7, 2025 at 8:45 PM