Solar may pass wind, but gas and burning gas are actual stinking farts.
this post was submitted on 01 Oct 2025
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"Will pass wind"
Haha
Cool
my dylexic brain read it as "US soldier will pass wind in 2025 and leaves coal dust soon after.."
holycrap wtf did they feed them as part of military experiment or wtf is going on???
Yeah haha I came here to laugh too. And leave coal sounds funny too
Sodium-ion batteries are becoming more viable, which will be necessary to buffer the solar energy surge during the day and lack of energy production at night.
Hell. In Florida, FPL is the electric provider, and they are fighting tooth and nail to keep people from installing solar on houses.... In Florida, we would have almost free electric for everyone if all houses could install panels....
But FPL lobbied our GOP legislature and force anyone with solar to have a million dollar insurance policy payable to FPL in case something happens. Also got regulations passed to bar home windstorm insurance if any panels are bolted to the roof. So if you have panels, no hurricane insurance for you....and the mortgage holder gets to put their expensive policy on your home.
Fuck FPL
To be fair, Florida building codes are pretty much static electricity holding cardboard together.
You couldn’t just have “free electricity for everyone” by having solar panels on your houses lol. Where’s the power being stored?
Bad phrasing. There are power walls for home use and FPL is still available.
My point is that Florida could use solar as 1 prong on the challenge to provide clean, green energy but FPL must deliver profit to it's shareholders and will fight that effort
A recent article about the state of the coal industry in the usa....
Fossil Fuels and Fossilized Minds - Paul Krugman https://share.google/9gGFCB2MFShNzGJrp
You guys still burning coal? We dumped that ages ago.
See, you can build coal plants in poor/black areas, so you don't have to see the pollution, nor your kids have to get cancer like those silly poors. And then you don't have to put up with woke shit like windmills. Sigh.
We built wind turbines in view of trumps golf course and it makes him furious. We will build 500 wind turbines and then build 500 more.
I can ride a bike to a coal plant from my house. Thing's almost as ugly as the five-over-one across the street from my house.
still passing wind though...
Preznit Numbnuts will be sure to start closing wind farms then, forcing us all back into using coal so he can slurp up lobby $$
Lol they've already announced funding (or intent to fund?) for reviving coal mining
The Republicans. They yearn for the mines.
Assuming Dear Leader Trump (and I hate calling him that even as a joke) don't stamp it out, of course.
It's the dumbest possible reaction to this news, so he probably will
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Even with an admin as renewable-hostile as the current one, you just can’t beat cheap, I guess.
The current regime could not less about cost. They will probably stamp this out.
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