against itself, trying to whack down all wind, solar, and storage projects and all EVs except Tesla for a time, and push grossly expensive nuclear. The moles keep coming back up in the courts, in private industry, even once in a while among government bureaucrats and supposedly troglodytic politicians. And in what is sometimes jokingly referred to as the “reality-based” world.
Now we get to do the same thing in terawatts, currently at two years.
I was a Global High-Tech Market Analyst for 17 years, and I always had to point out the others who had no grasp of the exponential function. To be fair, some of them have been catching up to that reality lately.
🎩 my long-ago classmate Harry Moody’s e-mail newsletter, CLIMATE CHANGE IN AN AGING SOCIETY
IMPACT: Individual Climate Action with Impact (Sept. 17, 2025 10 am PT). Featuring Kimberly Nicholas, from Project Drawdown, sponsored by the Daily Difference, from the Carbon Almanac Network.
ECO-GERONTOLOGY. Sept. 19 – Oct. 31, 2025. From Care Outdoors Continuing Education. Learn more and enroll at: https://courses.monicaeastway.com/courses/eco-gerontology
For a hopeful podcast interview with Bill McKibben (Third Act) see:
https://podcast.app/here-comes-the-sun-with-bill-mckibben-e423323113
From Bluesky
The deal behind this next story is that there is an estimated quadrillion dollars worth of helium-3 in the lunar surface dust, created by solar radiation. 3He would be an excellent fuel for fusion reactors, if there were any.
Renewable Friday: Helium-3 Moon Madness
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Solar cells using moon dust turned into radiation resistant “moonglass” and paired with perovskite could power future space exploration. Vote for the future. #VotePerovskite
Vote here: www.mineralcup.org/2025/vote/r3...
#MinCup25 ⚒️ sci-fi 🧪 🖖🏼 scifi Geosciences #WomenInSTEM geology 🔭🪐
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— Vicky Veritas (@vickyveritas.bsky.social) September 25, 2025 at 7:03 PM
The first 5 NHS sites have been fitted with Great British Energy solar panels, along with 3 more schools, to be be joined by 8 more schools in autumn.
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🇨🇳 China has successfully completed a test flight of the largest flying wind farm S1500 with a capacity of 1 MW, — Interesting Engineering.
The station uses high-altitude winds at an altitude of about 1.5 km. It is claimed that such a station uses 40% less materials compared to stationary ones.
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— MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 (@maks23.bsky.social) September 25, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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"Solar + storage provider Sunrun and Maryland utility Baltimore Gas and Electric are running the first residential #vehicleToGrid (#V2G) #distributedPowerPlant in the US, and it’s powered by Ford Motor Company #F150Lightning trucks."
electrek.co/2025/09/25/u...
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— ekaddo (@ekaddo.bsky.social) September 25, 2025 at 6:39 PM
This hasn’t sunk in yet around the world. We’ll keep hammering on it.
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ERCOT = Electric Reliability Council of Texas
This is good. Now imagine renewables filling more than 100% of new demand here and anywhere else.
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California cities including Menlo Park, Sunnyvale, Palo Alto, and Mountain View have adopted smart new policies to encourage heat pump upgrades when air conditioners break. The goal? Lower bills, cleaner air, and reduced climate pollution. Read more: www.sierraclub.org/press-releas...
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— Chloe Zilliac (@chloezilliac.bsky.social) September 25, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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Illinois could create virtual power plants by having solar-powered batteries installed at homes and commercial buildings. People would receive rebates if they purchase a battery and agree to let the state access the stored energy during some of the hottest days of the summer.
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— Mike Miletich (@mikemiletichtv.bsky.social) September 25, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Hydrogen Production: SSAB’s Near-Zero Emissions Steel Powers GE Vernova Wind Towers
SSAB, the Swedish pioneer in high-strength sustainable steel, unveiled the world’s first hydrogen-based steel that hits the IEA near-zero emissions benchmark (50–400 kg CO₂e per tonne). Made at its Montpelier, Iowa facility via the HYBRIT process—where hydrogen-reduced iron meets recycled scrap, fossil-free electricity and renewable natural gas—this SSAB Zero steel is bound for GE Vernova’s onshore wind towers. A First Movers Coalition member and partner to Scania (eyeing 100% hydrogen-produced steel by 2030), SSAB’s announcement feels like a breakthrough moment in industrial decarbonization and the shift to sustainable energy. And trust me, this is just the opening act for hydrogen-based steel.
No New Nukes
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Join us for a panel discussion during Missoula's Climate Solutions Week on Monday, 9/29 at 5:30pm⚡
MEIC, Rep. Shelly Fyant & Honor the Earth will discuss the false promises & impacts of nuclear energy & why it's not the climate solution we need right now.
More here: tockify.com/climatesmart...
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— MEIC Official (@meic-official.bsky.social) September 25, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Ah, yes. The correct term for an ambitious and exciting scam is grift.
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Fusion Power Plants Don’t Exist Yet, but They’re Making Money Anyway The pursuit of nuclear fusion energy stands as one of the most ambitious and exciting.... @cosmicmeta.ai #Fusion
https://u2m.io/6dnC3kPF
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— Buhane Information Technologies (@buhane.com.tr) September 25, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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he's killing Americans, again, in great numbers.
‘Families are dying’: an Ohio town suffering from fallout years after nuclear plant’s closure
As Trump calls for more nuclear power, Piketon, the site of an enrichment facility, knows first hand its ill effects
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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— mtnthai (@mtnthai.bsky.social) September 25, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Denial and Obstruction vs. Resistance and $$Real Money$$™
“Liberal” in the rest of the English-speaking world = insane Conservatism in the US.
Here are some more Deep-State moles that got whacked once, but never again.
Treasury Dept killed a climate panel. Former members are recreating it www.eenews.net/...
Less than two weeks after the Trump administration dissolved a panel analyzing financial risks from climate change, former panel members are forming a new institute to continue the work.
The new group will research the risk of climate change to financial markets including property insurance
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the global economy including governments and central banks.
CFRAC addressed questions such as whether a single catastrophic disaster could shake the U.S. economy’s foundations and how a widespread inability of homeowners to buy insurance could affect financial institutions.
Former panel members said the government is jettisoning knowledge and analysis that could help it prepare for a climate-induced financial crisis.
“Had we reached all the solutions? No, we hadn’t,” Harper said. “But by failing to think about it now, we risk creating Katrina-sized events.”
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And some more.
theghostofjohndewey → T Maysle
on a related note….
I have already bookmarked but haven’t been on it yet
🎩Harry Moody again and again
CARBON PRICING. “Carbon Pricing Around the World” (Sept. 18, 2025, 2 pm PT).
The U.S. remains the only developed economy globally without a national carbon price—distorting domestic perceptions of its viability. This session explores how carbon pricing has worked successfully across the world and how those lessons apply to the evolving U.S. conversation. Dr. Danny Richter will highlight the emerging fourth generation of U.S. carbon policy, centered on border adjustments and bipartisan interest in leveraging America’s carbon efficiency.
EPA: Living in Vulnerability. “4 ways the EPA may no longer be able to protect you” at:
https://vitalsigns.edf.org/story/4-ways-epa-may-no-longer-be-able-protect-you
“National Academies publishes rebuke of EPA attempts to dismiss climate threats”
https://www.aol.com/national-academies-publishes-rebuke-epa-002726882.html?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=topic/climate
Trump and the EPA: “E.P.A. To Stop Collecting Emissions Data From Polluters” The data, from thousands of coal-burning power plants, oil refineries, steel mills and other industrial facilities, is the country’s most comprehensive way to track greenhouse gases. (NY Times, Sept. 14, 2025)
“Hundreds of scientists rebuke Trump administration over latest climate move”
tag24.com/science/environment/hundreds-of-scientists-rebuke-trump-administration-over-latest-climate-move-3421086
See also: “National Academies publishes rebuke of EPA attempts to dismiss climate threats” at:
https://www.aol.com/national-academies-publishes-rebuke-epa-002726882.html?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=topic/climate
Approval on Trump: Down, Down, Down: “Trump’s approval rating dropped to its lowest level of his second term in poll” at:
https://today.yougov.com/politics/articles/52988-donald-trump-job-approval-presidential-attributes-charlie-kirk-shooting-political-violence-political-parties-democratic-party-republican-party-jeffrey-epstein-immigration-september-12-15-2025-economist-yougov-poll
