We feed way too much food to cars and cattle. There is no way to overcome the farm lobby on corn ethanol in normal politics, but it will all go away as we switch to renewables, to the benefit of consumers, wildlife, and even the most Trumpian farmers.
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💠 #A2Z-PanoPhotos #weekG for #Green
We love this #panorama by David of a lovely #green countryside with some #green energy wind turbines!
Kermit would say that it's not easy being #green. But we would add that good things are seldom easy.
Thanks for sharing, David! 😊
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— Panorama & Vertorama (@panophotos.bsky.social) May 23, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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Great point InsideEVs!
When we look at growth ICE is dead, PHEV barely registers, EVs are hot and HEV are white hot.
When we see a big acceleration in HEV adoption next year, this will be a considerable part of that, less fuel, less upkeep, less emissions!
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— Zamafir (@zamafir.bsky.social) May 21, 2025 at 8:17 PM
The sixth-generation RAV4 SUV is here. Most importantly, every version of it has at least one electric motor. Just like before, Toyota will sell you a hybrid RAV4 and a plug-in hybrid one. But starting with the 2026 model year, the purely gas-powered RAV4 is no more.
This is a very big deal. The RAV4 consistently ranks as America’s most popular non-truck vehicle. Last year, Toyota sold some 475,000 RAV4s in this country, landing behind only the Chevrolet Silverado and Ford F-Series trucks. With the flip of a switch, Toyota is about to get far more Americans to choose far cleaner vehicles. And most of them won’t even think twice about it.
Dealers don’t like EVs because they need so little maintenance, which is much more profitable than sales.
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I keep hearing from buyers who want an EV but get left in the lurch by dealerships who don't know about electric cars and seemingly don't care to learn.
So, I created a bit of a guide for @insideevs.com. Sales folks, read this then get your SPIFs on.
insideevs.com/news/760327/...
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— Tim Stevens (@timstevens.bsky.social) May 21, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Someday we will have a sane administration again. You can help.
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While the transition to renewable energy has seen negative impacts on communities where hydropower dams were constructed, Cambodia’s push to have more green energy has resulted in increased connectivity of power to remote areas. This has mostly happened on the back of cooperation with internation...
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— Kiripost (@kiripost.bsky.social) May 23, 2025 at 2:33 AM
In some good news, Olive oil has its health advantages over other forms of cooking oil, but now Olive waste is now being converted into Eco-Friendly fuel:
Entrepreneur Transforms Olive Waste into Eco-Friendly Fuel That Cuts CO2 Emission by One-Third
Sort of eco-friendly. At least it’s carbon neutral plant material grown in the sun. I am sure, however, that it emits other pollutants when burned.
A Tunisian entrepreneur has found a way to turn the thousands of tons of olive waste left over from making oil into fuel, reducing deforestation and carbon emissions.
Negotiating a fraught business environment, he found a way to start a flourishing enterprise called Bioheat, which sells briquets of olive waste both at home and abroad while employing 10 people.
Sandwiched between the vast nations of Libya and Algeria, the comparative sliver that is Tunisia punches way above its weight in agricultural production.
Olive cultivation goes back to Roman times, and the country’s rural households have traditionally used the olive waste as fuel or as animal feed. Tunisia is the third-largest olive oil producer in the world and the second-largest exporter of dates, and has relied heavily on the agro-economy for development.
With that mass of oil though comes mountains and mountains of byproduct. Eventually, the production of olive waste far outgrew the speed at which people employed it for feeding their stoves, and 600,000 tons of olive “pomace” pile up every year.
“I always wondered how this material could burn for so long without going out,” said Yassine Khelifi, an engineer who lives and works in the north of the country. “That’s when I asked myself: ‘Why not turn it into energy?'”...
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Australian made solar PV module tops on power output. Australia’s only solar PV manufacturer, Tindo, has topped the rankings for the best-performing solar module in AUS, according to consumer advocacy outfit, Choice. Well done Tindo. #sustainable #renewable
onestepoffthegrid.com.au/australian-m...
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— Greg Carroll (@peciacake.bsky.social) May 23, 2025 at 1:57 AM
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News from E+E Leader 🔬 What if clean energy was just beneath our feet?
At 8,000 feet below ground, researchers are testing Enhanced Geothermal Systems (EGS) that could power cloud computing, manufacturing, and more—with zero… #Geothermal #CleanEnergy #Sustainability #ClimateTech #RenewableEnergy
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— Environment+Energy Leader (@eeleader.bsky.social) May 22, 2025 at 5:03 AM
Denial and Obstruction
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Republican Bill in Congress Threatens 300 US Factories, 300,000 American Jobs. It’s hard to keep in mind how insane Republican opposition to clean energy is. Solar and wind energy power millions of homes, and they provide hundreds of thousands of US jobs
cleantechnica.com/2025/05/19/r...
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— Angry Donkey News (@angrydonkeynews.bsky.social) May 23, 2025 at 2:06 AM
I can't embed Substack posts here directly, so I post them to Bluesky and then embed them here.
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www.crikey.com.au/2025/05/23/m...
Nationals MP and former deputy prime minister Michael McCormack claimed solar panels “can’t be recycled”. But this heavily clouds the truth, with several Australia-based companies able to recycle up to 90% of panel materials.
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— Bruce Williams (@brucewilliams4.bsky.social) May 23, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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🇨🇳❗️🇺🇸 Chinese “kill switches” capable of crippling power grids have been found in equipment at US solar farms, - The Times
The devices, including hidden cellular radios, were discovered in Chinese inverters used to connect solar panels and wind turbines to grids worldwide.
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— MAKS 24 👀🇺🇦 (@maks23.bsky.social) May 19, 2025 at 4:38 AM
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The legislation ends tax credits for installers like Sunrun that lease equipment to customers.
The GOP bill is a “worse than feared” scenario for clean energy, as it takes a “sledgehammer” to the Inflation Reduction Act...
www.cnbc.com/2025/05/22/s...
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— Sporkman (@realsporkman.bsky.social) May 22, 2025 at 2:16 PM
NOOOO!!!!!! #NoNewNukes Such projects are inherently corrupt, saddling taxpayers with subsidies, cost overruns and waste disposal.
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Trump to sign orders to boost nuclear power as soon as Friday, sources say
Facing the first rise in power demand in two decades from the boom in artificial intelligence, Trump declared an energy emergency on his first day in office.
www.reuters.com/business/ene...
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— Justin Waite (@sharepickers.bsky.social) May 23, 2025 at 3:01 AM
